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New Pages Patrol newsletter June 2023 Edit
Hello Pigsonthewing,
Backlog
Redirect drive: In response to an unusually high redirect backlog, we held a redirect backlog drive in May. The drive completed with 23851 reviews done in total, bringing the redirect backlog to 0 (momentarily). Congratulations to Hey man im josh who led with a staggering 4316 points, followed by Meena and Greyzxq with 2868 and 2546 points respectively. See this page for more details. The redirect queue is steadily rising again and is steadily approaching 4,000. Please continue to help out, even if it's only for a few or even one review a day.
Redirect autopatrol: All administrators without autopatrol have now been added to the redirect autopatrol list. If you see any users who consistently create significant amounts of good quality redirects, consider requesting redirect autopatrol for them here.
WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team, consisting of Sam, Jason and Susana, and also some patches from Jon, has been hard at work updating PageTriage. They are focusing their efforts on modernising the extension's code rather than on bug fixes or new features, though some user-facing work will be prioritised. This will help make sure that this extension is not deprecated, and is easier to work on in the future. In the next month or so, we will have an opt-in beta test where new page patrollers can help test the rewrite of Special:NewPagesFeed, to help find bugs. We will post more details at WT:NPPR when we are ready for beta testers.
Articles for Creation (AFC): All new page reviewers are now automatically approved for Articles for Creation draft reviewing (you do not need to apply at WT:AFCP like was required previously). To install the AFC helper script, visit Special:Preferences, visit the Gadgets tab, tick "Yet Another AFC Helper Script", then click "Save". To find drafts to review, visit Special:NewPagesFeed, and at the top left, tick "Articles for Creation". To review a draft, visit a submitted draft, click on the "More" menu, then click "Review (AFCH)". You can also comment on and submit drafts that are unsubmitted using the script.
You can review the AFC workflow at WP:AFCR. It is up to you if you also want to mark your AFC accepts as NPP reviewed (this is allowed but optional, depends if you would like a second set of eyes on your accept). Don't forget that draftspace is optional, so moves of drafts to mainspace (even if they are not ready) should not be reverted, except possibly if there is conflict of interest.
Pro tip: Did you know that visual artists such as painters have their own SNG? The most common part of this "creative professionals" criteria that applies to artists is WP:ARTIST 4b (solo exhibition, not group exhibition, at a major museum) or 4d (being represented within the permanent collections of two museums).
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This Month in GLAM: August 2023 Edit
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Books & Bytes – Issue 58 Edit
The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 58, July – August 2023
- New partners - De Standaard and Duncker & Humblot
- Tech tip: Filters
- Wikimania presentation
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --14:27, 12 September 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 16 September 2023 Edit
- In the media: "Just flirting", going Dutch and Shapps for the defence?
- Obituary: Nosebagbear
- Featured content: Catching up
- Traffic report: Some of it's magic, some of it's tragic
Wikidata weekly summary #594 Edit
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2023-09-18.
- Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: Welcome to our new admin, FlyingAce! (see the closed request)
- New requests for permissions/Bot: Framabot 4 (Task: Import commune of France contact data from french official directory, french official directory
- Closed request for permissions/Bot: JoRobot 8 (Task: Removing good list badge from articles in the Catalan Wikipedia)
- Events
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour September 15, 2023. We will learn how to use Zotero, the reference management software, and its browser plugin to automatically extract metadata for articles and convert them to a Wikidata format that can be batch uploaded using QuickStatements.More information on the event page
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Paper: Documenting Biodiversity in Underrepresented Languages using Crowdsourcing - Mohammed Kamal-Deen Dnshitobu Fuseini, Agnes Ajuma Abah, Andra Waagmeester
- Press: Statement by Alliance F5 on the German Government's data strategy (in German)
- Videos
- List of free software in le socle interministériel de logiciels libres (SILL/the interministerial base of free software) recommended by the French Government in Wikidata - Nicolas Vigneron
- Georeferencing using OSM and Wikidata - Oficina Wiki Apoia
- Members of Riksdag (Sweden's parlement) - Magnus Sälgö
- Wikidata for Wiki Loves Monuments with Content Partnerships Hub - Wikimedia Sweden
- From self-documentation to federated querying using Wikibase: a new topology to Media Art Archiving? - Raphael Tsz Kin Chau
- Tool of the week
- LowercaseDescription.js is a script that adds a link to automatically lower the first letter of an item's description in the user's language.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- You can now browse all the Wikibase instances hosted on Wikibase.Cloud: https://www.wikibase.cloud/discovery
- Wikibase resources, a collection of resources, overviews, links and knowlegde related to Wikibase, collected and curated by KB, national library of the Netherlands
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: RBC person ID, Ordbok över Finlands svenska folkmål ID, France 3 Régions journalist ID, Médiathèque Numérique CVS ID, MyShows show ID, NHK News topic ID, Sitios ID, Xiaohongshu user ID, Fansly ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- chronological designation (as a typical instance, the stated scholarly journal year to which reference is made by: the reference source being cited to support the statement being made)
- Flora of New Jersey Project atlas URL (URL for a plant species in the Flora of New Jersey Project atlas)
- External identifiers: British Pathé ID, ProductReview ID, BISAC Subject Heading, EDItEUR Thema id, ONIX Subject Scheme id, MiMoText ID, ADVN ID, National Register of Monumental Trees ID, Diktyon, Codeberg username, RAWG tag ID, National Library of Albania ID, DfE Group UID, AARoads Wiki article ID, Armasanicana person ID, FloraVeg.EU species ID, Vascular Plants of Iowa species ID
- General datatypes:
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- We are planning the migration of some of our existing components from the Wikit to the Codex design system in Query Builder, Mismatch Finder and the Special:NewLexeme page.
- Warnings about not being logged-in will now have a returnto= parameter attached to their links, so that you can don’t use your flow from logging in (phab:T330550)
- We fixed an issue with the LanguageSwitcher in Query Builder where it would open out of the viewport on some tablet screen widths (phab:T344231)
- Wikibase REST API: We finished the work on making it possible to remove a statement from a Property (phab:T342976) and getting the labels of a Property (phab:T342977)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Tech News: 2023-38 Edit
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
MediaWiki now has a stable interface policy for frontend code that more clearly defines how we deprecate MediaWiki code and wiki-based code (e.g. gadgets and user scripts). Thank you to everyone who contributed to the content and discussions. [1][2]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 September. It will be on all wikis from 21 September (calendar).- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [3]
- All wikis will have a link in the sidebar that provides a short URL of that page, using the Wikimedia URL Shortener. [4]
Future changes
- The team investigating the Graph Extension posted a proposal for reenabling it and they need your input.
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MediaWiki message delivery 19:18, 18 September 2023 (UTC)
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Thank you for improving articles in September! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:22, 20 September 2023 (UTC)
New pages patrol newsletter Edit
Hello Pigsonthewing,
Backlog update: At the time of this message, there are 11,300 articles and 15,600 redirects awaiting review. This is the highest backlog in a long time. Please help out by doing additional reviews!
October backlog elimination drive: A one-month backlog drive for October will start in one week! Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles and redirects patrolled. Articles will earn 4x as many points compared to redirects. You can sign up here.
PageTriage code upgrades: Upgrades to the PageTriage code, initiated by the NPP open letter in 2022 and actioned by the WMF Moderator Tools Team in 2023, are ongoing. More information can be found here. As part of this work, the Special:NewPagesFeed now has a new version in beta! The update leaves the NewPagesFeed appearance and function mostly identical to the old one, but updates the underlying code, making it easier to maintain and helping make sure the extension is not decommissioned due to maintenance issues in the future. You can try out the new Special:NewPagesFeed here - it will replace the current version soon.
Notability tip: Professors can meet WP:PROF #1 by having their academic papers be widely cited by their peers. When reviewing professor articles, it is a good idea to find their Google Scholar or Scopus profile and take a look at their h-index and number of citations. As a very rough rule of thumb, for most fields, articles on people with a h-index of twenty or more, a first-authored paper with more than a thousand citations, or multiple papers each with more than a hundred citations are likely to be kept at AfD.
Reviewing tip: If you would like like a second opinion on your reviews or simply want another new page reviewer by your side when patrolling, we recommend pair reviewing! This is where two reviewers use Discord voice chat and screen sharing to communicate with each other while reviewing the same article simultaneously. This is a great way to learn and transfer knowledge.
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:46, 22 September 2023 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #595 Edit
- Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot: AytekUstundag-RoyalMapperBot (Task: Add missing historical figures from royalmapper database)
- Events
- Upcoming
- WikidataCon 2023, the conference dedicated to the Wikidata community, is taking place on October 28-29, online all around the world and onsite in Taipei. You can now register for the conference.
- WikiIndaba 2023 Microgrants available for community events!
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour September 29. This event is part of a series where you can gain hands-on experience with Wikidata by working on a diverse library and information science (LIS) dataset. In this fourth session, we'll introduce the Wikimedia PAWS environment for data gathering and processing in your Wikidata projects. We'll focus on web scraping for article data using Python and the Beautiful Soup package for parsing. You'll learn about data models for making your data accessible to both machines and humans. This session will be recorded and shared on the event page. Event page.
- Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #110, Ohm's law (Challenge started on 2023-09-25 12:01:32)
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Unifying Biodiversity Knowledge to Support Life on a Sustainable Planet (A Wikimedia Projects White Paper from the Biodiversity Heritage Library). Jacqueline J. Dearborn
- "Comparing scalable strategies for generating numerical perspectives" Numerical perspectives help people understand extreme and unfamiliar numbers. (Cao et al, 2023)
- Response to Marcin Roszkowski 2023: Modelling doctoral dissertations in Wikidata knowledge graph: Selected issues. Tamsin L. Braisher
- Press
- They call it the Barassi Line, defining our footy codes - how fitting that seems today - The Barassi Line has been a focus of my research and has recently been plotted and visualised by Brett Tweedie as part of his Wikidata fellowship.
- Videos
- The mess with Wikidata death location and the instance of a location - salgo60
- Developing a linked data workflow using Wikidata - Will Kent
- Entity linking historical document OCR by combining Wikidata and Wikipedia - Kai Labusch
- From EAD to MARC to Wikidata and back again - Crystal Yragui, Adam Schiff
- Adventures in Korean Wikidata - Margaret Donald
- Getting started on Wikidata - Mohammed Sadat Abdulai
- Wiki(su)data #2: Wikidata live editing in Italian - Wikidata in italiano
- Wikibase as an institutional repository authority file - Michael Lindsey
- Tool of the week
- User:Luca.favorido/linkypop.js is a script that can be used to search an identifier on an external site. It provides a button to search for an identifier as soon as you type it in the property input field. For example, if you type “ORCID”, an icon with a lens will appear, and when you click it, a new tab will open with the ORCID site looking for the name of the researcher. You can then copy the URL and paste it to Wikidata.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Want to play a game? Wikidata:Games has some Wikidata-related ones for you.
- Call for Projects and Mentors for Outreachy Round 27! September 29, 2023 at 4pm UTC - Project submission deadline.
- Citation.js Toolforge is a service to export citations from Wikidata items in various formats (BibTeX, RIS) and various citations formats (Vancouver, APA, etc)
- As a next step in the deprecation process of ORES the WMF Machine Learning team will switch the backend of ores.wikimedia.org to ores-legacy so users that have not yet migrated to Lift Wing will be transparently migrated. This change is planned to take place on Monday 25th of September.
- Wikimedia Deutschland job opening: Engineering Manager Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects and FunTech (d/f/m)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- type of musical notation (system of musical notation used on a given music source or composition)
- chronological designation (stated scholarly journal year to which reference is made by: source cited in support of a particular statement may not be the same as the publication date or volume)
- External identifiers: J. Paul Getty Museum agent ID, Diktyon ID, RAWG tag ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- Demo (video game or software that this trial version is based on)
- ETCS level (ETCS level of implementation)
- adoption variant (variant of this loanword with the same origin)
- Temaportalen ID ()
- External identifiers: Metacritic game ID, BAN ID, handlingar.se ID, identifiant Société de l'histoire du protestantisme français, South African NPO number
- General datatypes:
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects:
- WikiProject Chopin Thematic Catalog Concordance - an effort by members of the Music Library Association (MLA) Linked Data Working Group (LDWG) to create and enhance Wikidata items for Frédéric Chopin's musical works.
- WikiProject Museum AI projects - aims to map AI projects (including events, datasets) from museums into Wikidata and create a data model for it.
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Lexemes: We are fixing an issue that made edit links and styles disappear (phab:T344362)
- Mismatch Finder:
- We made improvements to the store part of the tool (phab:T335864) and fixed small issues (phab:T344336,, phab:T343344)
- We worked on making it possible to upload mismatches on qualifiers (phab:T313467)
- We are continuing to migrate tools from ORES to Lift Wing (phab:T343731)
- We've added Wikifunktions as a new wiki for sitelinks (phab:T342857)
- Wikibase REST API: We are working on making it possible to get labels, descriptions and aliases from a Property as well as modify the description of an Item
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!