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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Welcome to 2023’s Final Weekly Summary!

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• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: EPIC (RfP scheduled to end after 26 December 2023 20:34 UTC)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: Balyozbot. Tasks:

1. Import sitelinks, labels, descriptions from ku wikipedia pages which use the template w:ku:Template:Înterwîkî etîket û danasîn. (There are over 1800 articles that use this template waiting to be connected to Wikidata at the moment.)
2. Add sitelinks to kuwiktionary / kuwikipedia categories / create an item for the category if necessary. I have been doing this manually for quite some time using Quickstatements but since I need to get permission for the first task, I will be handling them using a bot as well.

• Events
  • Upcoming: Introducing WMF Wishathon for Wikimedia’s Community Wishlist! "focused on bringing together people who already contribute to technical aspects of the Wikimedia projects, who know how to find their way on the technical ecosystem, and who are able to work or collaborate on projects rather autonomously." March 15th to 17th, 2024.
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #122: Rock-forming minerals

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • African Librarians empowered to share knowledge and enhance information visibility through AfLIA Wikidata Online Course --> The "Promoting Open Knowledge Practices in African Libraries through Wikidata" project, executed by AfLIA with support from the Wikimedia Foundation, trained African librarians on using Wikidata to enhance the visibility of library collections and close the knowledge and gender gap on Africa. The course was facilitated by experienced African Wikimedian editors and included diverse strategies for learner engagement and support.
  • Papers: Increasing Coverage and Precision of Textual Information in Multilingual Knowledge Graphs by (Conia et al, 2023) --> This paper introduces a novel task of automatic Knowledge Graph Enhancement (KGE) to bridge the gap in the quantity and quality of textual information between English and non-English languages in Wikidata. It presents M-NTA, an unsupervised approach that combines Machine Translation, Web Search, and Large Language Models to generate high-quality textual information, and studies its impact on Entity Linking, Knowledge Graph Completion, and Question Answering tasks.
  • Videos
    • Wikidata, Wikisource and Wiktionary: Wikisource for DH (WiSe 2023) --> The lecture "Fundamentals and application-oriented methods of the Digital Humanities" by Kay-Michael Würzner is designed as a series of lectures in which teachers in the "Digital Humanities" course present their fields of work and key topics and present them for discussion.
    • Empowering Open-Source Generative AI by Integrating the Wikidata knowledge graph --> Generative AI has changed the information ecosystem, and open-source knowledge graphs like Wikidata can become invaluable assets, propelling a myriad of applications forward. Jonathan Fraine & Lydia Pintscher present the practical integration of Wikidata's open-source, open-access knowledge graph to empower Generative AI applications. Harnessing the real-time updated, structured data encapsulated within Wikidata, they explore automated content creation, data augmentation, and semantic analysis, underpinning the generative paradigms. Through a blend of theoretical insights and real-world applications, they elucidate how to leverage Wikidata to elevate generative AI applications, breaking down existing data silos, and fostering a collaborative ecosystem within our global community of developers and contributors.
    • Wiki Indaba 2023 - African content on Wikidata --> Discussion with Alice Kibombo, Georges Fodouop and Jesse Asiedu-Akrofi, about Wikidata for African Librarians during the Wiki Indaba conference, that took place between 3-5 November 2023 in Agadir, Morocco.
    • No Time to Wait - S07E10 - ACMI // Wikidata - Paul Duchesne + Simon Loffler --> Report on recent residency program to extensively link together collection data from ACMI with Wikidata. This work has allowed the organisation to import vast quantities of data and media to enrich their own internet collection experience, as well enable writing information back to source and federating with other linked institutions.
    • Wiki(s)data #5: Wikidata Live editing (in Italian) --> The ontology of Wikidata: how to interact with it for a better quality, by Epìdosis
  • Notebooks
    • Map of K-Pop Idols --> An interactive map where each red dot represents a K-pop Idol (a singer or musician in South Korean Pop music) you are able to click on.
    • Disney as the Mega Corporation it is Today --> Disney has greatly evolved from the simple animation company that first debuted in 1923 with its signature Steamboat Willie animation. This analysis details some of the major acquisitions Disney has chosen to help expand its reach as a media and entertainment company.
    • The Gender-Equality Gap in STEM Awards --> A network graph and multiple data visualizations on UCLA's alumnni awards based on gender.
    • Exploring The Belichick Coaching Tree --> This analyses details the coaching tree of the prolific American Football coach Bill Belichick.
    • State of statues in the US --> Map of how many statues there are, who is depicted in the statues, their genders, and where the statues are concentrated.
    • An Analysis on Nepo Babies: Net Worths and Fame --> This work uses Wikidata to analyze the influence and success of children of famous actors (nepo babies) in the entertainment industry, and compares the careers and net worth of these children with their parents to understand the impact of nepotism on their success.

• Tool of the week
  • Cersei - is a tool designed for importing or scraping data from various third-party sources, using source-specific Python code. It can use a "headless browser" to scrape complicated websites that rely on eg JavaScript to navigate. It can therefore access data sources that can not be accessed via eg Mix'n'match. The data from sources can be updated regularly, either for everything, or just changed entries (if the source has a "recent changes" equivalent).
  • Wikidata:Zotero/Cita - is a Wikidata addon for Zotero that adds citations (i.e., what other items an item cites) metadata support to this open source reference management software, using cites work (P2860) information available from Wikidata, and enabling users to easily contribute missing data.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff =
  • Job opening: Data Scientist / Knowledge Engineer to use Wikidata as a foundational layer for an US National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Prototype Open Knowledge Network.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: ‎WHDLoad database ID, Shanghai Library movie ID, ‎PCSX2 Wiki ID, KRS number, ‎Twitch numeric channel ID, ‎RPCS3 Wiki ID, ‎Black Games Archive ID, ‎Citra compatibility database ID, ‎DraCor ID, ORBi article ID, ‎IGN wiki article ID, ‎AreWeAntiCheatYet ID, ‎RPGFan game ID, ‎Arcade Hub ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • Laws of Malaysia URL (Uniform Resource Locator for laws of Malaysia)
      • production manager (manager that is responsible for the administration of a feature film or television production; oversees production plans, controls resources, initiates production, ensures ongoing operations, monitors schedules and expenditures, and creates a detailed production schedule and budget)
    • External identifiers: Schnittberichte.com ID, National Library of Malaysia OPAC ID, HistoriaGames series ID, Kemono Games game ID, Internet Game Database event ID, GamesMeter ID, Walk Score ID, Malaysia company new number, Am Faclair Beag ID, xemu compatibility database ID, Sofascore player ID, GameGear.jp ID, RPGWatch IDs, Team England ID, TORCH taxon ID, ScummVM ID, Abandonware France IDs
  • Query examples:
    • Distribution of the different tram gauges in Germany (source)
    • Scale of stampedes reported on Wikidata (source)
    • Timeline of the Christmas movies (source)
    • Christmas traditions around the world (with pictures) (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Städel Museum Wikidata Clean-Up - This WikiProject from the Städel Museum aims to actively participate in the Wikimedia community by maintaining and updating the quality of its data. This includes their collection of public domain art, which has been digitized and made freely available for public use. The project focuses on ensuring that the most current and high-quality data, including high-resolution images and improved metadata, are available on platforms like Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata.
  • Newest database reports: children of dead mothers - List of mother-children pairs, where death date of parent < birth date of child
  • Showcase Items: Esperanto (Q143) - international auxiliary language designed by L. L. Zamenhof
  • Showcase Lexemes: L1222568 (বড়দিন) - Bengali noun for 'Christmas'

• Development
  • Due to the winter holidays, the development team is taking a break and no deployment is happening for Wikidata at the moment.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE)

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: WikiBayer (RfP scheduled to end after 8 January 2024 12:01 UTC)
  • Closed request for adminship: EPIC (closed as successful). Welcome onboard \o/
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: HVSH-Bot . Task: Import data about politicians from the Q119949776, now only partially online available.

• Events
  • Upcoming: The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC, 17th January 2023 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #123: Ologist

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers: Improving maintenance of community-based knowledge graphs. This paper by Nicolas Ferranti addresses the critical issue of data quality in open knowledge graphs, with a specific focus on Wikidata. It aims to formalize Wikidata's unique approaches to assess and resolve data inconsistencies, proposing a semi-automatic refinement pipeline to empower the Wikidata user community in maintaining and enhancing the reliability of this extensive collaborative knowledge graph.
  • Videos: WikidataCon 2023 Day 1.5 - The past and future of Wikidata. In this video Lydia Pintscher takes a moment to review the major events of Wikidata over the past few years. Then turns to look forward and predict what Wikidata's prospects will be over the next year.

• Tool of the week
  • WICA: Wikidata's insights for created articles is an updated version of an old tool. It now includes many new features to analyse your list of created articles using Wikidata properties.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Shamela book edition ID, ‎HistoriaGames series ID, ‎Schnittberichte.com title ID, ‎Kemono Games game ID, ‎Internet Game Database event ID, Xemu compatibility database ID, ‎GamesMeter game ID, ‎GameGear.jp ID, Walmart product ID, Swissubase person ID, RPGWatch game ID, RPGWatch company ID, RPGWatch press ID, ‎Indie DB company ID, ‎NIWA article ID, turismoroma.it place ID, ‎ScummVM ID, ORBi author ID, Abandonware-France video game series ID, Abandonware-France video game compilation ID, Abandonware-France person ID, Abandonware-France company ID, Abandonware-France magazine ID, Abandonware-France award ID, Kanjipedia word ID, Moviefone movie ID, South African NPO number, ‎Nigerian registered company ID, Abandonware-France video game ID, ‎AFJV directory ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • Nonprofit Status (Indicating the legal and tax status of a non-profit organization (specific to served legal areas, aka. Countries). Addition to ((P|1454)). ((P|1628)) to [https://schema.org/nonprofitStatus nonprofitStatus] from schema.org. Organizations can have multiple Nonprofit Status from different countries.)
      • International Classification of Nonprofit Organizations (((Q|2976602)) for ((Q|163740)) created by the ((Q|193727)) and adapted by the ((Q|1065)).)
      • creative director (person who makes high-level creative decisions, oversees the creation of creative assets such as adverts, products, events or logos and guides and directs the creative people who create the end result)
      • television judge ()
    • External identifiers: SERNEC taxon ID, Consortium of Bryophyte Herbaria taxon ID, Rhineland-Palatinate school ID, nebula channel id, Deutsche Bahn station number, ISzDb series ID, BG localisation unit ID, Cathopedia article ID, Native Plants Hawaii ID, Taiwan Biographical Database ID, Penstemon Database ID, Wikisage ID
  • Query examples:
    • Visual artists whose works will enter the Public Domain in Mexico on January 1, 2024 (source)
    • Top music album languages found on Wikidata right now (Week 52, 2023) (source)
    • Western composers until the end of the Renaissance (source)
  • Newest database reports: Merge candidates: Identical birth and death dates
  • Showcase Items: Team Fortress 2 (Q382108) - team-based first-person shooter multiplayer video game.
  • Showcase Lexemes: ورھا لگّݨ / ਵਰ੍ਹਾ ਲੱਗਣ (L907713) - Punjabi verb expressing the setting in of a new year.

• Development
  • The development team is just returning from the winter holidays so there is no development update at the moment.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE)

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Discussions

• Closed request for adminship: WikiBayer (closed as successful). Welcome onboard \o/
• New requests for permissions/Bot: So9qBot 9. Task: Add DDO identifier to Danish lexemes.

Events

• Upcoming:
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 17th January 2024 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
  • Wiki Mentor Africa (WMA) Hackathon, 19th to 21st January 2024
  • Forschungsdatenmanagement: Wikidata as a collaborative information resource on research data management (German), takes place online, Wednesday 10th January 2024, 10-11am (CET).

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: PubChem on Wikidata – What is the state of coverage? by Tiago Lubiana. In summary, Wikidata has good coverage of the structured chemical data in PubChem, though there are improvement points. PubChem displays, and will always display, textual information and vendor-specific data that do not fit Wikidata, but they are complementary tools in the ecosystem of open chemical data.
• Papers
  • Linked data: un’opportunità per il riuso (Q124079430) "scientific article published in 2023" (paper in Italian) - deals with linked data in library catalogues, with many mentions of Wikidata.
  • Automatically Constructed Indonesian Question Answering Dataset by Leveraging Wikidata by K. Doxolodeo & A.A. Krisnadhi - researchers have created a new Indonesian Question Answering dataset that is produced automatically end-to-end using Context Free Grammar, the Wikipedia Indonesian Corpus, and the concept of the proxy model
  • LIS Journals’ Lack of Participation in Wikidata Item Creation by Eric Willey & Susan Radovsky, discusses the gap of Wikidata items being created for scholarly articles by the scholar's themselves and if this can lead to inconsistent or inaccurate data model.
  • Quantifying Americanization: Coverage of American Topics in Different Wikipedias: this paper asks whether there is an americanisation bias in the content created by the communities. By Piotr Konieczny & Włodzimierz Lewoniewski.
• Videos
  • Map Kerala Initiative is an opendata portal geospatial map powered by Wikidata and OpenStreetMap, introduced by Manoj Karingamadathil.
  • This video on Biodiversity Explorations with Machine Learning: Biodiversity Data Access Functions shows how Wikidata is being used to populate species entity profiles at Wolfram U, presented by Jofre Espigulé-Pons.
• Notebooks: Wikipedia article as a timeline - This tool transforms a Wikipedia article in a timeline by parsing all internal links in a Wikipedia article and retrieving the date corresponding to each internal link using the point in time (P585) property in Wikidata.

Tool of the week Map your list of created articles - a notebook display of geolocated articles on a map created by a user per chosen project and batch (featured/good article).

Other Noteworthy Stuff Wikimedia Indonesia and Wikimedia Deutschland ended their partnership within the project Software Collaboration for Wikidata prematurely. Read their joint statement here.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • Flora of the Hawaiian Islands URL (URL of the entry for a plant genus, species, subspecies, or variety in the Flora of the Hawaiian Islands website)
  • (Montana Plant Life URL (URL for a plant family, genus, or species on the Montana Plant Life website)
  • ‎plate(s) (plate number(s) in the reference source being cited to support the statement being made)
• Newest External identifiers: Abandonware-France book ID, ‎MilliBase taxon ID, Monasticon Hibernicum database ID, Rhineland-Palatinate school ID, Enciclopedia di Roma monument ID, Enciclopedia di Roma street ID, Mid-Atlantic Herbaria Consortium taxon ID, ‎The Criterion Collection spine number
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Water bottle volume (Volume of the water bottle)
  • Is it metric? (To check if it's a metric.)
  • Anti-Cheat software used (anti-cheat solution used by this multiplayer video game)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: turismo.marche.it place ID, Joseph Smith Papers person ID, Team Scotland ID, Globoplay ID, DoblajeVideojuegos game ID, National Natural Parks System ID, Commonwealth Games Australia ID, Adventure-Treff game ID, TouchArcade game ID, Mod.io ID, The Models Resource game ID, The Models Resource entity ID, tourist information point number, Jinji Koshinjyo ID, Bandcamp track ID

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Average age of supporters of Gérard Depardieu according to Appel de 50 personnalités du monde de la culture (source)
  • Map of running/out of service railway stations in France
  • Bridges in the UK with photos (source)
  • Programming languages influenced by Niklaus Wirth (directly or indirectly) (source)
• Newest WikiProject: Podcast Episodes 2024 - The goal of this project is to add episode pages for individual podcasts.
• Newest database report: children of unborn parents
• Showcase Item: Helsinki (Q1757) - capital and most populous city of Finland
• Showcase Lexeme: Allah korusun (L1226849) - Turkish for 'God forbid'

Development

• IP masking/temporary accounts: We are adjusting Wikibase to be prepared for the upcoming changes to no longer expose IP addresses for non-logged-in users (phab:T351968)
• Dumps/lex. data: We’re adjusting how empty lists of Forms and Senses are represented in JSON dumps (phab:T305660)
• Wikibase REST API:
  • We finished the work on making it possible to get all sitelinks of an Item (phab:T344041)
  • We are working on getting a sitelink for a given wiki (phab:T344039)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: Ologies
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE)

On Talk:11th National Defence Commission and Talk:10249 Harz, the bot didn't incorporate the existing banner and rating into the banner shell, merely adding an unrated shell on top. This makes it show as unassessed. PARAKANYAA (talk) 15:45, 13 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

PARAKANYAA, these have two totally separate causes. Talk:11th National Defence Commission is because ((WikiProject North Korea)) isn't (technically speaking) a WikiProject banner: it's a wrapper template. I'll modify my code to recognise it correctly.
Talk:10249 Harz is caused by the double space in the template name. Apparently "WikiProject Astronomy" is the same as ((WikiProject Astronomy)) (the extra space is stripped). So is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:WikiProject_______________________Astronomy. I'll update my code to recognise this. — Qwerfjkltalk 16:05, 13 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! PARAKANYAA (talk) 16:06, 13 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Kanashimi, you might be interested in these bugs. — Qwerfjkltalk 18:11, 13 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the notice. I've also changed the settings. Kanashimi (talk) 21:41, 13 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

PARAKANYAA, both of these problems should be fixed now. — Qwerfjkltalk 21:36, 13 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much :) PARAKANYAA (talk) 21:52, 13 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You tested it again and it seems to have undone it. Hm. PARAKANYAA (talk) 16:43, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

PARAKANYAA, yes, I know. I was trying to catch more WikiProjects that I missed, but there seems to be a bug in the code (it takes over an hour to run the code that fetches all the wikiprojects, so I left it to run). — Qwerfjkltalk 18:21, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hah, I added the subcategories of Category:WikiProject banner wrapper templates but forgot to add the category itself. Should be fixed now. — Qwerfjkltalk 18:26, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. The CfD slipped out of my watchlist so I just saw that Marcocapelle already did the purging per the closure. You noted yesterday that it'd been listed for bot renaming, but I'm not seeing it. Perhaps the edit failed? --Paul_012 (talk) 11:22, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Paul 012, it's defnitely there, trying searching for "Category:Photographic collections and books". — Qwerfjkltalk 18:22, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, thanks. I somehow missed it. --Paul_012 (talk) 03:19, 15 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

User:ToadetteEdit still has not processed their CfD closures on 30 December, would you be willing to do so? Marcocapelle (talk) 17:24, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Marcocapelle,  Done. — Qwerfjkltalk 19:13, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Discussions

• New request for comments: Community request for the development team to access inverse properties on client wikis. (Summary: We currently cannot access inverse property values on Wikipedia. This can be a data management issue on Wikipedia as we must always ask ourself if we must introduce an inverse property for cases where we need them. So I think it’s useful to gather the usecases community would want and draft a request for an API to the devteam to do that.)

Events

• Upcoming: The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 17th January 2024 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
• Past
  • Provenance Loves Wiki (PLW24), Jan 12th - 14th, research and data on the origin of artworks and cultural heritage and how Wikibase and Wikidata can support this.
  • WikiLovesWomen #SheSaid campaign wrapped up the 2023 campaign by visiting Kinshasha and Kisangani, where local Wikimedians improved quotes from women on FR Wikipedia and Wikidata.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Building Connected Libraries in Nigeria: --> Reflections from the Wikibase Journey on collaboration and resouce sharing between Nigerian Libraries.
  • Wikidata and ChatGPT integration failure --> read about Finn Årup Nielsen's attempts to integrate LLM's with Wikidata.
  • QLever: a new way to query OpenStreetMap --> Discussion of the new opportunities offered by QLever to query OpenStreetMap and to run federated queries with Wikidata
  • Wikidata for authority control: 3 years of work --> The three-year Wikidata for authority control project, a collaboration between Wikimedia Sverige and Swedish museums, concluded in December 2023. It equipped museum staff with tools and skills to integrate their authority databases with Wikidata, resulting in added identifiers, SPARQL query proficiency, and enhanced knowledge sharing within the GLAM sector.
  • Go-ahead for Wikidata Project of GLAM institutions from Baden-Württemberg --> The GLAM-BW project, under "GLAM goes OpenData," connects major collections in Baden-Württemberg, focusing on the württembergische Kunstkammer. With over 3,000 objects, the project integrates information on collectors, histories, and objects into a knowledge graph for semantic searches, contributing to the broader realm of linked open data, akin to Wikidata.
  • Swiss GLAM Programme --> Wikimedia CH imported the Museum of Natural History of Neuchâtel's urchin fossil casts to Wikimedia Commons, connecting structured data on Wikidata. The project involved data cleaning, adding missing elements, and file imports via OpenRefine, highlighting seamless integration between Wikidata and Commons.
• Papers
  • Reflections on the PCC Wikidata Pilot at UCLA Library: --> Undertaking the PCC Learning Objectives. Discusses the 14-month Pilot programme for cooperative cataloguing of UCLA Library and Museum Collections. By E. Zhang, P. Biswas & I. Dagher.
  • Few-Shot Event Classification in Images using Knowledge Graphs for Prompting --> How can Wikidata and Wikipedia help Vision-Language Models improve their classification of images. Tahmasebzadeh et al., 2024.
• Videos
  • SMWCon 2023: Semantics, Wikis, and AI --> Day 1, Keynote by Prof. Markus Krötzsch who explores origins and principles of semantic wikis and key challenges that lie ahead in managing knowledge.
  • GLAM on Tour 2023 im Museum Barberini (German) --> find out what Museums have got to do with Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata. More Info Here.
• Interactive notebooks: GLAM : Geolocated and Labelled Articles Map - explore Featured and Good Wikipedia articles through a map, powered by Wikidata.

Tool of the week

• Brian M Sperlongano released US boundary QA checker, a quality assurance tool for finding issues with boundary data in the United States by using Wikidata, OpenStreetMap, and US Census Bureau data.
• The Surrounding Ocean (available at vrandezo.github.io/TheSurroundingOcean) - is a tool that allows you to browse lexicographical data. You can use the tool to explore words and their meanings, translations, and synonyms. The tool is currently under development, and the developer, Danny, would appreciate feedback to fix any issues with the tool. More info: Wikidata:The Surrounding Ocean.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• OS-Wikidata Map Framework List of tools and maps which combines OSM and Wikidata.
• Call for Projects and Mentors for Google Summer of Code 2024 and Outreachy Round 28 is OPEN!
• Got an idea for a project to reclaim the public nature of the internet? With Wikidata? NLNet has a new fund you could apply to.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes: none
• Newest External identifiers: Walk Score ID, HistoriaGames game ID, ‎Deutsche Bahn station number, Legends Tour player ID, Moscow Cultural Heritage ID, USOPC Hall of Fame ID, Cathopedia article ID, ‎TouchArcade game ID, ‎DoblajeVideojuegos game ID, ‎Adventure-Treff game ID, Biota of New Zealand ID, Consortium of Bryophyte Herbaria taxon ID, Consortium of Lichen Herbaria taxon ID, Native Plants Hawaii ID, SERNEC taxon ID, TORCH taxon ID, Penstemon Database ID, Digicarmel ID, ‎Retskrivningsordbogen ID, MAMCS artwork ID, Sofascore player ID, ‎Mod.io game ID, Sina Chinese Basketball player ID, turismo.marche.it place ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • describes (Data objects that are described by this entity (e.g. an encyclopedia or topic-related book; intended for input of several data objects.))
  • memory type (specifies the type of working memory of this data object)
  • filial church (church which acts as the less important temple of a parish)
  • TOPO id (unique code to identify topographical features of France (department, city, thoroughfare...))
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Bluesky handle, Merkur author ID, Bavarian school ID, Rugby Database ID, Playstation Store Concept ID, ArchDaily Architecture Office ID, Il Nuovo De Mauro ID, Bluesky DID

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Historical events by a city sorted by importance (source)
  • Bubble chart showing countries with the highest number of children out of school in 2013 (source)
  • Timeline of writing systems and alphabets (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Decolonise Wiki --> intends to focus on decolonising text, depictions and media within all relevant Wikipedia articles.
• WikiProject Highlights: Ontology Cleaning Task Force: A group of people have started a task force to discuss problems with the Wikidata ontology and how to clean them up. Anyone interested in participating is welcome. The task force maintains Wikidata:WikiProject Ontology/Cleaning Task Force as a record of its activities. You can add yourself to the participants list there and find out how to join group meetings or otherwise participate in the group. (Got something noteworthy happening in your WikiProject? Share it in the upcoming issue!)
• Newest database reports: Lexicographical data/Reports/Empty lexemes - Lexemes with no statements, no forms and no senses. (Do you see Lexemes from your language in the list that you can fix?)
• Showcase Items: January 15, 2018 (Q45919591) - Monday in January 2018
• Showcase Lexemes: در جنگ حلوا بخش نمی‌کنند (L1081423) - Persian with a meaning similar to "all's fair in love and war"

Development

• IP masking: We are working on adjusting Wikibase to handle the upcoming introduction of IP masking, which will give editors who are not logged in a temporary account name instead of using their IP to attribute edits to (phab:T351968)
• Lexicographical data: We are changing how empty Senses and Forms are represented in the dumps (phab:T305660)
• mul language code: We are doing user testing for the current implementation to see if it is understandable for people.
• Mismatch Finder: We are continuing the work on migrating it to the Codex design system.
• REST API:
  • We improved the handling of lower-case statement IDs (phab:T354262)
  • We are working on getting a sitelink for a given wiki (phab:T344039)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: Pigs
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) -MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:13, 15 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed that this edit placed the banner shell above the lanaguage banner, which contradicts WP:TALKORDER. Language banners # 6, come before the banner shell #8. Flibirigit (talk) 22:18, 15 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Flibirigit, I'll fix that. The bot only actually checks for ((American English)) and ((British English)). — Qwerfjkltalk 07:06, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Similar to above with this edit, article history (#7) should come before the banner shell (#8). Best wishes. Flibirigit (talk) 23:53, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Flibirigit, strange, looks like I never actually added ((Article history)) to my TALKORDER configuration. Fixed now. — Qwerfjkltalk 08:35, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

MediaWiki message delivery 00:11, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I used Rater to make a few wikiproject assessments and your bot came by to make edits like this one: [9]. Is it supposed to be doing this? This does not appear to change the behaviour or appearance of the banners. -- asilvering (talk) 03:43, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I missed the earlier question similar to mine above. Is this something that can be avoided by changes to Rater? I don't really want to have a bot following up on every single edit I make with this tool if I can avoid it. -- asilvering (talk) 03:47, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Asilvering, not really, because lots of talk pages will never be edited by Rater. — Qwerfjkltalk 07:03, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm wondering why the bot is removing "|1=" from ((WikiProject banner shell)) when the template documentation still shows to use this. When doing talk page tidying for WikiProjects, AWB keeps wanting to restore it after it's been removed. Has the documentation for the template simply not caught up? Or is the bot malfunctioning by chance? Stefen Tower_{s among the rest!} ^{Gab • Gruntwerk} 07:24, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

StefenTower, the bot just removes it because it's unnecessary. Whether it's used or not doesn't make much difference. — Qwerfjkltalk 16:19, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Understood, but since the documentation shows it, other programs like AWB are going to put it back. I'm just saying our tools should go by the book so we're all in sync and tidying changes don't get into conflict. Stefen Tower_{s among the rest!} ^{Gab • Gruntwerk} 17:49, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

StefenTower, that's fine, AWB can do what it likes. AWB shouldn't be used to make cosmetic edits anyway. — Qwerfjkltalk 17:50, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

But the bot edit above was doing a cosmetic edit just the same, and against the shell's documentation. Further, tidying of something like that using AWB usually goes along with other banner tidying. At any rate, cosmetic, tidying edits on talk pages are taken differently than on subject pages. Stefen Tower_{s among the rest!} ^{Gab • Gruntwerk} 17:54, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

StefenTower, yes, that's because I'm using the python libray mwparserfromhell which removes 1= where it is unnecessary. It doesn't really matter either way. — Qwerfjkltalk 18:32, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

	The Technical Barnstar
	Thank you so much for the CFD Lister script! I don't know what CFD would look like without it. Seawolf35 T--C 16:51, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Seawolf35, I wrote that ages ago, more for myself than anything else. Glad other people find it useful! — Qwerfjkltalk 16:54, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

. I want to publish my article about someone Marvel De brave (talk) 21:43, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Marvel De brave, Welcome! Creating a new article from scratch is extremely challenging, and new editors are strongly recommended to spend a few months learning how Wikipedia works, by making improvements to some of our existing six million articles before trying it. When you do decide to have a go at a new article, you are highly encouraged to read WP:Your first article. If you haven't already also check out WP:TUTORIAL; it's a lot of fun! Happy editing! — Qwerfjkltalk 07:40, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

thank you for this Marvel De brave (talk) 06:29, 18 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

We already have user:Cewbot doing this substantially pointless and distracting busywork and cluttering up everyone's watchlists. Is it really necessary to have several bots involved, each with their own complaints, discussions, bug reports/fixes, etc.? –jacobolus (t) 04:22, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Jacobolus, if I thought it was pointless I wouldn't be doing it. But that aside, the reason we have two bots is simply because things worked out that way (I filed my BRFA and then the one for Cewbot came later and with a slightly different scope). I do of course keep track of Kanashimi's talk page. — Qwerfjkltalk 07:44, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's not completely pointless, but it is fairly disruptive by creating a massive amount of watchlist noise for a largely trivial benefit. It is going to end up touching essentially every (talk) page on the site, including those which ordinarily get ~1 edit every 6 months, where literally nobody cares they have a Wikiproject X banner by itself or wrapped in an extra frame. Editors watching substantial numbers of pages are going to have their watchlists completely flooded, with along the lines of tens to hundreds of times the ordinary volume of changes, potentially lasting for an extended period of time.

From what I can tell no particular effort has been made to figure out how to minimize this disruption. My recommendation would be to try to piggyback these trivial edits on top of other more substantive edits. That is, wait until some page on the list gets edited by anyone, and then make the banner twiddling changes immediately afterward. This would almost entirely eliminate the disruption, while not materially affecting the banner shell project. –jacobolus (t) 08:28, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Jacobolus, whilst yes, it would be technically feasible to piggyback other edits, it would be practically infeasible. I would have to write the code for that, which wouldn't be trivial, and then I would have to somehow keep track of everypage my bot has edited to avoid re-editing pages, and I would also have to actively update the code to avoid any bugs that crop up.
The watchlist problem is only something you experience if you monitor bot edits, so here's my alternative:
You are worried (understandably) about the bot making errors it its edits. What you could do is hide the bot's edits from your watchlist, and then do a spot check of the bot's edits, as many as you like. Would this be acceptable? — Qwerfjkltalk 08:34, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

How do I exclude just one bot or one bot purpose from the watchlist? Is there a particular "tag" related to this banner shell conversion project? –jacobolus (t) 08:40, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Jacobolus, not really, it's hard to make a new tag. You could use the PAWS tag, because I'm running my bot on WP:PAWS, but that will catch anyone else who uses PAWS (probably not a large number of edits).
At Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard#Flooding watchlists there is some CSS that will hide my bot's edits. — Qwerfjkltalk 08:46, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Why is it hard to make a new tag? Since this is going to touch nearly every page on the site, wouldn't this be the exact type of situation where jumping through a few extra hoops to help minimize the disruption would be most worthwhile? –jacobolus (t) 08:58, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Jacobolus, this isn't really what tags are used for. I'm also not entirely sure how I apply tags with pywikibot (the bot framework I'm using). — Qwerfjkltalk 09:05, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nevermind that last point, seems it is straightforward. — Qwerfjkltalk 09:08, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

How to edit and Publish an article --Arunima Sudha (talk) 04:56, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Arunima Sudha, Welcome! Creating a new article from scratch is extremely challenging, and new editors are strongly recommended to spend a few months learning how Wikipedia works, by making improvements to some of our existing six million articles before trying it. When you do decide to have a go at a new article, you are highly encouraged to read WP:Your first article. If you haven't already also check out WP:TUTORIAL; it's a lot of fun! Happy editing! — Qwerfjkltalk 07:40, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Qwerfjkl, I was wondering how much more difficult would it be to add to the talk page bot run a fix to discussions with a missing header (this is a genfix in AWB; full list here). So a page like Talk:168th New York State Legislature which your bot edited would also do the edit I did after. Gonnym (talk) 13:10, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Gonnym, how would I detect if there was a discussion with a missing header? I'm also not sure it would be a good idea to add to the bot's functionality at this point. — Qwerfjkltalk 14:37, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

AWB does that automatically Gonnym (talk) 15:36, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Gonnym, and AWB's code has been tested over the years. — Qwerfjkltalk 15:42, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Task 26 is causing several FA-class article to be treated as a Milhist A-class project-independent quality assessment. Thirteen examples here. Discussion. Schierbecker (talk) 19:06, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Schierbecker, thank you for bringing my attention to this. I've fixed it now. There was a flaw in my logic for detecting opted-out wikiprojects. I will revert and rerun the bot on the milhist pages with issues. — Qwerfjkltalk 19:36, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

tysm! Schierbecker (talk) 19:42, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There is another flaw with Task 26: MilHist redirects were being stripped of their class (example). Without this they wind up in Category:Unassessed military history articles, one of the maintenance categories that the MilHistBot deals with. We then get another bot edit to correct it. (example) Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:54, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hawkeye7, while this is another flaw, it's covered by the same fix, because my bot won't modify the classes on opted-out wikiprojects, regardless of what value class= (unless, I think, it's blank and the page is a talk page of a redirect/dab, in which case it will remove class=). — Qwerfjkltalk 19:57, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Do we still add Template:WikiProject banner shell when MilHist is the only project on the page? I have no objection, just asking. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:10, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hawkeye7, yes. — Qwerfjkltalk 20:11, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hawkeye, suggest you add automatic redirect detection to your quality mask — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 15:33, 19 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, it's me again. This doesn't change the output and would be regarded as a cosmetic edit. I don't know if the bot is still performing this task (I have been away for a few days), but please avoid these edits in the future. Thanks. InfiniteNexus (talk) 07:58, 18 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

InfiniteNexus, I am well aware the bot makes cosmetic edits. There is no easy way to avoid them. — Qwerfjkltalk 16:11, 18 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Qwerfjkl don't the categories created at Template_talk:WikiProject_banner_shell#Tracking_categories_for_articles_that_require_performing_WP:PIQA aid with this? -Kj cheetham (talk) 15:30, 19 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for all the good work this bot is doing. All the cosmetic edits I've spotted consist of removing an unnecessary but harmless "1=" from a parameter. Would it be worth wrapping the save code in an if block for this specific case? Certes (talk) 20:14, 20 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Certes, it's not quite as simple as that. I'm using the python library mwparserfromhell to parse the pages, and it strips the 1= by default if it's unnecessary. I'll have to look in to how to disable that. — Qwerfjkltalk 22:14, 20 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Is it possible to stop the bot from running on pages with just one WikiProject banner, where it adds an unnecessary banner shell? InfiniteNexus (talk) 00:23, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Especially on redirect and disambiguation talk pages. InfiniteNexus (talk) 00:26, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

InfiniteNexus, that's intentional. — Qwerfjkltalk 10:22, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Is there a reason for that? I noticed that Cewbot was doing the same thing as well. Virtually all disambiguation talk pages do not wrap ((WikiProject Disambiguation)) in ((WikiProject banner shell)) (that's around 319,444 pages); are all of those pages going to be adjusted? Same thing for redirect, file, and category talk pages. If there is no meaningful reason for this change, I think that would just create more disruption on users' watchlists. InfiniteNexus (talk) 19:04, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

InfiniteNexus, that's the whole point of PIQA - that WPBS is added to all pages. I'm only running the bot on talk pages (i.e. namespace 1), so file and category talk pages will be unaffected, — Qwerfjkltalk 20:33, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I may have missed something after the initial two RfCs, but I thought the whole point was to unify |class= parameters into ((WikiProject banner shell)). Nothing needs to be unified when there is only one WikiProject tag. InfiniteNexus (talk) 00:22, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Martin? — Qwerfjkltalk 07:13, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Technically you are correct and I do see your point. If you think this aspect needs further discussion we can pause the processing on the single-banner pages. My view is that the logical conclusion of PIQA is that all ratings will eventually be in the banner shell and none in the separate banners. At this point, any rating placed in a banner will be redundant (if it is the same as the shell rating) or conflicting (if it is different). Neither of these are ideal, so I envisage that the class parameter will be deactivated completely from individual banner templates and the only way to assess quality will be via the banner shell. That is certainly the direction we are moving, but happy to discuss further.

Also, please note that it is possible for a shell to have zero banners inside it, e.g. Talk:Batil (ship) — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:07, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

With all the work done to the shell, I see it as a net positive. And I'm one of those that has a lot of redirect pages on my watchlist and I'm fine with the "spam". Gonnym (talk) 17:22, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have 17,000 pages on my watchlist myself. — Qwerfjkltalk 17:25, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What is the net positive? Does it affect categories or anything like that? If not, and the only change is the appearance of the banner, then that would be the definition of a cosmetic edit. I envisage that the class parameter will be deactivated completely from individual banner templates and the only way to assess quality will be via the banner shell Redirects and DAB pages are automatically detected as redirects or DAB pages. Oftentimes, there is no |class=redirect or |class=NA tag attached to the WikiProject banner(s). InfiniteNexus (talk) 05:22, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

InfiniteNexus, no, if there was no visible change then it would be a cosmetic edit. — Qwerfjkltalk 07:05, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Well, that's the technical, wikilawyerable definition of "cosmetic edit", but as WP:COSMETIC notes, the term cosmetic edit is often used to encompass all edits of such little value that the community deems them to not be worth making in bulk, even though those edits might change the output HTML or readable text in subtle ways. If there's no benefit to changing these other than aesthetic purposes, then the bot is operating without consensus because this is not what the community !voted to do (it was to unify project-dependent quality assessments and redesign the banner shell template, nothing more). InfiniteNexus (talk) 07:10, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That is a rather confusing sentence on the page, because the definition of a cosmetic edit is one which changes the wikicode but does not change the output. I agree that the truly cosmetic edits should be avoided by the bot if at all possible. To address the substance of your complaint, is it only the single-banner non-mainspace edits that you have a problem with? If so, I suggest leaving those pages for now and we can perhaps discuss it later (at a more suitable venue). I agree they are not urgent and do not address the core purpose of PIQA. If you are agreeable to this approach, I will ask the other bot operator to follow suit — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:47, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I did not research how that sentence got into that dictionary page, but it was an invalid interpretation of WP:COSMETICBOT, which is policy. I have copy-edited that whole section to match the policy, which has been hashed out in great detail over the years and which has been pretty stable for a while, IIRC. If proposed bot edits have such little value that the community deems them to not be worth making in bulk, then the relevant BRFA will, or should, not be approved. That's part of what BRFA is for. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:15, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

InfiniteNexus, I've updated the code to only run on mainspace talk pages, does that help? — Qwerfjkltalk 16:47, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Kanashimi, you might be interested in this as well. — Qwerfjkltalk 16:51, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've added the PIQA_namespace option to handle this. Kanashimi (talk) 22:00, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Qwerfjkl did you disable the bot in non-mainspace talk pages or just disable it for single banners? Gonnym (talk) 17:30, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Gonnym, the former. — Qwerfjkltalk 17:33, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I thought you said several comments above that you were already only running the bot on talk pages (i.e. namespace 1)? InfiniteNexus (talk) 17:53, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

InfiniteNexus, I was when I said that. I switched to using the category which had non-namespace pages (which is why I assumed they were fine to run on). — Qwerfjkltalk 18:00, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Is it only the single-banner non-mainspace edits that you have a problem with? Redirects and disambiguation pages are technically in the mainspace. But yes, if there is only one banner, and there is no |class= (because it is automatically detected), then it is unnecessary to add a banner shell. InfiniteNexus (talk) 17:53, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

InfiniteNexus, I've updated the code to skip non-article talk pages (i.e. dab and redirect talk pages), regardless of what content they have. This change will take affect next run. — Qwerfjkltalk 18:23, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. The next step, if you and/or the other bot operators believe it is beneficial to use WPBS on single banners on non-article talk pages, would be to gain consensus at a centralized location (probably not here). InfiniteNexus (talk) 18:26, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'll leave that for @Martin to take care of as they wish. — Qwerfjkltalk 18:30, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding the previous wording of WP:COSMETIC (now removed), it appears it has been on the page since its creation in 2017. Pinging @Headbomb for comment. InfiniteNexus (talk) 18:53, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with your interpretation of WP:COSMETIC, FWIW. — Qwerfjkltalk 18:56, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What exactly is the issue here? An explicit |1= does nothing on WPBS. It can be removed by bot, but only as part of a larger substantive edit. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 20:43, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Headbomb, that's not what we're discussing here. Rather we're talking about moving WP banners into WPBS. — Qwerfjkltalk 20:57, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

WP:COSMETIC originally stated: The term cosmetic edit is often used to encompass all edits of such little value that the community deems them to not be worth making in bulk, even though those edits might change the output HTML or readable text in subtle ways. This was contested by two editors (MSGJ and Jonesey95), and the challenged wording has been removed. That text was authored by you back in 2017, which is why I pinged you for comment. InfiniteNexus (talk) 01:58, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Really not sure how that's contentious. It's documenting how the term is used, because it is often used that way, even if this it not the way BOTPOL defines it. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 04:49, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

InfiniteNexus, by the way, would you be fine with the both working on non-mainspace talk pages that have multiple wikiproject banners? — Qwerfjkltalk 18:23, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If they don't have or need |class=, that is also unnecessary and has nothing to do with PIQA, but I wouldn't necessary object to it. InfiniteNexus (talk) 00:56, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Where did the discussion determining the need for a merge of those WikiProject talk page templates take place? I would like to propose a moratorium there if appropriate so no other proposal flooding watchlists is approved for a while after this one ends. Regards, Super Dromaeosaurus (talk) 17:53, 18 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Super Dromaeosaurus, it's linked at WP:PIQA. — Qwerfjkltalk 18:19, 18 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Super Dromaeosaurus (talk) 21:33, 18 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Bot didn't remove |class=C from the WikiProject Military history template [10]. Super Dromaeosaurus (talk) 21:33, 18 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Super Dromaeosaurus, it's not supposed to, WPMILHIST opted out of PIQA. — Qwerfjkltalk 07:06, 19 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

So... all of this is for the merge to be actually only partial? Alright.

This morning I saw this other edit [11]. Frankly it's starting to get annoying. It is clear this is because the two WikiProject templates had different class ratings. But this happened because MilHistBot changed the rating from stub to start [12]. Why don't you WikiProject talk page template people make sure to synchronise things to avoid situations like these to happen before putting forward such a massive thing? Super Dromaeosaurus (talk) 10:21, 19 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Super Dromaeosaurus, WPMILHIST is one WikiProject. I ha e no say over how they decide to rate their articles. All I can see is that there was a conflicting class and so my bot decided not to choose either rating. — Qwerfjkltalk 15:01, 19 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Super Dromaeosaurus if you want to help us resolve these conflicts, you can look at Category:Articles with conflicting quality ratings — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 15:34, 19 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I see an inline citation within a website that links to the wrong page of the website. When I try to change just that one citation, it replaces every citation coming from that website with the new one. How do I limit the change to just a single reference? --EO1912 (talk) 13:18, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Page: State_Archives_of_Milan

Diff: Special:Diff/1196944489

Comment/question: I'd be happy to fix the "bare url" error but I can't find it. Thanks. Andy02124 (talk) 16:46, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I think this referred to the url in the DBI template, which was based on incorrect template documentation. It (the article) was corrected in a subsequent edit. Andy02124 (talk) 16:55, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

which is where they can find and respond to your question. --Herekeeprook (talk) 08:23, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

hello --Herekeeprook (talk) 08:28, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Herekeeprook, do you have a question? — Qwerfjkltalk 15:09, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Translations are available.

Discussions

• New request for comments: Domain name as data (Summary: How should Wikidata store the domain name associated with an item? There are many properties for URLs, but a domain name is a different value.)

Events

• Past
  • Wikidata+Wikibase office hour session log: Telegram office hour 2024-01-17
  • PLW 2024: Provenance loves Wiki - Fri. 12th - Sun. 14th January. If you missed the event, catch up by reading the slides, Notes and watching the recordings on the Project page
• Next: Linked Open Data in Heritage Workshop > Jan. 23rd, 13:00 - 15:00 CET. If you are in the Maastricht University Faculty and want to know enhance heritage research, improve data management, connectivity and visualisation, register for the Workshop.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Languages with the best lexicographic data coverage in Wikidata 2023
  • Working with catalogues: a Wikidata volunteer’s perspective --> interview with Epìdosis where they discuss the challenges and opportunities of working with catalogues on Wikidata.
• Papers
  • The reconciliation of SBN authority records with Wikidata. Progresses and perspectives after a decade of work (2013-2023) (Q124289369) (Italian title: Riconciliare le voci di autorità in SBN con Wikidata. Progressi e prospettive dopo un decennio di lavoro (2013-2023)) (paper in Italian) - deals with the reconciliation of the authority file of the biggest Italian collective library catalogue (OPAC SBN) with Wikidata
  • The evolution of authority work in SBN. From origins to Alphabetica and future prospects (Q124289388) (Italian title: L’evoluzione dell’authority work in SBN. Dalle origini ad Alphabetica e prospettive future) (paper in Italian) - deals with the evolution of the authority work in the biggest Italian collective library catalogue (OPAC SBN), with many references to Wikidata
  • Biological Pathway Abstractions: From 2D drawings to Multidimensional Linked Data > this thesis by Andra Sachinder Waagmeester discusses the utility of using Wikidata as a Knowledge Graph for Life Sciences.
• Videos
  • "From Wiki to Digital Humanities - Establishing a Literature Index Network" Symposium(Taiwanese) from Wang Shiqing. A scholar of Taiwanese history, this symposium explores linking their historical and academic research with Wikidata.
  • Semantic MediaWiki Con 2023
    • AskWikidata: Natural language queries to Wikidata, a naive prototype created by Senior Software Engineer for Wikidata, Robert Timm. Want to try? (Google Colab)
    • Fixing Wikidata: by viewing it as a series of tables by Yaron Koren, who challenges that Wikidata can become more useful with more structured editing and querying practices.

Tool of the week

• Wikimedia Commons based streaming services by Magnus: WikiFlix for movies and the companion tool WikiVibes for audio.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikimedia Deutschland hiring:
  • Software Engineer, Wikidata
  • Software Engineer, Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
  • Senior Software Engineer, Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
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  • working memory type (specifies the type of working memory of this data object)
  • production manager (manager that is responsible for the administration of a feature film or television production)
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Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) -MediaWiki message delivery (Yɛltɔɣa) 17:13, 15 Silimin gɔli January 2024 (GMT)

MediaWiki message delivery 01:02, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Thank you :) --Kinfolx1114 (talk) 04:28, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

How to create a citation? --Soa340058 (talk) 09:01, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You might like to read Help:Referencing for beginners or, for a more advanced guide, Wikipedia:Citing sources — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:06, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I'm a bit curious if Qwerfjkl (bot) follows maxlag, since the editing delays have been quite lately. Also see mw:API:Etiquette#The maxlag parameter. Kanashimi (talk) 09:33, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Kanashimi, it does insofar as pywikibot does, no idea how much that is. — Qwerfjkltalk 13:47, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

mw:Manual:Maxlag parameter: Use maxlag=5 (5 seconds). This is an appropriate non-aggressive value, set as default value on Pywikibot.— Qwerfjkltalk 13:57, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It looks less crowded now. Kanashimi (talk) 02:40, 25 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there! Cewbot is also removing some invalid parameters when making the PIQA edits, per User:Cewbot/log/20200122/configuration. Is that something your bot could do as well? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 22:00, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

GoingBatty, probably yes, but my bot wasn't approved to do that. — Qwerfjkltalk 07:10, 25 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, How do i add a description to Vinayak Pai.jpg image? Vinayak Pai is currently the Managing director and CEO of Tata Projects Limited, a leading sustainable technology-led engineering, procurement, construction (EPC) company in India. --Prathm.Shinde09 (talk) 04:29, 25 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Prathm.Shinde09, there are instructions on your talk page on how to add a description. — Qwerfjkltalk 07:15, 25 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I clicked on edit but no option is showing to add description to the image Prathm.Shinde09 (talk) 07:24, 25 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Prathm.Shinde09, you should go to Special:Edit/File:Vinayak Pai.jpg and add the appropriate attribution template. I'm not very familiar in this are, so if you need further help, I suggest you either read the links from the message on your talk page, or ask at WP:TEAHOUSE. — Qwerfjkltalk 15:57, 25 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Qwerfjkl. I just discovered that Category:Native American people from the San Francisco Bay Area, which I created a while back, had been listed for merging at CFD. For some reason the alert banner for my talk page did not show up on pages I was editing until a few hours ago, so I only learned of the CFD shortly after you had closed it - after just 7 days, and with only ONE editor commenting at all (a pro forma "Merge per nom" in support of merging). It was readily apparent that neither editor has any actual familiarity with the subject area - so I would dearly like to have the opportunity to make the case for keeping the category.

I'm hoping you can take care of this quickly, before it gets listed for merging at WP:CFDW. Thanks in advance. Anomalous+0 (talk) 08:33, 25 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Anomalous+0, please give a valid rationale for why it should be kept. There is no rush; the category can always be restored.
I am happy to reopen the discussion if you give a reason why it should be kept. — Qwerfjkltalk 16:00, 25 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again, Qwerfjkl. I just discovered to my dismay that the Category in question was deleted a few hours ago. I unfortunately construed your reply to mean that you were gonna hold off putting it into the queue for merging long enough for me to put together a halfway decent explanation/rationale for keeping it. (Which took me longer than expected due to some urgent family issues I needed to attend to.) I've asked the deleting admin to reverse the deletion if possible, so I can avoid having to go thru the whole bothersome process of Deletion Review.

In any event, I guess I may as well go ahead and share what I put together for you:

I thought the easist way to approach this would be simply to share a somewhat random assortment of links for online articles, etc. that discuss one or another aspect of the San Francisco Bay Area's Native American community. Most of these invoke the "SF Bay Area" right in the headline. (FYI: Simply put, the SF Bay Area encompasses all the counties in the North Bay, the South Bay, and the East Bay, as they are known.)

I thought I'd start with something from right here on Wikipedia:

Ohlone#Indian_People_Organizing_for_Change
Indian People Organizing for Change (IPOC) is a community-based organization in the San Francisco Bay Area. Its members, including Ohlone tribal members and conservation activists, work together in order to accomplish social and environmental justice within the Bay Area American Indian community.

Muwekma Ohlone Tribe
http://www.muwekma.org/
The present-day Muwekma Ohlone Tribe is comprised of surviving American Indian lineages aboriginal to the San Francisco Bay region who trace their ancestry through the Missions Dolores, Santa Clara, and San Jose.

Ohlone women fighting to get back their land, cultural heritage in Bay Area
https://abc7news.com/ohlone-women-te-land-trust-indigenous-peoples-day-native-americans/11109855/

Bay Area's indigenous community builds a better future by reconnecting with their past
https://abc7news.com/native-american-indigenous-peoples-what-is-san-francisco-people/11268455/

American Indian Cultural District of San Francisco - Facebook https://www.facebook.com/AmericanIndianCulturalDistrict
American Indian Cultural District of San Francisco, California
The purpose of the American Indian Cultural District is to honor and celebrate the San Francisco Bay Area Native American Community's culture, history, and contributions.

Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits (BAAITS) exists to restore and recover the role of Two-Spirit people within the American Indian/First Nations community...
https://www.baaits.org

Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits (BAAITS) Powwow [held at at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco]
https://fortmason.org/event/two-spirits-baaits-powwow

I should also mention that I listen regularly to a weekly radio program from a station in Berkeley called "Bay Native Circle", which is produced by and for Native Americans in the SF Bay Area.

Lastly, I've just discovered that we also have a Category:Native Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area, which further validates the existence of Category:Native American people from the San Francisco Bay Area and should be added as a parent cat.

Honestly, I think what I've presented here should be sufficient for you to change your close on this to "Full KEEP". At the very least, it's quite certainly a "No concensus KEEP".

Regards, Anomalous+0 (talk) 12:26, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, the introduction of inappropriate pages, such as Draft:Aruba Sucks, is considered vandalism and is prohibited. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism may result in the loss of editing privileges. Under section G3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, the page has been nominated for deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Joyous! Noise! 14:24, 25 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Huh. — Qwerfjkltalk 15:54, 25 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! After a short break I'm back on Wikipedia. (Suffered some days from the flu.) Just wanted to let you know that I'm still working on localizing strings for your bot in my community (have around 20 left) and I will report back when I'm finished. Hope you have a good time! :) - Klein Muçi (talk) 13:56, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Klein Muçi, good to hear you're well. — Qwerfjkltalk 14:55, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Qwerfjkl, I am tracking the many bot updates you are doing, using this particular campaign: Implementing WP:PIQA (Task 26).

While the addition of the banner shell is helpful, I see that you have been deleting the param "listas" without replacement. That parameter helps ensure that researchers can find the valuable associated pages whose names do not start with the name of the fraternity. For example, the List of Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapters has a listas param of "listas=Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapters". We've not entered a campaign to rename all of these, (lists of chapters, lists of notable members, and a few others) and perhaps that is warranted. But for now, the listas param is essential to allow these pages to pop up as visible options when someone searches for that fraternity name. Would you adjust this?

You've also delete the param "class=list" from our specific Project listing (Fraternities and Sororities). In one case I noted it was bumped elsewhere within the shell, which is fine, but would you confirm that that second line has been added, and not lost? I only recently noticed the addition as a second line within the shell, and thought it may be missing from other locations. Jax MN (talk) 21:12, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Jax MN, can you give an example diff of where you have encountered any issues? The bot shouldn't be removing either listas or class=list. — Qwerfjkltalk 22:08, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[16] The bot acted correctly on that page. The listas is only required once, and so the bot is moving it to the banner shell and out of the separate banners. It is also correct to move |class=list as that was moved into the banner shell, which is the whole benefit of PIQA — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 22:35, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I will continue to review these pages for any syntax problems. I scanned several dozen, after reading your request here, and only found a few instances where our original code had neglected to add a LISTAS param, but where it would have been useful. I've subsequently added it. I will respond further if I find any errors. Thanks for engaging on this item. Jax MN (talk) 23:31, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Don't hesitate to ask if you have any concerns. But everything looks good from my point of view at the moment — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 17:09, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Page: Sadhvi_Rithambara

Diff: Special:Diff/1198571544

Comment/question:

Ekabhishek^talk 20:31, 28 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ekabhishek, you added

<ref>((cite web|title= |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/others/haryana-cm-releases-book-on-sadhvi-s-role-in-ayodhya-movement-101704032777625.html|date= |website= Hindustan Times))</ref>

which has a blank |title= — Qwerfjkltalk 21:10, 28 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No such bare url found in the article, might be a mistake Ekabhishek^talk 20:31, 28 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In this edit the Qwerfjkl bot has apparently duplicated a corrupt WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography banner on Talk:Long Arm of the Law (film), when it should have merged the two version of WikiProject Crime [and Criminal Biography] banners or simply not done anything with the second corrupt and invalid banner syntax. Looks like it tried to do too many things and became confused. This should have been flagged as a corrupt banner shell. - Cameron Dewe (talk) 11:13, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah that's GIGO. Can't be too hard on the bot there, as it was corrupted already. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:17, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]