Thursday, April 23, 2026

The Congo Forests of Central Africa: Re WUaS Wikidata - Wikidata - Phabricator - [Maniphest] [Updated] T371520: graph for hits to Linked Data Endpoint (Special:EntityData) is broken * Implications for wiki World Univ & Sch, building on CC-4 licensed MIT OCW in its 7 languages - https://opencw.aprende.org/courses/translated-courses/ & https://ocw.mit.edu/ - for free online WUaS degrees from home in each of all ~ 200 countries and in their main languages, and as major world class universities, - and in 7159 living languages as wiki schools for people-to-people wiki-teaching and wiki-learning, ... and in WUaS planning to code for all 7.9 billion people on the planet ? * * where @WorldUnivAndSch is heading with #WikidataWUaS #Wikimedia's #BackendStructuredKnowledgeDatabaseForAI, building on CC-4 licensed MIT OCW in 7 languages? * * * * After sending the above as an email to Denny Vrandecic, I think a little program he wrote placed it at bottom here in Phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T371520



where @WorldUnivAndSch is heading with #WikidataWUaS #Wikimedia's #BackendStructuredKnowledgeDatabaseForAI, building on CC-4 licensed MIT OCW in 7 languages - https://opencw.aprende.org/courses/translated-courses/
https://ocw.mit.edu/ for online #freeWUaSdegrees in 200 countries
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-congo-forests-of-central-africa.html ~

WITH MIT OCW image - 
 

Retweeting -

UNEP-WCMC
@unepwcmc
📢 UNEP-WCMC has published a report summarising five years of research into the Congo Basin peatlands, under the
@CongoPeat
 scientific programme

Learn more ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/28kmayvf

#PeatlandsMatter #CongoBasin

https://x.com/unepwcmc/status/1731625657841357186






* * 

 WUaS - World University and School <worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com>
to: Lena_WMDE <T371520+public+814b026faf5c4f6f@phabricator.wikimedia.org>,
Lydia Pintscher <lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de>,
Markus Krötzsch <Accounts@korrekt.org>,
Denny Vrandečić <vrandecic@gmail.com>,
Pin - Siddartha Mazumdar <sid.mazumdar@gmail.com>,
Edward Smyth <esmythmd@gmail.com>,
"Hann, Byron" <Byron.Hann@ucsf.edu>,
karen_brennan@gse.harvard.edu,

Roland Vogl <rvogl@law.stanford.edu> 


Re WUaS Wikidata - 

Wikidata - Phabricator - [Maniphest] [Updated] T371520: graph for hits to Linked Data Endpoint (Special:EntityData) is broken


HakanIST added a comment.View Task


The dashboard itself is fine, but the script that feeds data into Graphite (analytics/limn-wikidata-data repo, personal crontab on stat1007) stopped running when that host was decommissioned and was never migrated. The raw data in wmf.webrequest is still there, so this needs someone with stat1011 access to set up a new pipeline (e.g. via analytics/wmde/scripts + statsd-exporter, T392599).



Implications for wiki World Univ & Sch, building on CC-4 licensed MIT OCW in its 7 languages - https://opencw.aprende.org/courses/translated-courses/ & https://ocw.mit.edu/ - for free online WUaS degrees from home in each of all ~ 200 countries and in their main languages, and as major world class universities, - and in 7159 living languages as wiki schools for people-to-people wiki-teaching and wiki-learning, ...  and in WUaS planning to code for all 7.9 billion people on the planet from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University  in WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki - and to end poverty worldwide and with free universal education ?

(World University and School is also in a #GrowWithGoogleWUaS program).

Best regards, 
Scott


all 200 each a major online research and teaching university, and with AI and ML, from - 

all 7,159 living languages in these languages from - 




PS

Top #FreeVideoPlatforms w #UnlimitedFreeStorage for video uploads including YouTube w its amazing #PeopleToPeople '#WikiTeaching' & '#WikiLearning' Teach too @ #FreeWikiWUaS https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects @WorldUnivAndSch in #GrowWithGoogleWUaS program & in #RealisticVirtualEarth (in #GSV)

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2047081705421607111

https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2047082443551977917

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2047082806019523060

https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2047082622338372023

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/2047082329378873411

https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2047082714378203327

 
No retweet - https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2047082499982217466


Retweeting

Working Families Party 🐺
@WorkingFamilies
We're launching the national Working Families Guarantee.

We can win a real agenda for working people — but only if we fight for it.

http://wfpus.org/guarantee

https://x.com/WorkingFamilies/status/2046590005729009842




AND

Q: #GeminiAIreTeaching & #FreeITPlatforms & #PeopleToPeople '#WikiTeaching' & '#WikiLearning' - Are people teaching & learning w AI by adding photos & videos to #GoogleStreetView w #GTimeSlider, even, in the same way that they do with #GoogleYouTube? A:  https://g.co/gemini/share/96e964301129 ~

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2047085213944336816

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2047084827967693189

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/2047085134244127060

https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2047084954019115130

https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2047085077134450993

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2047085014085693596

https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2047084889774936248


https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/04/helianthus-californicus-california.html (in daily blog)



-- 
- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President  
- World University and School

- 415 480 4577




 


* * 

After sending the above as an email to Denny Vrandecic, I think a little program he wrote placed it at bottom here in Phabricator: 

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T371520


graph for hits to Linked Data Endpoint (Special:EntityData) is broken
Open, Needs TriagePublic


Problem:
The dashboard at https://grafana.wikimedia.org/d/000000188/wikidata-special-entitydata?orgId=1&refresh=30m is not showing any data. We need the data to understand the usage of the Linked Data Interface.

Screenshots:

image.png (901×1 px, 78 KB)

Acceptance criteria:

Details

Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper· View Herald TranscriptJul 31 2024, 9:06 AM

Something strange is going on in Grafana. There are two reasonable-looking Graphite queries in the Panel JSON:

image.png (578×960 px, 80 KB)

And the underlying data still seems to exist: https://graphite.wikimedia.org/render/?target=daily.wikidata.entitydata.format.json&from=now-7d&to=now
image.png (250×330 px, 13 KB)

Yet when I go to edit the panel, the data sources look like some weird blank default state:
image.png (742×1 px, 92 KB)

I assume this is somehow related to the Graphite deprecation (T228380), but I haven’t seen problems like this in other dashboards before, and I doubt this is the only place where we still use Graphite.

If I manually switch the data source to Graphite, create two queries and paste the expressions from the Panel JSON into them, it seems to work alright:

image.png (784×1 px, 125 KB)

But I’m hesitant to save this because I don’t know how much other configuration of the original panel would be lost with that – so I’m hoping someone else knows what’s going on in Grafana here.

Hm, is this a widespread issue? Most of the panels at https://grafana-rw.wikimedia.org/d/000000290/wikidata-query-service-ui seem to be similarly broken.

https://grafana.wikimedia.org/d/000000170/wikidata-edits?orgId=1&refresh=1m also seems to have the same issue. Looks like somehow multiple Grafana dashboards got broken?

Data disappearing was a side effect of T269333 which I reverted, and the dashboards are back. We'll need to extend the audit/change to catch these dashboards too

Temporarily fixed by this revert; now IIUC we need to update some dashboards so they’ll update their data source and not be affected by the default. For instance, if I go to wikidata-edits and press the save button without doing anything, I get a diff that starts like this:

image.png (632×477 px, 54 KB)

Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE added a comment.EditedAug 12 2024, 2:23 AM

I’ve just saved new versions of wikidata-edits (schema version 34→38), wikidata-query-service-ui (34→38) and wikidata-special-entitydata (16→38 – no, that’s not a typo! it was ancient). So hopefully those should now stay working if the default is changed again.

It’s possible (probably likely, tbh) that there were some more dashboards that need updating; I’m hoping that the experts in T269333 will know how to find them, now that we know that the data source may have been not just null but also (per the above screenshot) "-- Grafana --" or "graphite".

I’ve just saved new versions of wikidata-edits (schema version 34→38), wikidata-query-service-ui (34→38) and wikidata-special-entitydata (16→38 – no, that’s not a typo! it was ancient). So hopefully those should now stay working if the default is changed again.

I can confirm via testing on our staging Grafana that these do keep working with Thanos as the default datasource now that they have been saved with schema updates

Change #1069230 had a related patch set uploaded (by Herron; author: Herron):

[operations/puppet@production] grafana: set thanos as default datasource

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1069230

Change #1069230 merged by Herron:

[operations/puppet@production] grafana: set thanos as default datasource

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1069230

Lena_WMDE closed this task as Resolved.Fri, Apr 10, 1:56 AM
Lena_WMDE claimed this task.
Lena_WMDE subscribed.

Resolving this task as a part of cleaning up our workboard. Please reopen the task if you believe it was closed in error, and provide a brief description of relevance and urgency. Thank you!

Lydia_Pintscher reopened this task as Open.Fri, Apr 10, 2:05 AM
Lydia_Pintscher added a subscriber: Ifrahkhanyaree_WMDE.

This is still broken.
@Ifrahkhanyaree_WMDE do you have a replacement for it? If yes can we please link to it from the board?

Nope we're not tracking this

Lena_WMDE removed Lena_WMDE as the assignee of this task.Fri, Apr 10, 4:48 AM

The dashboard itself is fine, but the script that feeds data into Graphite (analytics/limn-wikidata-data repo, personal crontab on stat1007) stopped running when that host was decommissioned and was never migrated. The raw data in wmf.webrequest is still there, so this needs someone with stat1011 access to set up a new pipeline (e.g. via analytics/wmde/scripts + statsd-exporter, T392599).

Implications for wiki World Univ & Sch, building on CC-4 licensed MIT OCW
in its 7 languages - https://opencw.aprende.org/courses/translated-courses/
https://ocw.mit.edu/ - for free online WUaS degrees from home in each of
all ~ 200 countries and in their main languages, and as major world class
universities, - and in 7159 living languages as wiki schools for
people-to-people wiki-teaching and wiki-learning, ... and in WUaS planning
to code for all 7.9 billion people on the planet from here -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University in
WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki - and to end poverty worldwide and with free
universal eduation ?

(World University and School is also in a #GrowWithGoogleWUaS program).

Best regards,
Scott

all 200 each a major online research and teaching university, and with AI
and ML, from -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States

all 7,159 living languages in these languages from -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages

PS

Top #FreeVideoPlatforms w #UnlimitedFreeStorage for video uploads incl
YouTube w its amazing #PeopleToPeople '#WikiTeaching' & '#WikiLearning'
Teach too @ #FreeWikiWUaS
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects @WorldUnivAndSch in
#GrowWithGoogleWUaS program & in #RealisticVirtualEarth (in #GSV)

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2047081705421607111

https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2047082443551977917

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2047082806019523060

https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2047082622338372023

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/2047082329378873411

https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2047082714378203327

No retweet - https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2047082499982217466

Retweeting

Working Families Party 🐺
@WorkingFamilies
We're launching the national Working Families Guarantee.

We can win a real agenda for working people — but only if we fight for it.

http://wfpus.org/guarantee

https://x.com/WorkingFamilies/status/2046590005729009842

AND

Q: #GeminiAIreTeaching & #FreeITPlatforms & #PeopleToPeople '#WikiTeaching'
& '#WikiLearning' - Are people teaching & learning w AI by adding photos &
videos to #GoogleStreetView w #GTimeSlider, even, in the same way that they
do with #GoogleYouTube? A: https://g.co/gemini/share/96e964301129 ~

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2047085213944336816

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2047084827967693189

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/2047085134244127060

https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2047084954019115130

https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2047085077134450993

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2047085014085693596

https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2047084889774936248

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/04/helianthus-californicus-california.html
(in daily blog)



https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T371520 






















https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congolian_rainforests

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Congolian_lowland_forests


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the wildness that remains

37 Wilderness Areas

from Conservation International's



Tropical Rainforest

1. Amazonia

Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela


2. The Congo Forests of Central Africa

Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Republic of Congo


3. New Guinea

Papua or Irian Jaya (Indonesia), Papua New Guinea


Wilderness image

Red-and-green macaws (Ara chloroptera) on a collpa along the Manu River, Manu National Park, Peru. © Patricio Robles Gil/Sierra Madre

Tropical Woodlands, Savannas and Grasslands

4. The Chaco

Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay


5. The Caatinga

Brazil


6. Miombo-Mopane Woodlands and Grasslands

Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe


7. The Serengeti

Kenya, Tanzania


8. Cape York

Australia


9. Arnhem Land

Australia


10. Kimberley

Australia


Wilderness image

Mount Hagen Highlands Show performer, Papua New Guinea. © Cristina Mittermeier

Wetlands

11. The Pantanal

Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay


12. The Llanos

Colombia, Venezuela


13. Bañados Del Este

Uruguay


14. The Sundarbans

Bangladesh, India


15. The Sudd

Sudan


16. The Okavango

Botswana, Namibia


Wilderness image

Warriors from the upper Xingú region of Brazil participating in the Quarup ceremony. The event pictured here was held in the village of the Kamayurá and involved at least seven tribes of the Xingú region. © Russell Mittermeier

Deserts

17. Baja Californian and Sonoran Deserts

Mexico, USA (Arizona, California)


18. The Greater Chihuahuan Desert

Mexico, USA (Arizona, New Mexico, Texas)


19. The Mojave Desert

USA (Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah)


20. The Colorado Plateau

USA (Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah)


21. Costal Deserts of Peru and Chile

Chile, Peru


22. The Sahara/Sahel

Algeria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Jordan, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Tunisia, Western Sahara


23. The Kalahari Desert

Botswana, Namibia, South Africa


24. The Namib Desert

Angola, Namibia


25. Arabian Deserts

Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen


26. Asian Deserts

Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan


27. Australian Deserts

Australia


Wilderness image

The Grand Canyon of the Colorado as seen from the Toroweap Overlook, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, USA. © Larry Ulrich

Temperate Forests

28. The Northern Rocky Mountains

Canada, USA (Idaho, Montana, Washington, Wyoming)


29. Pacific Northwest

Canada, USA (Alaska)


30. The Appalachians

Canada, USA (Alabama, Connecticut, Georgia, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia)


31. Magellanic Subpolar Rainforests

Argentina, Chile


32. European Mountains

Albania, Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Yugoslavia


33. Tasmania

Australia


Wilderness image

Mountain Goat (Oreammnos americanus). © Craig Blacklock/Larry Ulrich Stock

High Latitude Wilderness Areas

34. The Boreal Forests

Canada, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, USA (Alaska)


35. Patagonia

Argentina, Chile, Falkland Islands (UK)


36. The Arctic Tundra

Canada, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, USA (Alaska)


37. Antarctica




Wilderness: Earth's Last Wild Places

(2002)

https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/9686397698.html

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