User talk:Donald Trung

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I mostly concern myself with Oriental numismatic affairs.

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To import at a later date (Post-Retirement List 📃)

• User:Donald Trung/Stamps of the Qing Dynasty.
• http://www.manchukuostamps.com/index.htm
• User:Donald Trung/Japanese E-sen Illustrated in Kecho Ruishu.
• https://coins.calkinsc.com/hansatsu.html
• https://www.freestampcatalogue.com/stamps/country/french-indochina/sort-by/year/sort-direction/asc

Concept to work on when I have time.

• User:Donald Trung/Wikiscientifica.

• User:Donald Trung/Wikilogue (Wiki-Catalogue).

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@Donald Trung: , have you ever come across a 1850 coin like this? Cheers. Lotje (talk) 12:25, 15 August 2025 (UTC)

@Lotje: Do you mean in real life or on-line? I have imported a number of old French coins from SmugMug's Flickr, but most were from the Kingdom period, not that many from the 19th (nineteenth) century onwards. Excuse the late reply, I'm on vacation. -- Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 15:45, 24 August 2025 (UTC)

No problem, thanks, I meant irl Lotje (talk) 15:46, 24 August 2025 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #693

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-08-18. Missed the previous one? See issue #692.

Events

• Upcoming events: New Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series! Mark your calendars for our third session of our event series, an Introduction to Wikidata/EMCO, which is meant to introduce EMCO participants and anyone interested to Wikidata and to develop frameworks and skills for entity management in the Wikidata environment. We will review searching in Wikidata and have a practical, hands-on exercise where everyone can create a new person item and add some statements. Join us Tuesday, August 19th at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST Time zone converter. Please see our project page for more information and Zoom links.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Videos:
  • What Is Wikidata? - Be App Savvy
  • OpenStreetMap x Wikidata - Wikidata Taiwan

Tool of the week

• Magnus Manske’s developed a Como Wikidata Game using Autodesc, this game suggests short descriptions for Wikidata items that don't have any. Review each suggestion, improve it if needed, and submit a concise, accurate description. Additioanlly the andriod application for the game is available for download at Google Play Store

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Are you a developer using Wikidata's data in your application with the action API or Query Service? The Wikidata development would love to talk to you to help improve how you can get to Wikidata's data. More details here (Great Question). User interview is 60-mins and you’ll receive compensation as a thank-you for your time.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• New External identifiers: National Library of Nigeria ID, Artfacts artist ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Código INE (Bolivia) (Official hierarchical identifier of the National Institute of Statistics of Bolivia for administrative entities such as departments, provinces and municipalities.)
  • quality for (quality that is described by this sense of adjective/grammatical modifier)
  • type of quality (qualifier of "item for this modifier" that specifies the type of quality)
  • has wireless capabilities (type of wireless connectivity this device has/supports)
  • designed for handedness (hand(s) that this object is intended to be used with)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Valais cantonal parliament ID, Arcanes ID, A Dictionary of Travel and Tourism entry ID, IGDB tag ID, TechnoMusicWorld artist ID, TechnoMusicWorld release ID, TechnoMusicWorld track ID, A Dictionary of Dentistry entry ID, CELL ID, Flemish Community Masterpieces List item ID, A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation entry ID, Hamburger Frauenbiografien ID, GamesIndustry.biz topic ID, Ophardt Team Sportevent person ID, LINDAS ID, Digital ROC people ID, Museum of Fine Arts, Lyon object ID, Nebraska Authors author ID, InfoconDB series ID, InfoconDB conference ID, setlist.fm festival ID, Digital ROC event ID, ScholarGPS scholar ID, ScholarGPS institution ID, ScholarGPS field and discipline ID, ScholarGPS specialty ID, The Digital Ark person ID, ScholarGPS country profile ID, MHOBT ID, Letterboxd person ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

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• Query examples:
  • Wikidata entities shaped like businesses (Sparql source)
  • Map of sub-categories of a Commons category
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Irish Traditional Music - This project aims to enhance the representation of Irish traditional music on Wikidata
• Showcase Items: Olympia (Q737062) - painting by Édouard Manet
• Showcase Lexemes: spegnere (L1250690) - Italian verb (ˈspeɲ.ɲe.re) meaning "to extinguish (a fire)", "to turn off (a device)", or "to die (euphemistic)"

Development

• Mobile editing of statements: We are continuing the work - so far on the read-only mobile version. We will start looking into editing soon. You can follow along with the development on beta Wikidata.
• GraphQL: We are continuing some experiments with GraphQL to see if it is useful for specific types of access to Wikidata's data.
• Dumps: We are starting to experiment with subset dumps to see if we can get meaningful smaller dumps for reusers.
• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:
  • We are working on scalability issues around the number of changes from Wikidata that get sent to Wikipedia and co. As part of this we are continuing to look into how to decrease the number of changes in recent changes and watchlist on Wikipedia and co that don't actually affect an article there.
  • We are investigating how the upcoming larger rollout of Parsoid affects the tracking of Wikidata usage in articles.
  • We are looking into improving the Databox Lua module that is used especially in smaller Wikipedias to get Wikidata-powered infoboxes.
• Federation: We are looking at the previous prototype for Federated Properties that allowed to use Wikidata's Properties on another Wikibase instance. We are checking what if anything of it can be revived for our current work to allow other Wikibase instances to use Wikidata's Items and Properties seamlessly.
• Data governance: We are concluding research around the current undestanding of people about which data should go where in the Wikibase Ecosystem.
• Constraint reports: We limited Special:ConstraintReport to logged-in users to avoid AI scrapers hitting the systems too hard ([[phab:T401789]))

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.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country: Cyprus
• 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.
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Tech News: 2025-34

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• Later this week, people who are logged-in and have the "Discussion tools" Beta Feature enabled will gain the ability to "Thank" individual comments directly from talk pages, rather than needing to navigate to page history. Learn more about this feature. [1]
• An A/B test comparing two versions of the desktop donate link launched on testwiki on 12 August and on English Wikipedia 14 August for 0.1% of logged out users on the desktop site. The experiment will run for three weeks, ending on 12 September. [2]
• An A/A test to measure the baseline for reader retention was launched 12 August using Experimentation Lab. This measures the percentage of users who revisit a wiki after their initial visit over a 14-day period. No visual changes are expected. The experiment will run through 31 August. [3]
• Five new wikis have been created:
  • a Wikisource in Tagalog (s:tl:) [4]
  • a Wikisource in Madurese (s:mad:) [5]
  • a Wikipedia in Rakhine (w:rki:) [6]
  • a Wikibooks in Minangkabau (b:min:) [7]
  • a Wiktionary in Standard Moroccan Amazigh (wikt:zgh:) [8]
• View all 46 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

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• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Wikidata weekly summary #694

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-08-18. Missed the previous one? See issue #693.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Rubah Hitam Vukova - RfP scheduled to end after 31 August 2025 14:16 (UTC)
• New requests for permissions/Bot: DifoolBot 7 - task(s): Adding a Wikipedia reference to unsourced day-precision date of birth (P569) and date of death (P570) claims.
• Closed request for permissions/Bot: Dolabbot - task(s): Import module subpages from other wikis (mainly English wiktionary) to Korean wiktionary and addition of corresponding Wikidata sitelinks.
• New request for comments: Pilot project for AI-Assisted Wikidata onboarding and Quality control.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • The call for proposals deadline for WikidataCon 2025 is very close (end of the August). Submit your session proposals at this Call for Proposals page.
  • Wikidata's 13th birthday decentralized events will take place in October and November 2025. Feel free to browse the documentation pages to learn how to organize an event in your area and get in touch with other organizers. If you need funding support, make sure to apply for the micro-grants before the deadline of September 1st. Please help translate the documentation pages into your language.
  • WikiCite 2025: a 3-day (25 - 31 August 2025) conference, summit and hackathon for creating an ecosystem of bibliographical data. To attend online, please sign-up on the Participants page.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: How Wikidata is coding for humanity - In this interview, Lydia Pintscher of Wikimedia Deutschland speaks with Stephen Harrison on how Wikidata connects human and machine-readable knowledge and why contributing to it is having a global impact.
• Papers: Wikidata's Worldview: A Semantic Network Analysis of an AI Knowledge Pipeline - The paper examines Wikidata as a key AI knowledge source, showing how its structures and classifications influence machine decision-making, and calls for greater transparency in AI data systems.
• Videos:
  • What Wikidata Reveals About the Good Side of the Internet
  • Resolving the Empty Result Issue in the Wikidata Query Service
• Podcast: Tech Talks Daily - What Wikidata reveals about the good side of the internet? - This episode features Lydia Pintscher who reveals how this massive, collaborative dataset empowers communities worldwide to build tools for the public good, and what a truly “good internet” can look like...
• Presentations: Wikimania 2025 - Wikidata a whirlwind tour through the land of Wikidata-powered apps (slides for a talk showcasing Wikidata powered apps at Wikimania 2025) By Lydia Pintscher

Tool of the week

• The Como GWAP (Q125832524) (games with a purpose) app has just released to the iOS App Store. Also playable in your Web Browser and Android (Google Play Store), the latest release includes Stats tracking and Leaderboards.
• A new tool SPARQL Recent Changes 2 has been released and enables mass-validation of entities in Wikidata based on their recent changes. This tool enables users to ensure that whole subgraphs are valid according to any given EntitySchema!
• WikiCrowd A tool for crowdsourced micro-edits on Wikimedia projects, letting users make quick contributions—like labeling images or answering simple questions—to improve data on Commons and Wikidata.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikisource reader app was released. It utilizes the power of Wikidata.
• Paulina won one of this year's Coolest Tool Awards

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • rewards this type of work (kind of work for which an award is given)
  • ‎watercraft prefix (prefix applied to watercraft operated by different organisations)
  • ‎proposed entity type (what a proposed entity would be)
  • ‎Modern Shrine Ranking (Rank in the Modern system of ranked Shinto Shrines)
  • ‎Cyclocross24 rider ID (identifier for a cyclo-cross cyclist in the Cyclocross24 database)
  • ‎DuckDuckGo bang (Identifier for use of DuckDuckGo bang shortcut)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Database dei fondi musicali toscani ID, ‎Deaf Movie Database person ID, ‎Deaf Movie Database genre ID, ‎Deaf Movie Database language ID, ‎Deaf Movie Database country ID, ‎MacPorts port, ‎dvdcompare.net film ID, ‎Encyclopedia of Indianapolis ID, Mobility Database ID, PCPartPicker product type ID, Library of Congress BIBFRAME Work ID, USB device ID, Rekhta Gujarati author ID, A Dictionary of Public Health entry ID, Yandex Books author ID, CoreTennis.net player ID, rada.info council ID, Athletics Podium person ID, ‎CESAR title ID, Polski Petersburg encyclopedia ID (Russian version), Polish Taxpayer Identification Number, ‎Berardi Arte artist ID, Swiss Films person ID, Swiss Films company ID, médiathèque de Sceaux catalog author ID, EASIN ID, A Dictionary of Genetics entry ID, A Dictionary of Sports Studies entry ID, Open Science Thesaurus ID, PCI vendor hexadecimal ID, NuGet package, LINDAS ID, ‎Archaeological Cadastre (Greece) ID, Dictionary of American Family Names ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • museociclismo (id for museociclismo.it)
  • identificativo Viario di Roma (identifier for a street in Rome)
  • form factor (physical design paradigm this object is aligned with)
  • implies (2) (axiom or conjecture that this axiom or conjecture implies)
  • comes with (object which is included with this item, but is not part of it)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Letterboxd person ID, EU-ID, Viario di Roma ID, Kick username, Ene dilim ID, LTT Labs product ID, Concept ID in Arab Encyclopedia, La Fayette ID, Archivio Storico Ricordi partiture ID, United Methodist Church church ID, Record Group Number of National Archives Administration, Taiwan, Autostraddle topic ID, LGBTQ Nation tag ID, The Advocate tag ID, Xtra Magazine topic ID, Out tag ID, Queerty tag ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

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  • Cool beaches in Antartica
  • Airports with IATA and/or ICAO airport codes, their wikidata Item id's and the English label of the Item (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject They Were Not Witches, They Were Women - A Wikidata project preserving the stories of women accused as witches in Catalonia and Andorra (1419–1796).
• Showcase Items: Le Monde de Dory (Q9321426) - 2016 American animated film directed by Andrew Stanton
• Showcase Lexemes: Showcase lexemes: 消す (L8031) - Japanese verb (けす, kesu) meaning "to erase", "to turn off", or "to delete"

Development

• Mobile editing of statements: After focusing on the initial read-only version, we are now starting the work on the actual editing mode. You can follow along with the development on beta Wikidata.
• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:
  • We are continuing to work on scalability issues around the number of changes from Wikidata that get sent to Wikipedia and co. As part of this we are continuing to look into how to decrease the number of changes in recent changes and watchlist on Wikipedia and co that don't actually affect an article there.
• GraphQL: We now have a prototype for GraphQL for Wikidata. We'd love to have your feedback about it, especially if you are a developer building applications with Wikidata's data. More details at GraphQL prototype

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.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country:
• 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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Tech News: 2025-35

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• Template authors can now use additional CSS properties, since the CSS sanitizer used by TemplateStyles was updated. For example: width: fit-content; ruby-align; relative units such as lh; and custom strings in list-style-type. These improvements are a Community Wishlist wish. [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]
• On large wikis, the default time period to display edits from, within the Special:RecentChanges page, has been changed from 7 days to 1 day. This is part of a performance improvement project. This should have no user-facing impact due to the quantity of edits on these wikis. [19]
• Administrators can now access the Special:BlockedExternalDomains page from the Special:CommunityConfiguration list page. This makes it easier to find. [20]
• Wikimedia Commons videos were not shown in the Videos tab in Google Search. The problem was investigated and reported to Google who have now fixed the issue. [21][22]
• One new wiki has been created: a Wiktionary in Betawi (wikt:bew:) [23]
• View all 39 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Two fields of the recentchanges database table are being removed. rc_new and rc_type are being removed in favor of rc_source. Queries to these older fields will start to fail starting this week and developers should use rc_source instead. These older fields were deprecated over 10 years ago and should not be in use. This is part of work to improve the performance and stability of queries to the recentchanges table. [24]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization Newsletter is now available. This edition includes: support for new languages in MediaWiki and translatewiki; the start of the Language Onboarding and Development project to help support the growth of new and small wikis; updates on research projects; and more.

Meetings and events

• The next Language Community Meeting is happening soon, August 29th at 15:00 UTC. This week's meeting will cover: the Avro keyboard developers from Wikimedia Bangladesh, who were recently awarded a national award for their contributions to this keyboard; and other topics.

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