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Wikidata weekly summary #641
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-08-26. Please help Translate.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-08-26. Please help Translate.
Discussions
- Open request for adminship:
- Closed request for adminship: Both requests successful, welcome new admins: Mohammed Qays and Wüstenspringmaus!
- New requests for permissions/Bot: Leaderbot - Task/s: reminds users when their rights are to expire (see Phab:T370842)
- Closed request for permissions/Bot: Bot5958 1b - RfP successful!
- New request for comments:
- Citations from Wikidata from Author: Palu
- Audio Transcription (P9533) from Author: Yug. P9533 is described as transcription of the word/text being spoken in this file. Does this exclude other communications modalities?
- "The Future of Wikidata Events" report by Wikimedia Deutschland is now available on Wikimedia Commons. This report provides valuable insights into the current state and future possibilities of Wikidata events. We encourage everyone to read the report and share their thoughts to help shape the future of our community events: Wikidata talk:Events#"The Future of Wikidata Events" Report Now Available on Wikimedia Commons.
- Wikidata's 12th Birthday is fast approaching. Do you need financial support to organize a birthday event? Here is some useful information about how to get funding: Wikidata:Twelfth Birthday/Run an event/Funding. The deadline to apply is September 1st.
- WikiLibCon25 The Wikimedia+Libraries International Convention 2025 takes place in Mexico City, Mexico between 15 - 17 January 2025 - Call for Scholarships (ends 31 August0 and Proposals (ends 15 September) are open. WikiLibCon25 brings together Wikimedians, Wikibrarians, information professionals, library workers and mission-aligned partners from around the globe to create a vivid community and promote cooperative projects in the Library & Wikimedia sphere.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Papers
- What does it mean to be queer in Wikidata?: Practices of gender representation within a transnational online community. By B. Melis et al.
- Diversity and bias in DBpedia and Wikidata as a challenge for text-analysis tools by B. Berendt et al. This paper explores how data sources can impact content analysis of their tool Diversity Searcher for analysing diversity in news media texts.
- Videos
- (sw) Wikipedia vs Wikidata - Fjodor Eklund shows how wikidata works and how searches are visualized.
- Wikimania Coolest Tool Award! 2024 - Wikidata had good representation with InteGraality and Wikidata Walkabout.
- Qichwabase: Building Knowledge Graphs for Under-Resourced Languages Elwin Huaman discuses how Wikibase and Wikidata have helped create a KG to empower local communities and languages.
- Slides: Giving metabolites (and lipids) a chemical and biological context with open science. This talk discusses the role of open science in providing chemical and biological context for metabolites and lipids, highlighting open-source cheminformatics, open standards, and open data to facilitate linking knowledge across databases and publications, as well as describing chemical interactions in biological pathway databases. By Egon Willighagen.
- Notebooks
- Olympic medals by group of countries 🥇🥈🥉: Using Wikidata and IOC data to compute the share of medals for a selected groups of countries
- Unequal distribution of medals from the Summer Olympics
Tool of the week
- Wikidata distributed/#game=94 - Help adding missing information related to artists on BNU's catalog (Select the option that fits best).
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New AI Project Manager to join Wikimedia Deutschland: We’re pleased to announce that a new AI project manager will be joining our team next week. Lydia and Jonathan (Director of Engineering) have been prototyping in this area and recently presented their work at the AI_dev summit (YouTube link). Our goal is to bring knowledge graphs and generative AI closer together, making AI more equitable, truthful, participatory, and open. More updates to come soon!
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- denomination (value of a currency or type of currency)
- Newest External identifiers: Illinois Center for the Book author ID, Slekt og Data grave ID, FolkWiki ID, iasj article ID, 365scores football team ID, speedrun.com series ID, All Musicals lyrics ID, MobyGames critic ID, Polygon game ID, Madain Project ID, 365scores basketball player ID, FOLDOC ID, GameFAQs genre ID, Retromags game ID, Nomes e Voces ID, Altar of Gaming company ID, Altar of Gaming franchise ID, Altar of Gaming game ID, Altar of Gaming person ID, Ciel d'oc ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- Larval host plant (Larval host plant - used only for insects - subclass of P1034)
- board game designer (person(s) who devised and developed this game)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: ACUM IDs, DOS Game Modding Wiki article, Mapcarta, Encyclopedia of Brno History literature ID, WikiYeshiva article ID, Denkmalnummer des Archivs der Stadt Linz, GameSpot genre ID, VideoGameGeek genre ID, Identifiant Say Who, VIRIN, Tabletopia game ID, Board Game Arena ID, CNES identifier, BoardGaming.com game ID, Finnish Company Number
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- WikiProject Highlights:
- Sweden/Banks - All Swedish banks still in operation
- Antiquity/Mythology - This WikiProject deals with everything connected to Greek mythology with an outlook on the traditional tales and divinities which came before and/or inspired it, like Ancient Egyptian mythology, Mesopotamian mythology (Sumerian, Akkadian and Babylonian) and Hittite mythology, as well as those of adjacent cultures and those influenced by the Greeks, most notably Roman mythology).
- Newest WikiProjects: Aotearoa Asian Artists - This project aims to improve the data available about Aotearoa Asian Artists - Asian diaspora artists from, living in, and connected to Aotearoa New Zealand.
- Newest database reports: Terminator: Articles with no interwikis in a given Wikipedia - Wikidata Items that lack a label, description, or article in a specific language.
- Showcase Items: Northern Transylvania Holocaust Memorial Museum - heritage site in Sălaj County, Romania
Development
- Not much happened this week. Many of the developers are still on vacation, and some are out sick.
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.
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 language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Wikidata weekly summary #643
[edit] Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-09-02.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-09-02.
Discussions
- Project chat: Wikidata:Project chat#Mass-import policy - A new mass-import policy has been proposed, focusing on improving the quality of existing items rather than importing new ones, with a suggested limit of 100 new items before requiring community approval.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session 3 September, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 3 September, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). Christa Strickler will be our first Project Series lead with her joint project with the Wikidata Religion & Theology Community of Practice to contribute biographical data to Wikidata from the IRFA database using the Mix’n’Match tool. We are excited to learn more about this project, provide a forum for discussion and shared learning, and lend a hand while building new skills. Event page: Wikidata:WikiProject LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group/Affinity Group Calls/First Project Series
- (id) Registration is open for the Wikimedia Indonesia Research Grant 2024 program. Open until 30 September 2024. This program opens funding opportunities for research on topics related to Wikidata, Wikipedia, or other Wiki projects, and Linked Open Data.
- Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—September 4, 2024. Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CEST
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs: (de) Wikibase4Research - Easily manage, share and visualize knowledge data, tailored for academic purposes, WB4R simplifies the installation and use of MedaWiki software. By Kolja Bailly.
- Papers
- KGPrune: a Web Application to Extract Subgraphs of Interest from Wikidata with Analogical Pruning (see also Videos) - this web application when given seed entities of interest and properties to traverse, extracts neighboring subgraphs from Wikidata. By Pierre Monnin.
- Project SHADOW: Symbolic Higher-order Associative Deductive reasoning On Wikidata using LM probing - A fine-tuned language model trained on an intermediate task using associative deductive reasoning. By Hanna Abi Akl.
- Transforming higher education: a decade of integrating Wikipedia and Wikidata for literacy enhancement and social impact - Demonstrating the role of Wikipedia and Wikidata in fostering knowledge creation, digital and data literacies and critical thinking, in Open Edcuational resources. By S.E. Sigalov, A. Cohen & R. Nachmias.
- Videos
- (es) Connect biodiversity to Wikimedia projects via iNaturalist? - Tiago Lubiana presents the inat2wiki platform (https://inat2wiki.toolforge.org/), designed to connect biodiversity observations to Commons and subsequently, to Wikipedia and Wikidata.
- (es) Lecture on Knowledge Graphs & Workshop on Querying Data - Sebastián Ferrada presents this lecture at the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science 2023 including a SPARQL and Wikidata Query Service workshop.
- Wiki4Education Technical Training - session 2 of the Wiki4Education training series held across 17 - 24 Aug 2024 in Uganda.
- Introducing KGPrune - a web application to extract subgraphs of interest from Wikidata with analogical pruning by Pierre Monnin.
- (ar) Intro to Wikidata at the Arabic Wikidata Days 2024, hosted by Houcemeddine Turki
- (ar) 2: Wikidata for Wikipedians - this session of Arabic Wikidata Days 2024 shows the benefits of using Wikidata in Wikipedia.
- Notebooks: Drawing the network of Adventures of Tintin
Tool of the week
- Display Wikidata Info on sister projects by User:Yair rand. This user-script will add the articles corresponding Wikidata item Label, Q-ID, Description and Short Desc. neatly under the article title. If no Wikidata item is linked, option to CreateNewItem page on Wikidata is provided.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Call for Projects and Mentors for Outreachy Round 29 is open! The deadline to submit projects on the Outreachy website is September 11, 2024 at 4pm UTC and the project list will be finalized by September 18, 2024.
- QuickStatements Community Consultation. Wiki Movimento Brazil as part of the Software Collaboration for Wikidata are conducting interviews to build upon the QuickStatements tool. If you're interested in helping refine the tool then get in touch with them.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- denomination (value of a currency or type of currency)
- exponent of base unit (a qualifier of derived from base unit (P12571) used to describe the exponent of the unit)
- Newest External identifiers: Illinois Center for the Book author ID, Slekt og Data grave ID, FolkWiki ID, iasj article ID, 365scores football team ID, speedrun.com series ID, All Musicals lyrics ID, MobyGames critic ID, Polygon game ID, Madain Project ID, 365scores basketball player ID, FOLDOC ID, GameFAQs genre ID, Retromags game ID, Nomes e Voces ID, Altar of Gaming company ID, Altar of Gaming franchise ID, Altar of Gaming game ID, Altar of Gaming person ID, Ciel d'oc ID, VideoGameGeek genre ID, GameSpot genre ID, FranceTerme identifier, DOS Game Modding Wiki article ID, monument ID in the archive of Linz
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- Larval host plant (Larval host plant - used only for insects - subclass of P1034)
- board game designer (person(s) who devised and developed this game)
- has reading (phonetic reading or pronunciation of the sinogram)
- agent of action & agent class of action & agents of action have role (particular item that initiates this action or class of actions)
- formula weight (molar mass of an empirical forumula unit of a chemical compound, element or isotope)
- mode of reproduction (ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings)
- initialism (abbreviation containing only first letters of an expression (regardless if pronounced as letters or as a word))
- Handwriting example (Sample image of the person's handwriting.)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: ACUM IDs, Mapcarta, Encyclopedia of Brno History literature ID, WikiYeshiva article ID, Identifiant Say Who, VIRIN, Tabletopia game ID, Board Game Arena ID, CNES identifier, BoardGaming.com game ID, Finnish Company Number, case id (mainland China), Identifiant dans l'annuaire de l'École des chartes, Trakt episode ID, The Indian Express Topic ID, NWIS site ID, Hindustan Times Topic ID, Lexikon der Mathematik entry ID, Biblioteka Nauki IDs, TV Maze character ID, identifiant Prosocour d'une personne, Stadtwiki Karlsruhe ID, culture.ru organization ID, 365scores basketball team ID, identifiant Encyclopédie des femmes tunisiennes
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest database reports: Sitelinks to Wiktionary - List of Items with links to Wiktionary main space.
- Showcase Items: Wikimedia disambiguation page (Q4167410): type of wiki page usually in main namespace (article namespace, ns=0) containing links to articles with similar names, and very little details only, use with P31 "instance of" (2024-09-02)
- Showcase Lexemes: থোড়া (L345714): Bengali verb thôṛa in English imply something that is “chopped” or “minced”
Development
- Wikidata Query Service:
- The WMF Search Platform team is putting the finishing touches on the new Query Service servers that contain the two parts of the split graph.
- We are analyzing which percentage of current queries are better served by other systems like the REST API or search.
- Wikimedia projects integration:
- We have worked on moving the Wikidata Item link out of the toolbox section of the sidebar of an article. It has been rolled out to the first wikis: ukwiki, hewiki, fawiki (phab:T66315)
- We are working on decreasing the amount of irrelevant changes from Wikidata in the watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and co by correcting the tracking behaviour of the Lua function mw.wikibase.entity:getSitelink() (phab:T295356)
- Wikibase REST API: We continued improving errors and error messages.
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.
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: Ghana
- 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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Wikidata weekly summary #644
[edit] Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-09-02. Please help Translate. Missed the previous one?
See issue #643
week leading up to 2024-09-02. Please help Translate. Missed the previous one?
See issue #643
Discussions
- Open request for adminship: أمين - RfP scheduled to end 9 September 2024 11:18 (UTC).
- Next: (pt) Auditive Health Project – Workshop Wikipedia and Wikidata 10 September - Expand and contribute to articles and items on Audiology, this event will be held in 3 participating Universities in Brazil. Register on Etherpad.
- Upcoming: The program for the Celtic Knot Conference 2024 is now available to view! Whether you're interested in language preservation, digital tools for minority languages, or simply connecting with like-minded individuals, there's something for everyone. The conference will take place in Waterford City from September 25-27, 2024
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- (de) TIB Blog:The TIB project WikiRemembrance - The aim of the project was to develop a handout on digital culture of remembrance in a collaborative and participatory process. The project will be ending soon and you can register for the closing event (9 Oct 2024).
- Correcting outdated facts in Wikidata - Anj Simmons takes us through an example of finding an outdated or inaccurate fact and correcting it with supporting references.
- Adding citations between existing articles in Wikidata - About a command line tool written in Groovy to enrich Wikidata with citations between journal articles and other research output with DOIs
- Videos
- Wikidata Quality Toolkit: Empowering Wikidata editors and content. Albert Meroño introduces a suite of tools to assist editors by recommending items to edit, detect poorly-supported item references and generating EntitySchemas to find items missing information.
- (ar) Arabic Wikidata Days 2024 - Session 3: SPARQL Query - Houcemeddine Turki introduces how to forumlate and build SPARQL queries in the Wikidata Query Service.
Tool of the week
- User:Teester/CheckShex.js - a Userscript that adds an input box to a Wikidata page wherein you can enter an EntitySchema (such as E10). When you click "Check", it uses pyshexy to validate the entity against the schema and displays whether the entity passes or fails.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- 🔥 Big changes are coming to the #WikidataQueryService. If you query for scholarly articles, please take a look at this announcement!
- Is Shakespeare in German something for you? A digital version of the Schlegel/Tieck edition (Aufbau-Verlag 1975) was released with Wikidata connections. (source)
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes
- denomination (value of a currency or type of currency)
- exponent of base unit (a qualifier of derived from base unit (P12571) used to describe the exponent of the unit)
- game designer (person(s) who devised and developed this game)
- Handwriting exaple (Sample image of the person's handwriting.)
- Newest External identifiers: Illinois Center for the Book author ID, Slekt og Data grave ID, FolkWiki ID, iasj article ID, 365scores football team ID, speedrun.com series ID, All Musicals lyrics ID, MobyGames critic ID, Polygon game ID, Madain Project ID, 365scores basketball player ID, FOLDOC ID, GameFAQs genre ID, Retromags game ID, Nomes e Voces ID, Altar of Gaming company ID, Altar of Gaming franchise ID, Altar of Gaming game ID, Altar of Gaming person ID, Ciel d'oc ID, VideoGameGeek genre ID, GameSpot genre ID, FranceTerme identifier, DOS Game Modding Wiki article ID, monument ID in the archive of Linz, Altar of Gaming character ID, WikiYeshiva article ID, Yediot Books book ID, Mapcarta ID, VIRIN, cnkgraph person ID, Tabletopia game ID, cnkgraph book ID, cnkgraph poem ID, Lexikon der Mathematik entry ID, CNES ID, Tretyakov Gallery artist ID, TV Maze character ID, Say Who ID, Finnish Business ID, Prosocour person ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- Larval host plant (Larval host plant - used only for insects - subclass of P1034)
- has reading (phonetic reading or pronunciation of the sinogram)
- agent of action & agent class of action & agents of action have role (particular item that initiates this action or class of actions)
- formula weight (molar mass of an empirical forumula unit of a chemical compound, element or isotope)
- mode of reproduction (ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings)
- initialism (abbreviation containing only first letters of an expression (regardless if pronounced as letters or as a word))
- health points (health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character)
- damage (damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character)
- magazine capacity (magazine capacity or clip size of this firearm or weapon (real or fictional))
- male mean age (male mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
- female mean age (female mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
- Mummy of a person (mummy of a person)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: ACUM IDs, Encyclopedia of Brno History literature ID, Board Game Arena ID, BoardGaming.com game ID, case id (mainland China), Identifiant dans l'annuaire de l'École des chartes, Trakt episode ID, The Indian Express Topic ID, NWIS site ID, Hindustan Times Topic ID, Biblioteka Nauki IDs, Stadtwiki Karlsruhe ID, culture.ru organization ID, identifiant Encyclopédie des femmes tunisiennes, LMFDB knowl ID, Athletics New Zealand athlete ID, MinDat Feature ID, BoardGameGeek game mechanic ID, Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV), Ontobee id, newgrounds.com game ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest database reports: Lexicographical data/Ideas of queries/list of sense properties
- Showcase Items: atheism (Q7066) - absence of belief in the existence of deities; the opposite of theism
- Showcase Lexemes: 𒆠𒅅𒂵𒉘 (L1347328) - Sumerian verb, means 'to love'
Development
- (BREAKING CHANGE ANNOUNCEMENT) Wikidata Query Service graph split available in production; scholarly entity queries require migration by March 2025
- We ported many WikibaseLexeme browser tests from WebdriverIO to Cypress (phab:T355934)
- We’re working on improving the MUL support in the mobile termbox (phab:T373088)
- We’re updating the “label in language” constraint for MUL (phab:T370293)
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.
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.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country: Canada
- 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: 2024-37
[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.
Feature news
- Starting this week, the standard syntax highlighter will receive new colors that make them compatible in dark mode. This is the first of many changes to come as part of a major upgrade to syntax highlighting. You can learn more about what's to come on the help page. [1][2]
- Editors of wikis using Wikidata will now be notified of only relevant Wikidata changes in their watchlist. This is because the Lua functions
entity:getSitelink()andmw.wikibase.getSitelink(qid)will have their logic unified for tracking different aspects of sitelinks to reduce junk notifications from inconsistent sitelinks tracking. [3]
Project updates
- Users of all Wikis will have access to Wikimedia sites as read-only for a few minutes on September 25, starting at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [4]
- Contributors of 11 Wikipedias, including English will have a new
MOSnamespace added to their Wikipedias. This improvement ensures that links beginning withMOS:(usually shortcuts to the Manual of Style) are not broken by Mooré Wikipedia (language codemos). [5]
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Volume 13 • Issue 7 • August 2024
In This Issue
- Cross-Cultural Knowledge Sharing: Wikipedia's New Frontier at University of Tehran
- Let's Read Wikipedia in Bolivia reaches teachers in Cochabamba
- Results of the 2023 “Wikipedia for School” Contest in Ukraine
- Edu Wiki Camp in Serbia, 2024
- Wikimedia Human Rights Month this year engaged schools in large amount
- Strengthening Education Programs at Wikimania 2024: A Global Leap in Collaborative Learning
- Wiki Education programs are featured in a scientific outreach magazine, and Wiki Movimento Brasil offers training for researchers in the Amazon
- Wiki Movimento Brasil aims to adapt a game about Wikipedia, organize an academic event for scientific dissemination, and host the XXXIII Wiki-Education Workshop
Wikidata weekly summary #645
[edit] Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-09-16. Please help Translate. Missed the previous one?
See issue #644
week leading up to 2024-09-16. Please help Translate. Missed the previous one?
See issue #644
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot: Framabot 5 - Task: update a typography error in the French description of homonym pages, seen on 1.
- New request for comments: Additional rights for bureaucrats - The proposal suggests allowing Wikidata bureaucrats to remove admin rights, which they currently cannot do, to streamline processes, reduce reliance on stewards, and align with practices of other wikis.
- Proposal: Mul labels - proposal of massive addition - The proposal suggests massively adding "mul" labels to Wikidata items for given and family names, using a bot to streamline the process and reduce redundant labels.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session 17 September, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 17 September, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). Christa Strickler will be our first Project Series lead with her joint project with the Wikidata Religion & Theology Community of Practice to contribute biographical data to Wikidata from the IRFA database using the Mix’n’Match tool. We are excited to learn more about this project, provide a forum for discussion and shared learning, and lend a hand while building new skills. Event page: Session 2 (September 17) - Working session using Mix‘n’Match to add Wikidata items
- Wikidata Day 2024 (Seattle) - Agenda: Wikidata Twelfth Birthday, Training and Edit-a-thon. When: Saturday, October 26, from 12:30–4:30pm PDT
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Looking for Aotearoa's next roving Wikipedian, a Wikidata Te Papa research expeditions publication & the Wikidata WikiProject IBC follow-up workshop - The Aotearoa Wikipedian at Large worked with multiple institutions in 2024, contributing to Wikidata by improving museum exhibition models, creating articles, and collaborating on various projects, including biological field trips and entomology, while also engaging with the local Christchurch editing community.
- Wikimedians-in-residence assigned to add lexicographical data of 5 endangered languages of West Bengal - The West Bengal Wikimedians User Group, in collaboration with Jadavpur University, has appointed five linguistics students as Wikimedians-in-residence to add lexicographical data for five endangered languages of West Bengal to Wikidata, contributing to their preservation and digital accessibility.
- Cooperation between National Library and Wikimedia CR was presented at Wikimania 2024 - Wikimedia Czech Republic presented their long-standing collaboration with the National Library at Wikimania 2024, highlighting joint educational and community initiatives, along with additional sessions on media education and successful campaigns during the event.
- Vacancy Wikimedian in Residence for Wikipedia on Aruba - Aruba on Wikipedia project - Wikimedia Nederland is seeking a Wikimedian in Residence for the "Wikipedia on Aruba" project, which aims to make Aruban and Dutch Caribbean culture and heritage accessible on Wikimedia platforms, with applications open until 16 September 2024.
- Presentations: The knowledge graph of Wikidata in the context of the Human Cell Atlas - presentation by Tiago Lubiana (Q90076935) around their PhD defense
- Essay: User:ASarabadani (WMF)/Growth of databases of Wikidata
Tool of the week
- User:Lagewi/references.js - "Sometimes, the data on Wikidata does not answer all your questions. Some types of information are difficult to encode in statements, or simply has not been encoded on Wikidata yet. In such cases, it might be useful to go through the references attached to claims of the entity, for additional information. To simplify this process, this user script lists all unique references based on stated in (P248) and reference URL (P854). The references are listed in a collapsible list below the table of labels and descriptions, collapsed by default to not be obtrusive." To enable it, include the following line in your common.js:
mw.loader.load('//www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=User:Lagewi/references.js&oldid=2039248554&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes
- denomination (value of a currency or type of currency)
- exponent of base unit (a qualifier of derived from base unit (P12571) used to describe the exponent of the unit)
- game designer (person(s) who devised and developed this game)
- handwriting example (sample image of the person's handwriting)
- objects of occurrence have role (role that objects of this occurrence take on in the context of this occurrence. (For selectional restrictions, use "object class of occurrence" (P12913) instead.))
- agents of action have role (role that agents of this action take on in the context of this action. (For selectional restrictions, use "agent class of action" (P12994) instead. ))
- agent class of action (class of items that may initiate this action or class of actions (For roles filled by agents of an action, use "agents of action have role" (P12993) instead))
- agent of action (particular item that initiates this action or class of actions)
- Newest External identifiers: Illinois Center for the Book author ID, Slekt og Data grave ID, FolkWiki ID, iasj article ID, 365scores football team ID, speedrun.com series ID, All Musicals lyrics ID, MobyGames critic ID, Polygon game ID, Madain Project ID, 365scores basketball player ID, FOLDOC ID, GameFAQs genre ID, Retromags game ID, Nomes e Voces ID, Altar of Gaming company ID, Altar of Gaming franchise ID, Altar of Gaming game ID, Altar of Gaming person ID, Ciel d'oc ID, VideoGameGeek genre ID, GameSpot genre ID, FranceTerme identifier, DOS Game Modding Wiki article ID, monument ID in the archive of Linz, Altar of Gaming character ID, WikiYeshiva article ID, Yediot Books book ID, Mapcarta ID, VIRIN, cnkgraph person ID, Tabletopia game ID, cnkgraph book ID, cnkgraph poem ID, Lexikon der Mathematik entry ID, CNES ID, Tretyakov Gallery artist ID, TV Maze character ID, Say Who ID, Finnish Business ID, Prosocour person ID, Stadtwiki Karlsruhe ID, Athletics New Zealand athlete ID, Encyclopedia of Tunisian Women person ID, LMFDB knowl ID, ACUM performer ID, ACUM creator/publisher ID, ACUM Work ID, ACUM album ID, culture.ru organization ID, Hindustan Times topic ID, Newgrounds submission ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review
- Larval host plant (Larval host plant - used only for insects - subclass of P1034)
- has reading (phonetic reading or pronunciation of the kanji)
- formula weight (molar mass of an empirical forumula unit of a chemical compound, element or isotope)
- mode of reproduction (ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings)
- initialism (abbreviation containing only first letters of an expression (regardless if pronounced as letters or as a word))
- health points (health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character)
- damage (damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character)
- magazine capacity (magazine capacity or clip size of this firearm or weapon (real or fictional))
- male mean age (male mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
- female mean age (female mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
- Mummy of a person (mummy of a person)
- publication type of scholarly article (Publication type of scholarly article)
- characteristic of ((qualifier only) statement value is a characteristic, quality, property, or state of this item)
- Political foundation (The property allows a link between a political party (usually) and its related political foundation, as is common in Germany, in the Netherlands or at the European level. The reverse property ("political party" or "political party affiliation", still different from P102 which is for individual membership) would be useful too.)
- Medietilsynets filmdatabase ()
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Encyclopedia of Brno History literature ID, Board Game Arena ID, BoardGaming.com game ID, case id (mainland China), Identifiant dans l'annuaire de l'École des chartes, Trakt episode ID, The Indian Express Topic ID, NWIS site ID, Biblioteka Nauki IDs, MinDat Feature ID, BoardGameGeek game mechanic ID, Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV), Ontobee id, typeset.io journal ID, LWW journal ID, BioMed Central journal ID, Storia della civiltà europea ID, NooSFere editorial collection ID, e-LIS ID, Dictionnaire des guérilleros et résistants antifranquistes ID, Historical Encyclopedia of Siberia ID, pomniky.npmk.cz ID, FightTime fighters ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Map of Karens / Johns per million according to Wikidata
- People with a connection to Dresden who have an anniversary today (source)
- Newest WikiProjects:
- Wikibooks pages - The goal is to add Wikidata items for every Wikibooks page.
- Couchdb - This project has the purpose to investigate how having Wikidata on CouchDb could work.
- Temporärhaus - This project is intended to document the activities in the temporaerhaus (Q27945856) with reference to Wikidata.
- WikiProject Highlights: Ontology/Cleaning Task Force/Changes - Significant actual and proposed changes to the Wikidata ontology that have come out of the cleaning task force efforts.
- Newest database reports: Wikidata Statements that use a retracted article as reference
- Showcase Items: Among Us (Q96417649) - 2018 video game developed by InnerSloth
- Showcase Lexemes: ਕਰਨ (L45436) - Punjabi verb "to do"
Development
- The development team attended the annual WMDE Software Department retreat, so there wasn't much development activity this week.
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.
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!
Tech News: 2024-38
[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.
Improvements and Maintenance
Editors interested in templates can help by reading the latest Wishlist focus area, Template recall and discovery, and share your feedback on the talkpage. This input helps the Community Tech team to decide the right technical approach to build. Everyone is also encouraged to continue adding new wishes.- The new automated Special:NamespaceInfo page helps editors understand which namespaces exist on each wiki, and some details about how they are configured. Thanks to DannyS712 for these improvements. [6]
- References Check is a feature that encourages editors to add a citation when they add a new paragraph to a Wikipedia article. For a short time, the corresponding tag "Edit Check (references) activated" was erroneously being applied to some edits outside of the main namespace. This has been fixed. [7]
- It is now possible for a wiki community to change the order in which a page’s categories are displayed on their wiki. By default, categories are displayed in the order they appear in the wikitext. Now, wikis with a consensus to do so can request a configuration change to display them in alphabetical order. [8]
Tool authors can now access ToolsDB's public databases from both Quarry and Superset. Those databases have always been accessible to every Toolforge user, but they are now more broadly accessible, as Quarry can be accessed by anyone with a Wikimedia account. In addition, Quarry's internal database can now be queried from Quarry itself. This database contains information about all queries that are being run and starred by users in Quarry. This information was already public through the web interface, but you can now query it using SQL. You can read more about that, and 20 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.- Any pages or tools that still use the very old CSS classes
mw-message-boxneed to be updated. These old classes will be removed next week or soon afterwards. Editors can use a global-search to determine what needs to be changed. It is possible to use the newercdx-messagegroup of classes as a replacement (see the relevant Codex documentation, and an example update), but using locally defined onwiki classes would be best. [9]
Technical project updates
- Next week, all Wikimedia wikis will be read-only for a few minutes. This will start on September 25 at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. This maintenance process also targets other services. The previous switchover took 3 minutes, and the Site Reliability Engineering teams use many tools to make sure that this essential maintenance work happens as quickly as possible. [10]
Tech in depth
- The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available. This edition includes details about: research about hook handlers to help simplify development, research about performance improvements, work to improve the REST API for end-users, and more.
- To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
- Hackathon Showcase (45 mins) - 19 short presentations by some of the Hackathon participants, describing some of the projects they worked on, such as automated testing of maintenance scripts, a video-cutting command line tool, and interface improvements for various tools. There are more details and links available in the Phabricator task.
- Co-Creating a Sustainable Future for the Toolforge Ecosystem (40 mins) - a roundtable discussion for tool-maintainers, users, and supporters of Toolforge about how to make the platform sustainable and how to evaluate the tools available there.
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Tech News: 2024-39
[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.
Weekly highlight
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on Wednesday September 25 at 15:00 UTC. Reading the wikis will not be interrupted, but editing will be paused. These twice-yearly processes allow WMF's site reliability engineering teams to remain prepared to keep the wikis functioning even in the event of a major interruption to one of our data centers.
Updates for editors
- Editors who use the iOS Wikipedia app in Spanish, Portuguese, French, or Chinese, may see the Alt Text suggested-edit experiment after editing an article, or completing a suggested edit using "Add an image". Alt-text helps people with visual impairments to read Wikipedia articles. The team aims to learn if adding alt-text to images is a task that editors can be successful with. Please share any feedback on the discussion page.
- The Codex color palette has been updated with new and revised colors for the MediaWiki user interfaces. The most noticeable changes for editors include updates for: dark mode colors for Links and for quiet Buttons (progressive and destructive), visited Link colors for both light and dark modes, and background colors for system-messages in both light and dark modes.
- It is now possible to include clickable wikilinks and external links inside code blocks. This includes links that are used within
<syntaxhighlight>tags and on code pages (JavaScript, CSS, Scribunto and Sanitized CSS). Uses of template syntax{{…}}are also linked to the template page. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements. [11] - Two bugs were fixed in the GlobalVanishRequest system by improving the logging and by removing an incorrect placeholder message. [12][13]
- View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- From Wikimedia Enterprise:
- The API now enables 5,000 on-demand API requests per month and twice-monthly HTML snapshots freely (gratis and libre). More information on the updates and also improvements to the software development kits (SDK) are explained on the project's blog post. While Wikimedia Enterprise APIs are designed for high-volume commercial reusers, this change enables many more community use-cases to be built on the service too.
- The Snapshot API (html dumps) have added beta Structured Contents endpoints (blog post on that) as well as released two beta datasets (English and French Wikipedia) from that endpoint to Hugging Face for public use and feedback (blog post on that). These pre-parsed data sets enable new options for researchers, developers, and data scientists to use and study the content.
In depth
- The Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) is used to get answers to questions using the Wikidata data set. As Wikidata grows, we had to make a major architectural change so that WDQS could remain performant. As part of the WDQS Graph Split project, we have new SPARQL endpoints available for serving the "scholarly" and "main" subgraphs of Wikidata. The query.wikidata.org endpoint will continue to serve the full Wikidata graph until March 2025. After this date, it will only serve the main graph. For more information, please see the announcement on Wikidata.
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Wikidata Weekly Summary #647
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<translate> Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-09-30. Please help Translate. Missed the previous one?
See issue #646</translate>
week leading up to 2024-09-30. Please help Translate. Missed the previous one?
See issue #646</translate>
<translate>Discussions</translate> <translate>* Closed request for adminship: Andrei Stroe - Success! Welcome User:Andrei Stroe as Wikidata's latest Admin.
- New requests for permissions/Bot: QichwaBot - Task(s): Creating wikidata lexemes for the Quechua languages.
- Closed request for comments: Do we want automatic inverse statement creation and if so, how should they happen? - Closed due to lack of comments for longer than five years. Despite multiple suggestions, there is no clear consensus to move forward.</translate>
<translate>Events</translate> <translate>* Wikidata's 12th birthday is coming up on October 29th. Have a look at the birthday parties and more planned around the world.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session 1 October, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 1 October, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). Christa Strickler will be our first Project Series lead with her joint project with the Wikidata Religion & Theology Community of Practice to contribute biographical data to Wikidata from the IRFA database using the Mix’n’Match tool. We are excited to learn more about this project, provide a forum for discussion and shared learning, and lend a hand while building new skills. Event page.</translate>
<translate>Press, articles, blog posts, videos</translate> <translate>* Papers
- A Systematic Review of Wikidata in GLAM Institutions: a Labs Approach - Presents a systematic review of Wikidata use in GLAM institutions within the context of the work of the International GLAM Labs Community (glamlabs.io). The results summarise academic literature on Wikidata projects. By G. Candela et al.
- (es) Wikidata course in Spanish: Data for collaborative knowledge - Throughout October, the WikiLearn platform is hosting a course on Wikidata aimed especially at Latin Americans. Enroll here.
- Project SHADOW: Symbolic Higher-order Associative Deductive reasoning On Wikidata using LM probing - SHADOW is a fine-tuned language model trained on an intermediate task using associative deductive reasoning, its performance is measured on a knowledge base construction task using Wikidata triple completion. By Hanna Abi Akl.
- Using Wikidata for Managing Cultural Heritage Information - The present study uses model wikidata elements as a basis and explores its dynamic formation into a cultural heritage information management tool within a museum. By D. Kyriaki-Manessi and S. Vazaiou.
- Enriching Archival Linked Data Descriptions with Information from Wikidata and DBpedia - This paper investigates the potential to use information in archival records in a larger context for ArchOnto and aims to leverage classes and properties sourced from repositories deemed informal due to their crowd-sourcing nature. By I. Koch et al.
- A framework for integrating biomedical knowledge in Wikidata with open biological and biomedical ontologies and MeSH keywords - This paper utilizes primary data sources of OBO ontologies and MeSH keywords classified using SPARQL queries for RDF knowledge graphs, to contribute to the robustness and accuracy of collaborative biomedical knowledge graphs. By H. Turki et al.
- Videos
- Serbian Novels on Wikidata: Project wikiELTeC & Tesla Part of Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2024 in İstanbul, this session presented by Filip Maljković charts progress on contributing Serbian literature to Wikidata.
- Dataviz
- Find your most famous neighbour, a world map of notable people based on Wikipedia and Wikidata.</translate>
<translate>Tool of the week</translate> <translate>* Three new Userscripts for Wikidata - User:Lagewi has written 3 scripts to simplify reading references, explore property-value pairs in use for a statement or attaching a full bibliography to the end of the item page.</translate>
<translate>Other Noteworthy Stuff</translate> <translate>* OpenSactions:Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories - Using PETScan, generates a list of profiles of politically exposed persons by querying specific categories on Wikidata and extracting the entities.</translate>
<translate>Newest properties and property proposals to review</translate>
- <translate>Newest properties:</translate>
- <translate>General datatypes: </translate>
- game designer (person(s) who devised and developed this game)
- handwriting example (sample image of the person's handwriting)
- objects of occurrence have role (role that objects of this occurrence take on in the context of this occurrence. (For selectional restrictions, use "object class of occurrence" (P12913) instead.))
- agents of action have role (role that agents of this action take on in the context of this action. (For selectional restrictions, use "agent class of action" (P12994) instead. ))
- agent class of action (class of items that may initiate this action or class of actions (For roles filled by agents of an action, use "agents of action have role" (P12993) instead))
- agent of action (particular item that initiates this action or class of actions)
- <translate>External identifiers: </translate>Altar of Gaming character ID, WikiYeshiva article ID, Yediot Books book ID, Mapcarta ID, VIRIN, cnkgraph person ID, Tabletopia game ID, cnkgraph book ID, cnkgraph poem ID, Lexikon der Mathematik entry ID, CNES ID, Tretyakov Gallery artist ID, TV Maze character ID, Say Who ID, Finnish Business ID, Prosocour person ID, Stadtwiki Karlsruhe ID, Athletics New Zealand athlete ID, Encyclopedia of Tunisian Women person ID, LMFDB knowl ID, ACUM performer ID, ACUM creator/publisher ID, ACUM Work ID, ACUM album ID, culture.ru organization ID, Hindustan Times topic ID, Newgrounds submission ID, Storia della civiltà europea ID, Encyclopedia of Brno History literature ID, Linked Open Vocabularies ID, Ontobee ID, typeset.io journal ID, NooSFere editorial collection ID, pomniky.npmk.cz ID, Dictionary of guerrillas and anti-Franco resistance fighters ID, e-LIS publication ID, GameReactor company ID
- <translate>General datatypes: </translate>
<translate>* New property proposals to review:</translate> <translate>** General datatypes: </translate>
- Larval host plant (Larval host plant - used only for insects - subclass of P1034)
- has reading (phonetic reading or pronunciation of the kanji)
- chemical formula (Description of chemical compound giving element symbols and counts)
- mode of reproduction (ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings)
- health points (health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character)
- damage (damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character)
- magazine capacity (In (real or fictional) devices like a firearm, weapon, or engineered thing, this is the default capacity or size of a devices' magazine, clip, or other container typically used to hold ammunition, bolts, cartridges, tools, etc. which pushes those items as needed usually through a spring-based mechanism into a receiver for further use by the device)
- male mean age (male mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
- female mean age (female mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
- Mummy of a person (mummy of a person)
- publication type of scholarly article (Publication type of scholarly article)
- characteristic of ((qualifier only) statement value is a characteristic, quality, property, or state of this item)
- Medietilsynets filmdatabase (identifier for a film in the Norwegian Medietilsynets database)
- Western Australian Biographical Index (Card ID from the Western Australian Biographical Index, a set of handwritten index cards compiled in the 1970s.)
- leased to (person or organisation that holds or was granted a lease on the subject)
- WPBSA com player ID (Identifier for an athlete on the main website of WPBSA)
- JLPT level (difficulty of word by the level of JLPT)
<translate>** External identifiers:</translate> case id (mainland China), NWIS site ID, Biblioteka Nauki IDs, LWW journal ID, BioMed Central journal ID, Historical Encyclopedia of Siberia ID, FightTime fighters ID, Korean Basketball League ID, Identifiant L'Humanité d’un sujet, Chinese Basketball Association ID2, Koha Kütüphane ID, MyWaifuList character ID, FantLab artist ID, Münzkabinett, Latgales dati person ID, identifiant inventaire Grand Est, RedBA Granada authority ID, MetalTabs.com musician ID, HA! ID, Identifiant Radio France d'une émission, Identifiant France Télévisions d'une émission, beniabbandonati ID, DDB person ID, European Parliament document ID, Hlídač státu subject ID, Kramerius of Czech Digital Library UUID, Acervo de Literatura Digital Mato-Grossense ID, Persons and Names of the Middle Kingdom and early New Kingdom person ID, Cihai encyclopedia entry ID, Cihai dictionary entry ID, Duocet Wiki of Plants ID
<translate>You can comment on all open property proposals!</translate>
<translate>Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects:
- Newest database reports: Popular_items_without_claims
- Showcase Lexemes: هُئَڻُ L1126190 Sindhi verb (to be)</translate>
<translate>Development
- Search: The haswbstatement search magic word has been improved by the Search Platform Team. Previously it was limited in which Properties were indexed for it. Going forward haswbstatement:P123 will work for all Properties, regardless of their datatype. This will allow you to filter search results for Items that have a statement with a specific Property. (Searching for a specific complete statement with haswbstatement:P123=xxx will still only work for specific datatypes.) For this to work all Items have to be reindexed and this will take up to 1 month.
- Design system migration: We have migrated the Special:NewLexeme page from Wikit to Codex and are working on finishing the migration for the Query Builder.
- EntitySchemas: We finished the investigation about how to support search for EntitySchemas by label or alias when linking to an EntitySchema in a statement. (phab:T362005)
- Wikibase REST API: We worked on integrating language fallbacks into the API (phab:T371605)
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.</translate>
<translate>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!</translate>
Tech News: 2024-40
[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.
Updates for editors
- Readers of 42 more wikis can now use Dark Mode. If the option is not yet available for logged-out users of your wiki, this is likely because many templates do not yet display well in Dark Mode. Please use the night-mode-checker tool if you are interested in helping to reduce the number of issues. The recommendations page provides guidance on this. Dark Mode is enabled on additional wikis once per month.
- Editors using the 2010 wikitext editor as their default can access features from the 2017 wikitext editor by adding
?veaction=editsourceto the URL. If you would like to enable the 2017 wikitext editor as your default, it can be set in your preferences. [14] - For logged-out readers using the Vector 2022 skin, the "donate" link has been moved from a collapsible menu next to the content area into a more prominent top menu, next to "Create an account". This restores the link to the level of prominence it had in the Vector 2010 skin. Learn more about the changes related to donor experiences. [15]
- The CampaignEvents extension provides tools for organizers to more easily manage events, communicate with participants, and promote their events on the wikis. The extension has been enabled on Arabic Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, Swahili Wikipedia, and Meta-Wiki. Chinese Wikipedia has decided to enable the extension, and discussions on the extension are in progress on Spanish Wikipedia and on Wikidata. To learn how to enable the extension on your wiki, you can visit the CampaignEvents page on Meta-Wiki.
- View all 22 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- Developers with an account on Wikitech-wiki should check if any action is required for their accounts. The wiki is being changed to use the single-user-login (SUL) system, and other configuration changes. This change will help reduce the overall complexity for the weekly software updates across all our wikis.
In depth
- The server switch was completed successfully last week with a read-only time of only 2 minutes 46 seconds. This periodic process makes sure that engineers can switch data centers and keep all of the wikis available for readers, even if there are major technical issues. It also gives engineers a chance to do maintenance and upgrades on systems that normally run 24 hours a day, and often helps to reveal weaknesses in the infrastructure. The process involves dozens of software services and hundreds of hardware servers, and requires multiple teams working together. Work over the past few years has reduced the time from 17 minutes down to 2–3 minutes. [16]
Meetings and events
- October 4–6: WikiIndaba Conference's Hackathon in Johannesburg, South Africa
- November 4–6: MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2024 in Vienna, Austria
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