Hello all,
The Wikidata ecosystem is a huge galaxy of exciting content, tools,
projects, powered by the communities as well as organizations working with
the software and the data. For seven years, people are gathering, starting
projects, developing tools, improving the editors' workflows, filling
various gaps, working all together to give more people more access to more
knowledge.
In the frame of the WikidataCon 2021, we are organizing the *WikidataCon
community awards
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021/Contribute/Communit…>*
to
celebrate the work of people and groups involved in Wikidata, and highlight
some projects nominated by the community.
Until *October 10th*, you can participate and *nominate one or several
Wikidata-related projects* that you like, that are useful for you or for
the community. Such a project can be for example: a community gathering or
other initiative that led to great results (WikiProject, event,
editathon…), a tool (gadget, script, external tool…) or any other action
that led to improving Wikidata’s data, the workflow of its editors or the
outreach.
The nomination process is taking place publicly and collaboratively on this
talk page
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:WikidataCon_2021/Contribute/Com…>.
You can also help improving the description of projects that are already
nominated. After October 10th, the awards committee will select a few
projects that particularly caught their attention, and will present them
during the Wikidata community awards ceremony taking place during the first
day of the WikidataCon
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021/Program/Day_1_-_Mai…>
.
In order to reach out to the broader audience as possible, feel free to
share this message on the talk pages, social media groups or other channels
where you are active and people from various groups and experiences on
Wikidata can participate. Thanks in advance for your help!
For the Awards committee,
Cheers,
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Léa Lacroix
Community Engagement Coordinator
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
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Hello,
As you may know, Wikibase currently does not normalize pagenames/filenames
on save (e.g. underscores in the input for properties of datatype Commons
media are allowed). At the same time, Wikidata’s quality constraints
extension
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikibaseQualityConstraints>
triggers a constraint violation after saving, if underscores are used. This
is by design as to long-established
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:Constraint:Commons_link> Community
practices. As a result, this inconsistency leaves users with unnecessary
manual work.
We will update Wikibase so that when a new edit is saved via UI or API, and
a pagename/filename is added or changed in that edit, then this
pagename/filename will be normalized on save ("My file_name.jpg" -> "My
file name.jpg").
More generally, the breaking change is that a user of the Wikibase API may
send one data value when saving an edit, and get back a slightly different
(normalized) data value after the edit was made: it is no longer the case
that data values are either saved unmodified or totally rejected (e.g. if a
file doesn’t exist on Commons). Since this guarantee is being removed with
this breaking change announcement, we may introduce further normalizations
in the future and only announce them as significant changes, not breaking
changes.
The change is currently available on test.wikidata.org and
test-commons.wikimedia.org. It will be deployed on Wikidata on or shortly
after September 6th. If you have any questions or feedback, please feel
free to let us know in this ticket
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251480>.
Cheers,
Lucas Werkmeister
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Lucas Werkmeister (he/er)
Full Stack Developer
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0
https://wikimedia.de
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Hi all,
At around 1PM UTC today (Sep 3) we started experiencing stability issues
with WDQS, localized (at least at the moment) to a single, of two,
datacenter. Unfortunately, we haven't been able to pinpoint the issue as of
now. We suspect that someone is running a query that affects Blazegraph -
that happened a few times in the past. Unfortunately, our usual tactics did
help us to find which one.
We are working on identifying the issue, but it's clear that this could in
a few hours bring the service down, so we are working on a quick
workaround. Since we observed the issue is only causing actual service
failures after ~2h after restart, for now we are going to introduce a
procedure that will restart servers randomly, so that uptime for each will
be at max around 1h. Only one server should be restarted at any given time.
This will cause some queries to be killed, when each of the servers is
restarted, but the alternative is worse.
We'll continue to work to find the root cause and will inform you of all of
our progress. We will also post our progress here: [1].
Regards,
Zbyszko Papierski
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T290330
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Zbyszko Papierski (He/Him)
Senior Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>