Rolled out more fine-grained usage tracking on Greek Wikipedia. This will lead to less irrelevant changes showing up in watchlist and recent changes on those projects. We're testing this on Greek Wikipedia to see if the solution we have scales before rolling it out further. (
phabricator:T151717)
Adding an API module to copy a statement from one item to another (
phabricator:T55619)
Working more on checking constraints also on qualifiers and references (
phabricator:T168532)
Added support for the Creator namespace to the constraints check for Commons links (
phabricator:T176062)
Added a css class to values that link to redirects so they can more easily be identified by editors who want that for maintenance work (
phabricator:T70567) Thanks Matej!
Finishing touches on adding full URIs for external identifiers to our RDF export so we're good citizens of the semantic web (
phabricator:T121274)
Added a new mw.wikibase.getAllStatements Lua function in addition to the existing getBestStatements, that returns all statements regardless of their rank (
phabricator:T176124)
Looking into an issue where unwanted email notifications are being sent (
phabricator:T174794)
Upcoming: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October (sold out)
We will have two exciting keynotes. The first keynote speaker is
Fabian M. Suchanek, professor at Télécom Paris Tech University, working on the knowledge base
YAGO. The second keynote speaker is
Michael Kreil, datajournalist working on the project Data Sciences and Stories.
Please
volunteer for some tasks at the conference if you are attending.
Breaking change: "wb_entity_per_page" table will not be updated and replicated on ToolLabs anymore
A mw.wikibase.getLabelByLang Lua function will be added (
phabricator:T173262)
The mw.wikibase.sitelink Lua function will accept a second parameter with the global identifier of a wiki (e.g. "enwiki") to link to (
phabricator:T142903)
Had to temporarily turn off showing Wikidata's changes on Commons and Russian Wikipedia because of database issues. We're working on turning it back on.
Continued work on persistently storing edits to Forms on Lexemes
Finishing work on checking constraints on qualifiers and references with the constraint checks gadget
Fixed a bug where notification emails for Wikidata changes were sent when they shouldn't have been (
phabricator:T174794)
Full URIs for external identifiers will soon be in the RDF export (
phabricator:T121274)
Monthly Tasks
Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
In order to be compliant with SCOPUS guidelines,
WikiJournal of Medicine is resetting our associate editor list. This is so that there is a record of applications for all editors involved in the project. To re-apply, simply click the button below and fill out the template. There is no need to have information in all sections. If you wish to remain anonymous, insert your username in the name section and email Editor.in.chiefWikiJMed.org to confirm your identity privately.
Upcoming: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October (sold out)
If you organize a local event for the Wikidata birthday, feel free to add it on the
events page and the
birthday page
A blog post describing
Textes d'affiches, a tool using Wikidata to show movies and the works they are adapted from, developed during a hackathon at the national French library (by Shonagon, in French)
More work on checking constraints on qualifiers and references (
phabricator:T168532)
Now caching constraints results to make it ready for rollout for more users
Continued work on more fine-grained usage tracking so we better know which parts of an item is used on an article on Wikipedia and the other sister projects
Improved the way Wikidata changes are shown in watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and Co so they are more in-line with the other changes (
phabricator:T48329,
phabricator:T50684) Thanks Matej!
Upcoming : Wikidata and Wiki Loves Monuments editathon in Berlin, 24-26 November (
in German). We're looking for trainers to explain the basic use of QuickStatements, Open Refine and Mix'n'Match. If you want to join, please contact
MB-one
Wikidata's birthday
The fifth anniversary of Wikidata was celebrated, as every year, with a lot of presents, events and stories. You can find an overview
on the birthday page.
inventaire.io CC0 Wikidata-ready NDJSON and TTL dumps are now accessible at
dumps.inventaire.io
You can now move claims to new items with
moveClaim.js. You can do so by typing "new".
Prefix search on Wikidata (wbsearchentities API) now is
using ElasticSearch as backend. This should improve search quality and also is more flexible and tunable.
If you want to review what happened during the WikidataCon,
here is the list of all the sessions, with slides, notes and videos, when available
Release of wikidata-edit v2.0.0: brings qualifiers and references support, and a few breaking changes. See
changelogs
Release of wikidata-cli v5.0.0: brings qualifiers and references support, multi-entity summary|label|description|description requests, a new `edit-item` command, and a few breaking changes. See
changelogs
The Cebuano and Swedish wikis have a lot of bot-created content which is unconnected to other wiki articles. A good way to tackle that problem is by
checking constraint violations for property
GeoNames ID.
Serbia report: Wikipedian in residence at Historical Archives of Subotica; Model of a grain of wheat exlusivly digitized for Wikimedia Commons; Cooperation of the Ministry of Culture and Information and Wikimedia Serbia - GLAM presentations and workshops for museums, archives and libraries
Latitudes, longitudes, as well as coordinate precisions have accidentally been exported to RDF as xsd:decimal, and are going to be exported as xsd:double soon (
phabricator:T179228)
Continue on refactoring PropertySuggester-python for better maintainability and performance (
phab:T179664)
Make AffectedPagesFinder take DESCRIPTION_USAGE into account (
phab:T176417)
Accessing mw.config.get( 'wbEntity' ) will trigger a deprecation warning, gadgets and user script should use the wikibase.entityPage.entityLoaded hook instead (
phabricator:T169771)
Work on caching constraint check results (
phab:T179849) and indicating that they are cached (
phab:T179844)
Work on JSON-LD support in the Purtle library used for exports (
gerrit:379669)
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Thank you for suggesting me for autopatrol permissions. I care about reducing the burden on volunteer editors, so it is a good idea for me to keep the flag and not make the page reviewers do additional checking. Please nominate me, and I shall be happy to supplement the nomination with more details if necessary. --
Netha(talk)12:15, 20 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Autopatrolled granted
Hi Netha Hussain, I just wanted to let you know that I have
added the "autopatrolled" permission to your account, as you have created numerous, valid articles. This feature will have no effect on your editing, and is simply intended to reduce the workload on
new page patrollers. For more information on the autopatrolled right, see
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xaosfluxTalk13:57, 20 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Hi. We're into the last five days of the
Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!
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Added two sources. Usually Svenska Dagbladet is a good source in Swedish, and I also used the website for the Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm.//
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Netha(talk)14:28, 5 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Article I told you about for translation into Malayalam
Netha,
Per our F2F discussion in Cape Town earlier this week (seems like a lot more time than that after an epic flight home, no?) the article in question I was relating to you is
Disappearance of Sneha Anne Philip. Since she and her family were from Kerala I think an mlwiki article is certainly warranted ... I saw the case got coverage in the English-language media there.
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19:42, 26 July 2018 (UTC)reply
Thank you Daniel, for reaching out to me. I had looked up this article the same night we had the conversation, and I will create an ml version for this page. --
Netha(talk)06:55, 27 July 2018 (UTC)reply
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27 Communities have joined WAM 2018, we're waiting for you!
Dear WAM organizers!
Wikipedia Asian Month 2018 is now 26 days away! It is time to sign up for
WAM 2018,
Following are the updates on the upcoming WAM 2018:
We want to host many onsite Edit-a-thons all over the world this year. If you would like to host one in your city, please
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Here are some recent updates and clarification of rules for you, and as always, let me know if you have any idea, thought or question.
Additional souvenirs (e.g. postcard) will be sent to Ambassadors and active organizers.
A participant's article count is combined on all language Wikipedias they have contributed to
Only Wikipedia Asian Month on Wikipedia or Wikivoyage projects count (no WikiQuote, etc.)
The global top 3 article count will only be eligible on Wikipedias where the WAM article requirement is at least 3,000 bytes and 300 words.
If your community accepts an extension for articles, you should set up a page and allow participants to submit their contributions there.
In case of redirection not allowed submitting in Fountain tool, a workaround is to delete it, copy and submit again. Or a submission page can be used too.
Please make sure enforce the rules, such as proper references, notability, and length.
International organizers will double check the top 3 users' accepted articles, so if your articles are not fulfilling the rules, they might be disqualified. We don't want it happened so please don't let us make such a decision.
Please feel free to contact me and WAM team on
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Paola Velardi: Are there the pre-requisites to remove the maintenance template?
Dear Netha,
I hope everything is great with you. My name is
Ilaria and I had the pleasure to meet you during the Chalmers WikiGap in August.
You are an inspiration for me. Busy as every PhD student, yet you manage to carve the time out for telling stories of great women.
Your help throughout my first wikipage, dedicated to Professor
Paola Velardi, was key. Thank you very much for that.
I got in touch with Paola herself. She said that she was honored to appear in Wikipedia.
In October, I got a maintenance template from the user
JJMC89, inviting me for increased additional citations for verification. This maintenance template applied to three sections of the page.
Moreover, the picture that I got from Paola herself and that I put on her page, was removed by
Hullabaloo Wolfowitz, whom categorized it as non-free. I still do not get why an image that she gave herself to me is non free.
Coming back to the maintenance issue: I asked Paola to give me more references to validate each and every information possible.
As I am an inexperienced editor, unfortunately this caused duplicates.
Anyway, I worked on this promptly, and I reckon that I managed to increase the accuracy of the page significantly. I asked JJMC89 to consider removing the maintenance templates in early November, by writing to him in his talk page. No answer yet, which is disappointing.
Can you please help me?
Paola actually put the link to her Wikipedia page in different applications (projects and awards). Of course, it is not nice for her to have her page deemed unreliable.
If you have the right to remove the maintenance template, and you find the information well documented, can you please remove it for me?
If you do not have this right, can you please help me find another person who can have a look at the page and act on it promptly?
Thanks a lot,
Best wishes
Ilaria
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Wiki Loves Love (WLL) is an International photography competition of Wikimedia Commons to subject love testimonials happening in the month of February 2019.
The primary goal of the competition is to document love testimonials through human cultural diversity such as monuments, ceremonies, snapshot of tender gesture, and miscellaneous objects used as symbol of love; to illustrate articles in the worldwide free encyclopedia Wikipedia, and other Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) projects. February is around the corner and Wiki Loves Love team invites you to organize and promote WLL19 in your country and join hands with us to celebrate love and document it on Wikimedia Commons. The theme of 2019 is Festivals, ceremonies and celebrations of love.
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This is Praveen. I recently joined the Partnerships team and wanted to drop by and say "HI". I would like to connect with you to discuss partnership efforts in India related to WikiMed. I'm reachable at pdas@wikimedia.org.
Hope you are all doing well! Now it's a great time to sign up for the 2019 Wikipedia Asian Month, which will take place in November this year (29 days left!). Here are some updates and improvements we will make for upcoming WAM. If you have any suggestions or thoughts, feel free to discuss on
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Hi Netha Hussain! I noticed you started the page
Wikipedia:WikiProject Art and Medicine last year. It doesn't look like it every truly became a
WikiProject (it seems to be your personal page, and not a place where editors collaborate on a topic). Any objection to me moving it to your
userspace for the time being? You're more than welcome to
propose its re-creation as a WikiProject anytime (and you may find that a better way to gather similar-minded editors). I hope all is well. Happy editing!
Ajpolino (
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22:19, 5 November 2019 (UTC)reply
Dear
Ajpolino, Please do!. It has been lying dormant for some time, and I shall renovate the project if and when I get time. For now, it is best to move the project page to my userspace. Thanks! --
Netha(talk)11:09, 13 November 2019 (UTC)reply
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Namaskaram, Netha Hussain. We would like to inform you about the recent changes to the WikiProject. As you may know, Wikiproject Kerala hasn't a newsletter yet. A newsletter is always help to inform recent changes in the project to project members and help for effective coordination. Now we have
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