Wikidata weekly summary #592

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Wikidata weekly summary #594

 
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 2023-09-18.

  • Events
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour September 15, 2023. We will learn how to use Zotero, the reference management software, and its browser plugin to automatically extract metadata for articles and convert them to a Wikidata format that can be batch uploaded using QuickStatements.More information on the event page
  • Tool of the week
    • LowercaseDescription.js is a script that adds a link to automatically lower the first letter of an item's description in the user's language.
  • Development
    • We are planning the migration of some of our existing components from the Wikit to the Codex design system in Query Builder, Mismatch Finder and the Special:NewLexeme page.
    • Warnings about not being logged-in will now have a returnto= parameter attached to their links, so that you can don’t use your flow from logging in (phab:T330550)
    • We fixed an issue with the LanguageSwitcher in Query Builder where it would open out of the viewport on some tablet screen widths (phab:T344231)
    • Wikibase REST API: We finished the work on making it possible to remove a statement from a Property (phab:T342976) and getting the labels of a Property (phab:T342977)

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Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:03، 18 سبتمبر 2023 (ت ع م)

لويس جان بيير فيو and تصنيف:أصنوفات أسماها لويس جان بيير فيو are, I suspect, misnamed, The man's name in French is "Louis Pierre Vieillot" not "Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot". A footnote on the English-language equivalent explains. Pigsonthewing (نقاش) 15:24، 24 سبتمبر 2023 (ت ع م)

Louis Pierre Vieillot

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are, I suspect, misnamed, The man's name in French is "Louis Pierre Vieillot" not "Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot". A footnote on the English-language equivalent explains. Pigsonthewing (نقاش) 15:27، 24 سبتمبر 2023 (ت ع م)

@Pigsonthewing:, thank you for the notification, an action has been taken to correct the name of the article and the category. Best. --Mervat (نقاش) 19:39، 24 سبتمبر 2023 (ت ع م)

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