User talk:Christian Ferrer/Archive45
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2013 • feb-jun • jul-aug • sep-oct • nov-dec |
September - October 2020
File deletions
Hello Christian, I have found this file which is ready to get deleted. The file was nominated for deletion long time ago & the case is clear. Thanks in advance, Chem Sim 2001 (disc) 19:27, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks for your help! Have a nice day, Chem Sim 2001 (disc) 05:18, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi Christian, could you please delete this file. I have uploaded this image four days ago and now I have superseded it with a newer version to fix some SVG issues. Thanks for your help! Chem Sim 2001 (disc) 16:47, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks for your help, wish you a nice evening! Chem Sim 2001 (disc) 16:54, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello Christian, I have found this file which is ready to get deleted! Can you also delete the respective file redirect (linked in the DR as well). Thanks a lot, Chem Sim 2001 (disc) 20:58, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks a lot, have a nice weekend! Regards, Chem Sim 2001 (disc) 08:09, 5 September 2020 (UTC)
Good morning Christian, I have two files which are ready to get deleted since they were nominated for deletion more than one week ago and the cases are clear:
Thanks in advance for your help! Best regards, Chem Sim 2001 (disc) 08:09, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks a lot! Regards, Chem Sim 2001 (disc) 11:05, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi Christian, could you please delete this file? It has been nominated for deletion more than one week ago & the arguments for deletion are clear. Thanks in advance for your great help, Chem Sim 2001 (disc) 07:49, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks for your help! Chem Sim 2001 (disc) 12:23, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello Christian, can you please delete this file? I have superseded it with a newer version to fix some SVG source code errors. Chem Sim 2001 (disc) 20:41, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks for your help again! Have a great day. Chem Sim 2001 (disc) 07:35, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi Christian, here I have two files which are ready to get deleted:
Both files were nominated for deletion one week ago & the cases are clear. Thanks, Chem Sim 2001 (disc) 15:31, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks for your help, have a nice Saturday evening! Chem Sim 2001 (disc) 19:32, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #432
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- Events
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Rob Fernandez (Wikimedia District of Columbia) on Listeria, a tool that uses SPARQL queries to define a list, and provides a bot that will update a wiki page containing that list if the results of that SPARQL query change, all based on Wikidata, 08 September. Agenda
- Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 8 at 18:00 CEST
- Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #19 Facebook, YouTube, September 10
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #29, September 13
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Semantic Wikibase has been released by Professional.Wiki (Demo video)
- Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #18, workflows for SPARQL queries and QuickStatements Facebook, YouTube
- OpenRefine 3.4 was released
- How can I get data on all the dams in the world? Use Wikidata. By Addshore
- Wikidata Training Workshop 2, by Canadian Arts Presenting Association - YouTube
- Video: How to use QuickStatements - a tool to bulk upload data onto Wikidata. By Dr Sara Thomas
- Tool of the week
wmdeanalytics.wmflabs.org/WD_percentUsageDashboard
is a dashboard that measures Wikidata's usage and coverage on Wikimedia Foundation projects.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Entity Explosion, the browser add-on for Chrome is now also available for Firefox. When the user visits a web page, it displays data from Wikidata, about the subject of that page.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: LSG local body code, NYARC Discovery ID, Encyclopaedia of Architects, Vienna 1770–1945 ID, Hrvatska tehnička enciklopedija ID, ICP artist ID, TracesOfWar person ID, Firefox add-on ID, NHK Archives Portal person ID, Hrvatski biografski leksikon ID, InciWeb ID, YUAG ID, Wikipedia Library partner ID, FIPRESCI person ID, Anais do Museu Paulista article ID, Legacies of British Slave-ownership place ID, Wisconsin Historical Society NRHP ID, Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: applies to form or aspect, blocked on the territory of, Liturgical category, Flickr image URL, turning radius, number of reboots, financials URL, SI base units, rank insignia2
- External identifiers: Syro-Malabar Church Parish ID, Database of Umgebinde houses in Bohemian Switzerland ID, Re-Member ID, DIL ID, Naver Vibe Artist ID, American Battlefield Trust battlefield ID, American Battlefield Trust person ID, L'Officiel des spectacles ID, VA facility ID, Hikr Waypoint ID, tvmaze ID, Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia ID, Danish educational institution number, Past Fellow of the Royal Society ID, photoLondon ID, uta-net.com song ID, Historic Montana ID, KHRI ID, Seattle Art Museum ID, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art artwork ID
- Query examples:
- Map of companies developing/manufacturing a COVID-19 vaccine candidate that is at least in a phase 1 clinical trial
- A table of the 100 highest fees charged for using various kinds of facilities, normalized to United States dollars - OSM/Wikidata query
- Youngest age of UK MPs leaving office since 1900 (Source)
- Longest time UK MPs lived after leaving office since 1900 (Source)
- British cabinet members with past military service (Source)
- Earliest written record of 10 largest Czech cities (Source)
- Churches dedicated to Czech patron St. Wenceslas (blue) and Moravian patrons St. Cyril and Methodeus (orange) (Source)
- German municipality names ending with -in, -ing, -heim (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Added Wikidata support to Japanese Wikivoyage. phab:T261451
- Investigating the nature of our training outliers to improve the way ORES automatically scores the quality of an Item.
- Working on error that sometimes causes Wikidata UI to report 2 error messages when saving a sitelink in an item. phab:T260869
- Completed various investigations to make an informed decision on the output format of WikibaseManifest files (automated configuration detection for toolbuilders) phab:T261285
- Completed various bug fixes and wrap-up tasks to conclude the major engineering work on the Federated Properties project
- More work on Item Quality Scoring and Federated Properties
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.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- 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 #433
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- Discussions
- New request for comments: Alternate disclosure policy
- Events
- Past: The Workshop On Open Citations And Open Scholarly Metadata 2020 took place in Bologna and online on September 9 and included a talk State of WikiCite in 2020, available on Zenodo via doi:10.5281/zenodo.4019954.
- Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 15 at 18:00 CEST
- Upcoming: Wikidata birthday organizers call, September 16th at 13:00 UTC/GMT
- Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #20: Facebook, YouTube, September 19
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #30, September 20
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Video: Youtuber Tom Scott tries to answer the question What Is The Best Thing?, using Wikidata to curate a collection of "things", and an online poll for people to vote on those things.
- "Our admiration for Wikidata and for the people who work with it knows no bounds. Having a single source of well modelled, massively interlinked, well managed data that anyone can query at the press of a button is a real thing of wonder." - says the UK Parliament data team
- Houcemeddine Turki, et al. (2020). Using logical constraints to validate information in collaborative knowledge graphs: a study of COVID-19 on Wikidata (Zenodo Preprint).
- Video: Wikidata basics short videos by Wikimedian in Residence at University of Edinburgh (YouTube)
- Video: Creating a Mix'n'Match set for Queensland Biota on Wikidata - YouTube
- Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #19: Cradle and colours in queries. Facebook, YouTube
- Tool of the week
- Mbabel is a tool that simplifies article creation by providing pre-made sentences based on Wikidata statements.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The consultation phase for the Wikimedia movement Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) is in progress until 6 October 2020. The UCoC drafting committee wants to learn which parts of the draft would present challenges for you or your work. What is missing from this draft? What do you like, and what could be improved?
- All the lists of languages used on Wikidata: feel free to improve this draft documentation page.
- The Wikidata development team is seeking to evaluate and improve the process of collecting and reacting to bug reports and feature requests. You can give feedback about your experience using this anonymous form until September 30th or add feedback publically to Wikidata talk:Contact the development team/Process review 2020.
- WikiMap, a tool by User:DB111 that maps geocoded images from Commons and Wikipedia articles, now supports Wikidata items as well (Q99232292)
- Wikidata QID's are approaching 9 digits. Now is the time to fix any code or schemas that assume that Q numbers are smaller than 9 characters.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: aerial view, ride height, category for the exterior of the item, axle track
- External identifiers: Anais do Museu Paulista article ID, Legacies of British Slave-ownership place ID, Wisconsin Historical Society NRHP ID, Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe ID, Jewish Encyclopedia ID, Grove Music Online ID, Hikr waypoint ID, DIL ID, Seattle Art Museum ID, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art artwork ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: expansion of, Oakeshott typology, Slack URL, TDD number, Hill size, K point, number of negative votes, number of support votes
- External identifiers: Historic Montana ID, KHRI ID, KinoWiki ID, BD Gest' series ID, Portugal. Dicionário Histórico ID, Discord username, China Treaty Database ID, Discord channel, Bollywood Hungama movie, NMC Heritage ID, identifiant d'un artiste département des arts graphiques du musée du Louvre, SPoT skater ID, Canadian Women Artists History Initiative ID, Lambiek Special pages, Lambiek comic magazines, Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank ID, Delft municipal monument ID
- Query examples:
- Shortest path of descent from Charlemagne to George Washington, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Elizabeth II
- List of most recent common ancestors (ordered by number of total degrees separated) between George Washington and George W. Bush (9th cousin 8 times removed), George Washington and Barack Obama (12th cousin 9 times removed), George Washington and Elizabeth II (2th consin 7 times removed), George W. Bush and Barack Obama (11th cousin), George W. Bush and Elizabeth II (14th cousin once removed), Barack Obama and Elizabeth II (19th cousin 3 times removed)
- Artists that have recorded songs in several languages, by number of different languages used (Source)
- Average age of companies listed on major indices (Source)
- Basque Country sister cities with world municipalities (Source)
- Map of companies developing/manufacturing a COVID-19 vaccine candidate that is at least in a phase 1 clinical trial (Source)
- Map of mountains in Austria showing their heights; from red for the lowest through green to black for the highest (Source)
- Top World Heritage sites by number of paintings depicting them (Source)
- Map of sports pitches for team sports that require between 10 and 20 players on the field - Wikidata/OSM query
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Fixing an error that sometimes causes Wikidata UI to report 2 error messages when saving a sitelink in an Item instead of just one. (phabricator:T260869)
- Development of version one of Federated Properties has concluded! Expect an announcement with timing of the release of this feature soon. Wikibase users who want an early look at the feature are invited to reach out to participate in the pre-release testing round.
- Development of the WikibaseManifest extension has continued into its second sprint; we focused on determining a product specification for the Manifest output.
- Finishing a draft documentation for a REST API to get it ready for a feedback round before implementation.
- Finished improvements to the automated scoring of the quality of Items with ORES. Still need to retrain ORES and deploy the changes before the scores are actually different though.
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.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- 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!
Deletions of files
Hello Christian, could you please delete this file? I have nominated it for deletion seven days ago & the case is clear. Chem Sim 2001 (disc) 17:44, 18 September 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks for your help, have a great weekend! Chem Sim 2001 (disc) 21:41, 18 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello Christian, could you please delete this file and the respective file redirect. Thanks in advance, Chem Sim 2001 (talk) 15:33, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks for your help, have a great start into the new week! Chem Sim 2001 (talk) 19:37, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi Christian, I have found a bunch of old files which are ready to get deleted:
Thanks in advance for your help, Chem Sim 2001 (talk) 07:55, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks for your help, Chem Sim 2001 (talk) 23:39, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello, found a few more than were taken from Flickr. It says public domain but it's scanned from a book so it's probably copyrighted. [[1]]
- Hello, yes very probably, I deleted the images. Thanks you. Christian Ferrer (talk) 04:27, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi Christian, I have found this file which is ready to get deleted. Thanks for your help, Chem Sim 2001 (talk) 09:26, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks for your help, Chem Sim 2001 (talk) 18:44, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
Good morning Christian, could you please take a look at this deletion request? I think the file is ready to get deleted. Thanks in advance, Chem Sim 2001 (talk) 08:59, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks so much, wish you a great Sunday! Best regards, Chem Sim 2001 (talk) 10:42, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello Christian, could you delete the previous version of my file? I have corrected some factual issue by uploading a new version. Thanks in advance, Chem Sim 2001 (talk) 16:50, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks for your help, Chem Sim 2001 (talk) 09:43, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
Salut Christian,
puisses-tu, s'il te plaît, restaurer le fichier? Il y a maintenant une déclaration de licence chez OTRS.
Merci, cordialement --Mussklprozz (talk) 15:33, 19 September 2020 (UTC)
Done @Mussklprozz: Salut, tu peux ajouter l'autorisation au fichier, je n'ai pas accès à OTRS. Christian Ferrer (talk) 15:36, 19 September 2020 (UTC)
- Merci, je l'ai fait. Bon dimanche! --Mussklprozz (talk) 15:47, 19 September 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #434
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- Events
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata Introduction Workshop (German) (September 29)
- Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 21 at 18:00 CEST
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: A starting point for newer institutions to think through what is involved in coordinating a Wikidata project, including shared infrastructure, training, and documentation, 22 September. Agenda
- Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #21 WikiDojo: Facebook, YouTube, September 25
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- "Representing COVID-19 information in collaborative knowledge graphs: a study of Wikidata"
- ProWD: Detecting Knowledge Imbalances on Wikidata on blog.wikimedia.de
- Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #20 WLM: Facebook, YouTube
- Video: Wikidata Training Workshop 3, by Canadian Arts Presenting Association (YouTube)
- Tool of the week
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Wikidata development team is seeking to evaluate and improve the process of collecting and reacting to bug reports and feature requests. You can give feedback about your experience using this anonymous form until September 30th or add feedback publically to Wikidata talk:Contact the development team/Process review 2020.
- WDQS/WCQS Status update (September 2): "We are planning to spend more time doing some analytics on our data. (1) What are the most expensive queries, what are they trying to achieve and is that reasonable? (2) Do we have performant subgraphs that we could expose independently?"
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: category for the exterior of the item, axle track, Stairway To Hell ID, Oakeshott typology, construction point, turning radius, hill size, bibliography
- External identifiers: Seattle Art Museum ID, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art artwork ID, TV Maze series ID, Barcelona Public art ID, University of Ghana Digital Collections (UGSpace) ID, Istrapedia ID, OnlyFans person ID, Linked Open Data Cloud identifier, The Cutting Room Floor ID, Fatcat ID, China Treaty Database ID, e-GOV law ID, Portugal. Dicionário Histórico ID, past Fellow of the Royal Society ID, Regesta Ecclesiastica Salisburgensia ID, Slack organization ID, Kansas Historic Resources Inventory ID, Historic Montana ID, ITF player ID 2020, BD Gest' series ID, American Battlefield Trust battlefield ID, P8624
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: defining mutations, nombre d'essais marqués, Netflix maturity rating, held event, number of paying subscribers, has census
- External identifiers: Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank ID, Delft municipal monument ID, identificativo Ministero dell'interno, Dallas Museum of Art ID, Cincinnati Art Museum ID, Energy Identification Code, Wikimedia Chat channel, Symptom Ontology ID, MnDOT Historic Bridges ID, monumentsauxmorts.fr ID, monumentsdememoire.fr ID, Lower Sorbian place name ID, Région Île-de-France ID, Museen Dresden article ID, Turkey's Culture Portal ID, NPS place ID, SSYK 2012
- Query examples:
- Map of anything that memorializes or is named after a Whig Party member - OSM/Wikidata query
- Map of every railway station presently connected directly or indirectly to St Pancras on Wikidata
- Age of the winners of the Tour de France (Source)
- Location and date of death of Danish rulers (Source)
- Map of the places & causes of death of Roman Emperors (Source)
- Images of members of the 16th Odisha Assembly (2019-24) (Source)
- Star signs of Japanese Prime Ministers (Source)
- Video game series with the longest time gap between a game and its direct sequel (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- WQS now supports mwapi service request for Wikibooks (phab:T261125)
- The language codes lij-mc, ja-Hira, ja-Kana, ja-Hrkt, ja-Hani, ojp, ojp-Hira and ojp-Hani" have been added for use in monolingual text property values (phab:T254968, phab:T195816)
- The language codes de-1901, eo-hsistemo and eo-xsistemo, ja-hira, ja-kana and ja-hrkt have been added for Lexemes (phab:T262330,phab:T257422, phab:T250559)
- P1438 has been converted from string to external ID datatype (phab:T262198)
- Worked on fixing an input issue with invisible characters (phab:T261071)
- Investigating what work would be needed to get the new termbox that's available on mobile to also work on desktop
- Fixing several issues with Special:Undelete (phab:T261747)
- Fixing an error message being shown twice (phab:T260869)
- Starting the coding work on the Query Builder
- Continuing to write a draft for a REST API specification
- Finishing the remaining work needed to get the improved quality scoring for Items deployed to ORES
- Continuing work on WikibaseManifest: Determined the essential metadata that will be included in the WikibaseManifest file, added some new features (mostly MediaWiki metadata) to the Manifest that were requested by the OpenRefine team (phab:T262805 and phab:T262804) and set up a test system that will soon be ready for tool builders to use for testing the integration of their tools with WikibaseManifest
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.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- 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!
Photo deletions
Hi Christian. I just noticed your alert that the images I've uploaded for both the Bob Corritore page and the Alex Dixon (blues) page will be deleted because of usage issues. Please be informed that both images were provided free of charge and license-free for public use by the subjects. The Corritore image is a publicity shot credited for Corritore by Marjani Viola Hawkins, his longtime girlfriend, and the Dixon image was taken by his wife, Melissa, and contributed with similar knowledge and agreement.
Best, Marty majicmarty 9/22/20
- Hi, we have guidelines and policies regarding the content published here, see com:Scope and com:Licensing. If you did not take the photos yourself we requires a free licensed source available on the web, and of course this source must be legitimate to give the free licenses. Or we requires the the copyright holder send a permission by mail to our permission system, agreeing explicitely for one of the free licenses allowed here. Christian Ferrer (talk) 18:00, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
Commons - Media Sarch, new feedback round
Greetings,
I'm following up on a message from earlier in the year about the prototype development for Special:MediaSearch. Based on community feedback, the Structured Data team has developed some new features for Special:MediaSearch and are seeking another round of comments and discussions about the tool. Commons:Structured_data/Media_search is updated with details about the new features plus some other development information, and feedback is welcome on Commons talk:Structured_data/Media_search. Media Search works in any language, so the team would especially appreciate input around support for languages other than English. I look forward to reading about what you think. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 20:05, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
Bonsoir...et...
...merci beaucoup pour votre action récente --Mosbatho (talk) 21:04, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
Jean-Marc Lajudie / Carnet de notes d'un batteur / ISBN : 978-2-9520376-8-6
Hello Christian Ferrer, I understand that you have unpublished the cover image of the book concerned. However, the publishing company that could give their consent closed in 2018 (https://www.societe.com/societe/mines-de-rien-498248665.html) without entrusting its catalog to another publishing company. This is why I proposed an image taken of which I am the author (carried out yesterday by myself) and which is a "composition" (staging of the work and a bookmark) and well obviously I assign the rights in accordance with the conditions of Wikipedia. There is no longer a new copy for sale (except used) of this book. Therefore, this image is not an advertising photo, it cannot be considered as possible raw material for re-exploitation by a third party prejudicial to the publishing company (which no longer exists). I have permission from the model (the author of the book, Jean-Marc Lajudie), the person in the photo used on the cover, and no way to contact the photographer who took the shot (who had ceded his rights to the publishing company to do the layout). Are you sure that the picture sent yesterday does not comply with French law?
- Hello, if the copyright holder is the author of the book, Jean-Marc Lajudie, and if you have his permission, then he must send this permission by mail to our permission system giving the titles of the deleted files and saying explicitely that he agrees for a publication here under one of the licenses allowed here. Christian Ferrer (talk) 17:43, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #435
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- Events
- Linking the 20th century paper history to the sum of all knowledge (Best practice presentation at DCMI Virtual 2020)
- Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 29 at 18:00 CEST
- Upcoming: WikiNeocomensia: Wikidata + OpenRefine, workshop in Neuchâtel (Switzerland) and in French, October 3
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #32, October 4
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions [IFLA] have published a series of six videos "discussions with professionals in order to discuss projects, issues, progress of Wikidata, Wikibase and bibliographic data in the field of libraries." Currently available as a playlist on YouTube under CC-By (Wikimedia Commons upload soon), with subtitles in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French (Arabic and Chinese coming soon). The production was made by the IFLA Wikidata Working Group and funded by a WikiCite grant.
- Sidestepping the limitations of collection catalogues with machine learning and Wikidata
- Navigating the maze of Wikidata query logs by Angela Bonifati, Wim Martens, Thomas Timm
- Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #21 - WikiDojo on the Global Climate Strike: Facebook, YouTube
- Video: Wikidata tutorial for lecturers (in Czech) - YouTube
- Video: Creating and enriching linked data with Wikidata - YouTube
- Video: Mix'n'Match Tutorial - YouTube
- Video: Introduction to Wikidata for librarians (in Portuguese) - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- omeka-s-wikidata is an Omeka-S module for auto-suggesting Wikidata URIs and labels.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Wikidata development team is seeking to evaluate and improve the process of collecting and reacting to bug reports and feature requests. You can give feedback about your experience using this anonymous form until September 30th or add feedback publically to Wikidata talk:Contact the development team/Process review 2020.
- Nominate your favorite tools for the Coolest Tool Award 2020 before October 14th.
- Wikidata Walkabout is a new site that lets you browse and drill down through different "classes" of data on Wikidata: wikidatawalkabout.org
- Como is a new Android app, that uses Wikidata lexemes and senses to create a word-guessing game. It let's players create new senses and tests them on other players to finally save them in Wikidata. The app is developed as part of a BA thesis, to determine if this concept is useful to create more lexicographical data, and testers would be very welcome.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: construction point, turning radius, hill size, bibliography, opening time, closing time, engine displacement, expansion of, Netflix maturity rating, TDD number
- External identifiers: American Battlefield Trust battlefield ID, American Battlefield Trust ID (person), Occupational Outlook Handbook ID, Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia ID, Canadian Women Artists History Initiative ID, Book Marks ID, Re-Member ID, SPoT skater ID, NDL law ID, McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia ID, L'Officiel des spectacles ID, British and Irish Furniture Makers Online ID, Cincinnati Art Museum ID, Dallas Museum of Art ID, FBref.com squad ID, Dostoyevsky and His Entourage ID, Lambiek comic magazines ID, Energy Identification Code, Library of Congress Children's Subject Headings ID, Ministry of the Interior of Italy ID, National Park Service place ID, MnDOT Historic Bridges ID, Open Civic Data Division ID, Museen Dresden article ID, SSYK 2012 The Swedish Standard Classification of Occupations, LoC HABS/HAER/HALS place ID, Symptom Ontology ID, photoLondon ID, Syro-Malabar Catholic Church ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Regional Council of Tuscany ID, level of professionalness, defined in terms of, form of property constraint, Attraction to, group identity, analog television standard, ritual object, number of rooms
- External identifiers: USA Water Polo Hall of Fame ID, Encyclopaedia Beliana ID, Indonesian prison database ID, LinkedIn group ID, Naver movie ID, CINE21 film ID, Movist film ID, KOBIS-ID, Max Movie film ID, The Boardr profile ID, Slovník českých nakladatelství 1848-1949 person ID, Google Play developer slug, Passion Patrimoine ID, FVLB work ID, BBC Sound Effects Asset ID, ITHL author ID, Quebec Dams Directory ID, Doktori.hu ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- A long-standing bug has been fixed (T217144) where Items and Lexemes created via OAuth would not be added to the user’s watchlist even if the user had the
Add pages I create and files I upload to my watchlist
setting enabled. (TheAdd pages and files I edit to my watchlist
setting was probably likewise ineffective, but this was not tested specifically.) Affected tools include QuickStatements, Mix'n'Match, and Wikidata Lexeme Forms; users of these and other tools may see more pages being added to their watchlists now. (This only applies to new edits and page creations; previously created or edited pages will not be automatically added to the watchlist retroactively.) - Working on the basic building blocks of the Query Builder towards making it possible to create the first very simple query with it
- Talking to people about comparing Wikidata's data against other databases and flagging mismatches
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- Fixed an input issue with invisible characters (phab:T261071)
- Finishing the draft of the REST API spec to get it ready for feedback
- WikibaseManifest: created a separate key for local entities and decided what we do about non-local entity sources based on tool-builder feedback (phab:T263527) and specifying the API in OpenApi format (phab:T262919)
- A long-standing bug has been fixed (T217144) where Items and Lexemes created via OAuth would not be added to the user’s watchlist even if the user had the
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Thanks for the review of my recent image of Mount Shasta. It was a strenuous hike yesterday to get to that view, so I really appreciate that you found the dust spot. I've fixed it now. Best, --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 00:24, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
- A hike is rarely wasted time, and it is even less wasted time if you take (good) photos! I love hiking but I have much less opportunity to hike because I have to stay close to people who are dependent on me. I reviewed the image. Christian Ferrer (talk) 07:12, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
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Deletion of files
Good evening Christian, could you please take a look at this deletion request and delete the file as well as the respective redirect? The file has been nominated for deletion 15 days ago & the case is clear now. Thanks in advance, Chem Sim 2001 (talk) 16:54, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks for your help, have a great evening. Chem Sim 2001 (talk) 18:31, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello Christian, I have found two files which can get deleted in my opinion.
Thanks in advance for your support. Chem Sim 2001 (talk) 12:30, 3 October 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks, have a nice weekend! Regards, Chem Sim 2001 (talk) 14:29, 3 October 2020 (UTC)
Hello, found another one that needs to be deleted. This image [[2]] was clearly taken from this copyrighted site [[3]] and it's not the user's own work. 108.7.60.197
- Thanks for the notification, as link in the web is from after the date of the upload this is unlikely to be the source. Therefore I nominated the file for regular deletion as there is no "blatant proof" and as the file is widely used. However I think you're right this image is very unlikely to be an own work. Christian Ferrer (talk) 08:42, 7 October 2020 (UTC)
Thank you and here's a couple more that's unlikely to be own work. Google reverse image shows plenty of matches and it's the only upload of the user. [[4]] [[5]] 108.7.60.197
- OK thanks, I deleted one and nominated the other for deletion. Christian Ferrer (talk) 06:32, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
Hello Christian, I have found this file which is ready to get deleted in my opinion. Chem Sim 2001 (talk) 17:51, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks for your help! Regards, Chem Sim 2001 (talk) 19:09, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
Hi Christian, here's another image that's unlikely to be own work of the uploader. [[6]]
Done I nominated it for deletion. Christian Ferrer (talk) 07:15, 9 October 2020 (UTC)
Good evening Christian, could you please delete the following three files?
- File 1
- File 2 + File:Stickstoffmonoxid.png which was nominated for deletion likewise
Thanks in advance for your help. Chem Sim 2001 (talk) 17:48, 9 October 2020 (UTC)
Hello Christian, I have found this file which is ready to get deleted. Thanks in advance for your help, Chem Sim 2001 (talk) 07:56, 15 October 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks a lot, Chem Sim 2001 (talk) 13:08, 15 October 2020 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #436
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- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Fuzheado
- Events
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Professor Toby Hudson on Entity Explosion, a browser extension which allows you to get information about entities on the web page you’re visiting, 06 October. Agenda
- Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikibase office hour, October 27th at 17:00 CEST (15:00 GMT)
- Upcoming: plenty of events for the Wikidata birthday, check the calendar and feel free to organise one!
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- What does/doesn’t follow Benford’s law: An analysis of hundreds of sets of numbers from Wikidata.
- Video: How to create and edit items on Wikidata (in Spanish) - YouTube
- Video: Introduction to Wikidata and wikiprojects of interest to librarians (in Spanish) - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- IllWill.js is a userscript that searches Wikidata for foreign-language sitelinks, to populate Template:ill and replace plain red links on other Wikimedia projects.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- omeka-s-wikidata is a new module for the open source GLAM collection management software Omeka, that allows cataloguers to use Wikidata as a vocabulary for persons, places, subjects, etc.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: TDD number, twin town sign, character designer, Deutsche Bahn station code
- External identifiers: Museen Dresden article ID, SSYK 2012 The Swedish Standard Classification of Occupations, LoC HABS/HAER/HALS place ID, Symptom Ontology ID, photoLondon ID, Syro-Malabar Catholic Church ID, Native Plants Database ID, Lower Sorbian place name ID, Les roses cultivées à l'Haÿ en 1902 ID, Maniadb album ID, USA Water Polo Hall of Fame ID, Présence Compositrices work ID, Regional Council of Tuscany ID, Indonesian prison database ID, Encyclopaedia Beliana ID, Twitter topics ID, Naver movie ID, Bollywood Hungama movie ID, BoardGameGeek family ID, London Stock Exchange company ID, Région Île-de-France ID, Slovník českých nakladatelství 1848-1949 person ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Infobox based on, CompositionToday composers showcase ID, parallel street, World Factbook country code, port calls, described at Wikipedia page, erected by, PIM award ID, Stadtwiki Dresden article
- External identifiers: Quebec Dams Directory ID, Doktori.hu ID, CompositionToday composer ID, Slovník českých nakladatelství 1848-1949 publishing house ID, ACER code, Dictionnaire biographique du fouriérisme ID, NSW State Archives and Records Authority ID, SwissLipids identifier, Scottish Brick History Brick & Tileworks ID, Minecraft UUID, Minecraft username, Science Museum Group ID, Kicker.de player ID (actual scheme), RNACentral ID, NPS people ID, Directory of Belgian Photographers-ID, Dresden Street ID, Spotify playlist ID
- Query examples:
- Birthplace of people named Michael or any other variant of the name (Source)
- Map of outdoor warning sirens, color-coded by manufacturer. A layer selector lets you toggle individual manufacturers on and off. Clicking a siren shows its make and model if available. - OSM/Wikidata query
- Soviet cartoons in descending order of popularity in the world (Source)
- List of ISO countries showing each country's synonyms, labels, etc. (Source)
- Norwegian politicians who have been members of at least 3 parties (Source)
- Streets in Leiden named after people/things (Source)
- Maps of arts and humanities research grants funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council in UK between 2013-2019. Sorted by year, Sorted by budget (Source)
- Newest database reports:
- EntitySchema directory - feedback welcome on the report talk page.
- Newest properties:
- Development
- First pieces of the Query Builder are coming together and we are working towards making it generate the first dumb query
- Talking to people about their thoughts on checking Wikidata's data against other databases. If you're interested reach out to Mohammed.
- Got some first internal feedback for the REST API specification draft. We'll publish it for feedback in the next days.
- Fixing an issue with certain language codes no longer being available (phab:T264294)
- Working on making sure blocked bots don't waste Item IDs when trying to create new Items (phab:T232620)
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- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
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Gaston Sébire
Monsieur, Vous avez fait retirer la photographie d'un tableau de Gaston Sébire, Village enneigé. Pourriez-vous m'expliquer pourquoi ? Je suis historien de l'art et prépare actuellement le catalogue raisonné de cet artiste. Dans l'attente de vous lire et avec mes remerciements. Cordialement, Marartib
- Je ne me rappelle plus de quelle image exactement il s'agit, mais vu la date du décès de cet artiste, il n'y a aucun doute que c'est un problème de droit d'auteur. Sa mort est trop récente pour que ces œuvres soient dans le domaine publique. Vous pouvez lire nos règles sur le sujet: com:Scope et com:Licensing, ici ne sont acceptés que les des œuvres libres de droits ou qui ont des licences compatibles. Cordialement, Christian Ferrer (talk) 18:08, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
Commons:Deletion requests/File:New Conservative Logo.png
Did you mean "above TOO", not below, when closing Commons:Deletion requests/File:New Conservative Logo.png? AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 17:32, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
- Yes, thanks you for the notification. I fixed the mistake. Christian Ferrer (talk) 18:02, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
Packaging
Hi again, isn't the cans in the Category:Monster Energy as well as the File:NOS energy drink.jpg copyrighted? Hmm, or any of the cans in the Category:Energy drinks and/or its subcats. It's tiresome trying to find any as illustration just for it to be removed later. TherasTaneel (talk) 05:58, 12 October 2020 (UTC)
- Hi, I think File:NOS energy drink.jpg should be ok because it may be below the thresshold of originality, however I created a DR for the other files, see Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Monster Energy. Let's the community decides. Christian Ferrer (talk) 11:36, 12 October 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #437
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- Discussions
- Events
- Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, October 13 at 18:00 CEST
- Upcoming: Wikidata birthday organizers call, October 14 at 12:00 GMT
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #34, October 18
- Search Platform Office Hours happens first Wednesday of each month. Come with questions related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service, Wikimedia Commons Query Service, etc.
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Wikidata reaches Q100000000, by Lydia Pintscher and Denny Vrandečić
- A new extension can add support for linking to local media files in Statements (and not just files on Wikimedia Commons) to a Wikibase instance (Demo video, developed by Professional.Wiki)
- LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group presentation: How Entity Explosion fits into the Wikidata ecosystem, by Toby Hudson
- Video: Wikidata and COVID-19: Creating a collaborative knowledge graph from CORD-19, by Csisc
- Tool of the week
- OD2WD automatically converts CSV files from Open Data portals into QuickStatements for Wikidata republishing. Demo video
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- noratelimit for bots to be removed on October 20th
- The new Wikibase/Consultants and Support Providers' directory on Meta lists people/companies that provide professional help with Wikibase -- be it technical support (installation and setup), custom development, or data modeling services.
- The 2020 Coolest Tool Award is still accepting nominations until October 14th. Please use this form to recommend tools. You can nominate as many tools as you want by filling out the form multiple times.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: number of negative votes, number of support votes, x-offset, y-offset, social media followers, fandom, has census, parallel street, entry in abbreviations table
- External identifiers: Dictionary of Occupational Titles Code (fourth edition, revised), FVLB work ID, Passion Patrimoine ID, Biographical dictionary of Fourierism ID, CompositionToday composer ID, ITHL author ID, Quebec Dams Directory ID, SwissLipids identifier, ACER code, Science Museum Group ID, Slovník českých nakladatelství 1848-1949 publishing house ID, Directory of Belgian Photographers ID, RNACentral ID, Turkey's Culture Portal ID, NSW State Archives and Records Authority ID, Scottish Brick History Brick & Tileworks ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: ship's captain, planetary coordinates, Date of signature, Unicode name
- External identifiers: CPV Supplementary, PeoplePill person ID, O*NET OnLine code, Emojipedia ID, GADM ID, CTAN package ID, MinDat taxon ID, AniList anime ID, AniList manga and light novel ID, Normattiva ID, ILO Thesaurus ID
- Query examples:
- Map of trees whose species is categorized as threatened on the IUCN Red List - OSM/Wikidata query
- Women actress less than 70 years old who are descendants of the first king of Navarre, ordered by number of sitelinks
- Dead Social Democratic Party members who have been ministers in 1992 or later (Source)
- Artworks with an image in Wikidata by year of creation (Source)
- Map of mountains in Switzerland (Source)
- Map of markets in the city of Surabaya (Source)
- National Anthems by tonality (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- The RFC to semi-protect all property pages has been implemented, all properties now require the “autoconfirmed” right to edit (T254280)
- Working on enabling JSON dumps for Lexemes (phab:T220883)
- Finishing preventing blocked users from making us skip QIDs (phab:T232620)
- Continuing work on the Wikibase Manifest extension that allows toolbuilders to easily access configurations of a specific Wikibase instance so it is easier for them to make their tools work with not just Wikidata but also other Wikibase instances
- Started analyzing what we consider a mismatch for our work around checking Wikidata's data against other databases
- Continued work on the Query Builder to get it to create the first very simple query. It can do that now but not yet visualize the result.
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- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
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Deletion of Lops Brewing Logo
Hi,
You recently deleted a logo that I added to the Lops Brewing Logo. While this is a copyrighted image, I received written permission from the owner of the copyright to use the image in Wikipedia. Could you un-delete the image?
Thanks, Sarah Lopolito
- Hi,
Logos and trademarks are accepted in Wikimedia Commons only if
- they are in public domain (help) for a specific reason; or
- they are freely licensed by their owner, in such case please include a web link; or
- they are below the threshold of originality; or
- the copyright holder sends directly a permission to OTRS, where you can read how to do it.
Note that the permissions system (OTRS) is run by volunteers and there is a queue, if your image has been deleted, and you have sent a permission (before or after deletion), do not re-upload again the erased image yourself, it's forbidden. If the permission is valid then it will be automatically restored. Christian Ferrer (talk) 18:16, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #438
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- Discussions
- Other: Proposal to spin-off non-Earth coordinates from property P625 (coordinates location), currently only 7000 of 8 million values: see Property proposal/planetary coordinates
- Events
- Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, October 20 at 18:00 CEST
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: hands-on work with Wikidata on creating items for authors of COVID 19 papers and brainstorming for future hands-on work, 20 October. Agenda
- Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XXV: Interoperabilidade e acesso aos dados, in Portuguese by Ederporto (Wiki Movimento Brasil) - October 22 17:00 UTC (14:00 BRT)
- WikiCite 2020: Virtual Conference happening 26-28 October 2020. Many live-stream sessions across several languages and timezones. LWyatt (WMF) (talk)
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Tisane Labs announce new feature in Tisane API, allowing tagging and extraction of Wikidata entities: blog post
- Video: LIVE Wikidata editing at HACK4OPENGLAM - YouTube
- Video: Wikidata Lexeme BY Mahir256 - YouTube
- Video: Introduction to Wikidata (in Swedish) - YouTube
- Video: Introduction to SPARQL (in Swedish) - YouTube
- Video: Bibliographic data on Wikidata (in Swedish) - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- Prepbio tool uses Wikidata to create the beginnings of a Wikipedia stub biography article. (2020-10-19)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: ritual object
- External identifiers: Scottish Brick History Brick & Tileworks ID, Spotify playlist ID, Artist ID of the department of Prints and Drawings of the Louvre, NBIC taxon ID, Danish educational institution number, CTAN package ID, Dresden Street ID, Emojipedia ID, FIBA Hall of Fame ID, Stadtwiki Dresden article
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Unicode name, branch or affiliate, economy of topic, checkin and checkout times (v.2), maximum current, Skipsrevyen ID, route operated, power plant unit, annual average daily traffic, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Tasking Manager project ID, isotopically modified form of, Numérisé par
- External identifiers: Kramerius of Moravian Library UUID, Hungarian Water Polo Federation player ID, Irish Statute Book ID, Mir@bel publisher ID, CCFr library ID, Decorati onorificenze repubblica, BHL name ID, AWMDB person ID, AVN person ID, American Heritage ID, xHamster ID, Great Places ID, Famepedia ID, Nachlässe in Austria, Archivio Storico Ricordi opera ID, PAN member, DC Historic Sites ID, Literary Encyclopedia (1929-1939), Concise Literary Encyclopedia, aagm people ID, aagm sites ID, Yandex Zen ID, GeoGuessr ID, Polski Słownik Judaistyczny ID, SMB-digital ID, identifiant station Vélib' Métropole
- Query examples:
- Gallery of 3D models of structures mapped in OpenStreetMap that are available under Creative Commons licenses at Wikimedia Commons - OSM/Wikidata query (sophox.org)
- Item named after item named after item named after item named after item named after item
- UK parliament members' opposition posts, start dates and end dates where Wikidata has a Parliament ID for that member (Source)
- Count of Irish Statutory Instruments, 1948-2020 (Source)
- Movie genre trends (Source)
- Scientific papers explaining backward contact tracing (Source)
- List of sovereign states in en, fr, de, ru (Source)
- Locations depicted in paintings (Source)
- The most commonly depicted locations (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Blocked users trying to create new Items no longer make us skip QIDs (phab:T232620)
- So far we don't have JSON dumps for Lexemes. We're working on regularly generating them as well now (phab:T264883)
- Continuing work on getting the Query Builder to generate the first query. Almost there.
- Started the feedback round for the REST API. Please provide your input if you are currently using the action API or plan to develop against Wikidata's API in the future.
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.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- 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!
File deletions
Good evening Christian, could you please delete this file? It has been nominated for deletion more than one week ago & the case is clear. Thanks in advance, Chem Sim 2001 (talk) 19:33, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
- Already done by Leyo. Christian Ferrer (talk) 04:49, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
- Ah yes, thanks anyway. Chem Sim 2001 (talk) 07:09, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
Hello Christian, could you please delete the following two files:
The reasons for deletion are clear. Thanks in advance, Chem Sim 2001 (talk) 15:23, 22 October 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks for your help! Best regards, Chem Sim 2001 (talk) 16:20, 22 October 2020 (UTC)
Hello, found a couple more files that clearly are not own work and most likely taken from various gun auction websites [[7]] [[8]] 108.7.60.197
- Hi, I don't know, one file has big resolution with EXIFs and may be an own work, I nominated the other for deletion. I did not find prior catches with google for the both images. Thanks you for the notification. Christian Ferrer (talk) 06:08, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
Hi Christian, could you close this deletion request by keeping the file? Thanks in advance, Chem Sim 2001 (talk) 19:18, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks for your help! Best regards, Chem Sim 2001 (talk) 07:31, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
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--QICbot (talk) 05:31, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
Suppression d'affiche des films
Bonjour Christian,
Ce lundi à 12 h 30 vous avez supprimé trois images sur des fiches consacrées à des films dont je suis le producteur : Fichier: Affiche film Davidoff.tif Fichier: Visages Suisses.tif Fichier: Homme en fuite.jpg
Ces affiches de film m'appartiennent. Il n'y a donc pas de problème de droits d'auteur.
Je vous remercie de bien vouloir m'indiquer la raison de ses trois suppressions ? Bien cordialement. Tedrahcir
--2A01:CB14:1E9:2700:2C:D2D0:FC0D:9CCB 14:45, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
- Bonjour, la raison de ces suppressions est la protection des droits d'auteurs. Les contributions étant anonymes il y a beaucoup d' images d'affiches, de logos, ect... qui sont téléchargées par des personnes se prétendant les ayants droits mais qui en réalité ne le sont pas. Nous ne pouvons pas être sûr que vous êtes réellement le titulaire de ces droits d'auteurs. Mais si tel est le cas, pour que les images soient restaurées, il faut que vous envoyez une permission par mail à notre système de permission. Cordialement, Christian Ferrer (talk) 16:29, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #439
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- Events
- Past: Providing sustainable data services through Wikibase and Wikidata, SEMIC Conference 2020 - (replay)
- Past: Introduction to Wikidata by Frimelle, Software Freedom Kosova 2020 - (replay)
- Past: What's new in Wikidata? by Lea Lacroix, Lydia Pintscher and Mattia Capozzi, ItWikiCon 2020 - (replay)
- Ongoing: plenty of Wikidata birthday events, online and onsite! Here's an overview of the upcoming events, you can find the links and details in the main calendar.
- WikiCite virtual conference on October 26-28, live-streamed on Youtube and Twitter, with sessions across many timezones and languages – English, French, German, Indonesian, and Portuguese.
- Wikidata Education Week, online, on October 26-30
- 24-hours online meetup, on October 28-29: an open discussion with plenty of community members facilitating exchange around the topic "what makes you enthusiastic about Wikidata"
- Gene Wiki: how to synchronize and curate primary sources with and in Wikidata, online, on October 29th
- Birthday celebration in Rennes, France, on October 29th
- Birthday Celebration in Accra, Ghana, and online, on October 29th
- Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikibase office hour, October 27th at 17:00 CET (16:00 GMT)
- Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, October 27 at 18:00 CET
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Excerpts from Wikidata Birthday events
- Analyze Swedish politics with Wikidata (Blog post)
- WikiCite awards 23 grants & eScholarships to improve open citations (including plenty of Wikidata-related projects)
- Video: Eyoungstrom and Evolution and evolvability explore and explain different Wikidata tools in 15-part series on YouTube - Playlist
- Video: Wikidata Lab XXV: Interoperability and data access (in Portuguese) - YouTube
- Video: Wikidata for cultural institutions and GLAM-WIKI partnerships (in Portuguese) - YouTube
- Wikidata Training Workshop 4, by Canadian Arts Presenting Association - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- WikibaseJS-cli allows to edit Wikidata from command line, including creating items from samples ("templates") and do complex transformations of statements
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Server switch: all wikis will be in read-only on Tuesday, October 27th at 14:00 UTC for up to an hour (more information). All services hosted by WMF (e.g. tools hosted on wmcloud.org) are also impacted. Non-essential code deployments will not happen this week.
- Wikimedia Israel (WMIL) develops instructional material for the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS): wdqs-tutorial.toolforge.org
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: number of rooms, permits, prohibits, economy of topic, check-in time, check-out time
- External identifiers: CTAN package ID, Dresden Street ID, Emojipedia ID, FIBA Hall of Fame ID, Stadtwiki Dresden article, GADM ID, Lambiek Special pages ID, Mir@bel publisher ID, ILO Thesaurus ID, AVN performer ID, CCFr library ID, xHamster performer ID, AWMDB performer ID, Normattiva ID, American Heritage place ID, BHL name ID, Hungarian Water Polo Federation player ID, Irish Statute Book ID, Minecraft UUID, Nachlässe in Austria ID, AniList anime ID, National Park Service people ID, AniList manga ID, Archivio Storico Ricordi opera ID, O*NET OnLine code, Opta football competition ID, Opta football player ID, Opta football team ID, The Boardr profile ID, Great Places ID, PIM award ID, Scholars Strategy Network ID, DC Historic Sites place ID, Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: annual average daily traffic, isotopically modified form of, Numérisé par, Online catalog, funeral, Inaugural address, Hong Kong film rating, word lookup, hair or facial hair style, Cup size, for color scheme
- External identifiers: aagm people ID, aagm sites ID, Yandex Zen ID, GeoGuessr ID, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Tasking Manager project ID, Polski Słownik Judaistyczny ID, SMB-digital ID, identifiant station Vélib' Métropole, Base constructions bibliothèques ID, Dicionário de Historiadores Portugueses ID, Unione Romana Biblioteche Scientifiche ID, Malmö Museer, IMVDb music video ID, NSSDCA ID, Docker Hub repository, Ontology of units of Measure 2.0 unit ID, Persée article ID, Geneanet Family Name ID, Blogger user profile ID, USL League One ID, Stolperstein identifiers, State Catalogue of the Museum Fund of Russia artwork ID, Royal Horticultural Society plant ID, EGAFD ID
- Query examples:
- Commemorative plaques and their subjects in Aberdeen, Scotland; with photos of plaque and subject and Wikipedia links. (Source)
- Cities with female mayor (Source)
- Most common variants of the name "Susanne" in each country (Source)
- Birthplaces of art historians (Source)
- Invasive species in EU and whether they have articles in different languages (Source)
- Birthplace of Olympique de Marseille players (Source)
- COVID-19 deaths by month (Source)
- Wikimedia Commons Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Got the Query Builder to create the first simple queries. You can follow along the development from now on on the test system.
- Preparing regular JSON dumps for Lexemes (phab:T264883)
- Analyzed a number of queries to the query service together with the WMF search team to better understand what the queries are doing and what further optimizations we can make to the query service and which queries need different systems to answer them.
- Working on creating and tracking implicit usages of Wikidata descriptions so description changes show up in the watchlist on Wikipedia and co (phab:T265897)
- Created Extension:WikibaseManifest documentation on MediaWiki.
- Looking into what would be considered a mismatch when comparing WIkidata's data against another database. This is groundwork for potentially automating this in the future to find potential issues in the data to flag to editors.
- Working on deploying the new Item quality scoring model for ORES to production so we have improved quality scores
- Finished investigating how to handle a restricted list of external Wikibase services. (phab:T265118)
- Removed noratelimit on bots for wikidata.org (phab:T258354)
- Published Easier Access for Programmers to Wikidata research report
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.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
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--QICbot (talk) 05:36, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
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--QICbot (talk) 05:24, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
Dirt jump IMG 7609. jpg
Hallo Christian Ferrer, recht herzlichen Dank für die Nominierung des oben erwähnten Bildes bei den Exzellenten Bildern.
Viele Grüsse Fischer.H
- You're welcome. Christian Ferrer (talk) 17:26, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
FP Promotion
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