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Une nouvelle édition du Wikimag est disponible à la lecture.
week leading up to 2024-12-23. Missed the previous one? See issue #658
Discussions
- New request for comments:
- P518 scope - Should scope of league or competition (P118) include forms and aspects?
- Trying to get a consensus on English label for Q30 -- "United States of America" vs "United States"
Events
- Ongoing: Wikidata Cleanup 2024 - Romaine continues his initiative, "Wikidata Cleanup," to coordinate community efforts in addressing the problem of items missing basic properties during the last ten days of 2024, when many users have extra time due to holidays. The aim is to improve data quality by focusing on ensuring all items have essential properties like "instance of" (P31) or "subclass of" (P279), adding relevant country and location data, and maintaining consistency within item series.
- Upcoming events: Data Reuse Days - online event focusing on projects using Wikidata's data, 18-27 February 2025. You can submit a proposal for the program on the talk page until January 12th.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Exploring YouTube Channels Via Wikidata, by Tara Calishain. "This time I'm playing with a way to browse YouTube channels while using Wikidata as context. And you can try it too, because it doesn't need any API keys!"
- Wikidata Items "described at URL" domain ranked list, by Magnus Manske
- Papers: Finding Female Film Editors in Wikidata: How to Query and Visualize Filmographic Records
- Videos: How to link a Wikipedia article to Wikidata (Spanish)
Tool of the week
- Flying Dehyphenator is an Ordia game. Given the start part of a word, use the spacebar to move the word and hit the next part of the word. Only hyphenations described with the Unicode hyphenation character work.
- Want a wrap of your Wikidata activities in 2024? Wiki Year In Review has it for you! (use www.wikidata.org for the project URL)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikibase/Suite-Contributing-Guide: Wikibase Suite's contributing guide has been published. This guide aims to help anyone who wants to contribute and make sure they are equipped with all the relevant information to do so.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- bequest income (the sum a organisations receives from bequests/legacies in a timeframe)
- taxon known by this common name (taxon item of which this common name refers)
- homonymous taxon (taxon item of which the taxon name is an exact homonym)
- role named as (use as qualifier to indicate how the object's role was named in the credits of its respective work)
- meeting of (subject is a meeting or session of this organization)
- Newest External identifiers: PCGames.de product ID, PUG authority ID, Three Decks class ID, Vidas author ID, Usito ID, ZSL authority ID, Collectie Nederland ID, Hachette author ID, CamerounWeb person ID, Hindi Shabdamitra entry ID, OpenSSF Practices ID, Japanese Health Insurance System Facility ID, Centre d'Etudes Picasso ID, CUATM statistical code, CUATM unique identification code, JudaicaLink person (GND) ID, teams.by national team ID, Eyrolles author ID, Mémoire des avocats ID, BCU Kirundi-English Dictionary ID, Estonian–Latvian Dictionary ID, WHL player ID, Indo-European Lexicon ID, Battle.net game ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- About box (Screenshot of the About Box of the respective software (contains important information such as authors, license, version number and year(s) and is included in almost every software))
- nonprofit tax status (country specific tax status of organisations like non-profits)
- nomenclatural type of (taxon item of wich this item is the taxonomic type)
- World Heritage type (Propriety of World heritage site : the Type (Cultural, Natural, Mixed))
- DVD region code (DVD release is restricted to region code)
- number of shading units (Number of shading units in a graphics card.)
- Archaeological National Register code (identifier of elements of the National archaeological register of Moldova)
- presented works (works of art performed, displayed or presented at a given event)
- identifiant REGAFI ()
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Three Decks conflict ID, Algeria Press Service tag ID (French), Algeria Press Service tag ID (English), Algeria Press Service tag ID (Arabic), Newmark Albanian-English Dictionary ID, Norsk oversettterleksikon ID, footballdatabase.eu match ID, Kamus Pelajar Edisi Kedua ID, Berlinische Galerie object ID, Singapore Unique Entity Number, Lyricfind artist ID, HonestGamers game ID, identifiant MACM d'un artisite, Syrian Memory person ID, Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice sur le site Mille ans de littérature d'oc, Paris Match ID, Kamus Dewan Edisi Tiga, identifiant Registre national des gels, DOSBox Wiki, Identifiant Cimetières de France, Ech-Chaab tag ID, Amsterdam Monumentenstad ID, Kyiv Independent Topic, Lutris company ID, Shamela Algeria person ID, enterprise number (Germany), Ohio University ArchivesSpace Subject ID, Progetto Euploos ID, Nafziger Order of Battle ID, National Football Teams.com stadium ID, Play:Right genre ID, DataGov dataset, ERR keyword ID, Comprehensive Historical Dictionary of Ladino entry ID, Ohio University ArchivesSpace Agent ID, Russian Football National League player ID, Gaia ID, Inventory of Natural Heritage site ID, Inventory of Natural Heritage tree ID, Wellcome Collection concept ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- WikiProject Highlights: Nonprofit Organizations/Japan
- Newest database reports: Items with a sitelink to Dutch Wikipedia and have no P31 and/or P279 (source) (replace 2x the "nl" into the language code of your language)
- Showcase Items: Boeing (Q66) - American global aerospace and defense corporation
- Showcase Lexemes: julehilsen - Christmas greeting in Danish
Development
- With the winter holidays upon us, the development team is taking a break, and there will be no deployments for Wikidata during this time.
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.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country:
- 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!
The Signpost: 24 December 2024
modifier- From the archives: Where to draw the line in reporting?
- Recent research: "Wikipedia editors are quite prosocial", but those motivated by "social image" may put quantity over quality
- Gallery: A feast of holidays and carols
- Traffic report: Was a long and dark December
Une nouvelle édition du Wikimag est disponible à la lecture.
week leading up to 2024-12-30. Missed the previous one? See issue #659
Welcome to 2023’s Final Weekly Summary!
A huge thank you to everyone who contributed to the newsletter this year! 🎉 Each of your contributions, whether big or small, has made a difference and has helped us create a vibrant and informative resource for the Wikidata community. 🙏 Let's continue building and sharing knowledge together in the coming year! 🙌✨
Discussions
- Open request for oversight: Ameisenigel (RfP scheduled to end at 6 January 2025 21:52 UTC)
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Papers
- Library Data in Wikimedia Projects: Case Study from the Czech Republic by Jansová, L., Maixnerová, L., & Š´tastná, P. (2024). "The paper outlines the collaboration between the National Library of the Czech Republic and Wikimedia since 2006, focusing on linking authority records with Wikipedia articles and training librarians and users. By 2023, the National Library provided most of its databases under a CC0 license, launched a "Wikimedians in Residence" program, and collaborated on projects involving linked data and using authority records in Wikidata. This partnership has enhanced their cooperation for mutual benefit, identifying key factors for their successful long-term collaboration."
- How have you modelled my gender? Reconstructing the history of gender representation in Wikidata by Melis, B., Fioravanti, M., Paolini, C., & Metilli, D. (2024). "The paper traces the evolution of gender representation in Wikidata, showing how the community has moved from a binary interpretation of gender to a more inclusive model for trans and non-binary identities. The Wikidata Gender Diversity project (WiGeDi) timeline highlights the significant changes influenced by external historical events and the community's increased understanding of gender complexity."
- Videos: Arabic Wikidata Days 2024 - Data Science Course - First Practical Session: Wikibase-CLI Tool (part 1, part 2) by Saeed Habishan. "The Wikibase-CLI enables command-based interaction with Wikidata using shell scripts and JavaScript. The tool runs on NodeJS and enables automatic reading and editing of Wikidata."
Tool of the week
- WikiORA - is a tool designed for gene over-representation analysis. It integrates data from Wikidata, Wikipedia, Gene Ontology, and PanglaoDB to help researchers identify significantly enriched gene sets in their data.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- bequest income (the sum a organisations receives from bequests/legacies in a timeframe)
- taxon known by this common name (taxon item of which this common name refers)
- homonymous taxon (taxon item of which the taxon name is an exact homonym)
- role named as (use as qualifier to indicate how the object's role was named in the credits of its respective work)
- meeting of (subject is a meeting or session of this organization)
- Newest External identifiers: PCGames.de product ID, PUG authority ID, Three Decks class ID, Vidas author ID, Usito ID, ZSL authority ID, Collectie Nederland ID, Hachette author ID, CamerounWeb person ID, Hindi Shabdamitra entry ID, OpenSSF Practices ID, Japanese Health Insurance System Facility ID, Centre d'Etudes Picasso ID, CUATM statistical code, CUATM unique identification code, JudaicaLink person (GND) ID, teams.by national team ID, Eyrolles author ID, Mémoire des avocats ID, BCU Kirundi-English Dictionary ID, Estonian–Latvian Dictionary ID, WHL player ID, Indo-European Lexicon ID, Battle.net game ID, Singapore Unique Entity Number, AniSearch character ID, Three Decks conflict ID, Berlinische Galerie object ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- About box (Screenshot of the About Box of the respective software (contains important information such as authors, license, version number and year(s) and is included in almost every software))
- nonprofit tax status (country specific tax status of organisations like non-profits)
- nomenclatural type of (taxon item of which this item is the taxonomic type)
- World Heritage type (Propriety of World heritage site : the Type (Cultural, Natural, Mixed))
- DVD region code (DVD release is restricted to region code)
- number of shading units (Number of shading units in a graphics card.)
- Archaeological National Register code (identifier of elements of the National archaeological register of Moldova)
- presented works (works of art performed, displayed or presented at a given event)
- identifiant REGAFI ()
- Maximum beam energy (Maximum beam energy of a particle accelerator)
- Accused of (Crime or other misdeed a person has been accused of, but ''not proven or convicted'')
- hat gespendet (Amount of money donated to a person or organization)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Algeria Press Service tag ID (French), Algeria Press Service tag ID (English), Algeria Press Service tag ID (Arabic), Newmark Albanian-English Dictionary ID, Norsk oversettterleksikon ID, hockey1946.ru player id, footballdatabase.eu match ID, Kamus Pelajar Edisi Kedua ID, Lyricfind artist ID, HonestGamers game ID, identifiant MACM d'un artisite, Syrian Memory person ID, Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice sur le site Mille ans de littérature d'oc, Paris Match ID, Kamus Dewan Edisi Tiga, identifiant Registre national des gels, DOSBox Wiki, Identifiant Cimetières de France, Ech-Chaab tag ID, Amsterdam Monumentenstad ID, Kyiv Independent Topic, Lutris company ID, Shamela Algeria person ID, enterprise number (Germany), Ohio University ArchivesSpace Subject ID, Progetto Euploos ID, Nafziger Order of Battle ID, National Football Teams.com stadium ID, Play:Right genre ID, DataGov dataset, ERR keyword ID, Comprehensive Historical Dictionary of Ladino entry ID, Ohio University ArchivesSpace Agent ID, Russian Football National League player ID, Gaia ID, Inventory of Natural Heritage site ID, Inventory of Natural Heritage tree ID, Wellcome Collection concept ID, Spanish-German Dictionary ID, UAF match ID, Identifiant d'un(e) journaliste sur Francetvinfo, Game Vortex software ID, VG247 game ID, identifiant Pappers d'un dirigeant, Database of Canada's Early Women Writers ID, Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory ID, Mishramilan catalog ID, SearchCulture.gr ID, Cinema Belgica venue ID, Cinema Belgica person ID, Cinema Belgica film ID, Cinema Belgica company ID, Cinema Belgica censorship ID, Archaeological Cadastre (Greece) ID, Hankook Ilbo tag ID, Rijksmuseum ID, SOIUSA code, myCast work ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: Uganda - aims to be a central hub for the curation of any and all items (biographical, cultural, geographical, organisational, etc...) relating to Uganda (Q1036)
- WikiProject Highlights:
- Narration/Folktales - creation of Items for motifs described in Thompson's motif index completed
- Austria - concerns itself with improving data from nonprofit organizations in Austria
- Newest database reports: Deleted Wikidata entities used in SDC
- Showcase Items: Wressle Castle (Q8037764) - late 14th-century quadrangular castle in East Yorkshire, England, UK
- Showcase Lexemes: ਲੇਟਣ (L750580) - in Punjabi (pa) and "لیٹݨ" in Punjabi Shahmukhi (pnb) transliterate to "Leṭaṇ," which means "to lie down" or "to rest" in English.
Development
- Most of the development team staff are still taking a break, so no development happened.
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.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country: Liechtenstein
- 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!
Regards sur l'actualité de la Wikimedia et d'ailleurs |
Bonne année 2025 Que l'année 2025 t'apporte joies, bonheur et réussites Antoine.b ! Je te la souhaite riche en beaux projets, tant wikipédiens qu’IRL Au plaisir de te recroiser, — BimBe93 (discuter) 1 janvier 2025 à 16:45 (CET) |
- Bonjour @BimBe93, merci beaucoup pour ton message, je te souhaite une bonne et heureuse 2025 ! Antoine.b (discuter) 2 janvier 2025 à 10:28 (CET)
Bonne année 2025 ! | ||
Meilleurs vœux pour cette nouvelle année. Amicalement GF38storic (discuter) 1 janvier 2025 à 23:41 (CET) |
- Merci beaucoup @GF38storic pour ton message, je te souhaite une bonne et heureuse année 2025 ! Antoine.b (discuter) 2 janvier 2025 à 10:31 (CET)
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19 mai 2025 à 21:06 (CEST)19 mai 2025 à 21:06 (CEST) Nattes à chat (discuter) 2 janvier 2025 à 10:57 (CET)
- Merci beaucoup @Nattes à chat pour tes vœux, je te souhaite une bonne et heureuse année 2025 ! Antoine.b (discuter) 2 janvier 2025 à 11:01 (CET)
Merci pour le message sur ma pdd ! .
Je te souhaite une merveilleuse année 2025, pour toi et tes proches, pleine de contributions et en santé.
—Eihel (discuter) 2 janvier 2025 à 11:20 (CET)
- Merci beaucoup @Eihel pour tes vœux ! Antoine.b (discuter) 2 janvier 2025 à 13:16 (CET)
Bonne année 2025 !!! | ||
Merci et beaucoup de bonnes pensées très amicales pour 2025. |
- Merci beaucoup @Chris a liege pour tes vœux ! Antoine.b (discuter) 2 janvier 2025 à 13:17 (CET)
Bonne année 2025 ! | ||
Que ce cru 2025 te soit bon, généreux, doux, prospère et lumineux. Amicalement tien, — ✍ Ruyblas13 [causerie💬] 2 janvier 2025 à 12:01 (CET) |
- Merci beaucoup @Ruyblas13 pour tes vœux ! Antoine.b (discuter) 2 janvier 2025 à 13:17 (CET)
Bonne année !
modifierPlein les yeux ! | ||
Bonne année Antoine.b, Merci pour tes bons vœux, |
Le nouvel an
modifierMeilleurs vœux pour 2025. Que cette nouvelle année t'apporte santé et bonheur. Amitiés — Arcyon [Causons z'en]
Merci Antoine.b pour tes bons vœux. Le meilleur pour toi, également en 2025. Amage9 (discuter) 2 janvier 2025 à 13:23 (CET)
- Merci beaucoup @Amage9 pour tes vœux ! Antoine.b (discuter) 2 janvier 2025 à 13:29 (CET)
- Hello Antoine.b et merci pour ton message ! Je te souhaite également une heureuse année :-) — Jules* discuter 2 janvier 2025 à 14:52 (CET)
- Merci beaucoup @Jules* ! Antoine.b (discuter) 3 janvier 2025 à 12:26 (CET)
- Hello Antoine.b et merci pour ton message ! Je te souhaite également une heureuse année :-) — Jules* discuter 2 janvier 2025 à 14:52 (CET)
bonjour Antoine.b, merci pour tes bons vœux.
Bonne année cher Antoine.b !
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- Merci beaucoup @Jacques Ballieu ! Antoine.b (discuter) 2 janvier 2025 à 14:09 (CET)
Bonne route pour 2025 ! | |
Excellente année du quart de siècle, |
Dans ce numéro, outre les chroniques habituelles (brèves d’ici et d’ailleurs, statistiques, vidéos du mois et impulsions à la contribution), un résumé des mots de l’année d’ici et d’ailleurs, car pour la première fois ce fut organisé dans le Wiktionnaire ! On reparle aussi du dictionnaire de l’Académie française. Un article et le dictionnaire du mois sont sur les expressions idiomatiques !
Découvrez le numéro 117 de décembre 2024 !
Brouillon du prochain — Anciens numéros — Abonnement-désabonnement
Bonne année !
modifier2025 | ||
Bonne année Antoine.b, Pas à pas, sur Wikipédia |
Bonne année 2025 ! | |
Salut Antoine, |
Merci pour tes vœux et bonne année à toi. Hadrianus (d) 3 janvier 2025 à 16:19 (CET)
- Merci beaucoup @Cobra bubbles et @Hadrianus pour vos vœux ! Antoine.b (discuter) 3 janvier 2025 à 18:49 (CET)
Coucou,
Bien reçu ton courriel.
J'ai appliqué à ton compte une exemption de blocage d'IP : tu ne devrais plus avoir de souci.
Bien à toi, — Antimuonium discuter 4 janvier 2025 à 11:26 (CET)
- Merci beaucoup @Antimuonium pour votre efficacité et votre rapidité ça fonctionne parfaitement bien !
- Bon week-end à toi . Antoine.b (discuter) 4 janvier 2025 à 11:32 (CET)
- Merci beaucoup @Warp3 ! Antoine.b (discuter) 6 janvier 2025 à 12:47 (CET)
Une nouvelle édition du Wikimag est disponible à la lecture.
week leading up to 2025-01-06. Missed the previous one? See issue #660
Discussions
- New request for comments: Constraints for Germanies - Following from a property discussion on P17 (German non-states), this RfC aims to find consensus on how to apply constraints that exclude items of historical periods in German history.
- Workshop: Lexicography and linguistic sustainability - Mirandese documentation using Wikidata This Portuguese-language workshop takes place Thursday 16 January, 10:00 - 17:00, Room 208, 206 at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto.
- Please submit your proposals for the Data Reuse Days online event until January 12th. See current proposals on the talk page and here's some ideas to inspire you: presentations/demos of tools using Wikidata's data (10mins Lightning Talk presentations), discussions and presentations connecting Wikidata editors with reusers and/or explanations and demos on how to use a specific part of the technical infrastructure to reuse Wikidata's data (APIs, dumps, etc.).
- Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team --January 8, 2025. The Search Platform Team holds monthly meetings to discuss anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service (WDQS), Wikimedia Commons Query Service (WCQS), etc.! Time: 16:00-17:00 UTC / 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CET
- The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC, 15th January 2025 (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 Workshop 2025 Announcement and Call for Papers. Submission deadline: March 9, 2025 (23:59 AoE)
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs: (fr) female authors with male pseudonyms, blog post by Le Deuxième Texte including SPARQL queries to find female authors with male pseudonyms.
- Websites :Global Dementia and Risk Factors, website by 'Students at the Maastricht Science Programme', includes data visualizations of the prevalence and current treatments of dementia across the world. It utilises data extracted as SPARQL Endpoints from Wikidata.
- Papers
- Ontology-grounded Automatic Knowledge Graph Construction by LLM under Wikidata schema - This paper proposes an ontology-driven approach to KG construction using LLMs where competency questions guide ontology creation and relation extraction, leveraging Wikidata for semantic consistency. A scalable pipeline minimizes human effort while producing high-quality, interpretable KGs interoperable with Wikidata for knowledge base expansion. By Xiaohan Feng, Xixin Wu & Helen Meng (2024).
- Knowledge Incorporated Image Question Answering Using Wikidata Repository - Proposes a Visual Question Answering (VQA) model that integrates external knowledge from Wikidata to address complex open-domain questions by combining image, question, and knowledge modalities. Evaluated on the VQAv2 dataset, the model outperforms prior state-of-the-art approaches, demonstrating improved reasoning and accuracy (Koshti et al., 2024).
- Videos: (arabic) Part 6: SPARQL Demo Session: connecting external services - Sparql SERVICE clause gives access to additional data such as labels via wikibase:label, interaction with MediaWiki APIs using wikibase:mwapi, and integration of data from subgraphs (such as the main graph and the scholarly articles graph). Integration of data from external SPARQL endpoints such as DBpedia.
Tool of the week
- Wikidata Entity Linker - is a Microsoft Edge browser extension that creates web links for matching inner HTML text based on a regex format of Q\d+ which is the format of a Wikidata Entity ID. (email)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Vacancy: Research Software Engineer / Wikibase-Expert - The Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) located in Hannover has a research position open for someone interested in the deployment, administration and maintenance of open source knowledge management software such as Mediawiki, Wikibase and OpenRefine as part of the NFDI4Culture partnership within the OSL.
- January 1, 2025, marked Public Domain Day, with hundreds of 1929 films entering the public domain. Sandra has shared helpful notes to assist in making these films discoverable via WikiFlix, by adding video files to Wikicommons and Wikidata. Join the effort!
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- bequest income (the sum a organisations receives from bequests/legacies in a timeframe)
- taxon known by this common name (taxon item of which this common name refers)
- homonymous taxon (taxon item of which the taxon name is an exact homonym)
- role named in credits as (use as qualifier to indicate how the object's role was named in the credits of its respective work)
- meeting of (subject is a meeting or session of this organization)
- Newest External identifiers: PCGames.de product ID, PUG authority ID, Three Decks class ID, Vidas author ID, Usito ID, ZSL authority ID, Collectie Nederland ID, Hachette author ID, CamerounWeb person ID, Hindi Shabdamitra entry ID, OpenSSF Practices ID, Japanese Health Insurance System Facility ID, Centre d'Etudes Picasso ID, CUATM statistical code, CUATM unique identification code, JudaicaLink person (GND) ID, teams.by national team ID, Eyrolles author ID, Mémoire des avocats ID, BCU Kirundi-English Dictionary ID, Estonian–Latvian Dictionary ID, WHL player ID, Indo-European Lexicon ID, Battle.net game ID, Singapore Unique Entity Number, AniSearch character ID, Three Decks conflict ID, Berlinische Galerie object ID, ThePWHL.com player ID, Play:Right genre ID, Resistance in Belgium ID, Paris Match ID, Kyiv Independent topic, Newmark Albanian-English Dictionary ID, Wellcome Collection concept ID, Amsterdam Monumentenstad ID, VG247 game ID, DNCI label ID, National Football Teams.com stadium ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- About box (Screenshot of the About Box of the respective software (contains important information such as authors, license, version number and year(s) and is included in almost every software))
- nonprofit tax status (country specific tax status of organisations like non-profits)
- nomenclatural type of (taxon item of which this item is the taxonomic type)
- World Heritage type (Propriety of World heritage site : the Type (Cultural, Natural, Mixed))
- DVD region code (DVD release is restricted to region code)
- number of shading units (Number of shading units in a graphics card.)
- Archaeological National Register code (identifier of elements of the National archaeological register of Moldova)
- presented works (works of art performed, displayed or presented at a given event)
- identifiant REGAFI ()
- Maximum beam energy (Maximum beam energy of a particle accelerator)
- Accused of (Crime or other misdeed a person has been accused of, but ''not proven or convicted'')
- hat gespendet (Amount of money donated to a person or organization)
- name starts with (The name that this qualifies, the full contents of which are unknown, is known to start with these characters.)
- духовный сан (formal styles of address used for members of the clergy)
- A2B2 user ID (User ID on a2b2.org)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Algeria Press Service tag ID (French), Algeria Press Service tag ID (English), Algeria Press Service tag ID (Arabic), Norsk oversettterleksikon ID, hockey1946.ru player id, footballdatabase.eu match ID, Kamus Pelajar Edisi Kedua ID, Lyricfind artist ID, HonestGamers game ID, identifiant MACM d'un artisite, Syrian Memory person ID, Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice sur le site Mille ans de littérature d'oc, Kamus Dewan Edisi Tiga, identifiant Registre national des gels, DOSBox Wiki, Identifiant Cimetières de France, Ech-Chaab tag ID, Lutris company ID, Shamela Algeria person ID, enterprise number (Germany), Ohio University ArchivesSpace Subject ID, Progetto Euploos ID, Nafziger Order of Battle ID, DataGov dataset, ERR keyword ID, Comprehensive Historical Dictionary of Ladino entry ID, Ohio University ArchivesSpace Agent ID, Russian Football National League player ID, Gaia ID, Inventory of Natural Heritage site ID, Inventory of Natural Heritage tree ID, Spanish-German Dictionary ID, UAF match ID, Identifiant d'un(e) journaliste sur Francetvinfo, Game Vortex software ID, identifiant Pappers d'un dirigeant, Database of Canada's Early Women Writers ID, Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory ID, Mishramilan catalog ID, SearchCulture.gr ID, Cinema Belgica venue ID, Cinema Belgica person ID, Cinema Belgica film ID, Cinema Belgica company ID, Cinema Belgica censorship ID, Archaeological Cadastre (Greece) ID, Hankook Ilbo tag ID, Rijksmuseum ID, SOIUSA code, myCast work ID, MetalTabs.com track ID, MUBI Festival ID, Beaux Arts ID, rutracker.org page ID, Park Merwestein Bomenwijzer ID, RPG Maker game ID, RateMyProfessors ID, PubMed author ID, BodyMeasurements.org ID, Hessian Biography person ID, Kvikmyndavefurinn, Kvikmyndavefurinn person ID, Bluepages article ID, Kvikmyndavefurinn company ID, Archaeological Cadastre (Greece) info ID, A Dictionary of Geology and Earth Sciences entry ID, Wikishia item ID, EHIS educational institution ID, Bertsolaritzaren Datu Basea ID, A Dictionary of Sociology entry ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: French Scientific Prizes aims to list French-language awards and to ensure the mention of a source associated with each award.
- Newest database reports: Items with "sport (P641)" only
- Showcase Items: 2015 Iditarod Q19455277) - sled dog race
- Showcase Lexemes: trekke (L478233) - Norwegian irregular verb "to pull", "to drag", or "to draw"
Development
- The development team is just settling back in after the holidays, so there haven’t been any significant updates yet.
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.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country:
- 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!
The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 66, November – December 2024
- Les Jours and East View Press join the library
- Tech tip: Newspapers.com
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Une nouvelle édition du Wikimag est disponible à la lecture.
week leading up to 2025-01-13. Missed the previous one? See issue #661
Events
- Upcoming events:
- The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC, 15th January 2025 (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.
- Join the Wikidata Training Event 2025 organised by Wikimedia Botswana UG for Wikidata enthusiasts of all levels. Starts 18 Jan 10:00am CAT (UTC+2), registration required.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Updates on the Wikimedian-in-Residence at the Biodiversity Heritage Library focusing on Structured Data on Commons and Wikidata
- Wikidata module for the Hidden Figures CURE - The newly published Wikidata module for the Hidden Figures CURE teaches undergraduates to use Wikidata for uncovering and highlighting the contributions of hidden figures in natural history, such as women, people of color, and Indigenous peoples.
- Memory of the World: Ways forward - Efforts to improve the representation of UNESCO's Memory of the World (MOW) international register on Wikidata include new articles, enhanced data quality, and training on creating structured data. Key contributions involve updating Wikipedia and Wikidata entries, addressing data inconsistencies, and expanding the visibility of MOW inscriptions across languages.
- Empowering Multilingual Knowledge: The Journey Behind the 1-Click-Info Extension Powered by Wikidata - Introduces the 1-Click Data extension for your browser. A project funded by the Arcadia grant through Wikimedia Deutschland and fiscally sponsored by the Dagbani Wikimedians user group.
- Public domain visibility on Wikidata (in Catalan). The article discusses how Wikidata is being used to enhance the visibility of public domain works by integrating copyright information and making it easily accessible.
- Videos
- Presentations: Wikibase e Wikidata per lo studio dell'epigrafia greca (in Italian, i.e. Wikibase and Wikidata for the study of Greek epigraphy), presentation at SAEG (Advanced Seminar of Greek Epigraphy) IX in Rome, 10 January 2025, by Pietro Ortimini, Anna Clara Maniero Azzolini, Epìdosis - slides
Tool of the week
- Dungeon Of Knowledge - is a roguelike game with Items generated from Wikidata that lets you crawl through the Dungeon of Knowledge in a classic ASCII interface. (toot) (blog)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Zita Ursula Zage has joined the Software Communication team (SCoT) at Wikimedia Deutschland as an intern until the end of June 2025. Welcome Zita!
- VIAF (cf. Q54919 and P214) underwent a relevant change of interface on January 10; the way of visualizing clusters in JSON format has changed in comparison with present OCLC documentation and e.g. http://viaf.org/viaf/102333412/viaf.json doesn't work anymore; this broke most or all Wikidata gadgets using VIAF data; in the absence of official communications from OCLC, developers are trying to understand if the new VIAF interface is stable before changing their gadgets accordingly
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- bequest income (the sum a organisations receives from bequests/legacies in a timeframe)
- taxon known by this common name (taxon item of which this common name refers)
- homonymous taxon (taxon item of which the taxon name is an exact homonym)
- role named in credits as (use as qualifier to indicate how the object's role was named in the credits of its respective work)
- meeting of (subject is a meeting or session of this organization)
- organisation tax status (jurisdiction specific tax status of organisations like non-profits)
- Newest External identifiers: Collectie Nederland ID, Hachette author ID, CamerounWeb person ID, Hindi Shabdamitra entry ID, OpenSSF Practices ID, Japanese Health Insurance System Facility ID, Centre d'Etudes Picasso ID, CUATM statistical code, CUATM unique identification code, JudaicaLink person (GND) ID, teams.by national team ID, Eyrolles author ID, Mémoire des avocats ID, BCU Kirundi-English Dictionary ID, Estonian–Latvian Dictionary ID, WHL player ID, Indo-European Lexicon ID, Battle.net game ID, Singapore Unique Entity Number, AniSearch character ID, Three Decks conflict ID, Berlinische Galerie object ID, ThePWHL.com player ID, Play:Right genre ID, Resistance in Belgium ID, Paris Match ID, Kyiv Independent topic, Newmark Albanian-English Dictionary ID, Wellcome Collection concept ID, Amsterdam Monumentenstad ID, VG247 game ID, DNCI label ID, National Football Teams.com stadium ID, Kamus Pelajar ID, Dictionary of Norwegian Translators ID, MACM artist ID, Lutris company ID, hockey1946.ru player ID, DOSBoxWiki article, NBA G League player ID, World Women's Snooker player ID, footballdatabase.eu match ID, GERS ID, Comprehensive Historical Dictionary of Ladino entry ID, SBOID, Game Vortex software ID, Syrian Memory Institution person ID, Mishramilan catalog ID, myCast work ID, Hessian Biography person (GND) ID, Beaux-Arts ID, Gaia ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- About box (Screenshot of the About Box of the respective software (contains important information such as authors, license, version number and year(s) and is included in almost every software))
- nomenclatural type of (taxon item of which this item is the taxonomic type (name-bearing type), e.g. the family for which this genus is the type, the genus for which this species is the type, the taxon for which this type specimen is the type, ect...)
- World Heritage type (Propriety of World heritage site : the Type (Cultural, Natural, Mixed))
- DVD region code (DVD release is restricted to region code)
- number of shading units (number of shading units in a graphics processing unit)
- Archaeological National Register code (identifier of elements of the National archaeological register of Moldova)
- presented works (works of art performed, displayed or presented at a given event)
- identifiant REGAFI ()
- Maximum beam energy (Maximum beam energy of a particle accelerator)
- Accused of (Crime or other misdeed a person has been accused of, but ''not proven or convicted'')
- hat gespendet (Amount of money donated to a person or organization)
- name starts with (The name that this qualifies, the full contents of which are unknown, is known to start with these characters.)
- духовный сан (formal styles of address used for members of the clergy)
- A2B2 user ID (User ID on a2b2.org)
- Source language (headword languge of dictionary)
- Entry height (Height of the entrance above ground level for boarding public transport vehicles.)
- location code (the location code of the location item. Should be used with qualifier property {{Q|P459}} to specify which location code system being used.)
- DIF historia player ID (Identifier for a sportsperson connected to Djurgårdens IF on difhistoria.se (official site))
- number of texture mapping units (number of texture mapping units in a graphics processing unit)
- number of render output units (number of render output units in a graphics processing unit)
- number of ray tracing cores (number of ray tracing cores in a graphics processing unit)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Algeria Press Service tag ID (French), Algeria Press Service tag ID (English), Algeria Press Service tag ID (Arabic), Lyricfind artist ID, HonestGamers game ID, Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice sur le site Mille ans de littérature d'oc, Kamus Dewan Edisi Tiga, identifiant Registre national des gels, Identifiant Cimetières de France, Ech-Chaab tag ID, Shamela Algeria person ID, enterprise number (Germany), Ohio University ArchivesSpace Subject ID, Progetto Euploos ID, Nafziger Order of Battle ID, DataGov dataset, ERR keyword ID, Ohio University ArchivesSpace Agent ID, Russian Football National League player ID, Inventory of Natural Heritage site ID, Inventory of Natural Heritage tree ID, Spanish-German Dictionary ID, UAF match ID, Identifiant d'un(e) journaliste sur Francetvinfo, identifiant Pappers d'un dirigeant, Database of Canada's Early Women Writers ID, Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory ID, SearchCulture.gr ID, Cinema Belgica venue ID, Cinema Belgica person ID, Cinema Belgica film ID, Cinema Belgica company ID, Cinema Belgica censorship ID, Archaeological Cadastre (Greece) ID, Hankook Ilbo tag ID, Rijksmuseum ID, SOIUSA code, MetalTabs.com track ID, MUBI Festival ID, rutracker.org page ID, Park Merwestein Bomenwijzer ID, RPG Maker game ID, RateMyProfessors ID, PubMed author ID, BodyMeasurements.org ID, Kvikmyndavefurinn, Kvikmyndavefurinn person ID, Bluepages article ID, Kvikmyndavefurinn company ID, Archaeological Cadastre (Greece) info ID, A Dictionary of Geology and Earth Sciences entry ID, Wikishia item ID, EHIS educational institution ID, Bertsolaritzaren Datu Basea ID, A Dictionary of Sociology entry ID, A Dictionary of Cultural Anthropology entry ID, A Dictionary of Geography entry ID, DGLAi ID, Jeune Afrique person ID, norskeflyplasser.no-ID, taz topic ID, Euronews topic ID (English), Euronews topic ID (French), Euronews topic ID (Spanish), Euronews topic ID (Arabic), Roman Inscriptions of Britain Online ID, Unine thesis id, Enpedia ID, Dizionario Biografico della Calabria Contemporanea ID, Bahamut Animation Crazy Serial Number, Finnish Olympic Committee ID, Team Norway profile ID (new), NOC of Belarus champion ID (new), JOC profile ID (new), Répertoire du patrimoine bâti de Québec
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: Writing Systems aims to standardize and enhance Wikipedia's coverage of writing systems and related subjects.
- Newest database reports: Some statistics about sitelinks
- Showcase Items: The Night Watch (Q219831) - 1642 painting by Rembrandt
- Showcase Lexemes: дополнение (L107276) - Rusian noun (dopólnenie) that can mean "addition", "supplement" or an "an object"
Development
- Wikidata Query Service UI: We fixed a long-standing issue with missing edge labels in graph visualisations (phab:T317702)
- Wikibase REST API: We implemented a proof of concept for a search endpoint you can try out.
- EntitySchemas: We’re working on language fallback for the heading on EntitySchema pages (phab:T228423)
- Language codes: We cleaned up language codes in WikibaseLexeme after moving some of them to CLDR (phab:T352922)
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.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country: Greenland
- 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!
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique de Wikimedia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
En lumière cette semaine
- Le système de connexion utilisateur unique (SUL) va être mis à jour durant les prochains mois. Il permet aux utilisateurs et utilisatrices d’être connectés sur tous les sites en même temps après avoir renseigné leurs identifiants sur un site Wikimedia. La mise à jour est nécessaire car les navigateurs restreignent de plus en plus les témoins de connexion inter-domaines. Pour s’adapter à ces restrictions, les pages de connexion et de création de compte seront déplacées vers un domaine central, mais cela apparaitra toujours comme si vous étiez sur le wiki d’origine. Le code mis à jour sera activé cette semaine pour les utilisations sur les wikis de test. Ce changement devrait être déployé pour tous durant février et mars. Consultez la page du projet SUL3 pour plus d’informations et un calendrier.
Actualités pour la contribution
- Sur les wikis ayant PageAssessments (évaluation des pages) installée, vous pouvez désormais filtrer les résultats de recherche aux pages dans un projet donné à l’aide du mot-clé
inproject:
. (Ces wikis : Wikipédia en arabe, Wikipédia en anglais, Wikivoyage en anglais, Wikipédia en français, Wikipédia en hongrois, Wikipédia en népalais, Wikipédia en turc, Wikipédia en chinois.) [1] - Un nouveau wiki a été créé : une Wikipédia en tigré (
w:tig:
) [2] - Voir les 35 tâches soumises par la communauté résolues la semaine dernière. Par exemple, il y avait un beugue de mise à jour du compteur de modifications de quelqu’un effectuant une annulation d’une autre modification : cela est maintenant corrigé. [3]
Actualités pour la contribution technique
- Les utilisateurs et utilisatrices de l’API REST de Wikimedia (par exemple pour des robots ou des outils) peuvent être impactés par des mises à jour en cours. À partir de la semaine du 13 janvier, nous commencerons à rediriger certains points terminaux de contenu de page depuis RESTbase vers les nouveaux points terminaux de l’API REST de MediaWiki pour tous les projets wiki. Ce changement était disponible sur testwiki, et ne devrait pas affecter les fonctionnalités existantes, mais les utilisateurs actifs des points terminaux concernés peuvent signaler directement à l’équipe des interfaces de MediaWiki tout problème qui arriverait.
- Les personnes maintenant des outils sur Toolforge peuvent désormais partager leurs retour sur Toolforge UI, un projet visant à fournir une plateforme web pour la création et la gestion d’outils Toolforge depuis une interface graphique, en plus des processus existant par ligne de commande. Ce projet vise à simplifier les tâches des mainteneurs et mainteneuses actifs, ainsi qu’à rendre l’inscription et les procédures de déploiement plus accessibles aux nouveaux et nouvelles créatrices d’outils. Le projet en est encore à ses balbutiements et l’équipe des services en infonuage recueille des retours de la communauté Toolforge pour aiderà concevoir la solution correspondant à leurs besoins. En savoir plus et donner son avis sur Toolforge UI.
- Pour le développement d’outil et bibliothèque qui utilisent le système OAuth : le point terminal d’identité utilisé pour OAuth 1 et OAuth 2 retournait un objet JSON avec un entier dans le sous-champ, ce qui était incorrect (le champ doit toujours être une chaine de caractère); Cela a été corrigé ; le correctif sera déployé sur les wikis Wikimedia la semaine du 13 janvier. [4]
- De nombreux wikis utilisent actuellement le CSS de Cite pour insérer des marqueurs de note de bas de page personnalisés dans la sortie de Parsoid. À partir du 20 janvier, ces règles seront désactivées, mais les développeurs vous demandent de ne pas nettoyer votre MediaWiki:Common.css avant le 20 février pour éviter des problèmes pendant la migration. Vos wikis rencontreront peut-être des petits changements dans les marqueurs de notes de bas page dans l’éditeur visuel ou en utilisant le mode de lecture expérimental Parsoid, mais s’il y a des changements, ils devraient garder le rendu cohérent avec la sortie de l’analyseur classique. [5]
Rencontres et évènements
- Les prochaines réunions de la série des Discussions communautaires entre Wikimedia Foundation et la communauté de Wikimedia Commons aura lieu le 15 janvier à 8 h UTC et à 16 h UTC. Le sujet de cette conférence porte sur la définition des priorités d’investissement en outils pour Commons. Les contributeurs et contributrices de tous les wikis sont les bienvenus pour participer, notamment celles et ceux qui maintiennent des outils pour Commons.
Actualités techniques préparées par les rédacteurs des actualités techniques et postées par robot. Contribuer • Traduire • Obtenir de l’aide • Donner son avis • S’abonner ou se désabonner.
The Signpost: 15 January 2025
modifier- From the editors: Looking back, looking forward
- Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2024
- In the media: Will you be targeted?
- Technology report: New Calculator template brings interactivity at last
- Opinion: Reflections one score hence
- Serendipity: What we've left behind, and where we want to go next
- Arbitration report: Analyzing commonalities of some contentious topics
- Humour: How to make friends on Wikipedia
Une nouvelle édition du Wikimag est disponible à la lecture.
week leading up to 2025-01-20. Missed the previous one? See issue #662
Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Xezbeth - RfP scheduled to end after 26 January 2025 09:17 (UTC).
Events
- Upcoming:
- Edit-A-Thon for Black History Month: 12 February 1300 - 1500 MST (UTC+7) is an onsite event at the University of Colorado Boulder, with a theme to add or expand items on Black and African-American comics creators.
- Data Reuse Days 2025 is from February 18 to 27, 2025! This is an online event focusing on how people and organizations use Wikidata's data to build interesting applications and tools. Don't forget to register so we can know you are coming.
- Past: Missed the Q1 Wikidata+Wikibase office hour? You can catch up by reading the session log here: 2025-01-15 (Q1 2025)
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs: Cleaning up legacy Wikipedia links in Open Library: The blog post discusses cleaning up outdated Wikipedia links to improve article accuracy and navigation, while highlighting the importance of integrating Wikidata for better data management.
- Papers
- Tiziana Possemato, Recording Gender in the Person Entity: An Ongoing Discussion: it compares the practices of gender-registration of person-type entities in LCNAF and ISNI with the use of P21 in Wikidata. By Ray Berger
- Large Language Models, Knowledge Graphs and Search Engines - A Crossroads for Answering Users' Questions: this paper seeks to establish a taxonomy of user information needs to help establish a roadmap of future research for finding synergies between LLM's, Search engines and Knowledge graphs. By Hogan et al., (2025)
- Videos
- Replacing deprecated Wikipedia links with Wikidata items in Open Library
- Tracking Looted Art with Wikidata Queries - As part of Art History Loves Wiki 25, Laurel Zuckerman will show how Wikidata SPARQL queries can aid provenance researchers and historians find, identify and track looted art.
- OpenStreetMap and Wikidata in Disaster Times: Ormat Murat Yilmaz will speak on how Wikidata and OSM play a role in coordinating relief efforts by providing a collaborative platform for providing data about affected areas. Part of WM CEE meeting 2024 Istanbul.
- Serbian Novels on Wikidata: Presented by Filip Maljkovič on the progress and process of adding Serbian literature into Wikidata, using OCR methods to map pages and assign Properties.
- (german)Wikidata for NGOs: Use and network open data sensibly: Johan Hoelderle discusses how nonprofits can benefit from the largest free knowledge base and show what potential open data offers for non-profit projects.
- Data partnerships and Libraries combating misinformation: WMDE's Alan Ang delivers a speech on how GLAM institutions can help prevent the spread of dis- and misinformation whether hallucinatory AI or malicious, part of the Wikimedia+Libraries International Convention 2025.
Tool of the week
- Wikidata file candidates📱 - This tool can show you candidate matches of Wikidata Items to files on Commons and Flickr. (original blog)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- OpenRefine 3.9-beta1 was released
- Product Manager: Wikibase Suite: Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a PM to lead Wikibase Suite, empowering institutions like GLAMs and research groups to build customizable linked knowledge bases and contribute to the world’s largest open data graph.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- organisation tax status (jurisdiction specific tax status of organisations like non-profits)
- entry height (height of the entrance above ground level for boarding vehicles)
- Newest External identifiers: Singapore Unique Entity Number, AniSearch character ID, Three Decks conflict ID, Berlinische Galerie object ID, ThePWHL.com player ID, Play:Right genre ID, Resistance in Belgium ID, Paris Match ID, Kyiv Independent topic, Newmark Albanian-English Dictionary ID, Wellcome Collection concept ID, Amsterdam Monumentenstad ID, VG247 game ID, DNCI label ID, National Football Teams.com stadium ID, Kamus Pelajar ID, Dictionary of Norwegian Translators ID, MACM artist ID, Lutris company ID, hockey1946.ru player ID, DOSBoxWiki article, NBA G League player ID, World Women's Snooker player ID, footballdatabase.eu match ID, GERS ID, Comprehensive Historical Dictionary of Ladino entry ID, SBOID, Game Vortex software ID, Syrian Memory Institution person ID, Mishramilan catalog ID, myCast work ID, Hessian Biography person (GND) ID, Beaux-Arts ID, Gaia ID, Franceinfo journalist ID, Hankook Ilbo tag ID, Cinema Belgica person ID, Cinema Belgica venue ID, Ukrainian Association of Football match ID, Rijksmuseum ID, Cinema Belgica film ID, Danbooru tag, Russian Football National League player ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- About box (Screenshot of the About Box of the respective software (contains important information such as authors, license, version number and year(s) and is included in almost every software))
- nomenclatural type of (taxon item of which this item is the taxonomic type (name-bearing type), e.g. the family for which this genus is the type, the genus for which this species is the type, the taxon for which this type specimen is the type, ect...)
- World Heritage type (Propriety of World heritage site : the Type (Cultural, Natural, Mixed))
- DVD region code (DVD release is restricted to region code)
- number of shading units (number of shading units in a graphics processing unit)
- Archaeological National Register code (identifier of elements of the National archaeological register of Moldova)
- presented works (works of art performed, displayed or presented at a given event)
- identifiant REGAFI ()
- Maximum beam energy (Maximum beam energy of a particle accelerator)
- hat gespendet (Amount of money donated to a person or organization)
- name starts with (The name that this qualifies, the full contents of which are unknown, is known to start with these characters.)
- духовный сан (formal styles of address used for members of the clergy)
- A2B2 user ID (User ID on a2b2.org)
- Source language (headword languge of dictionary)
- location code (the location code of the location item. Should be used with qualifier property {{Q|P459}} to specify which location code system being used.)
- DIF historia player ID (Identifier for a sportsperson connected to Djurgårdens IF on difhistoria.se (official site))
- number of texture mapping units (number of texture mapping units in a graphics processing unit)
- number of render output units (number of render output units in a graphics processing unit)
- number of ray tracing cores (number of ray tracing cores in a graphics processing unit)
- Bibliography for subject (Wikidata property on this item providing a link to a bibliography about the subject that is a good starting point.)
- likes / dislikes (''(no English description proposed yet)'')
- number of goals scored in penalty shootouts (total number of goals scored by a team in a penalty shootout)
- broadcasting days and time (days of the week in which a TV or radio program is broadcasted)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Algeria Press Service tag ID (French), Algeria Press Service tag ID (English), Algeria Press Service tag ID (Arabic), HonestGamers game ID, Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice sur le site Mille ans de littérature d'oc, Kamus Dewan Edisi Tiga, identifiant Registre national des gels, Ech-Chaab tag ID, Shamela Algeria person ID, enterprise number (Germany), Ohio University ArchivesSpace Subject ID, Progetto Euploos ID, Nafziger Order of Battle ID, DataGov dataset, ERR keyword ID, Ohio University ArchivesSpace Agent ID, Inventory of Natural Heritage site ID, Inventory of Natural Heritage tree ID, Spanish-German Dictionary ID, identifiant Pappers d'un dirigeant, Database of Canada's Early Women Writers ID, Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory ID, SearchCulture.gr ID, Cinema Belgica company ID, Cinema Belgica censorship ID, Archaeological Cadastre (Greece) ID, SOIUSA code, MetalTabs.com track ID, MUBI Festival ID, rutracker.org page ID, Park Merwestein Bomenwijzer ID, RPG Maker game ID, RateMyProfessors ID, PubMed author ID, BodyMeasurements.org ID, Kvikmyndavefurinn, Kvikmyndavefurinn person ID, Bluepages article ID, Kvikmyndavefurinn company ID, Archaeological Cadastre (Greece) info ID, A Dictionary of Geology and Earth Sciences entry ID, Wikishia item ID, EHIS educational institution ID, Bertsolaritzaren Datu Basea ID, A Dictionary of Sociology entry ID, A Dictionary of Cultural Anthropology entry ID, A Dictionary of Geography entry ID, DGLAi ID, Jeune Afrique person ID, norskeflyplasser.no-ID, taz topic ID, Euronews topic ID (English), Euronews topic ID (French), Euronews topic ID (Spanish), Euronews topic ID (Arabic), Roman Inscriptions of Britain Online ID, Unine thesis id, Enpedia ID, Dizionario Biografico della Calabria Contemporanea ID, Bahamut Animation Crazy Serial Number, Finnish Olympic Committee ID, Team Norway profile ID (new), NOC of Belarus champion ID (new), JOC profile ID (new), Répertoire du patrimoine bâti de Québec, RFI topic ID (French), RFI topic ID (English), RFI topic ID (Spanish), EJU profile ID, University of Pécs teachers identifier, ROAR id, CPB profile ID, TERMCAT term ID, Handle prefix, U.S. Soccer player ID, Celfic FC player ID, WSGF game ID, Sutian entry ID, wikiHow article ID, Graceful17 ID, IATI Organisation Identifier, Suno artist ID, VAi Archiefhub Agent ID, Soccerbase season ID, PlaymakerStats season ID, ESPN.com football match ID, Eurosport person ID, Newsweek topic ID, New York Post topic ID, RaiPlay Sound IDs, Chinese Church and Organization Dictionary Identifier, DDLC entry ID, Fluorophores.org substance ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Most common eponyms (a name or noun formed after a person)
- Number of Lexemes including recordings from Lingua Libre by language
- Boiling point of alkanes (source)
- Train station in Germany without image (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject IIT aims to describe current and former IIT faculty members. The following property schema is based on a similar schema found at WikiProject IUPUI University Library
- WikiProject Highlights: Sum of all paintings/Historic collections - keep track of historic collections as part of the provenance of paintings
- Newest database reports: Links per language
- Showcase Items: 4 Vesta (Q3030) - second largest asteroid of the main asteroid belt
- Showcase Lexemes: L347296 - Tamil noun that can mean "priest", "teacher" or "preceptor"
Development
- mul language code: The "mul" language code for labels, descriptions and aliases will be fully enabled on #Wikidata starting 28th Jan!
- Constraint violations:
- EntitySchemas: We’re working on making the heading on EntitySchema pages apply language fallback (T228423)
- Search: We’ve started working on the new search UI component which will let you search for additional entity types from the main search bar and not just Items anymore (T338483)
- Wikibase REST API: We're working on adding search to the API (T383209)
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.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country: United States of America
- 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!
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique de Wikimedia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Actualités pour la contribution
- Administrators can mass-delete multiple pages created by a user or IP address using Extension:Nuke. It previously only allowed deletion of pages created in the last 30 days. It can now delete pages from the last 90 days, provided it is targeting a specific user or IP address. [6]
- On wikis that use the Patrolled edits feature, when the rollback feature is used to revert an unpatrolled page revision, that revision will now be marked as "manually patrolled" instead of "autopatrolled", which is more accurate. Some editors that use filters on Recent Changes may need to update their filter settings. [7]
- Voir les 31 tâches soumises par la communauté résolues la semaine dernière. For example, the Visual Editor's "Insert link" feature did not always suggest existing pages properly when an editor started typing, which has now been fixed.
Actualités pour la contribution technique
- The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is being progressively removed from the wikis. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by DiscussionTools, which is used on any regular talk page. The last group of wikis (Catalan Wikiquote, Wikimedia Finland, Goan Konkani Wikipedia, Kabyle Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikibooks, Wikimedia Sweden) will soon be contacted. If you have questions about this process, please ping Trizek (WMF) at your wiki. [8]
- The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available. This edition includes: updates about services from the Data Platform Engineering teams, information about Codex from the Design System team, and more.
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Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: Xezbeth (closed as successful). Welcome onboard \o/
Events
- Upcoming events:
- Call for Proposals: IslandoraCon 2025. "IslandoraCon brings together a community of librarians, archivists, cultural heritage collections managers, technologists, developers, project managers, and open source project enthusiasts in support of the Islandora framework for digital curation and asset management." Deadline for session proposals: February 14, 2024.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs: Progress in lexicographic data in Wikidata 2024 by Denny Vrandečić. See also
- Videos
- (replay) Arabic Wikidata Days 2024 full playlist
- NYC Parks on Wikidata (Wikipedia Day NYC 22nd Birthday Bash)
- From books to Bytes (10): Factgrid. A Wikibase instance for historical data
Tool of the week
- PhotoNearby.js - a user script that checks Wikimedia Commons for a nearby photo if no image (P18) statement and has coordinate location (P625). Displays above the Statements heading. Defaults to a 500 meter radius. Displays a link to WikiShootMe.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- As part of an effort to benchmark open source SPARQL engines on Wikidata, the page Wikidata:Scaling Wikidata/Benchmarking/Existing Benchmarks contains some initial results and analyses of benchmarking Blazegraph, MilleniumDB, QLever, and Virtuoso on several existing SPARQL query benchmarks for Wikidata. There are some surprising results there, particularly related to different answers produced by different engines. Suggestions on how to improve the effort or provide deeper explanations of the results are particularly welcome on the discussion page.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- organisation tax status (jurisdiction specific tax status of organisations like non-profits)
- entry height (height of the entrance above ground level for boarding vehicles)
- Newest External identifiers: Berlinische Galerie object ID, ThePWHL.com player ID, Play:Right genre ID, Resistance in Belgium ID, Paris Match ID, Kyiv Independent topic, Newmark Albanian-English Dictionary ID, Wellcome Collection concept ID, Amsterdam Monumentenstad ID, VG247 game ID, DNCI label ID, National Football Teams.com stadium ID, Kamus Pelajar ID, Dictionary of Norwegian Translators ID, MACM artist ID, Lutris company ID, hockey1946.ru player ID, DOSBoxWiki article, NBA G League player ID, World Women's Snooker player ID, footballdatabase.eu match ID, GERS ID, Comprehensive Historical Dictionary of Ladino entry ID, SBOID, Game Vortex software ID, Syrian Memory Institution person ID, Mishramilan catalog ID, myCast work ID, Hessian Biography person (GND) ID, Beaux-Arts ID, Gaia ID, Franceinfo journalist ID, Hankook Ilbo tag ID, Cinema Belgica person ID, Cinema Belgica venue ID, Ukrainian Association of Football match ID, Rijksmuseum ID, Cinema Belgica film ID, Danbooru tag, Russian Football National League player ID, Database of Canada's Early Women Writers ID, taz ID, Roman Inscriptions of Britain Online ID, Répertoire du patrimoine bâti de Québec ID, Game Jolt username
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- nomenclatural type of (taxon item of which this item is the taxonomic type (name-bearing type), e.g. the family for which this genus is the type, the genus for which this species is the type, the taxon for which this type specimen is the type, ect...)
- World Heritage type (Propriety of World heritage site : the Type (Cultural, Natural, Mixed))
- DVD region code (DVD release is restricted to region code)
- number of shading units (number of shading units in a graphics processing unit)
- Archaeological National Register code (identifier of elements of the National archaeological register of Moldova)
- presented works (works of art performed, displayed or presented at a given event)
- identifiant REGAFI ()
- Maximum beam energy (Maximum beam energy of a particle accelerator)
- hat gespendet (Amount of money donated to a person or organization)
- name starts with (The name that this qualifies, the full contents of which are unknown, is known to start with these characters.)
- духовный сан (formal styles of address used for members of the clergy)
- A2B2 user ID (User ID on a2b2.org)
- Source language (headword languge of dictionary)
- location code (the location code of the location item. Should be used with qualifier property {{Q|P459}} to specify which location code system being used.)
- DIF historia player ID (Identifier for a sportsperson connected to Djurgårdens IF on difhistoria.se (official site))
- number of texture mapping units (number of texture mapping units in a graphics processing unit)
- number of render output units (number of render output units in a graphics processing unit)
- number of ray tracing cores (number of ray tracing cores in a graphics processing unit)
- Bibliography for subject (Wikidata property on this item providing a link to a bibliography about the subject that is a good starting point.)
- likes / dislikes (''(no English description proposed yet)'')
- number of goals scored in penalty shootouts (total number of goals scored by a team in a penalty shootout)
- broadcasting days and time (days of the week in which a TV or radio program is broadcasted)
- reverse compound (compound where the parts are reversed)
- cognate-citation (lexeme with with the same etymological origin and where a source supports it.)
- Instrument de recherche (inventaire) ({{Translate this | fr = <!-- | xx = descriptions dans d'autres langues --> }})
- Instrument de recherche (document containing detailed information about a specific collection of papers or records within an archive)
- Ratsinformationssystem (Link to the council information system of the municipality)
- name with acutes (item name with acute accents showing stressed vowels)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Algeria Press Service tag ID (French), Algeria Press Service tag ID (English), Algeria Press Service tag ID (Arabic), HonestGamers game ID, Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice sur le site Mille ans de littérature d'oc, Kamus Dewan Edisi Tiga, identifiant Registre national des gels, Ech-Chaab tag ID, Shamela Algeria person ID, enterprise number (Germany), Ohio University ArchivesSpace Subject ID, Progetto Euploos ID, Nafziger Order of Battle ID, DataGov dataset, ERR keyword ID, Ohio University ArchivesSpace Agent ID, Inventory of Natural Heritage site ID, Inventory of Natural Heritage tree ID, Spanish-German Dictionary ID, identifiant Pappers d'un dirigeant, Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory ID, SearchCulture.gr ID, Cinema Belgica company ID, Cinema Belgica censorship ID, Archaeological Cadastre (Greece) ID, SOIUSA code, MetalTabs.com track ID, MUBI Festival ID, rutracker.org page ID, RPG Maker game ID, RateMyProfessors ID, PubMed author ID, BodyMeasurements.org ID, Kvikmyndavefurinn, Kvikmyndavefurinn person ID, Bluepages article ID, Kvikmyndavefurinn company ID, Archaeological Cadastre (Greece) info ID, A Dictionary of Geology and Earth Sciences entry ID, Wikishia item ID, EHIS educational institution ID, Bertsolaritzaren Datu Basea ID, A Dictionary of Sociology entry ID, A Dictionary of Cultural Anthropology entry ID, A Dictionary of Geography entry ID, DGLAi ID, Jeune Afrique person ID, norskeflyplasser.no-ID, Euronews topic ID (English), Euronews topic ID (French), Euronews topic ID (Spanish), Euronews topic ID (Arabic), Unine thesis id, Enpedia ID, Dizionario Biografico della Calabria Contemporanea ID, Bahamut Animation Crazy Serial Number, Finnish Olympic Committee ID, Team Norway profile ID (new), NOC of Belarus champion ID (new), JOC profile ID (new), RFI topic ID (French), RFI topic ID (English), RFI topic ID (Spanish), EJU profile ID, University of Pécs teachers identifier, ROAR id, CPB profile ID, TERMCAT term ID, Handle prefix, U.S. Soccer player ID, Celfic FC player ID, WSGF game ID, Sutian entry ID, wikiHow article ID, Graceful17 ID, IATI Organisation Identifier, Suno artist ID, VAi Archiefhub Agent ID, Soccerbase season ID, PlaymakerStats season ID, ESPN.com football match ID, Eurosport person ID, Newsweek topic ID, New York Post topic ID, RaiPlay Sound IDs, Chinese Church and Organization Dictionary Identifier, DDLC entry ID, Fluorophores.org substance ID, Yahoo Knowledge Graph ID, Biographical Dictionary of Republican China (X-Boorman) ID, Modern China Biographical Database ID, Chinese Engineers Relational Database ID, The Biographical Encyclopaedia of Islamic Philosophy ID, Letterboxd studio ID, Izvestia topic ID, The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity ID, Museum Data Service museum ID, BGSU Historical Collections of the Great Lakes vessel ID, booru tag, critify.de game ID, Iowa State University Library Vocabularies ID, MikuWiki article ID, Trade register Switzerland ID, JSR package, Storytel author ID, TvStar.info person ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: No Longer at the Margins - aims to highlight and document the contributions of women in science, ensuring their visibility and recognition in the historical and archival record by addressing biases and gaps in representation.
- Newest database reports: Merge candidates based on same commons category
- Showcase Items: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Q309988) - technical university and research center in Karlsruhe, Germany
- Showcase Lexemes: истина (L113869) - Russian noun (pronounced "istina"), translates to "truth", "reality" or a fact in English.
Development
- Storage growth: We are making some changes to the terms-related database table in order to scale better (phab:T351802)
- Constraint violations: We’re working on making distinct-values constraint checks works with the split Query Service (phab:T369079)
- EntitySchemas: We’re working on making the heading on EntitySchema pages apply language fallback (phab:T228423)
- Search: We are working on the new search UI component which will let you search for additional entity types from the main search bar and not just Items anymore (phab:T338483)
- Wikibase REST API: We're continuing the work on adding search to the API (phab:T383209)
- Lua: We are investigating if we can increase the Entity Usage Limit on client pages (phab:T381098)
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.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country: United States of America
- 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!
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique de Wikimedia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
En lumière cette semaine
- Patrollers and admins - what information or context about edits or users could help you to make patroller or admin decisions more quickly or easily? The Wikimedia Foundation wants to hear from you to help guide its upcoming annual plan. Please consider sharing your thoughts on this and 13 other questions to shape the technical direction for next year.
Actualités pour la contribution
- iOS Wikipedia App users worldwide can now access a personalized Year in Review feature, which provides insights based on their reading and editing history on Wikipedia. This project is part of a broader effort to help welcome new readers as they discover and interact with encyclopedic content.
- Edit patrollers now have a new feature available that can highlight potentially problematic new pages. When a page is created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted, a tag ('Recreated') will now be added, which users can filter for in Spécial:Modifications récentes and Spécial:Nouvelles pages. [9]
- Later this week, there will be a new warning for editors if they attempt to create a redirect that links to another redirect (a double redirect). The feature will recommend that they link directly to the second redirect's target page. Thanks to the user SomeRandomDeveloper for this improvement. [10]
- Wikimedia wikis allow WebAuthn-based second factor checks (such as hardware tokens) during login, but the feature is fragile and has very few users. The MediaWiki Platform team is temporarily disabling adding new WebAuthn keys, to avoid interfering with the rollout of SUL3 (single user login version 3). Existing keys are unaffected. [11]
- Voir les 30 tâches soumises par la communauté résolues la semaine dernière.
Actualités pour la contribution technique
- For developers that use the MediaWiki History dumps: The Data Platform Engineering team has added a couple of new fields to these dumps, to support the Temporary Accounts initiative. If you maintain software that reads those dumps, please review your code and the updated documentation, since the order of the fields in the row will change. There will also be one field rename: in the
mediawiki_user_history
dump, theanonymous
field will be renamed tois_anonymous
. The changes will take effect with the next release of the dumps in February. [12]
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Découvrez le numéro 118 de janvier 2025 !
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Une nouvelle édition du Wikimag est disponible à la lecture.
Nieuwsbrief 137 Wikimedia Nederland
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week leading up to 2025-02-03. Missed the previous one? See issue #664
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot: WhitneyBot - Task: Sync artist data from the Whitney Museum of American Art's collection to Wikidata.
- Closed request for permissions/Bot: ZLBot - Closed as unsuccessful.
- New request for comments: Proper names in multiple languages - This RfC seeks to address concerns regarding the recent MUL announcement for default values for labels and aliases.
Events
- Upcoming events:
- We are excited to reveal WikidataCon 2025 will be returning this year, keep an eye on the project page for more details to come, and block your calendar for October 31 - November 2.
- New Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series! The next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series session on Tuesday, 4 February, 2025 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET Time Zone Converter Eric Willey will be facilitating a series of four sessions focused on starting a Wikidata project from the foundation up at your institution. The first session will focus on selling your project to administrators.
- Wikidata Indonesia is holding a Datathon (February 5 - 7) and Quiz (January 31 - February 7), take part!
- OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #73 February 10 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Taipei
- Data Reuse Days, February 18-27: online event dedicated to the applications using Wikidata's data and their technical setup. A first version of the program is now available. Make sure to register to receive the event's access links.
- Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team - February 12.Time: 16:00-17:00 UTC / 08:00 PST / 11:00 EST / 17:00 CET
- Why Wikidata? and edit-a-thon hosted by Illinois State University on February 4, 1400 - 1600 CST (UTC-6). Eric Willey and Rebecca Fitzsimmons will hold a hands-on demonstration of Wikidata, at the Milner Library, ISU (Room 165).
- Past Events
- Wikidata Workshop Jan 2025 - Hosted by Wikimedia Canada, this workshop offered 2 sessions for English and French-speaking attendees. Subjects covered include the basics of Wikidata, intro to editing, linking photos to Commons and how to query Wikidata. The workshop took place 30 January 01:00 - 03:00 UTC.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Bob duCharme, author of Learning SPARQL posts a blog entry on filtering (only) foreign labels from a SPARQL query, using the WDQS to illustrate their example.
- (german)How does library work in the Wikiverse affect the use of your own holdings? - Wikidata enthusiast Christian Erlinger explores in this article how GLAM institutions measure their contributions to the Wikiverse and how Wikidata items and sitelinking contribute to their connectedness.
- Papers
- Towards a Sustainable Community-Driven Documentation of Semantic Web Tools A Wikidata-based toolkit to help knowledge engineers and developers find and document semantic web tools by categorizing them into a taxonomy and integrating GitHub metadata to track their maintenance status. By A. Reiz, F.J. Ekaputra & N. Mihindukulasooriya (2025).
- From Open Collaboration to Customized Control - Transitioning from Wikidata to Wikibase by John Samuel at FOSDEM 2025 (Track: Collaboration and Content Management) on February 1, 2025.
- Videos
- Biodiversity Heritage Library Creator IDs on Wikidata via Mix'n'match - Tiago Lubiana will demonstrate the workflow of Mix'n'Match curation and adding BHL Creator ID's to Wikidata.
- (arabic)OpenRefine and QuickStatements - In this 2nd session of the Arabic Wikidata Days 2024, advanced skills of OR such as improving and importing tabular data. QS will also be demonstrated and how it simplifies adding and editing Wikidata. Presented by Professor Qais Shraideh.
- Resource, Description & Access & STA - Michaela Edelmann introduces the cataloging platform that runs on Wikibase for the German-speaking DACH countries.
- (Czech) 25th Annual Conference: National Archives of Czech Republic had 2 segments for Wikibases: Wikibase for Welsh Authority Control and Wikibase: a tool for creating/sharing LOD
- Presentations
- New developments of Wikibase-as-a-Service at the Open Science Lab (part of NFDI4Culture). Presented at Art Loves History Wiki Conference, it shows developments to the WB software suite.
Tool of the week
- Holonet Galactic Map - Explore information and facts of the planets that inhabit the Star Wars universe, powered by Wikidata.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- ⚠️ Wikidata Query Service graph split: The graph split is about 2 months away. If you are doing queries that involve scholarly articles or if you have an application that does you will be affected. Please check d:Wikidata:SPARQL query service/WDQS graph split for details.
- We (Peter F. Patel-Schneider and Egezort) want to run a course on the Wikidata Ontology for a limited number of participants. Designed for those already familiar with Wikidata, it will present information about ontologies and how they form the core of Wikidata, incorporating several exercises on analyses of and fixes to the Wikidata ontology. Upon successful completion (ending with a group project in consultation by us), participants will receive certificates. Please give feedback and suggestions to improve the structure and course content (found in more detail at WikiProject:Ontology Course) which will be incorporated into our Wikimedia rapid grant application to support the effort. Interested in helping or want to share your thoughts? Let us know.
- Several database changes will impact Wikidata in the coming months, including the migration of the term store (
wbt_ tables
) to a dedicated cluster to improve performance and enable future growth. This move will speed up most Wikidata SQL queries but prevent direct joins between term store data and other Wikidata tables. Additionally, the wb_type table will be removed, with its mapping hardcoded in Wikibase, simplifying the codebase. More details. - Call for projects and mentors for Google Summer of Code 2025! Deadline: February 28th. More info!
- Lydia Pintscher awarded the European Open Source Award - Wikidata Portfolio Manager for WMDE, Lydia's contributions to the development of Wikidata have been recognised in the category of Advocacy and Awareness.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- organisation tax status (jurisdiction specific tax status of organisations like non-profits)
- entry height (height of the entrance above ground level for boarding vehicles)
- number of shading units (number of shading units in a graphics processing unit (GPU))
- land acknowledgement (acknowledgement of indigenous or native people who live and whose ancestors lived at a location)
- External identifiers: Amsterdam Monumentenstad ID, VG247 game ID, DNCI label ID, National Football Teams.com stadium ID, Kamus Pelajar ID, Dictionary of Norwegian Translators ID, MACM artist ID, Lutris company ID, hockey1946.ru player ID, DOSBoxWiki article, NBA G League player ID, World Women's Snooker player ID, footballdatabase.eu match ID, GERS ID, Comprehensive Historical Dictionary of Ladino entry ID, SBOID, Game Vortex software ID, Syrian Memory Institution person ID, Mishramilan catalog ID, myCast work ID, Hessian Biography person (GND) ID, Beaux-Arts ID, Gaia ID, Franceinfo journalist ID, Hankook Ilbo tag ID, Cinema Belgica person ID, Cinema Belgica venue ID, Ukrainian Association of Football match ID, Rijksmuseum ID, Cinema Belgica film ID, Danbooru tag, Russian Football National League player ID, Database of Canada's Early Women Writers ID, taz ID, Roman Inscriptions of Britain Online ID, Répertoire du patrimoine bâti de Québec ID, Game Jolt username, Kvikmyndavefurinn work ID, Kvikmyndavefurinn person ID, EHIS educational institution ID, WSGF game ID, Kvikmyndavefurinn company ID, Museum Data Service museum ID, HonestGamers game ID, Pappers executive ID, Islamic Philosophy ID, L'Humanité topic ID, Kamus Dewan Edisi Tiga ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- nomenclatural type of (taxon item of which this item is the taxonomic type (name-bearing type), e.g. the family for which this genus is the type, the genus for which this species is the type, the taxon for which this type specimen is the type, ect...)
- World Heritage type (Propriety of World heritage site : the Type (Cultural, Natural, Mixed))
- DVD region code (DVD release is restricted to region code)
- Archaeological National Register code (identifier of elements of the National archaeological register of Moldova)
- presented works (works of art performed, displayed or presented at a given event)
- identifiant REGAFI ()
- Maximum beam energy (Maximum beam energy of a particle accelerator)
- name starts with (The name that this qualifies, the full contents of which are unknown, is known to start with these characters.)
- духовный сан (formal styles of address used for members of the clergy)
- A2B2 user ID (User ID on a2b2.org)
- Source language (headword languge of dictionary)
- location code (the location code of the location item. Should either be used with qualifier property {{Q|P459}} to specify which location code system being used, or be used as the qualifier of {{P|31}}.)
- DIF historia player ID (Identifier for a sportsperson connected to Djurgårdens IF on difhistoria.se (official site))
- number of texture mapping units (number of texture mapping units in a graphics processing unit)
- number of render output units (number of render output units in a graphics processing unit)
- number of ray tracing cores (number of ray tracing cores in a graphics processing unit)
- Bibliography for subject (Wikidata property on this item providing a link to a bibliography about the subject that is a good starting point.)
- likes / dislikes (''(no English description proposed yet)'')
- number of goals scored in penalty shootouts (total number of goals scored by a team in a penalty shootout)
- broadcasting days and time (days of the week in which a TV or radio program is broadcasted)
- reverse compound (compound where the parts are reversed)
- cognate-citation (lexeme with with the same etymological origin and where a source supports it.)
- Instrument de recherche (inventaire) ({{Translate this | fr = <!-- | xx = descriptions dans d'autres langues --> }})
- Instrument de recherche (document containing detailed information about a specific collection of papers or records within an archive)
- Ratsinformationssystem (Link to the council information system of the municipality)
- name with acutes (item name with acute accents showing stressed vowels)
- doors open on the… / exit train on the… (side of the train where the doors open at this station or only side where this vehicle has doors)
- directs readers to (document or class of documents to which this item or class directs readers (aliases: is citation of {{!}} links to {{!}} refers to {{!}} target))
- items classified (class of items that this classification system classifies (aliases: items categorized {{!}} classifies {{!}} categorizes))
- reason not to be used with instances of (clarification for why P31 (instance of) can not be used with this property)
- dislikes of fictional character (''(no English description proposed yet)'')
- AI-generated media prompt (exact prompt that was used to generate an AI-generated media)
- Text-to-image software used for creation (text-to-image generation software that was used to create this media or work)
- schism ()
- Lemmy instance URL (the Lemmy instance of/about the subject)
- External identifiers: Algeria Press Service tag ID (French), Algeria Press Service tag ID (English), Algeria Press Service tag ID (Arabic), Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice sur le site Mille ans de littérature d'oc, identifiant Registre national des gels, Ech-Chaab tag ID, Shamela Algeria person ID, enterprise number (Germany), Ohio University ArchivesSpace Subject ID, Progetto Euploos ID, Nafziger Order of Battle ID, DataGov dataset, ERR keyword ID, Ohio University ArchivesSpace Agent ID, Inventory of Natural Heritage site ID, Inventory of Natural Heritage tree ID, Spanish-German Dictionary ID, Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory ID, SearchCulture.gr ID, Cinema Belgica company ID, Cinema Belgica censorship ID, Archaeological Cadastre (Greece) ID, SOIUSA code, MetalTabs.com track ID, MUBI Festival ID, rutracker.org page ID, RPG Maker game ID, RateMyProfessors ID, PubMed author ID, BodyMeasurements.org ID, Bluepages article ID, Archaeological Cadastre (Greece) info ID, A Dictionary of Geology and Earth Sciences entry ID, Wikishia item ID, Bertsolaritzaren Datu Basea ID, A Dictionary of Sociology entry ID, A Dictionary of Cultural Anthropology entry ID, A Dictionary of Geography entry ID, DGLAi ID, Jeune Afrique person ID, norskeflyplasser.no-ID, Euronews topic ID (English), Euronews topic ID (French), Euronews topic ID (Spanish), Euronews topic ID (Arabic), Unine thesis id, Enpedia ID, Dizionario Biografico della Calabria Contemporanea ID, Bahamut Animation Crazy Serial Number, Finnish Olympic Committee ID, Team Norway profile ID (new), NOC of Belarus champion ID (new), JOC profile ID (new), RFI topic ID (French), RFI topic ID (English), RFI topic ID (Spanish), EJU profile ID, University of Pécs teachers identifier, ROAR id, CPB profile ID, TERMCAT term ID, Handle prefix, U.S. Soccer player ID, Celfic FC player ID, Sutian entry ID, wikiHow article ID, Graceful17 ID, IATI Organisation Identifier, Suno artist ID, VAi Archiefhub Agent ID, Soccerbase season ID, PlaymakerStats season ID, ESPN.com football match ID, Eurosport person ID, Newsweek topic ID, New York Post topic ID, RaiPlay Sound IDs, Chinese Church and Organization Dictionary Identifier, DDLC entry ID, Fluorophores.org substance ID, Yahoo Knowledge Graph ID, Biographical Dictionary of Republican China (X-Boorman) ID, Modern China Biographical Database ID, Chinese Engineers Relational Database ID, Letterboxd studio ID, Izvestia topic ID, The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity ID, BGSU Historical Collections of the Great Lakes vessel ID, booru tag, critify.de game ID, Iowa State University Library Vocabularies ID, MikuWiki article ID, Trade register Switzerland ID, JSR package, Storytel author ID, TvStar.info person ID, Amazon Music track ID, National Trust Heritage Records ID, Toonopedia ID, Oorlogsbronnen-identifier, CPC Zone game ID, Patristic Text Archive, Biblioteca italiana work ID, identifiant d'une œuvre au MACM, nesdb.se game ID, Identifiant d'une personne sur le site du musée du diocèse de Lyon, Número de Identificación Tributaria, Hiking Note trail identifier, Hiking Note mountain identifier, Video Game History Foundation Library, Yandex Music track ID, PromoDJ track ID, Jamendo track ID, Know Your Meme slug, CriticDB IDs, Euronews topic ID, RFI topic ID, Algeria Press Service topic ID, Hiking Note chalet identifier, Encyclopedia of Marxism ID
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects:WikiProject Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal - This project with the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montreal aims to share its data model.
- WikiProject Highlights:
- Antiquity: Patristic Text Archive is a web archive for (mostly) Greek Patristic archival texts.
- WikiProject: Ontology Course - as mentioned above, this WikiProject plans to be a certified course to teahc participants about proper Wikidata ontologies.
- Newest database reports: Language statistics for Items
- Showcase Items:Valérie Masson-Delmotte (Q3554288) - French engineer and climatologist
- Showcase Lexemes:lasku(L30087) - Finnish noun, translates to "landing", "calculation" or "invoice" in English.
Development
- Storage growth: We are continuing to make some changes to the terms-related database table in order to scale better (phab:T351802)
- Wikibase REST API: We are continuing to work on bringing search to the REST API (phab:T383126)
- mul language code: Support for the language code has been rolled out fully
- EntitySchemas: We finished adding language fallback to the heading of EntitySchema pages (phab:T228423)
- Sitelinks: Fixed a bug that prevented linking Wikidata Items from Wikipedias (phab:T385261)
- Scoped search: We continued working on improving the main search field on Wikidata in order to allow you to search for Properties, Lexemes, etc more easily with it (phab:T321543)
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.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country: Liechtenstein
- 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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
- Editors who use the "Special characters" editing-toolbar menu can now see the 32 special characters you have used most recently, across editing sessions on that wiki. This change should help make it easier to find the characters you use most often. The feature is in both the 2010 wikitext editor and VisualEditor. [13]
- Editors using the 2010 wikitext editor can now create sublists with correct indentation by selecting the line(s) you want to indent and then clicking the toolbar buttons.[14] You can now also insert
<code>
tags using a new toolbar button.[15] Thanks to user stjn for these improvements. - Help is needed to ensure the citation generator works properly on each wiki.
- (1) Administrators should update the local versions of the page
MediaWiki:Citoid-template-type-map.json
to include entries forpreprint
,standard
, anddataset
; Here are example diffs to replicate for 'preprint' and for 'standard' and 'dataset'. - (2.1) If the citoid map in the citation template used for these types of references is missing, one will need to be added. (2.2) If the citoid map does exist, the TemplateData will need to be updated to include new field names. Here are example updates for 'preprint' and for 'standard' and 'dataset'. The new fields that may need to be supported are
archiveID
,identifier
,repository
,organization
,repositoryLocation
,committee
, andversionNumber
. [16]
- (1) Administrators should update the local versions of the page
- One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Central Kanuri (
w:knc:
) [17] - View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the OCR (optical character recognition) tool used for Wikisource now supports a new language, Church Slavonic. [18]
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This Month in Education
Volume 14 • Issue 1 • January 2025
- Advancing Education Pillar in Kosovo: 2024 Journey
- Auckland Museum Wikipedia Students Making Progress
- Celebrating 10 Years of Wiki Education
- Empowering Multilingual Students: Expanding Wikipedia Through Collaboration of foreign languages faculty's students of the University of Tehran
- Ensuring accurate and authentic information with 1Lib1Ref Campaign in Anambra
- Experiences of Wikipedia in the classroom with a gender perspective in Monterrey
- Fine Arts University Students exploring Wikipedia in Tirana, Albania
- Lviv hosted Ukraine’s first student photo walk for Wikipedia
- Many new trained volunteers and new articles at the end of the year in Macedonia
- Wikimedia and Scientific Events in Brazil
- Wiki Workshop- Call for Contributions
The Signpost: 7 February 2025
modifier- Recent research: GPT-4 writes better edit summaries than human Wikipedians
- News and notes: Let's talk!
- Opinion: Fathoms Below, but over the moon
- Community view: 24th Wikipedia Day in New York City
- Arbitration report: Palestine-Israel articles 5 has closed
- Traffic report: A wild drive
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Une nouvelle édition du Wikimag est disponible à la lecture.
week leading up to 2025-02-10. Missed the previous one? See issue #665
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- TiagoLubianaBot 5 - Task(s): Add image or reference illustration based on categories for botanical illustrations on Wikimedia Commons. Only add when only 1 or 2 files in category.
- Sapper Bot - Task(s): Daily updates the Sea of Galilee's elevation above sea level based on official government data.
- Closed request for permissions/Bot: MangadexBot - Task(s): add metadata from mangadex to manga with Mangadex manga ID - closed as relevant Property has been deprecated and marked for deletion.
Events
- Upcoming events:
- Data Reuse Days, starting on February 18th. Check out the program and don't forget to register on wiki to receive the access link.
- Whose (Wiki)Data is it anyway? - Ethics & Consent when cataloguing people, places and things. An on-site Library workshop of the Toronto Metropolitan University, February 12, 1200 - 1600 EST (UTC-5).
- Comics Edit-A-Thon for Black History month, hosted by the Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship of the University of Colorado (onsite only & registration required). February 12, 1300 - 1500 MST (UTC-7).
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Making SPARQL more accessible: Daniel Motz's bachelor's thesis on visual query graphs, check out their project in Tool of the Week
- GLAM Rockers: an interview with the creators of GLAMorous Europe - Anne Mühlich and Gerd Müller speak about their project GLAMorous Europe which uses Wikidata to enrich the digital art collection.
- Preserving Community History with Wikibase - Tan Li Qi of MyCommunity, a Singaporean nonprofit dedicated to preserving the stories of everyday people by documenting community narratives, social memories, and local heritage.
- Wikidata Edit-A-Thon for Black Teacher archive by the Harvard Library University. A write-up of the event which saw more than 400 items edited.
- Project Chat - join the discussion
Tool of the week
- Query by Graph - build a SPARQL query using drag'n'drop visual elements. This is an interesting tool that provides another way to approach building SPARQL queries, especially for those that find the Query builder or raw SPARQL unintuitive or complex.
- CivData - "Cividata makes the diverse world of non-profit organizations visible. As a volunteer project, Cividata provides a comprehensive overview of non-profit organizations worldwide, based on data from Wikipedia's sister project Wikidata."
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Creation of the interim Global Resource Distribution Committee - Call for candidates ends February 25, midnight (AOE).
The interim GDRC is being established to oversee and adjust resource distribution for the Community Fund, aligning with the movement's evolving needs. Currently open to applications from candidates with experience in grantmaking, budgeting and knowledge of Wikimedia's grant types. Further information on the role and how to apply can be found on the GDRC Meta page - Curationist seeks Digital Archivist - Curationist, a free online resource for cultural heritage seeks a part-time archiver who can navigate Wikidata, SPARQL and create metadata and support writers.
- For the upcoming Wikidata and Research conference in July, the list of accepted papers has been posted.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- entry height (height of the entrance above ground level for boarding vehicles)
- number of shading units (number of shading units in a graphics processing unit (GPU))
- romantic orientation (pattern of romantic attraction of this person or fictional character — use ONLY IF they have stated it themselves, unambiguously, or it has been widely agreed upon by historians after their death)
- location code (the location code of the location (please use more specific property if available))
- directs readers to (document or class of documents to which this item or class directs readers)
- External identifiers: Franceinfo journalist ID, Hankook Ilbo tag ID, Cinema Belgica person ID, Cinema Belgica venue ID, Ukrainian Association of Football match ID, Rijksmuseum ID, Cinema Belgica film ID, Danbooru tag, Russian Football National League player ID, Database of Canada's Early Women Writers ID, taz ID, Roman Inscriptions of Britain Online ID, Répertoire du patrimoine bâti de Québec ID, Game Jolt username, Kvikmyndavefurinn work ID, Kvikmyndavefurinn person ID, EHIS educational institution ID, WSGF game ID, Kvikmyndavefurinn company ID, Museum Data Service museum ID, HonestGamers game ID, Pappers executive ID, Islamic Philosophy ID, L'Humanité topic ID, Kamus Dewan Edisi Tiga ID, Izvestia topic ID, Presisov večjezični slovar ID, Zvuk release ID, Mille ans de littérature d'oc author ID, norskeflyplasser.no ID, HCERES expert ID, Registre national des gels ID, A Dictionary of Geology and Earth Sciences entry ID, DGLAi ID, Finnish Olympic Committee athlete ID, Cinema Belgica company ID, RPG Maker game ID (archived), Chinese Church and Organization Dictionary ID, Letterboxd studio ID, Biblioteca Italiana work ID, A Dictionary of Cultural Anthropology entry ID, A Dictionary of Geography entry ID, A Dictionary of Sociology entry ID, Jeune Afrique person ID, Dictionary of Late Antiquity ID, University of Pécs Almanac ID, TERMCAT term ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- nomenclatural type of (taxon item of which this item is the taxonomic type (name-bearing type), e.g. the family for which this genus is the type, the genus for which this species is the type, the taxon for which this type specimen is the type, ect...)
- DVD region code (DVD release is restricted to region code)
- Archaeological National Register code (identifier of elements of the National archaeological register of Moldova)
- presented works (works of art performed, displayed or presented at a given event)
- identifiant REGAFI ()
- Maximum beam energy (Maximum beam energy of a particle accelerator)
- name starts with (The name that this qualifies, the full contents of which are unknown, is known to start with these characters.)
- духовный сан (formal styles of address used for members of the clergy)
- A2B2 user ID (User ID on a2b2.org)
- Source language (headword languge of dictionary)
- DIF historia player ID (Identifier for a sportsperson connected to Djurgårdens IF on difhistoria.se (official site))
- number of texture mapping units (number of texture mapping units in a graphics processing unit)
- number of render output units (number of render output units in a graphics processing unit)
- number of ray tracing cores (number of ray tracing cores in a graphics processing unit)
- Bibliography for subject (Wikidata property on this item providing a link to a bibliography about the subject that is a good starting point.)
- likes / dislikes (''(no English description proposed yet)'')
- number of goals scored in penalty shootouts (total number of goals scored by a team in a penalty shootout)
- broadcasting days and time (days of the week in which a TV or radio program is broadcasted)
- reverse compound (compound where the parts are reversed)
- cognate-citation (lexeme with with the same etymological origin and where a source supports it.)
- Instrument de recherche (inventaire) ({{Translate this | fr = <!-- | xx = descriptions dans d'autres langues --> }})
- Instrument de recherche (document containing detailed information about a specific collection of papers or records within an archive)
- Ratsinformationssystem (Link to the council information system of the municipality)
- name with acutes (item name with acute accents showing stressed vowels)
- doors open on the… / exit train on the… (side of the train where the doors open at this station or only side where this vehicle has doors)
- items classified (class of items that this classification system classifies (aliases: items categorized {{!}} classifies {{!}} categorizes))
- reason not to be used with instances of (clarification for why P31 (instance of) can not be used with this property)
- dislikes of fictional character (''(no English description proposed yet)'')
- AI-generated media prompt (exact prompt that was used to generate an AI-generated media)
- Text-to-image software used for creation (software that was used to create this media or work)
- Lemmy instance URL (the Lemmy instance of/about the subject)
- reason for event cancellation (circumstances leading to the cancellation of the event)
- stylized title (''(no English description proposed yet)'')
- RAM capacity (amount of volatile random-access memory (RAM) modules used by this device)
- VRAM capacity (amount of dual-ported video RAM (VRAM) modules used by this device)
- nombre anterior (Former official name used by an entity, organization, place, or object.)
- earliest start date (earliest start date)
- model number (Identifier for a product model)
- Nation Ranking (primary) and Nation Ranking (secondary) (Nation Ranking (primary))
- has license (licenses the subject have)
- representing sports team (a sports team or club representing this organisation or geographic area)
- External identifiers: Algeria Press Service tag ID (French), Algeria Press Service tag ID (English), Algeria Press Service tag ID (Arabic), Ech-Chaab tag ID, Shamela Algeria person ID, enterprise number (Germany), Ohio University ArchivesSpace Subject ID, Progetto Euploos ID, DataGov dataset, ERR keyword ID, Ohio University ArchivesSpace Agent ID, Inventory of Natural Heritage site ID, Inventory of Natural Heritage tree ID, Spanish-German Dictionary ID, Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory ID, SearchCulture.gr ID, Cinema Belgica censorship ID, Archaeological Cadastre (Greece) ID, SOIUSA code, MetalTabs.com track ID, rutracker.org page ID, RateMyProfessors ID, PubMed author ID, BodyMeasurements.org ID, Bluepages article ID, Archaeological Cadastre (Greece) info ID, Wikishia item ID, Bertsolaritzaren Datu Basea ID, Euronews topic ID (English), Euronews topic ID (French), Euronews topic ID (Spanish), Euronews topic ID (Arabic), Unine thesis id, Enpedia ID, Dizionario Biografico della Calabria Contemporanea ID, Bahamut Animation Crazy Serial Number, Team Norway profile ID (new), NOC of Belarus champion ID (new), JOC profile ID (new), RFI topic ID (French), RFI topic ID (English), RFI topic ID (Spanish), EJU profile ID, ROAR id, CPB profile ID, U.S. Soccer player ID, Celfic FC player ID, Sutian entry ID, wikiHow article ID, Graceful17 ID, IATI Organisation Identifier, Suno artist ID, VAi Archiefhub Agent ID, Soccerbase season ID, PlaymakerStats season ID, ESPN.com football match ID, Eurosport person ID, Newsweek topic ID, New York Post topic ID, RaiPlay Sound IDs, DDLC entry ID, Fluorophores.org substance ID, Yahoo Knowledge Graph ID, Biographical Dictionary of Republican China (X-Boorman) ID, Modern China Biographical Database ID, Chinese Engineers Relational Database ID, BGSU Historical Collections of the Great Lakes vessel ID, booru tag, critify.de game ID, Iowa State University Library Vocabularies ID, MikuWiki article ID, JSR package, Storytel author ID, TvStar.info person ID, Amazon Music track ID, National Trust Heritage Records ID, Toonopedia ID, Oorlogsbronnen-identifier, CPC Zone game ID, Patristic Text Archive, identifiant d'une œuvre au MACM, nesdb.se game ID, Identifiant d'une personne sur le site du musée du diocèse de Lyon, Número de Identificación Tributaria, Hiking Note trail identifier, Hiking Note mountain identifier, Video Game History Foundation Library, Yandex Music track ID, PromoDJ track ID, Jamendo track ID, Know Your Meme slug, CriticDB IDs, Euronews topic ID, RFI topic ID, Algeria Press Service topic ID, Hiking Note chalet identifier, Encyclopedia of Marxism ID, Helden van het Verzet person ID, Records of Early English Drama ID, The New Yorker topic ID, top50, PBA.com player ID, PWBA.com player ID, LEMAC ID, Rate Your Music music video ID, Rate Your Music release issue ID, Nonbinary Wiki id, goal.com football match ID, LEMAV ID, AllGame game ID, Repertorium kleine politieke partijen 1918-1967 (Partij), TechRaptor IDs, Kompass company ID, TechSavvy.de GPU ID, PCPartPicker hardware ID, Wine AppDB ID developer ID, Memoria Chilena ID, The Soka Gakkai Dictionary of Buddhism ID
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects:
- Events and Role Frames - the goal is to enhance Wikidata’s representation of lexemes by linking lexeme senses to PropBank role sets.
- List of Canadian doctors (WikiProject Medicine)
- Newest database reports: List of most used Properties
- Showcase Items: Newton's parakeet (Q634873) - extinct species of bird
- Showcase Lexemes:kuchapa (L1328922) - Swahili noun that can mean "photographic print", "print", "printer", "act of typing" or an "publishing."
Development
- Search in the UI: We continued the work on adding a search UI that lets you search in Properties, Lexemes and EntitySchemas more easily (phab:T338483)
- Search in the API: We are continuing our work on search in the REST API (phab:T383126)
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.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country: Nigeria
- 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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- The Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) has published a draft of their recommendations for the Wikimedia Foundation's Product and Technology department. They have recommended focusing on mobile experiences, particularly contributions. They request community feedback at the talk page by 21 February.
Updates for editors
- The "Special pages" portlet link will be moved from the "Toolbox" into the "Navigation" section of the main menu's sidebar by default. This change is because the Toolbox is intended for tools relating to the current page, not tools relating to the site, so the link will be more logically and consistently located. To modify this behavior and update CSS styling, administrators can follow the instructions at T385346. [19]
- As part of this year's work around improving the ways readers discover content on the wikis, the Web team will be running an experiment with a small number of readers that displays some suggestions for related or interesting articles within the search bar. Please check out the project page for more information.
- Template editors who use TemplateStyles can now customize output for users with specific accessibility needs by using accessibility related media queries (
prefers-reduced-motion
,prefers-reduced-transparency
,prefers-contrast
, andforced-colors
). Thanks to user Bawolff for these improvements. [20] - View all 22 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the global blocks log will now be shown directly on the Spécial:CentralAuth page, similarly to global locks, to simplify the workflows for stewards. [21]
Updates for technical contributors
- Wikidata now supports a special language as a "default for all languages" for labels and aliases. This is to avoid excessive duplication of the same information across many languages. If your Wikidata queries use labels, you may need to update them as some existing labels are getting removed. [22]
- The function
getDescription
was invoked on every Wiki page read and accounts for ~2.5% of a page's total load time. The calculated value will now be cached, reducing load on Wikimedia servers. [23] - As part of the RESTBase deprecation effort, the
/page/related
endpoint has been blocked as of February 6, 2025, and will be removed soon. This timeline was chosen to align with the deprecation schedules for older Android and iOS versions. The stable alternative is the "morelike
" action API in MediaWiki, and a migration example is available. The MediaWiki Interfaces team can be contacted for any questions. [24]
In depth
- The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter is available. It includes: Updates about the "Contribute" menu; details on some of the newest language editions of Wikipedia; details on new languages supported by the MediaWiki interface; updates on the Community-defined lists feature; and more.
- The latest Chart Project newsletter is available. It includes updates on the progress towards bringing better visibility into global charts usage and support for categorizing pages in the Data namespace on Commons.
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There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!
In this issue, we have an essay from Denny, we discuss the fix to the Byte Type, and we take a look at the latest software developments.
Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!
Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 14 février 2025 à 12:19 (CET)
Une nouvelle édition du Wikimag est disponible à la lecture.
week leading up to 2025-02-17. Missed the previous one? See issue #666
Discussions
- Open request for CheckUser: Lymantria (RfP scheduled to end at 19 February 2025 04:22 UTC)
- New request for comments: Anna's Archive - The RFC is about whether Wikidata should import and store metadata from Anna's Archive, considering legal, copyright, and technical challenges.
Events
- Upcoming:
- Data Reuse Days, starting on February 18th. Check out the program and don't forget to register on wiki to receive the access link.
- How to the use the w:20th Century Press Archives as Source (Digitaler Themenabend: Das Pressearchiv 20. Jahrhundert als Quelle - in German) will introduce into research in the archives and into the work of Wikipedia Projekt Pressearchiv - Tuesday, February 18, at 18:00 UTC (informal registration)
- New Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series! We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series session on Tuesday, 18 February, 2025 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET Time Zone Converter. Eric Willey will be facilitating a series of four sessions focused on starting a Wikidata project from the foundation up at your institution. The second session will focus on choosing your project. Event page
- (workshop) Wikidata Lab XLIV: Launch of QuickStatements 3.0 on February 24 at 15:00 UTC. Register here and watch it on WMB's YouTube channel!
- Wikidata and Wikibase: Curriculum Transformation in the Digital Humanities. Talk on Wednesday, 5 March. By Information Services, University of Edinburgh. (register)
- Past:
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Videos
- From Open Collaboration to Customized Control: Transitioning from Wikidata to Wikibase. Presented by John Samuel, this talk explores Wikibase, a self-hosted platform that brings the power of Wikidata to your own infrastructure.
- (Ukranian) The Role of Wikidata in the development of the Crimean Tatar Wikipedia. This talk discusses how Wikidata has been used to support populating a small language Wikipedia with content.
- (Portuguese) Mapping etymology on OpenStreetMaps with Wikidata Tiago Lubjana demonstrates how to map etymology in OpenStreetMaps with Wikidata, using the streets of the Butantanã Institute as an example.
- Podcasts: Between The Brackets Episode 173: Adam Shorland, Tom Arrow and Ollie Hyde
Tool of the week
- Fedipol (Fediverse Activity Tracker) is a Wikidata-based tool used for tracking activity and analyzing accounts related to German political parties, institutions, and instances on the Fediverse.
- OpenRefine 3.9.0 was released
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Call for Projects and Mentors for Outreachy Round 30 is open! The deadline to submit projects on the Outreachy website is March 4, 2025 at 4pm UTC and the project list will be finalized by March 14, 2025.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- land acknowledgement (acknowledgement of indigenous or native people who live and whose ancestors lived at a location)
- study or design for this work (preliminary work for this finished work)
- Newest External identifiers: Dizionario Biografico della Calabria Contemporanea ID, ESPN.com football match ID, WPBSA.com player ID, World Snooker Tour tournament ID, Bertsolaritzaren Datu Basea ID, EJU judoka ID, Yandex Music track ID, Video Game History Foundation Library agent ID, Video Game History Foundation Library subject ID, Video Game History Foundation Library resource ID, Toonopedia ID, PlaymakerStats season ID, ERR keyword ID, El Watan topic ID, BGSU Historical Collections of the Great Lakes entry ID, CPC Zone game ID, New York Post topic ID, National Trust Heritage Records ID, Records of Early English Drama ID, Shamela Algeria person ID, PWBA.com player ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- The College of Cardinals Report (ID of the person on the The College of Cardinals Report website)
- Nation Ranking (secondary) (Nation Ranking (primary))
- Peh-oe-ji (writing system for {{Q|36778|Taiwan Taigi}} or other {{Q|36495}} language varieties in Fujian and South East Asia.)
- Taiwanese Taigi Romanization System (romanization system for {{Q|36778|Taiwan Taigi}} or other {{Q|36495}} language varieties in Fujian and South East Asia.)
- leader of organization (This property identifies the top executive leader of an organization, regardless of the specific title used by the organization.)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: National Gallery ID, SteamDB developer ID, Steam Group ID, Identifiant d'une personne dans le Dictionnaire de la déportation gardoise, Digital Scriptorium Catalog item ID, DRTV IDs, Cultural Heritage Online (Japan) special ID, Hiking Note plant identifier, Identifiant d'une personnalité sur Calindex, Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice sur Calindex, Identifiant dans le dictionnaire de la BnF, The Atlantic topic ID, Kulturenvanteri place ID, Global Energy Monitor Wiki ID, VGC IDs, Audiomack artist-ID, Audiomack album-ID, Audiomack sang-ID, Wikishire Page ID, Kulturdatenbank-ID, TERMDAT ID, United Nations Multilingual Terminology Database ID, Homosaurus ID (V4), IRIS UNIL author ID, Kantonsspital St.Gallen Author ID, Platform for Taiwan Religion and Folk Culture ID, Big Finish Release ID, TermTerm UUID, FU-Lexikon ID, Miraheze wiki ID, Eurobasket.com club ID, domain name
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Showcase Items: Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex (Q183529) - stadium in Kyiv, Ukraine
- Showcase Lexemes: hacer (L39182) - Spanish verb that can mean "do", "create", "pretend" or "play a role".
Development
- Search: We are continuing the work on the improved search that lets you limit your search more easily to other entity types besides Items like Lexemes and Properties (phab:T321543)
- RDF: We are working on aligning the RDF export to the Query Service prefixes (phab:T384344)
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.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country: Cuba
- 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!
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique de Wikimedia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
En lumière cette semaine
- Les communautés utilisant les outils de croissance peuvent désormais mettre en avant un évènement pour les nouveaux contributeurs sur la
Spécial:Accueil de l’espace personnel
. Cette fonctionnalité aidera les nouveaux venus à être informés des activités d'édition auxquels ils peuvent participer. Les administrateurs peuvent ajouter un nouvel évènement à mettre en avant surSpécial:Configuration communautaire
. Pour en apprendre davantage sur cette nouvelle fonctionnalité, vous pouvez lire l'annonce sur Diff, la documentation ou contacter l'équipe Croissance.
Actualités pour la contribution
- À partir de la semaine prochaine, les pages de discussions des wikis suivants recevront une nouvelle présentation : Wikipédia en espagnol, Wikipédia en français, Wikipédia en italien, Wikipédia en japonais. Ce changement a été largement testé en tant que fonctionnalité beta et il s'agit de la dernière étape des améliorations aux pages de discussion. [25]
- Vous pouvez désormais visualiser une page de redirection directement depuis ses pages d'action, comme la page d'historique. Auparavant, vous étiez automatiquement redirigé vers la page cible et deviez manuellement revenir à la page de redirection. Ce changement devrait aider les rédacteurs travaillant avec les redirections. Merci à stjn pour cette amélioration. [26]
- Quand une référence est utilisée de nombreuses fois, les wikis affichent actuellement des nombres comme 1.23 ou des marqueurs avec des lettres comme a, b, c dans la liste de références. Avant, quand le nombre de références était trop important et que toutes les lettres avaient été utilisées, un message d'erreur était affiché. Dans le cadre des travaux pour la modernisation de la personnalisation des références, ces erreurs ne seront plus affichées et des marqueurs numériques comme 1.27 seront utilisés par défaut après épuisement des marqueurs alphabétiques.
- Les entrées de journal pour chaque changement aux groupes utilisateur d'un éditeur ont été clarifiés pour indiquer exactement ce qui a été modifié. Elles contenaient auparavant les deux listes des groupes avant et après le changement. Les traducteurs sont invités à aider à traduire les messages système associés. Merci à Msz2001 pour ces améliorations.
- Un nouveau filtre a été ajouté à Spécial:Nuke — outil permettant aux administrateurs de supprimer en masse des pages — pour permettre aux utilisateurs de filtrer les pages en fonction de leur taille en octets. Cela permet par exemple de supprimer uniquement des pages inférieures à une certaine taille. [27]
- Les non-administrateurs peuvent maintenant voir quelles pages peuvent être supprimées à l'aide de Spécial:Nuke. Merci à MolecularPilot pour cette amélioration et les précédentes. [28]
- Voir les 25 tâches soumises par la communauté résolues la semaine dernière. Par exemple, un bug a été corrigé dans la configuration du format de fichier vidéo AV1, ce qui permet à ces fichiers d'être lus à nouveau. [29]
Actualités pour la contribution technique
- Parsoid Read Views sera déployé sur la plupart des Wiktionnaires dans les prochaines semaines, à la suite de la transition avec succès des Wikivoyage à Parsoid l'année dernière. Pour davantage d'informations, voir la page du projet Parsoid/Parser Unification. [30][31]
- Les développeurs d'outils sur wiki sont informés que
mw.Uri
est obsolète. Les outils nécessitantmw.Uri
doivent déclarer explicitementmediawiki.Uri
comme une dépendance de ResourceLoader, et devraient migrer vers l'APIURL
native du navigateur prochainement. [32]
Actualités techniques préparées par les rédacteurs des actualités techniques et postées par robot. Contribuer • Traduire • Obtenir de l’aide • Donner son avis • S’abonner ou se désabonner.
Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #190 is out: A proposal for types per language and part of speech
modifierThere is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!
In this issue, we present a proposal for types to represent a part of speech in a language, we present some events that we have taken part to (or we are taking part to), and we take a look at the latest software developments.
Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!
Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 20 février 2025 à 16:50 (CET)
Une nouvelle édition du Wikimag est disponible à la lecture.
week leading up to 2025-02-24. Missed the previous one? See issue #667
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot: MatSuBot_10 - Task(s): Import aliases from Female form of Label (P2521) and Male form of Label(P3321).
- New request for comments: Certify the Wikidata trainers? - Initially discussed in Project Chat, this RfC looks to establish a clear community-endorsed policy on how Wikidata Trainers can be appropriately certified and their skills demonstrated and recognized.
Events
- Ongoing events: Data Reuse Days, until February 28th: watch the sessions that you missed and check the program for this week.
- Upcoming events:
- International Mother Language Day 2025 Datathon - online event by WikiProject India from 21-28 February 2025.
- OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #74 March 10 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Taipei
- Past:
- Wikidata and Bangla Wikisource: When two cool kids play together! at Wikisource Conference 2025
- Wiki Movimento Brasil unveil QuickStatements 3.0 - A livetsreamed workshop showcasing the latest version of QuickStatements. Discover the new features implemented based on community research.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Videos:
- Live Wikidata Editing - User:Ainali and User:Abbe98 return for a Wikidata live edit session for Data Reuse Days.
- (Czech) Wikibase as a tool for database operation in a memory institution Linda Jansová presents this session on Wikibase (first streamed 9 November, 2024) at the 13th Wikiconference 2024, hosted by WM Česká republika.
- Podcasts: Using Wikidata to connect constituents with their government - User:Ainali (Co-founder of Wikimedians for Sustainable Development discusses their knowledge about Wikidata and how it underpins Govdirectory, their vision for the future impact of Wikidata.
Tool of the week
- The WikidataDiffAnalyzer is a Ruby gem designed to parse and analyze differences between Wikidata revisions, providing detailed statistics on changes to claims, labels, descriptions, aliases, site links, and more, while also supporting analysis of merges, redirects, and other edit types.
- German Political parties and politicians tracked on the Fediverse - Powered by Wikidata, this Fediverse tracker aggregates social media links to official channels of German politicians. (toot)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Job Vacancy: Senior UX Designer for Wikidata - If you have a passion for UX design and open and free knowledge, please consider applying!
- [Wikibase] Bug Fixes: Wikibase Suite Deploy 1.0.2, 3.0.4, Wikibase 1.0.2, 3.0.3
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- software used for creation (software that was used to create this media or work)
- mode of reproduction (ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings)
- Toki Pona headnoun (Toki Pona common noun for which the name serves as a proper modifier)
- Newest External identifiers: PWBA.com player ID, IATI organisation ID, Oorlogsbronnen ID, DIF historia player ID, Cinema Belgica censorship ID, critify.de game ID, Digital Scriptorium Catalog item ID, Patristic Text Archive author ID, Patristic Text Archive work ID, Patristic Text Archive manuscript ID, Patristic Text Archive person ID, Patristic Text Archive organization ID, The New Yorker topic ID, CriticDB author ID, Rate Your Music music video ID, Eurosport person ID, Soccerbase season ID, nesdb.se game ID, Albin Michel author ID, National Gallery ID, Wine AppDB ID developer ID, Brussels Inventory of Natural Heritage site ID, Brussels Inventory of Natural Heritage tree ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- Date filed (Filing date for a document, e.g. a patent or court case. Alternative names include <code>date submitted</code>, <code>submission date</code>, <code>filing date</code>, etc. These are all distinct from dates of issuance, granting, acceptance, publication, etc. that are public-facing and have to do with the last stage in a publication process. Searches for [https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=date+filed&title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns120=1 similar] terms yielded [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=filing&ns120=1&fulltext=Search+for+a+property&fulltext=Search no results], so apologies if this is redundant.)
- API documentation (API documentation URL)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Euronews topic ID, NES Directory game ID, Friends of Friendless Churches ID, Bane NOR station ID, Meine Abgeordneten ID, Wikidot article ID, Breitbart tag ID, SMB-digital asset ID, Authority control/Korean National Species list ID, FMJD person ID, KNDB person ID, Radiomuseum.org vacuum tube transitor ID, Lenape Talking Dictionary ID, Thinky Games database game ID, Encyclopædia Universalis index ID, Archives in Bavaria ID, CBFC record ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: Puerto Rican Cultural Heritage - serves as a central hub for various initiatives highlighting Puerto Ricans and Puerto Rican culture in Wikidata
- Newest database reports: SPARQL: Federation report - Check the status of different SPARQL endpoints.
- Showcase Items: The Incredible Hulk (Q466611) - 2008 superhero film directed by Louis Leterrier
- Showcase Lexemes: år (L743600) - Nynorsk noun that can mean "a vein", "road", "talent", "an ore", "insect wing part" or "small stripe with a different colour from its surroundings."
Development
- Hosting the Data Reuse Days
- Wikibase REST API: We are continuing the work on a search endpoint for the API (phab:T383126)
- Search: We are continuing to work on the search field that lets you search other entity types as well and not just Items (phab:T321543
- Mobile editing: We are designing prototypes for first testing sessions
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.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country: Uganda
- 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 [[d:Wikidata:Status updates/Next|write the next summary!]
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique de Wikimedia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Actualités pour la contribution
- Les administrateurs peuvent désormais personnaliser la manière dont les catégories de Babel sont créées en utilisant Spécial:Configuration communautaire/Babel. Ils peuvent renommer les catégories de langues, choisir si elles doivent être créées automatiquement et ajuster d'autres paramètres. [33]
- Le portail wikimedia.org a été mis à jour pour moderniser et améliorer l'accessibilité de nos pages de portail. Il dispose désormais d'un meilleur support pour les mises en page mobiles, de meilleures formulations et liens et d'un support linguistique amélioré. De plus, tous les portails du projet Wikimedia, comme wikibooks.org, prennent maintenant en charge le mode sombre lorsqu'un lecteur utilise ce paramètre système. [34][35][36]
- Un nouveau wiki a été créé : un Wiktionnaire en Santali (
wikt:sat:
) [37] - Voir les 30 tâches soumises par la communauté résolues la semaine dernière. Par exemple, un bogue qui empêchait de cliquer sur les résultats de recherche de l'interface web sur certaines configurations mobiles avec Firefox a été corrigé. [38]
Rencontres et évènements
- La prochaine rencontre de la communauté linguistique aura lieu le 28 février à 14:00 UTC. La rencontre de cette semaine couvrira : les points importants et mises-à-jour techniques pour les langues samis, les contributions à translatewiki.net de la part de la communauté Bahasa Lampung en Indonésie et une FAQ technique. Si vous souhaitez participer, inscrivez-vous sur la page wiki.
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Nieuwsbrief 138 Wikimedia Nederland
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The Signpost: 27 February 2025
modifier- Serendipity: Guinea-Bissau Heritage from Commons to the World
- Technology report: Hear that? The wikis go silent twice a year
- In the media: The end of the world
- Recent research: What's known about how readers navigate Wikipedia; Italian Wikipedia hardest to read
- Opinion: Sennecaster's RfA debriefing
- Tips and tricks: One year after this article is posted, will every single article on Wikipedia have a short description?
- Community view: Open letter from French Wikipedians says "no" to intimidation of volunteer contributors
- Traffic report: Temporary scars, February stars
There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!
In this issue, we discuss the deployment of the possibility of getting the right Lexeme given a Wikidata Item, we discuss the newest updates about Types, and we take a look at the latest software developments.
Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!
Also, we remind you that if you have questions or ideas to discuss, the next Volunteers' Corner will be held on March 3, at 18:30 UTC (link to the meeting).
Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 28 février 2025 à 17:16 (CET)
Regards sur l'actualité de la Wikimedia et d'ailleurs |
Dans les Actualités pour le mois de février, les informations sont regardées de très près ! Beaucoup de statistiques, de discussions et d’articles intéressants dans la presse ! Au cœur de ce numéro : le compte-rendu sur la collaboration du mois, un article sur le suffixe -uzz, un retour sur la Conférence Wikisource et une présentation d’ouvrage sur un guide de conversation !
Découvrez le numéro 119 de février 2025 !
Brouillon du prochain — Anciens numéros — Abonnement-désabonnement
Une nouvelle édition du Wikimag est disponible à la lecture.
week leading up to 2025-03-03. Missed the previous one? See issue #668
Discussions
- Other: Email Chain "Elephant in the room" - discussing the large number of Wikidata Items lacking Statements, Sitelinks or Labels/Descriptions.
Events
- Upcoming events:
- All the information you need to start working on your Wikimania 2025 program submissions is now available on the Wiki. Deadline: March 31 st, Anywhere on Earth.
- New Wikidata Event! The upcoming "Wikidata and Sister Projects" event (May 29–June 1) is looking for speakers to share how Wikidata connects with other Wikimedia projects - if you are interested, request more info or submit your session idea here.
- New Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series! We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series session on Tuesday, March 4, 2025 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET Time Zone Converter Eric Willey will be facilitating a series of four sessions focused on starting a Wikidata project from the foundation up at your institution. The third session will focus on making the most of your time and work. Event page.
- Wikidata and Wikibase - Curriculum Transformation in the Digital Humanities - Join for 4 free talks showcasing how linked open data can support teaching, research and collections. March 5, 1500 - 1700 GMT (UTC-0).
- Wiki Workshop 2025 CfP - Call for Papers (Submission deadline: March 9)
- Open Data Day Taiwan 2025 March 9 Time: 09:30-17:30 UTC+8 at Taipei Humanities Building (Q122750631)
- Wiki Mentor Africa (WMA) Hackathon 2025 - Registration & Scholarship Now Open. Date: 28th - 30th March 2025. Who Can Participate? African developers, Wikimedia contributors, and anyone interested in Wikimedia projects.
- Ongoing:
- Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025 - annual global contest aimed at documenting and sharing the diverse customs and traditions observed during the month of Ramadan. Date: 25 February 2025 – 16 April 2025. Register here!
- Items with P31 (instance of) = human settlement without a country has dropped from 7600 to below 4600 Items. You can help to get it even lower.
- Wikidata & OpenStreetMap Datathon & Mapathon as part of International Open Data Day 2025 from 1st - 15th March 2025 by WikiProject India (Q11037573).
- Past events: Data Reuse Days 2025: you can watch the sessions that you missed at your own pace.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- UK universities educate the most national leaders globally, analysis (based on Wikidata) shows. By The Guardian
- Two Wikimedians-in-Residence appointed to increase Maltese literature representation on Wikipedia and Wikidata Times of Malta
- Videos
- (French) PasseGares: Bug fixes and data imports from Wikidata YouTube
- Adding Wikidata label and descriptions, from the Wali Language Art+Feminism Editathon (Ghana 2025) YouTube
- Workshop showcasing QuickStatements 3.0! Learn how this updated tool streamlines your workflow and discover new features. YouTube
- Contributing to Wikidata 101, a series of demonstrations organised by WM Community UG Uganda Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
- Optimize SPARQL queries to avoid timeouts: Efficiently count entities sharing values YouTube
- Data Reuse Days playlist and live-editing session with User:Ainali and User:Abbe98 YouTube
- LUDAP: Shared authority file for Luxembourg's Scientific and Cultural Heritage, with Wikibase YouTube
Tool of the week
- QuickStatements 3.0 - new version of the original QuickStatements with enhanced functionality, performance, and user experience.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- On March 17, Vector 2022 will become the default skin on Wikidata
- Jobs
- Senior UX Designer for Wikidata - Apply online
- Product Manager for Wikibase Suite - Apply online
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- thesis submitted for degree (the academic degree for which a thesis or dissertation is submitted)
- Newest External identifiers: Korean National Species list ID, NES Directory game ID, Miraheze wiki ID, Global Energy Monitor Wiki ID, FU-Lexikon ID, MACM artwork ID, Hiking Note chalet identifier, domain name, TechRaptor game ID, TechRaptor company ID, TechRaptor genre ID, Sanzhi Dargwa dictionary ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- copy present in institution (copy present in institution)
- single extrait de l'album (indicates the album from which the item is taken)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: HelloAsso organization ID, europlayers.com club ID, eLIBRARY Document Number, LIBRIS Library ID, parlament.fyi person ID, Embryo Project Encyclopedia ID, factordb id, Yukon Register of Historic Places ID, Our Campaigns container ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (glossary and index of terms) ID, badmintoncn.com star ID, Game Input Database ID, Historia Hispánica ID, Coasterpedia ID, Captain Coaster coaster ID, Captain Coaster park ID, Dark Ride Database IDs
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: Climate Change Policies - aims to model policies related to Climate change on Wikidata.
- Newest database reports: Most linked category Items
- Showcase Items: Basshunter (Q383541) - Swedish singer, record producer, and DJ
- Showcase Lexemes: baguette (L7347) - French noun that can mean "elongated type of bread loaf", "elongated type of bread loaf", "conductor's baton", "chopsticks", "drum sticks" or "magic wand".
Development
- Wikibase REST API: We are continuing the work on the simple Item search (phab:T383126)
- Dumps: We fixed an issue that prevented the dumps from being generated (phab:T386401)
- Search: We are continuing to work on the search UI that will let you search not just Items but also other entity types (phab:T321543)
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.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country: Australia
- 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!
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique de Wikimedia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Actualités pour la contribution
- Les utilisateurs et utilisatrices connectés utilisant l’affichage mobile peuvent désormais modifier une page complète. Le lien « Modifier toute la page » est accessible dans le menu « Plus » de la barre d’outils. Ce lien était auparavant disponible uniquement lorsque le mode avancé était activé. [39]
- Les admins d’interface peuvent désormais retirer les utilisations de la classe CSS «
mw-ref
» de leur MediaWiki:Common.css local. Cette classe de l’extension Cite est obsolète. La liste des wikis l’utilisant peut être trouvée par cette recherche globale et dans cet exemple. D’autres informations sur les manières d’aider sont données sur la page du projet de migration du CSS. Les appels de note ([1]
) sont désormais rendus par Parsoid ; le CSS obsolète n’est plus nécessaire. Le CSS pour les rétroliens «mw:referencedBy
» doit rester en place pour le moment. Ce nettoyage ne devrait pas avoir d’effet visible pour les lecteurs et lectrices. Merci d’aider à retirer ce code avant le 30 mars, après quoi l’équipe de développement le fera pour vous. - Lorsque les contributeurs ajoutent un fichier (par exemple
[[File:MediaWiki.png]]
) sur une page protégée par une protection en cascade, le logiciel ne restreindra plus les modifications à la page de description du fichier, mais uniquement aux nouveaux téléchargements de fichiers. [40] A l’inverse, la transclusion d’une page de description de fichier (par exemple{{:File:MediaWiki.png}}
) dans une page protégée en cascade provoquera désormais une restriction des modifications à la page.[41] - Remettre un fichier dans une version antérieure nécessitera désormais les mêmes autorisations que le téléchargement d'une nouvelle version du fichier. Le logiciel vérifie désormais la possession des droits « reupload » ou « reuplod-own » [42], et respecte la protection en cascade. [43]
- Lorsque les admins listent des pages à supprimer avec l’outil Nuke, ils peuvent désormais également répertorier les pages de discussion associées et les redirections à supprimer, en plus des pages créées par la cible, plutôt que de devoir supprimer manuellement ces pages. [44]
- La mise à jour mentionnée précédemment de la connexion utilisateur unifiée, qui prendra en compte les restrictions du navigateur sur les cookies inter-domaines en déplaçant la connexion et la création de compte vers un domaine central, sera déployée pour tous les utilisateurs et utilisatrices en mars et avril. L'équipe prévoit de l'activer pour toutes les nouvelles créations de compte sur les wikis du groupe 0 cette semaine. Consultez la page du projet SUL3 pour plus de détails et un calendrier mis à jour.
- Depuis la semaine dernière, un bogue cause l'affichage de certaines icônes d'interface sous forme de carrés noirs jusqu'à ce que la page soit entièrement chargée. Cela sera corrigé cette semaine. [45]
- Un nouveau wiki a été créé : une Wikipédia en sylheti (
w:syl:
) [46] - Voir les 23 tâches soumises par la communauté résolues la semaine dernière. Par exemple, un bogue avec le chargement d'images dans de très anciennes versions du navigateur Firefox sur mobile a été corrigé. [47]
Actualités pour la contribution technique
- Détail des mises-à-jour à venir cette semaine : MediaWiki
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Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #192 is out: Recent Changes in the software, Recording of Volunteer’s Corner, and talks in London
modifierThere is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!
In this issue, we present two talks that will feature Denny as a speaker and we take a look at the latest software developments.
Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!
Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 7 mars 2025 à 16:12 (CET)
Une nouvelle édition du Wikimag est disponible à la lecture.
week leading up to 2025-03-10. Missed the previous one? See issue #669
Events
- Upcoming events: Tuscan Women & Wikidata - data entry lab for shared memory, 5 March.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- WMDE Blog - Highlights of Data Reuse Days: The post showcases 3 excellent apps: WikiFlix (public domain full-length films), KDE Itinerary (travel assistant app) and Scribe Keyboard (easier writing in secondary languages). These are just some of the applications built using Wikidata; check out more at the Data Reuse Days pages.
- (German) Digital Stumbling Blocks – How the Wiki Community Drives Remembrance Culture: User:Cookroach highlights the efforts of Wikimedians across projects (Wikidata, Wikipedia, Commons) to digitally document the Stolpersteine, brass-plaques laid to commemorate victims of the National Socialism.
- (German) Digital History Berlin: Field research with LOD - a write-up of the methods, experiences data-model and SPARQl queries of the field research conducted as part of the WikiProject: Field Survey Digital Humanities.
- (Italian) Wikipedia & Wikidata project for Cesare Alfieri - an introduction to the project to expand articles and data of the archives of Cesare Alfieri University of Florence.
- Communicating Ontology: Technical approaches for facilitating use of our Wikibase data (Semantic Lab at Pratt Institute)
Tool of the week
- zelph: A new tool for detecting logical contradictions and making inferences in Wikidata, using a rule-based system to improve data quality and derive new facts. Check it out on GitHub or explore results on the project website.
- New Tool for Women’s Day: Scheherazade identifies women without articles in your Wikipedia but present in many others, helping editors prioritize creating missing biographies.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikimedia Research Fund had launched. You're encourage to submit proposals around Wikidata. The deadline to submit your proposal is April 16, 2025.
- The 4th iteration of the Wikidata:Open Online Course will begin from March 17 until April 30. Whether you're a beginner taking your first steps, an individual in need of a refresher on Wikidata concepts, or a seasoned trainer looking to level up your skills - this course is right for you.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- model number (identifier for a product model)
- provides data for property (dataset associated with this external ID usually contains data applicable to this other Wikidata property)
- items classified (class of items that this classification system classifies)
- presented works (works of art or creative works performed, displayed or presented at a given event)
- number of goals scored in penalty shootouts (total number of goals scored by a team in a penalty shootout)
- Newest External identifiers: Thinky Games game ID, Lenape Talking Dictionary ID, Biographical Dictionary of Republican China (X-Boorman) ID, LEMAC ID, Bane NOR station ID, Sutian entry ID, Platform for Taiwan Religion and Folk Culture ID, Meine Abgeordneten ID, Hiking Note plant ID, VGC game ID, VGC company ID, VGC people ID, Archives in Bavaria ID, VGC theme ID, Steam group ID, AllGame game ID (archived)
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- kigo of (the season the sense denotes in haiku in Japanese)
- Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised score (score that the subject have received on the Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised psychological assessment tool as administered by a suitably qualified and experienced clinician under scientifically controlled and licensed conditions, standardized conditions)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Archaeological site (Japan) ID, Hmong Studies Citations ID, GitLab topic, Christchurch City Council Park ID, Clio-online researcher ID, Clio-online web resource ID, Clio-online organization ID, Congress.gov committee ID, AGORHA ID, Crunchyroll artist ID, ZOOM Platform product ID, GCMD keyword ID, KnowWhereGraph entity ID, VejinBooks author ID, SteamDB tech ID, Identifiant Cartofaf d'une organisation, Saarland Biografien ID, Murderpedia ID, Big Fish Games game ID, Danskefilmstemmer.dk work ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Obscure units of measurement and where to find them
- Female scientists with most number of sitelinks (but not English Wikipedia)
- Newest WikiProjects: AncientCoinsAndModernMedals
- WikiProject Highlights:
- WikiProject Biology: List of Mushrooms - revived by User:Prototyperspective, help catalogue all known fungal friends, and join the subreddit (for all Wikidata topics): r/WData
- India/Police Stations
- Newest database reports: List of free software without an image set - This is a table of Wikidata items about a free software missing an image.
- Showcase Items: Doctor Strange (Q18406872) - 2016 film directed by Scott Derrickson
- Showcase Lexemes: felle (L476372) - Bokmål verb that can mean "to make something fall", "to kill", "to force a resignation", "to prove guilt", "to let lose", "to announce" or "to join."
Development
- Search: The search team at the WMF has added a new search keyword for Lexemes. You can use the keyword "inlanguage:en" or "inlanguage:Q1860" to limit your search to Lexemes with Lexeme language English and so on. Here is an example search for "bank" within English Lexemes: https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=L%3Abank+inlanguage%3Aen (phab:T271776)
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.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- 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!
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Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique de Wikimedia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Actualités pour la contribution
- Les contributeurs qui utilisent des gestionnaires de mots de passe sur plusieurs wikis peuvent remarquer des changements à l’avenir. La manière dont nos wikis fournissent des informations aux gestionnaires de mots de passe sur la réutilisation des mots de passe entre les domaines a été récemment mise à jour, de sorte que certains gestionnaires de mots de passe peuvent maintenant vous proposer des identifiants de connexion que vous avez sauvegardés pour un autre site Wikimedia. Certains gestionnaires de mots de passe l'ont déjà fait, et le font maintenant pour d'autres domaines de Wikimedia. Cela fait partie du projet SUL3 qui vise à améliorer le fonctionnement de notre connexion unifiée et à la rendre compatible avec les changements en cours dans les navigateurs web que nous utilisons. [48][49]
- L'équipe des applications Wikipédia invite les utilisateurs intéressés à contribuer à l'amélioration de l'utilisation de Wikipédia hors ligne ou en internet limité. Après les discussions de Afrika Baraza et la dernière conférence ESEAP, des défis clés comme la recherche, la modification et l'accès hors ligne sont explorés, avec des groupes de discussion à venir pour approfondir ces sujets. Toutes les langues sont les bienvenues et des interprètes seront disponibles. Vous souhaitez partager vos idées ? Participez à la discussion ou envoyez un courriel à aramadan@wikimedia.org !
- Tous les wikis seront en lecture seule pendant quelques minutes le 19 mars, à 14 h UTC. De plus amples informations seront publiées dans les Actualités techniques et seront également publiées sur chaque wiki dans les semaines à venir.
- Voir les 27 tâches soumises par la communauté résolues la semaine dernière.
Actualités pour la contribution technique
- Détail des mises-à-jour à venir cette semaine : MediaWiki
En détails
- La dernière infolettre trimestrielle du département Croissance est disponible. Elle présente : le lancement du module Actualités de la communauté, les dernières modifications de la configuration communautaire et le test à venir des suggestions d'articles pour les personnes contribuant pour la première fois.
- Une ancienne API utilisée dans l'application Android Wikipedia sera supprimée à la fin du mois de mars. Il n'y a pas d'utilisation logicielle en cours, mais les utilisateurs de l'application dont la version date de plus de 6 mois au moment de la suppression (2025-03-31), n'auront plus accès à la fonction Suggested Edits, jusqu'à ce qu'ils mettent à jour leur application. Vous pouvez lire plus de détails sur ce changement.
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This Month in Education
Volume 14 • Issue 2 • February 2025
- Activities series at the Shefit Hekali school in Peqin, Albania
- Wikimedia Brazil has formed a partnership with a public policy research institute
- Preserving Heritage: Tuluvas Aati Month Educational Wikimedia Programs
- Reflecting on our Past: Farewell to the Auckland Museum Summer Students
- Successful Conclusion of the Second Phase of "Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom" in Yemen
- Wiki Workshop in Mitrovica
- Wikimedia MKD' Education: Lots of new trained users, lots of new articles
- Wikimedia Serbia receives accreditation from the National Library of Serbia for the Wiki Senior seminar
Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #193 is out: Upcoming NLG meeting, Recent Changes in the software
modifierThere is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!
In this issue, we invite you to the next NLG SIG Meeting, that will take place on Tuesday March 18 at 16 UTC, and we take a look at the latest software developments.
Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!
Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 15 mars 2025 à 17:39 (CET)
Une nouvelle édition du Wikimag est disponible à la lecture.
week leading up to 2025-03-17. Missed the previous one? See issue #670
Discussions
- New request for comments: Time to deprecate P642 - of (P642) has spent 3 years marked asdeprecated. Is it time to finally mark it as an obsolete Wikidata property(Q18644427)?
Events
- Upcoming events:
- Call for Wikimania 2025 Programme reviewers. Apply until Monday 17 March 12:00 UTC
- Wikidata Affinity Group Update: The fourth session of Starting a Wikidata Project, originally set for March 18, will now be an asynchronous Slack discussion in the #wikidata channel of the LD4 Slack Space. Join us at 9am PT / 16:00 UTC to discuss Reporting Your Outcomes and Results. Join Slack here. Note: April programming will pause as we prepare the next series.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Training for the staff of the Museum of Photography in Krakow on Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata - "The training aimed to enable the MuFo staff to effectively navigate and develop skills in editing and managing the museum's digital resources within the Wikimedia projects."
- (German) Wikipedia Unterwegs - this time in Neu-Ulm: This travelling community meetup for German Wikimedians discusses the growing ecosystem of Wikipedia, Wikidata and Commons.
- REST in Rust by Magnus: "A new Rust crate has been developed to simplify access to the Wikibase REST API, featuring industry-level coding standards, 248 unit tests, >97% code coverage, and high maintainability. Check out the GitHub repo and contribute via the issue tracker or pull requests!"
- Videos
- Useful videos that explain how to set up/make use of Wikibases. Put together by Valerie
- Wikidata and Wikibase - Curriculum Transformation in the Digital Humanities
- (Chinese) Open Data Day Taiwan 2025: more details and program agenda on the Wikimedia Taiwan Meta Event page
- Wikidata as an Open Data Resource: Ian Watt at Open Source SG
- Bridging GLAM and Wiki: The Khalili Perspective: Dr. Martin Poulter, WiR at Khalili Foundation.
Tool of the week
- Research Expeditions on Wikidata with itineraries - Visualization tool for research expeditions itineraries and natural history collections.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- An update regarding the WDQS backend has been published, about the adoption of the new endpoints and the next steps that will take place.
- Call for Projects – Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon 2025. Do you have a technical project that needs contributions? Or a testing initiative that could use more hands? Submit a project BY 21st March 2025.
- The Wikidata Vector Database prototype is almost ready! Developers interested in integrating semantic search into their applications and editors looking to explore Wikidata items using natural language search are invited to reach out for more details: philippe.saade wikimedia.de
- Join the Wikimedia Deutschland software development team: Product Manager Wikibase Suite (all genders)
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- OAI formatter (formatter to generate ID compatible with Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting services)
- AI-generation prompt (exact prompt that was used to generate this AI-generated media or work)
- data analysis method (methods used in the main item for inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data with the goal of discovering useful information)
- Newest External identifiers: Wikishire article ID, HelloAsso organization ID, Dictionnaire de la déportation gardoise person ID, Graceful17 entity ID, Game Input Database ID, DRTV ID, Calindex person ID, Historia Hispánica ID, TERMDAT ID, Kulturdatenbank ID, DDLC entry ID, Chinese Basketball Association player ID, Captain Coaster coaster ID, Memoria Chilena ID, Jamendo track ID, MikuWiki article ID, ZOOM Platform product ID, Clio-online researcher ID, Clio-online organization ID, SteamDB tech ID, Big Fish Games game ID, Clio-online web resource ID, Iowa State University Library Vocabularies ID, Newsweek topic ID, booru tag
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- watercraft prefix (prefix applied to watercraft operated by different organisations)
- accused (person or organization who has been accused of carrying out this harmful, illegal, or immoral act without having received a criminal conviction or where the accused have been acquitted in a court of law)
- applies to volume (volume of the item (usually edition of a work) to which the claim applies)
- oxygen endurance (The maximum time a submarine, spacecraft or enclosed vehicle can sustain life using its onboard oxygen supply.)
- Coefficient of thermal expansion ()
- fracture toughness ()
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Danskefilmstemmer.dk work ID, Danskefilmstemmer.dk character ID, Internet-Portal „Westfälische Geschichte“ person ID, Kosovo NGO registration number, Yale LUX ID, geraldika.ru symbol ID, Swimcloud swimmer ID, CACI company ID, VD 16 ID, World Higher Education Database ID, Qur'an Wiki article ID, JSIC code, Macrotransactions game ID, Landtag Tirol person ID, NexusMods mod ID, Thunderstore game ID, SideQuest app ID, IndExs Exsiccata ID, National Academy of Engineering member ID, DGO ID, The Rural Settlement of Roman Britain ID, Audiovisual Identity Database page, Encyclopaedia of Islam (Arabic edition) ID, Rodovid family ID, Cultural Heritage Azerbaijan ID, Zurich Kantonsrat and Regierungsrat member ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Location of fire stations in Spain (source)
- Oldest known individual per taxon (pre-20th century) (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: AncientMaths
- WikiProject Highlights: New country page for Poland in WikiProject Nonprofit Organizations, and on cividata.org. Help expanding it!
- Newest database reports: German lexemes without forms divided by lexical category (source)
- Showcase Items: Perm (Q915) - city in Russia
- Showcase Lexemes: Knoten (L298686) - German noun that can mean "knot", "fundamental unit of which graphs (in graph theory) are formed", "point where an orbit crosses a plane of reference to which it is inclined", or "hair wrapped in a circular coil around itself (bun)."
Development
- Wikibase REST API: We continued the work on adding search to the API (phab:T383126)
- Search: We are continuing the work on making it easier to search for entities other than Items in the search box (phab:T338483)
- Query Service: We set up the constraint checks to use the split graph instead of the full graph (phab:T374021)
- Integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are looking into how changes from Wikidata are represented on the other Wikimedia projects and how that can be improved (phab:T386200)
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.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- 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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- Twice a year, around the equinoxes, the Wikimedia Foundation's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team performs a datacenter server switchover, redirecting all traffic from one primary server to its backup. This provides reliability in case of a crisis, as we can always fall back on the other datacenter. Thanks to the Listen to Wikipedia tool, you can hear the switchover take place: Before it begins, you'll hear the steady stream of edits; Then, as the system enters a brief read-only phase, the sound stops for a couple of minutes, before resuming after the switchover. You can read more about the background and details of this process on the Diff blog. If you want to keep an ear out for the next server switchover, listen to the wikis on March 19 at 14:00 UTC.
Updates for editors
- The improved Content Translation tool dashboard is now available in 10 Wikipedias and will be available for all Wikipedias soon. With the unified dashboard, desktop users can now: Translate new sections of an article; Discover and access topic-based article suggestion filters (initially available only for mobile device users); Discover and access the Community-defined lists filter, also known as "Collections", from wiki-projects and campaigns.
- On Wikimedia Commons, a new system to select the appropriate file categories has been introduced: if a category has one or more subcategories, users will be able to click on an arrow that will open the subcategories directly within the form, and choose the correct one. The parent category name will always be shown on top, and it will always be possible to come back to it. This should decrease the amount of work for volunteers in fixing/creating new categories. The change is also available on mobile. These changes are part of planned improvements to the UploadWizard.
- The Community Tech team is seeking wikis to join a pilot for the Multiblocks feature and a refreshed Special:Block page in late March. Multiblocks enables administrators to impose multiple different types of blocks on the same user at the same time. If you are an admin or steward and would like us to discuss joining the pilot with your community, please leave a message on the project talk page.
- Starting March 25, the Editing team will test a new feature for Edit Check at 12 Wikipedias: Multi-Check. Half of the newcomers on these wikis will see all Reference Checks during their edit session, while the other half will continue seeing only one. The goal of this test is to see if users are confused or discouraged when shown multiple Reference Checks (when relevant) within a single editing session. At these wikis, the tags used on edits that show References Check will be simplified, as multiple tags could be shown within a single edit. Changes to the tags are documented on Phabricator. [50]
- The Global reminder bot, which is a service for notifying users that their temporary user-rights are about to expire, now supports using the localized name of the user-rights group in the message heading. Translators can see the listing of existing translations and documentation to check if their language needs updating or creation.
- The GlobalPreferences gender setting, which is used for how the software should refer to you in interface messages, now works as expected by overriding the local defaults. [51]
- View all 26 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the Wikipedia App for Android had a bug fixed for when a user is browsing and searching in multiple languages. [52]
Updates for technical contributors
- Later this week, the way that Codex styles are loaded will be changing. There is a small risk that this may result in unstyled interface message boxes on certain pages. User generated content (e.g. templates) is not impacted. Gadgets may be impacted. If you see any issues please report them. See the linked task for details, screenshots, and documentation on how to fix any affected gadgets.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 67, January – February 2025
- East View Press and The Africa Report join the library
- Spotlight: Wikimedia+Libraries International Convention and WikiCredCon
- Tech tip: Suggest page
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --19 mars 2025 à 19:48 (CET)
Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #194 is out: Wikidata-based simple enumerations
modifierThere is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!
In this issue, we introduce a discussion about a new kind of enumeration type, and we take a look at the latest software developments.
Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!
Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 21 mars 2025 à 13:06 (CET)
The Signpost: 22 March 2025
modifier- From the editor: Hanami
- News and notes: Deeper look at takedowns targeting Wikipedia
- In the media: The good, the bad, and the unusual
- Recent research: Explaining the disappointing history of Flagged Revisions; and what's the impact of ChatGPT on Wikipedia so far?
- Traffic report: All the world's a stage, we are merely players...
- Gallery: WikiPortraits rule!
- Essay: Unusual biographical images
- Obituary: Rest in peace
Une nouvelle édition du Wikimag est disponible à la lecture.
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique de Wikimedia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
En lumière cette semaine
- La Fondation Wikimédia souhaite recueillir vos commentaires sur les ébauches des objectifs et des résultats-clés qui façonneront les priorités de la Fondation en matière de produits et de technologies pour la prochaine année fiscale (commençant en juillet). Les objectifs sont des domaines généraux et les résultats-clés permettent de mesurer leur réalisation. N'hésitez pas à partager vos commentaires sur la page de discussion, dans n'importe quelle langue, idéalement avant fin avril.
Actualités pour la contribution
- L'extension CampaignEvents sera déployée sur plusieurs wikis (voir le plan de déploiement pour plus de détails) en avril 2025, et l'équipe a commencé le processus d'engagement des communautés sur les wikis identifiés. L'extension fournit des outils pour organiser, gérer et promouvoir des activités collaboratives (comme des événements, des edit-a-thons et des WikiProjects) sur les wikis. L'extension comporte trois outils : Inscription à l'événement, Liste de collaboration et Liste d'invitation. Elle est actuellement présente sur 13 Wikipédias, dont la Wikipédia en anglais, la Wikipédia en français et la Wikipédia en espagnol, ainsi que sur Wikidata. Les questions ou demandes peuvent être adressées sur la page de discussion de l'extension ou sur Phabricator (avec l'étiquette #campaigns-product-team).
- À partir de la semaine du 31 mars, les wikis pourront définir quels groupes d'utilisateurs peuvent voir les inscriptions privées dans Inscription à l'événement, dans le cadre de l'extension CampaignEvents. Par défaut, les organisateurs d'événements et les administrateurs du wiki local pourront voir les inscriptions privées. Il s'agit d'un changement par rapport au réglage actuel qui permet seulement aux organisateurs de l'événement de voir les inscriptions privées. Les wikis peuvent modifier la configuration par défaut en demandant un changement de configuration dans Phabricator (et en ajoutant l'étiquette #campaigns-product-team). Les participants aux événements passés peuvent annuler leur inscription à tout moment.
- Les administrateurs des wikis qui disposent d'une barre latérale MediaWiki:Sidebar personnalisée doivent vérifier si elle contient une entrée pour la liste Pages spéciales. Si ce n'est pas le cas, ils doivent l'ajouter en utilisant
* specialpages-url|specialpages
. Les wikis disposant d'une barre latérale par défaut verront le lien déplacé de la boîte à outils de la page vers le menu de la barre latérale en avril. [53] - L'habillage Minerva (web mobile) combine les notifications d'avis et d'alertes dans l'icône de cloche ( ). Il existait depuis longtemps un bogue qui faisait qu'une indication de nouvelles notifications n'était affichée que si vous aviez des alertes que vous n'avez pas vues. Ce problème est désormais résolu. À l'avenir, les utilisateurs de Minerva remarqueront un compteur au-dessus de l'icône de la cloche lorsque vous avez un ou plusieurs notifications et/ou alertes non vues. [54]
- Voir les 23 tâches soumises par la communauté résolues la semaine dernière.
Actualités pour la contribution technique
- VisualEditor a introduit un nouveau hook côté client pour les développeurs à utiliser lors de l'intégration avec le cycle de vie de la cible VisualEditor. Ce hook devrait remplacer les hooks existants liés au cycle de vie et être plus cohérent entre les différentes plateformes. De plus, le nouveau hook s'appliquera aux utilisations de VisualEditor en dehors de l'édition complète d'articles, permettant aux gadgets d'interagir avec l'éditeur dans DiscussionTools également. L'équipe d'édition a l'intention de déprécier et éventuellement de supprimer les hooks de l'ancien cycle de vie, donc tous les cas d'utilisation que ce nouveau hook ne couvre pas seraient intéressants pour l'équipe et peuvent être partagés dans la tâche.
- Les développeurs qui utilisent la bibliothèque JavaScript
mw.Api
peuvent désormais identifier l'outil qui l'utilise avec le paramètreuserAgent
:var api = new mw.Api( { userAgent: 'GadgetNameHere/1.0.1' } );
. Si vous gérez un gadget ou un script utilisateur, veuillez définir un agent utilisateur, car cela facilite la maintenance de la bibliothèque et du serveur et permet de différencier le trafic légitime du trafic illégitime. [55][56] - Détail des mises-à-jour à venir cette semaine : MediaWiki
Actualités techniques préparées par les rédacteurs des actualités techniques et postées par robot. Contribuer • Traduire • Obtenir de l’aide • Donner son avis • S’abonner ou se désabonner.
Wikidata weekly summary #672
modifierweek leading up to 2025-03-17. Missed the previous one? See issue #670
Discussions
- New request for comments: Time to deprecate P642 - of (P642) has spent 3 years marked asdeprecated. Is it time to finally mark it as an obsolete Wikidata property(Q18644427)?
Events
- Upcoming events:
- Call for Wikimania 2025 Programme reviewers. Apply until Monday 17 March 12:00 UTC
- Wikidata Affinity Group Update: The fourth session of Starting a Wikidata Project, originally set for March 18, will now be an asynchronous Slack discussion in the #wikidata channel of the LD4 Slack Space. Join us at 9am PT / 16:00 UTC to discuss Reporting Your Outcomes and Results. Join Slack here. Note: April programming will pause as we prepare the next series.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Training for the staff of the Museum of Photography in Krakow on Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata - "The training aimed to enable the MuFo staff to effectively navigate and develop skills in editing and managing the museum's digital resources within the Wikimedia projects."
- (German) Wikipedia Unterwegs - this time in Neu-Ulm: This travelling community meetup for German Wikimedians discusses the growing ecosystem of Wikipedia, Wikidata and Commons.
- REST in Rust by Magnus: "A new Rust crate has been developed to simplify access to the Wikibase REST API, featuring industry-level coding standards, 248 unit tests, >97% code coverage, and high maintainability. Check out the GitHub repo and contribute via the issue tracker or pull requests!"
- Videos
- Useful videos that explain how to set up/make use of Wikibases. Put together by Valerie
- Wikidata and Wikibase - Curriculum Transformation in the Digital Humanities
- (Chinese) Open Data Day Taiwan 2025: more details and program agenda on the Wikimedia Taiwan Meta Event page
- Wikidata as an Open Data Resource: Ian Watt at Open Source SG
- Bridging GLAM and Wiki: The Khalili Perspective: Dr. Martin Poulter, WiR at Khalili Foundation.
Tool of the week
- Research Expeditions on Wikidata with itineraries - Visualization tool for research expeditions itineraries and natural history collections.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- An update regarding the WDQS backend has been published, about the adoption of the new endpoints and the next steps that will take place.
- Call for Projects – Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon 2025. Do you have a technical project that needs contributions? Or a testing initiative that could use more hands? Submit a project BY 21st March 2025.
- The Wikidata Vector Database prototype is almost ready! Developers interested in integrating semantic search into their applications and editors looking to explore Wikidata items using natural language search are invited to reach out for more details: philippe.saade wikimedia.de
- Join the Wikimedia Deutschland software development team: Product Manager Wikibase Suite (all genders)
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- OAI formatter (formatter to generate ID compatible with Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting services)
- AI-generation prompt (exact prompt that was used to generate this AI-generated media or work)
- data analysis method (methods used in the main item for inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data with the goal of discovering useful information)
- Newest External identifiers: Wikishire article ID, HelloAsso organization ID, Dictionnaire de la déportation gardoise person ID, Graceful17 entity ID, Game Input Database ID, DRTV ID, Calindex person ID, Historia Hispánica ID, TERMDAT ID, Kulturdatenbank ID, DDLC entry ID, Chinese Basketball Association player ID, Captain Coaster coaster ID, Memoria Chilena ID, Jamendo track ID, MikuWiki article ID, ZOOM Platform product ID, Clio-online researcher ID, Clio-online organization ID, SteamDB tech ID, Big Fish Games game ID, Clio-online web resource ID, Iowa State University Library Vocabularies ID, Newsweek topic ID, booru tag
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- watercraft prefix (prefix applied to watercraft operated by different organisations)
- accused (person or organization who has been accused of carrying out this harmful, illegal, or immoral act without having received a criminal conviction or where the accused have been acquitted in a court of law)
- applies to volume (volume of the item (usually edition of a work) to which the claim applies)
- oxygen endurance (The maximum time a submarine, spacecraft or enclosed vehicle can sustain life using its onboard oxygen supply.)
- Coefficient of thermal expansion ()
- fracture toughness ()
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Danskefilmstemmer.dk work ID, Danskefilmstemmer.dk character ID, Internet-Portal „Westfälische Geschichte“ person ID, Kosovo NGO registration number, Yale LUX ID, geraldika.ru symbol ID, Swimcloud swimmer ID, CACI company ID, VD 16 ID, World Higher Education Database ID, Qur'an Wiki article ID, JSIC code, Macrotransactions game ID, Landtag Tirol person ID, NexusMods mod ID, Thunderstore game ID, SideQuest app ID, IndExs Exsiccata ID, National Academy of Engineering member ID, DGO ID, The Rural Settlement of Roman Britain ID, Audiovisual Identity Database page, Encyclopaedia of Islam (Arabic edition) ID, Rodovid family ID, Cultural Heritage Azerbaijan ID, Zurich Kantonsrat and Regierungsrat member ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Location of fire stations in Spain (source)
- Oldest known individual per taxon (pre-20th century) (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: AncientMaths
- WikiProject Highlights: New country page for Poland in WikiProject Nonprofit Organizations, and on cividata.org. Help expanding it!
- Newest database reports: German lexemes without forms divided by lexical category (source)
- Showcase Items: Perm (Q915) - city in Russia
- Showcase Lexemes: Knoten (L298686) - German noun that can mean "knot", "fundamental unit of which graphs (in graph theory) are formed", "point where an orbit crosses a plane of reference to which it is inclined", or "hair wrapped in a circular coil around itself (bun)."
Development
- Wikibase REST API: We continued the work on adding search to the API (phab:T383126)
- Search: We are continuing the work on making it easier to search for entities other than Items in the search box (phab:T338483)
- Query Service: We set up the constraint checks to use the split graph instead of the full graph (phab:T374021)
- Integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are looking into how changes from Wikidata are represented on the other Wikimedia projects and how that can be improved (phab:T386200)
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.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #672 (correct version!)
modifierweek leading up to 2025-03-24. Missed the previous one? See issue #671
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:Request for admin flag for MsynBot - From 2021 through 2024, this bot has implemented the 2019 RfC “semi-protection to prevent vandalism on most used Items” by maintaining page protections based on the outcome, d:Wikidata:Protection policy#Highly used items. The admin flag got lost due to bot inactivity but the bot operation could be resumed immediately if the admin flag is given back.
Events
- Upcoming events:
- AAFRennes2025, 26-28 Mars 2025
- 5-6 April & 12 April: Scholia Hackathon
- Wikidata and Sister Projects to take place May 29 - June 1. Please send us your session ideas, we still have lots of space for proposals. This is a great chance to highlight the benefits of Wikidata use in other WM projects. See Talk page for proposals.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Tool of the week
- Lexica - a mobile-friendly tool that simplifies micro contributions to lexicographical data on Wikidata, making various editing tasks accessible and intuitive for contributors of all experience levels.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Mobile Editing of Statements - You have been asking for the ability to edit statements from mobile devices for years, this project will make editing statements on Wikidata Items more accessible and user-friendly for mobile users. Sign up to participate in prototype testing and interviews with our UX team
- Join the Wikimedia Deutschland software development team: Product Manager Wikibase Suite (all genders)
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- data analysis method (methods used in the main item for inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data with the goal of discovering useful information)
- External identifiers: booru tag, Steam Group numeric ID, Kompass company ID, Macrotransactions game ID, Thunderstore game ID, JSR package ID, GitLab topic ID, Amazon Music track ID, Crunchyroll artist ID, SideQuest app ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- levels (levels, maps, episodes, chapters or stages of this video game)
- Scilit scholar ID (author identifier on {{Q|77125337}})
- وزن صرفي عربي (A feature to adjust the pattern of Arabic words in lexemes)
- باب صرفي للأفعال العربية الثلاثية المجردة (Morphology of the Arabic triliteral verbs)
- land degradation (The amount of land that is degraded by an object. Mainly for infrastructure projects)
- Research projects that contributed to this data set (This property allows to identify research projects that they have contributed to or created an item)
- Platform height (platform height above the top of the rail (or above the road for buses))
- extended by (addons for this item) (Class of software this software is extended by)
- External identifiers: Congressional Medal of Honor Society recipient ID, Delfi.ee theme ID, identifiant Dezède d'un individu, SeqCode Registry ID, Openalfa street ID, The Oxford Dictionary of Music entry ID, A Dictionary of Education entry ID, TDKIV wikibase ID
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- WikiProject Highlights:
- Showcase Items: Cinderella (Q15046091) - 2015 film directed by Kenneth Branagh
- Showcase Lexemes: страсть (L166968) - Russian noun that can mean "love", "passion", "desire", or "suffering."
Development
- Wikibase REST API: We finished work on the simple Item search (phab:T383126) and started on the one for Properties (phab:T386377)
- Vector 2022 skin: We fixed a number of the remaining issues with dark mode (phab:T385039) and sitelink positioning (phab:T316797)
- Search: We continued the work on making it easier to search in other entity types (Properties, Lexemes, EntitySchemas) besides Items (phab:T321543)
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.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country:
- 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!
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Nieuwsbrief 139 Wikimedia Nederland
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There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!
In this issue, we introduce a discussion about how to support the creation of a type for time that is compatible with Wikidata, and we take a look at the latest software developments.
Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!
Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 28 mars 2025 à 18:25 (CET)
Bonjour Antoine.b,
L’article « Liste des comptes TikTok les plus suivis (page supprimée) » fait l'objet d'un débat d'admissibilité (cf. Wikipédia:Débat d'admissibilité). Il débouchera sur la conservation, la suppression ou la fusion de l'article. Après avoir pris connaissance des critères généraux d’admissibilité des articles et des critères spécifiques, vous pourrez donner votre avis sur la page de discussion Discussion:Liste des comptes TikTok les plus suivis/Admissibilité.
Le meilleur moyen d’obtenir un consensus pour la conservation de l’article est de fournir des sources secondaires fiables et indépendantes. Si vous ne pouvez trouver de telles sources, c’est que l’article n’est probablement pas admissible. N’oubliez pas que les principes fondateurs de Wikipédia ne garantissent aucun droit à avoir un article sur Wikipédia.
Une nouvelle édition du Wikimag est disponible à la lecture.
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique de Wikimedia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Actualités pour la contribution
- L'équipe Contribution travaille sur une nouvelle vérification des modifications : le contrôle des éloges. L'objectif de cette vérification est d’identifier les termes non neutres saisis lors de la modification d’une page Wikipédia, afin d’informer l’auteur ou autrice que son texte devrait peut-être être modifié avant publication. Ce projet n’en est qu’à ses débuts ; l’équipe a besoin de l’avis des communautés. Dans cette tâche Phabricator, l’équipe rassemble les recommendations internes des wikis, les modèles utilisés pour étiqueter les articles non neutres et les termes (jargon et mots-clés) utilisés dans les résumés de modification pour les langues étudiées actuellement. Vous pouvez participer en modifiant le tableau sur Phabricator, en commentant la tâche ou en envoyant directement un message à Trizek (WMF).
- La connexion utilisateur unique (SUL) a été mise à jour sur tous les wikis afin de déplacer la connexion et la création de compte vers un domaine central. Cela rend la connexion des contributeurs compatible avec les restrictions des navigateurs sur les cookies inter-domaines, qui ont empêché les utilisateurs de certains navigateurs de rester connectés.
- Voir les 35 tâches soumises par la communauté résolues la semaine dernière.
Actualités pour la contribution technique
- À partir du 31 mars, l'équipe MediaWiki Interfaces va lancer une version limitée des spécifications OpenAPI générées et une expérience de bac à sable basée sur SwaggerUI pour MediaWiki REST APIs. L'équipe invite les développeurs d'un groupe limité de communautés Wikipédia non anglophones (arabe, allemand, français, hébreu, interlingua, néerlandais, chinois) à consulter la documentation et à expérimenter le bac à sable dans leur langue de choix. En plus de ces projets Wikipédia spécifiques, le bac à sable et la spécification OpenAPI seront disponibles sur la page spéciale test wiki REST Sandbox pour les développeurs dont l'anglais est la langue préférée. Pendant la période de prévisualisation, l'équipe MediaWiki Interfaces invite également les développeurs à partager leur retour d'expérience. L'aperçu durera environ 2 semaines, après quoi le bac à sable et les spécifications OpenAPI seront mis à la disposition de tous les projets wiki.
- Détail des mises-à-jour à venir cette semaine : MediaWiki
En détails
- Parfois, un petit changement de code d'une ligne peut avoir une grande importance : dans ce cas, cela signifie que pour la première fois depuis des années, nous sommes en mesure de faire fonctionner toute la pile qui sert maps.wikimedia.org - un hôte dédié à servir nos wikis et leurs besoins en cartes multilingues - à partir d'un seul centre de données, ce que nous testons à chaque fois que nous effectuons un basculement de centre de données. C'est important car cela signifie que si l'un de nos centres de données est affecté par une catastrophe, nous serons toujours en mesure de servir le site. Ce changement est le résultat d'un travail intensif de deux développeurs sur le portage du dernier composant de la pile de cartes sur kubernetes, où nous pouvons allouer des ressources plus efficacement qu'auparavant, ce qui nous permet de supporter plus de trafic dans un seul centre de données. Ce travail a nécessité beaucoup d'étapes compliquées car ce logiciel et les bibliothèques logicielles qu'il utilise nécessitaient de nombreuses mises à jour attendues depuis longtemps. Ce type de travail rend l'infrastructure de Wikimedia plus durable.
Rencontres et évènements
- La Conférence des utilisateurs et développeurs de MediaWiki printemps 2025 se déroulera à Sandusky, aux États-Unis, et en ligne, du 14 au 16 mai 2025. La conférence proposera des discussions autour de l'utilisation du logiciel MediaWiki par et au sein d'entreprises de différents secteurs, et inspirera et embarquera de nouveaux utilisateurs. L'inscription et l'enregistrement des présentations sont maintenant disponibles sur le site web de la conférence.
Actualités techniques préparées par les rédacteurs des actualités techniques et postées par robot. Contribuer • Traduire • Obtenir de l’aide • Donner son avis • S’abonner ou se désabonner.
Regards sur l'actualité de la Wikimedia et d'ailleurs |
week leading up to 2025-04-01. Missed the previous one? See issue #672
Discussions
- Open request for adminship: BRPever 2 adminship request closes tomorrow.
Events
- Upcoming events:
- MCL's Linked Data Usergroup's Wikidata Edit-A-Thon - The Midwest Collaborative for Library Services is hosting an editathon between April 7 - 11, 2025. This is an onsite event and only available to USA states: Indiana and Michigan.
- (German) Wikidata models on colonial looting and African cultural heritage - June 4, 2025, 1300 UTC+2. This event will be presented in German.
- Wikidata Training Workshop by WM Uganda - on April 26, discover how Wikidata powers Wikipedia and beyond! Register here
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Presentations
- Videos
- Live Wikidata editing - creating Property proposals with Jan Ainali.
- Entity Management Cooperative meeting, with Wikidata
- (Taiwanese) Seediq Wikimedia 2024 Annual Conference - hosted by Wikidata Taiwan, here are the opening remarks by Principal Zhan Su'e's opening speech.
- Open translations in mathematics (Oxford Seminar) - This presentation from Tim Osgood discusses the utility of mathematics for translations, a community-driven approach, and how Wikidata is contributing.
- (Spanish) Socialisation: Literary Data in Bogota 2015 - 2020 - The Colombian Publishing Observatory of the Caro y Cuervo Institute presents "Metadata Model for Independent Publishing in Bogotá", containing over 31,500 data points, all catalogued in Wikidata.
- (Italian) Tools for Visualising Wikidata - Carlo Bianchini presents some useful tools for visualising data and queries from Wikidata, with a focus on Digital Humanities.
Tool of the week
- Revisiting the Twelfth Birthday Presents - if you haven't seen the birthday presents already, go check them out!
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [BREAKING CHANGE ANNOUNCEMENT] Please find full information here
- Wikidata Ontology Course Peter Patel-Schneider and Ege Doğan will run a seven-week Wikidata Ontology Course starting late April / early May. It aims to expand the Wikidata community’s knowledge of the Wikidata ontology through lectures, exercises, and group projects. Participants should have prior Wikidata experience and are expected to attend lectures, complete exercises (about one hour per week), and contribute to a group project. More details |available here.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: Crunchyroll artist ID, SideQuest app ID, The Atlantic topic ID, TechSavvy.de GPU ID, Delfi.ee theme ID, The College of Cardinals Report ID, NexusMods mod ID, Hiking Note Trail identifier, Hiking Note mountain identifier
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- SWIS-WEM Facility Code (Unique identifier for facilities registered with the Australian Energy Market Operator for facilities operating in the South West Interconnected System Wholesale Electricity Market (SWIS-WEM Facility Code))
- number of downloads (2) (number of downloads of times this application or creative work have been downloaded)
- species protection status (Links species, habitat or biotope type with the regulation international or national that protects this species)
- Number of Heads of Families (number of family cards (KK) in an area)
- mother's maiden name (maiden name of this person’s mother)
- External identifiers: FirstCycling team season ID, FirstCycling race ID, Dizionario della Musica in Italia ID, Ethnologue language family ID, Untappd beer ID, Catálogo Histórico de Teses e Dissertações da Área de História ID, The Sun topic ID, Databáze her platform ID, Rekhta Gujarati author ID, Itch.io tag ID, The Jerusalem Post topic ID, DVIDS Photo ID, LUX person ID, LUX group ID, LUX place ID, Shazoo tag ID, ідентифікатор особи в Бібліометрика української науки, SCImago Institutions Rankings ID, UniRank ID, Climate Policy Radar ID, LUX concept ID, iNaturalist photo ID, identifiant Ordre national du Québec, LUX event ID, Cabinet minutes of the Federal Government ID, R-Sport match ID, Sport Express football match ID, CPJ topic ID
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects:
- Showcase Items: Pleinfeld (Q252320) - market municipality in Germany
- Showcase Lexemes:humpback (L322138) - English noun that can mean " kyphosis (condition of the spine)", "a person with an abnormal curvature of the spine", "humpback whale, a particular marine mammal variety", "pink salmon", "lake skygazer, a type of ray-finned fish", " type of arch bridge where the span is larger than the ramps on either side", or " humpback dolphin, a particular variety of marine mammal."
Development
- Search: We continued the work on making it easier to search entity types other than Items (Lexemes, Properties, EntitySchemas) in the search box (phab:T321543)
- Vector 2022 theme: We are fixing remaining issues with dark mode (phab:T385039)
- Wikibase REST API: We are continuing to build out the simple Item search endpoint (phab:T386228) and are looking into the one for Properties (phab:T386377)
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.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country: Australia
- 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!
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Et voici le 120ème numéro ! Un bien beau chiffre, qui annonce le numéro des dix ans le mois prochain ! Un mois de mars fort animé par le Défi Thésaurus qui entraîna la création de 265 thésaurus ! Richaringan présente également la conception du chiffre 4 en Asie, et le Dictionnaire du mois n’est plus, car les dictionnaires, c’est fini !
Découvrez le numéro 120 de mars 2025 !
Brouillon du prochain — Anciens numéros — Abonnement-désabonnement
Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #196 is out: Quarterly Planning for April–June 2025; We are looking for a Senior Product Manager
modifierThere is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!
In this issue, we present our work plan for the upcoming quarter (April-June 2025), we publish a new job opening for joining the team, and we take a look at the latest software developments.
Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!
Also, we remind you that if you have questions or ideas to discuss, the next Volunteers' Corner will be held on April 7, at 17:30 UTC (link to the meeting).
Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 6 avril 2025 à 16:22 (CEST)
Une nouvelle édition du Wikimag est disponible à la lecture.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2025-04-07. Please help Translate.
Events
- Upcoming events:
- Wiki Workshop Registration is Now Open! The event will be held virtually over two days on May 21 & 22, 2025.
- OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #75 April 14 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245)
- (French) Collection and use of Wikipedia and Wikidata data in SHS searches - 17 June, 2025. Participation via video-conference available, register here and program info here.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Inference, continued - Magnus Manske adds 2 new functions to WD-infernal. The Whelming
- (French) Illustrious women in public spaces. Streets, buildings and other places overwhelmingly feature men Porte Plumpe
- Brewster Kahle (Internet Archive) receives ProjectUil from Dutch Wikipedia
- Papers: Enabling disaggregation of Asian American subgroups: a dataset of Wikidata names for disparity estimation - Paper by Lin, Q. et al (2025).
- Videos
- Curationist: What is it and how does it work? - Curationist utilises Wikidata to help discover, curate and share public-domian art and cultural heritage content. YouTube
- (Swedish) Connecting Wikidata, OpenStreetMap and the National Archives with Magnus Sälgö YouTube
- (French) Focus on Wikidata, Wikifying Science, a presentation from Delphine Montagne and Pierre-Yves Beaudouin. Canal-U TV: C@fé Renatis
- Other
- (Portuguese) Wikidata at School: expanding access to knowledge and tackling gender gaps! Instagram: Projeto Mais
Tool of the week
- Wikidata:Tools/Wikidata for Web - also known as Wikidata for Firefox is a browser extension for Mozilla Firefox that displays data from Wikidata on various websites, enhancing the information you are already looking at, and also allows extraction of data from these websites.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata Ontology Course Peter Patel-Schneider and Ege Doğan will run a seven-week Wikidata Ontology Course starting late April / early May. It aims to expand the Wikidata community’s knowledge of the Wikidata ontology through lectures, exercises, and group projects. Participants should have prior Wikidata experience and are expected to attend lectures, complete exercises (about one hour per week), and contribute to a group project. More details available here.
- Job Vacancy - Are you interested in helping shape the technical future of Wikimedia's knowledge graph? We are looking for a Staff Engineer (Wikidata)
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- beam energy (kinetic energy of elementary or composite particles moving together (for example in a particle accelerator))
- External identifiers: National Academy of Engineering member ID, Murderpedia ID, Cultural Heritage Azerbaijan ID, TDKIV Wikibase ID, Landtag Tirol person ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- interior decorator (A property for the interior decorator of notable buildings)
- incompatible with (significant elements with which an entity is incompatible and indicates a significant property of this entity)
- warranty period (warranty period of this product as covered by the original manufacturer or creator)
- Trafikplatssignatur (Swedish station code)
- outcome 2 (outcome of a criminal charge or a civil complaint)
- External identifiers: TechPowerup GPU ID, ISFDB category of an award ID, L'Expression topic ID, Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice dans le catalogue de la bibliothèque du Saulchoir, National Gallery (London) PID, Identifiant sur Orthodox World
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects:
- Newest database reports: Items with identical Birth and Death dates - another way to identify duplicate items.
- Showcase Items: Game of Thrones (Q23572) - American fantasy drama television series
- Showcase Lexemes: umuyagankuba (L1215369) - "electricity" in Kirundi
Development
- We made some progress on the ScopedTypeaheadSearch feature by improving the UI, and making it translatable (phab:T390269)
- We continued working on dark mode support (phab:T389633)
- Wikibase REST API: We are almost done adding the last few features on the simple item and property search endpoint. We'll be happy to get feedback on these from 15.04 when they're completed
- We will begin user testing to improve Mobile Editing Experience: Mobile editing of statements
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.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country: European Union
- 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!
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique de Wikimedia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Actualités pour la contribution
- Désormais, les admins d’interface et admins des annonces centrales sont contraint techniquement d’activer l’authentification à deux facteurs avant de pouvoir utiliser leurs privilèges. À l’avenir, cela pourrait être étendu à d’autres groupes ayant des droits avancés. [57]
- Voir les 20 tâches soumises par la communauté résolues la semaine dernière.
Actualités pour la contribution technique
- L’équipe Système design prépare la sortie de la nouvelle version majeur de Codex (v2.0.0) pour le 29 avril. Les contributeurices et développeurs et développeuses qui utilisent du CSS de Codex devraient consulter la documentation sur l’arrivée de la v2, elle inclut un guidage pour les ruptures introduites dans cette version, par exemple pour
font-size
,line-height
etsize-icon
. - Les résultats de l’enquête 2025 sur la satisfaction des développeurs et développeuses est désormais disponible. Merci à tous les participants ! Ces résultats aident Wikimedia à décider ce sur quoi orienter le travail et à évaluer le travail récent.
- Détail des mises-à-jour à venir cette semaine : MediaWiki
Rencontres et évènements
- Le Hackathon Wikimedia 2025 aura lieu à Istanbul en Turquie, du 2 au 4 mai. Les inscriptions pour participer en présentiel ont lieu jusqu’au 13 avril. Avant de vous inscrire, sachez qu’il vous faudra peut-être un visa ou un e-visa pour entrer dans le pays.
Actualités techniques préparées par les rédacteurs des actualités techniques et postées par robot. Contribuer • Traduire • Obtenir de l’aide • Donner son avis • S’abonner ou se désabonner.
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The Signpost: 9 April 2025
modifier- Opinion: Crawlers, hogs and gorillas
- Debriefing: Giraffer's RfA debriefing
- Obituary: RHaworth, TomCat4680 and PawełMM
- Traffic report: Heigh-Ho, Heigh-Ho, off to report we go...
- News from Diff: Strengthening Wikipedia’s neutral point of view
- Comix: Thirteen
This Month in Education
Volume 14 • Issue 3 • March 2025
- A Whole New World: Research Findings on New Editor Integration in Serbian Wikipedia
- Bolivia: a new round of Leamos Wikipedia begins in Bolivia
- Faculty of Social Sciences Workshop in Albania
- Lots of contributions and trainings as part of Wikimedia MKD's Education Programme
- Wikimedia organized multiple events of science and education in Brazil during the month of March
Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #197 is out: Quarter in review, and lots of material to watch
modifierThere is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!
In this issue, we evaluate our work done for the recently closed quarter (January-March 2025), we present you a number of video and blogpost about us to watch and read, and we take a look at the latest software developments.
Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!
Also we remind you that the next Natural Language Generation Special Interest Group meeting will be held on April 15, at 16:00 UTC (link to the meeting).
Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 11 avril 2025 à 13:20 (CEST)
Une nouvelle édition du Wikimag est disponible à la lecture.
week leading up to 2025-04-14. Missed the previous one? See issue #674
Events
- Upcoming events: The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC, 16th April 2025 (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.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Introducing m3api, By Lucas Werkmeister
- Wikidata Query Service graph database reload at home, 2025 edition. By Adam Baso
- Videos
- Other: Wikidata references made easier. "Several tricks to make it easier and faster, using various scripts and gadgets" to add references to Wikidata statements. By Spinster
Tool of the week
- Wikidata Topic Curator is a React-based web application. It’s a new and improved version of ItemSubjector created to help Wikimedians connect items on Wikidata to the right topics. By entering a topic QID, it finds related articles using the topic’s label, aliases, or custom terms.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Join the Wikidata development team at Wikimedia Deutschland
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- beam energy (kinetic energy of elementary or composite particles moving together (for example in a particle accelerator))
- number of downloads (number of downloads of times this application or creative work have been downloaded)
- Taiwanese Taigi Romanization System (Romanization system for Taiwan Taigi or other Southern Min language varieties in Fujian and South East Asia)
- Newest External identifiers: National Academy of Engineering member ID, Murderpedia ID, Cultural Heritage Azerbaijan ID, TDKIV Wikibase ID, Landtag Tirol person ID, Fluorophores.org substance ID, Kosovo NGO registration number, TechPowerUp GPU Specs Database ID, iNaturalist photo ID, Climate Policy Radar ID, LIBRIS library ID, Dizionario della Musica in Italia ID, Untappd beer ID, Bahamut Animation Crazy ID, KnowWhereGraph entity ID, GCMD keyword ID, Ohio University ArchivesSpace Agent ID, CBFC record ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- interior decorator (A property for the interior decorator of notable buildings)
- incompatible with (significant elements with which an entity is incompatible and indicates a significant property of this entity)
- warranty period (warranty period of this product as covered by the original manufacturer or creator)
- Trafikplatssignatur (Swedish station code)
- outcome 2 (outcome of a criminal charge or a civil complaint)
- output color (color of the generated images)
- proposal of (Qualifier for the statement {{P|31}} {{Q|64728694}} to state what the proposed thing is.)
- floral diagram (picture on commons of a floral diagram of a Taxon)
- member of sequence or class of number (The number is of a special form or class or member of a sequence)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: ISFDB category of an award ID, L'Expression topic ID, Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice dans le catalogue de la bibliothèque du Saulchoir, National Gallery (London) PID, Identifiant sur Orthodox World, Steam Deck HQ game ID, Hardcore gaming 101 ID, torial username, BirdLife DataZone species ID, BirdLife DataZone site ID, Schulnummer Schleswig-Holstein, Kunstkamera ID, Corago singer ID, MoNA spectrum ID, Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice dans La Croix, identifiant Meta-Doctrinal.org, CvLAC ID, OGDB genre ID, IGDB genre ID, WSGF taxonomy term ID, GameSpot platform ID, PerformArt ID, Billie Jean King Cup player ID 2024
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject USC Libraries A WikiProject for work done at University of Southern California Libraries to connect library data with Wikidata.
- WikiProject Highlights: Nonprofit Organizations/Kosovo - Add the most important NGOs of Kosovo
- Newest database reports: User:Pasleim/Connectivity - Connectivity between Wikimedia projects
- Showcase Items: Nea Salamis Famagusta FC (Q714581) - professional association football club based in Ammochostos (Famagusta)
- Showcase Lexemes: Straße (L44061) - German noun that can mean "road", "straight", "street", "strait", "group of people inhabiting buildings along a perticular street" or "production line".
Development
- We merged and prepared changes to rename
wikibase:EntitySchema
towikibase:WikibaseEntitySchema
in RDF (phab:T371196) – this has been announced as a breaking change and will be deployed to Wikidata on 24 April - We made some more improvements to dark mode support (phab:T389633)
- We’re working on tests for the
ScopedTypeaheadSearch
feature (phab:T385790) - Wikibase REST API: We're going to wrap up pagination on the simple Item and property search endpoint and are working to improve our test architecture for search (phab:T386691). We're going to pick up prefix search for Items and phrase matching next!
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.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country: Chile
- 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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- Later this week, the default thumbnail size will be increased from 220px to 250px. This changes how pages are shown in all wikis and has been requested by some communities for many years, but wasn't previously possible due to technical limitations. [58]
- File thumbnails are now stored in discrete sizes. If a page specifies a thumbnail size that's not among the standard sizes (20, 40, 60, 120, 250, 330, 500, 960), then MediaWiki will pick the closest larger thumbnail size but will tell the browser to downscale it to the requested size. In these cases, nothing will change visually but users might load slightly larger images. If it doesn't matter which thumbnail size is used in a page, please pick one of the standard sizes to avoid the extra in-browser down-scaling step. [59][60]
Updates for editors
- The Wikimedia Foundation are working on a system called Edge Uniques which will enable A/B testing, help protect against Distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS attacks), and make it easier to understand how many visitors the Wikimedia sites have. This is so that they can more efficiently build tools which help readers, and make it easier for readers to find what they are looking for.
- To improve security for users, a small percentage of logins will now require that the account owner input a one-time password emailed to their account. It is recommended that you check that the email address on your account is set correctly, and that it has been confirmed, and that you have an email set for this purpose. [61]
- "Are you interested in taking a short survey to improve tools used for reviewing or reverting edits on your Wiki?" This question will be asked at 7 wikis starting next week, on Recent Changes and Watchlist pages. The Moderator Tools team wants to know more about activities that involve looking at new edits made to your Wikimedia project, and determining whether they adhere to your project's policies.
- On April 15, the full Wikidata graph will no longer be supported on query.wikidata.org. After this date, scholarly articles will be available through query-scholarly.wikidata.org, while the rest of the data hosted on Wikidata will be available through the query.wikidata.org endpoint. This is part of the scheduled split of the Wikidata Graph, which was announced in September 2024. More information is available on Wikidata.
- The latest quarterly Wikimedia Apps Newsletter is now available. It covers updates, experiments, and improvements made to the Wikipedia mobile apps.
- View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available. This edition includes: an invitation for tool maintainers to attend the Toolforge UI Community Feedback Session on April 15th; recent community metrics; and recent technical blog posts.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Hello, and welcome to the first newsletter of 2025! In this edition, we’ll walk you through the exciting updates, experiments, and improvements made to the Wikipedia mobile apps during December, January, and February.
iOS
modifierPersonalized Wikipedia Year in Review
We released the improved version of the Year in Review to all users, now available in multiple languages and for both logged-in and logged-out users. While donation rates were lower than our goal, we saw great engagement with the feature & it brought in a higher share of first-time donors and a higher average donation compared to banner campaigns.
Notably:
- 97.4% of survey respondents rated the experience as neutral or better.
- We saw a 74% increase in new accounts, with 368 new editors actively contributing as a result.
- Most users asked for more personalized stats and a better summary of their reading journey.
We’re excited by the results and are already thinking ahead about how to improve it further next year. Want more details? You can check out the full analysis on the project page on MediaWiki.
Alt Text Experiment Wrap-Up
Our 60-day alternative text experiment has ended. While users showed interest in the task, quality was a challenge—especially for newcomers. The experiment helped us understand how we can guide editors better when writing alt text and which improvements to focus on next.
Some key takeaways:
- Completion rates were decent (28% for newer editors), but the quality of the alternative text needed improvement.
- Many users wanted clearer guidance and better context for writing alt text.
- Many users expressed interest in a dedicated feed for image-related tasks.
We’re not making the alternative text suggested edit permanent at this time. If we decided to focus on this task again, we would invest in improved guidance for writing alternative text, and make improvements to the user flow.
We made significant progress in refreshing the app’s navigation. Highlights include:
- A more native iOS feel with system-standard navigation bars.
- New access points for the Profile menu across multiple screens.
- Ongoing A/B testing of a more prominent search bar in articles, available in Arabic, French, German, and Japanese.
We also began tracking where article views come from (e.g., from Places, History, or Explore), which will help us understand user behavior better.
Tabbed Browsing Begins
We kicked off discovery and design work for adding tabs to the iOS app—one of the most requested features! Based on user feedback and inspiration from other apps, we’ve created a prototype and started user testing. Stay tuned as this exciting feature continues to evolve!
Bug Fixes & Developer Contributions
Thanks to volunteer contributions and internal efforts, we fixed several bugs including:
- Search results overlapping with the status bar.
- Crashes while editing specific articles.
- Incorrect day shown in “In the News.”
- Improved handling of italics and language variants.
Android
modifierWe released the Wikipedia Game to production in German Wikipedia and began work on WikiTrivia using “On this day” content. User feedback from initial testing is helping shape both features.
Private Donor Recognition Experiment
We wrapped up our donor recognition experiment in France and the Netherlands. While overall donations were lower than expected, user feedback was clear:
- 81% of surveyed users want the dashboard to exist on multiple platforms.
- 39% of users who saw the donor icon feature chose to personalize their app icon.
- Many users prefer automatic updates to their donor stats without manual input.
Rabbit Holes
To improve reader retention, we tested two approaches: suggested articles in search and personalized reading lists. Results showed strong engagement:
- 93.3% of feedback was positive or neutral.
- Pageviews were significantly higher for users who engaged with the feature.
- Users preferred reading lists over suggested search results.
We've started migrating our Android layouts to Jetpack Compose to modernize the app and improve performance long-term.
Other Fixes & Enhancements
- Fixed bugs related to offline article loading, push notifications, and language variants.
- Enhanced language support in captions and local language display.
Looking Ahead
From improving editing tasks to adding new ways to discover content and expanding personalization—this quarter was packed with learning and progress. Your feedback continues to shape where we go next.
Make sure you’re subscribe to this newsletter to stay in the loop, and thank you for being a part of this journey with us!
Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #198 is out: Wikifunctions integrated in Dagbani - and Wikifunctions; and the date of Easter
modifierThere is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!
In this issue, we announce that this week we switched on the ability to call Wikifunctions functions from within Dagbani Wikipedia (our first wiki to do so!), we discuss the functions related to calculating the dates of Easter, and we take a look at the latest software developments.
Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!
Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 17 avril 2025 à 16:28 (CEST)
Une nouvelle édition du Wikimag est disponible à la lecture.
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique de Wikimedia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Actualités pour la contribution
- Wikifunctions est désormais intégré à la Wikipédia en dagbani depuis le 15 avril. C'est le premier projet qui pourra appeler des fonctions de Wikifonctions et les intégrer dans des articles. Une fonction est quelque chose qui prend une ou plusieurs entrées et les transforme en un résultat souhaité, comme l'addition de deux nombres, la conversion de miles en mètres, le calcul du temps écoulé depuis un événement, ou la déclinaison d'un mot en une casse. Les Wikifonctions permettront aux utilisateurs de faire cela par un simple appel d'une fonction stable et globale, plutôt que par l'intermédiaire d'un modèle local. [62]
- Un nouveau type d'erreur lint a été créé : Titres vides (documentation). L'objectif de l'extension Linter est d'identifier les éléments de wikitexte qui doivent ou peuvent être corrigés dans les pages et de fournir des conseils sur les problèmes posés par ces éléments et sur la manière de les corriger. [63]
- Voir les 37 tâches soumises par la communauté résolues la semaine dernière.
Actualités pour la contribution technique
- À la suite de sa publication sur HuggingFace, l'ensemble de données « Structured Contents », développé par Wikimedia Enterprise, est maintenant également disponible sur Kaggle. Cette initiative bêta vise à rendre les données de Wikimedia plus lisibles par les machines pour les réutilisateurs de gros volumes. Cette version bêta est publiée à un emplacement déjà utilisé par les communautés de données ouvertes, afin de recueillir des commentaires qui permettront d'améliorer le produit en vue d'une future diffusion à plus grande échelle. Vous pouvez en savoir plus sur le projet Structured Contents, et sur la première version librement utilisable.
- Il n'y a pas de nouvelle version de MediaWiki cette semaine.
Rencontres et évènements
- Les équipes de rédaction et d'apprentissage automatique (Editing and Machine Learning Teams) invitent les bénévoles intéressés à une visioconférence pour discuter de la vérification « peacock » (NdT : litt. « paon » mais également une expression idiomatique pour le langage vaniteux, prétentieux), qui est la dernière vérification de modification qui détectera le langage « trop promotionnel » ou « non neutre » pendant qu'un rédacteur est en train de taper. Les rédacteurs qui travaillent avec les nouveaux arrivants, ou qui aident à corriger ce type d'écriture, ou qui sont intéressés par la manière dont nous utilisons l'intelligence artificielle dans nos projets, sont invités à participer à cette réunion. La réunion aura lieu le 28 avril 2025 à 18:00-19:00 UTC et sera hébergée sur Zoom.
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Nieuwsbrief 140 Wikimedia Nederland
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week leading up to 2025-04-22. Missed the previous one? See issue #675.
<translate>Translations are available</translate>
<translate>Events</translate>
- <translate>[[<tvar name="1">d:Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events</tvar>|Upcoming]]:</translate> <translate>Yunlin Liu Fang Tien Shang Sheng Mu OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Workshop</translate> <translate> April 27 Time: 09:30-17:00 UTC+8 at Red Altar (Hongtan)</translate>.
- <translate>Past: Missed the Q2 Wikidata+Wikibase office hour? You can catch up by reading the session log here: [[<tvar name="2">d:Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events/Telegram office hour 2025-04-16</tvar>|2025-04-16 (Q2 2025)]]</translate>
<translate> Press, articles, blog posts, videos </translate>
- <translate>Blogs</translate>
- qjson: <translate>Fetching all properties of a Wikidata item in a single API call</translate> <translate>By Santhosh Thottingal</translate>
- <translate> A Wikibase call for action at the Wikimedia Hackathon 2025</translate> <translate>By Ismael Olea </translate>
- <translate> Putting UK collections on the map</translate> <translate>by the Museum Data Service</translate>
- The April 2025 Scholia Hackathon by Egon Willighagen
- <translate>Papers</translate>
- <translate>Talking Wikidata: Communication Patterns and Their Impact on Community Engagement in Collaborative Knowledge Graphs</translate> - <translate> Investigative study on Wikidata discussions, revealing that the community is generally inclusive and conflict is rare, but many controversial topics lack consensus, and valuable contributors disengage early. By Koutsiana et. al., (2025)</translate>
- <translate>Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited</translate> - <translate>By Latham (2025)</translate>
- <translate>Videos</translate>
- Wiki Workshop 2025 - Wikidata Inconsistencies with Language Models and Data Mining in a Pipeline by Houcemeddine Turki
- (Italian) Cla-G, an instance of Wikibase as a tool to support game classification by Carlo Bianchini
- <translate>Other</translate>
- <translate>Wikidata & Wikibase for Authority Control & Knowledge Organization Workshop</translate> <translate>By AfLIA</translate>
- <translate>Mastodon bot</translate> <translate> that "highlights natural compounds found in plants, fungi, bacteria or animals — and includes Wikidata references and visual structure depictions."</translate>
<translate>Tool of the week</translate>
- <translate>[[<tvar name="3">d:Special:MyLanguage/User:Spinster/Wikidata_references_made_easier</tvar>|User:Spinster/Wikidata references made easier]]: The script helps in adding references to statements, in order to provide context for our data, make the data more reliable, transparent and trustworthy for anyone who uses it </translate>.
<translate>Other Noteworthy Stuff</translate>
- <translate>Registration is open for a Wikidata ontology course led by Peter Patel-Schneider and Ege Doğan.</translate> <translate>To register, email pfpschneider gmail.com with your Wikidata username and a brief note on your interest. The course starts 1 May, with weekly lectures on Thursdays from 1–3pm EDT (skipping 29 May and 12 June).</translate> <translate>Space may be limited; priority goes to those already interested. Participants should know Wikidata, attend sessions, complete weekly exercises (~1 hour), and join a group project</translate>. <translate>Details: Course page</translate>
- Wikifunctions is now integrated with Dagbani Wikipedia since April 15. It is the first project that will be able to call functions from Wikifunctions and integrate them in articles.
- <translate>Wikidata job openings at the The Wikimedia Foundation</translate>
- <translate>Lead Product Manager, Wikidata Platform</translate> (<translate>remote</translate>)
- <translate>Tech Lead, Wikidata Platform</translate> (<translate>remote</translate>)
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- number of texture mapping units (number of texture mapping units in a graphics processing unit)
- Newest External identifiers: Saarland Biografien ID, A Dictionary of Education entry ID, Cultural Heritage in Japan site ID, BirdLife DataZone site ID, BirdLife DataZone species ID, Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory ID, Internet-Portal „Westfälische Geschichte“ person ID, Chtyvo author ID, Homosaurus ID (V4)
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- terminal speaker ()
- organization code (the organization code of the organization item. Should either be used with qualifier property {{Q|P459}} to specify which system being used, or be used as the qualifier of {{P|31}}.)
- organization unit code (the organization unit code of the organization unit/part/(sub)division item. Should either be used with qualifier property {{Q|P459}} to specify which system being used, or be used as the qualifier of {{P|31}}.)
- Picture composition (Description of a picture composition (design rules) analogous to the Commons category “[[:commons:Category:Picture composition]]”)
- MANDALA Tibetan Living Dictionary ID (entry for a lexeme in the Tibetan Living Dictionary by MANDALA)
- Monarque régnant (Person who has held or is holding the role of king, queen, sultan, or other monarch at the head of a kingdom or empire.)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Moure's Catalog ID, MobyGames attribute ID, Número RPJ, Identificador de obra no Catálogo Mourisco, IPRESS ID, TeamUSA.com athlete ID, IEC document kind classification code, Europe PMC Preprint identifier, Snopes ID, A Dictionary of Media and Communication entry ID, Black Sea Cultural Inventory ID, PyPI organization name, PlayStation Museum product ID, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology entry ID, A Dictionary of Public Health entry ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
<translate>Did you know?</translate>
- <translate> Query examples</translate>:
- <translate>WikiProject Highlights</translate>: <translate>[[<tvar name="51">d:Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProject Taiwan/Travel</tvar>|Taiwan Travel]]</translate> - <translate>aims to create travel related items about Taiwan</translate>
- <translate>[[<tvar name="6">d:Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Showcase items</tvar>|Showcase Items]] </translate>: Pete's Dragon (Q18786473) - 2016, film by David Lowery
- <translate>[[<tvar name="7">d:Wikidata:Showcase lexemes</tvar>|Showcase Lexemes]]: Bill (L3855) - English noun (/bɪl/) that can mean "invoice", "proposed law", "bird's beak", or "a given name"</translate>:
<translate>Development</translate>
- <translate>Wikidata changes in watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and co: We are continuing the work on making the edit summaries more understandable </translate>(phab:T386200)
- <translate>Wikibase REST API: We are continuing to build out the simple search functionality</translate> (phab:T389011)
- <translate>Dark mode: We are fixing a few remaining issues with dark mode support in the Vector 2022 theme</translate> (phab:T389633)
<translate>You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here</translate>. <translate>If you want to help, you can also have a look at</translate> <translate>the tasks needing a volunteer</translate>.
<translate>Weekly Tasks</translate>
- <translate> Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed [[<tvar name="8">d:Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Newest_properties_and_property_proposals_to_review</tvar>|above]] </translate>.
- <translate>Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme [[<tvar name="9">d:Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Did_you_know?</tvar>|above]]</translate>.
- <translate>Govdirectory weekly focus country: [[<tvar name="10">d:Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProject_Govdirectory/Chile</tvar>|Chile]]</translate>
- <translate> Summarize your [[<tvar name="11">d:Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Did_you_know?</tvar>|WikiProject's ongoing activities]] in one or two sentences</translate>.
- <translate>Help [[<tvar name="11">d:Special:LanguageStats</tvar>|translate]] or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!</translate>
- <translate> [[<tvar name="12">d:Special:MyLanguage/User:Pasleim/projectmerge</tvar>|Help merge identical items]] across Wikimedia projects </translate>.
- <translate>Help [[<tvar name="13">d:Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status updates/Next</tvar>|write the next summary!]]</translate>
Une nouvelle édition du Wikimag est disponible à la lecture.
There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!
In this issue, we present a new member of the team, and we take a look at the latest software developments.
Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!
Also, we remind you that if you have questions or ideas to discuss, the next Volunteers' Corner will be held on May 5, at 17:30 UTC (link to the meeting).
Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 28 avril 2025 à 15:16 (CEST)
week leading up to 2025-04-28. Missed the previous one? See issue #676.
Translations are available
Discussions
- Open request for bureaucrat: Wüstenspringmaus
Events
- Upcoming events:
- Wikidata and Research Conference June 5-6, 2025 at the University of Florence.
- The 5th Wikidata Workshop taking place November 2-3, 2025 during the 25th International Semantic Web Conference hosted in Nara, Japan. Call for Papers is open until 23:59 AoE, August 2. This year, the program tracks are 1. Novel Work and 2. Previously Published Work. Submission template and guidelines are available here and you can submit your topic here.
- The Wikidata and Sister Projects online conference approaches: May 29 - July 1, 2025. Have you registered yet?
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery on Web Conference 2025. By Guodong et. al., (2025)
- Passage: Ensuring Completeness and Responsiveness of Public SPARQL Endpoints with SPARQL Continuation Queries By Thi Hoang et. al., (2025)
Tool of the week
- quarry.wmcloud.org is a public querying interface for Wiki Replicas, a set of live replica SQL databases of public Wikimedia Wikis. Quarry is designed to make running queries against Wiki Replicas easy. Quarry can also be used to query public databases stored in ToolsDB.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Scholia is running a user survey until the end of May .
- Researchers from the University of Regina in Canada invite you to participate in the Open Data Community Survey 2025. Read more!
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- BEACON file URL (URL of an online service's BEACON file, a data interchange format for large numbers of uniform links.)
- research projects that contributed to this data set (research projects that have contributed to or otherwise created an item)
- terminal speaker (the last person able to speak the language fluently)
- nomenclatural type of (taxon item of which this item is the taxonomic type (name-bearing type), e.g. the family for which this genus is the type, the genus for which this species is the type, the taxon for which this type specimen is the type, ect...)
- interior designer (person responsible for the interior design of a notable building or structure)
- kigo of (season which denotes the sense in haiku in Japanese)
- Newest External identifiers: Homosaurus ID (V4), Helden van het Verzet person ID, Our Campaigns container ID, Catálogo Histórico de Tese e Dissertações da Área de História ID, Congress.gov committee ID, Congressional Medal of Honor Society recipient ID, Israeli Governmental Data Repository ID, Deutsche Genbank Obst (DGO) ID, DVIDS photo ID, FirstCycling race ID, FirstCycling team season ID, Hmong Studies Citations ID, Cartofaf organization ID, Calindex author ID, Diocese of Lyon Museum person ID, BnF dictionary ID, Dezède person ID, Meta-Doctrinal ID, Ordre national du Québec ID, Internet Game Database genre ID, Shazoo tag ID, OGDB genre ID, Tax Identification Number (Colombia), National Gallery (London) PID, Kunstkamera ID, Zurich Kantonsrat and Regierungsrat member ID, WSGF taxonomy term ID, World Higher Education Database ID, VD 16 ID, United Nations Terminology Database ID, Trafikplatssignatur, Top50 system ID, IndExs exsiccata ID, Markstammdatenregister ID, Ech-Chaab tag ID, SearchCulture.gr ID, RaiPlay Sound program ID, RaiPlay Sound playlist ID, Modern China Biographical Database ID, Know Your Meme slug, LEMAV ID, PerformArt ID, Chilean NPO number, TermTerm UUID, Steam Deck HQ game ID, SeqCode Registry ID, School ID Schleswig-Holstein, Rodovid family ID, Repertorium kleine politieke partijen 1918-1967 (Party), Captain Coaster park ID, Scilit scholar ID, The Rural Settlement of Roman Britain ID, PCPartPicker product ID, goal.com football match ID, The Soka Gakkai Dictionary of Buddhism ID, Cultural Heritage Online (Japan) special ID, Eurobasket.com club ID, europlayers.com club ID, badmintoncn.com star ID, Danskefilmstemmer.dk work or dubbing ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- defined for (the subject takes the object as parameter (or parameter tuple))
- The Long Distance Walkers Association (External Identifier (URL slug) for a hiking route on The Long Distance Walkers Association website (United Kingdom only))
- New External identifier property proposals to review: IEC CDD for electronics, GOG Dreamlist ID, IEC CDD units, Urban Dictionary ID (2), RCI number, Portable Antiquities Scheme image ID, myCast person ID, Personality Database category ID, parliament.uk bill ID, Bierista beer ID, Encyclopedia of the Serbian National Theatre ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects : WikiProject Saint Mary's College (IN) aims to improve the coverage of Saint Mary's and the scholarly works being created at Saint Mary's.
- Showcase Lexemes: Córdoba (L642328) - Spanish noun (kór-do-ba) that can mean "a city in Spain", "a city in Argentina", or "a Mexican city"
Development
- Bug: We fixed an issue where newly created Properties became inaccessible after adding a statement with a Property linking to an Item or Lexeme. The fix will go live on Wednesday. (phab:T374230)
- Search: We continued implementing the new search that will make it easier to search for Properties and Lexemes in the UI (phab:T321543)
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.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- 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!
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique de Wikimedia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
Actualités pour la contribution
- Event organizers who host collaborative activities on multiple wikis, including Bengali, Japanese, and Korean Wikipedias, will have access to the CampaignEvents extension this week. Also, admins in the Wikipedia where the extension is enabled will automatically be granted the event organizer right soon. They won't have to manually grant themselves the right before they can manage events as requested by a community.
- Voir les 19 tâches soumises par la communauté résolues la semaine dernière.
Actualités pour la contribution technique
- The release of the next major version of Codex, the design system for Wikimedia, is scheduled for 29 April 2025. Technical editors will have access to the release by the week of 5 May 2025. This update will include a number of breaking changes and minor visual changes. Instructions on handling the breaking and visual changes are documented on this page. Pre-release testing is reported in T386298, with post-release issues tracked in T392379 and T392390.
- Users of Wiki Replicas will notice that the database views of
ipblocks
,ipblocks_ipindex
, andipblocks_compat
are now deprecated. Users can query theblock
andblock_target
new views that mirror the new tables in the production database instead. The deprecated views will be removed entirely from Wiki Replicas in June, 2025. - Détail des mises-à-jour à venir cette semaine : MediaWiki
En détails
- The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization Newsletter is now available. This edition includes an overview of the improved Content Translation Dashboard Tool, support for new languages, highlights from the Wiki Loves Ramadan campaign, results from the Language Onboarding Experiment, an analysis of topic diversity in articles, and information on upcoming community meetings and events.
Rencontres et évènements
- The Let's Connect Learning Clinic will take place on April 29 at 14:30 UTC. This edition will focus on "Understanding and Navigating Conflict in Wikimedia Projects". You can register now to attend.
- The 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which brings the global technical community together to connect, brainstorm, and hack existing projects, will take place from May 2 to 4th, 2025, at Istanbul, Turkey.
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Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #200 is out: Abstract Wikipedia is a MacArthur 100&Change finalist
modifierThere is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!
In this issue, we announce that we reached the final stage of a grant competition, we introduce our next big conversation about where the content of Abstract Wikipedia will be located, and we take a look at the latest software developments.
Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!
Also, we remind you that if you have questions or ideas to discuss, the next Volunteers' Corner will be held on May 5, at 17:30 UTC (link to the meeting).
Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 1 mai 2025 à 12:57 (CEST)
C’est quelque chose ! Les Actualités du Wiktionnaire ont dix ans ! Un numéro chatoyant pour célébrer cette belle réussite collective avec une florilège d’illustrations amusantes, une analyse technique du chemin parcouru et des options pour l’avenir, un regard en arrière sur dix ans de questionnements dans les Actualités, une présentation du Dictionnaire des dictionnaires, des informations sur la Wiki Science Competition et sur le micro-financement de Wikimédia France. Le tout entouré de brèves, de conseils d’émissions visuelles et sonores, de statistiques et des récits des incitations éditoriales d’avril !
Découvrez le numéro 121 de avril 2025 !
Brouillon du prochain — Anciens numéros — Abonnement-désabonnement
The Signpost: 1 May 2025
modifier- News and notes: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-05-01/News and notes
- In the media: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-05-01/In the media
- Recent research: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-05-01/Recent research
- Arbitration report: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-05-01/Arbitration report
- Discussion report: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-05-01/Discussion report
- Traffic report: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-05-01/Traffic report
- Disinformation report: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-05-01/Disinformation report
- News from the WMF: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-05-01/News from the WMF
- Community view: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-05-01/Community view
Regards sur l'actualité de la Wikimedia et d'ailleurs |
Une nouvelle édition du Wikimag est disponible à la lecture.
week leading up to 2025-05-05. Missed the previous one? See issue #677.
Translations are available
Discussions
- Closed request for permissions/Bot: Mr Robot - No consensus reached.
Events
- Past events: Wikimedia Hackathon in Istanbul
- Upcoming events:
- Volunteer Supporters Network/Wikidata for beginners May 16, 2025
- Wikidata and Sister Projects May 29 - June 1, 2025. register here
- Wikidata and Research Conference June 5-6, 2025 at the University of Florence.
- Call for Proposals:Wikidata Taiwan x OpenStreetMap Taiwam @ COSCUP 2025,Submission Deadline: May 10, 2025 (AoE).
- WikidataCon 2025 Oct 31 - Nov 2, 2025. Register here
- Ongoing event: Coordinate Me 2025 May 1 - May 31, 2025
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- WikidataCon 2025 - programme track categories are ready - time to start thinking about session proposals!
- checking OSM IDs between OSM and Wikidata By Michaël
- WikiFlix, a new free streaming platform goes live
- Papers
- How to Develop a Privacy-First Entity Recognition System By Papadopoulou et. al., (2025)
- Detecting and Masking Personal Data in Text By Papadopoulou et. al., (2025)
- EA2N: Evidence-Based AMR Attention Network for Fake News Detection By Gupta et. al., (2025)
Tool of the week
- OpenStreetMap: OpenStreetMap, is a project that creates and distributes free geographic data for the world. It was started because most maps you think of as free actually have legal or technical restrictions on their use, holding back people from using them in creative, productive, or unexpected ways .
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Ever played Redactle? Lucas put together a Wikidata version of it. Can you guess the Item? Still needs a bit of work but you can try it out now.
- EditGroups has a new maintainer
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- organization unit code (organization unit code of the organization unit/part/(sub)division item)
- likes of fictional character (particular likes which applies to this fictional character as (usually) stated in their official profile or biography)
- dislikes of fictional character (particular dislikes which applies to this fictional character as stated in their official profile or biography)
- number of render output units (number of render output units in a graphics processing unit)
- RAM capacity (amount of volatile random-access memory (RAM) modules used by this device)
- species protection status (Links species, habitat or biotope type with the regulation international or national that protects this species)
- Nation Ranking (primary) (main/general ranking for a cycling tournament season)
- Nation Ranking (secondary) (youth/U23 ranking for this cycling tournament season)
- External identifiers: badmintoncn.com star ID, Danskefilmstemmer.dk work or dubbing ID, geraldika.ru symbol ID, JSIC code, The Oxford Dictionary of Music entry ID, Dark Ride Database ride ID, Dark Ride Database park ID, Dark Ride Database manufacturer ID, Databáze her platform ID, Mourisco Catalogue work ID, Radiomuseum vacuum tube/transistor ID, CAMRA pub ID, MobyGames attribute ID, MetalTabs.com track ID, Moure's Catalog ID, PromoDJ track ID, Euronews topic ID, Audiomack artist ID, Audiomack album ID, Europe PMC preprint ID, SMB-digital asset ID, Audiomack song ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (glossary and index of terms) ID, Qur'an Wiki article ID, Itch.io tag ID, Corago singer ID, MoNA spectrum ID, La Croix author ID, Billie Jean King Cup player ID 2024, TeamUSA.com athlete ID, Snopes ID, A Dictionary of Media and Communication entry ID, Black Sea Cultural Inventory ID, PyPI organization name, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology entry ID, PlayStation Museum product ID, Urban Dictionary ID, GOG Dreamlist ID, RCI number, Portable Antiquities Scheme image ID, Orthodox World ID, Coasterpedia ID, Ethnologue language family ID, factordb ID, SCImago Institutions Rankings ID, UniRank ID, Bibliometrics of Ukrainian science person ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- Context Window (The maximum length of an input token in the language model.)
- contains nutrient (Food contains nutrient)
- underlying data (this mathematical structure has these data as part)
- échelle de Beaufort (empirical measure describing wind speed based on observed conditions)
- External identifiers: vlaamsekunstcollectie.be ID, Mobility Database ID, Patrimonio Galego ID, Substack username, Private Enterprise Number, ComputerLanguage.com definition, otzovik.com review ID, Repertorium kleine politieke partijen 1918-1967 (Persoon)
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know ?
- Newest WikiProjects :
- Newest database reports : Descriptions with QID - These Item descriptions contain a QID or Item ID.
- Showcase Items: Hans van Mierlo (Q288771) - Dutch politician (1931–2010)
- Showcase Lexemes: Tribe (L28956) - English noun (trīb) that can mean "a social division in traditional society", "a political subdivision", or "a genre of Techno Music":
Development
- Wikidata Query Service: The search platform team finished the remaining work for the graph split and it is going live this week.
- We took part in the Wikimedia Hackathon in Istanbul
- Wikipedia and co: We continued working on improving how Wikidata edits are shown on the watchlist on Wikipedia and co. We are focusing on showing labels instead of IDs for the entities (Items, Properties, ...) linked in the edit summaries (phab:T388685)
- UI: We continued doing small fixes for dark mode support in the UI (phab:T385039)
- Wikibase REST API: We are continuing the work on the search endpoint (phab:T383126)
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.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country: Philippines
- 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!
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique de Wikimedia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
En lumière cette semaine
- La Wikimedia Foundation a partagé le dernier projet de mise à jour de son plan annuel pour l'année prochaine (juillet 2025-juin 2026). Cela comprend un résumé exécutif (également sur Diff), des détails sur les trois principaux objectifs (Infrastructure, Soutien aux bénévoles et Efficacité), tendances mondiales, ainsi que le budget et le modèle financier. Les réactions et les questions sont les bienvenues sur la page de discussion jusqu'à la fin du mois de mai.
Actualités pour la contribution
- Pour les wikis qui ont l'extension CampaignEvents activée, deux nouvelles améliorations de fonctionnalités ont été publiées :
- Les administrateurs peuvent désormais choisir les espaces de noms autorisés pour Inscription à un événement via Configuration de la communauté (documentation). Par défaut, l'enregistrement d'un événement est autorisé dans l'espace de noms Event, mais d'autres espaces de noms (tels que l'espace de noms du projet ou l'espace de noms WikiProject) peuvent désormais être ajoutés. Grâce à cette modification, les communautés telles que les WikiProjets peuvent désormais utiliser plus facilement l'enregistrement d'événements pour leurs activités collaboratives.
- Les éditeurs peuvent désormais transclure la liste de collaboration sur une page wiki (documentation). La liste de collaboration est une liste automatisée d'événements et de wikiprojets sur les wikis, accessible via Spécial:AllEvents (exemple). Désormais, la liste de collaboration peut être ajoutée à toutes sortes de pages wiki, telles que : une page principale wiki, une page WikiProjet, une page d'affiliation, une page d'événement, ou même une page d'utilisateur.
- Voir les 27 tâches soumises par la communauté résolues la semaine dernière.
Actualités pour la contribution technique
- Les développeurs qui utilisent la bibliothèque
moment
dans les gadgets et les scripts utilisateur doivent réviser leur code pour utiliser des alternatives comme la bibliothèqueIntl
ou la nouvelle bibliothèquemediawiki.DateFormatter
. La bibliothèquemoment
a été dépréciée et commencera à enregistrer des messages dans la console du développeur. Vous pouvez voir une recherche globale pour les utilisations actuelles, et posez des questions connexes dans cette tâche Phabricator. - Les développeurs qui maintiennent un outil qui interroge les tables de stockage de termes de Wikidata (
wbt_*
) doivent mettre à jour leur code pour se connecter à une grappe de base de données séparée. Ces tables sont réparties dans une grappe de base de données distincte. Les outils qui interrogent ces tables via les répliques du wiki doivent être adaptés pour se connecter à la nouvelle grappe. La documentation et des liens connexes sont à votre disposition. [64] - Détail des mises-à-jour à venir cette semaine : MediaWiki
En détails
- La dernière lettre d’information du projet Chart est disponible. Il comprend des mises à jour sur la préparation de l'extension du déploiement à d'autres wikis dès cette semaine (à partir du 6 mai) et sur la mise à l'échelle au cours des semaines suivantes, ainsi que sur l'exploration du filtrage et de la transformation des données sources.
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This Month in Education
Volume 14 • Issue 4 • April 2025
- Ceremony of giving certificates and awarding the winners of the edit-a-thon: Meet Slovenia
- The Workshops Wikimedia & Education are back in Brazil
- EduWiki Nigeria: Advancing Digital Literacy in Schools
- Empowering the Next Generation: Wikidata Training at Federal Government Boys College, FGBC Abuja
- Final Wikipedia project with Shefit Hekali school in Peqin, Albania
- Teachers who graduated from the Leamos Wikipedia program in Bolivia become mentors for their colleagues
- Wikivoyage in Has region, Northern Albania
- Wikivoyage workshop in Bulqiza
Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #201 is out: Abstract Wikipedia and the Wikimedia AI Strategy
modifierThere is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!
In this issue, we discuss how Abstract Wikipedia ties in with the newly announced WMF's strategy for AI, we talk about the Wikimedia Hackathon and our community meetings, and we take a look at the latest software developments.
Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!
Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 10 mai 2025 à 12:27 (CEST)
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Une nouvelle édition du Wikimag est disponible à la lecture.
week leading up to 2025-05-12. Missed the previous one? See issue #678.
Translations are available
Events
- Upcoming:
- Kaxabu Wikidata Workshop May 17 at Puli DOC, Nantou
- Seediq Wikidata Lexeme Workshop May 18 at Puli DOC, Nantou
- Past: Wikimedia Hackathon happened on May 4. Check out the closing showcase that included some Wikidata-related projects: Etherpad (Hackaton 2025)
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- GLAM and Wikidata: The "GLAMorous Wikidata" Campaign: In March 2025, Wikimedia Serbia launched a local thematic campaign called GLAMurous Wikidata, focused on improving data about cultural and heritage institutions on Wikidata.
- Project "Open Topstukken" ("Open Collection Highlights") - Maastricht University and Radboud University: The "Open Topstukken" project is a collaboration between Maastricht University and Radboud University to digitize and publish rare books and manuscripts, with metadata from their Omeka S systems automatically transferred to Wikidata by Wikidata specialists.
- Wikidata and Research: The programme for the “Wikidata and Research” conference is now available online. Scheduled for 5–6 June 2025 at the University of Florence, this event is convened by a volunteer Scientific Committee in collaboration with Wikimedia Italia and the University of Florence.
- Papers
- Capacitating Librarians with Wikidata Literacy for Managing Wikipedia Information Resources: Implications to Libraries By Oyighan et. al., (2025)
- Social Biases in Knowledge Representations of Wikidata separates Global North from Global South By Das et. al., (2025)
- Automatic Curriculum Cohesion Analysis Based on Knowledge Graphs By Gacek & Adrian (2025).
- Videos
Tool of the week
- Wdactle game -- is a Wikidata version of Redactle! It's a game where you are shown a Wikidata Item with all labels and words redacted and have to figure out what it is. Guessing a word reveals all the places where it is used. Built by Luca Werkmeister during the Wikimedia Hackathon 2025.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- ⚠️ Wikidata Query Service graph split: As you know Wikidata Query Service was no longer able to handle the complete set of data Wikidata has. To address this the graph in Wikidata Query Service has now been split into a main graph (that continues to be at query.wikidata.org) and a scholarly graph (that is at query-scholarly.wikidata.org). For more details please see Wikidata:SPARQL query service/WDQS graph split.
- Join the Wikidata:Impact stories global campiagn. We're celebrating the amazing Wikidata community - editors, developers, librarians, and creators - and inviting you to share how Wikidata is used. Your story can inspire others and grow the community. Submit yours or nominate a cool project by June 6.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- third-gender population (number of third-gender people inhabiting the place)
- Newest External identifiers: Encyclopedia of the Serbian National Theatre ID, vlaamsekunstcollectie.be ID, Patrimonio Galego ID, Substack handle, Sport Express football match ID, R-Sport match ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- related video (less fitting video, used only because a better alternative is not available. If an appropriate video of the item is available, use P10 instead. Value should not be a generic placeholder.)
- cosplay of (character(s) that are cosplayed in this image or video)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: RFI station ID (timetables), registration number of japanese invoice system, Jesuit Online Necrology ID, Geographicus-cartographer, Harper's tag, Database of Czech Librarians ID, Open Location Code, CABR-identifier, Onsland-identifier, National Library of Spain Alma ID (BNE v2.0), PC98 Images game ID, Stadtwiki Meißen ID, Rhein-Neckar-Wiki-ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Showcase Items: Soir d'été sur la plage de Skagen – l'artiste et sa femme (Q18386245) - painting by Peder Severin Krøyer from 1899
- Showcase Lexemes: Projektion (L494436) - German noun (pro-yek-tsi̯oːn) that can mean "projection", "image display", or "defence mechanism in Psychoanalysis"
Development
- mul language code: We are fixing an issue where Items can't be found by their mul language label or alias (phab:T392058)
- Wikibase REST API: We are working on phrase matching for the simple search (phab:T389011)
- Dark mode: We fixed a color contrast bug with the entity selector when making new statements (phab:T393641)
- Ontology: We’re working on an updated, more complete version of the wikibase.owl ontology file (phab:T371752)
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.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country: Italy
- 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!
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique de Wikimedia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
En lumière cette semaine
- Le lien « Obtenir une URL raccourcie » dans la barre latérale inclut désormais un code QR. Les utilisateurs des sites Wikimedia peuvent maintenant l’utiliser en le scannant ou en le téléchargeant pour partager et accéder rapidement au contenu partagé des sites Wikimedia, de manière pratique.
Actualités pour la contribution
- La Wikimedia Foundation travaille sur un système appelé « Edge Uniques », qui permettra de réaliser des tests A/B, d’aider à se protéger contre les attaques par déni de service distribué (attaques DDoS), et de mieux comprendre combien de visiteurs les sites Wikimedia reçoivent. Cela vise à construire plus efficacement des outils utiles aux lecteurs, et de les aider à trouver ce qu'ils cherchent. Les Actualités techniques en ont déjà parlé. Le déploiement sera progressif. Certains pourraient voir le cookie « Edge Uniques » à partir de la semaine du 19 mai. Vous pouvez en discuter sur la page de discussion.
- À partir du 19 mai 2025, les organisateurs d’événements sur les wikis disposant de l’extension « CampaignEvents » pourront utiliser l’inscription aux événements dans l’espace de noms du projet (par exemple, l’espace Wikipédia, l’espace Wikidata). Avec ce changement, les communautés n’ont plus besoin d’administrateurs pour utiliser cette fonctionnalité. Toutefois, les wikis qui ne souhaitent pas ce changement peuvent retirer et ajouter les espaces de noms autorisés sur Special:CommunityConfiguration/CampaignEvents.
- Le projet Wikipédia dispose désormais d’un Wikipédia en nupe (
w:nup:
). Il s’agit d’une langue principalement parlée dans la région du centre-nord du Nigeria. Les locuteurs de cette langue sont invités à contribuer à la nouvelle Wikipédia. - Voir les 27 tâches soumises par la communauté résolues la semaine dernière.
Actualités pour la contribution technique
- Les développeurs peuvent désormais accéder à la Wikipédia néerlandaise pré-analysée, parmi d’autres (anglais, allemand, français, espagnol, italien et portugais), via les instantanés « Structured Contents » (bêta). Le contenu comprend des résumés Wikipédia analysés, des descriptions, des images principales, des infoboxes, des sections d’articles et des références.
- Le point de terminaison de l’API REST
/page/data-parsoid
n’est plus utilisé et sera obsolète. Il est prévu qu’il soit désactivé le 7 juin 2025. - Détail des mises-à-jour à venir cette semaine : MediaWiki
En détails
- Le support IPv6 est un nouveau réseau virtuel Cloud qui améliore considérablement l’évolutivité, la sécurité et la préparation des plateformes Wikimedia pour l’avenir. Si vous êtes un contributeur technique curieux d’en savoir plus, consultez ce billet de blogue pour un aperçu détaillé de la transition vers l’IPv6.
Rencontres et évènements
- La deuxième édition de 2025 de « Afrika Baraza », une plateforme virtuelle permettant aux Wikimédiens africains de se connecter, aura lieu le 15 mai à 17 h UTC. Cette édition sera axée sur des discussions concernant la planification annuelle et les avancées de Wikimedia.
- La « MENA Connect Community Call », une réunion virtuelle permettant aux Wikimédiens de la région Moyen-Orient et Afrique du Nord (MENA) de se rencontrer, aura lieu le 17 mai à 17 h UTC. Vous pouvez vous inscrire dès maintenant pour y assister.
Actualités techniques préparées par les rédacteurs des actualités techniques et postées par robot. Contribuer • Traduire • Obtenir de l’aide • Donner son avis • S’abonner ou se désabonner.
Issue 68, March–April 2025
In this issue we highlight two resource renewals, #EveryBookItsReader, a note about Phabricator, and, as always, a roundup of news and community items related to libraries and digital knowledge.
Read the full newsletterSent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --13 mai 2025 à 12:19 (CEST)
The Signpost: 14 May 2025
modifier- In the media: Wikimedia Foundation sues over UK government decision that might require identity verification of editors worldwide
- Disinformation report: What does Jay-Z know about Wikipedia?
- Technology report: WMF introduces unique but privacy-preserving browser cookie
- Debriefing: Goldsztajn's RfA debriefing
- Obituary: Max Lum (User:ICOHBuzz)
- Community view: A Deep Dive Into Wikimedia (part 2)
- Comix: Collection
- From the archives: Humor from the Archives
There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!
In this issue, we invite you to a consultation about where should the content of Abstract Wikipedia be stored, we invite you to our next online presentation, and we take a look at the latest software developments.
Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!
Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 16 mai 2025 à 12:56 (CEST)
Une nouvelle édition du Wikimag est disponible à la lecture.
week leading up to 2025-05-19. Missed the previous one? See issue #679.
Help with Translations.
Discussions
- Open request for adminship: THEbotIT 2 - New functional aspect to automatic creation of items describing lexicographical articles of Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE). The described topics of an RE article should also link back to the article.
Events
- Upcoming events:
- On Thursday, 22 May 2025, from 10:00 to 12:00 (CEST), digiS Berlin will offer an online workshop titled "Wikidata for GLAMs." The event is free, open to all, and conducted in German. More information and registration is here.
- (Italian) Introduction to Wikidata and Wikimedia projects - LM43 May 29, 2025 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
- The Wikidata and Sister Projects online event is nearly here! Four days of sessions on the use of Wikidata in the Wikimedia Projects, join us from May 29 - June 1. Register here. See the Program schedule.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Diff Blog: Spotlight on Wikidata in the WikiLearn newsletter: WikiLearn's May 2025 update highlights how its online courses, including Wikidata 101, are effectively helping Wikimedians develop key skills, reduce edit reversion rates, and foster engagement across multiple language communities.
- The Meaning Behind Our Place Names - The Open Etymology Map uses Wikidata-linked etymology tags in OpenStreetMap to reveal the origins of place names, offering an interactive way to explore the historical and linguistic roots of streets, towns, and landmarks
- Papers
- Preprint: Scholia Chemistry: access to chemistry in Wikidata - This study explores Wikidata's role in chemistry, highlighting how thousands of new chemicals were added, how new properties and database links enhance chemical representation, and how Scholia
- Making an Under-Resourced Language Available on the Wikidata Knowledge Graph: Quechua Language By Huaman et. al., (2025) - This study integrates Quechua lexical data into Wikidata, adding 1,591 lexemes along with senses, forms, and pronunciation audio, demonstrating how Wikidata can support under-resourced languages in AI-driven Knowledge Graphs to promote linguistic diversity and inclusivity.
- Knowledge-Based Aerospace Engineering - A Systematic Literature Review By Wittenborg et al., (2025) - This study systematically reviews Knowledge-Based Aerospace Engineering, analyzing over 1,000 articles, constructing a knowledge graph mapped to Wikidata, and demonstrating how structured, semantic-based approaches can enhance aerospace design, collaboration, and sustainable aviation
- Videos
- (Italian) Introduction to Wikidata for archives
- (Sweden) Stockholm Archipelago Trail OSM Wikidata SDC By Magnus Salgo
- (German) Instructional video on SPARQL queries in Wikidata By OER4SDI
Tool of the week
- Wikidata-Taxonomy is a Command-line tool and library to extract taxonomies from Wikidata.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- We are improving and expanding our Help and documentation pages, please tell us what you think: Parser Functions
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes
- third-gender population (number of third-gender people inhabiting the place)
- context window (maximum length of an input token in the language model)
- most populous urban area (city or town with the largest population in this area (country, state, county, continent, etc.))
- Newest External identifiers: Encyclopedia of the Serbian National Theatre ID, vlaamsekunstcollectie.be ID, Patrimonio Galego ID, Substack handle, Sport Express football match ID, R-Sport match ID, ComputerLanguage.com definition, Repertorium kleine politieke partijen 1918-1967 (Person), RFI station ID (timetables), Geographicus cartographer ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- related video (less fitting video, used only because a better alternative is not available. If an appropriate video of the item is available, use P10 instead. Value should not be a generic placeholder.)
- cosplay of (character(s) that are cosplayed in this image or video)
- breed belongs to taxon (taxon to which members of this breed (or these breeds) belong)
- Reason for no value (qualifier property to be used with statements having the object "no value", given to provide a reason for "no value")
- over (base field of this vector space, base ring of this module, pair of base rings for this bimodule, base monoidal category of this enriched category, etc.)
- has WikiProject (WikiProject which has this topic as its main subject)
- mixing engineer (person responsible for mixing the different sonic elements of a piece of recorded music into a final version of a track)
- normally caused by (item that normally causes this effect, but that is not necessarily the cause here)
- criminal motive (verified reasoning behind a crime)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: registration number of japanese invoice system, Jesuit Online Necrology ID, Harper's tag, Database of Czech Librarians ID, Open Location Code, CABR-identifier, Onsland-identifier, National Library of Spain Alma ID (BNE v2.0), PC98 Images game ID, Stadtwiki Meißen ID, Rhein-Neckar-Wiki-ID, R-Sport team ID, WürzburgWiki ID, AW-Wiki ID, Wetzipedia ID, OberpfalzWiki article ID, Tüik village id, viberate.com Artist Id, African Music Library Band ID, Delfi.lv theme ID, ESPN soccer team ID, 15min.lt theme ID, trove.scot ID, Identifiant d'une personne sur PRET19, Židovski biografski leksikon ID, IMDb Interest ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject_zelph - WikiProject zelph focuses on integrating a semantic network system with Wikidata to enhance data quality.
- Showcase Items: The Jungle Book (Q16857406) - 2016 film directed by Jon Favreau
- Showcase Lexemes: pukka (L339628) - English adjective (puh-kuh) that can mean "genuine", "highest class", or "complete"
Development
- UI: We are putting the finishing touches on the new search box that will make it easier to search for Properties, Lexemes and EntitySchemas as well (phab:T321543)
- Dark mode: We fixed the last known issues and are getting ready to roll it out
- Mobile statement editing: We are refining prototypes for testing and started technical investigations
- Wikibase REST API: We are continuing the work on simple search, focusing on phrase matching now (phab:T389011)
- Query Service: We are working on a small experiment to show a notification for simple queries that are better run on other APIs (phab:T391264)
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.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- 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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- The Editing Team and the Machine Learning Team are working on a new check for newcomers: Peacock check. Using a prediction model, this check will encourage editors to improve the tone of their edits, using artificial intelligence. We invite volunteers to review the first version of the Peacock language model for the following languages: Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, English, and Japanese. Users from these wikis interested in reviewing this model are invited to sign up at MediaWiki.org. The deadline to sign up is on May 23, which will be the start date of the test.
Updates for editors
- From May 20, 2025, oversighters and checkusers will need to have their accounts secured with two-factor authentication (2FA) to be able to use their advanced rights. All users who belong to these two groups and do not have 2FA enabled have been informed. In the future, this requirement may be extended to other users with advanced rights. Learn more.
- Multiblocks will begin mass deployment by the end of the month: all non-Wikipedia projects plus Catalan Wikipedia will adopt Multiblocks in the week of May 26, while all other Wikipedias will adopt it in the week of June 2. Please contact the team if you have concerns. Administrators can test the new user interface now on your own wiki by browsing to Spécial:Bloquer?usecodex=1, and can test the full multiblocks functionality on testwiki. Multiblocks is the feature that makes it possible for administrators to impose different types of blocks on the same user at the same time. See the help page for more information. [65]
- Later this week, the Spécial:Pages spéciales listing of almost all special pages will be updated with a new design. This page has been redesigned to improve the user experience in a few ways, including: The ability to search for names and aliases of the special pages, sorting, more visible marking of restricted special pages, and a more mobile-friendly look. The new version can be previewed at Beta Cluster now, and feedback shared in the task. [66]
- The Chart extension is being enabled on more wikis. For a detailed list of when the extension will be enabled on your wiki, please read the deployment timeline.
- Wikifunctions will be deployed on May 27 on five Wiktionaries: Hausa, Igbo, Bengali, Malayalam, and Dhivehi/Maldivian. This is the second batch of deployment planned for the project. After deployment, the projects will be able to call functions from Wikifunctions and integrate them in their pages. A function is something that takes one or more inputs and transforms them into a desired output, such as adding up two numbers, converting miles into metres, calculating how much time has passed since an event, or declining a word into a case. Wikifunctions will allow users to do that through a simple call of a stable and global function, rather than via a local template.
- Later this week, the Wikimedia Foundation will publish a hub for experiments. This is to showcase and get user feedback on product experiments. The experiments help the Wikimedia movement understand new users, how they interact with the internet and how it could affect the Wikimedia movement. Some examples are generated video, the Wikipedia Roblox speedrun game and the Discord bot.
- View all 29 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a bug with creating an account using the API, which has now been fixed. [67]
Updates for technical contributors
- Gadgets and user scripts that interact with Spécial:Bloquer may need to be updated to work with the new manage blocks interface. Please review the developer guide for more information. If you need help or are unable to adapt your script to the new interface, please let the team know on the talk page. [68]
- The
mw.title
object allows you to get information about a specific wiki page in the Lua programming language. Starting this week, a new property will be added to the object, namedisDisambiguationPage
. This property allows you to check if a page is a disambiguation page, without the need to write a custom function. [69] - User script developers can use a new reverse proxy tool to load javascript and css from gitlab.wikimedia.org with
mw.loader.load
. The tool's author hopes this will enable collaborative development workflows for user scripts including linting, unit tests, code generation, and code review on gitlab.wikimedia.org without a separate copy-and-paste step to publish scripts to a Wikimedia wiki for integration and acceptance testing. See Tool:Gitlab-content on Wikitech for more information. - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
Meetings and events
- The 12th edition of Wiki Workshop 2025, a forum that brings together researchers that explore all aspects of Wikimedia projects, will be held virtually on 21-22 May. Researchers can register now.
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Bonjour Antoine.b,
Merci pour surveiller et gérer l'insistance des IP sur les pages TV, notamment. J'ai demandé plusieurs semi-protections longues. Ne pas hésiter à me signaler si d'autres dérives similaires touchent d'autres pages. ;) Belle fin de journée. Tisourcier (discuter) 22 mai 2025 à 16:34 (CEST)
- Bonjour @Tisourcier, merci beaucoup. Je n'hésiterai pas à vous informer de toutes autres dérives similaires touchent d'autres pages. ;) Passez une bonne soirée. Antoine.b (discuter) 22 mai 2025 à 17:01 (CEST)
- J'ai passé beaucoup de temps aujourd'hui pour reverter les IP (probablement le même intervenant) désorganisant WP dans les articles TV et émissions.
- Voici la liste à peu près complète des IP principales à surveiller mais il y en a d'autres encore :
- Spécial:Contributions/2A01:E0A:DD3:4BB0:94AE:3BC6:FA47:BF9A/64
- Spécial:Contributions/2A02:842B:7CE0:EE01:2822:772:8391:12F8/64
- Spécial:Contributions/2A01:E0A:6D:4F70:6106:8932:C167:3505/64
- Spécial:Contributions/2A02:8428:166D:5201:5D5E:48B8:9B5:46F2/64
- Spécial:Contributions/2A01:CB0C:970:6B00:8D6:6C9:7988:F62D/64
- Spécial:Contributions/2601:742:8001:2D80:4518:8C56:3CC4:33C8/64
- Spécial:Contributions/89.156.236.98
- Spécial:Contributions/88.171.204.181
- Spécial:Contributions/86.195.107.241
- Spécial:Contributions/195.141.56.216
- Bonne fin de journée. ;) Tisourcier (discuter) 23 mai 2025 à 20:31 (CEST)
- Bonsoir @Tisourcier, merci beaucoup pour votre liste d'IP à surveiller, Bonne soirée. ;) Antoine.b (discuter) 23 mai 2025 à 21:02 (CEST)
Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #203 is out: Ongoing consultation about the Location for Abstract Content
modifierThere is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!
In this issue, we invite you again to a consultation about where should the content of Abstract Wikipedia be stored, we present some updates about existing and new types, we remind you of our next online presentation, and we take a look at the latest software developments.
Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!
Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 23 mai 2025 à 15:54 (CEST)
Une nouvelle édition du Wikimag est disponible à la lecture.
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique de Wikimedia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
En lumière cette semaine
- Une discussion communautaire à l’échelle du mouvement est désormais ouverte sur Meta au sujet d’un point très délicat pour le développement de « Abstract Wikipedia » : où stocker le contenu abstrait qui sera développé à partir des fonctions de Wikifunctions et des données de Wikidata. La discussion est ouverte jusqu’au 12 juin sur Abstract Wikipedia/Location of Abstract Content, et tous les avis sont les bienvenus. La décision sera prise et communiquée par la Fondation à l’issue de la période de consultation.
Actualités pour la contribution
- Depuis la semaine dernière, sur tous les wikis excepté les vingt plus grands, les utilisateurs de l’éditeur visuel mobile disposent de nouveaux outils dans la barre de menu, accessibles via le nouveau bouton de la barre d’outils
+
. Pour commencer, le nouveau menu proposera des options pour ajouter : des références, des hiéroglyphes et des blocs de code. Le déploiement sur les autres wikis est prévu pour le mois de juin. - La fonction d’analyse
#ifexist
ne créera plus de lien vers sa page cible. Cela améliorera l’utilité de Spécial:Pages demandées, qui ne listera à terme que les pages réellement ciblées par un lien rouge. Ce changement se fera progressivement à mesure que les pages sources seront mises à jour. [70] - Cette semaine, l’équipe des outils de modération va lancer un nouveau filtre dans les modifications récentes, en commençant par la Wikipédia en indonésien. Ce nouveau filtre met en évidence les modifications susceptibles d’être annulées. L’objectif est d’aider les patrouilleurs des modifications récentes à repérer les contributions potentiellement problématiques. D’autres wikis bénéficieront de ce filtre à l’avenir.
- Lorsqu’ils cliquent sur une barre de recherche vide, les utilisateurs non connectés verront des suggestions d’articles à lire. Cette fonctionnalité sera disponible à la fois sur ordinateur et sur mobile. Les lecteurs des Wikipédias en catalan, hébreu et italien ainsi que de certains projets frères recevront ce changement entre le 21 mai et la mi-juin. Les lecteurs des autres wikis le recevront plus tard. L’objectif est d’encourager les utilisateurs à lire davantage les wikis. En savoir plus.
- Certains utilisateurs de l’application Wikipédia sur Android peuvent utiliser une nouvelle fonctionnalité destinée aux lecteurs : « WikiGames », un jeu quotidien de quiz basé sur des événements historiques réels. Le déploiement a commencé sous forme de test A/B, disponible pour 50 % des utilisateurs dans les langues suivantes : anglais, français, portugais, russe, espagnol, arabe, chinois et turc.
- L’extension « Newsletter » disponible sur MediaWiki.org permet la création de divers bulletins d’information à destination des utilisateurs de tous les wikis. L’extension peut désormais publier de nouveaux numéros sous forme de liens vers des sections sur une page existante, au lieu de nécessiter une nouvelle page pour chaque numéro. [71]
- Voir les 32 tâches soumises par la communauté résolues la semaine dernière.
Actualités pour la contribution technique
- Les champs
ipblocks
, précédemment déclarés obsolètes, seront supprimés début juin dans les Wiki Replicas. Il est recommandé aux utilisateurs d’interroger les nouveaux champsblock
etblock_target
à la place. - Détail des mises-à-jour à venir cette semaine : MediaWiki
Rencontres et évènements
- « Wikidata et les projets frères » est un événement en ligne de plusieurs jours qui portera sur l’intégration de Wikidata à Wikipédia et aux autres projets Wikimedia. L’événement se déroulera du 29 mai au 1er juin. Vous pouvez consulter le programme et vous inscrire.
Actualités techniques préparées par les rédacteurs des actualités techniques et postées par robot. Contribuer • Traduire • Obtenir de l’aide • Donner son avis • S’abonner ou se désabonner.
Nieuwsbrief 141 Wikimedia Nederland
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|
week leading up to 2025-05-27. Missed the previous one? See issue #680.
Help with Translations.
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot: William Avery Bot 12 - Task(s): Add PubMed publication ID(P698) to items that lack it, but have DOI(P356), which allows it to be looked up using the PubMed API.
- Talk: Wikidata Identifiers (No value for missing Ids): about how to indicate that a certain entity is absent in a given database
Events
- Upcoming events:
- Wikidata and Sister Projects
During 4 half-days of sessions showcasing and showing how Wikidata supports and is integrated to the other Wikimedia projects
From Thursday, May 29 from 16:00 UTC to Sunday, June 1 13:30 UTC.
Registration link - Program - Questions? (Talk page)
- Wikidata and Sister Projects
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Taiwan Street-view Expedition (Huwei and Tuku, Yunlin, Taiwan) - joint OSM and Wikidata activity
- Papers
- (Italian) Termini, dati e collegamenti: ‘conversazioni’ tra il Thesaurus del Nuovo soggettario e Wikidata: This study is about the history of the cooperation between the Thesaurus del Nuovo soggettario (the main thesaurus used by Italian libraries for subject indexing) and Wikimedia projects, initially Wikipedia and now mainly Wikidata
- WikiDBGraph: Large-Scale Database Graph of Wikidata for Collaborative Learning By Wu et al., (2025) — This study introduces WikiDBGraph, a network of 100,000 linked databases from Wikidata, using 17 million connections to improve AI learning and reveal challenges in handling interconnected data.
- Filling in the Blanks? A Systematic Review and Theoretical Conceptualisation for Measuring WikiData Content Gaps By Ripoll et al., (2025) – The paper systematically reviews content gaps in Wikidata, proposing a typology of missing data and a framework to measure these gaps, highlighting their impact on knowledge quality and completeness.
- AI in Data Management and Analysis By Haber et al., (2025) – This paper explores how AI streamlines academic data tasks like cleaning and analysis, whike tools like Google DataPrep, Airtable and Wikidata help researchers, but human oversight is key to maintaining accuracy and ethics in research.
- Videos
- Using PetScan to create lists from Wikipedia and Wikidata By Tamsin Braisher (Dr Thneed).
- (Spanish) Connecting Collections: Wikidata as a Bridge between Museums and Communities By Museo de los Museos and Carla Toro.
Tool of the week
- Wikidata Toolkit The Wikidata Toolkit is an open-source Java library for using data from Wikidata and other Wikibase sites. Its main goal is to make it easy for external developers to take advantage of this data in their own applications.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A discussion on Meta about a very delicate issue for the development of Abstract Wikipedia is now open: where to store the abstract content that will be developed through functions from Wikifunctions and data from Wikidata. Some of the hypothesis involve Wikidata. You can read the various hypothesis and have your say at Abstract Wikipedia/Location of Abstract Content.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: Geographicus cartographer ID, Wikibase of Czech Librarians ID, Jesuit Online Necrology ID, Ons Land ID, VejinBooks author ID, PC98 Images game ID, Rhein-Neckar-Wiki ID, CvLAC ID, Stadtwiki Meißen ID, WürzburgWiki ID, Wetzipedia ID, AW-Wiki ID, Tüik village ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- LSF rating (Indonesia film classification administered by the Indonesian Film Censorship Board)
- image of cosplay (cosplay that depicts this character or person)
- Classificazione Guizzi degli strumenti musicali (Guizzi's classification system of musical instruments)
- name translation (translation into native language)
- External identifiers: Concertzender ID, MCW-PL article ID, Polska Biblioteka Muzyczna PBM, norsk soldatregister person ID, Databank verkiezingsuitslagen, TNT Sports soccer team ID, NHK Archives Portal Broadcasting History ID, Lithuanian lake ID, Sierra Wiki article ID, Fondazione Ragghianti Fototeca image ID, archive creator archieven.nl
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples: Exemplars of the Magna Carta (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Revitalizing UK History- A wikiproject with the aim of enriching UK historical figures.
- Showcase Items:The BFG (Q19689203) - 2016 film by Steven Spielberg
- Showcase Lexemes: trucco (L580449) - Italian noun (ˈtruk.ko) meaning "deceptive ploy", "makeup", or "strategic maneuver"
Weekly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country:
- 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!
This Month in Education
Volume 14 • Issue 5 • May 2025
- Journalism students at Aleksandër Xhuvani University explore Wikipedia in Albania
- Reviewing pending articles editathon with high school students in Albania
- Several educational workshops to promote science on Wiki were held in Brazil in the month of May
- Simón Bolívar Teacher Training College joins the Let's Read Wikipedia Program
- Students become Editors: Wikimedia Chile launches Latin America's first Vikidia Workshop
- The DemocraTICon competition was held, this year for the first time with a discipline focused on Wikipedia
- Wikimedia MKD's "Lajka" workshop in Skopje
Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #204 is out: Rolling out to five Wiktionaries; Calculating with today's date
modifierThere is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!
In this issue, we talk about our latest deployment on five Wiktionaries, we showcase a couple of functions about dates, we remind you of ongoing discussions and upcoming presentations, and we take a look at the latest software developments.
Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!
Also, we remind you that if you have questions or ideas to discuss, the next Volunteers' Corner will be held on June 2, at 17:30 UTC (link to the meeting).
Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 29 mai 2025 à 16:38 (CEST)
Une nouvelle édition du Wikimag est disponible à la lecture.
week leading up to 2025-06-02. Missed the previous one? See issue #681.
Help with Translations.
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot: Wikidata Translation Bot - task/s: Automate translation of Item Labels and Descriptions across supported languages and submit them using the official Wikidata API.
- New request for comments: Mass-editing policy
- Closed request for comments:
- Rename PeakFinder ID (P3770) - Property was renamed.
- Domain name as data - property domain name (P13337) was created.
Events
- Upcoming events:
- New Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series! We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group event series on the Wikidata Graph Split project. Our first event will include guests from the Wikidata Search team to discuss the recent graph split project. Join us Tuesday, June 3, 2025 at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter). Please see our project page for more information and Zoom links.
- OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #77 June 9 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245)
- Revitalizing UK History #June 7 Time 16:00 UTC Revitalizing UK History
- Just missed it?
- Wikidata and Sister Projects: full day videos and presentation slides are being made available on the program page.
- Coordinate Me 2025, the contest to add geographic coordinates (P625) for countries with low representation has ended. Who will be declared winner?
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Wikidata promotes Sister Projects through interwiki links SLUB Open Science Lab writer Jens Bemme has put together a comprehensive article covering the recent online event and many examples of Wikidata being used.
- Papers
- MAKIEVAL: A Multilingual Automatic Wikidata-based Framework for Cultural Awareness Evaluation for LLMs By Zhao et al., (2025) - This paper presents MAKIEVAL, a framework for evaluating cultural awareness in LLMs across languages, showing that models exhibit stronger cultural awareness when prompted in English.
- Conversational Lexicography: Querying Lexicographic Data on Knowledge Graphs with SPARQL through Natural Language By Sennrich & Ahmadi (2025) - This paper develops a natural language interface for retrieving lexicographic data from Wikidata, creating a taxonomy and dataset, and evaluating language models, with GPT-3.5-Turbo showing the best generalization despite scalability challenges.
- UAQFact: Evaluating Factual Knowledge Utilization of LLMs on Unanswerable Questions By Tan et al., (2025) - This paper introduces UAQFact, a bilingual dataset for evaluating LLMs on unanswerable questions, showing that models struggle to fully utilize stored factual knowledge even with external support.
- Videos
- Listful Thinking:Using Wikidata to support editing workflows By Dr Thneed
- (French) Using Wikidata to gain visibility on the internet? By Nelly Darbois
- How to create a SPARQL Query to search Wikidata Item Description By vlogize
- (Spanish) Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata tutorial for the subject of Virreinal Art By Luis Alvaz
- Wikidata and Sister Projects (YouTube Playlist) - full daily recordings from the Wikidata and Sister Projects event.
Tool of the week
- Wikidata Qrank is a ranking signal for Wikidata entities. It gets computed by aggregating page view statistics for Wikipedia, Wikitravel, Wikibooks, Wikispecies and other Wikimedia projects. For example, according to the QRank signal, the fictional character Pippi Longstocking ranks lower than Harry Potter, but still much higher than the obscure Äffle & Pferdle.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Should I watch this? - Enter a film title or IMDb ID to get a recommendation, uses data from Wikidata.
- Job Openings - want to help shape the future of Wikidata or Wikibase?
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- reason for no value (qualifier property to be used with statements having the object "no value", given to provide a reason for "no value")
- cosplay of (characters that are cosplayed in this image or video)
- External identifiers: espn.com soccer team ID, Yale LUX ID, Židovski biografski leksikon ID, verkiezingsuitslagen database ID, Norwegian soldier register 1940 ID, Polish Music Library PBM ID, MCW-PL article ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- UK Mutual Registration Number (identifier for an organisation in the UK's Mutuals Public Register)
- External identifiers: Scilit organization ID, paleo.ru person ID, identifiant Assemblée nationale du Québec non-élu, ThinkyGames genre ID, Letopis of MSU person ID, MAI person ID, istina.msu.ru journal ID, MultimediaWiki page ID, Submarine Cable Map ID, Nederlands Film Festival person ID, CTS URN, Scientific heritage of Russia person ID, Virtual necropolis of Ukrainian emigration person ID, Russian Cycling Federation person ID, The Memories of the Gulag and Their Authors person ID, Yandex Books author ID, Theatre museums of Russia person ID, Reabilitovani istoriyeyu person ID, CARLA ID, Boosty author ID
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Schema examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject WordNet
- WikiProject Highlights:
- Newest database reports:list of the most linked category page items
- Showcase Items: Captain America: Civil War (Q18407657) - 22016 film by Anthony and Joe Russo
- Showcase Lexemes: (L1250690) spegnere (L1250690) - Italian verb "switch off" or "to die"
Development
- Vector 2022 skin: We enabled dark mode for Items, Properties and Lexemes on Wikidata (phab:T389330)
- Mobile statement editing: We are continuing with the technical investigation.
- Diffs: We merged a volunteer patch by Matěj Suchánek to format quantity diffs a bit more sensibly (phab:T394585)
- Search in the UI: We enabled the new search on https://test.wikidata.org and https://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org. It lets you easily search in other entity types as well now, not just Items. Please give it a try.
- Wikibase REST API: We are continuing the work on integrating simple search, specifically phrase matching (phab:T389011)
- Query Service: We are working on an experiment to add a small dialog to inform people about alternative access methods for very simple queries that don't require SPARQL (phab:T391261)
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.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country:
- 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!
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique de Wikimedia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
En lumière cette semaine
- L'extension Chart est maintenant disponible sur tous les wikis Wikimedia. Les éditeurs peuvent utiliser cette nouvelle extension pour créer des visualisations de données interactives comme des diagrammes à barres, à lignes, avec des zones, et circulaires. Chart a été créée pour remplacer la plupart des utilisations de l'ancienne extension Graph.
Actualités pour la contribution
- Il est maintenant plus simple de configurer les citations automatiques pour votre wiki dans le générateur de citations de l'éditeur visuel. Les administrateurs peuvent maintenant définir un modèle par défaut en utilisant la clé
_default
dans la page locale MediaWiki:Citoid-template-type-map.json (exemple de modification). Définir ce réglage par défaut permettra aussi de pérenniser vos configurations existantes lorsque de nouveaux types d'objets seront ajoutés à l'avenir. Vous pouvez toujours définir des modèles pour des types d'objets individuels et ils seront prioritaires par rapport au modèle par défaut. [72] - Voir les 20 tâches soumises par la communauté résolues la semaine dernière.
Actualités pour la contribution technique
- À partir de la semaine du 2 juin, les robots qui utilisent
action=login
ouaction=clientlogin
pour s'authentifier auront un taux d'échec plus fréquent. Cela est dû à des protections plus fortes contre les connexions suspectes. Les robots qui utilisent des mots de passe de robots ou une authentification sans connexion telle que OAuth ne seront pas affectés. Si votre bot n'utilise aucun des deux, vous devriez le mettre à jour ; utiliseraction=login
sans un mot de passe de robot a été rendu désuet en 2016. Pour la plupart des robots, cela nécessite seulement de changer quel mot de passe ce dernier utilise. [73] - À partir de cette semaine, les wikis Wikimedia permettront des fonctionnalités ES2017 dans le code JavaScript pour le code officiel, les gadgets et les scripts utilisateurs. La fonctionnalité la plus visible d'ES2017 est la syntaxe
async
/await
, ce qui permet un code plus facile à lire. Jusqu'à cette semaine, la plateforme ne permettait que jusqu'à ES2016, et quelques mois plus tôt, jusqu'à ES2015. [74] - Détail des mises-à-jour à venir cette semaine : MediaWiki
Rencontres et évènements
- Les demandes de bourse d'études pour participer à la conférence GLAM 2025 sont maintenant ouvertes. La conférence aura lieu du 30 octobre au 1er novembre, à Lisbonne, au Portugal. Les contributeurs GLAM qui n'ont pas les moyens de financer leur participation peuvent faire une demande ici. La date limite de candidature est le 7 juin.
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Après avoir passé le cap de la célébration des dix ans, le chemin continue pour les Actualités du Wiktionnaire. Ce numéro à la verdure mûrissante fait le point sur les habituelles statistiques et incitations éditoriales du mois de mai, avec un florilège de brèves d’ici et d’ailleurs et d’émissions à découvrir. Et pour préparer l’été qui arrive dans l’hémisphère nord : révisez vos connaissances du système métrique avec le Système légal des poids et mesures à l’usage des écoles primaires ; déchiffrez des langues et restaurez l'harmonie entre les peuples dans le jeu vidéo Chants of Sennaar ; puis revenez de votre voyage en explorant le Wiktionnaire sous l’angle de ses (très nombreux) exemples d’usages dans ses entrées en français.
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Désolé, j'ai annulé plus vite que mon ombre sur le coup, mais vu le titre des pages (qui sont maintenant supprimées), je pense qu'il vaut mieux masquer 🐾 tiloudeux (on papote ?) 6 juin 2025 à 15:10 (CEST)
- Bonjour @Tiloudeux, je vous remercie d'avoir masqué mes demandes de suppression de pages car ces pages m'ont énormément choqué (je suis quelqu'un d'hyper sensible émotionnellement), si j'avais été administrateur j'aurais supprimé immédiatement ces pages, donc pas besoin de les signaler sur WP:SI, bon week-end à vous Antoine.b (discuter) 6 juin 2025 à 15:26 (CEST)
Une nouvelle édition du Wikimag est disponible à la lecture.
There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!
In this issue, we give you some updates on the discussion about where to store abstract content, we present you the recordings of our latest presentations and meetings, and we take a look at the latest software developments.
Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!
Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 9 juin 2025 à 15:38 (CEST)
Dernières actualités techniques de la communauté technique de Wikimedia. N’hésitez pas à informer les autres utilisateurs de ces changements. Certains changements ne vous concernent pas. D’autres traductions sont disponibles.
En lumière cette semaine
- L’équipe produits Confiance et sûreté finalise les travaux nécessaires au déploiement des comptes temporaires sur les grandes Wikipédias plus tard ce mois-ci. L’équipe a collaboré avec les stewards et d’autres utilisateurs disposant de droits étendus afin d’anticiper et de traiter de nombreux cas d’usage qui pourraient se présenter sur les wikis de grande taille, afin que les membres des communautés puissent continuer à modérer et à patrouiller efficacement les comptes temporaires. Il s’agira de la deuxième des trois phases de déploiement ; la dernière aura lieu en septembre au plus tôt. Pour plus d’informations sur les développements récents du projet, voir cette mise à jour. Si vous avez des commentaires ou des questions, écrivez sur la page de discussion et rejoignez un « CEE Catch Up » ce mardi.
Actualités pour la contribution
- La fonctionnalité « expiration de la liste de suivi » permet aux contributeurs de suivre des pages pendant une durée limitée. Une fois ce délai écoulé, la page est automatiquement retirée de votre liste de suivi. À partir de cette semaine, vous pouvez définir une préférence pour la durée par défaut pendant laquelle vous souhaitez suivre les pages. Les préférences permettent également de définir différentes durées par défaut selon que vous modifiez une page existante, que vous en créez une nouvelle ou que vous utilisez l’annulation rapide (rollback). [75]
- L’apparence des pages de discussion va changer sur la quasi-totalité des Wikipédias (certaines ont déjà reçu ce nouveau design, quelques-unes le recevront plus tard). Vous pouvez lire les détails concernant ces changements sur Diff. Il est possible de désactiver ces modifications dans les préférences utilisateur (« Afficher l’activité de la discussion »). [76][77]
- Les utilisateurs disposant de certains droits étendus (y compris les administrateurs, bureaucrates, vérificateurs, masqueurs et stewards) peuvent désormais voir les adresses IP de tous les comptes temporaires révélées automatiquement pendant des périodes limitées, lorsqu’ils doivent lutter contre du vandalisme rapide impliquant des changements fréquents de compte. Cette fonctionnalité a été demandée par les stewards. [78]
- Cette semaine, les équipes des outils de modération et d’apprentissage automatique poursuivent le déploiement d’un nouveau filtre dans les Modifications récentes, en l’étendant à plusieurs autres Wikipédias. Ce filtre utilise le modèle « Revert Risk », développé par l’équipe de recherche, pour mettre en évidence les modifications susceptibles d’être annulées et aider les patrouilleurs à repérer les contributions potentiellement problématiques. La fonctionnalité sera déployée sur les Wikipédias suivantes : Wikipédia en afrikaans, Wikipédia en biélorusse, Wikipédia en bengali, Wikipédia en gallois, Wikipédia en hawaïen, Wikipédia en islandais, Wikipédia en kazakh, Wikipédia en anglais simplifié, Wikipédia en turc. Le déploiement se poursuivra dans les semaines à venir pour inclure le reste des Wikipédias concernées par ce projet. [79]
- Voir les 27 tâches soumises par la communauté résolues la semaine dernière.
Actualités pour la contribution technique
- Les éditeurs de filtres anti-abus actifs sur Meta-Wiki et les grandes Wikipédias sont priés de mettre à jour les filtres pour les rendre compatibles avec les comptes temporaires. Un lien vers les instructions ainsi que vers les listes privées des filtres à vérifier est disponible sur Phabricator.
- Les modules Lua ont désormais accès au nom de l’image miniature associée à une page, et sur certains wikis, aux informations d’évaluation des WikiProjets. Cela est possible grâce à deux nouvelles propriétés des objets mw.title, nommées
pageImage
etpageAssessments
. [80][81] - Détail des mises-à-jour à venir cette semaine : MediaWiki
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week leading up to 2025-06-10. Missed the previous one? See issue #682.
Help with Translations.
Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Coinhoe - RfP scheduled to end after 10 June 2025 23:49 (UTC)
Events
- Upcoming events: New Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series! We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group event series on the Wikidata Graph Split project. Our second event will be a conversation with Daniel Mietchen and Lane Rasberry about Scholia, the Wikidata frontend which generates and presents scholarly profiles based on WikiCite content. They'll speak to Scholia's current state and roadmap, with consideration for the recent Wikidata graph split. Tuesday, June 10, 2025 at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST. More info and Zoom links: project page.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Graph-Linguistic Fusion: Using Language Models for Wikidata Vandalism Detection: resources to reproduce training and evaluation procedure for the paper Graph-Linguistic Fusion: Using Language Models for Wikidata Vandalism Detection
- Cataloguing guidelines for representing the Memory of the World International Register on Wikidata Google Doc to shape the process of a coming data upload: comments are open.
- GLAM:Memory of the World Report: Hannah Drummen at UNESCO, alongside data expert Martin, has completed a structured dataset of 496 International Register items, ready for bulk upload to Wikidata in June, with an aim to enhance accessibility and define best practices for future updates.
- Wikidata QID updates to BHL catalogue: The BHL Lead Developer, Mike Lichtenberg, is ensuring periodic Wikidata Qid refreshes in the BHL Catalogue, with the working group advising a downloadable post-refresh report for OpenRefine integration, to be sent to the BHL Metacat group for reconciliation by Siobhan or other Wikidata editors.
- Wikidata training & Datathon in Indonesia: Wikimedia Indonesia hosts WikiLatih Wikidata training to enhance skills in editing Indonesian cultural heritage data on Wikidata, while Datathon challenges participants to make the most edits on museum-related topics in Indonesia.
- Papers
- Wikidata for Botanists: Benefits of collaborating and sharing Linked Open Data By von Mering et al., (2025) - This paper explores Wikidata as a multilingual open knowledge base for botany, highlighting its role in connecting botanical information across sources, and calling on the botanical community to enhance its content.
- CS-KG 2.0: A Large-scale Knowledge Graph of Computer Science By Dessí et al., (2025) - This paper introduces CS-KG 2.0, an advanced AI-powered knowledge graph built from 15 million research papers, designed to enhance scientific exploration by structuring and interconnecting vast amounts of computer science literature.
- Videos
- Using the Wiki List tool - GoogleSheet with formulae for retrieving Wikidata values and writing QuickStatements commands.
- Introduction to Wikidata By Robin Isadora Brown and Lane Rasberry
- Wikidata Editing By Kusaal Wikipedia Community
- (Portuguese) Federating academic SPARQL searches in Wikidata By Tiago Lubiana
Tool of the week
- Wikidata Phonemes This is the web application developed specifically for Wikidata IOLab. In here you can add phonemes to a whole bunch of languages, basing your work on the work that the brazilian students of their national olympiad did while editing Wikipedia.
- Should I watch this? is a tool that helps users decide whether a movie or show is worth watching.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes
- Guizzi's classification of musical instruments (Guizzi's classification system of musical instruments)
- single taken from the album (indicates the album from which the item is taken)
- Newest External identifiers: GameSpot platform ID, OberpfalzWiki article ID, Private Enterprise Number, TNT Sports soccer team ID, Fondazione Ragghianti Fototeca image ID, ROAR ID, 15min.lt theme ID, FMJD person ID, NAQ non-elected person ID, paleo.ru person ID, Sierra Wiki article ID
- New External identifier property proposals to review:
- Biblioteca Pública (<nowiki>{{TranslateThis</nowiki>)
- Libretexts ID (the world's largest collection of free OER textbooks online)
- External identifiers: identifiant Évêques suisses, Enciclopedia Galega Universal ID, Deaf Movie Database, Biographical Dictionary of Affiliated Dissemination of Literacy among Georgians ID, Biographical Dictionary of Physicians of Georgia ID, Biographical Dictionary of Athletes of Georgia ID, Biographical Dictionary of Winemakers of Georgia ID, matricule number, inn, Debian Wiki article, Desura game ID (archived), Diccionario de catedráticos españoles de derecho ID, QUDT dimension ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- WikiProject highlights: Names/Belarusian - This WikiProject aims to add structured and linguistic data to Wikidata to enable the study of people's names across all time periods, regions, and languages.
- Showcase Items: Ant-Man (Q5901134) - 2015 film directed by Peyton Reed
Development
- Mobile editing of statements: We are doing initial development focusing on technical investigations and basic UI elements (phab:T394292, phab:T394886)
- Lexemes: We are looking into a rare error when trying to do undo certain Lexeme edits (phab:T392372)
- Watchlist/Recent changes on Wikipedia: We continued working on showing labels instead of IDs in the edit summaries of Wikidata changes that are shown in the watchlist and recent changes of Wikipedia and co (phab:T388685)
- Wikibase REST API: Finishing touches on simple search (phab:T383126)
- Query Service UI: Added experimental popup to point people running very simple queries to other available access methods (phab:T391264)
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.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- 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!
Une nouvelle édition du Wikimag est disponible à la lecture.
Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #206 is out: Closing the consultation about the location of Abstract Content
modifierThere is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!
In this issue, we announce the closing of the discussion about where to store abstract content, we remind you about our current discussions about types and our next NLG SIG meeting, and we take a look at the latest software developments.
Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!
Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 16 juin 2025 à 14:56 (CEST)
week leading up to 2025-06-16. Missed the previous one? See issue #683.
Events
- Upcoming events:
- GLAM Wiki Conference 2025 - Program Call-for-Proposals: Deadline 15 June.
- COSCUP 2025 (Q134950534) Open Street Map x Wikidata Track - National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (Q699543) 9 August - 10 August.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Wikibase Faceted Search Released (demo video)
- DecomissionedAircraftMap (see tool below) - The Decommissioned Aircraft Map project uses Wikidata to enhance its mapping of historic aircraft by pulling images from linked Wikidata entries. Users can contribute by adding or correcting Wikidata tags on OpenStreetMap, ensuring accurate representation of aircraft locations and visuals. By Watmildon.
- Videos: Querying Wikidata using tools such as QuickStatements and Petscan - Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda
Tool of the week
- Wikidata Visualization: a visualization tool for Wikidata SPARQL queries
- DecomissionedAircraftMap (as a demonstration of the power of OpenStreetMap into Wikidata): pulls geodata for displayed aircraft from OpenStreetMap and generates thumbnails from linked Wikidata entries.
- Query split tester (Beta): webtool to see the impact on the graph split on your SPARQL query.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Nominations for the Coolest Tools Award 2025 are open. Nominate your favorite tool! Nominations are due by the 25th of this month already.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes
- breed belongs to taxon (taxon to which members of this breed (or these breeds) belong)
- Newest External identifiers: CARLA ID, Enciclopedia Galega Universal ID, ThinkyGames genre ID
- New External identifier property proposals to review:
- worn on (part of the body where an item of clothing, equipment, or jewelry is worn)
- rewards this type of work (kind of work for which an award is given)
- sign meaning ()
- trailer of (works that this trailer video represents)
- External identifiers: Facebook image ID, DE-BIAS ID, Author identifier in FragTrag, Niedersächsische Personen-ID, FBref match ID, FBref competition ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: EMCO Wikidata CoP - EMCO promotes the discovery and use of the world’s knowledge by supporting metadata producers in library and other cultural heritage communities.
- Showcase Items: The Times (Q50008) - British daily national newspaper based in London
- Showcase Lexemes: right (L3348) - English adjective (rīt) meaning "opposite of left", "correct/just", or "politically conservative"
Development
- Mobile editing:
- Share your feedback on the new prototype that brings statement editing on Items to mobile.
- We continued base work for making editing statements on mobile possible.
- Simple search is now available in the Wikibase REST API! You can find information and leave feedback here.
- Lexemes: We’re working on a WikibaseLexeme error that happens when trying to revert the deletion of a form that was already undeleted (phab:T392372)
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.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country:
- 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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
- You can nominate your favorite tools for the sixth edition of the Coolest Tool Award. Nominations are anonymous and will be open until June 25. You can re-use the survey to nominate multiple tools.
- View all 33 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
In depth
- Foundation staff and technical volunteers use Wikimedia APIs to build the tools, applications, features, and integrations that enhance user experiences. Over the coming years, the MediaWiki Interfaces team will be investing in Wikimedia web (HTTP) APIs to better serve technical volunteer needs and protect Wikimedia infrastructure from potential abuse. You can read more about their plans to evolve the APIs in this Techblog post.
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