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Wikidata weekly summary #262

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: MisterSynergy, Queryzo, ChristianKl (all successful)
  • New request for comments: Allow the creation of links to redirects in Wikidata

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: WikiCite, May 23rd-25th in Vienna. Documentation will be available soon, in the meantime you can check on Twitter and the video streams to see what happened
  • Six degrees on Wikidata, by Andrew Gray
  • Some statistics on scholarly data in Wikidata, by Finn Årup Nielsen
  • Wikidata for librarians, by Dan Scott

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Eurowings app uses Wikidata
  • Are you searching for geolocations of Wikipedia articles on the OSM map? Alex-7 created a web app.
  • Breaking change: sitelink encoding changing in RDF export/WDQS

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Filmweb.pl ID, racon signal, Vitaskrá ID, SSB urban settlement number, Austrian Textbook ID, EKATTE place ID, members have occupation, National Library Board Singapore ID, SHARE Catalogue author ID, Sequence Ontology ID, supports programming language, subreddit, sports league level, TA98 Latin term, Misjonsarkiv person ID, Unifrance person ID, Unifrance company ID, IECIC 2015 ID, Songkick venue ID, BVMC work ID, secretary general, nature preserve in North Rhine-Westphalia ID, PIM authority ID, PASE Domesday place, PASE Domesday person ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of subreddits associated to a place on Earth (source)
    • Potential reviewers for papers in computer science (source)
    • Paintings with 'portrait' in the name that lack P180 / depicts (source)
    • Publications and presentations about WikiCite (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Zika Corpus
  • Newest external tools: Wikidata to CSV
  • Newest database reports: Roger Moore filmography

• Development
  • Attending WikiCite
  • Showing badges on other projects (phab:T73887)
  • Improving label tracking (phab:T151717)
  • Working more on statements on forms in order to support lexicographical data

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • 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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Wikidata weekly summary #263

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Open request for bureaucrat: Lymantria

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, June 7th, 18:00, in the WikiBÄR local room
  • Upcoming: An introduction to Wikidata for GLAMs, Berlin, June 9th (more info in German)
  • Upcoming: Hackathon cartographie des logiciels libres in Paris on June 10th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop during HackZurich, September 14th (registration opening on June 9th)
  • Wikidata, WikiCite, and the "bibliography of life" by Rod Page (Q7356570)
  • MySociety (Q10851773) are publishing a "five part series examining how to use Wikidata to answer the question: 'What is the gender breakdown of heads of government across the world?'".
    1. Help us find the offices of heads of governments across the world!
    2. Help us to show who fills the role of head of government on Wikidata
    3. Linking back in the other direction
    4. Check that the data is consistent
  • Wikicite 2017, and the 7 features Wikidata needs most

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Breaking change: "wb_entity_per_page" table will not be updated and replicated on ToolLabs anymore
  • Data donation: following WikiCite, our friends at DBLP (Q1224715) have begun to donate data, with >4,800 values in the first batch, including >1,300 DBLP ID (P2456) plus assorted aliases, and values for VIAF ID (P214), GND ID (P227), ORCID iD (P496), ACM Digital Library author ID (P864), zbMATH author ID (P1556), & Google Scholar ID (P1960).
  • Sitelinks of Wiktionary will be enabled on June 20th

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: reviewed by, Hungarian NGO ID, PLU Code, Latvian Protected Nature Territory ID, Google Scholar paper ID, DNCI musical work ID, Cullum number, Pinakothek artist ID, ADW taxon ID, DFB datacenter player ID, danskefilm TV series ID, danskefilm animated film ID, dimension, USL player ID, The Arabidopsis Information Resource Accession, Ustream username, SlideShare username, Vimeo username, Australian Statistical Geography 2011 ID, Giphy username, Semantic Scholar author ID, Semantic Scholar paper ID, GDP (PPP), RKY national built heritage environment ID, Early Aviators people ID, DBS ID, overrules, Bavarikon ID, shield image, official Facebook page, WFD Ecological status, Latvian Protected Nature Territory URL
  • Query examples:
    • Number of citizens with “blood type” statements per country (source)
    • Works with most citations (running time 20-45s) (source)
    • Female recipients of the Palme d'Or award (source)
    • Timeline of albums by Manu Chao and Mano Negra (source)
    • Female given names ending in "o" (source)
  • Newest external tools: Wikidata Diff (compares two items; proof-of-concept, doesn't yet include qualifiers, etc.), Wikidata Recent Changes livestream
  • Newest database reports: list of items with the property "has fruit type"

• Development
  • Removing some config variables (phab:T93773)
  • Fixing a conflict with Language Converter (phab:T166429)
  • Showing badges in the sidebar (phab:T73887)
  • Fixing a bug on Query Service (phab:T166762)
  • Adjusting code reading from wb_terms (phab:T162673)
  • Adding an accesskey to the undo button (phab:T165078)
  • Fixing preferences settings for the new Echo notification (phab:T166657)
  • Adding Rangi language (lag) to Wikidata (phab:T161983)
  • Working on moving PropertySuggester extension from github to gerrit (phab:T104309)
  • More work on usage tracking (phab:T151717)
  • More work on Lexemes (phab:T157974)
  • More work on statements (phab:T165480)
  • More work on constraints (phab:T167107)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • 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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The Signpost: 9 June 2017

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editors: Signpost status: On reserve power, Help wanted!

• News and notes: Global Elections

• Arbitration report: Cases closed in the Pacific and with Magioladitis

• Op-ed: Wikipedia's lead sentence problem

• Featured content: Three months in the land of the featured

• In the media: Did Wikipedia just assume Garfield's gender?

• Recent research: Wikipedia bot wars capture the imagination of the popular press

• Technology report: Tech news catch-up

• Traffic report: Film on Top: Sampling the weekly top 10

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This Month in GLAM: May 2017

This Month in GLAM – Volume VII, Issue V, May 2017 Headlines Argentina report: #1lib1ref in Buenos Aires, Participation in WikiCite and the editing challenge of the month Australia and New Zealand report: State Library of Western Australia Belgium report: Wikipedia session for museums; education for library staff Brazil report: Articulating new volunteers Côte d'Ivoire report: Preparing a Wikimedia 2030 workshop with GLAM partners France report: Rennes Archives; Archives Nationales Germany report: Central Public Library of Düsseldorf Ireland report: Terry Pratchett workshop Italy report: Sacred art and videogames Macedonia report: From idea to award; ArchiWiki edit-a-thon Netherlands report: The Mind of the Universe; Photos of Syria; Wikipedian in Residence project Memory of the World Spain report: Releasement of images from National Museum of Ceramics and Decorative Arts Sweden report: Connected Open Heritage; Sounds of Changes UK report: Spreading Enlightenment USA report: Artworks Challenge, Women/Media Edit-a-thon, D.C. Protests caught on .jpg, and lots in Wikipedia + Libraries Wikidata report: WikiCite, new tools, and more WMF GLAM report: Documentation, Categorization and Reviewing what we know! Calendar: June's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #264

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Discussion: Convert UBERON ID to external-id

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Query Service workshop in Berlin, June 28th
  • Querying OSM + Wikidata from a single RDF database intro (YouTube video) by Yuri Astrakhan
  • The Role of Librarians in Wikidata and WikiCite, by Katie Mika
  • MySociety (Q10851773) have now completed publishing a "five part series examining how to use Wikidata to answer the question: 'What is the gender breakdown of heads of government across the world?'". Here is the full set:
    1. Help us find the offices of heads of governments across the world!
    2. Help us to show who fills the role of head of government on Wikidata
    3. Linking back in the other direction
    4. Check that the data is consistent
    5. Conclusion: So, what is the gender breakdown of heads of government?

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The call for submissions for the WikidataCon program is now open! Submit your projects to share your experience with the community until July 31st
  • You can also apply for a scholarship for the WikidataCon
  • Breaking change: improving the schema of wb_terms table
  • Wikidata Diff, a tool to compare the basic properties (no qualifiers/ ranks, yet) of two Wikidata items
  • OSM ↔ Wikidata matcher, new tool for OpenStreetMap mappers, to match objects in OSM to Wikidata items, using the wikidata= tag in OSM
    • Announcement & guide

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: EspritBleu athlete ID, J.League manager ID, Sandbox-Geographic shape, SIMC place ID, Sandbox-Tabular data, therapeutic area, emulates, ESBL athlete ID, Rock.com.ar album ID, Rock.com.ar artist ID, Rock.com.ar biography ID, Danish List of Lights and Fog signals ID, South Australian Heritage Register Database ID, field of view, Shironet song ID, Shironet artist ID, Mastodon address, reviewed by, Hungarian NGO ID, PLU Code, Latvian Protected Nature Territory ID, Google Scholar paper ID, DNCI work ID, Cullum number, Pinakothek artist ID
  • Query examples:
    • Coordinates of parallels and meridians according to Wikidata (source)
    • Uses of the property "IPv6 routing prefix" (source)
    • Non-politician jobs that UK Prime Ministers had (source)
  • Newest external tools: matching things in OSM with Wikidata (more information)
  • Newest database reports: new people gallery

• Development
  • Updating wording re associated Wikidata item following move (phab:T158842)
  • More work on Forms (phab:T163723)
  • Fixing rank icon (phab:T85388)
  • Add monolingual code fkv (phab:T167259)
  • Add monolingual code lag (phab:T161983)
  • More work on property constraints (phab:T167126)
  • Script for populating term_full_entity_id column in wb_terms table (phab:T162533)
  • Full support for wikibase edits in enhanced changes format (phab:T46874)
  • Adding Lua function to get Wikibase entity by site link (phab:T74815)
  • New datatype for referencing Lexemes (phab:T165578)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • 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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Wikidata weekly summary #265

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • New requests for comments:
    • How would you state the number of (rooms, restaurants, suites) in a hotel?
    • Findagrave removed as a source for information

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Hackathon about election data in Ulm, Germany, June 23-25th
  • Upcoming: Peer-to-peer Wikidata workshop 2017, June 24th, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic
  • Upcoming: Query Service workshop in Berlin, June 28th, 18:00, in WMDE's office
  • Upcoming: IRC office hour, June 28th, at 20:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2), on the channel wikimedia-office
  • Wikidata as authority linking hub (PDF). Presentation by Joachim Neubert (ZBW) and Jakob Voß (GBV) at ELAG 2017 conference in Athens
  • Facto Post newsletter, first issue and comments on Wikidata at Wikidata:Project chat#Facto Post – Issue 1 – 14 June 2017. Contains a number of blog links, particularly about WikiCite.

• WikidataCon
  • Registration is now open! Check the information and fill the form to register.
  • Let's build the program by proposing a project until July 31st
  • Due the necessary time for people to get visas (about 3 months), we changed the deadline for the scholarship applications. You can apply for a scholarship before July 16th. We will then make sure that the applicants receive a response on July 25th.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We have reached 500,000,000 edits.
  • You can now query the Mediawiki API from the Query Service (documentation)
  • Your feedback is still welcome on the prototype for editing Wikidata from Wikipedia
  • beaTunes 5’s new Album Info pane is powered by Wikidata

• Did you know?
• Newest properties: Zemereshet song ID, Zemereshet artist ID, identifier shared with, CONI athlete ID, CIS Chinese Athletes Database ID, COSR athlete ID, MOB athlete ID, COA athlete ID, Team USA athlete ID, ČOV athlete ID, LTOK athlete ID, COB athlete ID, Irish National Monument ID, FINESS medical facility ID, Irish Sites and Monuments Record ID, NZOC athlete ID, Norwegian List of Lights ID, Team Canada athlete ID, Deutsche Olympiamannschaft athlete ID, Academia.edu institutional ID, Ukrainian regulations base ID
  • Query examples:
    • Gallery of monsters of the Japanese folklore
    • Lang by number of label (with quarry.wmflabs.org)
    • The 10 smallest countries with some kind of urban rail transit system (source)
    • Occupations with highest rate of deaths by homicide (source)
    • Software titles ranked by number of readable file formats (source)
  • Newest external tools: Causegraph, a tool to visualize and analyze cause/influence relationships using Wikidata

• Development
  • Improvements to Wikidata Query Service UI
  • Continued work on importing property constraints from statements (phab:T102759)
  • Started to add support for Senses of Lexeme entities (phab:T160053)
  • More experimenting with the new front-end framework
  • Added RDF mapping for "tabular data" data type (phab:T167951)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • 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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The Signpost: 23 June 2017

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Departments reorganized at Wikimedia Foundation, and a month without new RfAs (so far)

• In the media: Kalanick's nipples; Episode #138 of Drama on the Hill

• Op-ed: Facto Post: a fresh take

• Featured content: Will there ever be a break? The slew of featured content continues

• Traffic report: Wonder Woman beats Batman, The Mummy, Darth Vader and the Earth

• Recent research: Utopian bubbles: Can Wikipedians create value outside of the capitalist system?

• Technology report: Improved search, and WMF data scientist tells all

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Wikidata weekly summary #266

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Rennes, June 26th
  • Upcoming: Query Service workshop in Berlin, June 28th, 18:00, in WMDE's office
  • Upcoming: IRC office hour, June 28th, at 20:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2), on the channel wikimedia-office
  • Past: Hackathon about election data in Ulm, June 23-25 (some documentation in German)
  • Building communities of knowledge with Wikidata, by Benjamin Good of the 'Gene Wiki' project
  • ORCID Mania (in response to this call for a tool to automate the addition of ORCID iDs to Wikidata)
  • I use Wikidata for multilingual names, by MySociety's 'EveryPoliticianBot'
  • Resource discovery and Wikidata
  • Where the streets have known names - Academic paper on OSM & Wikidata
  • Extracting scientists from Wikipedia - Academic paper
  • ¿Sabes cómo usar la base de datos Wikidata? (es) by the Cervantes virtual library

Cheat sheet about Wikidata Query Service (de)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • What are your favorite tools using Wikidata?
  • Wiktionary sitelinks have been enabled on Wikidata
  • New Wikidata Game: Wikidata Guessr guess the locations of random Wikidata items
  • OpenRefine 2.7 has been released, including the Wikidata Reconcile service
  • Nice graphics about Wikidata and the Query Service (in German) by Bleeptrack
  • New data donation by Giphy. Some help needed to match the catalogue
  • Some help needed to map the UNESCO Atlas of World Languages in Danger and the Glottolog catalogue

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Irish National Inventory of Architectural Heritage ID, MyAnimeList manga ID, MyAnimeList anime ID, MyAnimeList character ID, MyAnimeList people ID, HFC NPS unit ID, image captured with, Biodiversity Heritage Library creator ID, number of houses, Theatres Trust Database ID, SKIP code, Pizmonet ID, WorldSBK.com racer identifier, Czech Monument Catalogue Number, FFN swimmer ID, Wikia wiki ID
  • Query examples:
    • BubbleChart of Metal band by country (source)
    • Viennese composers and their compositions by tonality (source)
    • Most prolific authors of scientific articles on Wikidata, who are still alive, without ORCID (source)
    • Average age of members of the Landtag of Thuringia (source)
  • Newest external tools: VizQuery

• Development
  • Creating a separate section for constraint statements (example)
  • Adding client-side hooks for saving and removing statements (phab:T167870)
  • More work on constraints checks (phab:T168629)
  • Enabling Wikidata edits in the enhanced recent changes and watchlist on clients (phab:T46874)
  • Updating constraint check user script and propose to make it a gadget (phab:T167625)
  • Creating Special:PageData as a canonical entry point for machine readable page data (phab:T163923)
  • Working on editable Glosses on Senses (non-persistent) (phab:T165567)
  • Setting up federation on mediainfo test system (phab:T163119)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • 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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Wikidata weekly summary #267

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • New request for comment: When multiple sources are cited for a fact, should IMDB be deleted as one of them when used

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: IRC office hour (read the full log here)
  • Past: Online Wikidata workshop in French (Wikipédia:Soirées Wiki en ligne)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata and SPARQL workshop and Celtic Knot Conference in Edinburgh
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop during the Africa Open Data Conference, in Accra, Ghana, July 17-21
  • A Wikidata workshop conducted in Bangalore
  • Blog report about the second Wikidata workshop in the Czech Republic (in Czech)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Join the Cycle 3 of the Wikimedia Movement Strategy discussions, and debate about the challenges identified by the research
  • Sitelinks for the new Kabiye Wikipedia (kbpwiki) can be added
  • We reached Q31000000
  • a dataset of 48,000 English questions have been mapped to Wikidata
  • New Mix’n’match catalog: Irish National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • COH Challenge: in July, add pictures from the Connected Open Heritage in Wikidata
  • We asked the followers of the Wikidata Twitter account if they know about SPARQL
  • The constraint check script has been turned into a gadget, and other news
  • Platypus has started to learn Spanish
  • WikidataCon: We reached 100 registrations, the event is complete for now. More tickets will be released in September. You can still register on the waitlist.
  • WikidataCon scholarships applications are open until July 16th
  • MySociety is hiring a community manager to work on EveryPolitician with Wikidata and SPARQL

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: parliamentary group, metrically compatible typeface, BVMC place id, MuseScore ID, RePEc institute ID, Principal Galaxies Catalogue ID, Australian Standard Geographic Classification 2006 ID, Australian Statistical Geography 2016 ID, checksum, Irish Grid Reference, Biodiversity Repository ID, Global Terrorism Database ID
  • Query examples:
    • Place of birth of the authors on Wikimammenn, the breton Wikisource
    • First names of current French members of Parliament (source)
    • Timeline of the births of current members of the French National Assembly (source)
    • Family tree of Harry Potter characters (source)
    • Map of mountains located in the Basque Country (source)
    • Items with higher number of child statements than number of children (source)
    • Pictures of Pharaos (source)
    • Map of departemental archives in France (source)
  • Newest gadgets: Units converter converts from 20 currencies to a selected currency. Converts metric units (mass, dimensions, area, temperature, speed) to/from United States units. The currency amounts are inflation adjusted if data is available.

• Development
  • Worked more on support for lexicographical data and Wiktionary. The focus was on creating a necessary new datatype to link to Lexemes as well as making Glosses and statements on Glosses editable.
  • Getting ready to migrate the constraints definitions from templates on the property talk page to statements on the property.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • 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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Wikidata weekly summary #268

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Africa Open Data Conference in Accra, including a Wikidata editathon on July 17th
  • Past: Celtic Knot Conference, Edinburgh, including several presentations related to Wikidata (tweets about Wikidata during the conference)
  • Past: WikiWomenCamp (including a Wikidata presentation by Harmonia Amanda)
  • A visual exploration of musical bands on Wikidata, by RAW Graphs team

• WikidataCon
  • Last days of the scholarship process! If you need to be funded for the WikidataCon, please fill the form before July 16th
  • Which discussions, workshops, demos should be covered during the WikidataCon?

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We have some real Meta data!
  • The StrepHit team has submitted an official uplift proposal for the primary sources tool
  • Migration of constraint definitions to property statements around July 12th
  • Sitelinks for the new Atikamekw Wikipedia (atjwiki) can be added
  • Citation management tool Zotero can now read data from Wikidata, and can write data from other sources to Wikidata via QuickStatements. See Wikidata:Zotero for details.
  • New step towards structured data for Commons is now available
  • One week after Q31000000 we have Q32000000

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: PalDat plant ID, openAIP ID, Ontario Heritage Act Register ID, NLS Geographic Names Place ID, NLS-FI Geographic Name ID, National Record of the Historic Environment ID, JewAge person ID, INSPIRE ID, ADK member ID, FRED time-series ID, danskfilmogtv person, danskefilm TV Christmas calendar, Crunchyroll ID, URN-NBN, Gedbas genealogy person ID, Framalibre ID, Finnish archaeological heritage ID, EGF rating, Carnegie Hall agent ID, assets under management, Atlas of Hillforts ID, dissertation submitted to
  • Query examples:
    • Scientific articles from PubMed that mention what version of STATA was used (source)
    • 1000 places in UK that have no label in Welsh (source)
    • Wikivoyage banners for French municipalities (source)
    • Paintings with musical instruments from Spain or related to Spain (source)
    • Images of things or persons in Wikidata with a Github account (source)
    • Map of birthplaces of women who were educated in Edinburgh university (source)
  • Newest database reports: reports with items that only have a P641-statement (sport)

• Development
  • Search results will not only show labels but also descriptions with language fallbacks (gerrit:362215). Thanks to Matěj Suchánek!
  • Fixed link to the file description page in the Image Header gadget (phab:T169558)
  • Forms of the Lexeme are multi-variant (phab:T165575)
  • Preparing a demonstration of referencing Forms and Sense of a Lexeme in statements (phab:T169716)
  • Property constraint definitions will be migrated to statements (phab:T169647, Project chat)
  • Implemented “Format” constraint (phab:T102752, help page)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • 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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This Month in GLAM: June 2017

This Month in GLAM – Volume VII, Issue VI, June 2017 Headlines Argentina report: Campaign #1lib1ref in Buenos Aires, new material donated and guidelines for cultural institutions Basque Country report: Idazlezainak: librarians as writers' curators Belgium report: GLAM seminar Sharing is Caring Bulgaria report: Bulgarian GLAM activists were awarded with the "Friends of the Archives" Award Côte d'Ivoire report: Strategy discussion with GLAM partners Czech Republic report: WikiCity Litovel Estonia report: Summer school about photographic collections France report: Conference for Archives of Gironde Germany report: "Wiki Loves Music" project features musical instruments from two museums, and more Italy report: Edit-a-thons & libraries Macedonia report: New collaboration of GLAM Macedonia user group with the City Library in Skopje Netherlands report: Workshop children's books, Sharing is Caring Brussels, short WiR period at Utrecht University Library & Preparations medieval image donation Russia report: WikiProjects of students of Petrozavodsk State University Spain report: Wikipedia and the Museum of Málaga Sweden report: Connected Open Heritage; Wiki Loves Earth; Water data on Wikidata UK report: Summer of data Ukraine report: Sharing images in print and digital USA report: June is bustin' out all over Wikidata report: Requesting your input; news from MySociety WMF GLAM report: Welcome; Documentation Update; Other updates Calendar: July's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #269

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: talk about Wikidata at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing by Lydia
  • Past: Wikidata hackathon during Africa Open Data Conference in Accra
  • Upcoming: Café OpenStreetMap e Wikidata, July 22nd, in São Paulo, Brazil
  • Report of the workshop about election data (in German)
  • Integrating Wikidata and other linked data sources – Federated SPARQL queries, on The SuLab

• WikidataCon
  • The scholarship process is now closed. Recipients will be informed around July 25th.
  • You can still suggest ideas for the program, or submit a project until July 31st. The program of the conference is made by the attendees, only what you bring will be in there :)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We now have a page describing our use of RDF
  • We now have Q33000000
  • The database reports about items without statements are updated again. English Wikipedia is up at 4.8% (from 4.6%). Dutch Wikipedia remains low at 0.8%.
  • Check out some improvements to the Query Service, and a new prototype for the Query Helper
  • New Wikidata maps with a comparison between October 2016 and July 2017
  • Help improving Wikidata documentation during the Wikimania hackathon

• Did you know?
• Newest properties: NPSN Indonesian school ID, EmbassyPages.com ID, ESEC person ID, Titan ID, Who's Who in France biography ID, French National Assembly ID
  • Query examples:
    • Graph of operating systems (source)
    • Couples of Members of Parliament in UK (source)
    • People who have the same person listed as both their parent and their child (source)
    • Map of “railway things” in Berlin, as classified by LinkedGeoData.org (source)
    • Map of discovery locations of the objects stored in the Musée Saint-Raymond (source)
    • metro stations in Germany with public domain images on Commons (source)
    • UK Members of Parliament who are born out of the UK (source)

• Development
  • Preparing Lexemes demo for Wikimania
  • Fixing links to non-entity namespaces (phab:T169221) (thanks to Matěj Suchánek!)
  • Tracking labels of quantity units in parser and Lua functions (phab:T170167) (thanks to Matěj Suchánek!)
  • Fixing checking of constraints on deprecated statements (phab:T170391)
  • Improving the Query Service UI (phab:T170279)
  • Improving wbsearchentities (phab:T103875)
  • Removing links from printable version (phab:T87108)
  • Adding customizable fallback to Special:GoToLinkedPage (phab:T166473)

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Wikidata weekly summary #270

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikidata SPARQL workshop, July 25th in Rennes (France)
  • Upcoming: Ladies that FOSS, July 26th in Berlin
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Montreal, August 14th (in French). We're looking for trainers!
  • Using Wikidata as an open, community-maintained database of biomedical knowledge, by Andrew Su

• WikidataCon
  • You can submit projects for the program until July 31st. See the list of ideas, existing submissions, and submit!
  • Special tickets for scholarship recipients will be released on July 25th. The last 50 tickets will be released on September 1st.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • wbEntity config variable will be deprecated
  • Scores in ORES will be more accurate
  • A new version of the Query Helper will be deployed
  • Sitelinks for the new Dinka Wikipedia (dinwiki) have been added
  • On Wikidata:Usability and usefulness you can see an overview of the work done by the UX people in the Wikidata team on usability
  • There's a brand new newsletter about Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons. You can subscribe to receive next updates.
  • Ma Commune Wikipédia is a website developed by Wikimedia France to give information about the state of the Wikipedia articles for every French municipality and encourage people to edit the Wikimedia projects. It uses Wikidata to identify the communes.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Patrimonioculturale-ER ID, linguistic typology, annual energy output, USHMM person ID, Cinema Treasures ID
  • Query examples:
    • Properties with most “statement disputed by” qualifiers (source)
    • Last meals of people (source)
    • Colors on national flags (source)
    • images of all winners of Free Software Foundation's Free Software Awards (source)
  • lib.reviews now allows searching Wikidata directly to choose subjects to review. (more info)

• Development
  • The wbEntity JavaScript variable will not miss elements any more but contain empty arrays instead (gerrit:365604). Please check if this affects your scripts, and have a look at the wikibase.entityPage.entityLoaded hook as a possible replacement.
  • Fire-fighting dispatch backlog: phab:T171263.
  • Slowly making progress on wb_terms migration to full entity IDs: phab:T114903.
  • Constraint statements have been enabled (announcement).
  • Distinguish between non-mandatory and mandatory constraints: phab:T164254.
  • Work on supporting unit conversion for more units: phab:T168582

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Wikidata weekly summary #271

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikimania is coming! Check out all the things related to Wikidata
  • Upcoming: Wikidata hackathon during Repository Fringe 2017, in Edinburgh, August 4th
  • Data Partnerships with Wikidata: beaTunes (version in German)
  • Wikidata visualizes SMILES strings with John Mayfield's CDK Depict
  • Freedom versus Standardization: Structured Data Generation in a Peer Production Community

• WikidataCon
  • Today is the very last day to submit projects in the program! (deadline: July 31th)
  • You can also subscribe to the existing submissions to show your interest and support your favorites

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • wbsearchentities with ElasticSearch test
  • Quantities with units are now supported in the new QuickStatements.
  • Property talk pages now include queries for items with the property and most sitelinks, statements or identifiers.
  • We now have Q34000000
  • Wikidata Constraint Violations tool visualizes changes in constraint violations for last few weeks. Some of constraints produce millions of violations (marked as red).

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: maximum age, WIGOS station ID
  • Query examples:
    • Which White House chief of staff had the shortest tenure? (source)
    • Total number of sister city statements per country (source)
    • Pictures of tube stations in London (source)
    • Works created with the software Maya (source)
    • Do I cite works from Nobel Prize winners? (source)
    • ...or do Nobel prize winners cite me? (source)
    • Timeline of Humanitarian personality of the year (source)
  • New feature/gadget requests: Gadget for changing property

• Development
  • Added Special:NewItem to Special:SpecialPages (phab:T169456) Thanks to Matěj Suchánek
  • Making possible to check constraints on qualifiers and references (phab:T168532)
  • Working on showing non-mandatory and mandatory constraints differently (phab:T164254)
  • Improving Special:PagesWithProp for Wikidata use cases (phab:T66950)
  • Doing last polishing on the Lexeme entity type and cleaning up the demo data for the demo at Wikimania
  • Improving the dispatching of changes to Wikipedia and co to cope with the increased demand that lead to delays in Wikidata changes showing up in Wikipedia watchlist and recent changes

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The Signpost: 5 August 2017

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Non-English special edition! 99% no news about English-based wiki communities!

• Recent research: Wikipedia can increase local tourism by +9%; predicting article quality with deep learning; recent behavior predicts quality

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This Month in GLAM: July 2017

This Month in GLAM – Volume VII, Issue VII, July 2017 Headlines France report: WikiTrain in Rennes Italy report: Edit-a-thon in Pieve Tesino UK report: Politician pin ups USA report: Dog days of summer Wikimania report: GLAM at Wikimania 2017 Wikidata report: Zotero for Wikidata; Changes to Constraint Handling WMF GLAM report: Edit-a-thons, Structured Commons and Wikimedia Blog Calendar: August's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #272

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikimania hackathon and documentation sprint, August 9-10, Montreal
  • Upcoming: Wikimania, August 10-13, Montreal. Check out all the things related to Wikidata
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in French, August 14, Montreal

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • w:en:Category:Articles with infoboxes completely from Wikidata has now more than 1000 articles
  • Wikidata passed 6 average statements per item

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: offset, File format magic numbers, game mechanics, weather history, conjugate base, conjugate acid, Atheneum museum ID, Atheneum person ID, Atheneum artwork ID, Finnish List of Lights ID, RIWAQ Registry of Historic Buildings in Palestine ID, Gatehouse Gazetteer place ID, energy storage capacity, National Assembly of Nigeria ID, Treasury of Lives ID, muzzle velocity, WIGOS station ID
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline of the programming languages created in the past 10 years (source)
    • Countries where no european language has official or national status (source)
    • Gallery of Star Trek characters (source)
    • Timeline of female medieval writers (source)
  • Newest script: moveClaim.js allows moving claims across items. Try it and give feedback to Matěj Suchánek
  • Newest external tools: d3-sparql allows you to query a SPARQL endpoint and get the data in a d3js-useful format

• Development
  • Released version 2.0.0 of the DataValues base component.
  • Released the DataValues Interfaces component in version 0.2.3.
  • Released the ValueView component in version 0.20.0
  • Fixed a problem with suggestions of P279 (phab:T169060)
  • Preparing everything for Wikimania and the hackathon

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Wikidata weekly summary #273

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Restrict merging rights to autoconfirmed users
  • Change "Nearby" link to list items nearby the item?
  • New request for comments: P31 or P279 for geo-objects

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikifying Westminster: Wikidata workshop around UK political data, August 19th, London
  • Past: Wikimania, Wikimedia hackathon. A lot of things happened during these events, reports and news should be published in the next days.
  • Exploring the world with Wikidata and OpenStreetMap, by Mapbox
  • Enriching catalogue pages in Evergreen with Wikidata by Dan Scott
  • Why data partners should link their vocabulary to Wikidata: a new case study on Europeana blog

• Wikimania
  • You can try the demo system for lexicographical data
  • Talk: Structured Commons: what changes are coming? by Sandra Fauconnier
  • Talk: New Frontier: Using Wikidata on Commons by Jarekt
  • List of wishes during the "Wikidata pink pony session"
  • Talk: the (Wiki)data (R)evolution, by Lydia Pintscher
  • Talk: Wikidata and performing arts by Beat Estermann during Wikimania
  • Talk: How to use Wikidata in infoboxes (panel)
  • New template: A fully automated template system was presented: Oh!WTFs
  • Talk: WikiCite: Citations needed for the sum of all human knowledge
  • Notes about the Wikispecies & Wikidata session
  • Documents to organize a Wikidata translathon: level 1, level 2, level 3 (by Kvardek_du) and the translathon tool (by Envel)
  • Talk: Sum of all paintings is just the start, by Multichill

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Share your feedback on the draft strategic direction, a basis on which strategic plans will be built.
  • Wikidata reached d:Q36000000. The number of items has been increased by 20% in less than three months

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: YCBA agent ID, IEDB Epitope ID, Dagens Næringsliv topic ID, Georgian National Register of Monuments ID, CODECS ID, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum ID, magnification, AUR package, Michelin Voyages ID, Michelin Restaurants ID, WeRelate person ID, autores.ar id, MEG ID, Czech Registration ID, separator, National Forest Foundation ID
  • Query examples:
    • Most-depicted musical instruments (source)
    • People who died in 2017 without a French label (source)
    • Moar goats (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Goats, WikiProject Torture
  • Newest external tools: WD edits stats counting edits mades on a certain dataset between two dates

• Development

Most of the team was at Wikimania, talking to people, getting meaningful input from the editors, giving talks, hacking around :)

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  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
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Wikidata weekly summary #274

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Open Source Ladies, meetup for women who want to start coding for Mediawiki and other open source projects, August 22nd, Berlin
  • Data Partnerships in Wikidata: Project Durchblick with Humboldt University by Jens Ohlig (in German)
  • What do Wikidata and Wikipedia have in common? An analysis of their use of external references by Alessandro Piscoppo et al.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New documentation page: How to use Wikidata data on Wikimedia projects (feel free to help improving it)
  • The growth of items continues: we have Q37000000 and even Q37500000; Scientific article (Q13442814) becomes the most used Wikidata item (source)
  • More than 80K locations in Belgium added to Mix'n'Match

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: World Heritage Tentative List ID, eParks unit ID
  • Query examples:
    • Surnames, similar to Muller, according to Cologne phonetics, Caverphone and Soundex algorithms
    • Shortest streets in Moscow
    • A timeline of theologians with a connection to Berlin (source)
    • Timeline of the life of Honoré de Balzac (source)
    • Twin cities of places in South Africa (source)
    • 51st UK parliament (1992) was the first one with more women than Johns (source)
    • All places that are named "earth" in at least one language (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Parliaments

• Development
  • Working on making constraints work on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T168532)
  • Working on making it easier to see when input in property or value fields is not recognized/wrong (phabricator:T170531)
  • Added new language codes (eya, fuf, ood, pjt, yap, zun) for use in monolingual text values
  • Fixed an issue with badges not being shown next to interwiki links on Wikipedia and co (phabricator:T172592)
  • Worked on showing labels when linking to a redirect (phabricator:T96553)
  • Worked on making change dispatching to Wikipedia and co work better so changes made on Wikidata show up there in a reasonable time. There were issues because of significantly increased edit activity on Wikidata.

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  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
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  • Help write the next summary!

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Wikidata weekly summary #275

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: علاء
  • New request for comments: How to capture negative results in Wikidata?
  • Comment about approach on items about pages in cebwiki created by Lsjbot
  • Comment about whether to have a "Wikimedia username" property

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: WikiArabia, in Cairo, Egypt, on 23-25 October. They're looking for a volunteer to give a Wikidata workshop. Please contact them if you're interested!
  • A Glimpse into Babel: An Analysis of Multilinguality in Wikidata, by Lucie-Aimée Kaffee et al. (Q37859976)
  • The Gene Wiki: Using Wikipedia and Wikidata to organize biomedical knowledge August Wikimedia Research Showcase (second half), presented by Andrew Su, about how GeneWiki is using Wikidata. Video on YouTube
  • Citation.js: Endpoint on RunKit shows a demo REST API to convert Wikidata entries into BibTeX, Bib.TXT, citations, and CSL-JSON.
  • Video of 3 Wikimania 2017 sessions: Wikidata Revolution, Performing arts in Wikidata, and Sum of all paintings. Others videos can be found on Andrew's channel.

• WikidataCon
  • The organization team is still looking for sponsors to support the event and provide even more awesome stuff to the attendees. If your company can support the WikidataCon, please get in touch with Lydia.
  • Seeing the enthusiasm of the community for the WikidataCon, we raised our attendees limit from 150 to 200 persons. The last tickets will be released on September 1st. People who registered on the waitlist will be notified when a ticket is available.
  • The program committee is currently reviewing and organizing the submissions. We will contact the speakers soon, and publish the program in the beginning of September (around 6th).
  • We're looking for a keynote speaker who could bring an external point of view on ontologies. If you know interesting people, feel free to help

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Q38000000 was created
  • Language fallback indicators hidden on variant fallback languages

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: National Natural Landmarks site ID, GujLit Book ID, GujLit Person ID, tabular population, Beazley Archive Pottery Database ID, Finnish National Gallery person ID, effective firing range, Patreon person ID, Wikimedia username, Instagram location ID, America's Byways road ID
  • Query examples:
    • number of persons per QID (using P735=Q4925477) (source)
    • QID milestones by date
    • Timeline for biochemist and Nobel Laureate Hans Adolf Krebs (source)
    • Canadian actors who twice played a US president (source)
    • Duration of Steven Spielberg's films (source)
  • Newest external tools: Metaphacts, a feature to search in Wikidata via Alexa

• Development
  • Worked on fixing the technical glitch in the UI (phabricator:T173543)
  • Did polishing on the Constraint Checks gadget (for example phabricator:T173738)
  • Worked on caching constraints checks results which is needed to enable constraints checks for all logged-in users (phabricator:T173696)
  • Made progress on checking constraints also on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T168532)
  • Worked more on making it easier to see when input in a property or value input field is not recognized (phabricator:T170531)
  • Fighting with load issues in the job queue (phabricator:T173710)
  • Looking into not showing language fallback hints for dialects to make the UI less cluttered for them and make it less necessary to enter labels and descriptions for them (phabricator:T174318)
  • Wrapping up our experiments with the new front-end technologies

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  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
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Wikidata weekly summary #276

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Chandigarh, India - September 9-10
  • Doctoral Advisor or Medical Condition: Towards Entity-specific Rankings of Knowledge Base Properties, by Simon Razniewski et al.
  • ctj rdf: Part One, showing linking text minded data to Wikidata with SPARQL.
  • Creating parliament charts with Wikidata by Knut
  • The great Wikipedia bot-pocalypse by Aaron Halfaker on WMF's blog
  • When Westminster Was Wikified, by Luca Martinelli

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New admin: congrats to علاء
  • Open Library, the biggest resource of freely-licensed books, now links to Wikidata (through Reasonator) and to VIAF (example here; see "Wikidata" in the right-hand column).
  • With 200 attendees, the WikidataCon is now complete. Thanks all for your enthusiasm \o/ If you registered on the waitlist or submitted a talk, check your mailbox for more information.
  • The WikidataCon program will be released this week, and we will call for volunteers soon

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: THL Simplified Phonetic Transcription, Tibetan pinyin, Wylie transliteration, Australian Women's Register ID, iconographic symbol, slope, angle from vertical
  • Query examples:
    • The most famous painting from each country (source)
    • Ranking universities according to PageRank (source)
    • Actors who were casted in two different films with the same name (source)
  • Newest external tool: official map for Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 displays cultural heritage monuments worldwide, using Wikidata
  • Newest database reports: Mireille Darc filmography, given names by soundex

• Development
  • Looked into all the things necessary to make it possible to store forms and senses on Lexeme pages.
  • Worked more on caching constraints checks results which is needed to enable constraints checks for all logged-in users (phabricator:T173696)
  • Making progress on checking constraints also on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T168532)
  • Removed language fallback hints for dialects to make the UI less cluttered for them and make it less necessary to enter labels and descriptions for them (phabricator:T174318)
  • Fixed an issue that links to an item were not showing the label when it pointed to a redirect (phabricator:T96553)
  • Unrecognized input in entity selectors will be highlighted in red (phabricator:T170531)
  • Added language code fr-ca for monolingual text input (phabricator:T151186)
  • Added an additional normalization for page titles when linking pages on Wiktionary via Cognate (phabricator:T172987)
  • The API will not only output the hashes for qualifier snaks, but also for main snaks as well as references snaks (phabricator:T174692). Note that hashes (other than IDs) are not meant to be stable identifiers, and should not be stored for a longer time.
    • Snak hashes will also appear as part of CSS classes in entity pages (phabricator:T171725)

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The Signpost: 6 September 2017

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editors: What happened at Wikimania?

• News and notes: Basselpedia; WMF Board of Trustees appointments

• Featured content: Warfighters and their tools or trees and butterflies

• Traffic report: A fortnight of conflicts

• Special report: Biomedical content, and some thoughts on its future

• Recent research: Discussion summarization; Twitter bots tracking government edits; extracting trivia from Wikipedia

• In the media: Google's Ideological Echo Chamber; What makes someone successful?

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• Technology report: Latest tech news

• Wikicup: 2017 WikiCup round 4 wrap-up

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Wikidata weekly summary #277

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • RDFIO: extending Semantic MediaWiki for interoperable biomedical data management - Paper demonstrating interoperatility between WikiData and Semantic MediaWiki, among other things.
  • Données structurées, la puissance de Wikidata au service de Wikimedia Commons - French-language article by Rama about Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons.
  • Europeana is interested in linking its new Entity Collection to Wikidata, and will talk about this at the WikidataCon.
  • Upcoming (21.9.2017): "Wikidata as a linking hub for knowledge organization systems? Integrating an authority mapping into Wikidata and learning lessons for KOS mapping". Presentation by Joachim Neubert at the 17th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop, TPDL 2017 Conference, Thessaloniki (Greece)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Zurich, one day dedicated to Wikidata and the Query Service in Zurich, Switzerland, September 14th
  • Upcoming: Monthly Wikidata meetup in Paris, France, September 15th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Kolkata, India, September 16th and 17th
  • Past: Wikidata workshop in Chandigarh, India

• WikidataCon
  • The program of the WikidataCon is now published on-wiki. You will find there a lot of different formats, topics and speakers, during the two days of the conference.
  • The official visuals have also be released! Check out the conference logo and the volunteers visual, both designed by Bleeptrack under CC-BY-SA.
  • The event is now complete, no more tickets available. The last tickets have been attributed to the first persons who registered on the waitlist. If some more seats get free because another attendee cancels participation, the next person on the waitlist will be informed.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Q39000000 was created
  • Wikidata passed 7 average statements per item
  • The ArticlePlaceholder is now deployed on Albanian Wikipedia

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: danskfilmogtv title ID, Billboard artist ID, Italian National Earthquake Center ID, Flemish organization for Immovable Heritage person ID, Foursquare username, The Times of India Topic ID, ROARMAP ID, WFD Chemical status, PagesJaunes ID, Christie's creator id, Google Play Music album ID, Google Play Music artist ID, Graphic character set global ID, cytogenetic location, category for employees of the organization, CNPS taxon ID, Familypedia person ID, LNH player ID, Alljudo athlete ID, Rivers.gov river ID
  • Query examples:
    • Places of education of the UK members of Parliament (source)
    • Pairs of churches in the UK that are within 25 metres of each other (source)
    • National parks in India (source)
    • Persons buried more than 13000 km away from their death place (warning: some errors needing correction)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject India
  • Newest user scripts: Overpass (adds a map showing features tagged, in OpenStreetMap, with the ID of the current Wikidata item, if any)

• Development
  • The new Echo notification is now deployed on all wikis
  • Looked into further possible improvements for change dispatching
  • Worked on persistently storing edits in more parts of a Lexeme
  • Worked on getting expanded URIs for identifiers into the RDF exports (phabricator:T121274)
  • Continued work on caching constraints results so we can roll it out for more users (phabricator:T173696)
  • Fixing a bug that highlights input in value fields as not recognized when it shouldn't be (phabricator:T175525)
  • Released version 2.1.0 of the Serialization JavaScript component (phabricator:T174011)
  • Released version 2.0.0 of the DataValues base component (phabricator:T168681)
  • Released version 0.9.0 of the DataValues JavaScript component (phabricator:T172916)
  • Released version 0.8.6 of the DataValues Time component (phabricator:T151088)

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  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
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  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
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This Month in GLAM: August 2017

This Month in GLAM – Volume VII, Issue VIII, August 2017 Headlines Argentina report: New material on Wikimedia Commons Brazil report: Edit-a-thons to spread mathematics and neuroscience; Women of Culture and other activities Côte d'Ivoire report: Presenting about West African context at Wikimania 2017 Estonia report: First Art Exhibition in the Estonian Wikipedia is now opened France report: Images from Jean-Auguste Brutails Germany report: Collaboration with volunteers and how to "wikify" GLAM-institutions Italy report: Edit-a-thons & goals Macedonia report: WikiWine project; Two days of edit-a-thons Serbia report: Public Domain Photos Donation Sweden report: Connected Open Heritage; Tekniska museet template migration; Stockholm Pride week USA report: WikiMania & Wikiconference North America, Beer, Hip Hop Wikidata report: Meeting Europeana; Conference News WMF GLAM report: GLAM-Wiki team, Wikimania, and updates Calendar: September's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #278

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Wahldaten Workshop 2017 – 30 September 2017 in Vienna, Austria
  • Upcoming: Wikimedia Research Showcase
  • Past: Wikidata workshop in Zurich (the slides of the speakers are linked on the page)
  • Past: GLAMhack Wikidata workshop in Lausanne (see the slides of the Query Service introduction)
  • Past: Wikidata workshop in Kolkata, India
  • Bridging real and fictional worlds in Wikidata, by Martin Poulter
  • Weekend at the Museum (of Brittany), by Envel Le Hir
  • Wiki Loves Monuments und Wikidata, by SW
  • The French Connection at the Wikimania 2017 Hackathon, by Envel Le Hir

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata ontology explorer: creates a tree of a class or property, shows common properties and statements
  • Join the mysterious group of Wikidata:Flashmob who improve labels, or summon them on an item
  • A breaking change to the wbcheckconstraints API output format was announced
  • Q40000000 was created
  • Improvements coming soon to Recent Changes
  • Several new catalogs in Mix'n'Match incl. Encyclopædia Britannica, National Gallery artists and ArtCyclopedia

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: United Nations Treaty Series Registration Number, Sefaria ID, ICD-10-CM, Encyclopedia of Australian Science ID, Indonesian Small Islands Directory ID, Cyworld ID, IPA Braille, category contains, Enciclopedia Italiana ID, United Nations Treaty Series Volume Number, National Criminal Justice ID, order of battle, Tyrolean Art Cadastre inventory ID, shelf life, UK Electoral Commission ID, LNB Pro A player ID, nLab ID, highest observed lifespan, Unicode hex codepoint, PACTOLS thesaurus ID, Bashkir encyclopedia (Russian version) ID, Bashkir encyclopedia (Bashkir version) ID
  • Query examples:
    • Algorithms and the problems they solve (source)
    • Swiss items with article in exactly one of German-, French-, Italian-, and Romansh-language Wikipedias (source)
    • Popular gender-neutral given names (source)
    • Computer network protocols and their ports (source)
    • Software developers by number of software titles (source)
    • Spacecraft and what they were named after (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject property constraints

• Development
  • Worked more on the constraints gadget in order to make it also qork for references and qualifiers
  • Made progress on persistently storing edits for the new Lexeme entity type (next to items and properties)
  • Worked on the RDF mapping for full URIs of external identifiers (phabricator:T121274)

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  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
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The Signpost: 25 September 2017

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Chapter updates; ACTRIAL

• In the media: Monkey settlement; Wikipedia used to give AI context clues

• Humour: Chickenz

• Recent research: Wikipedia articles vs. concepts; Wikipedia usage in Europe

• Technology report: Flow restarted; Wikidata connection notifications

• Gallery: Chicken mania

• Special report: Two steps forward, one step backward: The Sustainability Initiative

• Traffic report: Fights and frights

• Featured content: Flying high

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Wikidata weekly summary #279

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: Wikimedia Research Showcase - A Glimpse into Babel: An Analysis of Multilinguality in Wikidata
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop about the Austrian election data, September 30th, Vienna
  • Upcoming: The next IRC office hour will take place on November 14th, 19:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2) on the channel #wikimedia-office
  • Weekend at the Museum (of Brittany)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata's 5th birthday is about 1 month away. Time to think about birthday presents? ;-)
  • Siri shows more information based on Wikidata in iOS 11
  • 2 funding proposals are looking for comments and support: soweego and CrossWikiFact
  • Quick graph of the relation of the number of labels in a given language on Wikidata and the number of first language speakers of that language

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: candidate number, maximal rate of climb, refine date, regular expression syntax, vocalized name, webcam page URL, Heritage Building in Finland ID, PatientLikeMe symptom ID, PatientLikeMe treatment ID, PatientLikeMe condition ID, Figshare author ID
  • Query examples: standards bodies by number of standards they are connected to (source)

• Development
  • Rolled out more fine-grained usage tracking on Greek Wikipedia. This will lead to less irrelevant changes showing up in watchlist and recent changes on those projects. We're testing this on Greek Wikipedia to see if the solution we have scales before rolling it out further. (phabricator:T151717)
  • Adding an API module to copy a statement from one item to another (phabricator:T55619)
  • Working more on checking constraints also on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T168532)
  • Added support for the Creator namespace to the constraints check for Commons links (phabricator:T176062)
  • Fixed an error message on Special:GoToLinkedPage (phabricator:T176327)
  • Finishing touches on including full URIs for external IDs in the RDF export (phabricator:T121274)

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  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
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  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

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Wikidata weekly summary #280

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Using Wikidata data, fixing wrong Wikipedia and Wikidata tags, by Mateusz Konieczny
  • One Knowledge Graph to Rule Them All? Analyzing the Differences Between DBpedia, YAGO, Wikidata & co
  • Modeling the Domain of Digital Preservation in Wikidata
  • Wikidata as a linking hub for knowledge organization systems? Integrating an authority mapping into Wikidata and learning lessons for KOS mappings (Paper and presentation), by Joachim Neubert, NKOS Workshop 2017 at TPDL
  • Knowledge exploration in public linked data ontologies

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The ArticlePlaceholder has been enabled on Bengali Wikipedia (example)
  • There is a new page with information around Wikidata:Wikidata in Wikimedia projects. You can help expand and improve it.
  • New Wikidata Game to help you evaluate merge candidates based on projectmerge.
  • A reading tip from Spinster (not mentioning Wikidata, but interesting general background knowledge): Indigenous peoples and responsible data: an introductory reading list from responsibledata.io
  • Where's Wally (aka Waldo)? Right here on Wikidata, of course!
  • Wikidata passed 8 average statements per item
  • Statement 300.000.000 was created
  • 20 million edits were done in September 2017

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: TSE number, defined daily dose, Vincoli in Rete ID, The Black Book ID, Tagesschau election ID, LfD-HB object ID, cultural heritage monument in Serbia ID, Bavarian monument authority ID
  • Query examples: What exists in the "... as a service" genre? (source)

• Development
  • Added a css class to values that link to redirects so they can more easily be identified by editors who want that for maintenance work (phabricator:T70567) Thanks Matej!
  • Continued work on persistent editing of forms as part of the work to support lexicographical data (phabricator:T173742, phabricator:T173744)
  • Finishing touches on adding full URIs for external identifiers to our RDF export so we're good citizens of the semantic web (phabricator:T121274)
  • Added a new mw.wikibase.getAllStatements Lua function in addition to the existing getBestStatements, that returns all statements regardless of their rank (phabricator:T176124)
  • Looking into an issue where unwanted email notifications are being sent (phabricator:T174794)
  • Released version 2.1.1 of the base DataValues component

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • 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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This Month in GLAM: September 2017

This Month in GLAM – Volume VII, Issue IX, September 2017 Headlines Argentina report: Edit-a-thon in the Parque de la Memoria and new materials in Commons Czech Republic report: 2017 Edit-a-thon in the Research Library in Olomouc France report: Heritage Wiki Days Germany report: Prepare Your data Ireland report: New Irish partnership Italy report: WikiDonne and Wikidata Macedonia report: Three months WiR at the City Library in Skopje accomplished successfully Netherlands report: UNESCO WiR in Middelburg and Amsterdam Spain report: Culture and Citizenship Switzerland report: Third Edition of the Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon Tunisia report: Wikipedian in Residence UK report: Wikidata in Parliament USA report: September Song Wikidata report: Number crunching WMF GLAM report: Running Edit-a-thons, Studying GLAM Uploads to Commons, Project Grants and more! Calendar: October's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #281

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October (sold out)
    • We will have two exciting keynotes. The first keynote speaker is Fabian M. Suchanek, professor at Télécom Paris Tech University, working on the knowledge base YAGO. The second keynote speaker is Michael Kreil, datajournalist working on the project Data Sciences and Stories.
    • Please volunteer for some tasks at the conference if you are attending.
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop at XLDB, October 12th, Clermont-Ferrand, France
  • Rebuild the map of famous artwork with Wikidata by Poulpy (in French)
  • Research libraries and Wikimedia: A shared commitment to diversity, open knowledge, and community participation

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • There is now a good start for documentation for QuickStatements. Feel free to help improve it!
  • New Mix’n’match mode to show just the entries with multiple matches (example)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Lega Pallavolo Serie A player ID, KNAU ID, PfaF id, YouTube Playlist ID, Wheelchair ITF player ID, VBL player ID, MIL-STD-2525 Symbol Identification Code, stellar rotational velocity, readership, PROSPERO ID, PM20 folder ID, possessed by spirit, panorama view, official app, LFH player ID, UK National Fruit Collection ID, Riigikogu ID, Nominis saint ID, Theses.fr person ID, Nominis given name ID, LUMIERE director ID, LUMIERE film ID, LNV player ID, International Standard Text Code, hydrological order number, FCI rider ID, Daum movie ID, Cinémathèque québécoise work identifier, Japanese Database of National important cultural properties, Tunisian geographic code, New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission ID, DPLA subject ID, rating, Daum TV series ID, half maximal effective concentration, half maximal inhibitory concentration (IC50), Landtag of Liechtenstein ID, Bavarian geotope ID, Reddit user name, LinkedIn company ID, THW Kiel player ID, Footoféminin.fr player ID, FFVoile sailor ID, NPB player ID, Lega Pallavolo Serie A Femminile player ID, Gallica ID, National Museums of Japan e-museum ID, Spanish "Boletín Oficial del Estado" ID, Banglapedia (English version) ID, Banglapedia (Bengali version) ID, number of constituencies, All-Russian Mathematical Portal ID
  • Query examples:
    • Women who won the Nobel Prize in Physics (source)
    • For each award, percentage of women who received it (source)
    • Intelligent personal assistants described in Wikidata (source)
    • Units of measurement named after German people (source)
    • Buildings constructed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Delhi Metro
  • Newest database reports: television series by camera setup

• Development
  • Breaking change: "wb_entity_per_page" table will not be updated and replicated on ToolLabs anymore
  • A mw.wikibase.getLabelByLang Lua function will be added (phabricator:T173262)
  • The mw.wikibase.sitelink Lua function will accept a second parameter with the global identifier of a wiki (e.g. "enwiki") to link to (phabricator:T142903)
  • Had to temporarily turn off showing Wikidata's changes on Commons and Russian Wikipedia because of database issues. We're working on turning it back on.
  • Continued work on persistently storing edits to Forms on Lexemes
  • Finishing work on checking constraints on qualifiers and references with the constraint checks gadget
  • Fixed a bug where notification emails for Wikidata changes were sent when they shouldn't have been (phabricator:T174794)
  • Full URIs for external identifiers will soon be in the RDF export (phabricator:T121274)

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • 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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Wikidata weekly summary #282

Wikidata weekly summary #282

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Association Football Matches
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October (sold out)
  • If you organize a local event for the Wikidata birthday, feel free to add it on the events page and the birthday page
  • A blog post describing Textes d'affiches, a tool using Wikidata to show movies and the works they are adapted from, developed during a hackathon at the national French library (by Shonagon, in French)
  • Slides of the presentation "Wikidata Query Service: The State of the Engine" by Stas Malyshev
  • Slides of the presentation "Wikidata and structured data initiatives at Wikimedia. Current trends and priorities" by Dario Taborelli
  • Wikidata as a linking hub for knowledge organization systems? Integrating an authority mapping into Wikidata and learning lessons for KOS mappings by Joachim Neubert
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • If you are interested in Structured Data on Commons, and helping out as a Wikidata contributor, please consider joining the new Structured Commons community focus group!
  • Participate to the Global Legislative Openness Week with MySociety and organize a Wikidata workshop in your country, from 20th to 30th November 2017
  • Inventaire now has a News section where you can follow ongoing discussions and developments of the project
  • wikidata-cli added bot support and new commands (wd search, wd aliases, wd add-alias, wd remove-alias, wd set-alias)
  • wikidata-edit added bot edits support and new functions (alias.add, alias.remove, alias.set)
  • HarvestTemplates has a new collaboration platform
  • You can now use reCh to patrol items from your PagePile
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Women's Sports Foundation ID, Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame ID, North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame ID, New Mexico Sports Hall of Fame ID, National Trust Collections ID, Infopatrimônio ID, KBO pitcher ID, KBO hitter ID, Cairn author ID, Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame ID, Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame ID, Kansas Sports Hall of Fame ID, Hawai‘i Sports Hall of Fame ID, Georgia Sports Hall of Fame ID, DSMHOF athlete ID, ASHOF athlete ID, ExecutedToday ID, Monumentos de São Paulo ID, gravsted.dk ID, Dutch lost building register ID, Musikverket person ID, Megalithic Portal ID, PROSITE documentation ID, Search formatter URL, nominated by, BillionGraves cemetery ID, Cravo Albin artist ID, salinity, Lotsawa House Indian author ID, Lotsawa House Tibetan author ID, Florida Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, T4T35 megalith ID, excavation director, QEdu ID, WBPLN author ID, Store norske leksikon ID, synodic period, PubsHistory pub ID, Organization ID on Radio Radicale, LOINC ID, digitised page from Lloyd's Register of Ships from 1930 to 1945, Lloyd's Register Ship ID, IDESCAT territorial code in Catalonia, Heritage Conservation District of Ontario ID, GenBank Assembly accession, Deutsche Synchronkartei actor-ID, Department of Education and Skills roll number, contains, Wikimedia template, Brueckenweb id, BHL bibliography ID, BFI-Filmography person ID, APA phoneme code, combination classification, young rider classification, best sprinter classification, best combative classification, mountains classification, Elite Prospects staff ID, Scottish Sports HoF athlete ID, GARD rare disease ID, kinship equivalent in SPARQL at Wikidata, SwimSwam ID, SpeedskatingResults.com speed skater ID, musée de Bretagne identifiant collections ID, camera setup, FOIH taxon ID, FOIH decree types ID, FOIH event types ID, FOIH value types ID, FOIH heritage types ID, FOIH periods ID, FOIH styles and cultures ID, FOIH materials ID
  • Query examples:
    • Flags with more than 5 stars (source)
    • Timeline of programming languages (source)
    • Female scientists sorted by number of citations of their work (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Women
  • Newest database reports: Jean Rochefort Filmography
• Development
  • Continued working on persistently storing edits on Lexeme pages (specifically Forms)
  • Dealt with issues caused by too many edits being injected into recent changes on Commons and Russian Wikipedia
  • Constraint checks will also be done on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T176863)
  • Fixed a regression with the focus not automatically being set after a property was selected (phabricator:T177485)
  • Full URIs for external identifiers will soon be in the RDF export (phabricator:T121274)
  • The secondary wb_entity_per_page table got removed now (phabricator:T140890)
  • The secondary wb_terms table does have a term_full_entity_id column now (phabricator:T167114)
  • Released version 4.0.0 of the Wikibase DataModel JavaScript library as a pure NPM package with no MediaWiki dependency (phabricator:T177476)
  • Released version 3.0.0 of the Wikibase Serialization JavaScript library as a pure NPM package with no MediaWiki dependency (phabricator:T177613)
  • Released version 0.10.0 of the DataValues JavaScript library as a pure NPM package with no MediaWiki dependency (phabricator:T177232)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • 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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The Signpost: 23 October 2017

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Money! WMF fundraising, Wikimedia strategy, WMF new office!

• Featured content: Don, Marcel, Emily, Jessica and other notables

• Humour: Guys named Ralph

• In focus: Offline Wikipedia developed at OFF.NETWORK Content Hackathon

• Blog: The future of offline access to Wikipedia: The Kiwix example

• In the media: Facebook and poetry

• Special report: Working with GLAMs in the UK

• Traffic report: Death, disaster, and entertainment

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Wikidata weekly summary #283

Wikidata weekly summary #282

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Zugang Gestalten (slides by multichill)
  • Past: Coding Da Vinci (slides by Jonas)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Birthday Tokyo, 27 October from 12:00 to 14:00 in Roppongi Hills
  • Upcoming: WikiArabia 2017, Cairo, Egypt, 23-25 October
  • Upcoming: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October (sold out)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Birthday Seoul, 29 October from 15:00 to 18:00
  • Upcoming: Biographical Data in a Digital World 2017 6-7 November 2017 (in cooperation with Wikimedia Austria)
  • COOL-WD: A Completeness Tool for Wikidata (tool website)
  • Provenance Information in a Collaborative Knowledge Graph: an Evaluation of Wikidata External References
  • Question Answering Benchmarks for Wikidata
  • Using Word Embeddings for Search in Linked Data with Ontodia (tool website)
  • Unlocking the human potential of Wikidata
  • Textes d’Affiches, des films à lire sur Gallica
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • If you have a present or organize an event for the Wikidata's fifth birthday, feel free to add link and pictures here
  • New version of the Alexa skill for Wikidata by metaphacts
  • Nice short gif tutorial for writing a Wikidata query
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Ontario Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Quora username, Women's Basketball Hall of Fame ID, Baseball Almanac ID, sports.ru player ID, Opera Vivra singer ID, Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame ID, NLBPA ID, MusicBrainz recording ID, caliber, Women's Collegiate Tennis Hall of Fame ID, Museus.br ID, Memória Globo, Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural ID, Canada's Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, International Paralympic Committee athlete ID, Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum athlete ID, BrainInfo ID (hierarchical), NeuroNames ID (plain mode), Anvisa drug ID, BC Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, TheSports.org athlete ID, mapping relation type, Science Museum people ID, Mappy place ID, update method, Virginia Sports Hall of Fame ID, Missouri Sports Hall of Fame ID, DAMIT asteroid ID, Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, LFB player ID, Soccerdonna player ID, Sandrart.net artwork ID, youth wing
  • Query examples:
    • Average age of members of the 19th German Bundestag (source)
    • Mountains in CH by height (topographic prominence) (source)
    • Mountains in CH by height (elevation above sea level) (source)
    • Monuments in Berlin for which Berlin cultural heritage ID and geolocation are known in Wikidata (source)
    • Initial characters of names of free software (source)
    • Initial characters of names of nonfree software (source)
    • First World Heritage site per country (source)
  • Newest database reports: list of kinship types
• Development
  • Query Service throttling has been tweaked, to block a type of abusive client
  • Adding diff support for Lexeme-related edits
  • More work on checking constraints on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T168532)
  • Now caching constraints results to make it ready for rollout for more users
  • Continued work on more fine-grained usage tracking so we better know which parts of an item is used on an article on Wikipedia and the other sister projects
  • Improved the way Wikidata changes are shown in watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and Co so they are more in-line with the other changes (phabricator:T48329, phabricator:T50684) Thanks Matej!
  • Released the Wikibase DataModel component in version 7.2.0 (phabricator:T177486)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • 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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Wikidata weekly summary #284

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Defining account creators

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: WikiArabia 2017, Cairo, Egypt, 23-25 October
  • Past: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October. You can find the slides, notes and video recordings for most of the sessions
  • Past: Wikidata's fifth birthday in Tokyo, Seoul, Munich
  • Upcoming: Using Wikidata to create a multi-lingual multi-dialectal dictionary for Arabic dialects in the 14th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2017), Yasmine Hammamet, Tunisia, 30 October-3 November.
  • Upcoming : Wikidata and Wiki Loves Monuments editathon in Berlin, 24-26 November (in German). We're looking for trainers to explain the basic use of QuickStatements, Open Refine and Mix'n'Match. If you want to join, please contact MB-one

• Wikidata's birthday
• The fifth anniversary of Wikidata was celebrated, as every year, with a lot of presents, events and stories. You can find an overview on the birthday page.
  • Birthday presents
    • Search index now contains statements with {{Property|P31}} and {{P|P279}}. These can be used to influence search rankings and in the future also for matching.
    • inventaire.io CC0 Wikidata-ready NDJSON and TTL dumps are now accessible at dumps.inventaire.io
    • You can now move claims to new items with moveClaim.js. You can do so by typing "new".
    • Prefix search on Wikidata (wbsearchentities API) now is using ElasticSearch as backend. This should improve search quality and also is more flexible and tunable.
    • Wikidata becomes a proper citizen of the linked open data web
    • graves.wiki – visualization of grave locations stored in Wikidata
    • Wikidata Concepts Monitor (WDCM) - Wikidata semantic topics and usage statistics
    • Happy Birthday to You, Dear Wikidata – recording and improvisation (Lucas Werkmeister)
    • You can now create items from the command-line
    • Crochet your own cute structured data bee to express your appreciation for structured data in the Wikimedia movement! And ask her/him/it to join the (Q29169245).
    • Wikidata Query Service UI: Geoshapes from Commons are now displayed in the Map view: Constituencies for the election to the German Bundestag 2017, with winning candidate and party
    • Wikidata Query Service UI: The query service now shows you code examples for how to use your query in many programming languages (example query)
    • Dungeon of Knowledge (source), a roguelike game where you explore a dungeon full of bits of Wikidata wisdom
    • Simple WD an experiment of a simple frontend API on top of Wikidata using JSON-LD and schema.org.
    • mapview widget/user script on Wikidata
    • Images fragments for an item depicted on several artworks
    • Histropedia Query Timeline tool - Demo of cool new features launched today for WikidataCon
    • Q42395533 - the first item about a notable item!
    • SQID now suggests statements that we are missing (example page, log in to see suggestions) -- more on Wikidata:WikiProject_Reasoning soon
    • From labs VM to Wikibase Query Service in 2 minutes (using Docker images and docker-compose)
  • Stories and reflections
    • Wishes for the year to come, by Tpt
    • Happy Birthday Wikidata! by the Gene Wiki Team
    • Some random thoughts on the occasion of Wikidata's fifth birthday, by PKM
    • Wishes and a personal story, by Spinster
    • Happy Birthday, Wikidata by RolandUnger from Wikivoyage
    • Happy Birthday, Wikidata by Katherine Maher
    • Two years of Wikidata experience from ArthurPSmith
    • Happy Birthday wishes from Wikimedia Deutschland
    • Message from the development team

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Biblioteca Nacional de México ID, MNCARS artist ID, BFI Film and TV ID, FPB rating, The Coptic Library ID, snap package, LesBiographies.com ID, Indian Foundation for Butterflies ID, AKL Online Artist ID, Google Doodle, New York City Parks Monument ID, Pro14 player ID, implementation of, GACS ID, Y-DNA Haplogroup, mtDNA haplogroup, mandates, Portuguese lighthouse ID, U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame athlete ID, Sportbox.ru ID, VNDB ID, Videolectures ID, New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame ID, rfpl.org player ID, Panthéon des sports du Québec ID, Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee ID, New Brunswick Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Ontario Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Quora username, Women's Basketball Hall of Fame ID
  • Query examples:
    • Organic acids with images (source)
    • People who are their father's father (source)
    • 2017 German federal election results by district with geoshapes and color depending on the % of votes (source)
    • Cities with most first performances of works (source)
    • Count of women Vs. guys names “John” in the UK parliament (source)
    • Percentage of popes who died in Rome (source)
    • First sites registered at Unesco for each country (source)

• Development
  • Continued working on persistent storage of edits on Lexeme pages
  • Fixed an encoding problem in the SVG download of query results in the query service (phabricator:T178564)
  • Fixed a problem with change dispatching changes to Wikipedia and co, that sometimes lead to single wikis falling way behind. (T179060)
  • Added full URIs for external identifiers to the RDF export
  • You can leave feedback on how improved fulltext search result page should look like

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • 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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Wikidata weekly summary #285

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Obaid Raza

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Wikidata, a rapidly growing global hub, turns five on WMF's blog by Andrew Lih and Robert Fernandez
  • Locating IMDB IDs of movies in the Internet Archive using Wikidata, by Petter Reinholdtsen
  • Mix-n-Match: Large Catalogs, by Magnus Manske

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • If you want to review what happened during the WikidataCon, here is the list of all the sessions, with slides, notes and videos, when available
  • Release of wikidata-edit v2.0.0: brings qualifiers and references support, and a few breaking changes. See changelogs
  • Release of wikidata-cli v5.0.0: brings qualifiers and references support, multi-entity summary|label|description|description requests, a new `edit-item` command, and a few breaking changes. See changelogs

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Barbarian R.C. id, Barbarian F.C. id, Isidore ID, Team GB athlete ID, HOC athlete ID, COAM architect ID, Camera Decision ID, Google Play developer ID, INDUCKS miniseries ID, INDUCKS issue ID, INDUCKS story ID, INDUCKS publisher ID, INDUCKS creator ID, INDUCKS publication ID, INDUCKS character ID, Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Accused witch ID, Humble Store ID, Australian Baseball League player ID, European Fencing Confederation athlete ID, IBHOF boxer ID, Melon artist ID, Czech Jockey Club horse ID, Rush Parliamentary Archive ID, British Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association ID, IGHOF athlete ID, Mountain Bike Hall of Fame inductee ID, Twitch game ID, Unified Astronomy Thesaurus ID, Ecole des chartes thesis abstract ID, Rugby League Project player ID, Canadian Ski Hall of Fame inductee ID, Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame inductee ID, World Golf Hall of Fame player ID, Kaitai Struct format gallery ID, Diccionario biográfico español ID, Dutch Cemetery in Chinsurah ID, Discography of American Historical Recordings ID, Internet Off-Broadway Database ID, Coinage of the Roman Republic Online ID, Argentine Chamber of Deputies ID, Argentine Senate member ID, Thibaudeau classification, Scoresway handball person ID, HAL author ID, Shirat Nashim person ID, cash back, Minimum Spend Bonus, reward program, grace period, reward, Card Network, mean age, hydraulic head
  • Query examples:
    • endemic moths of New Zealand with images in Wikidata (source)
    • Images of people commemorated by plaques in Jena, Germany (source)
    • Paintings located in Le Louvre without pictures on Wikidata, with the location in the museum (source)
    • Persons who will have their work in public domain in 2018 in Denmark, with their occupations (source)
    • Political parties by ideology in a tree view (source)
    • Organic acids with pictures (source)
    • Levels of education in France, from kindergarten to high school, with their US equivalents (source)
    • Horses drawn on hills in the UK (source)
    • Frequency of “retrieved” dates in Wikidata references (source)
  • Newest database reports: completeness of family relation properties

• Development
  • query service UI improvements (Ided10bb8c8, I3c6ec22a15, Ieb6e561563, I9a526fc8b4, Ib4ea273ab1
  • proposed changes to HTML around statements – feedback welcome!
  • Finished diff support for lexeme phab:T178757
  • Refactoring PropertySuggester-python for better maintainability and performance (phab:T179664)
  • JavaScript libraries used by Wikibase have been integrated as submodules into Wikibase's git repository (phab:T177087)
  • Git repository of the Wikibase JavaScript API has been moved. Check your settings! (phab:T178226)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • The Cebuano and Swedish wikis have a lot of bot-created content which is unconnected to other wiki articles. A good way to tackle that problem is by checking constraint violations for property GeoNames ID.
  • Help write the next summary!

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This Month in GLAM: October 2017

This Month in GLAM – Volume VII, Issue X, October 2017 Headlines Australia and New Zealand report: Adding Australian women in research to Wikipedia Brazil report: Integrating Wikimedia projects into the Brazilian National Archives GLAM Bulgaria report: Botevgrad became the first wikitown in Bulgaria France report: Wiki Loves Monuments; Opérations Libres Germany report: GLAMorous activities in October Italy report: Experts training on GLAM projects Serbia report: Wikipedian in residence at Historical Archives of Subotica; Model of a grain of wheat exlusivly digitized for Wikimedia Commons; Cooperation of the Ministry of Culture and Information and Wikimedia Serbia - GLAM presentations and workshops for museums, archives and libraries Spain report: Women Writers Day Sweden report: Swedish Performing Arts Agency; Connected Open Heritage; Internetmuseum; More Working life museums UK report: Scotland's Libraries & Hidden Gems Ukraine report: Wikitraining for Librarians; Library Donation USA report: trick or treat Wikidata report: WikidataCon & Birthday WMF GLAM report: News about Structured Commons! Calendar: November's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #286

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: IRC office hour, November 14th, 19:00 (UTC+2) in the channel #wikimedia-office
  • Review of the WikidataCon by Sean McBirnie (Histropedia)
  • Blogpost on workflow co-documentation with community members during the WikidataCon, by Jan Dittrich
  • Completeness and the Age of Abundance of free tools, in Basque language, by Theklan
  • Report about the first WikidataCon in Hungarian language, by Texaner
  • Report of the WikidataCon 2017 in German, by MB-one
  • Visualising Wikidata on Interactive Timelines using HistropediaJS by Sean McBirnie
  • Wikidata: A growing community behind open data by John Samuel
  • Report about the 2017 WikidataCon in Polish, by Yarl
  • Report about WikidataCon 2017 for WMAM community in Armenian, by Kareyac
  • WikidataCon - my résumé by Ahoerstemeier

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata training material and sample SPARQL queries by Geertivp
  • A new version of Unicode CLDR was released, including data about languages from Wikidata
  • research article where Wikidata is used to unify metabolite identifiers: WikiPathways

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: vertical depth, describes a project that uses, National Monuments of Namibia Site Reference, CycleBase cyclist ID, California Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Formal Public Identifier, IAFD male performer ID, IWRP athlete ID, Wimbledon player ID, Snooker.org ID, albedo, family relationship degree, World Snooker athlete ID, Microsoft Store artist ID, NACE code, Xenopus Anatomical Ontology ID
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline of the works of Robert Louis Stevenson (source)
    • Canals within 800 kilometres of Glasgow (source)
    • File systems by developer, date, and OS (source)
    • Map of metro stations of Bilbao (source)
    • Highest point of each department of France (source)
• Newest database reports: properties count by datatype, Mayflower voyage participants, film archives

• Development
  • Fixed a series of smaller regressions after switching to Cirrus based search backend (phabricator:T179045, phabricator:T179061, phabricator:T179130)
  • Latitudes, longitudes, as well as coordinate precisions have accidentally been exported to RDF as xsd:decimal, and are going to be exported as xsd:double soon (phabricator:T179228)
  • Continue on refactoring PropertySuggester-python for better maintainability and performance (phab:T179664)
  • Make AffectedPagesFinder take DESCRIPTION_USAGE into account (phab:T176417)
  • Add wikibase-snakview-indicators area where gadgets and user scripts can safely add indicators instead of directly appending to the value (phab:T95403, d:WD:PC#Gadget / userscript editor feedback wanted)
  • Accessing mw.config.get( 'wbEntity' ) will trigger a deprecation warning, gadgets and user script should use the wikibase.entityPage.entityLoaded hook instead (phabricator:T169771)
  • Work on caching constraint check results (phab:T179849) and indicating that they are cached (phab:T179844)
  • Work on JSON-LD support in the Purtle library used for exports (gerrit:379669)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • 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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Wikidata weekly summary #287

Wikidata weekly summary #287 Global message delivery/Targets/Wikidata

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Monolingual language code creation process

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: IRC office hour (log)
  • Past: Wikidata Lab II, a workshop to teach users how to create lists using Wikidata in São Paulo (images from the event)
  • Upcoming: IRC office hour about Structured Data on Commons, November 21, 18:00 UTC in the channel #wikimedia-office
  • Upcoming: WLM-Wikidata-Editathon 2017 in Berlin, November 24-26
  • Upcoming: Wiki4MediaFreedom edit-a-thon - II edition (with Wikidata track) in Sofia, November 27
  • Upcoming: Wikidata-Hackathon at WikiMUC in Munich, November 30
  • WikidataCon 2017
  • Fünf Jahre Wikidata at Chaosradio
  • "Turning a historical book into a data set"
  • "Creating Wikipedia articles from research data"

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New tool by Magnus: Wikidata SPARQL Recent Changes - get diffs for all items matching a SPARQL query, for a date range
  • New tool by Magnus: WD edit stats - get edit stats for all items matching a SPARQL query
  • Wikidata coverage for 'place' in OpenStreetMap (as of October 2017)
  • OpenRefine 2.8 was released. Adding columns from Wikidata and importing Wikitables is now possible. Let's write tutorials for it.
  • Mix'n'match now shows for a catalog which user originally imported it and if it is updated regularly (example)
  • A breaking change to the wbcheckconstraints API output format was announced

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: CGF athlete ID, OKS athlete ID, Gymn Forum athlete ID, sexually homologous with, Tennis Temple player ID, has listed ingredient, World of O athlete ID, HOO athlete ID, IBTrACS cyclone ID, Collective Biographies of Women ID, Snooker Database player ID, Spider Ontology ID, EThOS thesis ID, EUTA theatre ID, EUTA person ID, Czech Street ID, Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Trial ID, ChinesePosters artist ID, Bangladesh administrative division code, Douban movie ID, REGINE water system number, UK Parliament thesaurus ID, ABA bird ID, MuIS ID, Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Person ID, Vermont Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Alaska Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Radio Radicale person ID, SUNCAT ID, payload mass, Melon album ID, ctext work ID, Mémoire du cyclisme cyclist ID, Prisma ID, Africultures person ID, Africultures movie ID, Scottish Cemetery Kolkata ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of subclasses of Matrices
    • Works of art in which the artists depicts their spouse (source)
    • locations Van Gogh depicted in his paintings (source)
    • Gender split of past Google Doodles (source)
  • Newest database reports: expeditions

• Development
  • Fixed Commons media suggester not loading all preview thumbnails (phabricator:T160528)
  • RDF exports can handle entity references to foreign Wikibase repositories now, needed for Structured Data on Commons (phabricator:T161592)
  • Worked on making statements on Forms editable and persistent (phabricator:T163724)
  • Worked on fine-grained usage tracking in Wikibase' Lua library (phabricator:T172914)
  • Worked on caching constraint check results (phabricator:T179849) and indicating when constraint check results are cached (phabricator:T179844)
  • Wikibase code base does not use Composer class autoloading any more (phabricator:T180067) as another step towards getting rid of our own build process and being more in line with the rest of Wikimedia

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • 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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The Signpost: 24 November 2017

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Cons, cons, cons

• Arbitration report: Administrator desysoped; How to deal with crosswiki issues; Mister Wiki case likely

• Technology report: Searching and surveying

• Interview: A featured article centurion

• WikiProject report: Recommendations for WikiProjects

• In the media: Open knowledge platform as a media institution

• Traffic report: Strange and inappropriate

• Featured content: We will remember them

• Recent research: Who wrote this? New dataset on the provenance of Wikipedia text

• Humour: Good faith (but still incomprehensible)

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Wikidata weekly summary #288

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: start time / end time vs. publication date of 1st / last episode
  • Proposal to add some order and structure to the various bibliographic corpora we currently have in Wikidata (mailing list post)

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: IRC office hour about Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons. You can read the log on meta.
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Prague, December 1st
  • Well structured political data for the whole world: impossible utopia, or Wikidata at its best?
  • Spatial-based Topic Modelling using Wikidata Knowledge Base (in Wikidata as Q43662744)
  • Cleaning BNF identifier in Wikidata by Envlh (in French)
  • Monitoring changes to Wikidata pages of your interest by Egon Willighagen

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Sandra is co-ordinating an inventory of crucial volunteer tools for Wikimedia Commons, GLAM, and structured data in general. You can provide input and prioritize your favorite tools in this Google spreadsheet.
  • Q43649390 is an item about our concept of "QID"s
  • OpenRefine 2.8 was released. Adding columns from Wikidata and importing Wikitables is now possible.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: type foundry, Accademia della Crusca ID, first appearance, USGHOF athlete ID, Kulturelles Erbe Köln object ID, Städel Museum artist ID, Berlinische Galerie artist ID, Tidal video ID, Tidal track ID, Tidal album ID, Tidal artist ID, HTML entity, Norwegian historical register of persons ID, Merchant Category Code, SS KL Auschwitz Garrison ID, West Australian Football League player ID, Wikidata project, BPH journal ID, SNCZI-IPE reservoir ID, BTO five-letter code, awarded for period, electoral district number, Art Museum of Estonia artwork ID, Art Museum of Estonia artist ID, Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame ID, Basketball-Reference.com WNBA ID, National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame ID, IJF ID, SNCZI-IPE dam ID, Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame ID, FAI ID, Canada Games ID, ICRC PoW ID, RA Collections ID, mountain range, Everyone Remembered ID, CNRS research group ID, ARLIMA ID
  • Query examples:
    • People who were Time Person of the Year in two consecutive years (source)
    • Fictional characters “said to be the same as” other fictional characters from the same fictional universe (source)
    • Map of places of birth of deceased sociologists (source)
    • Map of libraries in India (source)
    • Train and subway stations in Basque Country (source)
  • Newest database reports: Decameron editions and translations

• Development
  • Result views in the Wikidata Query Service UI can now be configured with options (phabricator:T155973, Special:Diff/580233265/596922582)
  • Worked more on introducing the concept of sub.entities in the APIs in order to make edits to Forms persistent
  • Worked on edit summaries for edits to Forms

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • 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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Wikidata weekly summary #289

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: Using the Digital to Engage Archival Radio Collections: Part II (Wikidata Workshop), Washington, D.C., November 2, 2017 with Andrew Lih and Alex Stinson
  • Past: Wikidata Clinic (slides) in Washington, D.C., December 1, 2017, with Andrew Lih and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
  • Past: Wikikonference in Prague with a Wikidata workshop in Czech and a introduction of Wikidata and its community
  • Wikipedia Weekly audio podcast coverage of Wikidata:
    • Episode 126 - Introduction to Wikidata, with Andrew Lih and Rob Fernandez
    • Episode 127 - WikidataCon 2017 roundtable discussion, with Andrew Lih, Liam Wyatt, Stacy Allison-Cassin, Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, Rob Fernandez
  • Wikidata as authority linking hub: Connecting RePEc and GND researcher identifiers by Joachim Neubert
  • Importing data into Wikidata - Current challenges and ideas future development by Navino Evans
  • The Wikidata map in November 2017 and what changed during the last four months, by Addshore

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • You can now vote for your favorite proposals on the Community Wishlist Survey. The voting phase is open until December 10th.
  • If you run any functionality on Wikimedia sites that uses queries to the Wikidata Query Service, please add it here (more information)
  • The 600,000,000th edit has been made.
  • The first content made specifically for Wikimedia projects in space has been added to Wikidata (see Close encounters of the Wikipedia kind)
  • The Aaron Swartz Fellowship at OSA, Budapest, Hungary, is open for applications (deadline Dec. 31). The second focus area of the fellowship may be of interest to Wikidata folks.

• Did you know?
• Newest properties: set designer, Swedish Musical Heritage composer ID, National Film Board of Canada movie ID, South Dakota Sports Hall of Fame ID, World Rugby Hall of Fame ID, Microsoft Store album ID, date of burial or cremation, Lives of WWI ID, polymer of, monomer of, FAPESP researcher ID, FAPESP institution ID, NIOSH Publication Number, post town, arXiv author ID, CPE athlete ID, Mountain Project ID, National Inventory of Canadian Military Memorials ID, Atomic Heritage Foundation ID, Dreadnought Project page, IWGA athlete ID, Argentinian Historic Heritage ID
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline for the writer Robert Louis Stephenson (source)
    • Movies with Bud Spencer and Terence Hill (source)
    • Photographers born before the inception of the earliest photograph (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Stolpersteine, Jasmerah
  • Newest database reports: Q5 with identical P18

• Development
  • Wikidata will get dedicated database resources, and go read-only for 30 minutes on 9th January 2018 (phabricator:T181645)
  • There were no RDF dumps last week due to problems generating them, investigation is still going on (phabricator:T181385)
  • Improved the threshold for ORES on Wikidata (phabricator:T180450)
  • Working on fixing a regression after a change in MediaWiki core that makes edit links show up on diff pages (phabricator:T181807)
  • More work on persistent editing of statements on Forms of a Lexeme (specifically phabricator:T180467)
  • Improved size of the diff that we sent to Wikipedia and co for changes happening on Wikidata. This is one more needed step towards only showing meaningful edits in the watchlists and recent changes there. (phabricator:T113468)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • 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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This Month in GLAM: November 2017

This Month in GLAM – Volume VII, Issue XI, November 2017 Headlines Australia and New Zealand report: GLAM Peak digital collections workshops Brazil report: Can you hear this GLAM?; Glam activities at I IWSC and 3D reconstruction project Côte d'Ivoire report: Training 10 librarians, partnering with APSID-CI Czech Republic report: Edit-a-thon in Regional museum in Slaný 2017 Estonia report: Digital Humanities Conference held as Part of Estonian Presidency of Council of the EU France report: Edit-a-thons in Saint-Brieuc and Montpellier Germany report: A new archive building is born and more GLAM on Tour Stations Ireland report: Digital Preservation Community Workshop Macedonia report: Edit-a-thon related to WWII; Wiki Loves Food 2017 Netherlands report: Photographs of Africa & KB-Wiki partnership Serbia report: Two Wikipedians in residence and one edit-a-thon Spain report: Working with libraries Sweden report: Nordiska museet; Internetmuseum; Statens maritima museer; Nationalmuseum; Swedish Performing Arts Agency workshop Tunisia report: Upload Book UK report: Libraries gave us power Ukraine report: Volunteers cooperate with GLAMers USA report: remember November Special story: Out of This World! Wikidata report: Onwards and Upwards WMF GLAM report: Conferences, case studies, Structured Commons, #1lib1ref Calendar: December's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #290

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Incoming: Wikidata workshop in Rennes, France, December 12th
  • Incoming:Next Structured Commons IRC office hour will be on Tuesday, February 13, 2018, at 18:00 UTC.
  • Past: Tech-talk about knowledge technologies, featuring Wikidata, DBpedia, and Histropedia at Jakarta Digital Valley, Jakarta, Indonesia on Dec 8, 2017. Slides are available at Slideshare link.
  • My vision of a possible strategy. How could we change Wikidata’s core infrastructure to be able to scale better in the future? by ChristianKl.
  • Using WikiData as a multi-lingual multi-dialectal dictionary for Arabic dialects - conference paper
  • WikiCite 2017 report by Dario Taborelli and the organization team

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Structured Data on Commons: Participate in this survey to help the team understand which tools and functionalities are most important to the Commons and Wikidata communities
  • QuickStatements now has a CSV-like import function (under "import commands")
  • wikidata-cli now support dynamic SPARQL requests using JS files
  • New wikidata-sdk function: wdk.getSitelinkUrl, a function to easily build URLs from Wikidata API sitelinks data
  • Musik Lovers (de) is a project created during Coding da Vinci 2017 and reuses data from Wikidata about composers played in the Koncerthaus of Berlin

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: premiere type, name of the character role, Bechdel Test Movie List ID, Iowa Sports Hall of Fame ID, DORIS ID, Online Books Page author ID, ICTV virus genome composition, EK number, identity of object in context, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston object ID, squadron embarked, South Australian Football Hall of Fame inductee ID, trophy awarded, Württembergische Kirchengeschichte person ID, Merkelstiftung person ID, National Library of Brazil ID, AUSNUT 2011–13 Food Group ID, DVV player ID, UniProt journal ID, WAFL FootyFacts ID, watershed, Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ID, LKL player ID, LACMA ID, Art Institute of Chicago artwork ID, Queensland Australian Football Hall of Fame inductee ID
  • Query examples:
    • Place of birth of author with pages on the French Wikisource (source)
    • Number of movies passing or failing the Bechdel test by year (source)
    • 100 of the earliest 1000 works created by women on Wikidata with an image on Commons (source)
    • Chemical entities, whom discovered them, and when (source)
    • Sister-city and twin-city relationships of the largest cities (source)
    • Cast age at date of film publication (source)
    • Male saints that are the most used to name French cities after them (source)

• Development
  • Add anchors to Special:ListDatatypes (phabricator:T181371)
  • Data Types library has been integrated to Wikibase (phabricator:T180454)
  • Investigate on the slow problems encountered on Wikidata (phabricator:T182322)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

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  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
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  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
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The Signpost: 18 December 2017

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Special report: Women in Red World Contest wrap-up

• Blog: Close encounters of the Wikipedia kind

• Featured content: Featured content to finish 2017

• In the media: Stolen seagulls, public domain primates and more

• Arbitration report: Last case of 2017: Mister Wiki editors

• Gallery: Wiki loving

• Interview: Interview with Charlesjsharp, regular contributor of Wikipedia's Featured Pictures.

• Recent research: French medical articles have "high rate of veracity"

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Wikidata weekly summary #291

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Mapping and improving the data import process

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Introduction to Wikidata for local OpenStreetMap community & others, Riga, Latvia, December 19th
  • Upcoming: 34th Chaos Communication Congress, 27-30 December, Leipzig, Germany. The Wikidata team will be there
  • Wikidata in Collections: Building a Universal Language for Connecting GLAM Catalogs
  • A purposeful #strategy for #Wikidata
  • WikidataCon: Giving more people more access to more knowledge by Peter Kraker
  • Review of the Global Legislative Openness Week by MySociety

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A script to add links to Wikidata on Twitter by Envlh
  • Resolver can now open an item in tools/third-party sites listed on Q43649390#3303, using the ?project= attribute - for example https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/resolver.php?prop=P496&value=0000-0003-4402-5296&project=scholia
  • New edition of the Structured Data on Commons newsletter

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Wiki Aves bird ID, DACS ID, SAN ID, reservoir, CPDOC ID, Musée d'Orsay artwork ID, Coflein ID, The Numbers person ID, Wikimedia import URL, Flathub ID, partition type identifier, partition table type, ESCO Occupation ID, Welsh assembly ID, BSD Portal athlete ID, identity of subject in context, location of first performance, representation of, RCR number, ESCO skill ID, Philadelphia Museum of Art ID, Colorado Sports Hall of Fame ID, Welsh Chapels ID, photosphere image, Estonian Football Association team ID, The Peerage person ID, FoodEx2 code, Sherpa Juliet ID, Indian Financial System Code
  • Query examples:
    • Number of disasters by date and day of the week (source)
    • Map with buildings by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer (source)
    • Properties most used for “no value” statements/qualifiers/references (source)
    • Scientific papers with an animal credited as co-author (source)
    • Image grid of what different cryptocurrencies are named after (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Narration
  • Newest database reports: Brigata del Decameron

• Development
  • Additional languages for monolingual values got approved by the language committee: ami (Amis), bnn (Bunun), fos (Siraya), ppu (Papora / Hoanya), pwn (Paiwan), pyu (Puyuma), ssf (Thao), trv (Seediq / Taroko), uun (Pazeh) (see gerrit:374052, phab:T144272)
  • More work on caching constraint results so we can enable the constraints checks for all logged-in users by default
  • Fixed a bug when edit links showed up in diff views (phabricator:T181807)
  • Final step towards being able to store statements on Forms of a Lexeme
  • Disabled RDF support for Lexemes as the mapping isn't defined yet (phabricator:T182660)
  • Adding some more smart tracking for Lua usage so we better know which properties from an item are used on a Wikipedia article even when the whole item is loaded (phabricator:T179923)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • 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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Wikidata weekly summary #292

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: 34th Chaos Communication Congress, 27-30 December, Leipzig, Germany. The Wikidata team will be there
  • WikiCite 2018
  • Get your vocabularies in Wikidata... so Europeana and others can get them
  • Moths and me
  • Quality and collaboration in Wikidata
  • The Tom Longboat Awards as Wikidata
  • GLOWing the extra mile
  • Seven translation tools you can use to work in multiple languages across Wikimedia projects

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New tool by YMS to help with vandalism fighting. Give it a try and catch some vandals?
  • Version 0.8.0 of the Wikidata Toolkit have been released. There is a short survey to figure out in which directions to move the library.
  • You can try the Wikidata fulltext search prototype and give feedback
  • You can also tell us what could be improved with the entity suggester
  • The Geo dashboard shows a map on the most used items in Wikipedia and co in a given category
  • Consultation on Blocking tools and improvements
  • New documentation page with information about publishing open data that we can use when talking to institutions about why they should publish their data openly
  • Cou can try the prototype to improve the term box and give feedback

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: OpenSecrets organization ID, Oireachtas member ID, Environmental Register code (Estonia), geomorphological unit, Dictionnaire des peintres belges ID, Carnegie Museum of Art ID, Nintendo Game Store ID, National Gallery of Victoria artwork ID, National Gallery of Art artwork ID, Eldoblaje original actor ID, Eldoblaje dubbing actor ID, constraint scope, MAVISE company ID, MAVISE competent authority ID, MAVISE on-demand audiovisual service ID, MAVISE TV channel ID, appears in the form of, Indianapolis Museum of Art artwork ID, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston object ID, EMLO location ID, Hall of Light Amiga database ID, Sjukvårdsrådgivningen Category ID, tabular software version, USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame athlete ID, Buenos Aires legislator ID, Cinemagia actor ID, Cinemagia film ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map with radio telescopes around the world (source)
    • People born on the same day their mother died (source)
    • Largest first-level administrative subdivision by country (source)
    • Data sets released under a Creative Commons NoDerivatives license (source)
    • Type foundries and their typefaces (source)
    • Map of Christmas traditions (source)
    • Movies that are Christmas traditions (source)
  • Newest database reports: list of Christmas films

• Development
  • Due to the Christmas and New Year's Eve holidays, no deployment will happen before January 3rd.
  • Monolingual language codes for Old French (fro) and Middle French (frm) added (phabricator:T181823)
  • Finishing touches on storing statements on Forms
  • No longer checking constraints on the property example statements (phabricator:T183267)
  • More work on caching constraint check results so we can roll out constraint checking for all logged in users

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • 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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Wikidata weekly summary #293

Here's your first Wikidata Weekly Summary of the year 2018 (Calendar: Gregorian)!

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: Wikidata team and volunteers were at 34C3. Check the videos, the tweets, a new design made by Bleeptrack for a cake. Videos of Wikidata-related workshops will be published soon.
  • Upcoming: Cultural heritage Wikidata workshop in Prague, 13th January 2018
  • Using Scholia as Open Notebook Science tool to support literature searching

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New tool that allow users to fill labels and descriptions to Wikidata items en masse
  • Change on the editing interface: save becomes publish. Please help translating in your language and update documentation

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Minneapolis Institute of Art ID, CHGIS ID, Guardiana ID, Barnes Foundation ID, VOGRIPA ID, Rugby Canada ID, Ent'revues ID, World of Spectrum ID, Smithsonian American Art Museum ID, HATVP ID, Google Arts & Culture partner ID, Google Arts & Culture asset ID, Cairn journal ID, Canal-U channel ID, Conseil de Presse Luxembourg journalist ID, Historic Place Names of Wales ID, CIQUAL2017 ID, GEMS Code, Arquivo Arq ID, Argentine deputy ID, American Art Collaborative object ID
  • Query examples:
    • Landlocked countries bordering coastal countries (source)
    • Most common years of birth in Wikidata (source)
    • Map of lighthouses around the world (source)
    • Bubble chart showing countries with the highest number of children out of school in 2013 (source)
    • Playwright dead in 1947 (whose works are now in Public Domain) (source)

• Development
  • Fixed a problem with references in history of items (phab:T182767) Thanks to Matěj Suchánek who helped providing a workaround
  • Make statements on forms persistent for lexicographical data (phab:T163724)
  • Fix a bug that removed the collapse button (phab:T175492)
  • Remove cache constraint check results on purge (phab:T182107)
  • Add sitelinks to hif.wiktionary (phab:T180785)
  • Read constraint check results from cache and check freshness (phab:T182106)
  • Re-label the "Save" links to "Publish" (phab:T161367)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • 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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Wikidata weekly summary #294

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Jarekt
  • New request for comments: Changes to P2737 and P2738, Privacy and Living People

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: IRC office hour on January 30th - you can share ideas for topics to discuss
  • Call for papers for WikiIndaba is open
  • Scholarship applications for Wikimania are open
  • Registration is open for the Wikimedia hackathon
  • Paper submission deadline for Wiki Workshop (part of The Web Conference) is closing later this month
  • The Tom Longboat Awards as Wikidata - Mita Williams
  • Using the Semantic Web to Improve Knowledge of Translations - Karen Smith-Yoshimura (OCLC)
  • There is no deadline so every second is one: on anxiety, perfectionism, and Wikimedia projects by Léna
  • Up2date software versions for Wikidata by Michi

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata will be in read-only mode on January 9th from 06:00 to 06:30 UTC
  • The WikidataCon 2017 report has been published
  • Results of two research projects for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons have just been published:
    • Supporting Commons contributions by GLAM institutions: an overview of how cultural institutions contribute to Wikimedia Commons, and which issues they encounter there
    • Baseline Metrics for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons: an overview of measurable behaviors on Wikimedia Commons, against which the effectiveness of structured data can be measured in the future
  • You can start organizing an event for Wikidata's 6th birthday in October 2018
  • A short summary of the workshop with historians using Wikibase to collect data about the Illuminati has been published at Wikidata:FactGrid
  • How would the World look like if countries were as large as their Wikidata items are used across the Wikimedia projects?
  • New catalogs in Mix'n'match - for example Rolling Stone artist]
  • New tool: Hub

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: MuBE Virtual ID, Basketball-Reference.com WNBA coach ID, Basketball-Reference.com NBA coach ID, Académie française member ID, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres member ID, Guide to North American Birds ID, title page number, Walters Art Museum ID, Minneapolis Institute of Art artwork ID, CHGIS ID, Guardiana ID, Barnes Foundation ID, VOGRIPA ID, Rugby Canada ID, Ent'revues ID, World of Spectrum ID, Smithsonian American Art Museum ID
  • Query examples:
    • Events starting in 2017 and ending in 2018, shortest duration first (source)
  • Newest database reports: days of 2018

• Development
  • Tweaked the ranking of the results in the entity suggester
  • Finished persistently storing edits of statements on forms (phabricator:T163724)
  • Cleaned up some of the hard-coded demo data on the demo system for lexicographical data
  • Working on diff support for Forms on Lexemes (phabricator:T182424)
  • Prevented checking of constraints on "Wikidata property example" statements (phabricator:T183267)
  • Added link to the property's talk page to the constraint violation dialog to guide people there to discuss the constraint if necessary (phabricator:T164351)

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • 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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This Month in GLAM: December 2017

This Month in GLAM – Volume VII, Issue XII, December 2017 Headlines France report: Rituels grecs; Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 Germany report: a good working key to GLAM collections Indonesia report: Collaboration with library in Yogyakarta Italy report: Activities in December Macedonia report: Winners of DARM Challenge 3 Netherlands report: Historical aerial photographs from the Ministry of Defense; Texts on Dutch philosophers released under free license; Wikipedia manual; Images from Erfgoedhuis Zuid-Holland Serbia report: Two Serbian museums welcomed their first Wikipedians in Residence Spain report: Wikipedia Club Sweden report: Inputs to the National Library Strategy; Statens maritima museer; Tekniska museet; Riksantikvarieämbetet Tunisia report: Upload Book Ukraine report: Promoting and Community events in Libraries USA report: Fire & Ice & Goats Wikidata report: Happy Q34812! WMF GLAM report: Share Case Studies and Feedback with WMF, #1lib1ref, Structured Commons Research, and Blog Highlights Calendar: January's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #295

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Mahir256
  • Closed request for adminship: Jarekt (as successful)

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Vienna
  • WikiJabber podcast with Andy Mabbett

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • GraFa, a new faceted browser for Wikidata is looking for feedback.
  • Analysis: How much are items about scientific articles, genes and chemical entities used on the Wikimedia projects?
  • New catalogs in Mix'n'match - for example Nobel Prize People Nomination (More than 600 properties now have a corresponding catalog in Mix'n'match.)
  • Next round of Projects Grants is open for applications until the end of January (see also this blog post)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: National Historic Ships certificate no., Dictionnaire des auteurs luxembourgeois ID, Line Music album ID, Line Music artist ID, Elhuyar ZTH ID, is proceedings from, Basketball-Reference.com NBDL player ID, animal breed, Uniform Resource Identifier Scheme, OpenEdition journal ID, Brooklyn Museum artwork ID, Musée des Augustins artwork ID, Yale Center for British Art artwork ID, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum artwork ID, IBM graphic character global identifier, IBM coded character set ID, IBM code page identifier, produced sound, IUPAC GoldBook ID, The Baseball Cube player ID, Mir@bel journal ID, INRAN Italian Food ID, uBio ID, Deutsche Synchronkartei dubbing voice actor ID, Sign@l journal ID, C-SPAN organization ID, Le Maitron person ID, GSMArena phone ID, Érudit journal ID
  • Query examples:
    • Gallery of photography techniques
    • Street names that exist several times in Berlin (source)
    • Average length of movie by genre and year (source)
    • Inventions by Republicans (source)
    • Celebrities born in January of a leap year (source)
    • Countries with no rivers (source)
    • Female aviation pioneers born before 1900 (source)
    • People who died on K2 (source)
  • Showcase items: 15 January 2018

• Development
  • Wikidata moved to a new and bigger server.
  • Added support for a constraint scope in the constraint check gadget (phabricator:T183542)
  • Now ignoring deprecated constraints in the constraint check gadget (phabricator:T180874)
  • Added new Lua function getAllStatements (phabricator:T166056 - thanks Eran!)
  • Worked on diff support and edit summaries for edits on Forms (phabricator:T182424)
  • Worked on persistent editing of the grammatical features of a Form (phabricator:T173742)
  • Google Code-In 2017 work on the Wikidata Query Service UI:
    • add highlight and selection for query result table, by Anpans (phabricator:T183807)
    • keyboard accessibility, by eflyjason (phabricator:T173213 and subtasks)
    • make more areas translatable, by Albert221 (phabricator:T171636)
    • mobile / responsive menus, by eflyjason (phabricator:T154890)
    • lazy loading in ImageGrid, by Sydney (phabricator:T166216)

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
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The Signpost: 16 January 2018

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

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• Interview: Interview with Ser Amantio di Nicolao, the top contributor to English Wikipedia by edit count

• Technology report: Dedicated Wikidata database servers

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This Month in GLAM: January 2018

This Month in GLAM – Volume VIII, Issue I, January 2018 Headlines Australia report: We came, we saw, we conquered! Basque Country report: Books, librarians, encounters and borrowed data Côte d'Ivoire report: #1Lib1Ref, Côte d'Ivoire participates for the 2nd time France report: Fonds André Cros; #1lib1ref; Library of Dinan; LATMOS Germany report: sustainability beyond metrics Indonesia report: Digitizing the letters from Dewantara Kirti Griya Museum Yogyakarta continues Italy report: Seventeen: let's talk and celebrate! Macedonia report: Importance of digitization in 21 century Netherlands report: Local heritage made available through Wikimedia & 3rd Wikicafé Tilburg Norway report: Image collection from Armenia and Sami bibliography Serbia report: #1lib1ref first time in Serbia: 786 references added! Spain report: #1Lib1Ref Sweden report: Photos, 3D and training with the National Heritage Board Tunisia report: Upload Book UK report: Oxford Wikidata project Ukraine report: Libraries at the Forefront of Running All-Out Action for Ukrainian Wikipedia USA report: Wikipedia Day Wikidata report: Our constraint reports won't constrain you! WMF GLAM report: Call for case studies, #1lib1ref, Structured Commons and more Calendar: February's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in GLAM: February 2018

This Month in GLAM – Volume VIII, Issue II, February 2018 Headlines Belgium report: Photo contest Wiki Loves Public Space Brazil report: Starting new GLAM partnerships Bulgaria report: The first Bulgarian wikitown presented at an International Tourist Fair in Sofia Côte d'Ivoire report: Editing with more librarians as we expanded #1Lib1Ref campaign Finland report: Finland's First Wikimedian in Residence to Kansallisarkisto Germany report: GLAM in galleries Italy report: Boosting collaborations Macedonia report: Startup of the WikiIndustry project Norway report: Intern program for library students Sweden report: WiR at The National Museums of World Culture UK report: Scotland's Public Libraries move toward first edit-a-thons USA report: February made me shiver Special story: Pattypan 18.02: The uploading tool now includes STL support Wikidata report: Cool Tools WMF GLAM report: Structured Data on Commons, Wikidata Workshop materials, and Spring Travel Calendar: March's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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