This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the
current talk page.
Following an
RfC, a change has been made to the
administrators inactivity policy. Under the new policy, if an administrator has not made at least 100 edits over a period of 5 years they may be desysopped for inactivity.
A public status system for WMF wikis has been created. It is located at
https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ and is hosted separately to WMF wikis so in the case of an outage it will remain viewable.
Arbitration
Remedy 2 of the St Christopher case has been rescinded following a
motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to place a ban on single-purpose accounts who were disruptively editing on the article
St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine or related pages from those pages.
The Wikimedia Hackathon will take place online on May 20–22, 2022. Are you interested in presenting something around Wikidata and Wikibase during the hackathon? Book a slot in the Wikidata+Wikibase room:
Wikimedia Hackathon 2022/Schedule.
Next Linked Data for Libraries
LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 17, 2022: Anson Parker and Lucy Carr-Jones (University of Virigina Claude Moore Health Sciences Library) will be talking about their Open Data Dashboard for analyzing University of Virginia Health publications using EuropePMC publication data as well as work to group publications based on institutional departments in Wikidata and how much of their content is "open."
Agenda
LIVE Wikidata editing #80 -
YouTube,
Facebook, May 21 at 18:00 UTC
REST API: We continued implementing the REST routes to get all statements of an Item and retrieve a single statement from an Item (
phab:T305988,
phab:T307087,
phab:T307088)
6 and 8 June:
Scholia hackathon with focus on software-related visualizations and curation workflows
29 July 2022: The submission deadline for
the Wikidata Workshop 2022 that will be co-located with the 21st International Conference on Semantic Web (ISWC 2022).
Interrogating linked open data and Wikidata with SPARQL Lorenzo Losa -
YouTube
Tool of the week
LOD4Culture is a web application for exploring world-wide cultural heritage.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
UNLOCK, a Wikimedia Deutschland program, is looking for your project ideas. These could be the development of tools building on top of Wikidata's data, of applications for social and public good or related to civic tech. Apply until May 29th, 2022!
Wikibase REST API: Initial implementation of a route providing all statements of an item (
phab:T305988), an a route to retrieve a single statement (
phab:T307087) completed.
First batch of
WBstack.com accounts successfully migrated to
Wikibase.cloud. You can keep track of our progress on this phabricator ticket
phab:T303852.
Lexicographical data: We updated the input placeholders on the new version of the NewLexeme special page (
T302877,
T307443). We finished the feature to prefill the inputs from URL parameters if present (
T298154) and to suggest common lexical category items (
T298150). We are working on some accessibility improvements (
T303806,
T290733,
T305359) and improving validation / error messages (
T305854).
Next Linked Data for Libraries
LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 31, 2022: Felicia Smith, Nicole Coleman, and Akosua Kissi on the Know Systemic Racism Project
Agenda
Want to know more about Abstract Wikipedia & Wikifunctions? You can now
subscribe to the weekly newsletter and get a friendly reminder every time a new issue is published!
Radioactivity map: Mind map about radioactive radiation built by importing from Wikidata with InfoRapid KnowledgeBase Builder
Wikibase REST API: Expanding statement reading routes (a single statement specified by ID (
phab:T307087), all statements of an item (
phab:T305988), a single statement for a specific item (
phab:T307088))
Fetch revision metadata and entity data separately in all use cases (
phab:T307915,
decision)
Update installation instructions in WikibaseLexeme.git readme file (
phab:T306008)
Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access
Special:Block directly from user pages. (
T307341)
The
IP Info feature has been
deployed to all wikis as a Beta Feature. Any autoconfirmed user may enable the feature using the "IP info" checkbox under Preferences →
Beta features. Autoconfirmed users will be able to access basic information about an IP address that includes the country and connection method. Those with advanced privileges (admin, bureaucrat, checkuser) will have access to extra information that includes the Internet Service Provider and more specific location.
Lexicographical data: We finished work on input validation and displaying errors for faulty input (
phab:T305854) and are continuing work on accessibility improvements such as screen reader support and keyboard navigation (
phab:T290733,
phab:T30535).
REST API: We finished implementation of conditional statement requests (
phab:T307031,
phab:T307032) and published the
OpenAPI specification document (still subject to change as the API develops). We started working on the write part of the API with adding statements to an Item (
phab:T306667).
The June 2022 issue of the Project Newsletter is now available.
Delivered June 2022 by
MediaWiki message delivery.
If you do not wish to receive the newsletter, please add an N to the column against your username on the Project Mainpage.
09:28, 7 June 2022 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #524
Extended content
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Next Linked Data for Libraries
LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call June 14, 2022: Will Kent (Wikidata Program Manager at Wiki Education) and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (Wikimedia Foundation Trustee; Visiting Scholar at Northeastern University; co-founder of Wiki Women in Red) will present on Leveraging Wikidata for Wikipedia – running a multi-language wiki project and the role of Wikidata in improving Wikipedia's content gender gap.
Agenda
ExtraInterwiki. Some language links will never show up in your favorite Wikipedia, those who don’t have a corresponding article in this Wikipedia. This new tool aims to give them more visibility by searching topics closed to the one on an article with no article on your wiki.
Fixed a bug where Item IDs where shown instead of the label after selecting an Item in an Item selector (
phab:T306214)
Lexicographical data: finished accessibility improvement for the new Special:New Lexeme page (
phab:T290733), improving error messages for the new page (
phab:T310134) and worked on a new search profile to make selecting languages easier (
phab:T307869)
REST API: continued work on creating statements (
phab:T306667)
Hello @
Nthep I hope you're doing well. I thought as I had tagged the article with revel that's why no admins are looking and cleaning it. Even at one point, I thought of reverting my edit. I also felt that as an CCI is opened against me may be that the reason that my revdel is pending for long. But Thank, you boosted my confidence I will keep up the good work. Have a good ahead.
C1K98V(
💬✒️📂)16:59, 15 June 2022 (UTC)
Your declines
I see you declined my RD1 requests for that Australian source. I forgot that it entered the public domain in the United States in 1996 because copyright terms there were only 50 years. Sorry about that. However, I am confused as to why you declined the one sourced to the Canadian museum. Was the content published before 1945, or was I missing something? Sorry if I have overwhelmed you. I am not making any more RD1 requests until all the other requests are taken care of. Again, sorry.
Scorpions13256 (
talk)
18:24, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
Feel free to tell me if I'm going too fast. I'm clearing out 3 sections of Ruigeroeland like there's no tomorrow. It's mostly Public Domain though.
Scorpions13256 (
talk)
16:45, 14 June 2022 (UTC)
Most are fine. Just watch some of Meyrick's, if like
Peteliacma it's appears to be a reprint of Meyrick's older works then it is likely they are PD already.
Nthep (
talk)
16:17, 15 June 2022 (UTC)
I didn't see your response until now. I have now stopped tagging Volume 3 of Meyrick's work. I have also now decided to search new sites for signs of reverse plagiarism. Yesterday, I also triggered a lot of edit filters to remove tags. Thank you for everything you do.
Scorpions13256 (
talk)
00:26, 16 June 2022 (UTC)
Guidance on when to request RD1
Hi Nthep, regarding your RD1 decline
here, I need some guidance: all content added
here was literally copied from
here, which is copyright 1998 by Routledge and used with permission by this website (see
here for their own copyright statement). Was it "not a blatant copyvio" because it was too short? Should I only request RD1 when there are at least two sentences or so copied? Only for a whole paragraph? It's also a bit inauspicious because it formed the last drop for the editor who added it to be blocked (see the note
here). I mainly want to know what constitutes enough of a violation to bother with RD1 though. Thanks, ☿
Apaugasma (
talk☉)11:52, 16 June 2022 (UTC)
@
Apaugasma There's several reasons for me (other admins may have taken a different view) declining revdel here
Blatant doesn't get defined at
WP:CRD or
WP:CP but my rule-of-thumb tends to be: "was this person trying to pass the content off as their own work?" Here I didn't think that was the case as they were citing the source,
It is quite short (265 bytes out of an 18k byte article) so it wasn't enough to breach the
non-free content guideline,
It's one of those sentences that is difficult to rephrase and it still make sense so
WP:LIMITED starts to come into play,
I wasn't looking at the editor's behaviour.
It was borderline by, imo, not enough to require revdel. It was entirely correct for you to remove the content as there is no doubt that it was a copyvio and I would always say that if you consider any content may need revdel to flag it as such, so that it gets a second opinion.
Nthep (
talk)
10:40, 17 June 2022 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the
current talk page.
Following an
RfC, a change has been made to the
administrators inactivity policy. Under the new policy, if an administrator has not made at least 100 edits over a period of 5 years they may be desysopped for inactivity.
A public status system for WMF wikis has been created. It is located at
https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ and is hosted separately to WMF wikis so in the case of an outage it will remain viewable.
Arbitration
Remedy 2 of the St Christopher case has been rescinded following a
motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to place a ban on single-purpose accounts who were disruptively editing on the article
St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine or related pages from those pages.
The Wikimedia Hackathon will take place online on May 20–22, 2022. Are you interested in presenting something around Wikidata and Wikibase during the hackathon? Book a slot in the Wikidata+Wikibase room:
Wikimedia Hackathon 2022/Schedule.
Next Linked Data for Libraries
LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 17, 2022: Anson Parker and Lucy Carr-Jones (University of Virigina Claude Moore Health Sciences Library) will be talking about their Open Data Dashboard for analyzing University of Virginia Health publications using EuropePMC publication data as well as work to group publications based on institutional departments in Wikidata and how much of their content is "open."
Agenda
LIVE Wikidata editing #80 -
YouTube,
Facebook, May 21 at 18:00 UTC
REST API: We continued implementing the REST routes to get all statements of an Item and retrieve a single statement from an Item (
phab:T305988,
phab:T307087,
phab:T307088)
6 and 8 June:
Scholia hackathon with focus on software-related visualizations and curation workflows
29 July 2022: The submission deadline for
the Wikidata Workshop 2022 that will be co-located with the 21st International Conference on Semantic Web (ISWC 2022).
Interrogating linked open data and Wikidata with SPARQL Lorenzo Losa -
YouTube
Tool of the week
LOD4Culture is a web application for exploring world-wide cultural heritage.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
UNLOCK, a Wikimedia Deutschland program, is looking for your project ideas. These could be the development of tools building on top of Wikidata's data, of applications for social and public good or related to civic tech. Apply until May 29th, 2022!
Wikibase REST API: Initial implementation of a route providing all statements of an item (
phab:T305988), an a route to retrieve a single statement (
phab:T307087) completed.
First batch of
WBstack.com accounts successfully migrated to
Wikibase.cloud. You can keep track of our progress on this phabricator ticket
phab:T303852.
Lexicographical data: We updated the input placeholders on the new version of the NewLexeme special page (
T302877,
T307443). We finished the feature to prefill the inputs from URL parameters if present (
T298154) and to suggest common lexical category items (
T298150). We are working on some accessibility improvements (
T303806,
T290733,
T305359) and improving validation / error messages (
T305854).
Next Linked Data for Libraries
LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 31, 2022: Felicia Smith, Nicole Coleman, and Akosua Kissi on the Know Systemic Racism Project
Agenda
Want to know more about Abstract Wikipedia & Wikifunctions? You can now
subscribe to the weekly newsletter and get a friendly reminder every time a new issue is published!
Radioactivity map: Mind map about radioactive radiation built by importing from Wikidata with InfoRapid KnowledgeBase Builder
Wikibase REST API: Expanding statement reading routes (a single statement specified by ID (
phab:T307087), all statements of an item (
phab:T305988), a single statement for a specific item (
phab:T307088))
Fetch revision metadata and entity data separately in all use cases (
phab:T307915,
decision)
Update installation instructions in WikibaseLexeme.git readme file (
phab:T306008)
Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access
Special:Block directly from user pages. (
T307341)
The
IP Info feature has been
deployed to all wikis as a Beta Feature. Any autoconfirmed user may enable the feature using the "IP info" checkbox under Preferences →
Beta features. Autoconfirmed users will be able to access basic information about an IP address that includes the country and connection method. Those with advanced privileges (admin, bureaucrat, checkuser) will have access to extra information that includes the Internet Service Provider and more specific location.
Lexicographical data: We finished work on input validation and displaying errors for faulty input (
phab:T305854) and are continuing work on accessibility improvements such as screen reader support and keyboard navigation (
phab:T290733,
phab:T30535).
REST API: We finished implementation of conditional statement requests (
phab:T307031,
phab:T307032) and published the
OpenAPI specification document (still subject to change as the API develops). We started working on the write part of the API with adding statements to an Item (
phab:T306667).
The June 2022 issue of the Project Newsletter is now available.
Delivered June 2022 by
MediaWiki message delivery.
If you do not wish to receive the newsletter, please add an N to the column against your username on the Project Mainpage.
09:28, 7 June 2022 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #524
Extended content
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Next Linked Data for Libraries
LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call June 14, 2022: Will Kent (Wikidata Program Manager at Wiki Education) and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (Wikimedia Foundation Trustee; Visiting Scholar at Northeastern University; co-founder of Wiki Women in Red) will present on Leveraging Wikidata for Wikipedia – running a multi-language wiki project and the role of Wikidata in improving Wikipedia's content gender gap.
Agenda
ExtraInterwiki. Some language links will never show up in your favorite Wikipedia, those who don’t have a corresponding article in this Wikipedia. This new tool aims to give them more visibility by searching topics closed to the one on an article with no article on your wiki.
Fixed a bug where Item IDs where shown instead of the label after selecting an Item in an Item selector (
phab:T306214)
Lexicographical data: finished accessibility improvement for the new Special:New Lexeme page (
phab:T290733), improving error messages for the new page (
phab:T310134) and worked on a new search profile to make selecting languages easier (
phab:T307869)
REST API: continued work on creating statements (
phab:T306667)
Hello @
Nthep I hope you're doing well. I thought as I had tagged the article with revel that's why no admins are looking and cleaning it. Even at one point, I thought of reverting my edit. I also felt that as an CCI is opened against me may be that the reason that my revdel is pending for long. But Thank, you boosted my confidence I will keep up the good work. Have a good ahead.
C1K98V(
💬✒️📂)16:59, 15 June 2022 (UTC)
Your declines
I see you declined my RD1 requests for that Australian source. I forgot that it entered the public domain in the United States in 1996 because copyright terms there were only 50 years. Sorry about that. However, I am confused as to why you declined the one sourced to the Canadian museum. Was the content published before 1945, or was I missing something? Sorry if I have overwhelmed you. I am not making any more RD1 requests until all the other requests are taken care of. Again, sorry.
Scorpions13256 (
talk)
18:24, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
Feel free to tell me if I'm going too fast. I'm clearing out 3 sections of Ruigeroeland like there's no tomorrow. It's mostly Public Domain though.
Scorpions13256 (
talk)
16:45, 14 June 2022 (UTC)
Most are fine. Just watch some of Meyrick's, if like
Peteliacma it's appears to be a reprint of Meyrick's older works then it is likely they are PD already.
Nthep (
talk)
16:17, 15 June 2022 (UTC)
I didn't see your response until now. I have now stopped tagging Volume 3 of Meyrick's work. I have also now decided to search new sites for signs of reverse plagiarism. Yesterday, I also triggered a lot of edit filters to remove tags. Thank you for everything you do.
Scorpions13256 (
talk)
00:26, 16 June 2022 (UTC)
Guidance on when to request RD1
Hi Nthep, regarding your RD1 decline
here, I need some guidance: all content added
here was literally copied from
here, which is copyright 1998 by Routledge and used with permission by this website (see
here for their own copyright statement). Was it "not a blatant copyvio" because it was too short? Should I only request RD1 when there are at least two sentences or so copied? Only for a whole paragraph? It's also a bit inauspicious because it formed the last drop for the editor who added it to be blocked (see the note
here). I mainly want to know what constitutes enough of a violation to bother with RD1 though. Thanks, ☿
Apaugasma (
talk☉)11:52, 16 June 2022 (UTC)
@
Apaugasma There's several reasons for me (other admins may have taken a different view) declining revdel here
Blatant doesn't get defined at
WP:CRD or
WP:CP but my rule-of-thumb tends to be: "was this person trying to pass the content off as their own work?" Here I didn't think that was the case as they were citing the source,
It is quite short (265 bytes out of an 18k byte article) so it wasn't enough to breach the
non-free content guideline,
It's one of those sentences that is difficult to rephrase and it still make sense so
WP:LIMITED starts to come into play,
I wasn't looking at the editor's behaviour.
It was borderline by, imo, not enough to require revdel. It was entirely correct for you to remove the content as there is no doubt that it was a copyvio and I would always say that if you consider any content may need revdel to flag it as such, so that it gets a second opinion.
Nthep (
talk)
10:40, 17 June 2022 (UTC)