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Any reason why you have violated ] here? As for my revert, your edit was entirely unreferenced and unexplained. ]] 11:17, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
:It's not possible to violate a "Request for arbitration". My edit was explained (edit summary "add Lisa Dorrian to table"). Yours, on the contrary, was not (reverting with an edit summary of "rv". You've been around here long enough to know better than to do that. My edit was also covered by existing citations in the article. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); ]; ]</span> 11:38, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
::I'd direct you to the decision of the Arbitration (at ]) where it says "Pages relating to The Troubles are placed under discretionary sanctions" aka 1RR. I'll again ask why you violated this (and also ], in case you are ignorant of ])). FYI my edit summary was inadvertently brief (I sometimes accidentally click save when on my Mac) whereas yours was practically non-existent. ]] 11:45, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
::: Well, if that's what you meant, that's what you should have said. Quite why you might have meant that, when I did not violate 1RR, is a matter for conjecture. BRD, on the other hand, cannot be "violated", since it it merely "an optional method of reaching consensus" (though it does require the reverting party to give an explanation for their revert, which you failed to do); again, you have been around here long enough to know better than to make such a comment. As for your false "feign ignorance", such attempts to smear are beneath contempt. But yes, of course your edit summary was an "accident". Who could ever think otherwise? <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); ]; ]</span> 11:57, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
::::You have also been here long enough to a) ] and b) ask another editor if their summary was insufficient enougnbf ro you to comply with the basics of BRD. ]] 11:59, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
::::For what' it's worth I've finished the edit you started. Not difficult. ]] 12:04, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
:::::AGF does not require me to accept a revert made with no stated reason in the edit summary or elsewhere; and neither does BRD. As I said above, but you seem to have overlooked, BRD is merely "an optional method of reaching consensus". But since you're still learning about BRD, you can now note that it also says "Revert an edit if it is not an improvement, and it cannot be immediately fixed by refinement. Consider reverting only when necessary. BRD does not encourage reverting...". HTH. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); ]; ]</span> 12:18, 26 March 2018 (UTC)


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:I think you're operating under a misapprehension; I suggest you look at the ''article''{{'}}s history. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); ]; ]</span> 10:57, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
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::As I indicate in my edit summary ], while nobody should claim ownership over their creations, '''common sense''' and '''courtesy''' prevails in this case. I am sorry to say this, but if you try to do silly ] like ] again, you ''will'' lose your editing privilege. Whenever there is a chance to reduce unnecessary drama, it is only right to try your best to promote good will and collegial editing. You are free to start a new article on ] that is not a duplicate copy if that's what you prefer. I hope you understand. ] (]) 11:07, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
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:::Noted that you're an ''involved'' admin making block threats and abusing your tools to protect an article where you are involved. Shameful. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); ]; ]</span> 11:17, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
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* ] The Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey is to be sent to participants around the world this week. If you are volunteer developer, and have contributed code to any pieces of MediaWiki, gadgets, or tools, .


'''Problems''' ''' Discussions '''
* New request for comments: ] - Following from a property discussion on ], this RfC aims to find consensus on how to apply constraints that exclude items of historical periods in German history.
* MediaWiki deployment train has been rolled back to version <span dir=ltr>1.31.0-wmf.26</span> on week 13, due to a multiplication of lost connections during MySQL queries. Some of the recent changes may have not been applied. They will be deployed next week.
* The Notifications badge icons were overlapping other links. This has been fixed.


''' ] '''
'''Changes later this week'''
* 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.
* ] The ] of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 April. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 April. It will be on all wikis from 5 April (]).
* Please submit your proposals for the ] online event until January 12th. See current proposals on the ] 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.).
* ] User subpages ending in <code dir=ltr>.json</code> will now be protected from other people editing them, like <code dir=ltr>.js</code> and <code dir=ltr>.css</code> pages already are. If you have a tool that stores static configuration, you can now use a subpage like <code>User:Example/mygadget.json</code> to do this without concerns.
* . 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
* ] ] on the next set of wikis. On April 4, we plan to turn off Tidy on all Wikiquotes (except frwikiquote) and Wikimedia chapters and user groups wikis. 23 wikis will have Tidy replaced this time.
* The next ] will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC, 15th January 2025 (18:00 Berlin time) in the . 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.
* ] ] will transition to use ] starting April 4, and the rule editor will also be changed to a CodeEditor (ACE) similar to what is found on user JavaScript pages. The move to OOUI will continue over the next few weeks.
* . Submission deadline: March 9, 2025 (23:59 AoE)
* In Special:Preferences, the preference "{{int:tog-watchlistreloadautomatically}}" is now only visible for users who have opt-out the New Filters for the Watchlist.
* You can see names of individual abuse filters in ]. Now if the name of an abuse filter contains some wikisyntax like links, it will not change to a link when displayed.
* You can now search through filter patterns at ]. You may specify either a plain string or a ] and the matching filters will show a snippet of their pattern with the match highlighted.


''' Press, articles, blog posts, videos '''
'''Meetings'''
* Blogs: (fr) , blog post by ''Le Deuxième Texte'' including SPARQL queries to find female authors with male pseudonyms.
* ] You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on . See ].
* Websites :, 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.
* ] ] You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on . See ].
* Papers
** - 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).
** - 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) - 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.


'''Future changes''' ''' Tool of the week '''
* - 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. ()
* If you're using, creating or improving Lua modules, you can ] to help harmonizing the modules across wikis and add more useful functions.
* ] On April 11th, we plan to turn off Tidy on all wikis with less than 50 entries in all high priority linter categories. About 60 wikis will have Tidy replaced. Currently about 600 wikis have had Tidy replaced and we have another 300 wikis to go. We plan to finish this transition from Tidy to RemexHtml by end of June 2018. Please follow ] to monitor progress of ].


''' Other Noteworthy Stuff '''
''''']''' prepared by ] and posted by ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ].''
* - 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.
</div></div> <section end="technews-2018-W14"/> 19:28, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
* January 1, 2025, marked Public Domain Day, with hundreds of 1929 films entering the public domain. ] has shared ] to assist in making these films discoverable via ], by adding video files to Wikicommons and Wikidata. Join the effort!
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** Talk by Morane Gruenpeter and ], presented at about software metadata in Software Heritage and Wikidata. ].

* ''']'''
** by Sandra Fauconnier on WMF's blog

* '''Other Noteworthy Stuff'''
** if you're working with Lua modules, you can ] about new functions
** you can still ] if you encounter a problem with suggester ranking

* '''Did you know?'''
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* Newest General datatypes:
** Newest ]:
**] (<nowiki>the sum a organisations receives from bequests/legacies in a timeframe</nowiki>)
*** General datatypes: ], ], ], ], ]
**] (<nowiki>taxon item of which this common name refers</nowiki>)
*** External identifiers: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
**] (<nowiki>taxon item of which the taxon name is an exact homonym</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>use as qualifier to indicate how the object's role was named in the credits of its respective work</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>subject is a meeting or session of this organization</nowiki>)
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** New ] to review: * New General datatypes property proposals to review:
**] (<nowiki>Screenshot of the About Box of the respective software (contains important information such as authors, license, version number and year(s) and is included in almost every software)</nowiki>)
*** General datatypes: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
**] (<nowiki>country specific tax status of organisations like non-profits</nowiki>)
*** External identifiers: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
**] (<nowiki>taxon item of which this item is the taxonomic type</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Propriety of World heritage site : the Type (Cultural, Natural, Mixed)</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>DVD release is restricted to region code</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Number of shading units in a graphics card.</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>identifier of elements of the National archaeological register of Moldova</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>works of art performed, displayed or presented at a given event</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki></nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Maximum beam energy of a particle accelerator</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Crime or other misdeed a person has been accused of, but ''not proven or convicted''</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Amount of money donated to a person or organization</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>The name that this qualifies, the full contents of which are unknown, is known to start with these characters.</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>formal styles of address used for members of the clergy</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>User ID on a2b2.org</nowiki>)
* New External identifier property proposals to review: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
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** Sparsely used properties created >3 months:
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** ]: P1124 (teu), P3484 (name shares origin with), P4990 (Statistics Canada Geographic code)
** Query examples:
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** Newest database reports: ]


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* '''Development'''
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* Newest ]: ] aims to list French-language awards and to ensure the mention of a source associated with each award.
* Newest ]: ]
* ]: ] - sled dog race
* ]: ] - Norwegian irregular verb "to pull", "to drag", or "to draw"


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:As I said in my edit summary; in the citation: . <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); ]; ]</span> 13:30, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
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Women in Red | January 2025, Vol 11, Issue 1, Nos 324, 326, 327, 328, 329


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Announcements from other communities

Tip of the month:

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Weekly Summary #660

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-12-30. Missed the previous one? See issue #659

Welcome to 2023’s Final Weekly Summary!

A huge thank you to everyone who contributed to the newsletter this year! 🎉 Each of your contributions, whether big or small, has made a difference and has helped us create a vibrant and informative resource for the Wikidata community. 🙏 Let's continue building and sharing knowledge together in the coming year! 🙌✨

Discussions

  • Open request for oversight: Ameisenigel (RfP scheduled to end at 6 January 2025 21:52 UTC)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Papers
    • Library Data in Wikimedia Projects: Case Study from the Czech Republic by Jansová, L., Maixnerová, L., & Š´tastná, P. (2024). "The paper outlines the collaboration between the National Library of the Czech Republic and Wikimedia since 2006, focusing on linking authority records with Misplaced Pages articles and training librarians and users. By 2023, the National Library provided most of its databases under a CC0 license, launched a "Wikimedians in Residence" program, and collaborated on projects involving linked data and using authority records in Wikidata. This partnership has enhanced their cooperation for mutual benefit, identifying key factors for their successful long-term collaboration."
    • How have you modelled my gender? Reconstructing the history of gender representation in Wikidata by Melis, B., Fioravanti, M., Paolini, C., & Metilli, D. (2024). "The paper traces the evolution of gender representation in Wikidata, showing how the community has moved from a binary interpretation of gender to a more inclusive model for trans and non-binary identities. The Wikidata Gender Diversity project (WiGeDi) timeline highlights the significant changes influenced by external historical events and the community's increased understanding of gender complexity."
  • Videos: Arabic Wikidata Days 2024 - Data Science Course - First Practical Session: Wikibase-CLI Tool (part 1, part 2) by Saeed Habishan. "The Wikibase-CLI enables command-based interaction with Wikidata using shell scripts and JavaScript. The tool runs on NodeJS and enables automatic reading and editing of Wikidata."

Tool of the week

  • WikiORA - is a tool designed for gene over-representation analysis. It integrates data from Wikidata, Misplaced Pages, Gene Ontology, and PanglaoDB to help researchers identify significantly enriched gene sets in their data.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

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Development

  • Most of the development team staff are still taking a break, so no development happened.

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Weekly Tasks

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2025

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2024).

Administrator changes

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CheckUser changes

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readded Worm That Turned
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Guideline and policy news

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Arbitration

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Wikidata weekly summary #661

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
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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!

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· Read the full report · Previous issue · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) talk · MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:59, 6 January 2025 (UTC) ·

Jasmine Bligh quote

Hi there. You reverted my deletion from BBC Television. In the Transdiffusion Broadcasting System source, I can see she says 'Good afternoon everybody. How are you? Do you remember me, Jasmine Bligh?', but where does she continue 'Well here we are after a lapse of nearly seven years ready to start again and of course we are all terribly excited and thrilled.'? Masato.harada (talk) 12:57, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

As I said in my edit summary; in the citation: . Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:30, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 66

The Misplaced Pages Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 66, November – December 2024

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