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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Discussions
Open request for adminship: koavf 3 (RfP scheduled to end after 8 July 2023 13:16 UTC)
Closed request for adminship: Wolverène Welcome onboard \o/
New requests for permissions/Bot: UrbanBot (Task: UrbanBot's task is to mass-add English descriptions to items that don't have one)
Closed request for permissions/Bot: RomesfulImporterBot (Task: Creating and updating Russian Lexemes by transferring information from the Russian Wiktionary)
The third iteration of the WikiWomenCamp will be hosted in New Delhi, India, from the 20th to the 22nd of October 2023.
Scholarship applications are now open.
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour July 7, 2023: Let's collaborate to upgrade our community infrastructure! We'll transfer notes and content from Google Docs to our WikiProject subpages. We'll be practicing our Wiki markup skills and learning to manage Wikidata Project pages Event page
Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #99, Breast milk (Challenge started on 2023-07-03 12:01:21)
m:User:Base/Scripts/HaveWikibaseLabelLowercased.js - is a Userscript that adds an arrow next to the main label (page title) which upon double click (a tap and a confirmation on touch devices) automatically makes the label's first letter lowercase for the current interface language. If there was already a matching alias it gets removed.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
The WikidataCon 2023 call for proposals is running until July 31st. If you have questions or need advice before sending a program proposal, join the program team during one of the office hour sessions (online or in Taiwan, in Chinese or in English). More information
Nigerian registered company (RC) id (RC number (Registration Number), identifier assigned to a business by the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) in Nigeria)
Cent cols (A property to link Wikidata entries to the dedicated pages of each pass by the Cent Cols)
WikiProject Scotland's Accused Witches aims at producing structured data documenting witchhunts, and prosecuted Scotland's accused witches on Wikidata using the University of Edinburgh's landmark Survey of Scottish Witchcraft database (1563 to 1736).
Development
Wikibase REST API:
We finished the GetProperty endpoint with fields filter and Conditional headers (phab:T338141, phab:T338138)
We started working on the endpoints for reading statement data of Properties (both a single statement, and a list of all of a Property’s statement) (phab:T339356), phab:T338383)
Ontology issue survey: We put together an overview of solutions for the various types of issues and will share them this week.
mul language code: We are continuing to work through the language fallback issues that were uncovered.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
From this week all gadgets automatically load on mobile and desktop sites. If you see any problems with gadgets on your wikis, please adjust the gadget options in your gadget definitions file. [2]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 July. It will be on all wikis from 6 July (calendar).
Hello, GeneralNotability/Archives/2023. Please check your email; you've got mail! It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.Yamla (talk) 21:49, 5 July 2023 (UTC)
This is all so sad
A threat or intimidation coupled with outing or appearing to out someone. Add to the implied tone is that another editor, an editor of longstanding, said in WIKIPEDIA's voice "We". WE. He was stating you and me and every one around Wikipedia..."We" all somehow know who this anon is. Personally I find this edit summary to be one of the most stunning things I have ever read on these pages. Shearonink (talk) 02:44, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
SmokeyJoe, following a (months-long) technical and behavioral investigation and after conferring with several other CUs, I am very confident that ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ is the same person as Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Gustin Kelly, a rather nasty abuser who has been at this for a while (much longer than the linked SPI indicates). The link in the block log goes to the extensive documentation of the connections written up on the checkuser wiki. GeneralNotability (talk) 14:38, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #584
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Discussions
Closed request for adminship: koavf 3 Welcome onboard \o/
New requests for permissions/Bot: FromCrossrefBot 1: Publication dates (Task/s: Using information from Crossref: 1 - Add publication date to items where they are not present in Wikidata 2 - Fix publication dates where they are erroneous)
The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC, 12th July 2023 (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.
How to create a Wikidata Lexeme with ease - Beginner's Guide (in Twi and English) YouTube
Tool of the week
Duplicity is a tool on Toolforge that helps find articles on Wikipedia that do not have a Wikidata Item, and match them to an existing Item, or create a new one. (example for English Wikipedia)
HasProperty.js displays presence/absence of specific properties (configurable) after the Statements heading. Clicking a property name will jump to that properties section. For absent property, clicking property name will jump to the end of the page.
mul language code: We continued work on it focusing on showing it in the right place in the desktop termbox (phab:T316767)
Wikibase REST API: We continued working on the endpoints for reading statement data of Properties (both a single statement, and a list of all of a Property’s statement) (phab:T339356, phab:T338383)
Vector 2022 skin: We continued work on improving the search display (phab:T327510)
WMF Governance wiki is now connected to Wikidata so can be linked to in the sitelink section under multilingual sites (phab:T321967)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
The Section-level Image Suggestions feature has been deployed on seven Wikipedias (Portuguese, Russian, Indonesian, Catalan, Hungarian, Finnish and Norwegian Bokmål). The feature recommends images for articles on contributors' watchlists that are a good match for individual sections of those articles.
Special:BlockedExternalDomains is a new tool for administrators to help fight spam. It provides a clearer interface for blocking plain domains (and their subdomains), is more easily searchable, and is faster for the software to process for each edit on the wiki. It does not support regex (for complex cases), nor URL path-matching, nor the MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist, but otherwise it replaces most of the functionalities of the existing MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. There is a Python script to help migrate all simple domains into this tool, and more feature details, within the tool's documentation. It is available at all wikis except for Meta-wiki, Commons, and Wikidata. [4]
The WikiEditor extension was updated. It includes some of the most frequently used features of wikitext editing. In the past, many of its messages could only be translated by administrators, but now all regular translators on translatewiki can translate them. Please check the state of WikiEditor localization into your language, and if the "Completion" for your language shows anything less than 100%, please complete the translation. See a more detailed explanation.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 July. It will be on all wikis from 13 July (calendar).
The default protocol of Special:LinkSearch and API counterparts has changed from http to both http and https. [5]
Special:LinkSearch and its API counterparts will now search for all of the URL provided in the query. It used to be only the first 60 characters. This feature was requested fifteen years ago. [6]
Future changes
There is an experiment with a ChatGPT plugin. This is to show users where the information is coming from when they read information from Wikipedia. It has been tested by Wikimedia Foundation staff and other Wikimedians. Soon all ChatGPT plugin users can use the Wikipedia plugin. This is the same plugin which was mentioned in Tech News 2023/20. [7]
There is an ongoing discussion on a proposed Third-party resources policy. The proposal will impact the use of third-party resources in gadgets and userscripts. Based on the ideas received so far, policy includes some of the risks related to user scripts and gadgets loading third-party resources, some best practices and exemption requirements such as code transparency and inspectability. Your feedback and suggestions are warmly welcome until July 17, 2023 on on the policy talk page.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 July. It will be on all wikis from 20 July (calendar).
MediaWiki system messages will now look for available local fallbacks, instead of always using the default fallback defined by software. This means wikis no longer need to override each language on the fallback chain separately. For example, English Wikipedia doesn't have to create en-ca and en-gb subpages with a transclusion of the base pages anymore. This makes it easier to maintain local overrides. [8]
The action=growthsetmentorstatus API will be deprecated with the new MediaWiki version. Bots or scripts calling that API should use the action=growthmanagementorlist API now. [9]
I would like to be globally locked from my Wikipedia account. I don't think I'm fit for editing on this website. Do you think there is any chance you can do that for me? Rice the improver (talk) 00:34, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
demize, I'm quite skeptical of all of this, and honestly I'm not convinced SecurityWeek did anything more than read the same obit and call that their "confirmation". GeneralNotability (talk) 01:18, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
And I don't see why the obit itself is questionable--that obit site has been around since 1999, is used by a lot of different funeral homes, and seems to be trusted well enough by other media (see BoingBoing, who's also picked up the obit now: https://boingboing.net/2023/07/19/kevin-mitnick-1963-2023.html).
That aside, SecurityWeek isn't just reading the obit, they specifically claim to have independently verified it: "SecurityWeek sources have confirmed Mitnick’s passing, which was first reported in an obituary posted at Dignity Memorial, a Las Vegas funeral home.". If we can't trust SecurityWeek, are we just going to wait until CNN reports on it? I'm sure they will, but they'll probably just use SecurityWeek's early reporting and the obit, so by your logic here I don't know if we should trust them either. demize(t · c)01:22, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
demize, my thinking is basically this: Mitnick is suddenly announced dead, from a cancer that has never been mentioned before, our only source is an obituary published a few days after the fact. I'm not saying that he definitely isn't dead - but I'm also acquainted enough with hacker culture (and, if I'm not mistaken, a couple big hacker conferences are coming up soon) that I can believe that this is someone's idea of a prank. I'm very reluctant to trust claims of death without bulletproof sourcing from extremely reliable sources. GeneralNotability (talk) 01:34, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
And I'm pretty involved in the hacker community; SecurityWeek is definitely a trustworthy source here, as one focused specifically on our community, and I've heard independently through other members of the community that this is reputable.
Mostly, though, I'm hoping to make sure that the article is reasonably and properly sourced. When I restored a revision of it to add in the SecurityWeek article, that was because it was the most complete revision of the page since the news dropped; currently other people are still editing it to add in the same details, but with less (or no) sourcing and care for the overall layout.
I can certainly understand the skepticism, but at this point it's pretty clear (to me, as someone in the security community, even just from the SecurityWeek article) that this is the real deal. And editors continually reverting each other over this doesn't do anyone any good.
In fact, regardless of what state you restore the page to, I'd suggest fully protecting it for the moment--this has just hit Reddit, so we're gonna see a lot more people coming in to edit it now. demize(t · c)01:40, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
All right demize - I'm still quite skeptical, but I agree that you're doing a solid job sourcing this and there seem to be decent sources here, so go ahead and do whatever you think is best. I think the extended-confirmed protection is enough for now to keep the drive-by bad edits down, but I (or another admin) can bump things up if they get really problematic. GeneralNotability (talk) 02:06, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
Not to blow hairs, that Dignity Memorial is an official obituary put out by a licensed funeral home and funeral director under penalty of law and not some user created, fan type open-sourced memorial or for-profit memorial posting site whose business is just that. For future reference, Dignity Memorial is the name of the company of funeral homes/franchised funeral homes. I believe they own over 1900 funeral homes. Their proper name is Service Corporation International. With that said, obituaries tend to fall under WP:RECENTISMWP:PRIMARYWP:RSOPINION policies. More info is at Wikipedia:Obituaries as sources, as well. P37307 (talk) 04:32, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
paid-en-wp
Hi GeneralNotability. I posted a thread at WP:AN about the paid-en-wp email (Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Question). They said that it was just an alias to your email. Are you able to review a couple of matters I sent in a few months ago?
I saw on your userpage that you're under a considerable amount of stress, so if you aren't able to, I understand. If there's another admin that I can approach, I'll be happy to direct my inquiries to them. Thanks. --Drm310🍁 (talk) 14:33, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
Drm310, any CU with VRT access can do it, but it's mostly been me, and I've been spending most of my time on arb business so the queue is behind. I'll try to carve out some time this weekend to knock down the queue. GeneralNotability (talk) 22:28, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
Hi! I saw you were the editor who posted a note on User:PiroshkyPiroshky's talk page for having an inappropriate username. I wonder if you might take a look at User:Mizcracker, based on Miz Cracker, to see if a similar post is required. Thanks! ---Another Believer(Talk)17:14, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #585
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Discussions
Open request for adminship: Yahya (RfP scheduled to end after 26 July 2023 17:46 UTC)
Closed request for adminship: Tomodachi94 (successful) Welcome on board \o/
Missed the initial office hour sessions for preparing a WikidataCon 2023 submission? Join the next sessions on 20th, 22nd, and 26th and bring all your questions. Wikidata:WikidataCon 2023#Office hours (available in both Mandarin and English)
Live Wikidata editing in Italian, July 25 at 9:00 PM CEST on YouTube
Ongoing
Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #102, Money (Challenge started on 2023-07-24 12:01:19)
Images near items - helps to find Wikimedia Commons images near Wikidata items without image. It can load a category tree of Commons images with coodrinates, and then find Wikidata items of a certain P31 with coordinates but without images. Then, it will try to find nearby (<50 meters) pairs. (example link for UK red phone booths)
Top scorer (This property is for the best scorer of a single season of a team sport's competition, or even for the best ever scorer of the history of a competition. The qualifiers to be admitted to this property should be: {{p|54}}; {{p|1532}}; {{p|1013}} (es.: goals / tries / points / etc ).)
EntitySchemas: We expanded the new datatype that is in testing. When a statement links to an EntitySchema it will now show its label when available (phab:T338613). We are also working on showing them by their label in recent changes and similar places (phab:T214885).
mul language code: we are working on improving the termbox to integrate this new language code better (phab:T340644)
Mismatch Finder: We are working on adding a language selector to it so you can switch the language of the tool (phab:T328149)
Wikibase REST API: We completed two new endpoint for the Wikibase REST API:
Retrieve all statements from a Property - /entities/properties/{property_id}/statements
Retrieve a single statement from a Property - /entities/properties/{property_id}/statements/{statement_id}
You can also retrieve a single statement from a Property from the existing /statements/{statement_id} endpoint
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 July. It will be on all wikis from 27 July (calendar).
Wikidata Recent Changes API (simple front-end to the actual API) lets you query Wikidata edits by either properties, or labels/aliases/descriptions/sitelinks. You can retrieve any changes, or specify added/changed/removed. Current lag to Wikidata: 1 seconds. (blog)
autosuggest value (qualifier for P1963 that suggests which values should be autosuggested to the user that uses the property for items that are instances of the subject)
WikiProject Antiquity (aims to gather all contributors working in an aspect or another of Antiquity)
WikiProject Lodging (aims at creating, improving, and organizing Wikidata items related to lodging, such as hotels, motels, inns, guest houses and lodging-related topics)
Development
Vector 2022 skin: We finished working on removing the strange bolding pattern of the Search Results on Wikidata. Should be rolled out in the next train (phab:T327510)
EntitySchemas: We are working on showing the Label of EntitySchema in Statements and Special pages (phab:T339924)
Mismatch Finder: We are working on adding the Language Selector to the Mismatch Finder (phab:T328149)
mul: We trying out changing how placeholders in Wikibase termboxes work: They’ll soon start falling back across the fallback chain of the language until they hit mul (phab:T340832)
