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Bare URL tags

These aren't very useful. The time spent doing this would be better spent using WP:REFILL to fix the problem rather than telling other people to do it. ♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 13:56, 16 August 2024 (UTC)

Ianmacm, I also manually fill out bare URLs, typically PDFs that can't be done with refill. It takes no time at all for me because I'm using a script. I think it's more helpful to have an accurate count of the number of bare URLs and to have them flagged in articles so editors know to fix them. — Qwerfjkltalk 14:04, 16 August 2024 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but your reply didn't make any sense at all. All you did was reword his statement of the problem you're creating, except you actually said you think it's inexplicably better to count problems than to fix them. In other words, WP:IDIDNTHEARTHAT. WP:SOFIXIT. Stop running a script to tag bare URLs instead of simply running the script that fixes them. Why on earth would anyone do that? That's a rhetorical question. I've lost track of how many times I'm seeing this happen, where somebody immediately just follows you with WP:REFILL like I just did.[1] I see you're one of those super cool bot makers, and I've seen another bot that can automate citation formatting, so can you just have a bot scan for bare urls and another try to fix them? Thank you very much. — Smuckola(talk) 20:00, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

Smuckola, the bot for fixing bare URLs is Citation bot (and it is limited in what it fixes). The problem with almost all automated means of filling out bare URLs is that they are inaccurate, often very badly, because they abuse metadata fields. PDFs typically can't be filled at all. So whilst I could run something like ReFill automatically, it would likely cause more problems than it fixed. This means that at best I can fill bare URLs semi-automatically, which is what I do - alongside tagging them, which is much easier to do. I've lost track of how many times I'm seeing this happen, where somebody immediately just follows you with WP:REFILL like I just did. That's the whole point, to draw attention to this issue. Qwerfjkltalk 09:54, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

Any way at least the tagging of bare URLs could be made by a bot? Right now you've been flooding watchlists for at least a few days. 1234qwer1234qwer4 14:42, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Fixing bare URLs is a job and appreciated. Some possible old threads of interest, you may already know about:

• User_talk:BrownHairedGirl/Archive/Archive_067#Bare_URL_inline
• User_talk:BrownHairedGirl/Archive/Archive_068#Identification_of_articles_with_bare_URLs
• User_talk:BrownHairedGirl/Archive/Archive_069#How_do_you_tag_{{Bare_URL_PDF}}_with_AWB?_+_another_AWB_question
• User:BrownHairedGirl/BareURLinline.js

-- GreenC 20:25, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

If you are interested, take a look at Help:VisualEditor#Editing_references. Hope it helps. AmritR012 (talk) 17:41, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

1234qwer1234qwer4, well, I think at least part of the point of tagging is to draw attention to the issue. — Qwerfjkltalk 16:46, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

What's Verifiable & Reliable sources and what's not?

Hi! I have a very confliction feelling about Verifiability & Reliable sources. I know that that social media/User-generated content, aren't reliable or verifiabile sources and are mostly "unacceptable" (even though that's Hipocrisia and Wikipedia itself are a User-generated content website). Can you explain me, how some Web series/shows such as "The Amazing Digital Circus", "Hazbin Hotel" or "Lackadaisy" and it's Wikipedia articles are even acceptable. The Web series and shows that (originally) appeared on a "User-generated content" platform that would be by Policies and guidelines of Wikipedia have been "unacceptable". Does those topics are exeption to the principle?

77.65.108.117 (talk) 18:13, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

77.65.108.117, because the articles are about the topics - the sources they use should not be user-generated. Wikipedia is also considered an unreliable source, and shouldn't be used as a reference. — Qwerfjkltalk 09:49, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

Question from Joewilson55555 on User:Joewilson55555/sandbox (21:47, 19 August 2024)

Hi! I hope you're well. I am new to Wikipedia and I'd like to know if there's any coding needed and if so, how to do it. Thanks! --Joewilson55555 (talk) 21:47, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

Joewilson55555, it depends on your knowledge of coding - for example, see mw:How to become a MediaWiki hacker. — Qwerfjkltalk 09:47, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-34

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

Feature news

• Editors who want to re-use references but with different details such as page numbers, will be able to do so by the end of 2024, using a new sub-referencing feature. You can read more about the project and how to test the prototype.
• Editors using tracking categories to identify which pages use specific extensions may notice that six of the categories have been renamed to make them more easily understood and consistent. These categories are automatically added to pages that use specialized MediaWiki extensions. The affected names are for: DynamicPageList, Kartographer, Phonos, RSS, Score, WikiHiero. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match. Thanks to Pppery for these improvements. [2]
• Technical volunteers who edit modules and want to get a list of the categories used on a page, can now do so using the categories property of mw.title objects. This enables wikis to configure workflows such as category-specific edit notices. Thanks to SD001 for these improvements. [3][4]

Bugs status

• Your help is needed to check if any pages need to be moved or deleted. A maintenance script was run to clean up unreachable pages (due to Unicode issues or introduction of new namespaces/namespace aliases). The script tried to find appropriate names for the pages (e.g. by following the Unicode changes or by moving pages whose titles on Wikipedia start with Talk:WP: so that their titles start with Wikipedia talk:), but it may have failed for some pages, and moved them to Special:PrefixIndex/T195546/ instead. Your community should check if any pages are listed there, and move them to the correct titles, or delete them if they are no longer needed. A full log (including pages for which appropriate names could be found) is available in phab:P67388.
• Editors who volunteer as mentors to newcomers on their wiki are once again able to access lists of potential mentees who they can connect with to offer help and guidance. This functionality was restored thanks to a bug fix. Thank you to Mbch331 for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 18 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Project updates

• The application deadline for the Product & Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) has been extended to September 16. Members will help by providing advice to Foundation Product and Technology leadership on short and long term plans, on complex strategic problems, and help to get feedback from more contributors and technical communities. Selected members should expect to spend roughly 5 hours per month for the Council, during the one year pilot. Please consider applying, and spread the word to volunteers you think would make a positive contribution to the committee.

Learn more

• The 2024 Coolest Tool Awards were awarded at Wikimania, in seven categories. For example, one award went to the ISA Tool, used for adding structured data to files on Commons, which was recently improved during the Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon. You can see video demonstrations of each tool at the awards page. Congratulations to this year's recipients, and thank you to all tool creators and maintainers.
• The latest Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin is available, and includes some highlights from Wikimania, an upcoming Language community meeting, and other news from the movement.

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Bare refs and Citation bot

Try to support you on "Changed bare reference to CS1/2" with Citation bot. Unfortunately the bot is currently experiencing a high load (Toolforge). Grimes2 (talk) 11:11, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

Grimes2, is REFILL working? — Qwerfjkltalk 11:19, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

Yes, but it has no batch mode (I think). reFill produces many errors, for example usurped urls. You have to check every edit. reFill is also on toolforge, so they should have the same high load problem. Grimes2 (talk) 11:31, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) – Al3xaSp3aker

Page: SpongeBob_SquarePants_(film_series)

Diff: Special:Diff/1236819355

Why is it saying I added in a URL?

Al3xaSp3aker (talk) 20:23, 21 August 2024 (UTC)

Al3xaSp3aker, it's saying you added a bare url, because you haven't provided a title for the URL. — Qwerfjkltalk 10:25, 22 August 2024 (UTC)

Oh. Ok Al3xaSp3aker (talk) 12:02, 22 August 2024 (UTC)

BareURLinline.js Adding " /" to br tags

Hey,

Just heads up, BareURLinline.js added space and a forward slash to br tags on Ivanhoé Cambridge Vasusrir429 (talk) 00:56, 22 August 2024 (UTC)

Vasusrir429, yes, this is because some syntax highlighters don't recognise <br>. — Qwerfjkltalk 10:24, 22 August 2024 (UTC)

Good news! The trailing slash is no longer needed. See an update to the syntax highlighter documentation. It has changed my life! – Jonesey95 (talk) 12:35, 23 August 2024 (UTC)

Jonesey95, ah, good to know, thanks. — Qwerfjkltalk 13:17, 23 August 2024 (UTC)

Sign up for the language community meeting on August 30th, 15:00 UTC

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MassXFD bug

Hi Qwerfjkl! I am back from vacation; CFD is my tomorrow project. But I am here to report a minor bug with MassXFD: {{subst:RFDNote}} does not contain a signature, so my message at Special:Diff/1241029025 was unsigned. Thanks for all the work you do with scripts, HouseBlaster (talk · he/they) 08:31, 24 August 2024 (UTC)

HouseBlaster,  Fixed. I did actually notice this, I just forgot to fix whilst I was fixing this bug. — Qwerfjkltalk 11:22, 24 August 2024 (UTC)

Haha. Thank you so much, as always :) HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 18:48, 24 August 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #641

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-08-26. Please help Translate.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship:
  • Gwanki - RfP scheduled to end after 26 August 2024 05:54 (UTC)
  • Putnik 2 - RfP scheduled to end after 27 August 2024 23:17 (UTC)
• Closed request for adminship: Both requests successful, welcome new admins: Mohammed Qays and Wüstenspringmaus!
• New requests for permissions/Bot: Leaderbot - Task/s: reminds users when their rights are to expire (see Phab:T370842)
• Closed request for permissions/Bot: Bot5958 1b - RfP successful!
• New request for comments:
  • Citations from Wikidata from Author: Palu
  • Audio Transcription (P9533) from Author: Yug. P9533 is described as transcription of the word/text being spoken in this file. Does this exclude other communications modalities?

Events

• "The Future of Wikidata Events" report by Wikimedia Deutschland is now available on Wikimedia Commons. This report provides valuable insights into the current state and future possibilities of Wikidata events. We encourage everyone to read the report and share their thoughts to help shape the future of our community events: Wikidata talk:Events#"The Future of Wikidata Events" Report Now Available on Wikimedia Commons.
• Wikidata's 12th Birthday is fast approaching. Do you need financial support to organize a birthday event? Here is some useful information about how to get funding: Wikidata:Twelfth Birthday/Run an event/Funding. The deadline to apply is September 1st.
• WikiLibCon25 The Wikimedia+Libraries International Convention 2025 takes place in Mexico City, Mexico between 15 - 17 January 2025 - Call for Scholarships (ends 31 August0 and Proposals (ends 15 September) are open. WikiLibCon25 brings together Wikimedians, Wikibrarians, information professionals, library workers and mission-aligned partners from around the globe to create a vivid community and promote cooperative projects in the Library & Wikimedia sphere.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Papers
  • What does it mean to be queer in Wikidata?: Practices of gender representation within a transnational online community. By B. Melis et al.
  • Diversity and bias in DBpedia and Wikidata as a challenge for text-analysis tools by B. Berendt et al. This paper explores how data sources can impact content analysis of their tool Diversity Searcher for analysing diversity in news media texts.
• Videos
  • (sw) Wikipedia vs Wikidata - Fjodor Eklund shows how wikidata works and how searches are visualized.
  • Wikimania Coolest Tool Award! 2024 - Wikidata had good representation with InteGraality and Wikidata Walkabout.
  • Qichwabase: Building Knowledge Graphs for Under-Resourced Languages Elwin Huaman discuses how Wikibase and Wikidata have helped create a KG to empower local communities and languages.
• Slides: Giving metabolites (and lipids) a chemical and biological context with open science. This talk discusses the role of open science in providing chemical and biological context for metabolites and lipids, highlighting open-source cheminformatics, open standards, and open data to facilitate linking knowledge across databases and publications, as well as describing chemical interactions in biological pathway databases. By Egon Willighagen.
• Notebooks
  • Olympic medals by group of countries 🥇🥈🥉: Using Wikidata and IOC data to compute the share of medals for a selected groups of countries
  • Unequal distribution of medals from the Summer Olympics

Tool of the week

• Wikidata distributed/#game=94 - Help adding missing information related to artists on BNU's catalog (Select the option that fits best).

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• New AI Project Manager to join Wikimedia Deutschland: We’re pleased to announce that a new AI project manager will be joining our team next week. Lydia and Jonathan (Director of Engineering) have been prototyping in this area and recently presented their work at the AI_dev summit (YouTube link). Our goal is to bring knowledge graphs and generative AI closer together, making AI more equitable, truthful, participatory, and open. More updates to come soon!

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • denomination (value of a currency or type of currency)
• Newest External identifiers: Illinois Center for the Book author ID, Slekt og Data grave ID, ‎FolkWiki ID, iasj article ID, 365scores football team ID, speedrun.com series ID, All Musicals lyrics ID, MobyGames critic ID, Polygon game ID, Madain Project ID, 365scores basketball player ID, FOLDOC ID, GameFAQs genre ID, Retromags game ID, Nomes e Voces ID, Altar of Gaming company ID, Altar of Gaming franchise ID, Altar of Gaming game ID, Altar of Gaming person ID, Ciel d'oc ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Larval host plant (Larval host plant - used only for insects - subclass of P1034)
  • board game designer (person(s) who devised and developed this game)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: ACUM IDs, DOS Game Modding Wiki article, Mapcarta, Encyclopedia of Brno History literature ID, WikiYeshiva article ID, Denkmalnummer des Archivs der Stadt Linz, GameSpot genre ID, VideoGameGeek genre ID, Identifiant Say Who, VIRIN, Tabletopia game ID, Board Game Arena ID, CNES identifier, BoardGaming.com game ID, Finnish Company Number

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Of the 15424 existing subway stations on Earth, 5726 of them are in People's Republic of China (Q148)
  • Map of tripoints known to Wikidata (source)
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • Sweden/Banks - All Swedish banks still in operation
  • Antiquity/Mythology - This WikiProject deals with everything connected to Greek mythology with an outlook on the traditional tales and divinities which came before and/or inspired it, like Ancient Egyptian mythology, Mesopotamian mythology (Sumerian, Akkadian and Babylonian) and Hittite mythology, as well as those of adjacent cultures and those influenced by the Greeks, most notably Roman mythology).
• Newest WikiProjects: Aotearoa Asian Artists - This project aims to improve the data available about Aotearoa Asian Artists - Asian diaspora artists from, living in, and connected to Aotearoa New Zealand.
• Newest database reports: Terminator: Articles with no interwikis in a given Wikipedia - Wikidata Items that lack a label, description, or article in a specific language.
• Showcase Items: Northern Transylvania Holocaust Memorial Museum - heritage site in Sălaj County, Romania

Development

• Not much happened this week. Many of the developers are still on vacation, and some are out sick.

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.
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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New pages patrol September 2024 Backlog drive

New pages patrol | September 2024 Backlog Drive
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Tech News: 2024-35

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

Feature news

• Administrators can now test the temporary accounts feature on test2wiki. This was done to allow cross-wiki testing of temporary accounts, for when temporary accounts switch between projects. The feature was enabled on testwiki a few weeks ago. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Temporary Accounts is a project to create a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors which are no longer made public. Please share your opinions and questions on the project talk page.
• Later this week, editors at wikis that use FlaggedRevs (also known as "Pending Changes") may notice that the indicators at the top of articles have changed. This change makes the system more consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface. [5]

Bugs status

• Editors who use the 2010 wikitext editor, and use the Character Insert buttons, will no longer experience problems with the buttons adding content into the edit-summary instead of the edit-window. You can read more about that, and 26 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Project updates

• Please review and vote on Focus Areas, which are groups of wishes that share a problem. Focus Areas were created for the newly reopened Community Wishlist, which is now open year-round for submissions. The first batch of focus areas are specific to moderator workflows, around welcoming newcomers, minimizing repetitive tasks, and prioritizing tasks. Once volunteers have reviewed and voted on focus areas, the Foundation will then review and select focus areas for prioritization.
• Do you have a project and are willing to provide a three (3) month mentorship for an intern? Outreachy is a twice a year program for people to participate in a paid internship that will start in December 2024 and end in early March 2025, and they need mentors and projects to work on. Projects can be focused on coding or non-coding (design, documentation, translation, research). See the Outreachy page for more details, and a list of past projects since 2013.

Learn more

• If you're curious about the product and technology improvements made by the Wikimedia Foundation last year, read this recent highlights summary on Diff.
• To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
  • Community Configuration - Shaping On-Wiki Functionality Together (55 mins) - about the Community Configuration project.
  • Future of MediaWiki. A sustainable platform to support a collaborative user base and billions of page views (30 mins) - an overview for both technical and non technical audiences, covering some of the challenges and open questions, related to the platform evolution, stewardship and developer experiences research.

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:29, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) – Haroldwinstanley

Page: Peter_Pan_&_Wendy

Diff: Special:Diff/1238452595

Apparently there is a titling issue on the page I edited which has allegedly caused referencing problems, but I can’t find what the problem is…

Comment/question:

Haroldwinstanley (talk) 19:40, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

Haroldwinstanley, you added

<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.taurusworldstuntawards.com/awards/winners-and-nominees-2024/#:~:text=Peter%20Pan%20%26%20Wendy,-Peter%20Pan%2C%20Wendy&text=The%20stunts%2C%20technical%20stunt%20rigging,actors%20to%20create%20the%20illusion.|accessdate=August 04, 2024}}</ref>

Which is missing |title=. — Qwerfjkltalk 10:33, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) – OpalYosutebito

Page: Favre-Leuba

Diff: Special:Diff/1241743868

Comment/question: the bot thought that I made a CS1 error (more specifically, a bare URL), but to my knowledge, the edit had no bare URLs...

OpalYosutebito (talk) 03:50, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

OpalYosutebito,

<ref name="watchgecko">{{cite web|url=https://www.watchgecko.com/blogs/magazine/a-watch-brand-that-has-been-conquering-frontiers-for-283-years|website=WatchGecko|last=Quinn|first=Jon}}</ref>

is missing |title=. — Qwerfjkltalk 10:34, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Oh. I see now. I think I was just sleep deprived when I read the diff, lol - OpalYosutebito (talk) 11:34, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) – Vycl1994

Page: Trevor_Richards_(baseball)

Diff: Special:Diff/1242680250

Qwerfjkl states that there is a bare url in the diff, but I replaced one source with another, more reliable one. Neither the original source or the more reliable source were bare URLs Vycl1994 (talk) 05:50, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Vycl1994 (talk) 05:50, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Vycl1994, the new source is missing |title=, as was the old one. — Qwerfjkltalk 10:35, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Bare URL; tool to convert to citation format?

I used to use Toolforge, but that has stopped working. Do you know a tool I could use? Many thanks for any thoughts Asto77 (talk) 13:24, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Asto77, what do you mean by "Toolforge"? Toolforge hosts a variety of tools. — Qwerfjkltalk 15:09, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

This is the one I used to use; https://refill.toolforge.org/

Best wishes Asto77 (talk) 20:39, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

now at https://refill.toolforge.org/ng/. best wishes Asto77 (talk) 00:46, 30 August 2024 (UTC)