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Cast Chinese Amulets

See Amazon for Cast hinese Amulets Book — Preceding unsigned comment added by Davidhartill (talk • contribs) 00:20, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

@Davidhartill: Found it, thank you for informing me about this great book, I'll be sure to buy it in the future. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 09:06, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

This Month in Education: August 2020

This Month in Education Volume 9 • Issue 8 • August 2020 Contents • Headlines • Subscribe In This Issuse Collaboration between Karvachar Armath laboratory and Karvachar’s Wikiclub as a new educational platform for the teenagers Education cycle “Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: an instructional strategy for the teaching practice” 3rd edition of Wikipedia Education Program in Hebron, Palestine. (COVID-19 edition) Introductory Wikipedia Workshop with Future Engineers: First Step of Education Program A picture is worth a thousand words: history students research pictures on Commons

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Wikidata weekly summary #430

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata distributed birthday in October. You can organize an (online) event with your local group or favorite WikiProject! See also: calendar in progress, information for organizers, 24-hours online meetup
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: We will talk about gadgets and user scripts. 25 August. Agenda
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #27, August 30
  • Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #17 Facebook, YouTube

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Commonsense Knowledge in Wikidata (via ArXiv)
  • Wikidata-focused presentations at the Workshop "Data Science in Climate and Climate Impact Research" taking place on 20-21 August 2020 in Zurich and online.
    • Sarasua, Cristina, & Mietchen, Daniel. (2020, August). Multilingual Structured Climate Research Data in Wikidata - The Community Perspective. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3994272
    • Mietchen, Daniel, & Sarasua, Cristina. (2020, August). Multilingual Structured Climate Research Data in Wikidata - The Data Perspective. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3994266 (also on YouTube)
  • Video: How to add missing descriptions to Wikidata using QuickStatments tool (in Arabic) - YouTube
  • Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #16 Facebook, YouTube
  • Video: Introduction to Wikidata (in Malayalam) - YouTube
  • Video: Wikidata editing basics (in Chinese) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Sophox allows for SPARQL querying of Wikidata and OpenStreetMap in a single query

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Two new grant programs from WikiCite, in support of open citations and linked bibliographic data.

Full documentation, eligibility requirements, selection criteria, program design principles, and contacts at the links. Apply by 1 October.

1. Project & events [$2-10k]
2. e-Scholarships [per-diem calculated on your city; 1-5 people (single, or as a 'remote group') for 2-4 days, for COVID-era "stay at home" projects. Paid in advance living allowance, no expense report required.]

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: SMARTS notation, tala, raga, recording location, law or regulation identifying number, earliest end date, latest start date, extinction date
    • External identifiers: Filmstarts title ID, Trismegistos text ID, SPLC Individual ID, ERIC Thesaurus ID, American Folklore Society Ethnographic Thesaurus ID, BHF magazine ID, Macedonian cadastral municipality ID, Monumentbrowser ID, Frauen in Bewegung 1848–1938 ID, Nasjonalt skoleregister ID, BHF author ID, Proballers ID, Opera Online work ID, Opera Online composer ID, Opera Online opera house ID, CTHS publication ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Namesakes, Engineer's Line Reference, bibliography, external auditor, ITF-identificatiecode voor speler 2020, rotated image, mirrored image, combined from, overlaid from, number of deaths in senior care homes, number of cases intensive care, negotiated by, is solution to, Commons category for the exterior of the item, Number of taxpayers, medium
    • External identifiers: Abbreviations related to ancient authors and works and to academic works regarding classical antiquity, YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe ID, Emporis company ID, Sports-Reference.com college basketball box score ID, FBref.com squad ID, Operator licence number, Jewish Virtual Library person ID, Spanish Artists from the Fourth to the Twentieth Century ID, JSTOR publisher ID, Istrapedia ID, monumenta.ch ID, Microsoft MVP profile ID, Art Bonus ID, The Living New Deal ID, TracesOfWar person ID, Hrvatski biografski leksikon ID, UG Digital Collections, jewishencyclopedia.com ID, Fancyclopedia 3 ID, Hrvatska tehnička enciklopedija ID, Grandterrier.net ID
  • Query examples:
    • British MPs with sons- or daughters-in-law who were also MPs (source)
    • MPs with the largest number of children or childen-in-law who became MPs (source)
    • Descendants of Robert Emett (born 1729), with counts of sitelinks and external IDs for them and their spouses (source)
    • Programming languages written by women (Source)
    • Bar chart showing the number of research output (articles, etc) annotated with a SARSCoV2 proteins as 'main subject' (Source)
    • Female soccer players who have a (known) social media account (Source)
    • Largest cities in France by population (Source)
  • Commons queries:
    • Works in Helsinki, and their copyright status (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Gazetteer

• Development
  • Deployed the first version of the Wikidata Bridge to Catalan Wikipedia
  • Creating Grafana Dashboards for the new Wikidata Bridge so we have some data to help us determine which datatypes to support next for example (phabricator:T260532)
  • Finished working on ensuring Labels of Items in some unusual, often minority, languages are still available on Wikipedia and other clients (phabricator: T259340)
  • Fixed error messages for API modules that will not work with the first version of Federated Properties (phabricator:T258558)
  • Working on improving how ORES judges the quality of an Item to make it more accurate
  • Started coding on Automated Configuration Discovery to make it easier for tool builders to make their tools work for other Wikibase instances as well

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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Tech News: 2020-35

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 August. It will be on all wikis from 27 August (calendar).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

17:58, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

Bamboo Texts Museum

• https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Changsha_Jiandu_Museum

• https://flickr2commons.toolforge.org/#/

• https://www.flickr.com/photos/101561334@N08/albums/72157636243098093

• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Photographs_by_Gary_Lee_Todd

--Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 21:07, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

Dr. R. Allen Barker coin rubbings

• Forgery, Wrong kind of metal and wrong calligraphy - Thánh Nguyên Thông Bảo, 聖元通寶 (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• Coins of the Hồ Dynasty   胡朝  1400 - 1407 AD - Thanh Nguyen and Thieu Nguyen (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• The Large Cash Coins of the Nguyễn Emperors (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/d13_trinh_lord.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/forgeries.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/other_coin.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/d16_nguyen.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/d15_tayson.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/d14_nguyen_lord.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/d13_trinh_lord.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/d12_leking.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/d11_le_rest.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/d10_mac_caobang.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/d9_mac_dyn.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/d8_tran_reb.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/d7_later_le.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/d6_ming.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/d4_tran.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/d4_tran.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/d3_ly.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/d2_anterior_le.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/d1_dinh.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

Signature to prevent automatic archiving. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 21:12, 4 June 2020 (UTC) .

Search term to remember.

• rubbings (拓片).

Signature to prevent automatic archiving. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 18:24, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

Bamboo Texts Museum

• https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Changsha_Jiandu_Museum

• https://flickr2commons.toolforge.org/#/

• https://www.flickr.com/photos/101561334@N08/albums/72157636243098093

• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Photographs_by_Gary_Lee_Todd

--Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 21:07, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

Dr. R. Allen Barker coin rubbings
(OLD).

• Forgery, Wrong kind of metal and wrong calligraphy - Thánh Nguyên Thông Bảo, 聖元通寶 (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• Coins of the Hồ Dynasty   胡朝  1400 - 1407 AD - Thanh Nguyen and Thieu Nguyen (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• The Large Cash Coins of the Nguyễn Emperors (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/d13_trinh_lord.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/forgeries.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/other_coin.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/d16_nguyen.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/d15_tayson.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/d14_nguyen_lord.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/d13_trinh_lord.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/d12_leking.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/d11_le_rest.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/d10_mac_caobang.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/d9_mac_dyn.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/d8_tran_reb.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/d7_later_le.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/d6_ming.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/d4_tran.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/d4_tran.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/d3_ly.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/d2_anterior_le.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/d1_dinh.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

Signature to prevent automatic archiving. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 21:12, 4 June 2020 (UTC) .

Search term to remember.

• rubbings (拓片).

Signature to prevent automatic archiving. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 18:24, 19 August 2020 (UTC) .

David Hartill's Cast Chinese Amulets

• David Hartill's Cast Chinese Amulets, emulate categorisation from this book on Wikimedia Commons.

--Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 19:24, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 August 2020

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: The high road and the low road

• In the media: Storytelling large and small

• Featured content: Going for the goal

• Special report: Wikipedia's not so little sister is finding its own way

• Op-Ed: The longest-running hoax

• Traffic report: Heart, soul, umbrellas, and politics

• News from the WMF: Fourteen things we’ve learned by moving Polish Wikimedia conference online

• Recent research: Detecting spam, and pages to protect; non-anonymous editors signal their intelligence with high-quality articles

• Arbitration report: A slow couple of months

• From the archives: Wikipedia for promotional purposes?

• Obituaries: Marcus Sherman, Jerome West, and Pauline van Till

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Dr. R. Allen Barker coin rubbings

• Forgery, Wrong kind of metal and wrong calligraphy - Thánh Nguyên Thông Bảo, 聖元通寶 (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• Coins of the Hồ Dynasty   胡朝  1400 - 1407 AD - Thanh Nguyen and Thieu Nguyen (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• The Large Cash Coins of the Nguyễn Emperors (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/d13_trinh_lord.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/forgeries.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/other_coin.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/d16_nguyen.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/d15_tayson.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/d14_nguyen_lord.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/d13_trinh_lord.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/d12_leking.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/d11_le_rest.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/d10_mac_caobang.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/d9_mac_dyn.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/d8_tran_reb.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/d7_later_le.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/d6_ming.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/d4_tran.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/d4_tran.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/d3_ly.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/d2_anterior_le.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

• http://vietnam.allanbarker.com/d1_dinh.htm ] (Dr. R. Allan Barker).

Signature to prevent automatic archiving. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 21:12, 4 June 2020 (UTC) .

Search term to remember.

• rubbings (拓片).

Signature to prevent automatic archiving. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 11:33, 30 August 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 2 August 2020

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Special report: Wikipedia and the End of Open Collaboration?

• COI and paid editing: Some strange people edit Wikipedia for money

• News and notes: Abstract Wikipedia, a hoax, sex symbols, and a new admin

• In the media: Dog days gone bad

• Discussion report: Fox News, a flight of RfAs, and banning policy

• Featured content: Remembering Art, Valor, and Freedom

• Traffic report: Now for something completely different

• Gallery: Photos of threatened species from iNaturalist

• News from the WMF: New Chinese national security law in Hong Kong could limit the privacy of Wikipedia users

• Recent research: Receiving thanks increases retention, but not the time contributed to Wikipedia

• Essay: Not compatible with a collaborative project

• Obituaries: Hasteur and Brian McNeil

• In focus: WikiLoop DoubleCheck, reviewing edits made easy

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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2020-32

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Please be bold and help to translation this article! [[::File:DRC- Child Soldiers.jpg|center|300px]] During the first and second civil conflicts which took place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), all sides involved in the war actively recruited child soldiers, known locally as Kadogos which is a Swahili term meaning "little ones". It has been estimated that the militia led by Thomas Lubanga Dyilo was 30 percent children. In 2011 30,000 children were still operating with armed groups. The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), released a report in 2013 which stated that between 1 January 2012 and 31 August 2013 up to 1,000 children had been recruited by armed groups, and described the recruitment of child soldiers as "endemic". (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 00:28, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #427

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Wiki13

• Events
  • Upcoming: Search Platform Office Hours—August 5th, 2020. This event will be an occasion to talk about the Query Service.
  • Upcoming: Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #15, August 8 Facebook, YouTube
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #24, August 9

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Wikidata track at the 2020 LD4 Conference on Linked Data in Libraries:
    • (30 July) Wikidata Tutorial: Intro to the Basics (by User:Gamaliel)
    • (30 July) Advanced Wikidata Tools and Concepts: More Than Just P's and Q's (by User:Mahir256)
    • (30 July) Developing a Wikidata Project (by User:Will (Wiki Ed))
    • (31 July) VanderBot: Using a Python script to create and update researcher items in Wikidata (by User:Baskaufs)
    • (31 July) No bricks without clay: outcomes from the Stanford Wikidata Working Group (by User:Arcadialib)
    • (31 July) LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour: Adding References to Wikidata (by User:Chicagohil)
  • Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #14 Facebook YouTube
  • Video: Lexemes in Wikidata - structured lexicographical data for everyone (by Lydia Pintscher), YouTube
  • Video: Wikidata presentation (in Turkish), YouTube
  • Why You Should Do NLP Beyond English - Nice article giving some context about why it matters to have Lexemes in Wikidata in many different languages

• Tool of the week
  • SQID allows you to analyse, browse and query Wikidata. SQID is inspired by Magnus Manske's Reasonator, but focuses on prominently featuring information about Wikidata classes and properties.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: height of center of mass, road number formatter, Vietnamese middle name, heraldic attitude, traffic sign template image
    • External identifiers: Tree of Public Interest ID, Denkmaldatenbank Thurgau ID, DSSTOX compound identifier, South Africa EMIS code, Archive Site Trinity College Cambridge ID, WISAARD resource ID, Gateway to Research organisation ID, SÚKL code, Science Fiction Awards Database author ID, Power plant operating licence (Turkey)
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: certified as, number of stages, convergence rate, step count, Alternative form, view, version type for works, advertisement copy
    • External identifiers: LibraryThing series identifier, Swiss Industrial Heritage ID, TOPCMB ID, Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus ID, Sports-Reference.com college basketball school ID, SAT-matrikulo, Signal number, BHF author ID, BHF magazine ID, SPLC Group ID, SPLC Individual ID, Open Civic Data Division Identifiers, RKD thesaurus ID, TCLF ID, Presence compositrices ID of composer, Presence compositrices ID of work
  • Query examples:
    • Properties and the number of constraint definition statements on them - there are quite a few with 0 constraint definitions
    • a graph of MPs and parties in the Swedish Parliament and with whom they worked together with to create motions 2018 SPOILER: >95% is just with people in the same party
    • Wealthiest queer people on Wikidata (Source)
    • Bubble chart showing the winners of the FA Cup (Source)
    • Map of parks in Oslo missing images on Wikidata (Source)
  • Commons queries:
    • Orienteerers: tinyurl.com/y25qa8ef (source, at 53:45)
    • Animal hugs: tinyurl.com/yykvj26y (source)

• Development
  • The last week was our quarterly prototyping week. We worked on the following projects. None of them are ready for prime-time yet but we'll continue with them.
    • Slices: We've had a lot of requests for accessing dumps of a smaller part of Wikidata's data since rarely anyone needs the complete data in Wikidata. The tricky part is figuring out which part is needed and if any of that can be generalized. We looked into for example how to make dump generation faster so we could potentially produce more smaller dumps that only cover a part of Wikidata's data, either thematically (e.g. humans) or by type of data (e.g. only statements and English labels and aliases but not sitelinks or descriptions).
    • REST API: As part of our effort to make it easier to access Wikidata's data for programmers we looked into a REST API. We tried to see if we could cover the existing action API modules in a REST API. We could. We'll take this as input for our ongoing API work now.
    • Improving quality ratings through ORES: ORES can judge the quality of an Item automatically. It is currently not very good at it however. We tried a few things to make it more accurate and found some easy wins we'll probably make happen in the next weeks.
    • Query manipulator: One of the ways we could potentially improve the load situation of the Wikidata Query Service is by automatically analyzing and then redirecting a bunch of queries to other systems that are more suitable for that particular type of query. The nice thing about that would be that the person/program sending the query wouldn't have to care about it but it'd be done automagically for them. We tried to build such a system and the results look very promising but more work/experimenting is needed, especially together with the WMF Search team.

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:37, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 2 August 2020

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Special report: Wikipedia and the End of Open Collaboration?

• COI and paid editing: Some strange people edit Wikipedia for money

• News and notes: Abstract Wikipedia, a hoax, sex symbols, and a new admin

• In the media: Dog days gone bad

• Discussion report: Fox News, a flight of RfAs, and banning policy

• Featured content: Remembering Art, Valor, and Freedom

• Traffic report: Now for something completely different

• Gallery: Photos of threatened species from iNaturalist

• News from the WMF: New Chinese national security law in Hong Kong could limit the privacy of Wikipedia users

• Recent research: Receiving thanks increases retention, but not the time contributed to Wikipedia

• Essay: Not compatible with a collaborative project

• Obituaries: Hasteur and Brian McNeil

• In focus: WikiLoop DoubleCheck, reviewing edits made easy

Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 18:26, 2 August 2020 (UTC)