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==Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib ==
Good tigings to you from a believer in One Creator of the Heavens and the Earth!

i see that you have edited the page ] on Misplaced Pages,
i must say to you that in Islam it is not allowed to put nor draw nor see the picture of a man

i strongly encourage you o remove the picture from the page of Ali_ibn_Abi_Talib

if you have any queries or questions on that please e-mail me asap,
my email is saken_k@hotmail.com

With warmest regards,
Saken ibn Amankeldi

:Hello Saken. I am aware of this interpretation of Islam, also prohibitions on depicting any living thing, or indeed depictions at all. I had brought this matter up already, when we were discussing Image Filters, but was told that I was being foolish.
:I suggest you investigate your browser settings and turn off "images".
:All the best, '']&nbsp;]'', <small>16:32, 16 May 2012 (UTC).</small><br />

==How many categories are there?==
(Not including redirects). ] 11:34, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
:A lot! It depends partly on whether you include empty categories and red-linked categories. There are approximately 15,419 soft redirected categories. I'll have a look at the stats by namespace later. '']&nbsp;]'', <small>17:07, 26 April 2012 (UTC).</small><br />
::Unfortunately we don't have a dump for all page titles, only all main-space titles which currently runs at about 9.3 million. '']&nbsp;]'', <small>11:35, 28 April 2012 (UTC).</small><br />
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Basically a tad over 1/3 of Misplaced Pages is actual article pages, and more than half of those are redirects. '']&nbsp;]'', <small>21:35, 16 May 2012 (UTC).</small><br />


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:At ], ] reported "850,875 categories on the English Misplaced Pages" at 12:43, 5 March 2012.
:—] (]) 23:51, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
Here is a graphical representation of the change of emphasis as the encyclopedia has grown. The namespaces are numbered from the bottom. '']&nbsp;]'', <small>01:12, 17 May 2012 (UTC).</small><br />
:Where is the legend to interpret the colors?
:—] (]) 01:34, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
:*I don't know that we need one. All we need to know is the bottom solid blue is articles. Less than 40% of the project is actual articles. We're here to write articles. We have absolutely no other reason for being here. That's it. Yet, almost 2/3rds of the project is non-articles. In the corporate world, this would be called corporate bloat. Virtually by definition, it's heinously inefficient, top-heavy, failure prone, and severely handicapped in terms of progress. Nicely done graphic Rich! --] (]) 13:47, 17 May 2012 (UTC)


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:::I am not convinced that the large number of non-article pages are evidence of bloat. According to ], there are 16.8 million named accounts. Yet the above chart (and table) shows there are 7.8 million user talk pages. So fewer than half the registered accounts have a user talk. Also, if there were one talk page per article, the green and blue areas would be the same width. To justify 'bloat' you would probably want to count edits rather than pages. - ] (]) 14:17, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
:::::That would be worthwhile,as would looking at size and splitting out redirects, dabs and stubs. '']&nbsp;]'', <small>14:24, 17 May 2012 (UTC).</small><br />
:::Thanks. My first effort in marrying Octave and Perl (and a tiny bit of The Gimp). A key would be nice, but would be a fair amount of work, even as a separate plot. I think there is more work needed on the main plot before that. '']&nbsp;]'', <small>14:24, 17 May 2012 (UTC).</small><br />
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The same general trends, user talk is the growth area, the big difference here is Misplaced Pages and Misplaced Pages talk - substantial, and the category and template namespaces become very small components. '']&nbsp;]'', <small>18:17, 17 May 2012 (UTC).</small><br />
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==Teahouse talkbacks==


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Hey Rich! Thanks for helping out at the Teahouse. Just an FYI, we created a lovely little talkback template that is Teahouse specific. You can find a link to it ]. It's pretty valuable when letting folks know that you answered their question, since not everyone watches the Teahouse question page. Thanks again for all your contributions - Teahouse and beyond! ] (]) 19:40, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
:Thanks, nice template. I made some suggestions on the templates talk page. '']&nbsp;]'', <small>20:08, 6 May 2012 (UTC).</small>(Using some automation)<br />



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==Cheshunt Lock and other notes==
==A kitten for you!==
* ] https://www.eternalwall.org.uk/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001fm77
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* John Eversely https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/58673/supplement/4/data.pdf https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/the-princess-royal-shakes-hands-with-mr-john-eversley-news-photo/834710966 https://bdaily.co.uk/articles/2008/04/23/enterprising-individuals-get-queens-award https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/business/2211450.best-uk-business-recognised-awards/ https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Award+recognises+John%27s+contribution%3B+in+association+with+RBS.-a0178074996
* https://www.europeana.eu/en
* Broken symmetry https://www.acsh.org/news/2022/04/13/clinical-trial-should-probably-wont-close-book-ivermectin-16244
* Sort order, name https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Sarah_Ann_Brock_Putnam&diff=prev&oldid=880695609
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:Truly a sad day on Misplaced Pages. I for one am truly disappointed at this decision. Good luck Rich regardless of whether you decide to stay and edit or not. ] (]) 19:33, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
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:If at some point you are brave/stupid enough to Rfa again I'd support your candidacy. <small>]</small> 19:48, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
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:Sorry, Rich. At least you're not banned. I will support your RfA sometime in the future.—] <sup>]</sup><sub style="margin-left:-3.7ex"><font color=olive face=arnprior>Online</font></sub> 19:49, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
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:Although I believe you've badly misused automation, I'd support your RfA. I really can't think of anything disruptive you've done with the mop, except possibly (temporarily) breaking the vast majority of article tagging templates. — ] ] 21:09, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
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:Yeah, count me in too. — ] (]) 21:24, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
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:Agree with the above. This is a shame. :( ] 22:28, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
* ]: ] - Norwegian irregular verb "to pull", "to drag", or "to draw"
:It's not heartening to be part of project whose highest body is malfunctioning to the extent that Arbcom is so obviously doing. On the brighter side Richard it's clear you're not the problem but an Arbcom that would be out of depth in a puddle. Obviously would support your RfA anytime. Regards, ] <sup>(])</sup> 22:51, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
:I would support an RfA as well, though I caution that standing for RfA any time before at least six months has passed will almost certainly not succeed. --] (]) 00:58, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
:This is a very black moment in Misplaced Pages. The community has broken Misplaced Pages. --] <sup>] ]</sup> 03:49, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
:*I'm not sure I would say ''"community"'' in this context, but more that a highly vocal bully-like minority ''within'' our community stood upon its pulpit and ] a marginally larger portion of the community into somehow believing that Rich Farmbrough had somehow truly done something horribly ''evil''.<p>Anyone who had made tens of thousands of edits is always going to have a few edits that someone, somewhere won't agree with or like, just as they will have also made a number of edits that someone else will really, really like. It is the balance that is important here, and it seems that a minority within the community seems to think that everything must be perfect and be in accordance with ''their'' own personal preferences.<p>Any edits that certain people don't like will always become a major focus during any sort of community discussion or ArbCom case simply because every editor has at some point attracted the attention of someone who doesn't like ''something'' they've done, and what better way to "get back at" someone then try to dig up any dirt they can find during such a discussion? This often results in collateral damage to other parts of the project however when such individuals take things even further.<p>My own message to the larger community is thus: Take what a highly vocal minority within our community has to say with a grain of salt, but do not ignore them entirely, otherwise they will grow even louder and their party will gain even more dissenters. --] (]) 05:09, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
*Rich .. to be honest- I don't know enough to say what is right or wrong here. What I do know is that you have dedicated a lot of time and heart to the project; and I personally do appreciate that very much. I can't imagine how difficult it was to endure an AC case, but you do have my sympathies, as well as my appreciation for all you have done (and hopefully will do in the future) for the project. All my best. — <small><span style="border:1px solid #000000;padding:1px;"><b>]</b> : ]</span></small> 04:36, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
*It's closed unless we re-open. This case should be re-opened again but this time the committee should be instructed to give appropriate weight to testimony from RF supporters. A full investigation into the other side of the coin, his achievements and important ongoing activities, should be presented. Have them weigh the both sides properly before a final decision is made. Re-open the case and let supporters be heard in full this time. Save PixieBot! ] (]) 23:03, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
::Many thanks for all the support. '']&nbsp;]'', <small>16:37, 16 May 2012 (UTC).</small><br />
*I too would support an RFA if Rich should decide to re-run, and this is coming from someone who tries to avoid RFA like the plague.<p>Clearly quite a number of people have absolutely no idea what it takes to make regular expressions and substitutions work. I give it two to three weeks tops before the backlog piles up and questions begin to arise as to ''"What happened to ] and ]?"'' and ''"How do we now handle all the housekeeping work that these two bots previously took care of?"''<p>I personally see this similarly to what would happen if we were to shut down ].<p>While there have been edits Rich has made that I've not agreed with, Rich appears to have always had Misplaced Pages's best interests in mind when he made changes, and I do not feel that this was considered at all during his ArbCom case. It would have been far far different if Rich had a history of attempting to cause problems, was a known troll, vandal, etc, but this is far from the case.<p>From my own point of view, it was clearly wrong of ArbCom to go full-out and heavy handed sanction a long term valued contributor who has been instrumental in standardizing and automating so many tedious and pain-in-the-ass tasks as Rich has. The very idea that Rich should be indefinitely banned from using any sort of automation is simply absurd. It could also be that ArbCom doesn't really know what all Rich has done for us here on the English Misplaced Pages since so much of his work has involved changes to things that work behind the scenes, yet have a very widely felt effect. For that fact, perhaps a large portion of the community doesn't know either.<p>The way I see it, Misplaced Pages is just about at a fork in the road. Many of the people with the technical know-how and knowledge of how and why things work the way they work have become disillusioned with the direction the English Misplaced Pages has been heading. Many of these individuals have left or slowed down in terms of their contributions, and/or have ended up sanctioned like Rich has. If things continue in this direction, the English Misplaced Pages is going to find itself without the technical backing that has allowed it to grow in the first place, and it's growth will stop and/or it will begin to regress (we are already beginning to see signs of both such scenarios).<p>From that point, if people don't decide to step up and work towards changing these trends, one or two things will ultimately happen. The first is that Misplaced Pages will begin to be seen as irrelevant in the eyes of the general public. The other is that those technical minded individuals who have felt alienated will organize, possibly leading to either a fracture within the community or even a new form of "Misplaced Pages" that will make the current "Misplaced Pages" entirely irrelevant and obsolete.<p>For those who don't think what has happened to Rich here can't happen to you or really has little long term impact on Misplaced Pages itself, think again. --] (]) 05:18, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
:You would have my support at RfA as well. A dark day for Misplaced Pages.--<span style="">] <span style="font-size:70%; vertical-align:sub;">]&#124;]</span></span> 09:34, 18 May 2012 (UTC)


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== The procedure was a success, but the patient died ==
* ] has joined the (SCoT) at Wikimedia Deutschland as an intern until the end of June 2025. Welcome Zita!
* (cf. ] and ]) underwent a relevant change of interface on January 10; the way of visualizing clusters in JSON format has changed in comparison with and e.g. http://viaf.org/viaf/102333412/viaf.json doesn't work anymore; this broke most or all Wikidata gadgets using VIAF data; in the absence of official communications from OCLC, developers are trying to understand if the new VIAF interface is stable before changing their gadgets accordingly


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'''I'm glad you're still here''' It's a silly accident that you and I have been mentioned in the same breath a lot lately and the two of us have hardly interacted in the past, but once I found out about your ArbCom issues I started to pay attention. Everyone on the English-language Misplaced Pages has benefited from your work and although it might be prudent for you to have a break in your administrator and bot-running responsibilities, you have doubtlessly been a real asset to the project and I'm glad that the members of ArbCom did not see fit to block or ban you outright. This tacitly acknowledges that your years of service have made this a better encyclopedia and I think that's inarguable, irrespective of any further issues with your methods or style.
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You can comment on ]!
I look forward to the time when you've proven to all your accusers and interlocutors that you're a responsible user, having made irrefutably good edits for several months, then apply again at RfA, make new bot requests, and get back to doing what you've been doing but without any associated drama.


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By the way, welcome to the club (].) —]<span style="color:red">❤]☮]☺]☯</span> 21:23, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
* Wikidata Query Service UI: We fixed a long-standing issue with missing edge labels in graph visualisations (])
:Thank you! I had forgotten that was going to happen. '']&nbsp;]'', <small>01:21, 17 May 2012 (UTC).</small><br />
* Wikibase REST API: We implemented a ] you can try out.
::I've already asked Rich about that but I think he is having a tough time thinking about this.—] <sup>]</sup><sub style="margin-left:-3.7ex"><font color=olive face=arnprior>Online</font></sub> 01:27, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
* EntitySchemas: We’re working on language fallback for the heading on EntitySchema pages (])
:::I can't blame him. I would be wrestling with it too frankly. ] (]) 01:35, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
* Language codes: We cleaned up language codes in WikibaseLexeme after moving some of them to CLDR (])


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|} ] <small><sup>]</sup> <sub> ]</sub></small> 23:13, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
:Seconded. You are the only one who took up my translation-template-linking bot task after multiple requests, and now the bot is dead. :( Thanks for at least generating the links for the ones that existed previously... I'll have to figure out what to do going forward. ] (]) 21:16, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
::Same here. It does seem like the people who go out of their way to help others are the first in line to face the firing squad. ] (]) 21:29, 17 May 2012 (UTC)


'''Weekly highlight'''
== The Torch and Pitchfork award. ==
* The Single User Login system is being updated over the next few months. This is the system which allows users to fill out the login form on one Wikimedia site and get logged in on all others at the same time. It needs to be updated because of the ways that browsers are increasingly restricting cross-domain cookies. To accommodate these restrictions, login and account creation pages will move to a central domain, but it will still appear to the user as if they are on the originating wiki. The updated code will be enabled this week for users on test wikis. This change is planned to roll out to all users during February and March. See ] for more details and a timeline.


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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | As someone who has also been pursued by the mob (in this case also sometimes referred to as "the Community" and/or "Arbcom") I present you with this time honored '''Torch and Pitchfork award'''.
{{Cquote|A torch and pitchfork, tools traditionally wielded by large groups on a Witch hunt or those attempting to get rid of an editor they don't like, have been used for centuries. Whether pursuing an Evil wizard, mad scientist or Bot operator, the mob ends up coming after the good guys, for one reason or another, eventually (like if we are providing aid to a Renegade Wikipedian). In these cases the best defense is to '''Shame The Mob'''. The next time Arbcom or the community mob comes after a Wikipedian, just do what any Wiki-hero would do...give a speech, and the mob is ashamed. Dejected, they turn and leave.}}--] (]) 23:56, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
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== Congrats on making the millionaires club ==
* ] Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. Starting the week of January 13, we will begin rerouting ] from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API endpoints for all wiki projects. This change was previously available on testwiki and should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints may raise issues directly to the ] in Phabricator if they arise.
* Toolforge tool maintainers can now share their feedback on Toolforge UI, an initiative to provide a web platform that allows creating and managing Toolforge tools through a graphic interface, in addition to existing command-line workflows. This project aims to streamline active maintainers’ tasks, as well as make registration and deployment processes more accessible for new tool creators. The initiative is still at a very early stage, and the Cloud Services team is in the process of collecting feedback from the Toolforge community to help shape the solution to their needs. ].
* ] For tool and library developers who use the OAuth system: The identity endpoint used for ] and ] returned a JSON object with an integer in its <code>sub</code> field, which was incorrect (the field must always be a string). This has been fixed; the fix will be deployed to Wikimedia wikis on the week of January 13.
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I also just wanted to say congrats on making the millionaires club. Only 2 editors in the history of Misplaced Pages have hit a million edits, you being the second. ] (]) 01:28, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
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I found out on reddit that you had your privileges taken. I wasn't aware of the situation. Anyway, you have my support, so if there is anything I can do to help you, let me know. Be well. ] (]) 02:08, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
:Oh I made it to reddit. Shame it wasn't about something good. Thanks for your support, Greg. '']&nbsp;]'', <small>13:39, 17 May 2012 (UTC).</small><br />


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Are you going to stay with us? Wether you have your tools and bots or not, you're still a valuable asset to this project. I hope you stay. <span style="background:#000">]</span> <sup>]</sup> ] 13:16, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
:I am still editing, because I still use Misplaced Pages, so I still see things that need fixing. What I have been able to contribute in the past, where there is a shortfall, is template wrangling, automation, and having the patience to fix long runs of pages, together with, I hope, a little insight into how things can be arranged to improve over the longer term without breaking stuff now. So all that has been removed, and one of the arbitrators has protected 7,000 more templates, effectively removing them from the area where I can contribute. '']&nbsp;]'', <small>13:45, 17 May 2012 (UTC).</small><br />
::That's great to hear. I look forward to working with you on the project in the future. And, even if you do not wish to, I will support your RfA if you choose to run again. Again, you are a valued asset to this project. Keep up the good (even if manual) work :) <span style="background:#000">]</span> <sup>]</sup> ] 14:02, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
:Wait, what is this about protecting 7000 templates? Someone did that unilaterally? There was a huge ANI about something like that a year or two ago, that I did a lot of work to clean up, so it's not good if someone did that again. Re RFA: I can't !vote but I'm fine with your staying on as an admin / becoming one again, as I said in the arb case. I have a much different view than yours about the proper role of automation on Misplaced Pages, but I respect your dedication. ] (]) 04:34, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

== mass creation of stubs with errors ==

Hi Rich, you were involved in this conversation a few months ago, so may be you want to take a look at the updates:
http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#.27Jaguar.2FSandbox.2F3.27_edits
] (]) 15:38, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

*I also need to notify you of this AN discussion ]. It's not too bad, just wondering why you had the edit filter manager flag taken away as well when ArbCom just said revoke the admin bit. You can contribute if you want. <font color="#A20846">''']''' ]</font> 18:38, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #661

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-01-06. Missed the previous one? See issue #660

Discussions

Upcoming events

  • Workshop: Lexicography and linguistic sustainability - Mirandese documentation using Wikidata This Portuguese-language workshop takes place Thursday 16 January, 10:00 - 17:00, Room 208, 206 at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto.
  • Please submit your proposals for the Data Reuse Days online event until January 12th. See current proposals on the talk page and here's some ideas to inspire you: presentations/demos of tools using Wikidata's data (10mins Lightning Talk presentations), discussions and presentations connecting Wikidata editors with reusers and/or explanations and demos on how to use a specific part of the technical infrastructure to reuse Wikidata's data (APIs, dumps, etc.).
  • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team --January 8, 2025. The Search Platform Team holds monthly meetings to discuss anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service (WDQS), Wikimedia Commons Query Service (WCQS), etc.! Time: 16:00-17:00 UTC / 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CET
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC, 15th January 2025 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
  • Wiki Workshop 2025 Announcement and Call for Papers. Submission deadline: March 9, 2025 (23:59 AoE)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs: (fr) female authors with male pseudonyms, blog post by Le Deuxième Texte including SPARQL queries to find female authors with male pseudonyms.
  • Websites :Global Dementia and Risk Factors, website by 'Students at the Maastricht Science Programme', includes data visualizations of the prevalence and current treatments of dementia across the world. It utilises data extracted as SPARQL Endpoints from Wikidata.
  • Papers
    • Ontology-grounded Automatic Knowledge Graph Construction by LLM under Wikidata schema - This paper proposes an ontology-driven approach to KG construction using LLMs where competency questions guide ontology creation and relation extraction, leveraging Wikidata for semantic consistency. A scalable pipeline minimizes human effort while producing high-quality, interpretable KGs interoperable with Wikidata for knowledge base expansion. By Xiaohan Feng, Xixin Wu & Helen Meng (2024).
    • Knowledge Incorporated Image Question Answering Using Wikidata Repository - Proposes a Visual Question Answering (VQA) model that integrates external knowledge from Wikidata to address complex open-domain questions by combining image, question, and knowledge modalities. Evaluated on the VQAv2 dataset, the model outperforms prior state-of-the-art approaches, demonstrating improved reasoning and accuracy (Koshti et al., 2024).
  • Videos: (arabic) Part 6: SPARQL Demo Session: connecting external services - Sparql SERVICE clause gives access to additional data such as labels via wikibase:label, interaction with MediaWiki APIs using wikibase:mwapi, and integration of data from subgraphs (such as the main graph and the scholarly articles graph). Integration of data from external SPARQL endpoints such as DBpedia.

Tool of the week

  • Wikidata Entity Linker - is a Microsoft Edge browser extension that creates web links for matching inner HTML text based on a regex format of Q\d+ which is the format of a Wikidata Entity ID. (email)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Vacancy: Research Software Engineer / Wikibase-Expert - The Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) located in Hannover has a research position open for someone interested in the deployment, administration and maintenance of open source knowledge management software such as Mediawiki, Wikibase and OpenRefine as part of the NFDI4Culture partnership within the OSL.
  • January 1, 2025, marked Public Domain Day, with hundreds of 1929 films entering the public domain. Sandra has shared helpful notes to assist in making these films discoverable via WikiFlix, by adding video files to Wikicommons and Wikidata. Join the effort!

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

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Development

  • The development team is just settling back in after the holidays, so there haven’t been any significant updates yet.

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #662

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-01-13. Missed the previous one? See issue #661

Events

  • Upcoming events:
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC, 15th January 2025 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
    • Join the Wikidata Training Event 2025 organised by Wikimedia Botswana UG for Wikidata enthusiasts of all levels. Starts 18 Jan 10:00am CAT (UTC+2), registration required.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Dungeon Of Knowledge - is a roguelike game with Items generated from Wikidata that lets you crawl through the Dungeon of Knowledge in a classic ASCII interface. (toot) (blog)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Zita Ursula Zage has joined the Software Communication team (SCoT) at Wikimedia Deutschland as an intern until the end of June 2025. Welcome Zita!
  • VIAF (cf. Q54919 and P214) underwent a relevant change of interface on January 10; the way of visualizing clusters in JSON format has changed in comparison with present OCLC documentation and e.g. http://viaf.org/viaf/102333412/viaf.json doesn't work anymore; this broke most or all Wikidata gadgets using VIAF data; in the absence of official communications from OCLC, developers are trying to understand if the new VIAF interface is stable before changing their gadgets accordingly

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • Wikidata Query Service UI: We fixed a long-standing issue with missing edge labels in graph visualisations (phab:T317702)
  • Wikibase REST API: We implemented a proof of concept for a search endpoint you can try out.
  • EntitySchemas: We’re working on language fallback for the heading on EntitySchema pages (phab:T228423)
  • Language codes: We cleaned up language codes in WikibaseLexeme after moving some of them to CLDR (phab:T352922)

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.

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· Previous issue · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) talk · MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:26, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-03

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

  • The Single User Login system is being updated over the next few months. This is the system which allows users to fill out the login form on one Wikimedia site and get logged in on all others at the same time. It needs to be updated because of the ways that browsers are increasingly restricting cross-domain cookies. To accommodate these restrictions, login and account creation pages will move to a central domain, but it will still appear to the user as if they are on the originating wiki. The updated code will be enabled this week for users on test wikis. This change is planned to roll out to all users during February and March. See the SUL3 project page for more details and a timeline.

Updates for editors

  • On wikis with PageAssessments installed, you can now filter search results to pages in a given WikiProject by using the inproject: keyword. (These wikis: Arabic Misplaced Pages, English Misplaced Pages, English Wikivoyage, French Misplaced Pages, Hungarian Misplaced Pages, Nepali Misplaced Pages, Turkish Misplaced Pages, Chinese Misplaced Pages)
  • One new wiki has been created: a Misplaced Pages in Tigre (w:tig:)
  • Recurrent item View all 35 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a bug with updating a user's edit-count after making a rollback edit, which is now fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

  • Advanced item Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. Starting the week of January 13, we will begin rerouting some page content endpoints from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API endpoints for all wiki projects. This change was previously available on testwiki and should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints may raise issues directly to the MediaWiki Interfaces Team in Phabricator if they arise.
  • Toolforge tool maintainers can now share their feedback on Toolforge UI, an initiative to provide a web platform that allows creating and managing Toolforge tools through a graphic interface, in addition to existing command-line workflows. This project aims to streamline active maintainers’ tasks, as well as make registration and deployment processes more accessible for new tool creators. The initiative is still at a very early stage, and the Cloud Services team is in the process of collecting feedback from the Toolforge community to help shape the solution to their needs. Read more and share your thoughts about Toolforge UI.
  • Advanced item For tool and library developers who use the OAuth system: The identity endpoint used for OAuth 1 and OAuth 2 returned a JSON object with an integer in its sub field, which was incorrect (the field must always be a string). This has been fixed; the fix will be deployed to Wikimedia wikis on the week of January 13.
  • Many wikis currently use Cite CSS to render custom footnote markers in Parsoid output. Starting January 20 these rules will be disabled, but the developers ask you to not clean up your MediaWiki:Common.css until February 20 to avoid issues during the migration. Your wikis might experience some small changes to footnote markers in Visual Editor and when using experimental Parsoid read mode, but if there are changes these are expected to bring the rendering in line with the legacy parser output.

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Assistance with Misplaced Pages Page Creation

Hello Rich Farmbrough,

I came across your contributions on Misplaced Pages and was wondering if you might be able to help. I am interested in creating a Misplaced Pages page for Start.me, a bookmark manager that has been covered in independent sources. I want to ensure it meets Misplaced Pages's notability and neutrality guidelines. Would you be willing to provide guidance or review a draft? Any advice would be much appreciated.

Best regards,

Stefan Stefanstartme (talk) 14:43, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

"Template:Mdy" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Template:Mdy has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Misplaced Pages:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 January 18 § Template:Mdy until a consensus is reached. Daask (talk) 19:07, 18 January 2025 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Horserace (disambiguation)

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