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Tech News: 2022-35
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
In recent months, there have been inaccurate numbers shown for various Special:Statistics at Commons, Wikidata, and English Wikipedia. This has now been fixed. [1]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 August. It will be on all wikis from 1 September (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 30 August at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 1 September at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
Future changes
The Wikimedia Foundation wants to improve how Wikimedia communities report harmful incidents by building the Private Incident Reporting System (PIRS) to make it easy and safe for users to make reports. You can leave comments on the talk page, by answering the questions provided. If you have ever faced a harmful situation that you wanted to report/reported, join a PIRS interview to share your experience. To sign up please emailMadalina Ana.
Hey, what do you think about the new title I've suggested? Also, I've edited the mentioned skin names - it's a bit confusing, people ask us to change the skin name entirely, so I hope that for now, the label with the brackets will be a bit more precise and clear. SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 17:39, 30 August 2022 (UTC)
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Question from TheWriteWordss (13:54, 31 August 2022)
Hello. I've edited 11 pages. Can I know publish an article on Wikipedia? --TheWriteWordss (talk) 13:54, 31 August 2022 (UTC)
Women in Red in September 2022
Women in Red September 2022, Vol 8, Issue 9, Nos 214, 217, 240, 241
We would like to wish all Malaysians Happy Malaysia Independence Day.
Congratulations for WikiProject Malaysia for having subject namespaces (excluding talk pages) passed 25,000 mark and unassessed articles and unknown-importance articles fall below 100 mark for the very first time.
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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 11:02, 1 September 2022 (UTC)
A discussion is open to define a process by which Vector 2022 can be made the default for all users.
An RfC is open to gain consensus on whether Fox News is reliable for science and politics.
Technical news
The impact report on the effects of disabling IP editing on the Persian (Farsi) Wikipedia has been released.
The WMF is looking into making a Private Incident Reporting System (PIRS) system to improve the reporting of harmful incidents through easier and safer reporting. You can leave comments on the talk page by answering the questions provided. Users who have faced harmful situations are also invited to join a PIRS interview to share the experience. To sign up please emailMadalina Ana.
Arbitration
An arbitration case regarding Conduct in deletion-related editing has been closed. The Arbitration Committee passed a remedy as part of the final decision to create a request for comment (RfC) on how to handle mass nominations at Articles for Deletion (AfD).
The arbitration case request Jonathunder has been automatically closed after a 6 month suspension of the case.
Miscellaneous
The new pages patrol (NPP) team has prepared an appeal to the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) for assistance with addressing Page Curation bugs and requested features. You are encouraged to read the open letter before it is sent, and if you support it, consider signing it. It is not a discussion, just a signature will suffice.
The fourth round of the WikiCup has now finished. 383 points were required to reach the final, and the new round has got off to a flying start with all finalists already scoring. In round 4, Bloom6132 with 939 points was the highest points-scorer, with a combination of DYKs and In the news items, followed by BennyOnTheLoose, Sammi Brie and Lee Vilenski. The points of all contestants are swept away as we start afresh for the final round.
At this stage, we say goodbye to the eight competitors who didn't quite make it; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia, and we hope you will join us again next year. For the remaining competitors, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them, and importantly, before the deadline on October 31st!
If you are concerned that your nomination, whether it be for a good article, a featured process, or anything else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. The judges are Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:44, 3 September 2022 (UTC)
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call September 6, 2022: Dominic Byrd-McDevitt will talk about the Digital Public Library's Wikimedia program, an effort to provide national leadership around access and discoverability of digital collections by leveraging Wikipedia and its sister projects. 2 years ago, DPLA launched a digital asset pipeline to enable participating institutions in the DPLA network to share their collections with Wikimedia Commons. DPLA is continuing to innovate by taking advantage of Wikidata entities and Structured Data on Commons to continually synchronize data and improve discoverability. We'll discuss issues around large datasets, aggregation, reconciliation, and other challenges DPLA has faced. Agenda
We are continuing to work on the PATCH endpoint to make it possible to edit existing statements (phab:T306934)
We started the security review process for one of the libraries we are using. Until that is finished this part of the REST API can unfortunately not be tested on beta Wikidata. (phab:T316523)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 September. It will be on all wikis from 8 September (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 6 September at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 8 September at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
On Special pages that only have one tab, the tab-bar's row will be hidden in the Vector-2022 skin to save space. The row will still show if Gadgets use it. Gadgets that currently append directly to the CSS id of #p-namespaces should be updated to use the mw.util.addPortletLink function instead. Gadgets that style this id should consider also targeting #p-associated-pages, the new id for this row. Examples are available. [2][3]
Movement Charter Drafting Committee's monthly newsletter
Wikimedia Summit 2022: The Drafting Committee will present three brief drafts of sections from the Movement Charter for discussion at the Wikimedia Summit on 10 September. The drafts will also be posted publicly on Meta.
Movement Charter video: The Committee and the MSG team created a short video (~8 minutes). The video briefly explains what the Movement Charter is, and introduces the Drafting Committee members. This video was streamed during Wikimania.
Quercus geminata, commonly called sand live oak, is an evergreen oak tree native to the coastal regions of the subtropical southeasternUnited States, along the Atlantic Coast from southern Florida northward to southeastern Virginia and along the Gulf Coast westward to southern Mississippi, on seacoast dunes and on white sands in evergreen oak scrubs.
Hi, how many more edits do I need to make before I can start a new page, I ask this because I have ticked all boxes in ‘training’ and then some but have not been made aware of how much more needs to be done. Thanks for your help,
Ben. --Militia9 (talk) 07:58, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
Hi @Militia9, you can create a new page and submit it for review using the article wizard. Justiyaya 09:29, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #537
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour September 12, 2022: Sixth session of our summer/fall project working with diverse children's book metadata. We'll be creating items for books (works and editions) in Wikidata. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in our project series will be recorded for those who cannot attend. Links will be added to the event page when available. Wikidata Working Hour Event page
REST API: Continued work on the endpoint for changing a statement (phab:T306934)
Lexicographical data: Made sure that the new Lexeme creation page also is shown in older browsers (phab:T311157), which was one of the last remaining issues before we can switch out the existing page (phab:T307866)
Continued work on enabling sitelinks for redirects under certain conditions (phab:T278962)
Spend a few days with people from Wikimedia Indonesia to discuss our partnership
Poland report: The summary of GLAM editing contest and the end of residency at the National Museum in Cracow; Cooperation with Wawel Royal Castle; Hack(art)hon for Zachęta
Serbia report: Contemporary Art Edit-a-thon and Wikipedian in residence at the Historical Archive of Negotin
Sweden report: 100 000 Bildminnen; Uniforms, images from New Sweden, colonial officers, the map book of Fryderyk Getkant, and more!; Swedish general election 2022
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
The search servers have been upgraded to a new major version. If you notice any issues with searching, please report them on Phabricator. [4]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 September. It will be on all wikis from 15 September (calendar).
Thanks Epic, how can we make sure we are not called suckpuppet if we create a new article. I really want to create articles, but I am not sure how to do it without being attacked really. --Singularitywiki (talk) 23:40, 13 September 2022 (UTC)
Hi @Singularitywiki, make sure to review your first article before writing your first article. Make sure to also submit it through articles for creation, you can do so by using the article wizard. reviewing your contributions, new users should not engage in AFD discussions if you want to avoid allegations of sockpuppetry. Feel free to reply if you have any additional questions. Justiyaya 08:10, 14 September 2022 (UTC)
Dual script support for Punjabi Wikidata labels and descriptions in Gurmukhi (pa) and Shahmukhi (pnb), taking a conservative approach (only making "obvious" transliterations).
Addition of labels and descriptions entirely consistent of information which can be inferred from other language labels (again, only for "obvious" cases).
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call September 20, 2022: Michael Jones (National Library of Wales) on his work using machine learning, Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF), and Wikidata with historical newspaper collections. Agenda
The Climate Knowledge Hunt Hackathon: IPCC reports → Wikidata event on September 24. Registration
Finished the endpoint for editing statements (phab:T306934)
Working on automated edit summaries (phab:T312811)
Making small modifications to the response format for statements (phab:T317866)
Lexicographical data:
Special:NewLexemeAlpha now uses the new search profile for languages, which makes it easier to select a language Item for the language of the new Lexeme (phab:T312853)
Finished the work on making sure that the example Lexeme falls back to other locally defined examples for languages other than English instead of the pre-set example Lexeme (phab:T313599)
Working on making sure that only *-x-Q123, not *-x-q123, can be used as a Lexeme language code (phab:T317863)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Two database fields in the templatelinks table are now being dropped: tl_namespace and tl_title. Any queries that rely on these fields need to be changed to use the new normalization field called tl_target_id. See T299417 for more information. This is part of normalization of links tables. [6][7]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 September. It will be on all wikis from 22 September (calendar).
In Kartographer maps, you can use icons on markers for common points of interest. On Tuesday, the previous icon set will be updated to version maki 7.2. That means, around 100 new icons will be available. Additionally, all existing icons were updated for clarity and to make them work better in international contexts. [8][9]
Future changes
In a group discussion at Wikimania, more than 30 people talked about how to make content partnership software in the Wikimedia movement more sustainable. What kind of support is acceptable for volunteer developers? Read the summary and leave your feedback.
Question from SuperHyper74 (11:17, 20 September 2022)
Eric, good morning. I need your help editing a Wikipedia controlled Bing page. --SuperHyper74 (talk) 11:17, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
Hi SuperHyper74, what page are you referring to? Justiyaya 11:25, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
Good morning, Justiyaya. I am referring to a Bing search, of which Wikipedia controls the content. If you do a bing search for Bella Hadid, you will notice a disturbing word that appears twice on the page, once under her name. And then a second time underneath her photo. The word is "untermensch", a German word that means "subhuman", and was used by the Nazis to describe the Jews and other groups of people who they believed were less than human during the Second World War!!!!!! I should not have to comment any further. Now I need your help to remove that filth from the page!!!! SuperHyper74 (talk) 11:37, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
@SuperHyper74 Thanks for raising your concerns, I was unable to locate the word in the article, although the bing search has the word in it under her photo. After some digging, it seems to be caused by recently reverted vandalism added on Wikidata about a month ago, see wikidata:Special:Diff/1699148984. We do not have control over a saved index of Wikidata by bing, please contact microsoft/bing support. Thanks! Justiyaya 12:13, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
Justiyaya, I have already contacted Microsoft and Bing support, and they keep sending me back here. Now, as you can see from that wikidata page, someone hacked in and vandalized that page. We need to restore the original content of that page, and kick that vandal off the internet immediately!!!!! SuperHyper74 (talk) 12:27, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
@SuperHyper74 It was removed 12 days ago with Wikidata:Special:Diff/1723528387. Can you ask Microsoft support to reindex the Wikidata page or review the search result again linking to this thread? If Wikidata is causing this issue it was fixed 12 days ago on our side, I don't think I can help much. Justiyaya 12:39, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
Justiyaya, here is the funny thing about this. Whilst we were chatting back and forth, I noticed that I when I tried to access the page again, half of the problem had been solved. In other words, it now says American model under her photo on the right half of the page, but it still says "untermensch" under her name and smaller photo on the right side of the page. SuperHyper74 (talk) 12:58, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
On the left side of the page, I meant to say, you can still see the grotesque insult. SuperHyper74 (talk) 12:58, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
Also, the vandal, whose name is Roshkara, needs to be kicked off the internet permanently!!!!!! SuperHyper74 (talk) 13:02, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
@SuperHyper74 Uhh Roshkara did not vandalize... They did restore a good revision of the page though... I did try the bing feedback feature few hours ago not expecting it to work on that specific section, probably caused by that I guess? Anyways, if it is not resolved within ~24 hours please send a report to Bing Support instead of here. Bye! Justiyaya 14:19, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
Oh, sorry about the confusion!!! SuperHyper74 (talk) 15:18, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
Question from SuperHyper74 (06:01, 21 September 2022)
I need to know who is responsible for the content on the top of this search page. Is it Bing, or is it Wikipedia!!!!! Whoever is responsible needs to remove the heinous insult "Untermensch" seen under Ms. Hadid's name on the top of the page. --SuperHyper74 (talk) 06:01, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
I have been working tirelessly for nearly two days now to resolve this problem. Wikipedia, I am happy to say, solved half of the problem, as this insult actually appeared twice on the same page. But the other half of the problem needs to be fixed as well!!!! SuperHyper74 (talk) 06:04, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
Question from Shootr McGavn (16:57, 21 September 2022)
Hey, I added a couple relevant sentences to a page. It was well-sourced and properly-written.
It immediately was removed on very flimsy grounds. What are my next steps? Is it a fight just to add new info to this site? --Shootr McGavn (talk) 16:57, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
Question from Simohoite99 (21:26, 25 September 2022)
Hi,
I made a new entry, Danske Studenters Roklub.....will that be reviewed and, if ok, added eventually? It is in my Sandbox now.
Simohoite99 (talk) 21:26, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour September 30, 2022: the seventh Wikidata Working Hour in the series will be a review session of creating contributor and publisher items in Wikidata. The primary goal of this session is to generate as many contributor and publisher items as we can in advance of the two following sessions which have to do with batch editing -- we want enough to make a good batch! We will review how to add items, but then reserve the bulk of the session for open editing, kind of like a mini-editathon! Naturally, participants can ask questions and share thoughts at any point during the editing! You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in the project series will be recorded. Links will be added when available. Event page
User:Bovlb/notability.js is a userscript that adds a small notability indicator to the top right of an item showing how well the item satisfies the three notability criteria. Left to right, the three columns indicate sitelinks, identifiers and references, and structural need.
Hello @EpicPupper. I noticed you're one of the editors in chief at the Signpost. Well, we've got a little problem over there. We've got four days left for writing and not a single one of the articles is ready yet. I was thinking to message the copyeditors about this issue, but I don't know what would be preferable to you to do. I messaged JPxG but so far there is no response. If I don't get a response by tomorrow I'll probably message the copyeditors myself. Thanks! Helloheart (talk) 00:26, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-39
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Parsoid clients should be updated to allow for space-separated multi-values in the rel attribute of links. Further details are in T315209.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 September. It will be on all wikis from 29 September (calendar).
Visual diffs will become available to all users, except at the Wiktionaries and Wikipedias. [10]
Talk pages on the mobile site will change at the Arabic, Bangla, Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Korean, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. They should be easier to use and provide more information. [11][12]
In the Module namespace, pages ending with .json will be treated as JSON, just like they already are in the User and MediaWiki namespaces. [13]
Hey, are you taking a wikibreak? I've seen a complete lack of activity from you, and it's sorta strange. Explodicator7331 (talk) 23:39, 28 September 2022 (UTC)
Women in Red October 2022
Women in Red October 2022, Vol 8, Issue 10, Nos 214, 217, 242, 243, 244
--Lajmmoore (talk) 14:58, 29 September 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging
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We would like to wish all Malaysians Happy Malaysia Day and Mid-Autumn Festival.
Congratulations for WikiProject Malaysia for having articles passed 17,000 mark.
Congratulations for WikiProject Malaysia for having fully assessed (almost 100%) its articles based on their classes and importance, with only 1-2 lefts (e.g. due to newly written articles etc). Therefore, from October 2022 newsletter issue onwards, there will be no more statistical counts on these two parameters.
Following an RfC, consensus has been found that, in the context of politics and science, the reliability of FoxNews.com is unclear and that additional considerations apply to its use.
The Articles for creation helper script now automatically recognises administrator accounts which means your name does not need to be listed at WP:AFCP to help out. If you wish to help out at AFC, enable AFCH by navigating to Preferences → Gadgets and checking the "Yet Another AfC Helper Script" box.
Arbitration
Remedy 8.1 of the Muhammad images case will be rescinded 1 November following a motion.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Kartographer maps can now show geopoints from Wikidata, via QID or SPARQL query. Previously, this was only possible for geoshapes and geolines. [14][15]
The Coolest Tool Award 2022 is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools until 12 October.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 October. It will be on all wikis from 6 October (calendar).
Talk pages on the mobile site will change at the Arabic, Bangla, Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Korean, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. They should be easier to use and provide more information. (Last week's release was delayed) [16][17]
The scribunto-console API module will require a CSRF token. This module is documented as internal and use of it is not supported. [5]
The Vector 2022 skin will become the default across the smallest Wikimedia projects. Learn more.
October 4, 2022: Lana Soglasnova and Roman Tashlitskyy will talk about their preliminary work in creating and editing items for Slavic people and some of the complications involved in this work, especially around transliterating names in various languages. Agenda
Wikibase Working Hour! 25 October 2022, 2pm Eastern (Time zone converter) Amy Ruskin of Northeastern University Library, will speak on the topic of Wikidata vs. custom Wikibases: Community history case studies, Boston’s Chinatown. The Boston Research Center (BRC) is a digital community history and archives lab based in the Northeastern University Library. One of our current projects involves taking an inventory of historical materials related to Boston’s Chinatown, and we have been using Wikibase to store multilingual data about the linked collections, organizations, and people. In this presentation, we will discuss our experience of getting started with a custom Wikibase and give an overview of our progress so far on the Chinatown Collections project. Amy Ruskin is the Data Engineer in the Digital Scholarship Group in the Northeastern University Library. She has a Master's degree in Information Studies from McGill University and a background in computer science and statistics. Registration link
Wikidata Office Hour GLAM-Hack − online meet-up about the "library world" with Wikidata. October 5th, 12.00 UTC (online via Zoom)
Ongoing
Wikimedia Österreich, in cooperation with Wikimedia Deutschland, started the DACH Culture Contest as a Börthday present for Wikidata 10th anniversary! It features two categories: "libraries in Austria, Germany and Switzerland" and "Culture in Austria, Germany and Switzerland". So if you would like to improve data about libraries, books, music, art, video games, cinema etc as a börthday treat, join us and get the chance to win some nice prizes! The contest will last until October 16, 2022.
The fourth edition of the Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations. Please submit your favorite tools by October 12, 2022. The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December.
Australia report: Behind the scenes with Australia's Wiki Loves Earth 2022 winner
Austria report: A Börthday present for Wikidata - the DACH Culture Contest
Brazil report: Reopening of Museu Paulista and other news
France report: Meeting with Prime minister cultural adviser; Residence at the Brittany Museum
India report: Digitisation of O Bharat, a bilingual biweekly published in Goa from 1912 to 1949
Indonesia report: GLAM Socialization; Wikistories for GLAM Competition
Italy report: September month of results and planning
Netherlands report: Wiki Loves Monuments Suriname first edition: 554 photos
New Zealand report: New Zealand Thesis Project and Te Papa Forget-me-nots
Poland report: The results of GLAM editing contest; GLAM Coordinators Meeting
Serbia report: External projects, great results and high level of independence
Sweden report: Bookfair back on site; Cultural history in High Schools; More identifiers from National Historical Museums of Sweden on Wikidata; Swedish general election 2022
USA report: Advocacy and Invention; New Smithsonian WiR; Called to Create; DC Statehood and Home Rule; Annual meeting; Wikipedian in Residence Opportunity at the Pérez Art Museum Miami
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 October. It will be on all wikis from 13 October (calendar).
On some wikis, Kartographer maps in full size view will be able to display nearby articles. After a feedback period, more wikis will follow. [18][19]
Wikidata Tenth Birthday Speaker Series Week 1 (n part one we learn how Wikidata is (or is not) integrated into Wikipedia, how it helps an enormous cultural institution like the Smithsonian achieve its goals)
The fourth edition of the Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations. Please submit your favorite tools by October 12, 2022. The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December.
MUL language code: fixed the order of languages shown in the termbox on desktop, especially when mul is used (phab:T311617)
Lexicographical data:
Made Special:NewLexemeAlpha use the same font as the rest of the wiki (phab:T313166) – this should be the last blocker for replacing the old special page
Disallowed *-x-qid with lowercase Q as Lexeme language codes in favor of *-x-Qid (phab:T317863)
REST API: worked on handling conditional HTTP request headers
Changed the unexpectedUnconnectedPage page prop so that Special:UnconnectedPages can show the latest pages first, which should finally resolve this old security task in production (phab:T300770)
Cleaned up the Wikibase and WikibaseLexeme ontology files (phab:T314360)
Added a few more globes for geocoordinates (phab:T314611) - Thanks, Mike!