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Books & Bytes – Issue 68

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 68, March–April 2025

In this issue we highlight two resource renewals, #EveryBookItsReader, a note about Phabricator, and, as always, a roundup of news and community items related to libraries and digital knowledge.

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The Signpost: 14 May 2025

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: WMF to kick off new-CEO quest as Iskandar preps to move on — Supreme Court nixes gag of Wiki page for other India court row on ANI — code-heads give fix-up date for Charts in lieu of long-dead Graph gizmo

• In the media: Wikimedia Foundation sues over UK government decision that might require identity verification of editors worldwide

• Disinformation report: What does Jay-Z know about Wikipedia?

• In focus: On the hunt for sources: Swedish AfD discussions

• Technology report: WMF introduces unique but privacy-preserving browser cookie

• Debriefing: Goldsztajn's RfA debriefing

• Obituary: Max Lum (User:ICOHBuzz)

• Community view: A Deep Dive Into Wikimedia (part 2)

• Comix: Collection

• From the archives: Humor from the Archives

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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2025-21

The winner this Translation of the week is

en:Lorrin A. Thurston
(fi:Lorrin Thurston) (ko:로린 A. 서스턴)

Please be bold and help translate this article!

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Lorrin Andrews Thurston (July 31, 1858 – May 11, 1931) was a Hawaiian citizen lawyer, politician, and businessman. Thurston played a prominent role in the revolution that overthrew the Hawaiian Kingdom to replace Queen Liliʻuokalani with the Republic of Hawaii, with discreet US support for which Congress much later apologized. He published the Pacific Commercial Advertiser (a forerunner of the present-day Honolulu Star-Advertiser), and owned other enterprises. From 1906 to 1916, he and his network lobbied with national politicians to create a national park to preserve the Hawaiian volcanoes.

(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.)

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Wikidata weekly summary #680

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-05-19. Missed the previous one? See issue #679.
Help with Translations.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: THEbotIT 2 - New functional aspect to automatic creation of items describing lexicographical articles of Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE). The described topics of an RE article should also link back to the article.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • On Thursday, 22 May 2025, from 10:00 to 12:00 (CEST), digiS Berlin will offer an online workshop titled "Wikidata for GLAMs." The event is free, open to all, and conducted in German. More information and registration is here.
  • (Italian) Introduction to Wikidata and Wikimedia projects - LM43 May 29, 2025 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
  • The Wikidata and Sister Projects online event is nearly here! Four days of sessions on the use of Wikidata in the Wikimedia Projects, join us from May 29 - June 1. Register here. See the Program schedule.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Diff Blog: Spotlight on Wikidata in the WikiLearn newsletter: WikiLearn's May 2025 update highlights how its online courses, including Wikidata 101, are effectively helping Wikimedians develop key skills, reduce edit reversion rates, and foster engagement across multiple language communities.
  • The Meaning Behind Our Place Names - The Open Etymology Map uses Wikidata-linked etymology tags in OpenStreetMap to reveal the origins of place names, offering an interactive way to explore the historical and linguistic roots of streets, towns, and landmarks
• Papers
  • Preprint: Scholia Chemistry: access to chemistry in Wikidata - This study explores Wikidata's role in chemistry, highlighting how thousands of new chemicals were added, how new properties and database links enhance chemical representation, and how Scholia
  • Making an Under-Resourced Language Available on the Wikidata Knowledge Graph: Quechua Language By Huaman et. al., (2025) - This study integrates Quechua lexical data into Wikidata, adding 1,591 lexemes along with senses, forms, and pronunciation audio, demonstrating how Wikidata can support under-resourced languages in AI-driven Knowledge Graphs to promote linguistic diversity and inclusivity.
  • Knowledge-Based Aerospace Engineering - A Systematic Literature Review By Wittenborg et al., (2025) - This study systematically reviews Knowledge-Based Aerospace Engineering, analyzing over 1,000 articles, constructing a knowledge graph mapped to Wikidata, and demonstrating how structured, semantic-based approaches can enhance aerospace design, collaboration, and sustainable aviation
• Videos
  • (Italian) Introduction to Wikidata for archives
  • (Sweden) Stockholm Archipelago Trail OSM Wikidata SDC By Magnus Salgo
  • (German) Instructional video on SPARQL queries in Wikidata By OER4SDI

Tool of the week

• Wikidata-Taxonomy is a Command-line tool and library to extract taxonomies from Wikidata.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• We are improving and expanding our Help and documentation pages, please tell us what you think: Parser Functions

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes
  • third-gender population (number of third-gender people inhabiting the place)
  • context window (maximum length of an input token in the language model)
  • ‎most populous urban area (city or town with the largest population in this area (country, state, county, continent, etc.))
• Newest External identifiers: Encyclopedia of the Serbian National Theatre ID, vlaamsekunstcollectie.be ID, Patrimonio Galego ID, ‎Substack handle, Sport Express football match ID, R-Sport match ID, ‎ComputerLanguage.com definition, Repertorium kleine politieke partijen 1918-1967 (Person), ‎RFI station ID (timetables), Geographicus cartographer ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • related video (less fitting video, used only because a better alternative is not available. If an appropriate video of the item is available, use P10 instead. Value should not be a generic placeholder.)
  • cosplay of (character(s) that are cosplayed in this image or video)
  • breed belongs to taxon (taxon to which members of this breed (or these breeds) belong)
  • Reason for no value (qualifier property to be used with statements having the object "no value", given to provide a reason for "no value")
  • over (base field of this vector space, base ring of this module, pair of base rings for this bimodule, base monoidal category of this enriched category, etc.)
  • has WikiProject (WikiProject which has this topic as its main subject)
  • mixing engineer (person responsible for mixing the different sonic elements of a piece of recorded music into a final version of a track)
  • normally caused by (item that normally causes this effect, but that is not necessarily the cause here)
  • criminal motive (verified reasoning behind a crime)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: registration number of japanese invoice system, Jesuit Online Necrology ID, Harper's tag, Database of Czech Librarians ID, Open Location Code, CABR-identifier, Onsland-identifier, National Library of Spain Alma ID (BNE v2.0), PC98 Images game ID, Stadtwiki Meißen ID, Rhein-Neckar-Wiki-ID, R-Sport team ID, WürzburgWiki ID, AW-Wiki ID, Wetzipedia ID, OberpfalzWiki article ID, Tüik village id, viberate.com Artist Id, African Music Library Band ID, Delfi.lv theme ID, ESPN soccer team ID, 15min.lt theme ID, trove.scot ID, Identifiant d'une personne sur PRET19, Židovski biografski leksikon ID, IMDb Interest ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Map of pubs in Scotland (source)
  • Data about all 60 members of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject_zelph - WikiProject zelph focuses on integrating a semantic network system with Wikidata to enhance data quality.
• Showcase Items: The Jungle Book (Q16857406) - 2016 film directed by Jon Favreau
• Showcase Lexemes: pukka (L339628) - English adjective (puh-kuh) that can mean "genuine", "highest class", or "complete"

Development

• UI: We are putting the finishing touches on the new search box that will make it easier to search for Properties, Lexemes and EntitySchemas as well (phab:T321543)
• Dark mode: We fixed the last known issues and are getting ready to roll it out
• Mobile statement editing: We are refining prototypes for testing and started technical investigations
• Wikibase REST API: We are continuing the work on simple search, focusing on phrase matching now (phab:T389011)
• Query Service: We are working on a small experiment to show a notification for simple queries that are better run on other APIs (phab:T391264)

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 own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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2025年第21期技術新聞

維基媒體技術社群現在發布最新的技術新聞。請告知其他用户這些更改；不是所有的更改都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的翻译版本。

本週要聞

• 編輯團隊和機器學習團隊正在開發一項面向新手的檢查：華辭檢查。這項檢查利用預測模型和AI，鼓勵編輯者改善其編輯的語調。團隊邀請志願者參與審查下列語言的華辭模型的初版：阿拉伯語、西班牙語、葡萄牙語、英語和日語。如果您來自上述維基並有興趣參與審查該模型，歡迎至MediaWiki.org報名參加。報名截止日期為5月23日，當天亦為測試開始日。

近況更新 - 面向編輯者

• 2025年5月20日開始，監督員和用戶查核員必須用雙重驗證（2FA）保護其帳號，才能使用其高級權限。所有屬於這兩個群組但未啟用2FA的使用者都已收到通知。未來這項要求可能會擴大到其他高級權限群組。閱讀完整公告。
• 本月底，多重封鎖將開始大規模部署至多個維基：5月26日當週將部署至所有非維基百科專案以及加泰隆尼亞語維基百科；6月2日當週將部署至所有其他維基百科。如有任何疑慮，請聯絡團隊。管理員現在可以在本地瀏覽Special:封禁?usecodex=1來測試新UI，或是在測試維基測試完整功能。多重封鎖可讓管理員同時對同一使用者施加多種不同類型的封鎖。詳情請參閱說明頁面。 [1]
• 本週稍晚，列出幾乎所有特殊頁面的Special:特殊页面將更新整體設計。經過重新設計後，該特殊頁面在數個方面改善了使用者體驗，包括：名稱與別名搜尋功能、排序功能、更明顯的「受限特殊頁面」標示，以及更適合行動裝置的外觀。您現在可以在Beta Cluster預覽新版本，並在Phab工單分享反饋意見。 [2]
• 更多維基現已可以使用Chart擴充功能。詳細部署資訊請參閱部署時間表。
• 5月27日，維基函數將部署至5個維基詞典：豪薩語、伊博語、孟加拉語、馬拉雅拉姆語和迪維希語。這是維基函數的第二批部署。部署完成後，這些專案將能夠從維基函數呼叫函數，並在頁面中使用。函數能接受一個或多個輸入，並將其轉換成預期的輸出，例如：相加兩數、換算單位、計算時間跨度或轉換大小寫。有了維基函數，使用者只需呼叫一個穩定的全域函數即可達成目的，無需使用本地模板。
• 本週稍晚，維基媒體基金會將發布一個實驗中心，用於展示和獲得使用者對產品實驗的反饋。這些實驗協助維基媒體運動了解新使用者、他們如何與網路互動，以及他們如何影響維基媒體運動。一些實驗例子包括生成影片、維基百科Roblox速通遊戲和Discord機器人。
• 上週有29件社群提交的工單得到解決。 例如：使用API建立帳號時會遇到一些問題，現已得到修復。 [3]

近況更新 - 面向技術貢獻者

• 部分與Special:封禁互動的小工具與腳本需要更新才能與新的管理封鎖介面互動。請查閱開發者手冊以了解更多資訊。如果您需要任何協助或您的腳本無法與新的介面互動，請在此討論頁留言讓技術團隊知道。 [4]
• Lua的mw.title物件可用來取得特定維基頁面的資訊。本週開始，該物件將新增名為isDisambiguationPage的屬性，可用來檢查頁面是否為消歧義頁面。 [5]
• 腳本開發者可以使用新的反向代理工具來透過mw.loader.load從gitlab.wikimedia.org載入JavaScript和CSS。工具的作者希望這個工具能實現腳本的協同開發工作流程，包括gitlab.wikimedia.org上的linting、單元測試、代碼生成和代碼審查，而無需另外將腳本複製貼上到維基媒體維基上以進行整合和驗收測試。詳情請參閱Wikitech上的 Tool:Gitlab-content。
• 本週軟體更新細節： MediaWiki

會議與活動

• 2025年維基工作坊（第12屆）將於5月21日至22日線上舉行，探索維基媒體專案方方面面的研究人員將在此論壇齊聚一堂。立即報名。

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