Hello all,
The next *Wikidata Bug Triage Hour session* will take place on Thursday, *May
5th, at 16:00 UTC* (18:00 CEST) on Jitsi.
This meeting is open to everyone involved in Wikidata and interested in
following the progress of the software development, or having specific
issues or requests related to software. During this session, we look at
tickets of our tracking system Phabricator, we improve their description,
tags and keywords together, in order to make them more understandable and
easier to discover and to pick by a development team or a volunteer in the
future.
The upcoming session doesn't have a specific topic, it's an open
discussion, so you are welcome to join and *bring a Phabricator task that
you particularly care about or that deserves some love*.
The meeting is taking place on Jitsi, it is not recorded in video but we
are taking collaborative notes. You can find all the links and information
here: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events#Wikidata_bug_triage_hour
And finally: there is no prerequisite or need to have participated in
previous sessions to join - you can also join only to listen and *discover
more about how we track and describe bugs and feature requests for Wikidata
:)*
Looking forward to meet you there!
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Léa Lacroix
Community Engagement Coordinator
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
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der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
(This change is relevant for all Wikidata users working with labels,
descriptions, and aliases.)
Based on a long-standing community request we have enabled a new language
code for labels, descriptions, and aliases on Test Wikidata: “mul”, a
special language code meaning “multiple languages”. It is intended to
replace the current duplication of certain labels and aliases in many
languages: instead of the given name Douglas (Q463035)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q463035> having the label “Douglas” in
hundreds of Latin-script languages, it should be enough to add it once as
the “mul” label and have all other languages falling back to that (before,
as usual, falling back to “en” as a last resort). This should reduce the
amount of redundant data in Wikidata, and relieve some pressure from the
query service. A big thank you goes to all people involved in the
discussions!
The purpose of the Test Wikidata version of this feature is to determine
whether the current functionality is already sufficient, or whether the
feature needs more work before it can be enabled on Wikidata proper.
Current implementation:
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You can interact with the new language code using the API.
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The new language code appears in the table of labels at the top of an
item page for users whose Babel information includes “mul” (or who use ?
uselang=mul in the URL). If there is already a “mul” label, it will be
available for everyone under the usual “all entered languages” option.
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The page heading will fall back to the “mul” label if necessary.
Fallbacks to “mul” have the usual “indicator” that shows a fallback took
place (CSS class wb-language-fallback-mul).
For more details, see T285156 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T285156>
(or T297393 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297393> for the Test
Wikidata implementation). You are welcome to leave any feedback about the
technical implementation of the new language code on these tickets.
The new language code will very likely need adjustment of Wikidata policies
and guidelines. In case you would like to contribute to drafting
preliminary new guidelines, a good starting point is: Help
talk:Label#Drafting of guidelines for new language code mul
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help_talk:Label#Drafting_of_guidelines_for_ne…>
.
Cheers,
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Mohammed Sadat
*Community Communications Manager for Wikidata/Wikibase*
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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