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Tech News: 2021-29[mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

The tool to find, add and remove templates was updated. This is to make it easier to find and use the right templates. It was supposed to come to the first wikis on 7 July. It was delayed to 12 July instead. It will come to more wikis later this year. [1][2]
Special:UnconnectedPages lists pages that are not connected to Wikidata. This helps you find pages that can be connected to Wikidata items. Some pages should not be connected to Wikidata. You can use the magic word __EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__ on pages that should not be listed on the special page. [3]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 July. It will be on all wikis from 22 July (calendar).

Future changes

How media is structured in the parser's HTML output will soon change. This can affect bots, gadgets, user scripts and extensions. You can read more. You can test it on Testwiki or Testwiki 2.
The parameters for how you obtain tokens in the MediaWiki API were changed in 2014. The old way will no longer work from 1 September. Scripts, bots and tools that use the parameters from before the 2014 change need to be updated. You can read more.

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15:32, 19 Silimin gɔli July 2021 (GMT)

Wikidata weekly summary #478[mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Events
- Past:
  - Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Carlo Bianchini (University of Pavia), Stefano Bargioni (Pontifical University Santa Croce (Rome)), and Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo (University of Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore) will discuss their recent project and article “Beyond VIAF: Wikidata as a Complementary Tool for Authority Control in Libraries”.; July 13th.
- Upcoming:
  - Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #72, July 25
  - The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday 28th July 2021 at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. This month we will also be having a guest presentation about Toolhub by Srishti Sethi from the Wikimedia Foundation.
  - The next Wikibase live session is at 16:00 UTC on Thursday 29th July 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). This month, we welcome Luca Mauri to give a presentation about installing Wikibase from scratch.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
  - Wikipedia Citations in Wikidata English & Italian by OpenCitations, report on a WikiCite grant project.
  - Opportunities to improve integration between Wikisource and Wikidata (part 2 of a WikiCite blogpost series) by KCVelaga & Satdeep Gill
  - Finding gendered street names. A step-by-step walkthrough with R
  - Introducing the MathFoldr Project
- Videos
  - Tutorial: Introduction to the Wikidata lexicographical data project (by Mahir256) - YouTube
  - Bringing IIIF Manifests to Life in Wikidata with Mirador 3 (2021 IIIF Annual Conference) - YouTube
  - Moving Wikipedia's InfoBox to Wikidata (in Taiwanese) - YouTube
- Notebooks
  - Using xtools created pages and wikidata API to measure gender statistics about articles created by a user (Jupyter notebook using R kernel in the PAWS webservice)
  - Gender diversity in articles about academic disciplines in the French wikipedia (Jupyter notebook using R kernel in the PAWS webservice).
  - A first look at featured articles in Wikipedia in French using Wikidata (SPARQL Jupyter notebook using PAWS)

Tool of the week
- searchy.toolforge.org is a semantic search engine to find articles on a topic and filter results by metascientific info (gender and region).

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Scholia gets an upgrade and 1 click import of new scientific paper via citation-js and QS
- For 2021 WMF Board of Trustees election, there are 20 candidates. Among them, active Wikidata contributors Mike Peel, Laurentius and Rosiestep. Community members can know and participate in the campaign activities here.
- Sitelinks to the recently created Tachelhit Wikipedia and Dagbani Wikipedia are being added.

Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes: URL for citizen's initiatives, International Tables for Crystallography space group number, number of request signatories, translation of
  - External identifiers: Enciclopedia Dantesca ID, Città e Cattedrali ID, MANTO ID, WMO code, IFPNI author ID, Landshuth ID, Pladias ID, Central records of collections ID, Podchaser creator ID, Steam Greenlight game ID, CEICE school code
- New property proposals to review:
  - General datatypes: UEFA stadium category, URL for freedom of information requests, Legal History, bridge number, Notable role, inventory number, Weverse user ID, ITU radio emission designation
  - External identifiers: IRIS SNS author ID, eBru ID, Daum Cafe ID, Douyin Video ID, Royal Ontario Museum ID, maPZS trails/locations ID, SDBM IDs, Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts ID, The New Yorker ID, Looted Cultural Assets Database ID, Marmiton ID, Enciclopedia del Cinema ID, PubFacts author ID
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: Wikidata:WikiProject_Medieval_Nobility
- Newest database reports: language names in Italian (Wikidata, Wikipedia and MediaWiki)

Development
- Mismatch Finder: Continued working on the store part. It can import first mismatches now.
- Fixing an issue where month and year are sometimes parsed as the first day of the month (phab:T233105)
- Fixing an issue with adding sitelinks for some of the newer Wikipedias (phab:T285919)
- Working on improving the Lua usage tracking for redirected Items (phab:T280910)
- SPARQL was amended on the 4th July to use the report #title, if present, as the anchor for the 'Try it' link. (example)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:34, 19 Silimin gɔli July 2021 (GMT)[{{GENDER :|reply}}]

Hello Masssly[mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]

Hi Masssly,

Thank you for your warm welcome. As I do not speak Dagbani (but am trying to learn as much as I can), it would be great to team up with people who can help translate from English into Dagbani. I think we can start a translation WikiProject on here? Sabon Harshe (Yɛltɔɣa) 08:37, 22 Silimin gɔli July 2021 (GMT)[{{GENDER :|reply}}]

@Sabon Harshe Yes, that'll be a good idea. Would you like to create the template for the Wikiproject, then I can announce them on village pump and social channels. -Masssly (Yɛltɔɣa) 09:00, 22 Silimin gɔli July 2021 (GMT)[{{GENDER :|reply}}]

No need for a new template. I have added a new discussion section at Wikipedia:Mabiligu dundɔŋ#New stubs. Sabon Harshe (Yɛltɔɣa) 09:41, 22 Silimin gɔli July 2021 (GMT)[{{GENDER :|reply}}]

Awesome. By the way, Masssly and Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) are the same person 😀 -Masssly (Yɛltɔɣa) 10:41, 22 Silimin gɔli July 2021 (GMT)[{{GENDER :|reply}}]

Oh, you're everywhere haha. Nice to e-meet you Mr. Sadat! Sabon Harshe (Yɛltɔɣa) 11:04, 22 Silimin gɔli July 2021 (GMT)[{{GENDER :|reply}}]

Wikidata weekly summary #479[mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]