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A barnstar for you!

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	Well-deserved Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 10:52, 5 May 2025 (UTC)

Thank you! Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:07, 5 May 2025 (UTC)

Update: New Event-Organizer Tools for You on English Wikipedia!

Hello,

I hope you're doing well! As an event coordinator on English Wikipedia, I’m happy to share some news with you. You now have the event-organizer right! This gives you access to the CampaignEvents extension, a powerful set of tools to help you organize and promote events and WikiProjects more easily. With the CampaignEvents extension, you can:

• Manage event registration directly on English Wikipedia.
• Use the Invitation List tool to find potential participants for your events/WikiProjects
• Receive automatic promotion of your events via the Collaboration List

Learn more on mw:Help:Extension:CampaignEvents

Now that I have your attention, I’d also like to share some updates to the extension:

• The Collaboration List can now be transcluded, meaning you can easily embed it on other wiki pages to share event details with more people by adding {{Special:AllEvents}}. Learn more.
• Admins can now determine which namespaces are permitted for Event Registration on English Wikipedia, via Special:CommunityConfiguration. Right now, the Event namespace is permitted by default for Event Registration. However, other namespaces (such as Wikipedia, WikiProject, etc) can now be added as permitted namespaces by admins too. This can help other types of organized activities, such as WikiProjects, use Event Registration.For details, please visit: Permitted_namespaces

If you need help using these new tools, I’m here to support you. Feel free to reach out for guidance. You can also find some useful video guides on Commons.

We’re excited to see how you use these tools for WikiProjects or events! If you have any questions, please let me know.

Udehb-WMF (talk) 11:28, 5 May 2025 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #678

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Tech News: 2025-19

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2025

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2025).

Administrator changes

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NaomiAmethyst (overlooked last month)

• Master Jay
• Orderinchaos
• Roger Davies
• Tinucherian

Interface administrator changes

Galobtter

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, administrator elections were permanently authorized on a five-month schedule. The next election will be scheduled soon; see Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections for more information. This is an alternate process to the RfA process and does not replace the latter.
• An RfC was closed with consensus to allow editors to opt-out of seeing "sticky decorative elements". Such elements should now be wrapped in {{sticky decoration wrapper}}. Editors who wish to opt out can follow the instructions at WP:STICKYDECO.
• An RfC has resulted in a broad prohibition on the use of AI-generated images in articles. A few common-sense exceptions are recognized.

Miscellaneous

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:02, 6 May 2025 (UTC)

"It's OK to remove your own /unanswered/ Qs"

I did that once and got formally "warned".... see here, User_talk:Iljhgtn/Archive_2025#April 2025. We might want to notify @Cordless Larry then if this is right. That editor was under the impression that, "It's standard practice, as with other discussion pages, to leave answered comments to be archived." Iljhgtn (talk) 21:18, 7 May 2025 (UTC)

@Iljhgtn No; you say you removed your question there because it had been answered. As you quote above, I said it's ok to remove your own unanswered questions. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:26, 7 May 2025 (UTC)

I see the difference. Thank you for clarifying that. @Cordless Larry, please disregard the ping then. Iljhgtn (talk) 21:27, 7 May 2025 (UTC)

Barnstar!

	The Working Man's Barnstar
	Thank you for cleaning up the pope's talk page!

— ClaudineChionh (she/her · talk · email · global) 13:18, 9 May 2025 (UTC)

Thank you! Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:33, 9 May 2025 (UTC)

"Wikipedia:ABOUTYOU" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Wikipedia:ABOUTYOU has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 May 9 § Wikipedia:ABOUTYOU until a consensus is reached. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 23:10, 9 May 2025 (UTC)

This Month in Education: April 2025

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The Bugle: Issue 229, May 2025

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This Month in GLAM: April 2025

This Month in GLAM – Volume XV, Issue IV, April 2025 Romaine 20:53, 11 May 2025 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #679

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-05-12. Missed the previous one? See issue #678.
Translations are available

Events

• Upcoming:
  • Kaxabu Wikidata Workshop May 17 at Puli DOC, Nantou
  • Seediq Wikidata Lexeme Workshop May 18 at Puli DOC, Nantou
• Past: Wikimedia Hackathon happened on May 4. Check out the closing showcase that included some Wikidata-related projects: Etherpad (Hackaton 2025)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • GLAM and Wikidata: The "GLAMorous Wikidata" Campaign: In March 2025, Wikimedia Serbia launched a local thematic campaign called GLAMurous Wikidata, focused on improving data about cultural and heritage institutions on Wikidata.
  • Project "Open Topstukken" ("Open Collection Highlights") - Maastricht University and Radboud University: The "Open Topstukken" project is a collaboration between Maastricht University and Radboud University to digitize and publish rare books and manuscripts, with metadata from their Omeka S systems automatically transferred to Wikidata by Wikidata specialists.
  • Wikidata and Research: The programme for the “Wikidata and Research” conference is now available online. Scheduled for 5–6 June 2025 at the University of Florence, this event is convened by a volunteer Scientific Committee in collaboration with Wikimedia Italia and the University of Florence.
• Papers
  • Capacitating Librarians with Wikidata Literacy for Managing Wikipedia Information Resources: Implications to Libraries By Oyighan et. al., (2025)
  • Social Biases in Knowledge Representations of Wikidata separates Global North from Global South By Das et. al., (2025)
  • Automatic Curriculum Cohesion Analysis Based on Knowledge Graphs By Gacek & Adrian (2025).
• Videos
  • African Wiki Women Wikidata training for the gender equality campaign
  • Using Listeria tool to create Wikidata lists from Wikidata
  • Using the Mix'n'match tool to match external datasets to Wikidata items.
  • Connecting the World’s Knowledge with Abstract Wikipedia By Denny Vrandečić

Tool of the week

• Wdactle game -- is a Wikidata version of Redactle! It's a game where you are shown a Wikidata Item with all labels and words redacted and have to figure out what it is. Guessing a word reveals all the places where it is used. Built by Luca Werkmeister during the Wikimedia Hackathon 2025.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• ⚠️ Wikidata Query Service graph split: As you know Wikidata Query Service was no longer able to handle the complete set of data Wikidata has. To address this the graph in Wikidata Query Service has now been split into a main graph (that continues to be at query.wikidata.org) and a scholarly graph (that is at query-scholarly.wikidata.org). For more details please see Wikidata:SPARQL query service/WDQS graph split.
• Join the Wikidata:Impact stories global campiagn. We're celebrating the amazing Wikidata community - editors, developers, librarians, and creators - and inviting you to share how Wikidata is used. Your story can inspire others and grow the community. Submit yours or nominate a cool project by June 6.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • ‎third-gender population (number of third-gender people inhabiting the place)
• Newest External identifiers: Encyclopedia of the Serbian National Theatre ID, vlaamsekunstcollectie.be ID, Patrimonio Galego ID, ‎Substack handle, Sport Express football match ID, R-Sport match ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • related video (less fitting video, used only because a better alternative is not available. If an appropriate video of the item is available, use P10 instead. Value should not be a generic placeholder.)
  • cosplay of (character(s) that are cosplayed in this image or video)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: RFI station ID (timetables), registration number of japanese invoice system, Jesuit Online Necrology ID, Geographicus-cartographer, Harper's tag, Database of Czech Librarians ID, Open Location Code, CABR-identifier, Onsland-identifier, National Library of Spain Alma ID (BNE v2.0), PC98 Images game ID, Stadtwiki Meißen ID, Rhein-Neckar-Wiki-ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • All you want to know about The Blue Coats (Q1030833)
  • Birthplace of Colombians in the Public Domain
• Showcase Items: Soir d'été sur la plage de Skagen – l'artiste et sa femme (Q18386245) - painting by Peder Severin Krøyer from 1899
• Showcase Lexemes: Projektion (L494436) - German noun (pro-yek-tsi̯oːn) that can mean "projection", "image display", or "defence mechanism in Psychoanalysis"

Development

• mul language code: We are fixing an issue where Items can't be found by their mul language label or alias (phab:T392058)
• Wikibase REST API: We are working on phrase matching for the simple search (phab:T389011)
• Dark mode: We fixed a color contrast bug with the entity selector when making new statements (phab:T393641)
• Ontology: We’re working on an updated, more complete version of the wikibase.owl ontology file (phab:T371752)

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.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country: Italy
• 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!

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Tech News: 2025-20

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• The "Get shortened URL" link on the sidebar now includes a QR code. Wikimedia site users can now use it by scanning or downloading it to quickly share and access shared content from Wikimedia sites, conveniently.

Updates for editors

• The Wikimedia Foundation is working on a system called Edge Uniques, which will enable A/B testing, help protect against distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS attacks), and make it easier to understand how many visitors the Wikimedia sites have. This is to help more efficiently build tools which help readers, and make it easier for readers to find what they are looking for. Tech News has previously written about this. The deployment will be gradual. Some might see the Edge Uniques cookie the week of 19 May. You can discuss this on the talk page.
• Starting May 19, 2025, Event organisers in wikis with the CampaignEvents extension enabled can use Event Registration in the project namespace (e.g., Wikipedia namespace, Wikidata namespace). With this change, communities don't need admins to use the feature. However, wikis that don't want this change can remove and add the permitted namespaces at Special:CommunityConfiguration/CampaignEvents.
• The Wikipedia project now has a Wikipedia in Nupe (w:nup:). This is a language primarily spoken in the North Central region of Nigeria. Speakers of this language are invited to contribute to new Wikipedia.
• View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Developers can now access pre-parsed Dutch Wikipedia, amongst others (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese) through the Structured Contents snapshots (beta). The content includes parsed Wikipedia abstracts, descriptions, main images, infoboxes, article sections, and references.
• The /page/data-parsoid REST API endpoint is no longer in use and will be deprecated. It is scheduled to be turned off on June 7, 2025.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• The IPv6 support is a newly introduced Cloud virtual network that significantly boosts Wikimedia platforms' scalability, security, and readiness for the future. If you are a technical contributor eager to learn more, check out this blog post for an in-depth look at the journey to IPv6.

Meetings and events

• The 2nd edition of 2025 of Afrika Baraza, a virtual platform for African Wikimedians to connect, will take place on May 15 at 17:00 UTC. This edition will focus on discussions regarding Wikimedia Annual planning and progress.
• The MENA Connect Community Call, a virtual meeting for MENA Wikimedians to connect, will take place on May 17 at 17:00 UTC. You can register now to attend.

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Books & Bytes – Issue 68

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The Signpost: 14 May 2025

• News and notes: WMF to kick off new-CEO quest as Iskandar preps to move on — Supreme Court nixes gag of Wiki page for other India court row on ANI — code-heads give fix-up date for Charts in lieu of long-dead Graph gizmo

• In the media: Wikimedia Foundation sues over UK government decision that might require identity verification of editors worldwide

• Disinformation report: What does Jay-Z know about Wikipedia?

• In focus: On the hunt for sources: Swedish AfD discussions

• Technology report: WMF introduces unique but privacy-preserving browser cookie

• Debriefing: Goldsztajn's RfA debriefing

• Obituary: Max Lum (User:ICOHBuzz)

• Community view: A Deep Dive Into Wikimedia (part 2)

• Comix: Collection

• From the archives: Humor from the Archives

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