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Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call January 24, 2023: We will be discussing plans for 2023, and requesting feedback and ideas for future programming. Based on a previous recommendation to host a discussion on advocacy for Wikidata within libraries, we will introduce and provide time to complete a short survey to foster conversation in a future Group Call. Please come ready to share your thoughts Agenda
Introductions to Wikidata, online meetings organized by Wikimedia Australia on January 25, 26 and 31
General datatypes: attracts (organisms attracted by this taxon), salary level (level of someone's salary), change of (property this process changes), database contains records about (indicate the types of items that the database has records about)
Ontology issues: We finalized and published the survey to better understand which types of ontology issues are most problematic for reusers of our data.
Wikipedia and co: Fixing a regression where there is no entry in recent changes and watchlist when an Item is deleted that was connected to an article on that wiki (phab:T326082)
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
Last week, for ~15 minutes, all wikis were unreachable for logged-in users and non-cached pages. This was caused by a timing issue. [1]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 January. It will be on all wikis from 26 January (calendar).
If you have the Beta Feature for DiscussionTools enabled, the appearance of talk pages will add more information about discussion activity. [2][3]
The 2023 edition of the Community Wishlist Survey (CWS), which invites contributors to make technical proposals and vote for tools and improvements, starts on Monday 23 January 2023 at 18:00 UTC.
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A citation hunt program was organized for secondary school students at IIS School in Dubai as part of the 74th Republic Day celebration of India. 16 students participated, with different mother tongues and from different states of India living as expatriates in Dubai. The goal was to increase references for Wikidata statements based on research. The students were introduced to the importance of protecting India's history on the internet, and were taught how to edit Wikipedia and Wikidata. They were given a special event page on Wikidata with instructions and a list of Wikidata items to add citations to, and they searched for references in their textbooks and search engines to add to the Wikidata items.More details are given here.
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour January 30, 2023: The #1Lib1Ref campaign is afoot, so we will be working on adding references to Wikidata statements. We'll have some data for you to work with, but you're welcome to bring your own. We'll be mainly working with adding webpages as sources, but if you want to get experience using books or articles as sources, we recommend bringing some to the session to use as references for Wikidata items you have identified. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own project to work on Event page
theyrule.net is a website that helps to explore the boardroom connections of the largest US companies.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
AfLIA's online course Wikidata is open. Participation is free for all librarians, museums, archives and other information professionals in Africa. Call is open until 7th February 2023 (12 midnight GMT).
LetsQuiz is a new website generating quizzes using data from Wikidata.
Building cool apps and services on top of Wikidata's data but running into ontology issues? We'd love to hear from you in this survey to make things better for you.
General datatypes: place of resident registration at death (the place or administrative unit where the deceased person was registered as having his or her residence at the time of their death), has instance (thing(s) which this subject describes or encompasses, inverse property of P31), Norwegian media rating (In short, the Norwegian version of Denmark's Medierådet rating (P5970), an age rating system for motion pictures, video, internet and tv content), iconically alludes to (item that is iconically represented in the execution of this lexeme), credits URL (URL of an official webpage with a list of credits and roles attributed to various people, organizations or applications that contribute(d) to this item's existence), alternate universe counterpart (this fictional character/entity is an alternate universe counterpart of the subject), number of penalty kicks scored, precedes/follows various things (this lexeme form appears only when preceding another lexeme form with this phonological feature)
Property Suggester: We updated the data for the Property Suggester so suggestions for new statements to add to an Item should be more in line with current Property usage on other similar Items again.
Fixed an issue with Item deletions not showing up on Wikipedia and co if they affect an article on that wiki (phab:T326082)
Vector 2022: Made it possible to add a new sitelink on Wikipedia and co in the new Vector 2022 language selector (phab:T310259)
Lua: Working on two new Lua functions, getDescriptionByLang (phab:T230839) and getBadges (phab:T305378)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
Last week, for ~15 minutes, some users were unable to log in or edit pages. This was caused by a problem with session storage. [4]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 February. It will be on all wikis from 2 February (calendar).
Future changes
Wikis that use localized numbering schemes for references need to add new CSS. This will help to show citation numbers the same way in all reading and editing modes. If your wiki would prefer to do it yourselves, please see the details and example CSS to copy from, and also add your wiki to the list. Otherwise, the developers will directly help out starting the week of February 5.
I think that your original symbol with the two coins on Template:PD-Coin scan was good. Right now (with the merge), it's much too small to be clear to the reader.
If we have a "scanner" icon, and a "coins" icon, it will be enough to convey the meaning visually. The relative scales are not really important if they're only symbols.
Anonimski, You could make the coins in the SVG bigger, I was planning on asking someone in the Graphics Lab's illustration workshop to fix it but didn't find the time yet. As an abstract symbol details are still important, not everything has to be huge and the coins are located on top of the scanner. Having a scanner and then coins below unnecessarily adds multiple images for something which could be a singular concept. Honestly I thought that the original image works well with the red lighting being the act of "scanning" and that the forbidden mark is a diagonal red stripe. But as you thought that this could be confused for a symbol of prohibition I decided to merge the two (2) images you used. I would have to wait until my wife's done with her laptop (which is tomorrow) until I can make the coins bigger in the image. I still think that having one (1) image for the concept works better. — Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 20:43, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
Ah, just to be clear, I didn't mean that there should be two large coins on the top of the scanner glass. What I meant was that the original image that you used (two coins with transparent background) was clear enough. And the picture of the scanner can be separate from the coins, as in the "21:04, 30 January 2023" rev. of the page. It should be obvious enough with a quick look.
154.20.121.35, This actually isn't mine as I saw it in a second-hand shop and from what I can find on the device no brand or origin of manufacture is listed anywhere. My guess is that these were manufactured in the 1990's or early 2000's (likely more the latter as it's manufactured in the People's Republic of China). It has a patent registration number. Maybe you could upload photographs of your device and I could find out more about it. -- — Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 09:52, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
Here are my pictures of the device, front and back. The front of an electronic sudoku game.The back of an electronic sudoku game. The back reads "MODEL NUMBER ASI8193" and I cannot find a patent number. Thank you. Nuppington (talk) 17:30, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
The main difference is the colours, I haven't been able to find your version, but some seem to include the "MASTER" branding and others don't. As I said before I guessed that it was from the early 2000's which seems accurate as most "Made in China" devices only seemed to have been manufactured after the People's Republic of China entering the World Trade Organisation (WTO) on 11 (eleven) December 2001 which is when we saw a large influx of "Made in China" devices due to the outsourcing of manufacturing which happened at lightning speed. And by 2008 technology was far beyond this so I think that 2006 is an accurate date. — Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 18:24, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
Another possibility is that these devices were mass-manufactured without branding and then later companies added their branding to it. This is, for example, how earplugs are produced today. Chinese factories often do this. Mainly as I don't just see "Rocketech" there's another brand named "Excalibur" and I saw an Ecosia result which listed like 6 (six) different brand names for similar devices. -- — Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 18:32, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 January. It will be on all wikis from 26 January (calendar).
Wikis that use localized numbering schemes for references need to add new CSS. This will help to show citation numbers the same way in all reading and editing modes. If your wiki would prefer to do it yourselves, please see the details and example CSS to copy from, and also add your wiki to the list. Otherwise, the developers will directly help out starting the week of February 5.
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