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== Question from [[User:Exotic1861|Exotic1861]] (10:15, 1 March 2024) ==
Hello,
I already have 16 edits and 5 days of editing, is there a reason that I have not been autoconfirmed yet?
Thank you
Exotic --[[User:Exotic1861|Exotic1861]] ([[User talk:Exotic1861|talk]]) 10:16, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Welcome to 2023’s Final Weekly Summary!
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Discussions
Open request for adminship: EPIC (RfP scheduled to end after 26 December 2023 20:34 UTC)
New requests for permissions/Bot: Balyozbot. Tasks:
Import sitelinks, labels, descriptions from ku wikipedia pages which use the template w:ku:Template:Înterwîkî etîket û danasîn. (There are over 1800 articles that use this template waiting to be connected to Wikidata at the moment.)
Add sitelinks to kuwiktionary / kuwikipedia categories / create an item for the category if necessary. I have been doing this manually for quite some time using Quickstatements but since I need to get permission for the first task, I will be handling them using a bot as well.
Upcoming: Introducing WMF Wishathon for Wikimedia’s Community Wishlist! "focused on bringing together people who already contribute to technical aspects of the Wikimedia projects, who know how to find their way on the technical ecosystem, and who are able to work or collaborate on projects rather autonomously." March 15th to 17th, 2024.
African Librarians empowered to share knowledge and enhance information visibility through AfLIA Wikidata Online Course --> The "Promoting Open Knowledge Practices in African Libraries through Wikidata" project, executed by AfLIA with support from the Wikimedia Foundation, trained African librarians on using Wikidata to enhance the visibility of library collections and close the knowledge and gender gap on Africa. The course was facilitated by experienced African Wikimedian editors and included diverse strategies for learner engagement and support.
Papers: Increasing Coverage and Precision of Textual Information in Multilingual Knowledge Graphs by (Conia et al, 2023) --> This paper introduces a novel task of automatic Knowledge Graph Enhancement (KGE) to bridge the gap in the quantity and quality of textual information between English and non-English languages in Wikidata. It presents M-NTA, an unsupervised approach that combines Machine Translation, Web Search, and Large Language Models to generate high-quality textual information, and studies its impact on Entity Linking, Knowledge Graph Completion, and Question Answering tasks.
Videos
Wikidata, Wikisource and Wiktionary: Wikisource for DH (WiSe 2023) --> The lecture "Fundamentals and application-oriented methods of the Digital Humanities" by Kay-Michael Würzner is designed as a series of lectures in which teachers in the "Digital Humanities" course present their fields of work and key topics and present them for discussion.
Empowering Open-Source Generative AI by Integrating the Wikidata knowledge graph --> Generative AI has changed the information ecosystem, and open-source knowledge graphs like Wikidata can become invaluable assets, propelling a myriad of applications forward. Jonathan Fraine & Lydia Pintscher present the practical integration of Wikidata's open-source, open-access knowledge graph to empower Generative AI applications. Harnessing the real-time updated, structured data encapsulated within Wikidata, they explore automated content creation, data augmentation, and semantic analysis, underpinning the generative paradigms. Through a blend of theoretical insights and real-world applications, they elucidate how to leverage Wikidata to elevate generative AI applications, breaking down existing data silos, and fostering a collaborative ecosystem within our global community of developers and contributors.
Wiki Indaba 2023 - African content on Wikidata --> Discussion with Alice Kibombo, Georges Fodouop and Jesse Asiedu-Akrofi, about Wikidata for African Librarians during the Wiki Indaba conference, that took place between 3-5 November 2023 in Agadir, Morocco.
No Time to Wait - S07E10 - ACMI // Wikidata - Paul Duchesne + Simon Loffler --> Report on recent residency program to extensively link together collection data from ACMI with Wikidata. This work has allowed the organisation to import vast quantities of data and media to enrich their own internet collection experience, as well enable writing information back to source and federating with other linked institutions.
Map of K-Pop Idols --> An interactive map where each red dot represents a K-pop Idol (a singer or musician in South Korean Pop music) you are able to click on.
Disney as the Mega Corporation it is Today --> Disney has greatly evolved from the simple animation company that first debuted in 1923 with its signature Steamboat Willie animation. This analysis details some of the major acquisitions Disney has chosen to help expand its reach as a media and entertainment company.
State of statues in the US --> Map of how many statues there are, who is depicted in the statues, their genders, and where the statues are concentrated.
An Analysis on Nepo Babies: Net Worths and Fame --> This work uses Wikidata to analyze the influence and success of children of famous actors (nepo babies) in the entertainment industry, and compares the careers and net worth of these children with their parents to understand the impact of nepotism on their success.
Tool of the week
Cersei - is a tool designed for importing or scraping data from various third-party sources, using source-specific Python code. It can use a "headless browser" to scrape complicated websites that rely on eg JavaScript to navigate. It can therefore access data sources that can not be accessed via eg Mix'n'match. The data from sources can be updated regularly, either for everything, or just changed entries (if the source has a "recent changes" equivalent).
Wikidata:Zotero/Cita - is a Wikidata addon for Zotero that adds citations (i.e., what other items an item cites) metadata support to this open source reference management software, using cites work (P2860) information available from Wikidata, and enabling users to easily contribute missing data.
production manager (manager that is responsible for the administration of a feature film or television production; oversees production plans, controls resources, initiates production, ensures ongoing operations, monitors schedules and expenditures, and creates a detailed production schedule and budget)
Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Städel Museum Wikidata Clean-Up - This WikiProject from the Städel Museum aims to actively participate in the Wikimedia community by maintaining and updating the quality of its data. This includes their collection of public domain art, which has been digitized and made freely available for public use. The project focuses on ensuring that the most current and high-quality data, including high-resolution images and improved metadata, are available on platforms like Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata.
Upcoming: The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC, 17th January 2023 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
Papers: Improving maintenance of community-based knowledge graphs. This paper by Nicolas Ferranti addresses the critical issue of data quality in open knowledge graphs, with a specific focus on Wikidata. It aims to formalize Wikidata's unique approaches to assess and resolve data inconsistencies, proposing a semi-automatic refinement pipeline to empower the Wikidata user community in maintaining and enhancing the reliability of this extensive collaborative knowledge graph.
Videos: WikidataCon 2023 Day 1.5 - The past and future of Wikidata. In this video Lydia Pintscher takes a moment to review the major events of Wikidata over the past few years. Then turns to look forward and predict what Wikidata's prospects will be over the next year.
Tool of the week
WICA: Wikidata's insights for created articles is an updated version of an old tool. It now includes many new features to analyse your list of created articles using Wikidata properties.
Nonprofit Status (Indicating the legal and tax status of a non-profit organization (specific to served legal areas, aka. Countries). Addition to {{P|1454}}. {{P|1628}} to [https://schema.org/nonprofitStatus nonprofitStatus] from schema.org. Organizations can have multiple Nonprofit Status from different countries.)
creative director (person who makes high-level creative decisions, oversees the creation of creative assets such as adverts, products, events or logos and guides and directs the creative people who create the end result)
The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 17th January 2024 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
Blogs: PubChem on Wikidata – What is the state of coverage? by Tiago Lubiana. In summary, Wikidata has good coverage of the structured chemical data in PubChem, though there are improvement points. PubChem displays, and will always display, textual information and vendor-specific data that do not fit Wikidata, but they are complementary tools in the ecosystem of open chemical data.
LIS Journals’ Lack of Participation in Wikidata Item Creation by Eric Willey & Susan Radovsky, discusses the gap of Wikidata items being created for scholarly articles by the scholar's themselves and if this can lead to inconsistent or inaccurate data model.
Quantifying Americanization: Coverage of American Topics in Different Wikipedias: this paper asks whether there is an americanisation bias in the content created by the communities. By Piotr Konieczny & Włodzimierz Lewoniewski.
Videos
Map Kerala Initiative is an opendata portal geospatial map powered by Wikidata and OpenStreetMap, introduced by Manoj Karingamadathil.
Notebooks: Wikipedia article as a timeline - This tool transforms a Wikipedia article in a timeline by parsing all internal links in a Wikipedia article and retrieving the date corresponding to each internal link using the point in time (P585) property in Wikidata.
Tool of the week Map your list of created articles - a notebook display of geolocated articles on a map created by a user per chosen project and batch (featured/good article).
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Wikimedia Indonesia and Wikimedia Deutschland ended their partnership within the project Software Collaboration for Wikidata prematurely. Read their joint statement here.
IP masking/temporary accounts: We are adjusting Wikibase to be prepared for the upcoming changes to no longer expose IP addresses for non-logged-in users (phab:T351968)
Dumps/lex. data: We’re adjusting how empty lists of Forms and Senses are represented in JSON dumps (phab:T305660)
Wikibase REST API:
We finished the work on making it possible to get all sitelinks of an Item (phab:T344041)
We are working on getting a sitelink for a given wiki (phab:T344039)
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Translations are available.
Discussions
New request for comments: Domain name as data (Summary: How should Wikidata store the domain name associated with an item? There are many properties for URLs, but a domain name is a different value.)
PLW 2024: Provenance loves Wiki - Fri. 12th - Sun. 14th January. If you missed the event, catch up by reading the slides, Notes and watching the recordings on the Project page
Next: Linked Open Data in Heritage Workshop > Jan. 23rd, 13:00 - 15:00 CET. If you are in the Maastricht University Faculty and want to know enhance heritage research, improve data management, connectivity and visualisation, register for the Workshop.
AskWikidata: Natural language queries to Wikidata, a naive prototype created by Senior Software Engineer for Wikidata, Robert Timm. Want to try? (Google Colab)
IP Masking: We are continuing to adapt Wikibase to the upcoming IP Masking feature. We worked on hiding warnings about IP addresses being saved when they don’t apply (phab:T353807, phab:T352006) and creating temporary accounts when editing (phab:T354730)
Wikibase REST API:
We continued working on the ability to get a sitelink for a given site (phab:T344039)
We started working on the ability to remove a sitelink for a given wiki (phab:T344685)
We worked on fixing a bug where the REST API PUT request does not handle statement on Items with lowercase statement IDs (phab:T352644)
mul language code: We did user testing to find any remaining issue before release
Hi there, for the last 7-10 days I've been getting multiple (up to 20/day) email notifications from this bot of changes to talk pages and article pages. Can these be stopped? Thanks. MurielMary (talk) 21:29, 10 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I am also getting hundreds of these notices which are extremely annoying. I tried all kinds of ways to stop this. You say "select your preferences" above but I have no idea which preferences to select..--Hazooyi (talk) 09:27, 11 February 2024 (UTC).[reply]
Would you be so good as to stop sending me changes from this bot also. Something has gone wrong, I think. I have never asked to be apprised of changes to this page. I am getting a lot of notifications about changes to it also. Many thanks. William Macadam (talk) 12:10, 13 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
One way to stop getting these bot activity notifications would be to turn off all notifications, which is the first option in the "Notifications" tab – change the "Send me" pulldown to "Do not send me any email notifications". This is, however, probably more than you would want. Another option would be to change from individual e-mails to a single daily summary (same pulldown). Otherwise, set a rule in your e-mail client to just delete any e-mail with "Qwerfjkl (bot)" in the subject line — GhostInTheMachinetalk to me10:36, 14 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yet again I am here. Please avoid edits like these [2]. Kanashimi, your bot is problematic. It is the one right now with the most spam, as Qwerfjkl bot has noticeably slowed down (thank you for that). It was keeping both the blp and living parameters, and it does not remove this 1= thing. It also uses an alphabetic order instead of random selection like Qwerfjkl bot does. Is it not possible for you two to share the code of your bots, so that they synchronise? I don't even know why are we using two bots instead of one on a faster editing rate. SuperΨDro10:06, 15 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi! Just wanted to ask a quick question about the notice triangle at the top left part of an article being drafted. If the notice says: "find sources," and sources are added, but the notice is still showing, does that mean the sources added do not fit the requirements? Thank you! --ManuGood (talk) 17:48, 14 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
My Father, Joseph E. Elicker,(1909-1991) when he was just 18 years old, and being in show business, saw the need for large movie posters for the fronts of movie theaters. No printing presses were large enough to print posters so he started "Poster Design Service" on Broadway in New York city. He hired illustrative artists in Hollywood to paint several paintings showing the stars of movie films as they were produced and include the theme of the movie (ie. cowboy, military , dancing, etc.) These were all copyrighted, then sent back to NYC where they were transformed into Paint by Numbers format with numbers of the various colors to recreate an original. Theater owners subscribed to the service and received a filmstrip with the portraits in PBN format, projected to the wall on poster board and fill in the numbers with numbered paints supplied by the company. Then fill in the numbers and he had any sized large poster desired. The company failed in 1932 when presses we introduced.
In 2002 I visited the Smithsonian in DC and met with the curator, Mr. Larry Byrd and he was extremely excited to see the hundreds of PBN paintings that I still own. All of the STARS of Hollywood. 2601:41:C781:A690:1088:378F:8A69:783C (talk) 00:54, 16 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
A smart kitten, it looks like the bot recognised that the majority rating was stub, realised there was already a class in WPBS, but still removed the classes from the wikiprojects because they had the majority rating. Should be fixed now. — Qwerfjkltalk11:12, 16 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the info :) Do you know if this bug only affected talk pages that had WikiProjects with a conflicting quality rating to the project-independent rating in the banner shell? If so, unless I'm missing something, I can use Quarry to generate a list of affected talk pages by querying the recentchanges table for bot edits that removed a page from Category:Articles with conflicting quality ratings - see quarry:query/80446 for what I've just chucked together. (I'm not sure if there's an easy way to find affected talk pages that were edited >30 days ago, though.) All the best, —a smart kitten[meow]16:15, 16 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
This is a concerning error. How was stub the majority rating? The majority was List-class which is why Cewbot made that the PIQA rating in the edit before yours. You two really need to coordinate so that you don't process the same articles. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 16:25, 16 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, thanks for all you do at CFD. With the current volumes of work I don't blame anyone for oversights, but please look out for cases that should be redirected for category navigation or other reasons (e.g. Cape Colony people), and include * REDIRECT at the start of each line when listing those at WT:CFDW. – FayenaticLondon17:00, 16 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
FYI, this edit didn't go perfectly, and I think it messed up Cewbot's edit right after yours. The expected content was lower down the page instead of at the top, and you added a duplicate shell, so Cewbot then just moved it from the lower to the top and left the lower shell in place. I fixed it here. Pinging Cewbot operator @Kanashimi: ) for awareness. Thank you both for your edits. Zinnober9 (talk) 21:58, 16 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello. I’m trying to add a name (Nicholas Di Virgilio, internationally acclaimed opera singer) to the “notable people” paragraph of the Wikipedia article on North Tonawanda, NY. It won’t publish because I can’t figure out how to provide sources. Two such sources are contained in other Wikipedia articles on the Benjamin Britten “War Requiem” and the “Mozart Requiem” performance at the memorial service for President John F. Kennedy with the Boston Symphony, Eric Leinsdorf conducting. How do I cite such sources when confronted with with the filter rejection of my addition? Thank you! Paul Kilmer --PaulBKilmer (talk) 17:24, 17 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'm sorry, but I don't understand your reply. The discussion you mentioned shows that Kanashimi has changed their bot when I've pointed out issues. GoingBatty (talk) 15:13, 18 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I've added {{Old peer review}} to WP:TPL, as you requested. However, there are 800+ talk message boxes (plus their redirects) that aren't listed there. The use of "such as" and "e.g." on WP:TPL indicate to me that there is not consensus to have that page be a comprehensive list of every template.
Thank you for the reply, could you help direct me to where you said I could change to font design to what it was pre Thursday on my mobile phone for Wiki on the topic page please. VileName8089289 (talk) 21:33, 18 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
SqWiki bot adoption
Hello! I finally managed to finish all the error messages your bot can give. I currently have imported the User:Qwerfjkl (bot)/inform/top-middle-bottom pages. I removed the last part from the bottom one not being sure if that would be really needed at our community or not. Can you take a look at those pages and let me know if they seem good and what would be the next step to make your bot work for us? Thank you in advance! - Klein Muçi (talk) 23:41, 18 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Klein Muçi, just make any change that would cause an error, like removing the title from a template. (Sorry for the late response, there were some other bugs in the code I had to fix first.) — Qwerfjkltalk18:44, 22 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It looks like there are a few more messages that need translation: the edit summary, the section header, and the "A (foo) error" message. These are all embedded in the code. The relevant parts of the code are:
f"A \"[[:{cause(category)}]]\" error"
f'Notification of CS1 error(s) on [[{title}]] ([[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Qwerfjkl (bot) 17|Task 17]])'
What we usuallly do in SqWiki is to ask for a bot operator to do 30-50 edits with its bot and if it gets approved/flagged, the bot operator is free to use it as it sees fit for as long as it doesn't bring any harm, without further requests for individual tasks. — Klein Muçi (talk) 21:42, 22 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yes. I agree. Want me to show you the page for the bot approval request? It's on the sidebar, should read something related to bots in English. If you can't find it or if you find the process confusing, I can link and explain more thoroughly. — Klein Muçi (talk) 12:32, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yes. But the reports need a little tweaking: The "Kategoria... :Mirembajtje/Gabime part should be removed, leaving only the parts after the colon. Secondly, some of them do include the help instruction part and some don't. Normally they all should, what is the difference between those cases? — Klein Muçi (talk) 19:37, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Also the title should be changed to include one more word (faqja/artikulli) and the title should be italicized: Gabime me referimet te {[Title]} → Gabime me referimet te faqja {[Title]} The word should be "faqja" if the bot checks for ref-errors in all namespaces (for example, template documentations) and "artikulli" if it checks for ref-errors only on the main namespace. — Klein Muçi (talk) 19:40, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The same word should be added before the title in the summary as well. Either "faqja" or "artikulli" depending on the fact if the bot works in all namespaces or only on the main one. — Klein Muçi (talk) 19:42, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Klein Muçi, okay, I think I've updated all of the translations. The issue with the category bit showing was I forgot to link the category, now fixed. The help instruction part is probably from earlier tests. — Qwerfjkltalk19:48, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Uhm... I'm not sure I follow. I'm talking about this string: Për ta zgjidhur këtë problem... Normally that should be present in every error, helping people understand how to fix the said error. In some cases that's true, in some it is missing. — Klein Muçi (talk) 20:08, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Is it? When I Ctrl+F Për ta zgjidhur këtë in that page, every string seems to have it with different words following it, beside 1–2 in the end (which shouldn't). :/ — Klein Muçi (talk) 21:44, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The new upcoming messages seem correct though. Maybe it was the whitespace thing issue you mentioned in the beginning and now it is fixed. I'll do some minor changes to the overall message to make it seem more natural in Albanian and our wiki we can procced with the request. — Klein Muçi (talk) 14:05, 24 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Changed them. Can you also change the title format from Gabime me referimet te artikulli [Title] to Probleme me referimet te artikulli [Title] And the summary from Njoftim për gabim(e) me referimet te artikulli [Title] to Probleme me referimet te artikulli [Title]? Title and summary should be the same basically. Also if you could make them customizable on-wiki like you've done with the other parts maybe that could be beneficial in the long run if there are other attempts in globalizing the bot but I do understand how pywikibot parameters work and keeping them like they are its not bad either. — Klein Muçi (talk) 14:26, 24 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Klein Muçi, okay, I've updated the translations. I'll move it onwiki tomorrow, but for security it would need to be interface-protected. The other comments don't need to be voided, it was just because the matching string was in the first line, so the switch was matching the category and the comment, when the comment needs to be ignored. — Qwerfjkltalk20:48, 24 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I'm planning to protect any page related to the bot after we get it to work normally so no problem on that. (Or at least semi-protect them.) Speaking of that, is there any other page that needs to be imported/created for it? Maybe its user page if nothing else? Meanwhile I keep doing micro-edits on its messages to make them appear more natural in Albanian. I have two requests for you:
Currently the errors themselves (which are category links) have a full stop/period in the end. Can you remove that please so it can be better integrated with the adjacent explanation coming after the hyphen?
There are cases where the same error is done multiple times in the same edit which make for a rather strange message. For an example of this, check the notification about Neptune in your sandbox, currently the last notification. I believe only one notification should be sent per type of error. A better overall handling of this could be to actually link and highlight each problematic citation individually on the actual state of the article (and maybe ditch the edit history link) but maybe that's out of reach for the moment since you haven't implemented that functionality anywhere yet.
Oh, I thought it would be per local wiki but this works too I guess. Thank you! I actually wanted to ask about that part. Where, if anywhere, is the {{{causes|Problem me referimet}}} part used? And yes, I understand that it is a completely different logic so no worries. Maybe it serves as an idea for a future project. There is a small problem: This section includes a cut category name because you've accidently cut two-part category names when you removed the "category:" part. I'm guessing it has to do with the colon regex. Ultimately, the edits are currently coming from your account. I'm guessing that will change when the bot gets flagged? — Klein Muçi (talk) 18:33, 25 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Klein Muçi, the causes part is passed into w:sq:Përdoruesi:Qwerfjkl (bot)/inform/middle. Yes, I do indeed use something similar to colon regex (I don't actually use regex, just string manipulation). It takes the name of the error as whatever is after the last colon. I suppose instead using everything after the second colon would work? I'm running it on my account just for testing purposes. If I change the code to actually add the notifications to talk pages, I'll use my bot account. — Qwerfjkltalk18:59, 25 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, that logic would work I think. Okay, thank you for the fix! So I suppose no need to import any other page for your bot other that what we currently have. Do we create a user page for it? A small presentation for its purpose and its operator? Do you have a kind of information page already available for the task which I can base the description on? I'm guessing after we're done with that, you can create the request for the flag and put the sandbox page as a link for the 30 edits. — Klein Muçi (talk) 20:56, 25 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, thank you! I will create that and hopefully create a preset way to report problems to my page as well and then I'll protect all pages and I'm guessing we're done. — Klein Muçi (talk) 22:10, 25 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I created a user page for it. Is your bot a Pywikibot? Asking just because I've put the Pywikibot notice on it so I remove it if not. The text on it reads: Hello! I'm a bot controlled by user Qwerfjkl, and I automatically notify users when I find that their edits cause problems with references. If I make a mistake, please leave a message to user Klein Muçi indicating the article in which the mistake occurred. I intend to create a preset for such messages tomorrow and we're done. — Klein Muçi (talk) 17:53, 26 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Can you change the diff link in the top part of the message to include the two "before-after" panels diff-view instead of opening the said diff? It's easier for new users to see and understand what they've actually done like that and they don't risk starting to edit old/past versions instead of the current ones. — Klein Muçi (talk) 18:01, 26 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Klein Muçi, my bot does run on pywikibot. I'm not quite sure what you mean by changing the diff link. If it's something that needs to be changed in the template, it's in /top. — Qwerfjkltalk18:03, 26 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Ah! I was thinking that but it was happening too often and... Okay then, thank you!
I was trying to modify the bottom part now like I said so that when my talk page link is clicked a preset title is added. Something like "Qwerfjkl bot - Question [Date]". Is there a way to do that without using inputbox? I can achieve it with that but it would require me to use some CSS to remove the button appearance and I don't want to go that way.
Also, as you'll see in your sandbox, the bot now adds the name of the person it's talking to in the initial greeting (through a magic word - is it the correct magic word for this case?). Do you think the said magic word should be substituted or do you think it's good like it currently is? What is the usual practice in EnWiki in regard to this, if you happen to know? - Klein Muçi (talk) 01:45, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
┌───────────────────────────┘ Klein Muçi, I would suggest substituting everything, because messages typically shouldn't change after they're initially posted. For the date, you can probably use {{#time}}. — Qwerfjkltalk07:18, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Okay then. I will do so. But how can I make it preload a templated title? So I can easily distinguish messages that are related to the bot? - Klein Muçi (talk) 14:03, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
[//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?action=edit&preload=User:Qwerfjkl/Botpreload&editintro=User:Qwerfjkl/boteditintro&minor=&title=User_talk:Qwerfjkl&preloadtitle=Qwerfjkl%20(bot)%20–%20{{subst:<noinclude/>urlencode:{{subst:<noinclude />PAGENAME}}|wiki}}§ion=new&preloadparams%5b%5d={{FULLPAGENAMEE:{{{page|}}}}}&preloadparams%5b%5d={{{diff|}}} report it to my operator]
I've never used the URL method for preloading elements before. Can you please produce the link for me? :/ [Qwerfjkl (bot) - Problem me referimet ({{subst:#time:j F Y, H:i}})] — Klein Muçi (talk) 17:44, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
[{{fullurl:User talk:Klein Muçi|action=edit&preload=PRELOADPAGE&preloadtitle={{safesubst:<noinclude />Replace|{{safesubst:<noinclude />urlencode:Qwerfjkl (bot) - Problem me referimet ({{safesubst:<noinclude>#time:j F Y, H:i}})|wiki}}|_|%20}}§ion=new}} foo]
┌───────────────────────────┘ Thanks a lot! Well, I'm guessing everything is done now. I semi-protected all pages. Can you do the formal request? I'll see to accept it in 1-2 days. — Klein Muçi (talk) 18:39, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
If you have the "Email me when a page or a file on my watchlist is changed" option enabled, edits by bot accounts no longer trigger notification emails. Previously, only minor edits would not trigger the notification emails. [3]
There are changes to how user and site scripts load for Vector 2022 on specific wikis. The changes impacted the following Wikis: all projects with Vector legacy as the default skin, Wikivoyage, and Wikibooks. Other wikis will be affected over the course of the next three months. Gadgets are not impacted. If you have been affected or want to minimize the impact on your project, see this ticket. Please coordinate and take action proactively.
Newly auto-created accounts (the accounts you get when you visit a new wiki) now have the same local notification preferences as users who freshly register on that wiki. It is effected in four notification types listed in the task's description.
The maximum file size when using Upload Wizard is now 5 GiB. [4]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 February. It will be on all wikis from 22 February (calendar). [5][6]
Selected tools on the grid engine have been stopped as we prepare to shut down the grid on March 14th, 2024. The tool's code and data have not been deleted. If you are a maintainer and you want your tool re-enabled reach out to the team. Only tools that have asked for extension are still running on the grid.
The CSS filter property can now be used in HTML style attributes in wikitext. [7]
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Translations are available.
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Discussions
Open request for adminship: WT2O_2 - (RfP deadline: February 22, 2024 17:46 UTC)
Other: Project chat: PI Bot is an interesting conversation about the function of PI Bot in creating Stub articles and evolves into discussing ways of matching articles, categories and templates in sibling projects with their Wikidata items. Contribute to the discussion or even better, use one of the many tools posted and get linking!
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call February 20, 2024: In honor of Valentine's Day month, we are bringing back the popular program from last February: What's Your Wikidata Passion? What is your central Wikidata interest right now? It can be a work or personal project, even if you’re just beginning to think about it, or just what you like to edit when you have time. This is a great way to share your ideas, solicit community input and ask questions about resources or tools. This will be an open mic session, completely informal. Please add yourselves to the list on our agenda here if you would like to talk for 5 minutes or so. You can share your screen if you like, but there’s no need for slides. Or just show up and talk on the spur of the moment. This will be a community session where we welcome all to participate! Agenda
Dancing Digital Project with Rebecca Salzer is a Wikibase instance sharing LOD between itself, video archives and Commons.
WikiPod AI - try listening to last week's Status Updates with AI-generated speaking, an experiment by Tiago Lubiana.
Notebooks: TTTTRPG - Timeline Tree of Tabletop Role-Playing Games queried using SPARQL from Wikidata.
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Tool of the week
User:Yair rand/DiffLists.js - this userscript changes the appearance of Recent Changes, Watchlist, Contributions, History pages, and Related Changes. It also adds filter options.
Wikidata Topic Curator (a rewrite of ItemSubjector into a webapp) help wikimedians add relevant topics to items. Based on a given topic QID it fetches articles matching the label, aliases or a custom user-provided term of that QID that is currently missing the main subject property.
Author Disambiguator - is a tool for editing the authors of works recorded in Wikidata, e.g. for finding Wikidata Items for the authors (P50 instead of 'author name string').
Castradenumber (number for a registred subject in a Castrade)
latest end date ((qualifier) latest date on which the statement could have ceased to be true (i.e., latest date beyond which the statement could no longer be true))
anthesis start (time of the year when a plant normally starts flowering)
leaf morphology (characterization of aspects of the shape of a plant’s leaves)
Newest WikiProjects: Looted heritage - aims to use Wikidata to document looted cultural heritage. Its primary focus is on the colonial era, but it also encompasses other relevant historical periods. It's scope includes artworks, sacred items, human remains, and other forms of tangible and intangible artifacts that may be considered a part of a people's heritage.
WikiProject Highlights: Staedel Museum Wikidata Clean-up The Staedul Museum comprises 24,000+ works of art spanning more than 700 years. They have generously opened up digital surrogates of their collection to the Wikimedia community. This project improves the metadata quality and create Wikidata items for works of art.
Moteitbe333, Welcome! Creating a new article from scratch is extremely challenging, and new editors are strongly recommended to spend a few months learning how Wikipedia works, by making improvements to some of our existing six million articles before trying it. When you do decide to have a go at a new article, you are highly encouraged to read WP:Your first article. If you haven't already also check out WP:TUTORIAL; it's a lot of fun! Happy editing! — Qwerfjkltalk16:46, 20 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I hope you are well. I came across some of the categories mentioned in this nomination on an Empty Category list and I'm hoping you can adjust your CFD closure here. Could you please state what categories these nominated categories are supposed to be MERGED to? It's not clear to me. There are dozens of categories listed and I'm not proposing you go through each one on that long list and state what the merge target article is, but could you just include a statement in the closure stating what category tree they are being merged to? I'd appreciate it and I think if future editors want to know what happened to these cultural infrastructure categories, it's better to note this in the closure statement than try other ways to track down that answer should someone try to recreate these categories. Many thanks! LizRead!Talk!21:23, 21 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Liz, I thought it was straightforward because it's mentioned directly below the nominator's statement, Merge all to the buildings and structures category of the same year. I can modify the list of categories to add the merge targets if that'd help (it's a simple regex pattern), or I could just add "to buildings and structures tree" to the closing statement? — Qwerfjkltalk21:28, 21 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment/question:
The bot is notifying me about a syntax issue, but the real issue is semantic: the previous content was formatted with nominally working syntax but was useless from the point of view of verifiability. I added some more cleanup tags in subsequent edits, please advise on ways to stop the bot from telling me water is wet in the future. TIA.
Joy, I'm not sure how easy that would be to do (I'd have check both versions of the wikitext for the templates and all of their redirects). I could do it, but it seems like an edge case that's not worth it. You can always just ignore the notifications. — Qwerfjkltalk21:24, 25 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
TSECorporation, there's one very important thing I forgot to mention in my earlier comment: you are not allowed to have the username you currently have (per WP:CORPNAME). The easiest way to do this is simply to create a new account (making sure that the name is in line with the policy I linked above, WP:CORPNAME). — Qwerfjkltalk20:31, 26 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Tech News: 2024-09
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
The mobile visual editor is now the default editor for users who never edited before, at a small group of wikis. Research shows that users using this editor are slightly more successful publishing the edits they started, and slightly less successful publishing non-reverted edits. Users who defined the wikitext editor as their default on desktop will get the wikitext editor on mobile for their first edit on mobile as well. [8]
The mw.config value wgGlobalGroups now only contains groups that are active in the wiki. Scripts no longer have to check whether the group is active on the wiki via an API request. A code example of the above is: if (/globalgroupname/.test(mw.config.get("wgGlobalGroups"))). [9]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 29 February (calendar). [10][11]
Future changes
The right to change edit tags (changetags) will be removed from users in Wikimedia sites, keeping it by default for admins and bots only. Your community can ask to retain the old configuration on your wiki before this change happens. Please indicate in this ticket to keep it for your community before the end of March 2024.
My edits were just to change the way info was referenced to be consistent with Wikipedia guidelines. so that the reference shows up in the References section of the article. The info in the article did not contain a title, and I was unable to determine the title, though the source and date were available.
Hello everyone, and welcome to the 24th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 24 December 2021. Uh-huh, we're finally covering the good ones among the rest! Aren't you excited? Remember to include a link in double brackets to the script's .js page when you install the script, so that we can see who uses the script in WhatLinksHere! The ScriptInstaller gadget automatically does this. Aaron Liu (talk) 01:00, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!
Featured script
Making user scripts load faster by SD0001 is this month's featured script, which caches userscripts every day to eliminate the overhead caused by force-downloading the newest version of scripts every time you open a Wikipedia page. Despite being released in April 2021, our best script scouters have failed to locate it due to its omission from the US of L. For security reasons, the script only supports loading JavaScript pages.
Newly maintained scripts
After earthly attempts at improving the original have failed...
Ahecht has created a fork of SiBr4/TemplateSearch, which adds the "TP:" shortcut for "Template:" in the search box, and updated it to be compatible with Vector 2022.
AquilaFasciata/goToTopFast is a much faster fork of the classic goToTop script that also adds compatibility for Minerva and Vector 2022.
Without caching. Each script takes 400–500ms. A particularly large script takes 1.11 s! Internet download speed is 50 Mbps.With caching enabled. Each script takes just 1-2 ms to load.
Improve a script
Unfortunately, this section has remained nearly identical. Help us out here!
To a lesser extent, the same goes for PrimeHunter/Search sort. I wish someone would integrate the sorts into the sort menu instead of adding 11 portlet links.
Dragoniez/SuppressEnterInForm stops you from accidentally submitting anything due to pressing enter while in the smaller box, and works on almost anything... except the InputBox element itself, used in subscription lists and the Signpost Crossword! Oh, the humanity!
Doǵu/Adiutor(pictured) provides a nice, integrated interface to do some twinkley tasks such as copyvio detection, CSD tagging, and viewing the most recent diff.
Eejit43 has quite the aesthetically pleasing scripts, all made in TypeScript.
/afcrc-helper is a replacement for the unmaintained Enterprisey/AFCRHS and processes Redirects for Creation and Categories for Creation requests.
/ajax-undo stops the "undo" button from taking you to another page while providing a text box to provide a reason for the revert.
/redirect-helper(pictured) adds a much better interface for editing and redirects, including categorization, for which valid categories are dictated by /redirect-helper.json.
/rmtr-helper helps process technical requested moves without being able to actually move them.
Guycn2/UserInfoPopup(pictured) adds a flyout after the watchlist star on userspace pages that displays the common information you might use about a user.
Jeeputer/editCounter, under userspace, adds a portlet link to count your edits by namespace, put them in a table, and put that table in a hardcoded subpage, all in the background.
Hilst/Scripts/sectionLinks converts all section links to use the § sign, which are known to be preferred over the ugly # by 99% of the devils I've met.
PrimeHunter/Category source.js adds portlet links to tell you where a category for an article comes from and supports those from template transclusions.
Sophivorus's MiniEdit adds some nice, li'l buttons next to paragraphs to edit their wikitext with a minimal interface.
Edit-listings
Dragoniez/ToollinkTweaks adds more and customizable links next to users in page history, logs, watchlist, recent changes, etc.
Firefly/more-block-info optimizes the display of rangeblocks in contribution pages. Doesn't work outside the English locale of any wiki, unfortunately.
NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/AjaxLoader makes paging links (e.g. older 50, 500, newest) load without refreshing and makes you realize how slow your internet actually is.
Appearance-ricing
Ahecht/RedirectID adds the redirect target to all redirects. For all the WP:NAVPOPS haters. (Do these exist?)
Dragoniez/MarkBLockedGlobal: Remember the "strike blocked usernames" gadget? Now you can use a red, dotted line to highlight rangeblocks and global locks!
Jonesey/common(pictured) has some styles to overhaul your Vector 2022 experience. It reduces padding everywhere, and makes the top bar animation faster.
Aaron Liu/V22 is a fork that narrows the sidebars instead of upheaving them, reverts the January 2024 dropdown changes, and restores the old page-link color for links that don't go outside the current wiki.
Nardog: SmartDiff is a spiritual successor to Enterprisey/fancy-diffs. It makes the page title part of links in diffs clickable, along with template and parser function calls. Unnamed parameters can be configured per template to also be linked. All links are styled based on the normal CSS classes of rendered links.
For the paranoid: Rublov/anonymize replaces your username at the top of the screen with the generic "User page" text. Remember, it is your duty to persuade everyone that editing is an honor.
/AjaxBlock provides a dialog box for easy input of reasons while blocking users.
/Selective Rollback(pictured) provides a dialog box to customize rollback edit summaries and does them without reloading the page. Seriously, why doesn't MediaWiki already do this?
/flickrsearch adds a portlet link to search for uploadable flickr images about the subject.
/randomincategory adds a portlet link when on Category pages to go to a random page in the current category.
Vghfr/EasyTemplates adds a portlet link to automatically insert some of the most common inline {{fix}} templates.
Yes, we're just doing 'em as we go now. Thanks for reading through this looong issue, if you did! I'm sure this'll send a record for the longest issue ev-ah. You may need to wait even longer for the last issue, as our reserve of old-y and goodie scripts have ran out... We encourage you to try and do some of the requests or improvement tasks. See you in Summer, hopefully!
Hello,
I already have 16 edits and 5 days of editing, is there a reason that I have not been autoconfirmed yet?
Thank you
Exotic --Exotic1861 (talk) 10:16, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It is 1:34 AM where this user lives.
— Klein Muçi (talk) 16:08, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 February. It will be on all wikis from 22 February (calendar). [5][6]
Selected tools on the grid engine have been stopped as we prepare to shut down the grid on March 14th, 2024. The tool's code and data have not been deleted. If you are a maintainer and you want your tool re-enabled reach out to the team. Only tools that have asked for extension are still running on the grid.
Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!
Featured script
Newly maintained scripts
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Improve a script
Requested scripts
New scripts
