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Draft missing required translation attribution
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NOTE: Content in the edit of 01:25, January 25, 2023 was translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at [[:fr:Exact name of French article]]; see its history for attribution.
Retroactive attribution may be added using a dummy edit; see Repairing insufficient attribution.
It is good practice, especially if translation is extensive, to also place a properly formatted {{translated page}} template on the talk page of the destination article. If you have added translated content previously which was not attributed at the time it was added, you must add attribution retrospectively, even if it was a long time ago. You can read more about author attribution and the reasons for it at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia.
Please also note that the copyright requirments underlying translation attribution apply to all articles and drafts, including drafts that are never released as an article. If you have any questions, please feel free to reply below, or ask for help at the Teahouse or WP:Help desk. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 08:03, 4 March 2025 (UTC)
- Note: the same thing applies to your translation at Draft:Andreas Englisch. For this draft, I have provided retroactive attribution for you, in this edit, of 08:10, 4 March 2025. If there are other articles or drafts of yours that represent translations from other Wikipedias and lack translation attribution in the edit history, these must be added, even if a long time has passed. If there are a great many of them, a tool is available to add retroactive attribution en masse; if it is only a small number, it is probably easier to just do them by hand, like I just did. Ask for help if you need it. Going forward, please always add translation attribution to your edit summary at the time of translation; for proper wording, see WP:TFOLWP. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 08:15, 4 March 2025 (UTC)
Hi again. Just realized you are a very senior editor. Sorry for the templates, but they do include a lot of information that would be tedious to type out. Also, although the licensing requirement was always there afaik, some of the specifics of what kind of operations require attribution (copying and translating from sister projects), and where to place it (the edit summary/page history), as well as the specific wording to use in each case (WP:CWW and WP:TFOLWP when done on time, and WP:RIA when catching up after the fact) only developed much later, and you might have missed the memo. So, sorry about the somewhat impersonal templates, but the info they present is important. As this is policy with legal implications, it sits above normal policy and guidelines, and has to be dealt with. Ping me if you need support or assistance. Cheers, Mathglot (talk) 08:27, 4 March 2025 (UTC)
Translation attribution is part of a policy with legal considerations
[edit]This is follow-up to this comment of yours in section § Finishing school for articles below where you stated that you already attributed translated content you added to Westend Synagogue; this follow-up is more appropriate in this section than there.
Actually, your attempts to include attribution were unfortunately not enough as they do not comply with Wikipedia's licensing requirements. To provide proper attribution, you should add a dummy edit to that article, and include wording in the edit summary similar to that given at WP:RIA. A more detailed explanation follows. Please read it, as this is about a Wikipedia policy with legal implications and may not be ignored.
You are no doubt familiar with the hierarchy of force or compulsion underlying Wikipedia's policies and guidelines and other informational pages, where policy must almost always be followed, with very rare exceptions; guidelines represent Wikipedia consensus, but may occasionally be ignored for good reason; informational and Help pages are suggestions for best practice but not compulsory, and essays are pure editor opinion, with no compulsive force at all. Even a policy can be ignored sometimes, based on Pillar Five of our core principles, WP:IAR.
However, did you know that standing above policy is something even stronger, that may never be ignored under any circumstances? These are policies with legal implications. There are very few such, but include such things as libel, child protection, legal threats, and in particular, copyright, which has numerous aspects and (among other things) informs the licensing requirements for copying or translating content from one Wikipedia article to another. These requirements for translation attribution derive from the Wikimedia Terms of Use, and are explained for us non-legal humans primarily at WP:Copying within Wikipedia, which explains where to place the notification (in the edit history) and what wording to use. Unfortunately, although the spirit of your previous attempts to attribute the translation was in the right place, they are actually non-compliant and still require attribution in a form that meets the requirement.
The editing guideline WP:Copying within Wikipedia interprets the policy and suggests wording to use for this, in particular, see WP:TFOLWP, which has the following suggested edit summary to attribute a French translation:
Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at [[:fr:Exact name of French article]]; see its history for attribution.
If such an edit summary was absent from the original edit, then the wording is different; in that case, the wording is given at WP:RIA:
NOTE: Content in the edit of 01:25, January 25, 2023 was translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at [[:fr:Exact name of French article]]; see its history for attribution.
It is this latter model that needs to be added to the edit history of an article that lacks translation attribution, including, for example, Westend Synagogue. Can you please add it, using a dummy edit? Going forward for your new articles, please add the wording in the top example to the edit summary of the same edit where you add translated content. This is important; if there is anything that is unclear, please ask. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 23:07, 4 March 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you for this. I will follow this policy closely going forward. Best, Thriley (talk) 15:40, 5 March 2025 (UTC)
- Great. That just leaves the issue of past translations that still require attribution to be added. Fortunately, that is much less onerous than it used to be, due to a new, bot-like procedure that can provide attribution en masse to a list of articles, so you don't have to do them one by one. It starts from a list containing the English Wikipedia article name, the translation timestamp, and the foreign Wikipedia article it came from. To make the process easier for you, I have created User:Thriley/translations for you by extracting information from your contribution history via regular expressions. It's possible that the list has mistakes, or is incomplete. Please go over it, and fix up any problems or omissions you see, or note them at the Talk page. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 22:18, 7 March 2025 (UTC)
- Just FYI: I added subpage /translation drafts for the ones you created in Draft space. Please have a look and lmk if you see any problems. In particular, I assume these are all translations, so if any of them are *not* a translation of a foreign Wikipedia article, please flag them. Mathglot (talk) 22:12, 9 March 2025 (UTC)
- Great. That just leaves the issue of past translations that still require attribution to be added. Fortunately, that is much less onerous than it used to be, due to a new, bot-like procedure that can provide attribution en masse to a list of articles, so you don't have to do them one by one. It starts from a list containing the English Wikipedia article name, the translation timestamp, and the foreign Wikipedia article it came from. To make the process easier for you, I have created User:Thriley/translations for you by extracting information from your contribution history via regular expressions. It's possible that the list has mistakes, or is incomplete. Please go over it, and fix up any problems or omissions you see, or note them at the Talk page. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 22:18, 7 March 2025 (UTC)
Draft
[edit]I looked at the Kulturkaufhaus. It's mentioned on 2 pages, so I am reluctant of investing much time. How about a stub with the basics and leave the advertising details to the German article? -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:37, 4 March 2025 (UTC)
I looked at the references: some lost, one is from the house itself, some badly formatted, - not much left to build on, perhaps the two Tagesspiegel articles (one of them not marked as such). Nothing left about the architecture. - The synagogue (below) is perhaps worthier to invest time. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:28, 4 March 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you very much for looking. A stub certainly would be fine for now. I was surprised it had no English article when I went to Wikipedia to learn about it recently. Thriley (talk) 20:33, 4 March 2025 (UTC)
Westend Synagogue moved to draftspace
[edit]An article you recently created, Westend Synagogue, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Dan arndt (talk) 09:15, 4 March 2025 (UTC)
- Move to Draft space undone; restored to Mainspace. See next section. Mathglot (talk) 10:43, 4 March 2025 (UTC)
Finishing school for articles
[edit]So, the good news, is that Westend Synagogue is clearly a notable topic, which means it is worthwhile for inclusion in Wikipedia. Thanks for starting it! That said, there are a number of problems with it, that prompted another user to remove it from the encyclopedia:
- It had the wrong title. We use English titles at English Wikipedia, per WP:AT and WP:UE. I have fixed the previous foreign title, so it is now in English.
- It was unattributed. Translations from other Wikipedias *must* have proper attribution added to the edit history. See WP:CWW for details, and WP:TFOLWP for suggested wording. If you forget, you can add attribution retroactively, per WP:RIA. This is a *must*, and has to be dealt with. See section § Draft missing required translation attribution above for details.
- When creating any new English article that exists already on another Wikipedia (whether it is a translation or not) you should link it to the foreign article(s) via Wikidata using the language links. I have done this for you, linking it to de:Westend-Synagoge.
- It is an WP:ORPHAN, meaning, no articles link to it, so nobody will ever find your article and read it. It's a waste of your time to create articles that are orphans; please take the time to add links to your new article from others. See WP:ORPHAN or how to find in-lnks and add them.
- There were no outgoing links. In order to fully integrate the article into the encyclopedia, you should add links to other articles. (Some have since been added by two editors.) See WP:LINK.
- It requires additional citations. The only two citations are WP:BAREURLs, and they need to be upgraded to full citations, and more citations need to be added.
- Before updates, it was an uncategorized stub. This has been fixed with the addition of several categories.
Because of the parlous state it was in, another editor removed the article from mainspace, where you created it, and moved it to draft space. I undid this move, restoring your article to mainspace because it is clearly WP:Notable, but I understand why they did that, and it was a defensible move. Please now get to work on fixing the remaining issues with this article, so that it is worthy to remain among the encyclopedic articles at Wikipedia. When you create new articles going forward, please be sure to keep these points in mind. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 10:43, 4 March 2025 (UTC)
- Hello. I did attribute the origin of the content, I just did so with a casual "From German Wikipedia." I also included the proper attribution on the article talk page to state that I had translated content from the article in German. I meant to expand the article later, which has been done now somewhat. I appreciate the assistance. Best, Thriley (talk) 20:29, 4 March 2025 (UTC)
- Hello again, Thriley. The casual, "From German Wikipedia" is a helpful reminder to you, and the {{translated page}} template on the article Talk page is nice to have, but neither complies with the translation attribution requirement that is part of Wikipedia's licensing requirements. As this topic is less about improving the article, and more about copyright compliance which is a different animal, I have followed up in detail at the earlier discussion about this topic: see subsection § Translation attribution is part of a policy with legal considerations. Please read it carefully. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 23:16, 4 March 2025 (UTC)
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Your draft article, Draft:Rosalie van Breemen
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Your machine translations
[edit]Thriley, may I ask you to list which languages you speak or read well enough to do a translation from a foreign Wikipedia article into English? You can use the {{Babel}} template for this if you wish on your user page.
Looking at your contributions, you appear to have translated articles from Arabic, Cebuano, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Farsi, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malaysian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Tajik, Ukrainian, Uzbek, and Vietnamese. Unless you are a hyperpolyglot, you must be translating from languages you do not know, presumably using machine translation to do so.
This is problematic with respect to accuracy of content, because at best, a translated article is only as good as the original, and articles at other Wikipedias often are of lower quality than at English Wikipedia, or have problems of sourcing or accuracy. In addition, if the articles use citations to foreign sources that you cannot read, then we don't know if the article is verifiable which is potentially a serious problem. Please limit your translations to languages you known well enough to verify are correct in the original, and to know when machine translation gets it wrong (which happens all the time). Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 05:14, 7 March 2025 (UTC)
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[edit]Thank you for Reverting my edit on Pilar Del Rey, I don't know why it happened. It may be due to Tool error. UNITED BLASTERS (talk) 06:47, 8 March 2025 (UTC)
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week leading up to 2025-03-10. Missed the previous one? See issue #669
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This Month in GLAM: February 2025
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Tech News: 2025-11
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Updates for editors
- Editors who use password managers at multiple wikis may notice changes in the future. The way that our wikis provide information to password managers about reusing passwords across domains has recently been updated, so some password managers might now offer you login credentials that you saved for a different Wikimedia site. Some password managers already did this, and are now doing it for more Wikimedia domains. This is part of the [11]
- The Wikipedia Apps Team is inviting interested users to help improve Wikipedia’s offline and limited internet use. After discussions in Join the discussion or email [email protected]!
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 19. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.
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- The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available. It includes: the launch of the Community Updates module, the most recent changes in Community Configuration, and the upcoming test of in-article suggestions for first-time editors.
- An old API that was previously used in the Android Wikipedia app is being removed at the end of March. There are no current software uses, but users of the app with a version that is older than 6 months by the time of removal (2025-03-31), will no longer have access to the Suggested Edits feature, until they update their app. You can read more details about this change.
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On 11 March 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Rutherford Chang, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in 2008, artist Rutherford Chang collected around 4,000 ink-dot portraits from The Wall Street Journal and reorganized them alphabetically into a yearbook-style publication? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Rutherford Chang. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Rutherford Chang), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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DYK for Marion Wiesel
[edit]On 11 March 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Marion Wiesel, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Marion Wiesel translated 14 of her husband's books from French? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Marion Wiesel. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Marion Wiesel), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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This Month in Education: February 2025
[edit]- 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
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Nomination of Betsy Arakawa for deletion
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Betsy Arakawa
[edit]Hello there! Since you 18:34, 16 March 2025 (UTC)
- Please look at the article history. I did not add that material. Thriley (talk) 00:07, 18 March 2025 (UTC)
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Proposed deletion of Firerose
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Wikidata weekly summary #671
[edit]week leading up to 2025-03-17. Missed the previous one? See issue #670
Discussions
- New request for comments: 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 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) 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.
- wikimedia.de
- Join the Wikimedia Deutschland software development team: Product Manager Wikibase Suite (all genders)
Newest 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: Graceful17 entity ID, Historia Hispánica ID, Chinese Basketball Association player ID, MikuWiki article ID, SteamDB tech 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: Kosovo NGO registration number, CACI company ID, JSIC code, Thunderstore game ID, DGO ID, Rodovid family ID, Zurich Kantonsrat and Regierungsrat member ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest AncientMaths
- WikiProject Highlights: New country page for cividata.org. Help expanding it!
- Newest source)
- Perm (Q915) - city in Russia
- 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)
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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Tech News: 2025-12
[edit]Latest Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- Twice a year, around the equinoxes, the Wikimedia Foundation's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team performs March 19 at 14:00 UTC.
Updates for editors
- The the unified dashboard, desktop users can now: Translate new sections of an article; Discover and access topic-based 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 project talk page.
- Starting March 25, the Editing team will test a new feature for Edit Check at on Phabricator. [12]
- 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. [13]
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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.
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ITN recognition for Mark Klein
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I have sent you a note about a page you started
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Books & Bytes – Issue 67
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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
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DYK for Tim Urban (author)
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Tech News: 2025-13
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Weekly highlight
- The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking your feedback on the drafts of the objectives and key results that will shape the Foundation's Product and Technology priorities for the next fiscal year (starting in July). The objectives are broad high-level areas, and the key-results are measurable ways to track the success of their objectives. Please share your feedback on the talkpage, in any language, ideally before the end of April.
Updates for editors
- The Collaboration List, and extension talk page or in Phabricator (with #campaigns-product-team tag).
- Starting the week of March 31st, wikis will be able to set which user groups can view private registrants in requesting a configuration change in Phabricator (and adding the #campaigns-product-team tag). Participants of past events can cancel their registration at any time.
- Administrators at wikis that have a customized MediaWiki:Sidebar should check that it contains an entry for the Special pages listing. If it does not, they should add it using
* specialpages-url|specialpages. Wikis with a default sidebar will see the link moved from the page toolbox into the sidebar menu in April. [15] - The Minerva skin (mobile web) combines both Notice and Alert notifications within the bell icon (
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Updates for technical contributors
- VisualEditor has introduced a shared in the task.
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Wikidata weekly summary #672
[edit]week leading up to 2025-03-17. Missed the previous one? See issue #670
Discussions
- New request for comments: 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 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) 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.
- wikimedia.de
- Join the Wikimedia Deutschland software development team: Product Manager Wikibase Suite (all genders)
Newest 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: Graceful17 entity ID, Historia Hispánica ID, Chinese Basketball Association player ID, MikuWiki article ID, SteamDB tech 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: Kosovo NGO registration number, CACI company ID, JSIC code, Thunderstore game ID, DGO ID, Rodovid family ID, Zurich Kantonsrat and Regierungsrat member ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest AncientMaths
- WikiProject Highlights: New country page for cividata.org. Help expanding it!
- Newest source)
- Perm (Q915) - city in Russia
- 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)
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!)
[edit]week leading up to 2025-03-24. Missed the previous one? See issue #671
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot: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
- 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
- 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 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: Macrotransactions game ID, Amazon Music track 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: SeqCode Registry ID, TDKIV wikibase ID
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- WikiProject Highlights:
- Cinderella (Q15046091) - 2015 film directed by Kenneth Branagh
- 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:T386377)
- Vector 2022 skin: We fixed a number of the remaining issues with dark mode (phab:T316797)
- Search: We continued the work on making it easier to search in other entity types (Properties, Lexemes, EntitySchemas) besides Items (phab:T321543)
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! :)
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DYK for Baggu
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