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Coffeebreak12 help[edit]
Hi User:MartinPoulter! I am really grateful for your suggestions and help in alining the page of European Partnership for Democracy with the community standards. I have adopted all the change you adviced. Let me know how I can improve it again or if it's ready to be approved. Best regards, Coffeebreak12 17:14, 12 November 2021 (UTCC)
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Thanks for the tutorial[edit]
Thanks for the tutorial Bears.567 (talk) 15:12, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
Promotion of Empire of the Sultans[edit]
Wikidata weekly summary #626[edit]
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-05-06.
Translations are available.
Discussions
- Reminder: the period for feedback on the Wikidata Query Service graph split ruleset closes on 15-May-2024. More information here!
Events
- The Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 took place in Tallinn, Estonia. Wikimedians from all over came together to hack on a huge variety of topics, including Wikidata and Wikibase topics. See the entire Program
- International Museum Day 2024 on Wikimedia: Take part in the translation, media, and data challenges!
- Registration for Wiki Workshop 2024 is now open! The event will be virtually held on *June 20, 12:00-18:30 UTC
- Coordinate Me 2024 is an international Wikidata competition taking place over the month of May. This year, the focus is on enriching or creating Wikidata items with the Property: Coordinate Location (P625). To participate, enroll on the dashboard to ensure your edits are tracked.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Papers: MisgenderMender - A community-informed approach to interventions of misgendering.
- Videos
- Intro to Wikidata Query Service - hosted by User:Gnoeee, this comprehensive video will equip newcomers to Wikidata with the skills to effectively start querying Wikidata.
- Siobhan Leachman, NZ Citizen Scientist and Wikipedian - CitSciOz23 Keynote Speaker, this prolific editor discusses her passions and workflows for contributing and enriching Wikidata on topics as diverse as women scientists, scientific illustrators, artworks and citation data, moths and more.
- WikiSearch from Wikibase Data - Wout Geveart shows how the WikiSearch extension is using Wikibase data to explore and visualise the data in new ways.
- WikimediaAPIs: a WM Technology Training Session - Mr. Neechalkaran of the WM Indic MediaWiki Developers Usergroup introduces the function and utility of WM projects APIs, including the REST AOI, the Wikidata API and more.
- Accessing Wikidata's Data: An Introduction to the Wikidata REST API (Zoom recording). A WikiMentor Africa session by Eugene Egbe.
Tool of the week
- Wikidata periodic table - Tool by User:Ricordisamoa, to browse all chemical elements available on Wikidata, with atomic number, chemical symbol, and localized label. It also includes two charts of the nuclides, with links to every isotope in Wikidata, colored by half-life or decay mode.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A new UI mode is available for the online validator for EntitySchemas. It represents validation reports as a table rather than a very long string, and replaces most links with hyperlinks with some of the text behind them; making them easier to read. Currently being tested at https://shex-validator.toolforge.org/packages/shex-webapp/doc/shex-simple-improved.html, we are looking for participants to evaluate this tool. Some experience with editing Wikidata is appreciated, but no experience working with Schemas is required. If you are interested, you can sign up here. We hope to begin interviews around May 13. For more details, visit User:M.alten.tue
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- category for this time births (category item for people who born in this time)
- category for this time deaths (category item for people who died in this time)
- representation type (property to indicate the representation type as a qualifier for Wikimedia Commons SDC Depicts statements of such Wikidata items)
- source of transfer (entity that a transferred item is initially associated with, before this process associates it with another entity)
- destination of transfer (entity that a transferred item comes to be associated with as a result of this process)
- Newest External identifiers: FilmVandaag ID, FBW ID, Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages ID, Jerusalem Film Cinematheque person ID, PitchBook profile ID, New Oxford American Dictionary ID, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur brewery ID, Gentoo Wiki article ID, Dhliz person ID, RAG ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- LombardiaBeniCulturali collection ID (ID of a collection on lombardiabeniculturali.it)
- is ontological root of (forms the root element of the ontology)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: last appearance, Perlego ID, Bokkilden ID, Iconoteca dell'Accademia di architettura ID, The Law Dictionary entry, urban area census code, Wardah Books ID, The Lost Media Wiki page ID, The Sounds Resource game ID, Palula dictionary ID, CDC Stacks ID, Virtual Russian Museum artist ID, Pushkin Museum artist ID, NLR editions, الملف الاستنادي للمؤلفين العراقيين, Dhliz film ID, Dhliz TV series ID, glubinka.by, Azerbaijani National Assembly ID, TheLegacy ID, Explanatory Ukrainian Dictionary ID, Transfermarkt competition ID, Quranic Semantic Search word ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest database reports: young mothers (source)
- Showcase Items: Deirdre (Q1183379) - heroine in Irish mythology
- Showcase Lexemes: 사랑하다 (L741213) - verb "to love (cherish with affection)" in Korean
Development
- We attended the Wikimedia Hackathon.
- REST API: We are finishing the route for creating an Item (phab:T342990) and modify the data of a Property (phab:T347394)
- EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on creating the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements (phab:T214884)
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.
- Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge:
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Wikidata weekly summary #627[edit]
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-05-13.
Please help Translate.
Discussions
- Project Chat - Data model pages: Alexmar983 and User:Epìdosis have proposed updates to standardize the nomenclature in the Wikidata: Data Model pages, join the conversation. Also see this Talk page for a draft proposal for a new Navbox.
- New requests for permissions/Bot: Bot5958 - Task: Infer Trakt.tv ID (P8013) of an episode from the Trakt.tv ID (P8013) of the corresponding TV series.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs: Navigating the world of Wikidata: An intro and hands-on experience. This blog entry documents the session from Yaw Tuba and Nana Yaw Botar and organised by Open Foundation West Africa in building skills for new and experienced editors alike.
- Papers
- Sharing data, caring for collections. Open data on collection agents affiliated with the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin - This paper documents a project at the MN to digitise collector metadata from museum exhibits for reuse, research and provenance. S. Mering et al.
- Erenrich, Daniel. ‘Psychiq and Wwwyzzerdd: Wikidata Completion Using Wikipedia’. 1 Jan. 2023 : 1 – 14.
- Ilievski, Filip et al. ‘A Study of Concept Similarity in Wikidata’. 1 Jan. 2024 : 1 – 20.
- Videos
- using Open Data to Automatically Generate Localised Analogies - Sofia Spatharioti explains how information from Wikidata and Wikipedia can be used to provide more contextual comparisons when dealing with large numbers, dimensions or statistics.
- Thesaurus INAPP in Wikidata (Italian) - Camillo Carlo Pellizzari shows INAPP thesaurus usage on Wikidata and how to normalise keywords assigned to publications.
- Authors INAPP on Wikidata (Italian) - Camillo also presents how Wikidata can record biographical data and the presence of authors affiliated with INAPP.
Tool of the week
- Wikidata:Projector - is a tool that shows maps and lists with Wikidata items for a specific topic, usually a location. As an example, see the Projector for Corfu
- Wikidata Anti Pattern Analyzer companion tool to the Evidence of large-scale conceptual disarray in multi-level taxonomies in Wikidata research paper
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- category for this time births (category item for people who born in this time)
- category for this time deaths (category item for people who died in this time)
- representation type (property to indicate the representation type as a qualifier for Wikimedia Commons SDC Depicts statements of such Wikidata items)
- source of transfer (entity that a transferred item is initially associated with, before this process associates it with another entity)
- destination of transfer (entity that a transferred item comes to be associated with as a result of this process)
- LombardiaBeniCulturali collection ID (ID of a collection on lombardiabeniculturali.it)
- Newest External identifiers: FilmVandaag ID, FBW ID, Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages ID, Jerusalem Film Cinematheque person ID, PitchBook profile ID, New Oxford American Dictionary ID, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur brewery ID, Gentoo Wiki article ID, Dhliz person ID, RAG ID, The Sounds Resource game ID, The Lost Media Wiki page ID, Cbonds company profile, Iconoteca dell'Accademia di architettura ID, Kōmako author ID, urban area census code, The Law Dictionary entry, CDC Stacks ID, Authority file of the Iraqi Authors, Gentoo GURU package ID, TheLegacy ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- is ontological root of (forms the root element of the ontology)
- located in the Islamic territorial entity (the item is located on the territory of the following Islamic entity.)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: last appearance, Perlego ID, Bokkilden ID, Wardah Books ID, Palula dictionary ID, Virtual Russian Museum artist ID, Pushkin Museum artist ID, NLR editions, Dhliz film ID, Dhliz TV series ID, glubinka.by, Azerbaijani National Assembly ID, Explanatory Ukrainian Dictionary ID, Transfermarkt competition ID, Quranic Semantic Search word ID, Folkets lexikon ID, Grand Theft Wiki ID, Quranic Arabic Corpus topic ID, Australian Oxford Dictionary ID, Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World: Digital Collection ID, Lille norske leksikon-ID, The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature ID, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable ID, The Oxford Companion to World Mythology ID, GOG product ID, Yandex.Music track ID, WiiG.de developer ID, WiiG.de publisher ID, Comprehensive Dictionary of the Contemporary Ukrainian Language ID, The New Zealand Oxford Dictionary ID, Canadian Oxford Dictionary ID, promodj album ID, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World ID, The Oxford Companion to the Mind ID, Arkitekturguide for Nord-Norge og Svalbard ID, person ID in MNAHA
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Schema examples: List of roles played by siblings
- Newest database reports: Lost links - (New editor removed sitelink and did not reconnect it)
- Showcase Items: Mister President (Q3050361) - novel written by Miguel Ángel Asturias
- Showcase Lexemes: Ordbokredaktør - (Bokmål; a literary version of Norwegian) appropriately, for Lexicographer.
Development 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.
- Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: Gambling
- 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!
Cognitive biases[edit]
Hello Dr Poulter, You suppressed the added reference pointing to the encylcopedia of cognitive biases beacause you said it is self-published. Does this provide you the right to remove it anyway. Great books are self-published and this is the case of this one. I have read it and it is. Think about the people coming here to read stuff about cognitive biases to learn and nothing elese. It is so relevant to provide them a reference that tackles the biggest list (more than 200) of cognitive biases. What is the problem with that? Irath2024 (talk) 08:14, 17 May 2024 (UTC)
- Let's have this conversation on the Talk page of the relevant article. MartinPoulter (talk) 12:56, 17 May 2024 (UTC)
DYK for Heaven on Earth: Art from Islamic Lands[edit]
On 19 May 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Heaven on Earth: Art from Islamic Lands, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the exhibition Heaven on Earth: Art from Islamic Lands included art from the 8th to 19th centuries (object pictured)? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Heaven on Earth: Art from Islamic Lands. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Heaven on Earth: Art from Islamic Lands), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
— Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 19 May 2024 (UTC)
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Empire of the Sultans at TFA[edit]
Hi Martin. Is this a good time for TFA? How about July 23? - Dank (push to talk) 02:15, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
- Any time in July would be great; July 23 as good as any. My last FA got scheduled without me doing anything. Do I need to make a nomination this time? Edit to add: I've just seen the schedule at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/July 2024. So I don't need to do anything further, right? MartinPoulter (talk) 09:27, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
- That's right, we're good to go. - Dank (push to talk) 13:01, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
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This Month in Education: May 2024[edit]
Your GA nomination of Heaven on Earth: Art from Islamic Lands[edit]
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Heaven on Earth: Art from Islamic Lands you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Kusma -- Kusma (talk) 21:03, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Heaven on Earth: Art from Islamic Lands[edit]
The article Heaven on Earth: Art from Islamic Lands you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Heaven on Earth: Art from Islamic Lands and Talk:Heaven on Earth: Art from Islamic Lands/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Kusma -- Kusma (talk) 08:43, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
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Suggestion to Write an Article about Muntadher Saleh[edit]
Hi MartinPoulter,
I hope this message finds you well. I recently tried to add some information about Muntadher Saleh to a Wikipedia article, but it was removed with the suggestion that mentioned individuals should have their own Wikipedia articles.
I wanted to reach out to you to suggest writing an article about Muntadher Saleh, as he is a modern-day polymath with numerous achievements. His contributions span the fields of arts and culture, and he has been recognized in various scholarly works. For instance, his innovative work and significant impact in these areas have been well-documented and acknowledged by reputable sources such as Iraq Arts and Culture and ResearchGate.
Creating an article about Muntadher Saleh would provide a comprehensive overview of his work and contributions, making it easier for others to understand why he is noteworthy. I believe that his diverse achievements and recognition as a polymath make him a compelling subject for a Wikipedia article.
Thank you for considering this suggestion. I appreciate your efforts in maintaining the quality of Wikipedia content and look forward to your thoughts on this.
Best regards,
. 004bvan (talk) 21:36, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for your message. I've replied on Talk:Polymath. MartinPoulter (talk) 08:08, 18 June 2024 (UTC)
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Your GA nomination of Heaven on Earth: Art from Islamic Lands[edit]
The article Heaven on Earth: Art from Islamic Lands you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Heaven on Earth: Art from Islamic Lands for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Kusma -- Kusma (talk) 16:23, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin June Issue 2[edit]
MediaWiki message delivery 20:00, 2 July 2024 (UTC)