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Wikidata weekly summary #354
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Congratulations to Siobhan Leachman (
d:User:Ambrosia10), awarded the "Companion of the Auckland War Memorial Museum" medal for her volunteer work, including contributions to Wikidata:
[1].
Creative Commons has
a proposal for tool development with Wikidata's copyright metadata for the 2019 edition of Google Summer of Code. Interested student developers are invited to apply.
A new beta version of the Daty Wikidata Editor has been released,
check out the changelog. You can also show your endorsement to the project
over here.
Following discussions at
the Bureaucrats' noticeboard and
Wikipedia talk:Administrators, an earlier change to the
restoration of adminship policy was
reverted. If requested, bureaucrats will not restore administrator permissions removed due to inactivity if there have been five years without a logged administrator action; this "five year rule" does not apply to permissions removed voluntarily.
Technical news
A
new tool is available to help determine if a given IP is an open proxy/VPN/webhost/compromised host.
Arbitration
The Arbitration Committee announced
two new OTRS queues. Both are meant solely for cases involving private information; other cases will continue to be handled at the appropriate venues (e.g.,
WP:COIN or
WP:SPI).
paid-en-wpwikipedia.org has been set up to receive private evidence related to abusive
paid editing.
checkuser-en-wpwikipedia.org has been set up to receive private requests for CheckUser. For instance, requests for IP block exemption for anonymous proxy editing should now be sent to this address instead of the functionaries-en list.
Hello, Rich Farmbrough. It has been over six months since you last edited the
Articles for Creation submission or
Draft page you started, "
Adam Boyko".
In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia
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here. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing)
19:50, 7 March 2019 (UTC)reply
Our team at the Wikimedia Foundation is working on a project to improve the ease-of-use and productivity of wiki talk pages. As a Teahouse host, I can imagine you’ve run into challenges explaining talk pages to first-time participants.
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We thank you in advance for your participation and your help.
Client wikis calling geocoordinate statements from Wikidata using mw.wikibase.entity:formatStatements or the #statements parser function will now have it displayed using
a Kartographer <maplink> if available. In case of bug or question, feel free to ask in
phab:T210926. Thanks to Tpt for the change!
A Google Summer of Code/Outreachy
project seeks to add structure to the
Commons app. Photographers will be able to pick Wikidata items that are depicted by the picture they upload.
The article will be discussed at
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Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. ☣
YutsiTalk/
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Wikidata weekly summary #356
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
On
Wikimedia Research from March 2019: Learning How to Correct a Knowledge Base from the Edit History, by Thomas Pellissier Tanon, Camille Bourgaux and Fabian Suchanek (
slides,
video)
The panEuropean Research Infrastructure "Mobilising Data, Experts and Policies in Scientific Collections" initiative's kick-off meeting had a workshop on the "Authority Management of People Names". Wikidata featured strongly - and was highly praised:
Twitter thread
I am interested in creating a new page that would fall under the Computing wiki project. It's a competitive intelligence program called Cipher. It's relatively new and has developed by Knowledge 360. I was hoping you would be able to offer me tips to make the page more successful from the start. Any insight you can give is appreciated! — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Lash975 (
talk •
contribs)
19:01, 30 March 2019 (UTC)reply
Hi,
Lash975. The most important thing to ensure is that the subject meets [[|WP:Notability|Wikipedia's notability criteria]], that is that there are multiple independent sources which have significant coverage - in this case interviews and press releases would not be considered independent for example. Also it should be written from a [WP:NPOV|neutral point of view]]. - not be a puff piece or advertisement for the product. Probably the best thing to do is create it at
Draft:Cipher (software), you will get assistance ensuring that it meets basic standards before becoming an article. For more help you can also visit
WP:Teahouse which helps newer editors to deal with the wiki-environment. All the best: RichFarmbrough,
19:20, 30 March 2019 (UTC).reply
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