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Proposed deletion of Hype in science

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Wikidata weekly summary #322

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Lakokat

• Events
  • Call for proposals and scholarship applications are now open for WikiConference North America
  • Past: Wikimania and Hackathon 2018, in Cape Town, South Africa, 18-22 July. See also the page listing the Wikidata-related events. The slides are usually listed from the talk's page on Wikimania wiki.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • You can help teaching ORES how to better detect vandalism
  • HarvestTemplates is now compatible with EditGroups: you can easily revert any run that goes wrong (even if it is not your own).

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Harmonized System Code, section number, CJKV variant character, ultimate tensile strength, Young's modulus, position of nasal sonant, LilyPond notation, hardness, accreditation
    • External identifiers: A Church Near You church ID, Australian Poetry Library poet ID, French Academy in Rome resident ID, GlyphWiki ID, Historia de la Medicina person ID, Mormon Literature and Creative Arts Database Artist ID, Scottish Poetry Library poet ID, The Reptile Database ID, Legabasket.it player ID, Les Voix de la poésie poet ID, RPO poet ID, SBN books ID, artist-info curator ID, artist-info artist ID, artist-info location ID, BD Gest' author ID, EDIT16 catalogue author ID, EDIT16 catalogue printer ID, GameSpot ID, Mormon Literature and Creative Arts Database Works ID, Médicos históricos doctor ID, Doroszewski Online ID, Base de datos de premiados person ID, Boijmans work ID, IPHAN ID, Brenda Tissue Ontology ID, LRB contributor ID, Poetry Society of America poet ID, RISM work ID, WorldCat Registry ID, Poetry In Voice poet ID, artist-info exhibition ID, archINFORM person or group ID, MAPS poet ID, DEFA film database ID, identifier for an item of Enciclopèdia de l'Esport Català, Znicenekostely ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Moisture absorption, date of release, Ideographic description sequences, Cangjie input, four-corner method, Hangul, Eumhun, Jyutping, Pe̍h-ōe-jī, Pha̍k-fa-sṳ, Bàng-uâ-cê, Kienning Colloquial Romanized, Guangdong Hakka Romanization, Sichuanese Pinyin, Peng'im, Unusually granulated item, Wine color, IANA service name, Toughness, upregulated by, Elongation at break, relative date properties, Prison History ID, CONDEPHAAT ID, copyright status, city that hosted Wikimania, Vietnamese pronunciation, Work hardening strain, Heat treating, EDb company ID, Water absorption, Schematic, passive voice, Normalized Unicode character, Enciclovida ID, Relative humidity, Poisson's ratio, Microstructure, key strength, Weakness
    • External identifiers: identifiant de l'Inventaire de la Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, 東京文化財研究所物故者識別拡張子, IDs from alternativa teatral, Virtual Laboratory ID, Academia Brasileira de Letras ID, Swedish Parish place names register, oric.org identifier, Kopaliński Online ID, Altmetric ID, Open Media Database person ID, Python Package Index project, CPAN project, RubyGems gem, CRAN project, L'île ID, National Road DataBase ID, Literature Ireland ID, Auteurs en Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes ID, Eulalie ID, Livre et lecture en Bretagne ID, RedTube ID, CICLIC ID, Interbibly ID, Le Monde ID, Courrier international ID, Courrier international source ID, Tebeosfera ID, Baidu ScholarID, College de France professor ID (1909-1939), Paris Faculty of Science professor ID, Paris Faculty of Arts professor ID (1809-1909), Paris Faculty of Arts professor ID (1909-1939), KLEKs building ID, Nobel Prize in Literature ID, Pacific Coast Architecture Database ID
  • Query examples:
    • Fictional characters married to their siblings (source)
    • Translations of disease names in South-African languages (source)
    • All Wikidata properties (which are not identifiers) without a label in Afrikaans (source)
    • List of people born or dead in Canton de Vaud (Switzerland), with archives where their documents are stored (source)
    • Timeline of serial killers (source)
    • Map of disasters, color-coded by disaster type (source)

• Development
  • More work on showing Lexemes and Forms in Special:WhatLinksHere (phab:T195302)
  • Fix wrong translations of Form related strings (phab:T191614)
  • Fix error message for non empty item (phab:T194371)
  • More work on storing Senses (phab:T198032)
  • More work on easy Wikibase Docker instance config generation (phab:T198841)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 09:09, 25 July 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #323

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for comments: Help:Modelling

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Ce que révèlent les noms des rues de Paris (fr): a study about the names of the streets of Paris, using data from OSM and Wikidata

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • EditGroups can now revert batches which created items. These items are deleted in the revert batch. This feature is only available to administrators but other users can easily request revert from the tool.
  • populationWDvsOSM: a new script that compares the population in OSM place nodes and boundary relations with Wikidata
  • user:Lakokat is back to adminship, congratulations!
  • Terminator, a tool by Magnus Manske that finds Wikidata items that lack a label, description, or article in a specific language, has now a version 2 (blog post)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: four-corner method, Cangjie input, toughness, Unicode block, fanqie, horizontal depth, valency, yield strength, Hangul of a Chinese character
    • External identifiers: Virtual Laboratory person ID, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regional Inventory identifier, CONDEPHAAT ID, Academia Brasileira de Letras ID, Belgian Heritage in Brazil ID, Altmetric ID, Central Index Key, L'île author ID, Kopaliński Online ID, Open Media Database person ID, Prison History ID, Swedish place name register SOFI
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: toponym, Bpk-Identifikator, number of arrests, Multi-channel network, Coefficient of friction, expiration date, number of persons depicted, located in the ecclesiastical territorial entity, surface roughness, environment, force, atomic mass, fatigue limit, Pitting resistance equivalent number, casting director, touringclub.it destinazione, organizational unit id
    • External identifiers: INEPAC ID, La Vie des idées ID, IDIH ID, CNRS ID, Institut culturel de Bretagne ID, CSDE Lynching Database ID, Tebeosfera character ID, QS World University URL, MUSE journal ID, Times Higher Education World University ID, iNaturalist observation ID, Indian census area code (2011), archINFORM ID (Orte), code Transport Canada, Lyrically artist ID, Flight Report Airline ID, NooSFere author ID, NooSFere book ID, PRELIB ID
  • Query examples:
    • Ancient Greek pottery items stored in Museum St-Raymond, France (source)
    • Timeline of early aviators who died in an accident (source)
    • Timeline of direct-to-video sequels of theatrical movies (source)
    • Music albums from Argentina (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: iNaturalist
  • Newest database reports: list of lexemes, number of lexemes by languages and lexical categories

• Development
  • Corrected several translation errors on Lexeme page (confusing Form word) (phabricator:T191614)
  • Working on merging of Lexemes (phabricator:T198105)
  • Working on adding a better HTML title to Lexeme pages (phabricator:T195386)
  • Further work on supporting Senses on Lexemes - specifically persistent IDs for Senses and preventing the deletion of the last Gloss of a Sense (phabricator:T198032, phabricator:T198199)
  • Adjusted colors of the Query Service UI to be more in line with Wikimedia style guide (phabricator:T192235, Thanks abian!)
  • Fixed validation of input length on Special:NewItem (phabricator:T145932)
  • Fixed issue with embedded view of query results (phabricator:T200409)
  • Fixed change dispatching issues (phabricator:T200420)
  • Investigated issue where some parts of the interface were shown in a different language than they should be (phabricator:T199983)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:33, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 July 2018

• From the editor: If only if

• Op-ed: The last leg of the Admin Ship's current cruise

• Opinion: Wrestling with Wikipedia reality

• News and notes: Another newspaper for Wikipedia; Wikimania 2018 ends; changes at NPR

• In the media: Blackouts in Europe; Wikipedia and capitalists; WMF Jet Set

• Discussion report: Wikipedias take action against EU copyright proposal, plus new user right proposals

• Featured content: Wikipedia's best content in images and prose

• Arbitration report: Status quo processes retained in two disputes

• Traffic report: Soccer, football, call it what you like – that and summer movies leave room for little else

• Technology report: New bots, new prefs

• Gallery: Independence days, national holidays, and football – all in July

• Blog: Motivation of two editors

• Recent research: Different Wikipedias use different images; editing contests more successful than edit-a-thons

• Humour: It's all the same

• Essay: Wikipedia does not need you

• From the archives: The pending changes fiasco: how an attempt to answer one question turned into a quagmire

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Wikidata weekly summary #324

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Bovlb
  • Closed request for comments: Association Football Matches

• Events
  • Past: State of the Map, the OpenStreetMap equivalent of Wikimania, was held in Milan from 28-30 July. There were two meetups on interactions between Wikimedia and OSM, and Wikidata was mentioned in several sessions, including:
    • OpenStreetMap and Wikimedia:A Quick overview
    • Maps based on Wikidata queries
    • Wikimedia in disaster management and humanitarian aid: an overview
  • Incoming: Wikidata workshop in Harvard University, MA, USA, on August 8th

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Machine-Generated Knowledge Bases - harvesting tuples from news and scholarly corpora and releasing them as open data
    • Wired story on the above

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikibase quality constraints are now loaded into the Query Service and can be queried. Queries on property talk pages have been adapted.
  • Wikidata Toolkit 0.9 has been released
  • A list of Wikidata-related activities for coursework has been started at d:Wikidata:Wikidata curricula/Activities
  • We know have more than 10,000 Lexemes in Wikidata
  • A challenge about months of the year is running, you can create Lexemes with the ones in your language

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: derived from form, schematic, passive voice, registration district, expressed in, coefficient of friction, number of arrests, invasive to, microstructure, normalized Unicode character, number of works accessible online, Poisson's ratio, moisture absorption, number of platform faces, relative humidity
    • External identifiers: Auteurs en Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes ID, Eulalie ID, RedTube ID, Paris Faculty of Science professor ID, Literature Ireland ID, Livre et lecture en Bretagne ID, Paris Faculty of Letters professor ID (1909-1939), Paris Faculty of Letters professor ID (1809-1908), College de France professor ID (1909-1939), CICLIC author ID, INEPAC ID, La Vie des idées ID, Courrier international topic ID, CNRS ID, IDIH ID, Courrier international source ID, KLEKs ID, Interbibly author ID, Le Monde ID, MUSE journal ID, Institut culturel de Bretagne ID, Tebeosfera ID, CSDE Lynching Database ID, CRAN project, RubyGems gem, National Research Institute for Cultural Properties dead artist ID, Python Package Index project, Tebeosfera character ID, NooSFere author ID, NooSFere book ID, archINFORM ID (locations), CAGE code, EDb company ID, Indian census area code (2011), flight-report.com Airline identifier, Norwegian National Road DataBase ID, NATO Stock Number, QS World University ID, SMS Power identifier, Times Higher Education World University ID, Libris-URI, oric.org identifier, Artcyclopedia artist ID, Places of Worship Inventory ID, P5599
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: value is inherited from, Guss, Countries with high prevalence, chieseitaliane ID, legal status, Match Score, topic's subcategory, Covered by, Alexander–Briggs notation
    • External identifiers: U-Multirank University ID, Trove newspaper ID, Belvedere object ID, Aosdána ID, Chercheurs d'Asie ID, Evene ID, OpenMath ID, GLAMOS ID, Swimsuit ID, archINFORM ID (Schlagwörter), CMI ID, Featured Biographies ID, CNT ID, Comédie-Française ID, DOLF ID, Marvel character ID, FFF character ID, FFF author ID, National Cartoonists Society ID, Number World ID, legabasket.it coach ID, Black Ferns ID, WSO Online ID, IEEE standard, ITU-T Recommendation, ITU-R Recommendation, LOA ID, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade ID, Global Invasive Species Database ID, iTunes music video ID
  • Query examples:
    • minerals named after women (source)
    • Frequency of major and minor key tonalities per genre (source)
    • Timeline of Writing Systems (source)
    • Nonprofit organizations and the software they develop (source)
    • Map of newspapers in Oregon (source)

• Development
  • Allow to show incoming links on the graph explorer dialog on WDQS (phab:T197778)
  • Fulltext search for Lexemes and Forms (only in Lexeme namespace) has been merged (phab:T196188)
  • We are now collecting click data when completion search on Wikidata is used (phab:T196186) which would serve us to improve search relevancy
  • Fix a lot of issues with our test system (phab:T200693)
  • Disallow merging of items that link to each other in references and qualifiers (phab:T119614)
  • More work on merging Lexemes (phab:T200884)
  • Provide useful HTML title for Lexemes (phab:T195386)
  • Improve the validation and error message when a label, description or alias is too long (phab:T145932, phab:T200780)
  • Expose constraint violations to WDQS (phab:T192567)
  • Add the possibility to download result of a query from the embed mode (phab:T176797)
  • Get persistent editing of Senses done (phab:T196270) (you can try it now on the beta system)
  • Work on edit summary of Senses (phab:T196290)
  • Work on diffs of Senses (phab:T196289)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:33, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #325

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Bencemac

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Celtic Knot 2018 – How can Wikidata support minority language Wikipedias, by Delphine Dallison
  • The rise of Wikidata as a linked data source, by Karen Smith-Yoshimura on the OCLC Research blog
  • A global collection of astrolabes in linked open data, by Martin Poulter, University of Oxford. With the Museum of the History of Science which is part of the university, Martin is exploring a possible "Sum of all Astrolabes" project. This post is to promote the idea to researchers and GLAM staff.
  • Where do Mayors Come From: Querying Wikidata with Python and SPARQL, by Nikolai Janakiev

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • list of badged items without claims has a new format
  • Sitelinks for the new Santali Wikipedia (satwiki) can be added. Links to the new Chinese Wikiversity (zhwikiversity) can be made
  • The logs of (anonymized) SPARQL queries are now available
  • wikidata-edit now supports 'somevalue' and 'novalue' claims and qualifiers
  • thus, wikidata-cli now also supports 'somevalue' and 'novalue' claims and qualifiers
  • During Wikimania 2018, 25 people attended to a workshop about Lexicographical data. The results of this experience and the related tickets are summarized here.
  • New admin: Bovlb. Welcome on board!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: station category, located in the ecclesiastical territorial entity, fatigue limit, type of water supply, pitting resistance equivalent number, Vietnamese reading
    • External identifiers: U-Multirank university ID, TCI destination ID, Chercheurs d'Asie ID, Trove newspaper ID, archINFORM keyword ID, DOLF ID, Split This Rock poet ID, OpenMath ID, chieseitaliane ID, legabasket.it ID, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade ID, Aosdána ID, CNT ID, Comédie-Française ID, Evene ID, LOA ID, FFF author ID, FFF character ID, Marvel character ID, National Cartoonists Society author ID, Global Invasive Species Database ID, WSO Online ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Prisoner count, relative to, Railway traffic side, code DGAC, Membro della squadra nazionale, linear thermal expansion coefficient, glass transition temperature, heat deflection temperature, compressive strength, bulk modulus, flexural modulus, flexural strength, shear modulus, shear strength, tear resistance, abrasion resistance, Vicat softening point, thermal diffusivity, chemical resistance, permeation, electrical resistivity, relative permittivity, relative permeability, dissipation factor, magnetic ordering, noun for other gender, combines lexemes, form is subject of, Airline Accounting Code, dummy value, identifier
    • External identifiers: iTunes music video ID, New Zealand Business Number, Brasseur ID, football.it female player ID, Gynopedia place ID, MuIS collection ID, CNL ID, RSL ID, LARB ID, Canal Académie ID, World Rugby Women's World Cup player ID, New Zealand Book Council ID, ANZL ID, Carthalia ID, TRBC, Theatrum ID, VGMdb product ID, Amphi-Theatrum ID, Persons of Indian Studies ID, National Humanities Medal ID, Expedia hotel ID, anime AniDB ID, creator AniDB ID, character AniDB ID, SR Nummer, identifiant Inventaire et Documentation du Patrimoine Culturel du Maroc, Exoplanet Data Explorer ID, Morse code, Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia ID, NASA Exoplanet Archive ID, France Musique ID, Académie française ID, Académie de Mâcon member ID, Académie de Montpellier member ID, Académie de Versailles member ID, Invasive Species Compendium Datasheet ID, MusicBrainz release ID, Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame ID, Cartooning for Peace ID, Savoirs ENS ID, Diffusion ENS ID, Quais du polar ID
  • Deleted properties: USGS-ANSS event page (P5089), Projeto Excelências ID (P2731)
  • Query examples:
    • Topics for which the English Wikipedia wikilinks to the University of Virginia but the corresponding Wikidata entry does not
    • Map of institutions where Canadian citizens got their PhD
    • Space probes that have their own Twitter accounts (source)
    • Newspapers in Wikidata with a recorded place of publication (source)
    • Countries whose capital city can be spelled out only using letters from the country's name (source)
    • Amara taxons and their Wikispecies link (source)
    • Things related to open access to research in Japan (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Humanitarian Wikidata

• Development
  • More work on merging Lexemes (phab:T198105)
  • Possibility to add statements to just created Forms (phab:T201389)
  • Provide useful HTML title for Lexemes (phab:T195386)
  • Remove a Sense (phab:T196283)
  • View a referenced Sense (phab:T196264)
  • Edit summaries for Senses (phab:T196290)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:09, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #326

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

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2018-08-20.

• Events
  • Past: Wikimedia and IIIF, IIIF Community Call, August 15th. Including current use of Property:P2677 (relative position within image) and plans for Commons structured data.
  • Incoming: Wikidata Lab X in São Paulo, Brazil, September 17th

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Google Summer of Code:
    • GSoC ‘18: In 60 seconds: Prssanna Desai has been helping improve the Query Service
    • JOSM/Plugins/Wikipedia/GSoC 2018: 'Floscher' has been working to improve the Wikidata/Wikipedia-related functionality of the 'JOSM' editor for OpenStreetMap
  • Design Challenges in Named Entity Transliteration - a paper discussing "fundamental design challenges that impact the development of a multilingual state-of-the-art named entity transliteration system", with reference to Wikidata
  • Quicksilver: Training an #ML system to generate draft Wikipedia articles and Wikidata entries simultaneously, slides by John Bohannon and Vedant Dharnidharka

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • http://sciencestories.io/ - Using Wikidata to explore the scientific research of women - e.g. http://sciencestories.io/Q6376201
  • New version of JsonDumpReader, a tool for using JSON dumps from Wikidata or other Wikibase instances
  • WikiCite/Roadmap: a summary of the meetup at Wikimania 2018 and presentation of four possible ways forward for Wikicite
  • Wikidata Extractor: A tool to extract Wikidata IDs from OpenStreetMap, given an Overpass Turbo query
  • d:Wikidata:ScienceSource focus list/Main subject needed, ListeriaBot-generated workflow for main subject (P921)
  • New administrator: Bencemac. Welcome on board!
  • Wikidata Shape Expressions Inference tool announced
  • Gender gap in Wikidata: the tool Denelezh will be closed on October 31st

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: prisoner count, risk factor, railway traffic side, bulk modulus, compressive strength, glass transition temperature, linear thermal expansion coefficient, shear modulus, thermal diffusivity, relative permittivity, relative permeability, flexural strength, dissipation factor, electrical resistivity, flexural modulus, heat deflection temperature, tear resistance
    • External identifiers: football.it female player ID, Brasseur ID, Canal Académie ID, Persons of Indian Studies ID, Amphi-Theatrum ID, Theatrum ID, ANZL writer ID, Black Ferns ID, CNL author ID, IEEE standard, LARB contributor ID, New Zealand Book Council writer ID, PRELIB person ID, RSL author ID, World Rugby Women's World Cup player ID, Académie française prize winner ID, AniDB anime ID, Baidu ScholarID, AniDB character ID, AniDB creator ID, Exoplanet Data Explorer exoplanet ID, Expedia hotel ID, Carthalia ID, Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia exoplanet ID, France Musique person ID, iTunes music video ID, MuIS collection ID, National Humanities Medal winner ID, VGMdb product ID, Diffusion ENS ID, Académie de Montpellier member ID, Académie de Mâcon member ID, Académie de Versailles member ID, Savoirs ENS ID, Cartooning for Peace cartoonist ID, Quais du polar writer ID, NASA Exoplanet Archive exoplanet ID, Hoopla ID, iNaturalist observation ID, ITU-R Recommendation, New Zealand Business Number, ITU-T Recommendation, Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: BND ID, Status in the Red List of Threatened Species in the Czech Republic, set score, historical region, modified version, sample, end point, coordinate location GCJ02, bgm.tv identifier, bilibili ID, Moegirlpedia Chinese Article Entry, Academia URL, requires grammatical feature, Seed, peak Billboard chart position, number of weeks on the Billboard chart
    • External identifiers: Bibliopoche ID, La Lorraine des écrivains ID, Fandango movie id, So Foot ID, Indian Railways station code, Norwegian war refugees register ID, Index of Historic Collectors and Dealers of Cubism ID, Tasmanian Heritage Register ID, Basisklassifikation, LARB author ID, TPA ID, Revues littéraires ID, IMEC ID, Recours au poème ID, National Medal of Arts ID, PAM ID, Tor.com author, 2006 Commonwealth Games athlete ID, Boobpedia article
  • Deleted properties: NARA person ID (P1222), print run (P4877)
  • Query examples:
    • Federated query with Nobel.org: Places on Moon or Mars named after Nobel prize winners (source)
    • Texts ranked by the number of languages in which they are available through Wikisource (adapted from source)
    • Map of places co-occurring with species or higher-order taxa as main subjects of publications (source)
    • Software titles and what they were inspired by (source)
    • Occupations of the accused witches in the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft database (source)
    • Gallery of Nobel prizes winners (federated query) (source)
  • Showcase items: Crawford

• Development
  • Show Senses in WhatLinksHere (phab:T200980)
  • Build ability to remove Senses (phab:T196283)
  • Reference a Sense in a statement (phab:T196263)
  • Improve the language code check for Lexemes (phab:T198202)
  • Prepare item/property link formatter that uses cache instead of wb_terms DB table (phab:T201831)
  • More work on merging Lexemes (phab:T198104)
  • Showing the Lemma or Representation when Lexemes or Forms are mentioned in constraint reports (phab:T195315)
  • Add new monolingual language codes: uga (Ugaritic), rar (Rarotongan), gmy (Mycenean Greek), mnw (Mon), mid (Modern Mandaic), haz (Hazaragi)
  • Fix a bug on the Query Service interface (phab:T201951)
  • Add number of results in embed map view of the Query Service (phab:T201908)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:18, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #327

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Abián
  • New request for comments: Adding short code for cryptocurrencies

• Events
  • September 8, Zurich: Wikidata Zurich Hackathon a hacking event to code with and for Wikidata.
  • Wikidata IRC office hour: September 25th, from 18:00 to 19:00 (UTC+2, Berlin time), on the channel #wikimedia-office
  • October 23, Berlin: Workshop on how to use Wikidata in research contexts
  • October 26/27, The Hague: Wiki Techstorm

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Underwater Basket Weaving: Russian Writers and Their Professions According to Wikidata, by Galina Ryazanskaya, Alena Shchevyeva and Maria Suvorova
  • Strategic inclusion of library data from Sweden into Wikidata (in Swedish), by Axel Pettersson
  • Old but gold, three articles by Denny about design decisions that were made for Wikidata: Restricting the world, On truth and lies, A categorical imperative?

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Structured Data on Commons: A draft specification for using Depicts statements on Commons is up for community feedback.
  • It's possible to add somevalue and novalue using QuickStatements, and to use the tool on test.wikidata.org as well.
  • More properties can be searched using haswbstatement. This includes all properties with "external identifier", "string", "item", "property", "lexeme", "form" and "sense" datatypes, except published in (P1433) and cites (P2860). In addition you may make queries without a specified value.
  • The page creation and edit rate limit imposed in April will be removed in the next days. However, users who are not bots or administrators are throttled to 90 edits per minute (which was set up on all Wikimedia wikis in May).
  • These new languages are now supported for monolingual text strings: mid, mnw, gmy, rar, haz, uga. The language doesn't show up in the suggester, but you can save the statement and it will be stored properly.
  • Reminder: Wikidata's sixth birthday happens in two months. It's time to think about organizing a meetup with your local community, or preparing a gift (see the list of presents last year).
  • Lexicographical data: you can now try Senses on beta
  • 25% of the labeling campaign to improve the vandalism detection on Wikidata has been done. Please help by reviewing a few edits!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: dummy value, airline accounting code, shear strength, sample, force, abrasion resistance, requires grammatical feature, Academia.edu profile URL
    • External identifiers: BND ID, Fandango movie ID, IDPCM ID, Bibliopoche author ID, Indian Railways station code, Invasive Species Compendium Datasheet ID, Transport Canada LID, La Lorraine des écrivains writer ID, Tasmanian Heritage Register ID, LARB author ID, Recours au poème ID, Revues Littéraires ID, IMEC ID, Tor.com author ID, 2006 Commonwealth Games athlete ID, TPA person ID, PAM ID, National Medal of Arts winner ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: ISO 15919 transliteration, U.P.C. Company Prefix, value is more specific than, peak position on chart, number of weeks on chart, Pietre della Memoria ID, editor-in-chief, image of interior, Osservatorio culturale del Cantone Ticino ID, periphrasis, OSI Model layer
    • External identifiers: Cineuropa movie id, Partis d'Arcadie ID, WSJP ID, Voetbalstats ID, Angelicum ID, PUSC ID, BasketballBundesliga ID, GreekBasketLeague ID, BSL ID, BSN ID, PLK ID, Historic Hotels of America ID, Historic Hotels Worldwide ID, Morse code, MPC body ID, Open Exoplanet Catalogue ID, KERIS School info, FBref ID, Pacific Coast Architecture Database person ID, Syndikat ID, CWA ID, NDB identifier, Petit Futé ID, DAV ID, ÖAV ID, SAC ID, PZS ID, ABMC ID, The Park Database ID, IMA ID, Directorio de Museos y Colecciones de España ID, Pakistan Railways station code, RBU athlete ID, RBU coach ID, Historic Hotels of Europe ID, Animator.ru person ID, Moviepilot.de film ID, CoinMarketCap cryptocurrency ID, Television Academy Foundation interviewee ID, Academia topic ID
  • Deleted properties: Heritage Building in Finland ID (P4237), patron (P1962)
  • Query examples:
    • Map of libraries in Austria (source)
    • Countries ranked by number of Wikidata-known people born there whose English version of the given name starts with Q or X (source)
    • List of Windows games released this year (source)
    • Countries with most citizens on Wikidata whose given name starts with X or Q (source)
    • People entered in the Dictionary of Welsh Biography by gender and birth location (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Invasive Species

• Development
  • More work on merging Lexemes
  • More work on data types and edit summary for Senses
  • Improve qualifier suggestions using constraint definition (phab:T201288)
  • Improve constraint property item suggestions for property constraint values (phab:T199672)
  • Remove ratelimit from Wikidata for some groups again (phab:T198396)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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: 30 August 2018

• From the editor: Today's young adults don't know a world without Wikipedia

• Interview: 2018 Wikimedian of the Year, Farkhad Fatkullin

• News and notes: Flying high; low practice from Wikipedia 'cleansing' agency; where do our donations go? RfA sees a new trend

• In the media: Quicksilver AI writes articles

• Discussion report: Drafting an interface administrator policy

• Featured content: Featured content selected by the community

• Special report: Wikimania 2018

• Traffic report: Aretha dies – getting just 2,000 short of 5 million hits

• Technology report: Technical enhancements and a request to prioritize upcoming work

• Gallery: Leapfrog, historic Thai cave, and a rhythmic beat

• Recent research: Wehrmacht on Wikipedia, neural networks writing biographies

• Humour: Signpost editor censors herself

• Essay: Principle of Some Astonishment

• From the archives: Playing with Wikipedia words

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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 12

Newsletter • August 2018

This month: WikiProject X: The resumption

Work has resumed on WikiProject X and CollaborationKit, backed by a successfully funded Project Grant. For more information on the current status and planned work, please see this month's issue of the newsletter!

-— Isarra ༆ 22:24, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #328

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

• Events
  • 3-5 September, Bologna: Workshop on Open Citations, with several WikiCite-related talks and an associated hackathon
  • 8 September, Zurich, Switzerland: Wikidata Hackathon
  • September and early October: Andy Mabbett is touring Australia for a series of open-science and GLAM Wiki-focused talks, workshops, and meetups.
  • 23 October 2018, Berlin: Workshop How can I use Wikidata for my research?
  • Applications are invited for WikiCite 2018 (27-29 November in Berkeley)
  • Registration is now open for PIDapalooza 2019 in Dublin, Ireland on 23-24 January.

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Many faces of Wikibase: Cataloging the history of the Illuminati

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New admin: Abián. Welcome onboard!
  • Better suggestions for constraint values on properties
  • Wikidata now has 100 million qualifiers on statements
  • A proposal comes forth to use Wikidata Qs as permanent IDs for OpenStreetMap. See the discussion.
  • A Stanford University announces a Wikimedian in Residence position focused on Library metadata and Wikidata: see the announcement on Wikidata-l
  • SourceMD and ORCIDator have been merged and can now be run in batch mode (announcement by Magnus Manske)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: ideographic description sequences, editor-in-chief, image of interior
    • External identifiers: WSJP ID, Turkish Basketball Super League ID, Greek Basket League ID, Polish Basketball League ID, Basketball Bundesliga ID, Baloncesto Superior Nacional ID, Pietre della Memoria ID, Partis d'Arcadie ID, Angelicum author ID, bgm.tv subject identifier, bilibili ID, Historic Hotels of America ID, Historic Hotels Worldwide ID, Minor Planet Center body ID, Moegirlpedia Chinese Article Entry, Open Exoplanet Catalogue exoplanet ID, PUSC author ID, So Foot ID, Voetbalstats player ID, SR Number, KERIS school ID, Pacific Coast Architecture Database person ID, Directorate General of Civil Aeronautics (Mexico) code, CWA writer ID, Basisklassifikation, ASIN, FBref player ID, Syndikat writer ID, EU RCN, ABMC person ID, DAV hut ID, PZS hut ID, ÖAV hut ID, Petit Futé site ID, SAC ID, NDB identifier for airport beacons, Directorio de Museos y Colecciones de España ID, IMA museum ID, The Park Database ID, Osservatorio culturale del Cantone Ticino ID, Animator.ru person ID, RBU athlete ID, RBU coach ID, Television Academy Foundation interviewee ID, Historic Hotels of Europe ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Cryptocurrency Symbol, Cooperative Patent Classification, usage example, described in Wikimedia article, beer color, beer bitterness
    • External identifiers: DBUnico ID, EU participant ID, WorldofVolley ID, Skijumping.pl ID, Arnet Miner author ID, Cranach Digital Archive Kunstwerk ID, DSV ID, The Gymternet ID, Ski Jumping Hill Archive ID, cpcrulez, e621, AustLII ID, NooSFere series ID, IGDB game ID, IGDB platform ID, IGDB person ID, Dobry słownik ID, Twitch channel ID, OlympicChannel athlete ID, Académie de Marseille member ID, Film Indonesia ID, BGCI Garden ID, International Mathematical Olympiad participant ID
  • Query examples:
    • License of an image on Commons, while Structured Commons is in the making (source)
    • Gallery of Gods and other deities
    • Closest library for each public bookcase in Vienna (source)
    • Line chart of Human Development Index over time for a set of countries (source)
  • Newest database reports: people by Erdős number and number of works in Wikidata

• Development
  • Final polishing on first version of Senses support for Lexemes. (phabricator:T201000, phabricator:T202729, phabricator:T198036, phabricator:T203334)
  • Continued work on merging Lexemes. Merging via the SpecialPage is done and will be rolled out soon. Merging via the API is still being worked on. (phabricator:T189129)
  • Long Lemmas in Lexemes look bad because they are not flowing to the next line and instead break the layout. Working on a fix. (phabricator:T195367)
  • Improving the validity of the HTML of the Lexeme headers. (phabricator:T196228)
  • Worked on showing the Lemma(s) or Representation(s) when Lexemes or Forms are mentioned in constraint reports. (phabricator:T195315)
  • Got a new beta feature ready for deployment that will improve the suggestions for properties like sex/gender by first suggesting the values defined in the one-of constraint. (phabricator:T202712)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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 #329

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

• Events
  • Wikidata-related presentations at Workshop on Open Citations, 3-5 September, Bologna: Remixing the graph/ Scholia as of September 2018/ A guided tour through citation networks around public health emergencies
  • The Wikidata Birthday will take place in more than 20 places around the world. What about yours?

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Many faces of Wikibase: Rhizome's archive of born-digital art and digital preservation, Wikimedia Blog
  • Wikidata Sparql Query Log Analysis (Part 1, Part 2)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Structured Data on Commons: There is now a page with a collection of Wikidata properties that may be needed for Wikimedia Commons. Please improve this page and provide feedback!
  • Structured Data on Commons: Take a look at the new mockups of structured licensing and copyright statements on file pages, and leave your comments.
  • Manuscript explorer powered by Wikidata
  • Wikimedia Sverige receives funding for Finding GLAMs and Libraries Data project
  • Wikimedia Deutschland has several open positions around the Wikidata development team including a program manager position
  • Stanford has a job opening for a Wikidata-focused Wikimedian in Residence

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Cooperative Patent Classification code, Thomson Reuters Business Classification, narrative role, stage crew member, has program committee member, OSI Model layer location, cryptocurrency, elongation at break
    • External identifiers: Arnet Miner author ID, CoinMarketCap cryptocurrency ID, CPAN project, cpcrulez ID, DBUnico MIBACT ID, Cranach Digital Archive artwork ID, DSV person ID, EU Research Participant ID, Moviepilot.de film ID, Ski Jumping Hill Archive ID, The Gymternet gymnast ID, WorldofVolley player ID, Skijumping.pl jumper ID, Cineuropa film ID, NooSFere series ID, Dobry słownik ID, IGDB game ID, IGDB platform ID, IGDB person ID, Twitch channel ID, AustLII ID, Academia.edu topic ID, VOR/DME identifier for airport beacons, SNOMED CT identifier, Alternativa Teatral person ID, Alternativa Teatral work ID, Alternativa Teatral place ID, MusicBrainz release ID, IANA service name, OlympicChannel athlete ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: title in TeX, Admission rate, is retracted by, intelligence quotient, subject stated as, predicate stated as, Vocabolario Treccani ID, Bank properties, forms, has contraction, Study fees
    • External identifiers: GameID, ww2.org ID, Country or city ID on Hilton, ArhivX LOD, National Trust for Historic Preservation ID, Television Academy Foundation show ID, LHW ID, Relais et Châteaux ID, World Travel Awards ID, Mathematical Reviews journal ID, Preferred Hotels and Resorts ID, AnimeClick anime ID, AnimeClick character ID, AnimeClick manga ID, AnimeClick novel ID, Code aéroport interne de l'espace russophone, iTunes podcast ID, AnimeClick person ID
  • Query examples:
    • Nobel Prize winners in WIkidata that miss a LIBRIS id (source)
    • Recent video game items with associated sitelinks and identifiers (source)
    • Video game titles available on more than ten platforms (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Wikidata:WikiProject Retractions

• Development
  • Improve qualifier suggestions using constraint definition (phab:T201288)
  • Merge Lexemes via the API (phab:T198104)
  • Show lemmas and representations in constraint reports (phab:T195315)
  • Make Form ID link targets less redundant (phab:)
  • Polishing html for Lexemes (phab:T196226, phab:T199081)
  • Merging Senses (phab:T201605)
  • Checking glosses (phab:T202427, phab:T198203)
  • Accepting lowercase Sense IDs as values in statements (phab:T203334)
  • Use hyphenation for long sense gloss (phab:T203241)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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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Category:Academic journals in the United States has been nominated for discussion

Category:Academic journals in the United States, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. --Paul_012 (talk) 04:27, 11 September 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #330

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

• Discussions
  • Open requests for adminship: Dan Koehl, Joalpe

• Events
  • Continuing through September and early October: Andy Mabbett is touring Australia for a series of open-science and GLAM Wiki-focused talks, workshops, and meetups.
  • New events added for the sixth birthday of Wikidata: Berlin, Oslo, Tehran, Beijing

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • An increasing number of reports from This Month in GLAM Wikidata related stories. To follow, subscribe here. Though most country reports include Wikidata activities, highlights from this month include:
    • Brazilian Wikimedians develop tools for mass contributions: Mbabel and Import-500px
    • A report about the Wikidata workshop held at the International Federation of Library Associations Conference in Kuala Lampur
    • A report discussing increasing interest for mapping the Portugeuse National Library data with Wikidata
    • More information on the recently funded WMSE Projects
    • And, of course, the Wikidata Report highlights
  • Crotos: a project on visual artworks powered by Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons
  • Wikidata Query Service recipe: qualifiers and the Greek alphabet

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Linking knowledge organization systems via Wikidata Presentation at DCMI conference in Porto, by Jneubert
  • Senses for lexicographical data will be deployed on October 18th
  • The final release of OpenRefine 3.0 is out.
  • Collection Explorer, a Wikidata-driven tool bringing together collection data from the Ashmolean Museum, the Bodleian Library, and the Pitt Rivers Museum.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: state of conservation, state of use, admission rate, is retracted by, ISO 15919 transliteration, majority opinion by, seed, demonstrates form, usage example, political coalition, Status in the Red List of Threatened Species in the Czech Republic, item inherits value from
    • External identifiers: BGCI garden ID, International Mathematical Olympiad participant ID, Film Indonesia ID, ArhivX LOD, Belvedere object ID, National Trust for Historic Preservation ID, Television Academy Foundation show ID, Playbill production ID, LHW hotel ID, World Travel Awards ID, Relais & Châteaux ID, Nintendo GameID, Académie de Marseille member ID, NPR podcast ID, iTunes podcast ID, Gynopedia place ID, Vocabolario Treccani ID, AnimeClick anime ID, AnimeClick novel ID, AnimeClick character ID, AnimeClick person ID, AnimeClick manga ID, Ex-USSR internal airport code
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Cook Partisan Voting Index, ONS Community codes, Implies (necessary condition), Index herbariorum code, limiting oxygen index, Model item for, Model item, Taxonomic Literature 2 number, Place of devotion, Stadtteilnummer, restriction of, blazon, ENI number, parties, term of venery, root, unicode range, Ġabra lexeme ID, Ultimate Guitar artist ID, inflection class
    • External identifiers: ResearchGate publication ID, Indonesian Basic Data of Primary and Secondary Education ID, AnimeClick drama ID, MobyGames platform ID, Adelphi author ID, UOL Eleições ID, Tourisme et Handicap ID, Qualité Tourisme ID, Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Belgium ID, Northern Ireland Assembly ID, SJPXVII ID, Microsoft Store app ID, CharacTour character ID, re3data repository ID, IGN film ID, Arkivportalen aktor ID, Arkivportalen arkiv ID, Muziekweb performer ID, SPXVI ID, Spectral Database for Organic Compounds ID, LakeNet ID, Álgu ID, Uralonet ID, Geheugen van de VU person ID, Comic Vine ID, Shazam track ID, IANA Root Zone Database ID, ASCE ID, Dxomark ID, PlayStation Store ID, Oqaasileriffik online dictionary ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of caves with prehistoric art (source)
    • Most cited works with Swedish first author (source)
    • Map of events for Wikidata's 6th Birthday (source)
    • Heads of the same state whose family names share the first four letters but are not identical (source)
    • Map of caves containing prehistoric art (source)

• Development
  • Fix a problem with the language of the lemma (phab:T194347)
  • Improving the diffs for Lexemes (phab:T185481)
  • Exclude es-formal and hu-formal from monolingual text codes (phab:T203311, thanks to MarcoAurelio)
  • Implement the contemporary constraint (phab:T141859, thanks to Abiàn)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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 #331

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Ayack
  • New request for comments: 2018 administrator policy update
  • Closed request for comments: Adding short code for cryptocurrencies

• Events
  • Past: 19-21 September 2018, New York City: Wikibase workshop at Rhizome
  • Upcoming: IRC office hour, on Tuesday September 25th, from 18:00 to 19:00 (UTC+2, Berlin time) on the channel wikimedia-office

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Supporting Community Events: spotlight on ‘Social Media Exchange’ (SMEX) in Lebanon, by MySociety
  • Using OpenStack to run a custom Wikibase, by Andra Waagmeester
  • Creating linked open data for Victorian shipping registers on the National Library of Wales blog

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The OpenStreetMap wiki enabled Wikibase, to describe OSM tags and keys. Here's what an entry for moveable bridge looks like: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Item:Q104
  • TABernacle, a tool to edit Wikidata on a table view, was rewritten by Magnus Manske

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Index Herbariorum code, model item, perfume note, place of devotion, Taxonomic Literature 2 number, video designer, projection designer, mode of derivation, work hardening strain, tuition fee, foreign transaction fee, trading fee, account charge / subscription fee, borrowing rate, interest rate, JMA Magnitude, official number of town quarter
    • External identifiers: Adelphi author ID, AnimeClick drama ID, Lepidoptera of Belgium ID, CharacTour character ID, Enciclovida ID, IGN film ID, LakeNet ID, Mathematical Reviews journal ID, MobyGames platform ID, Northern Ireland Assembly ID, Norwegian war refugees register ID, re3data repository ID, ResearchGate publication ID, SJPXVII ID, SPXVI ID, Qualité Tourisme ID, Muziekweb Performer ID, Tourisme & Handicap ID, Indonesian Basic Data of Primary and Secondary Education ID, Microsoft Store app ID, Arkivportalen agent ID, Archiveportal archive ID, Preferred Hotels & Resorts hotel ID, Bpk-ID, UOL Eleições ID, Uralonet ID, Álgu ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Spotify show ID, derived from sense, creates, Short Title Catalogus Vlaanderen (STCV) ID, acquisition date, Løøv classification, Non-free artwork image URL, Kompositionsfuge, abbrév., subject lexeme
    • External identifiers: HKCAN ID, Shazam artist ID, Sprockhoff-Nummer, Wikibase Registry ID, GTB database IDs, Depósito Legal ID, Moviepilot.de series ID, Australia and New Zealand Standard Research Classification 2008, IGN series ID, old-computers.com ID, Kunstenpunt productions, tweet ID, Open Food Facts ingredient ID, bazakolejowa.pl railway line ID, SUCA code, VicFlora ID
  • Query examples:
    • Maps and libraries in Boston and Cambridge (source)
    • Timeline of mobile phones (source)
    • Average height of figure skaters by gender and discipline (source)
  • New bot requests: Import and maintain nominal GDP for countries from the World Bank Data API, Create indiscriminately new items, Missing P31, Importing lexemes from en.Wiktionary in specific languages

• Development
  • Work on editing Form statements using the API (phab:T194732)
  • Show the Lemma(s) or Representation(s) when Lexemes or Forms are mentioned in constraint reports (phab:T195315)
  • Add hyphenation for long Lexeme lemmas and representations (phab:T195367)
  • Normalize SPARQL queries (phab:T204122, thanks to Abiàn)
  • Fix a bug on the Query Service about exported query results being different from the displayed result (phab:T195258)
  • Fix a bug on the Query Service about empty map results returning error (phab:T178786)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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: 1 October 2018

• From the editor: Is this the new normal?

• News and notes: European copyright law moves forward

• In the media: Knowledge under fire

• Discussion report: Interface Admin policy proposal, part 2

• Arbitration report: A quiet month for Arbcom

• Traffic report: John McCain's death generates over 7 million hits, followed by historical low

• Technology report: Paying attention to your mobile

• Gallery: A pat on the back

• Blog: After a catastrophic fire at the National Museum of Brazil, a drive to preserve what knowledge remains

• Recent research: How talk page use has changed since 2005; censorship shocks lead to centralization; is vandalism caused by workplace boredom?

• Humour: Signpost Crossword Puzzle

• Essay: Expressing thanks

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Wikidata weekly summary #332

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for comments: P171, When multiple sources are cited for a fact, should IMDB be deleted as one of them when used, Findagrave removed as a source for information, How would you state the number of (rooms, restaurants, suites) in a hotel?, Updating References for External Data

• Events
  • Past: IRC office hour, September 25th
  • Past: Working in a World of (linked, semantic) Open Data. Keynote by User:MartinPoulter at University of Stirling Life in Data Conference, September 28th
  • Wikidata and Wikimedia workshop (30 September) and session about data modeling (2 October) at the CIDOC 2018 Conference of the International Council of Museums, Heraklion, Crete
  • There were three Wikidata-related presentations at the 10th International Conference on Ecological Informatics that took place on 23-28 September in Jena.
  • Upcoming: German-speaking WikiCon, October 3-5 in St Gallen (Switzerland). Several Wikidata-related talks and workshops in the programme.

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Property Path use in Wikidata Queries, by Gregory Todd Williams

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The templates Reasonator and Scholia are available, for linking from en.Wikisource pages to representations of Wikidata items.
  • Wikidata considered unable to support hierarchical search in Structured Data for Commons, see also thread.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: ENI number, inflection class, has inflection class, root, creates lexeme type
    • External identifiers: ASCE Historical Civil Engineering Landmark ID, Comic Vine ID, DxOMark ID, Geheugen van de VU person ID, HKCAN ID, Oqaasileriffik online dictionary ID, IANA Root Zone Database ID, Shazam track ID, Spotify show ID, Shazam artist ID, Sprockhoff Number, Index of Historic Collectors and Dealers of Cubism ID, ANZSRC FoR ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: applies to citizens of, Plot continued in, monument in the near, Sail emblem, São Paulo: os estrangeiros e a construção da cidade ID, reference template for this work, Wikipedia suggested article name, Personal title, stated in reference as, reference vocabulary, OSM zoom level
    • External identifiers: OpenStreetMap wiki ID, Wiki Loves ZEOs ID, Geschützte Objekte in Ostbelgien, ComiXology Creators, War Memorials Online ID, NT Flora ID, Film Indonesia person ID, Sekolah Kita ID, Museu Nacional ID, Annuaire de la magistrature ID
  • Query examples:
    • Bounding boxes for a set of maps
    • Where were UK ambassadors educated? (source)
  • People who received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and were also in the NSDAP (Nazi party) (source)

• Development
  • Fix a bug when the "language of Lemma" box doesn't appear after failed submit of Special:NewLexeme (phab:T194347)
  • Fix the order of elements in Lexeme edit diffs (phab:T185481)
  • Enable constraint checks for Lexemes and Forms (phab:T195828)
  • More work on editing Form Statements using API (phab:T194732)
  • More work on a beta feature for suggestions based on constraints (phab:T202712)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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 #333

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Fuzheado, باسم

• Events
  • 5-7 October, St.Gallen (Switzerland): WikiCon 2018 of the German-speaking Wikimedia community, with keynote Wikidata as a Semantic Web game changer
  • 5-7 October, Grenoble (France): WikiConvention francophone 2018, with keynote:
    • Quarry et Query : introduction à SQL et SPARQL
    • GLAM & Wikimedia : bilan des projets en cours en Suisse et perspectives avec Wikidata
    • Quoi de neuf sur Wikidata ?
    • Éditer une œuvre d'art sur Wikidata, et plus si affinités
  • 16 October, online: Using Wikibase as a platform for library linked data management and discovery
  • 29 October, São Paulo: Wikidata Lab XI: Structuring wikiprojects

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Wikidata: «Das spannendste Projekt, das ich je gesehen habe» (German) in the Swiss newspaper Tagblatt
  • SPNHC & TDWG Conference 2018 — blog post on a talk (slides, speaker notes) about using Wikimedia projects and materials from the Biodiversity Heritage Library and other sources to collect information regarding New Zealand's biodiversity
  • Wikidata Map October 2018 by Addshore
  • Our man in Havana (or, Q56761118) by Andrew Gray

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• wikidata-cli new features:
  • wd data --format ttl: dump entities in rdf/ttl
  • wd convert: convert batches of external ids to Wikidata ids and vice versa
• Structured Data on Commons: a search prototype is available for testing. There is a page on Commons with information about testing and leaving feedback.
• Profiling Wikidata — a Class-Facet-Attribute Completeness Profiling System for Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: limiting oxygen index, plot continued in, Vicat softening point, Unicode range
    • External identifiers: Lyrically artist ID, Moviepilot.de series ID, Spectral Database for Organic Compounds ID, Ultimate Guitar artist ID, Ġabra lexeme ID, Open Food Facts ingredient ID, bazakolejowa.pl railway line ID, IGN series ID, tweet ID, Short Title Catalogue Flanders (STCV), Flanders Arts Institute production ID, old-computers.com ID, Oudnederlands Woordenboek GTB ID, Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek GTB ID, Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek GTB ID, Film Indonesia person ID, Protected objects Ostbelgien ID, North America PlayStation Store ID, VicFlora ID, SUCA code, CMI person ID, São Paulo: os estrangeiros e a construção da cidade ID, ComiXology creator ID, Annuaire de la magistrature ID, NT Flora ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: animacy, distributary, human position in artwork, does not have quality, (de)evolution method, happened to, depicted part, adjective, hyponym, nation-state tradition, requires form, Norwegian Nationaltheatret actor ID, location of sense usage, Medierådet rating, broad synonym, measured to, Type properties, shrinkage, Public presentation, carbon footprint
    • External identifiers: Inventory of the Archaeological and Paleontological Heritage of Catalonia, MIAR ID, V.League ID, Japan Professional Basketball League ID, Women's Japan Basketball League, SAGE journal ID, Elsevier journal ID, N° CPPAP, Deezer show ID, LUBW Schutzgebiets-Nr, Disney A to Z ID, RBF athlete ID, Europe PlayStation Store ID, Japan PlayStation Store ID, Encyclopedia Virginia ID, Armiarma ID
  • Query examples:
    • Characters from the Mario franchise by games in which they appear (source)
    • Nobel Prize winners who also has been TED speakers (source)

• Development
  • Fix bugs on editing statements on new Forms using the API (phab:T194732)
  • Check constraint violations on statements on Forms and Senses when saving a statement (phab:T195829)
  • Fix an issue with Wikibase and deployments (phab:T206161)
  • Improve the gloss language error message (phab:T205528)
  • Make the ArticlePlaceholder use our API instead of wb_terms (phab:T195752)
  • Improve sorting of forms, senses and glosses (phab:T176405, phab:T203002, phab:T203459)
  • Work on making Sense statement group Ids unique (phab:T204936)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 11:48, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #334

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

• Events
  • 8-12 October, Monterey: International Semantic Web Conference 2018, with lots of praise for Wikidata
  • 11-12 October, Montreal: FORCE 2018 Conference, with sessions on Wikidata and Wikibase and Wikidata and WikiCite

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Ontological Modelling in Wikidata, talk and slides by Markus Krötzsch
  • Wikidata x ConedaKOR: A use case for digital art history (in German), on integrating Wikidata with an art history database
  • From Spreadsheet to Wikidata with QuickStatements, by Charles Matthews on WMUK's blog

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A new Wikidata game has been created to suggest corrections for some constraints violations. These corrections are learned from the Wikidata edit history.
  • A new OpenRefine tutorial was published, showing how to use third-party reconciliable data sources to import data in Wikidata.
  • A prototype for Mix'n'Match Version 2 is available for testing; it uses Wikibase.
  • We have a new admin onboard, welcome Fuzheado!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: depicted part, sail emblem, reference vocabulary
    • External identifiers: Museu Nacional ID, Sekolah Kita ID, War Memorials Online ID, ID of Inventory of the Archaeological and Paleontological Heritage of Catalonia, Women's Japan Basketball League ID, V.League ID, Japan Professional Basketball League ID, Elsevier journal ID, Norwegian Nationaltheatret actor ID, LUBW Protected Area No, SAGE journal ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: tribus, embodied energy, water footprint, storage capacity (ROM), Pixel resolution, Category for films in this language, annual number of weddings, biobased content weight percentage, topic's main Wikimedia WikiProject, recycled content weight percentage, taxa found, recycling code, attenuation coefficient, Kit manifacturer
    • External identifiers: Getty Iconography Authority ID, Springer journal ID, Espace prépas author ID, Australian Plant name Index identifier, Indiancine.ma film ID, Indiancine.ma person ID
  • Query examples:
    • Age of receivers of Nobel Prize winners in Literature (source)
    • Places of birth of Nobel prizes winners per decade ([ source])
    • Things named after Ada Lovelace (source)

• Development
  • Help fixing the issues after data center switch (phab:T206743)
  • Look at a regression in Lexeme code (not passing lemma language via URL) (phab:T205864)
  • Make the ArticlePlaceholder use our API instead of wb_terms (phab:T195752)
  • Improve sorting of forms, senses and glosses (phab:T176405, phab:T203002, phab:T203459)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:24, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #335

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Adopt a username policy

• Events
  • A Wikidata workshop will be led by Shani Evenstein, in collaboration with Wikimedia Israel & and the Israel Internet Association, on 18th & 25th of October in Tel Aviv. The first meeting will be dedicated to an introduction and adding information to WD, and the second meeting will focus on querying & SPARQL.
  • An Introduction to Wikidata by Harmonia Amanda, an Introduction to Wikibase by Sandra Müllrick and a Wikicite workshop by Miriam Redi at the Wiki Techstorm in the Dutch National Library in the Hague on the 26th & 27th of October
  • Many events to celebrate Wikidata's birthday around the world. You can check the full list and the map to find one near you

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Die vergessene fünfte Partnerstadt (German), Der Landbote, October 18, 2018. Press article about the discoverage of Winterthur's sister city Ontario thanks to Wikidata, which only became official in Ontario in the year 1982, while it got forgotten in Winterthur.
  • Semantische Suchabfragen mit der Linked Open Data Cloud generieren (German), on SocietyByte
  • La documentation d’expositions sur Wikidata (French) by Shonagon

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A program to train new Wikidata trainers (in German) will be run in November 2018 in Berlin, Cologne and Vienna. Registration is open until October 28th.
  • A new academic course featuring Wikidata opened on October 15th at Tel Aviv University. The elective is called "From Web 2.0 to Web 3.0, from Wikipedia to Wikidata" and it's the 1st for-credit course in the world to focus on Wikidata! The course is available to all undergraduate students at TAU, from all disciplines, and is led by educator & Wikimedian Shani Evenstein.
  • Lexicographical data can now be queried with the Query Service
  • Lexicographical Data now includes Senses
  • A beta feature for entity suggestions based on constraints
  • Planned RDF ontology prefix change for RDF exports and dumps
  • You can still help ORES to be smarter in detecting vandalism. Take a few minutes to check some edits
  • Change on QuickStatements: all your new QuickStatements batch job edits will now be done under your own account, rather than QuickStatementsBot (thanks to Lucas)
  • Wikidata Image Positions, showing the relative position of depicted elements within the images of items (example, documentation)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Medierådet rating, translation, synonym, antonym, troponym of, false friend, Wikidata property example for senses, classifier, Sandbox-Sense, derived from sense, annual number of weddings
    • External identifiers: CPPAP ID, RBF athlete ID, Europe PlayStation Store ID, Encyclopedia Virginia ID, Springer journal ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: compressive modulus of elasticity, Best result in tournament, satisfaction rate, league system, ratified by, place of disappearance, exact synonym, measured to, measured from, measured include, measured exclude, measured at, usage example, Coordinates in WKT, flexural strain at break
    • External identifiers: Brasiliana Iconográfica ID, North America Microsoft Store ID, Facebook post ID, Movies Anywhere ID, Center for Biological Diversity ID, Muck Rack journalist ID, Museum Universe Data File identification number, Salons ID, Agoda hotel ID, Techopedia ID, Internet Pinball Database ID, Handbook of Texas ID, Encyclopedia of Alabama ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of lines and stations of the Amsterdam metro (source)
    • Workplaces of society portrait painter Philip de Laszlo, traced on a map (source)
    • What other relationships do people have with their spouses? (source)
    • Signatures of French-speaking female authors (source)
    • Underground lines of London (source)

• Development
  • JSON-LD is now on beta
  • Work on a issue impacting edit tags for admins (phab:T207313)
  • Turn on Senses for Lexicographical data

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 13:27, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 October 2018

• From the editors: The Signpost is still afloat, just barely

• Op-ed: Wikipedia's Strickland affair

• News and notes: WMF gets a million bucks

• In the media: Bans, celebs, and bias

• Discussion report: Mediation Committee and proposed deletion reform

• Traffic report: Unsurprisingly, sport leads the field – or the ring

• Technology report: Bots galore!

• Special report: NPP needs you

• Special report 2: Now Wikidata is six

• In focus: Alexa

• Gallery: Out of this world!

• Recent research: Wikimedia Commons worth $28.9 billion

• Humour: Talk page humour

• Opinion: Strickland incident

• From the archives: The Gardner Interview

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Wikidata weekly summary #336

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Changes in email property, Datatype of P667
  • Closed request for comments: Close-out of statements formerly using P794

• Events
  • Plenty of Wikidata 6th birthday events happen all around the world. You can check the Commons category and the hashtag #WikidataBirthday on social networks.
  • Past: Wikimedia Technical Conference, October 22-25

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • WikibaseNYC conference explores the frontier of linked open data infrastructure &report on the Wikibase workshop that took place on September 19-21 in New Yor City
  • Now Wikidata is 6, by Charles Matthews

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Proposal on on how to answer newcomers on help pages. Feel free to give feedback on the talk page.
  • Fork-Awesome now ships with a Wikidata icon
  • Presents from the community for the Wikidata 6th birthday:
    • Banner for Wikidata birthday events by KannanVM
    • Profiling Wikidata (announcement, documentation)
    • Birthday User Template for userpage
    • List of Wikidata & GLAM usecases, by Beat Eastermann
    • QuickStatements v2 now supports lexicographical data
    • DerDieDas, a game to practice German articles based on lexicographical data, by Auregann
    • CSV to QuickStatements now fully compatible with QuickStatements v2
    • Possibility to query Lexemes in the Query Service
    • Senses for lexicographical data
    • Beta feature: suggestions based on constraints
    • Dedicated Dashboard, another tool to improve the data quality in Wikidata, by Envlh
    • cookiecutter-toolforge, a template to easily create tools, by Lucas Werkmeister
    • WDFS: Mount Wikidata as a filesystem, by MichaelSchoenitzer
    • Wikidata Comparison Tool

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: carbon footprint, attenuation coefficient, compressive modulus of elasticity, recycling code, kit supplier, category for films in this language, stated in reference as, distributary, water footprint, applies to people, flexural strain at break, body pose or movement
    • External identifiers: APNI ID, Literaturaren Zubitegia ID, Getty Iconography Authority ID, Indiancine.ma film ID, Deezer show ID, Indiancine.ma person ID, Movies Anywhere ID, Japan PlayStation Store ID, WikiArt ID, Center for Biological Diversity ID, Brasiliana Iconográfica ID, Muck Rack journalist ID, Museum Universe Data File ID, Salons ID, Agoda hotel ID, Techopedia ID, Encyclopedia of Alabama ID, Internet Pinball Database ID, California Office of Historic Preservation ID, Encyclopedia of Appalachia ID, Handbook of Texas ID, Tennessee Encyclopedia ID, CanalPlan AC place ID, SeaLifeBase ID, Species at Risk public registry ID, d'Art d'Art ! ID, Hymenoptera Online taxon ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: ENADE IGC continuous, INEP IGC discrete, Digital representation of, Container title, Systematic Catalog of Culicidae ID, Plant Parasites of Europe ID, date of opening, uses capitalization for, phase, Trainer von Sportmannschaft, research site
    • External identifiers: New York Times short URL, ECOS ID, IGF entrant ID, Clé des langues ID, CMS ID, Hypericum MySpecies ID, ResearchGate author ID, Oiseaux.net ID, Missouri Botanical Garden ID, Steere Herbarium ID, Wild Herps ID, Sea Slug Forum ID, OSF Online ID, MNHN ID, Neotropical Birds ID, GRIN ID, Birds of America ID, Echinoid Directory ID, AFD ID, FEIS ID, New Zealand Birds Online ID, BirdLife Australia ID, NOAA Fisheries Species Directory ID, Espèces Envahissantes Outre-mer ID, AFAS author ID, Prosopomaths ID, ARD Mediathek ID, GT IBMA ID, Mantodea Species File ID, Coreoidea Species File ID, Cockroach Species File ID, Red List of South African Plants ID, Biographie vosgienne ID, Larousse ID, MoEML ID, Scoresway basketball person ID, Scoresway volleyball person ID, Scoresway ice hockey person ID, Scoresway rugby person ID, Scoresway baseball person ID, Polish Olympic Committee, GameFAQs platform ID, DCMOTO identifier, BirdLife International IBA ID, British Museum bioID, Discogs composition ID, Discogs track ID, NYC Building Identification Number (BIN), Cineuropa person ID, RIA Novosti reference, The Guardian article ID
  • Query examples:
    • Number of properties by datatype, with a (random) example property (source)
    • Number of depicted subjects by gender (source)
    • People at Svensktöversättarlexikon missing a LIBRISXL authority record ordered by number of articles in Wikipedia (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Wikidata:WikiProject Africa, Wikidata:WikiProject Open Government Data
  • Newest database reports: indirect translation of lexemes

• Development
  • Several developers and members of the team attended to the Wikimedia Technical Conference
  • Fix an issue with interwikilinks and connection between Wikidata and sister projects (phab:T208077, phab:T208124)
  • Refactor Wikibase so that it can use alternative termbox views (phab:T206863)
  • Pass the entity data on the client side (phab:T207462) and server side (phab:T207467)
  • Investigate an error on some Wikidata pages (phab:T208142)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 10:58, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #337

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

• Events
  • Lots of parties and get-togethers for Wikidata's 6th birthday
  • GLAM Wiki 2018, 3-5 November 2018 in Tel Aviv, had a number of sessions about Wikidata

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • "Wikidata and GLAM catalogues: another round-up" by Martin Poulter
  • What Dutch GLAMs want from Wikidata

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata's Sixth Birthday \o/ Check out the well wishes and presents.
  • The Community Wishlist Survey is now open, including a Wikidata category. Proposal phase is running until November 11th.
  • New designs posted for structured copyright and licensing based off of Wikidata for Structured Data on Commons. Please visit the page on Commons and leave your feedback.
  • CompareIT a new comparison tool, driven by Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: INEP IGC continuous score, demonstrates sense, permeation, embodied energy, biobased content weight percentage
    • External identifiers: ResearchGate author ID, Clé des langues ID, Oiseaux.net ID, Hypericum MySpecies ID, ECOS ID, IGF entrant ID, CMS ID, Plant Finder ID, Steere Herbarium ID, Wild Herps ID, ProsopoMaths ID, AFAS author ID, AFD ID, BirdLife Australia ID, John J. Audubon's Birds of America ID, Echinoid Directory ID, Espèces Envahissantes Outre-mer ID, FEIS ID, Global Raptor Information Network ID, MNHN taxon ID, Neotropical Birds ID, New Zealand Birds Online ID, NOAA Fisheries Species Directory ID, OSF Online ID, Sea Slug Forum ID, Cockroach Species File ID, Coreoidea Species File ID, GT IBMA ID, Mantodea Species File ID, Red List of South African Plants ID, Systematic Catalog of Culicidae ID, Larousse ID, Biographie vosgienne ID, MoEML ID, Plant Parasites of Europe ID, Scoresway baseball person ID, Scoresway basketball person ID, Scoresway ice hockey person ID, Scoresway rugby person ID, Scoresway volleyball person ID, ARD Mediathek ID, DCMOTO identifier, BirdLife International IBA ID, Polish Olympic Committee ID, British Museum bioID, GameFAQs platform ID, Discogs track ID, Discogs composition ID, RIA Novosti reference
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: dramaturg, DEFAULTSORT, billed artist, also display sitelinks for, Objektnummer, Winterthur Glossar URL, Mushroom Observer ID, IIIF manifest, Category for players of a club, Notable print, Observation.org ID, maintenance tag, chord progression, music album, volunteers
    • External identifiers: Who's on First ID (WOFID), MGG Online ID, Caselaw Access Project case ID, Map of Life ID, AllPowerlifting.com person ID, AfroMoths ID, FloraWeb ID, Info Flora ID, FLOW ID, YÖK Academic Profile ID, Sotheby's ID, Michigan Flora ID
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline of companies acquired by Red Hat (source)
    • Video game characters named after humans (source)
    • People who received an award on the day of their death (source)
    • Things named after Tux, as described in (source)

• Development
  • Helped get MediaInfo deployed on Commons
  • Reduced load on the query service from the constraint checks (phabricator:T204469)
  • Worked on getting constraints checks run regularly in the background so their results are complete in the query service (phabricator:T204714)
  • Enabled access to arbitrary items and properties for Wiktionaries
  • Working on infrastructure parts of the new termbox (the one showing labels, descriptions and aliases) on mobile

• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 23:37, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #338

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for comments: Political alliance vs P4100, Changes to P2737 and P2738, Why do we have an item for dogs and another one for Canis lupus familiaris?, start time / end time vs. publication date of 1st / last episode, Mapping and improving the data import process, Familypedia links removed for "described at URL", Allow the creation of links to redirects in Wikidata

• Events
  • Past: Several Wikidata-related presentations at International Data Week from November 5-8 in Gaborone:
    • Wikidata and Wikibase as global platforms for democratizing data publishing
    • WikiCite and Scholia - a Linked Open Data approach to exploring the scholarly literature and related resources
    • A wiki approach to collecting, curating and managing citizen science data
    • A wiki perspective on an Open Science Commons
  • Past: Several Wikidata-related presentations at GLAMWiki conference, including:
    • Wikidata — what's new?
    • Open your structured GLAM data with Wikibase — install your own instance of the technology behind Wikidata
  • Incoming: a new Illuminatis Data Mining workshop on 16-17 November in Gotha
  • Incoming: Wikidata workshop in Vienna
  • Incoming: Wikidata train the trainers in Cologne, Berlin and Vienna (in German)

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Incoming partnership with the German National Library by Jens Ohlig (in German)
  • How Wikidata Is Solving Its Chicken-or-Egg-Problem in the Field of Cultural Heritage, by Beat Eastermann

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • wikitable.info is a visualization of Wikidata items in HTML tables in many languages, easy to print and export. Feedback goes to Germartin1
  • OpenRefine 3.1 beta is out, with many fixes and improvements to the Wikidata integration suggested by the community.
  • There's a new Wikidata game: Commons category matches

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: location of sense usage, dramaturge, head coach of sports team, beer bitterness, beer color, INEP IGC discrete grade, clinical trial phase, maintained by WikiProject, uses capitalization for
    • External identifiers: NYC Building Identification Number (BIN), Cineuropa person ID, The Guardian article ID, Caselaw Access Project case ID, MGG Online ID, Map of Life ID, AfroMoths ID, FloraWeb ID, FLOW ID, AllPowerlifting.com person ID, Info Flora ID, YÖK Academic Profile ID, Mushroom Observer ID, Schleswig-Holstein object ID, Michigan Flora ID, Observation.org ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Vice, sense associated with form, declared patrimony, season ends, inscription mentions, DanNet 2.2 word ID, Study fees, HASC, exchange rate, Verspreidingsatlas.nl ID
    • External identifiers: AllMusic release ID, DBU profile, MusicNotes product ID, MusicNotes song ID, Nobel Prize in Literature ID, Code de l'Autorité de l'Aviation Civile argentine, Playbill venue ID, Digital Flora of Central Africa ID, Portal to the Flora of Italy ID, Envanter.gov.tr Monument ID, B3Kat Joint Union Catalogue, Santiebeati ID, Soccerway team ID, identifiant Littera, Letterboxd actor ID, Letterboxd film ID, Threatened Species Link ID, VD 18 ID, Siamzone film ID, Thaifilm ID, National Portrait Gallery (United States) object ID, Newseum newspaper front page ID, Playbill person ID, SWH Release ID, APA ID, Virtual Guide to the Flora of Mongolia ID, identifiant À nos grands hommes, BioOne ID, Academy Awards Database film ID
  • Query examples:
    • Currently happening figure skating competitions (source)
    • Software developed by groups within Google (source)
    • Knowledge organization systems (source)
    • Most common election days by country (source)

• Development
  • Displaying Senses before Forms (phab:T208592)
  • Making quality constraints play nicer with the Query Service
  • Putting in the ground work to have quality checks run in jobs
  • Enabling arbritrary access on oldwikisource
  • Allowing configuration of the licence in .ttl output
  • Configuration of more string limits, such as URL and mono / multilingual texts
  • Moving wdqs frontend to a blubber deployment (phab:T192006)
  • Asserting a users name so they can't edit when accidently logged out (phab:T124451)
  • Showcase a termbox placeholder in the mobile frontend of m.wikidata.org (phab:T206200)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:23, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #339

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

• Events
  • Baltic Audiovisual Archives Council Conference in Tallinn, Estonia - November 7, 2018. Sandra F. gave a keynote on GLAM-Wiki projects, Wikidata and Structured Data on Commons.
  • Museum Computer Network conference in Denver, Colorado - November 14, 2018. - Andrew Lih gave a presentation, A First Date with Wikidata
  • Wikicite on 27-29 November 2018: the program is published

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A new tool to display Wikimedia Commons categories (and Wikipedia/Wikidata tags) with coordinates on the OSM map
  • The Association of Research Libraries published the draft of a Wikidata Task Force White Paper on how libraries and Wikidata/ Wikibase con join forces aroud linked open data for both library discovery systems and Wikipedia, and advancing a diversity and inclusion agenda in the cultures of both libraries and Wikimedia. The draft is open for public comment until 30 November.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Winterthur Glossar URL, IIIF manifest, category for members of a team, chord progression, season ends, number of volunteers
    • External identifiers: DBU playerprofile, AllMusic release ID, MusicNotes product ID, Playbill venue ID, Portal to the Flora of Italy ID, Digital Flora of Central Africa ID, Envanter.gov.tr Monument ID, Letterboxd actor ID, Argentinean NCAA Airport code, MusicNotes song ID, B3Kat dataset ID, Sotheby's person ID, Santiebeati ID, Letterboxd film ID, Threatened Species Link ID, Littera ID, Soccerway team ID, Playbill person ID, Siamzone film ID, Thaifilm ID, VD 18 ID, Newseum newspaper front page ID, APA ID, SWH Release ID, Virtual Guide to the Flora of Mongolia ID, DanNet 2.2 word ID, À nos grands hommes ID, Verspreidingsatlas.nl ID, BioOne journal ID, ortsnamen.ch ID, Academy Awards Database film ID, The Hendon Mob ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: work quoted textually, verbally or lyrically, work whose melody is quoted, excerpt, exonym, Danmarks Statistiks filmkode, text features, mission statement, number of lines, number of stations, funding scheme, noun class, eponymous category, taxa protected, river bank, tautomer of, Global Startup Ecosystem Ranking, proper name of astronomical object, research site
    • External identifiers: Corpus typographique français ID, Academy Awards Database nominee ID, World Poker Tour ID, ANICA ID, r-hockey.ru person ID, Sotheby's Museum Network ID, Académie d'Arles member ID, Google News publication ID, ALCA ID, Luding editor ID, BoardGeekGame editor ID, Atlas of Florida Plants ID, British Executions ID, System16 identifier, BLR ID, LEGO set ID, LEGO design ID, LEGO element ID, NAS ID, Invasive Plant Atlas of the United States ID, Welsh Book Trade Info ID, Sega Saturn game ID, TWAS Fellow ID, Bitraga author ID, Bitraga work ID, EUNIS ID, Cal-IPC ID, eFloraSA id, Dimensions Publication ID, Dimensions Source ID, Dimensions Author ID, Microsoft Academic Work ID, Microsoft Academic Source ID, Microsoft Academic Author ID, Microsoft Academic Institution ID
  • Query examples:
    • Battles with location and date in Wikidata (source)
    • Pictures depicting a kiss with IIIF manifest (source)
    • Software-related companies founded by women (source)
    • Films based on video games (source)
  • Newest database reports: Vasily
  • Showcase items: Fugger

• Development
  • Fixed a bug that was saving the statement too early when trying to add a qualifier with the keyboard (phab:T154869)
  • Made changes to disallow edits (until the user reloads) if they accidentally get logged out. (phab:T124451)
  • Turn the new change tag back on wikidatawiki (phab:T208846)
  • Better linting against things that don't work in IE11
  • Fixed the wdqs-frontend docker image (phab:T208681, phab:T209206)
  • Fixed html elements in the table result of wdqs (phab:T207257, thanks to user:Frog23)
  • Getting ontology changes deployed to wikiba.se
  • Using maplink or mapframe to view coords on wikidata (phab:T184933)
  • Consistent capitalization of Lexeme/Form/Sense/Item/Property in UI messages
  • Make Lexemes appear in global usage of Commons files (phab:T204066)
  • Work on a new interface for the termbox on mobile (phab:T207150)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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 #340

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Referencing websites: how do we store the website title?, Many surname items had been un merged because of failure to communicate.

• Events
  • Past: women editathon in Mexico City, November 24th
  • Past: Wikidata "Train the trainers" workshop in Berlin, November 23th-25th
  • Running: WikiCite 2018, November 27th-29th, Berkeley, California, USA. Some livestream will be provided on Youtube
  • Upcoming: Wikidata "Train the trainers" workshop in Vienna, November 30th-December 2nd
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, with a focus on Open Refine, January 15th

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Wikidata-related videos during GLAMwiki conference:
    • Wikidata — What's new - Jens Ohlig
    • A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners - Asaf Bartov
    • SPARQL workshop - Maarten Dammers
    • Engaging GLAM institutions with Wikidata - Sharing Experiences and Techniques - Andrew Lih
    • Sum of all Paintings and Open Data - Maarten Dammers
    • Wikidata’s role in metadata creation and reuse workflows in libraries - Michelle Futornick
    • Open your structured GLAM data with Wikibase — install your own instance of the technology behind Wikidata - Jens Ohlig
    • Impact and potential of structured data on Wikimedia projects for the GLAM sector - Sandra Fauconnier
    • Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons - Introduction and panel of Wikimedia pilots
  • Introduction to Wikidata in 7min by Asaf Bartov
  • Introduction to Wikidata by Lydia Pintscher in 20min, during Shani Evenstein's university course about Wikidata

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata Senses (documentation), new tool by User:Vesihiisi to add senses to lexemes
  • The Swedish National Heritage Board has started working on a project, related to Structured Data on Commons, that focuses on ways to feed back improved (crowdsourced) metadata to cultural institutions who contribute media files to Wikimedia Commons.
    • Please alert your GLAM partners to a new survey about crowdsourcing, metadata and Wikimedia Commons, which informs the research for this project!
  • Scribe, a project to support under-resourced Wikipedias based on Wikidata's content, has been proposed for a grant
  • Tool to convert Wikibase JSON to RDF without storing it in a repository
  • Call for paper for the data quality workshop in Berlin on January 18th. Open until December 3rd

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: running mate, research site, quotes work
    • External identifiers: World Poker Tour player ID, GLAMOS glacier ID, Academy Awards Database nominee ID, ANICA ID, National Portrait Gallery (United States) object ID, r-hockey.ru person ID, Sotheby's Museum Network ID, MNAV artist ID, Google News publication ID, ALCA author ID, Atlas of Florida Plants ID, BoardGeekGame game publisher ID, Invasive Plant Atlas of the United States ID, Luding game publisher ID, NAS ID, Depósito Legal ID, Corpus typographique français ID, British Executions ID, Bantu Lexical Reconstructions ID, Welsh Book Trade Info ID, System16 identifier, Académie d'Arles member ID, Sega Saturn game ID, Bitraga author ID, TWAS Fellow ID, Bitraga work ID, Cal-IPC ID, EUNIS ID, Dimensions Author ID, Dimensions Publication ID, Dimensions Source ID, Disney A to Z ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: language use, has variant, has version, rationale text, HABS ID, Wikia Article URL, CNPJ
    • External identifiers: AJOL ID, Microsoft Academic Source ID, GameFAQs company ID, BDFA player ID, Sabinet ID, NSW State Archives and Records Authority Agency ID, Guida al fumetto italiano ID, Bygdeband location, OeBL 1815-1950 ID, Badtaste ID, Badgames ID, defined term ID, Wikia Article ID, Female mexican soccer players ID, Geolex ID, OBV editions, BBC News topic id, member of the Portuguese parliament ID
  • Query examples:
    • Place and century of discovery of the archaeological objects of St Raymond museum (France) (source)
    • Location of city halls in Spain (source)
    • Timeline of famous pirates (source)
    • Authors who are the most cited in Nature Chemistry (source)
    • Scholarly articles published about Wikidata (adapted from here)
    • The world's 200 tallest mountains, and whether Wikidata knows they've been climbed (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Kākāpō, WikiProject Scholia
  • Newest database reports: Fugger

• Development
  • Fix an error when entering an incomplete filename (phab:T199420)
  • Fix the unreadable references for unpriviledged users (phab:T186006)
  • Create new page properties for number of Forms and Senses of a Lexeme (phab:T199611)
  • Adapt the API to efficiently format large numbers of entity IDs (phab:T207484)
  • Switch "save" to "publish" in the Lexeme interface (phab:T203354)
  • Fix a bug showing outdated link formats in the history of Lexemes (phab:T208423)
  • Add Special:MergeLexemes to Special:SpecialPages (phab:T204397)
  • Add Wikipedia link in the other projects sidebar of Wikisource (phab:T180303, thanks to Tpt)
  • Work on displaying the language of the gloss with the language name, both in reading and editing mode (phab:T203457, phab:T209931)
  • More work on improving the interface of the termbox on mobile

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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: 1 December 2018

• From the editor: Time for a truce

• Op-ed: Looking back, looking forward: A beginner's experience on Wikipedia

• Special report: The Christmas wishlist

• Opinion: The blogosphere migrates to Galaxy WMF

• News and notes: Reviewer of the year, WikiCup winner, and the 2019 Wikimedia Summit

• Reflections: Wikipedia, history, and the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day

• In the media: Court-ordered article redaction, paid editing, and rock stars

• Discussion report: Farewell, Mediation Committee

• Arbitration report: A long break ends

• Traffic report: Queen reigns for four weeks straight

• Gallery: Intersections

• Recent research: Why do the most active Wikipedians burn out?; only 4% of students vandalize

• Essay: No one cares about your garage band

• Humour: The dark side of our favorite root vegetable

• From the archives: Ars longa, vita brevis

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Wikidata weekly summary #341

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: How to handle heat treating as a qualifier for material properties ?
  • New development input: Identify problems with adding new languages into Wikidata

• Events
  • Upcoming: "Researcher meets Curator", with a subquestion: "What are the consequences of collecting born digital sources, working with digital network analysis and engaging with linked open data initiatives such as Wikidata", in Maastricht on 22 March 2019. Call for papers
  • Upcoming: Advanced Wikidata Training in India, December 15-16
  • Past: "Wikibase: configure, customize, and collaborate" workshop at SWIB 18 in Bonn, Germany on November 26, 2018. Workshop materials
  • Past: EveryPolitician event to identify political data sources for Wikidata in Madrid, Spain, on December 1, 2018.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Author Disambiguator (github source), new tool by d:User:ArthurPSmith (based on SourceMD) for linking author items to their works.
  • OpenRefine 3.1 was released
  • New API module to format multiple entity IDs
  • You can now access the number of Forms and Senses of Lexemes through API and special page

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: reference has role, tautomer of, eponymous category, language style, ratified by, funding scheme
    • External identifiers: GameFAQs company ID, AJOL journal ID, LEGO set ID, BDFA player ID, Sabinet journal ID, NSW State Archives and Records Authority Agency ID, Bygdeband location ID, Austrian Biographical Encylopedia ID, Badtaste ID, Badgames ID, Mexican female soccer players ID, member of the Portuguese parliament ID, BBC News topic ID, OBV editions ID, Geolex ID, CNPJ, Defined Term ID, Guida al Fumetto Italiano ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: gained independence from, nachgewiesen mittels, measured by (KPI), OpenTrials ID, administrated by the administrative territorial entity, level of description, stored as lexeme, taxon author citation, Astronomical coordinates, catchphrase, real estate developer, Danske Taler speaker
    • External identifiers: TrENSmissions person ID, LIGA profile, SEINet ID, BIBSYS work ID, Jewish Museum Berlin person ID, UK Parliament Identifier, HAER ID, Vesti.kz person ID, Genius album ID, Genius song ID, TASS reference, DIR3 ID, NooSFere story ID, L'Encyclopédie philosophique ID, RegiowikiAT ID, Discord Store game SKU, kohanimeregister, ARLLFB member ID, ARB person ID, Biographie nationale de Belgique ID, protected area authority ID, Flora of Wisconsin ID, identifiant Monument aux morts
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline of early Western movies (source)
    • Species represented in the exhibition "Espèces en voies d'illumination" in the natural history museum of Paris (source)
    • Properties most used to describe cats in Wikidata (source)
    • List of UK embassies (source)
    • Map of places of residence for accused witches in Scotland with a layer for occupations (source)

• Development
  • Add Lexeme to Wikibase's ontology.owl (phab:T195368)
  • Prepare to drop change_tag.ct_tag column (phab:T194163)
  • Create Federated Wikibase instance on Beta Commons (phab:T204748)
  • More work on preparing a new termbox for the mobile version of Wikidata

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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 #342

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Scholarly articles that are book reviews

• Events
  • Past: SWAT4HCLS in Antwerp Belgium December 3:
    • Wikibase tutorial
    • "Wikidata as an intuitive resource towards semantic data modeling in data FAIRification" short paper
    • "WikiCite, Wikidata, and Scholia: Linking Publications to Topics" (demo /food/ aspect)
  • Past: Workshop "Wikidata - what is that and why it's relevant in the field of geospatial information technologies?"? at Latvia's Geospatial Information Technology (GIT) conference (slides)
  • Past: Introduction to Wikidata for Wikipedians in Stokholm, Sweden, December 4th
  • Upcoming: Introduction to Wikidata for Wikipedians in Göteborg, Sweden, December 10th

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • "Detailed depictions with IIIF, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons" by Martin Poulter, Bodleian Digital Library blog
  • Report of the GNDCon in the Kurier (in German)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • iD, the default OSM editor at openstreetmap.org has recently had an update which pulls data from Wikidata.
  • WikidataCon 2019, the conference for open data enthusiasts, will take place on 25-26 October 2019 in Berlin
  • Miniature map will be displayed for coordinate properties
  • New passwords requirements will apply on all wikis to new accounts and privileged accounts starting on December 13th
  • New grant request by MySociety: Wikidata post-election updating toolkit

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: award rationale, heat treating, copyright status, level of description
    • External identifiers: SEINet ID, LIGA profile, BIBSYS work ID, UK Parliament identifier, Jewish Museum Berlin person ID, Vesti.kz person ID, Genius album ID, Genius song ID, TASS reference, OpenTrials ID, NooSFere story ID, DIR3 ID, L'Encyclopédie philosophique ID, TrENSmissions person ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: creator, WordLift ID, Specific age inside fictional universe, type of rear suspensions, type of front suspensions, ride height, approach angle, departure angle, Drag coefficient, related category, SinemaTürk person ID, SinemaTürk film ID, Nombre annuel de passagers
    • External identifiers: BDEL ID, ZVR, NARA record group number, MMLO, IEC database ID commemorative monument of Catalonia, Meteorological Service of Canada climate ID, PomBase systematic ID, Volksbund ID, iTunes music movie ID, Paris Musées ID, Beachsoccer.ru player ID, BSRussia player ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of fountains in Zürich (source)
    • Timeline of famous bryologists (source)
    • Percentage of people member of the Swedish church per Church parish (source)
    • Musical genres with the most bands and musicians on Wikidata, per sovereign country of origin/citizenship (source)

• Development
  • We are now showing the language name instead of the language code of a Gloss (phabricator:T203457, phabricator:T209931)
  • We added a Page property for easier programmatic access to the number of Senses and Forms of a Lexeme (phabricator:T199611)
  • The code samples in the query service have been improved (phabricator:T207749, thanks abian!)
  • We're working on tracking how often the different Lua functions that Wikibase provides are used in the Wikimedia project to see how that changes over time (phabricator:T191416)
  • We worked on and fixed a security incident related to blocking (phabricator:T210953)
  • We are continuing to bring the termbox (showing labels, descriptions, aliases) to mobile viewers

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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 #343

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Split identifier into KEGG Drug Identifier, KEGG Compound Identifier, etc?
  • Closed request for comments: Clarifying rights and responsibilities of Property Creators

• Events
  • Past: 26 November 2018: Adding your own stuff to Wikidata. Workshop at SWIB18, Bonn, Germany
  • Past: 04 December 2018: Chancen und Risiken einer komplementären Nutzung von GND und Wikidata. Präsentation auf der GNDCon in Frankfurt Main, Germany
  • Past: 11–12 December 2018 in Namburu, India: Wiki Advanced Training 2018 (with special focus on Wikidata) by Asaf Bartov
  • Upcoming: 35th Chaos Communication Congress, December 27-30, Leipzig. There will be Wikidata staff and volunteers and Wikidata-related sessions

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • 6 "inside-out" activities librarians are doing — numbers 4 and 5 involve Wikidata
  • From the "Annalen der Pharmacie" to the "European Journal of Organic Chemistry" about using Wikidata for capturing (some of) the history of chemistry
  • Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons, by Sandra Fauconnier, in EuropeanaTech 10 Insight Issue 10: Innovation Agenda
  • Many faces of Wikibase: Lingua Libre makes languages audible, by Jens Ohlig (also available in German)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Call for contribution for the WikiWorkshop, forum bringing together researchers exploring all aspects of the Wikimedia projects, held in May 2019 in San Francisco, is now open until January 31st
  • Research questionnaire about Wikidata as a learning platform by Shani Evenstein as part of her PhD research.
  • Interactive map of the Sibthorp & Bauer Expedition, produced by the Bodleian Libraries, powered by Wikidata
  • Scholia's "missing" pages (example) now link to the new Author Disambiguator tool, and a Listeria list is available to help prioritize co-author disambiguation for authors with sitelinks.
  • Draft of behavior norms policy, feel free to leave comments
  • Wikimedia hackathon in Prague: apply for a scholarship until January 4th
  • Discuss if you can edit your own item, and vote here on the proposed policy.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: real estate developer, collection creator, digital representation of, specific age inside fictional universe, catchphrase, subject lexeme, right ascension, declination, epoch, galactic longitude, galactic latitude
    • External identifiers: ARLLFB member ID, Flora of Wisconsin ID, RegiowikiAT identifier, Discord Store game SKU, Bavarian protected area ID, BDEL ID, Danske Taler speaker ID, Place Names Register ID (Estonia), Biographie nationale de Belgique ID, ARB person ID, Monument aux morts ID, IEC commemorative monument of Catalonia ID, MMLO, Meteorological Service of Canada climate site ID, Volksbund ID, PomBase systematic ID, Paris Musées work ID, LEGO design ID, LEGO element ID, iTunes music movie ID, BSRussia player ID, Beachsoccer.ru person ID, SinemaTürk person ID, SinemaTürk film ID, Wikia article ID, MinDat mineral ID, Harvard Index of Botanists ID, MinDat Locality ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Garzanti Linguistica, Buried in this place, specific rotation, Data interval, Minimum wage, Danmarks svampeatlas ID, friend of, copyright representative, rights statement, co-director, Berliner Schutzgebiets-ID, preparation instructions
    • External identifiers: SVT Open archive, Hymnary.org page, Anbytarforum, Multiplayer ID, Amazon Music artist ID, Parliament of South Africa ID, Objectif Gard topic ID, Epic Games Store ID, Hymnary author ID, IPPDH ID, French Academy of Sciences member ID, OTRS ticket number 2, MNopedia ID, NCpedia ID, ICCD IDs, Weeds in Ontario ID, AllMusic performance ID, bbcmicro.co.uk identifier, YSA ID
  • Query examples:
    • (UK) Ambassador by country list - Listeria report which writes 240 by-country reports on UK Ambassadors - h/t NavinoEvans for the approach
    • Presidents of the United States ranked by the number of species named after them (source)
    • Communes of France whose name starts with "Saint" (source)
    • Italian toponyms with suffixes of Celtic origin (-ago, -ate, -asco) (source)
    • List of ABBA songs in A major (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Wikidata:WikiProject Policies
  • Newest database reports: Nicolas Cage filmography
  • expanded list of Christmas films

• Development
• Test that the issue with blocked users will not happen anymore (phab:T211120)
• Finish up on showing Language and Language codes when editing glosses (phab:T209931)
• Work towards having QualityContraints on Beta (phab:T209957)
• Work on tracking usage of Wikibase Lua Functions (phab:T191416)
• Some more work on string length limits (phab:T154660)
• Work on some Wikidata toolkit improvements (phab:T209399)
• Fix some errors happening in production (phab:T208924)
• More under-the-hood work for the termbox on mobile

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 11:28, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 13

Newsletter • December 2018

This month: A general update.

The current status of the project is as follows:

• Progress of the project has been generally delayed since September due to development issues (more bitrot than expected, some of the code just being genuinely confusing, etc) and personal injury (I suffered a concussion in October and was out of commission for almost two months as a result).
• I currently expect to be putting out a proper call for CollaborationKit pilots in January/February, with estimated deployment in February/March if things don't go horribly wrong (they will, though, don't worry). As a part of that, I will properly update the page and send out announcement and reach out to all projects already signed up as pilots for WikiProject X in general, at which point those (still) interested can volunteer specifically to test the CollaborationKit extension.
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject X/Pilots was originally created for the first WikiProject X prototype, and given this is where the project has since gone, it's only logical to continue to use it. While I haven't yet updated the page to properly reflect this:
  • If you want to add your project to this page now, feel free. Just bear in mind that more information what to actually expect will be added later/included in the announcement, because by then I will have a much better idea myself.
• Until then, you can find me in my corner working on making the CollaborationKit code do what we want and not just what we told it, per the workboard.

Until next time,

-— Isarra ༆ 22:44, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 December 2018

• From the editors: Where to draw the line in reporting?

• Op-ed: Wikipedia not trumped by Trump appointee

• Special report: The Signpost got 380,000+ views in 2018, sounds reasonable enough, right?

• News and notes: Some wishes do come true

• In the media: Political hijinks

• Discussion report: A new record low for RfA

• WikiProject report: Articlegenesis

• Arbitration report: Year ends with one active case

• Traffic report: Queen dethroned by U.S. presidents

• Gallery: Sun and Moon, water and stone

• Blog: News from the WMF

• Humour: I believe in Bigfoot

• Essay: Requests for medication

• From the archives: Compromised admin accounts – again

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Wikidata weekly summary #344

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for comments: Changes in email property, Datatype of P667, How to capture negative results in Wikidata?

• Events
  • Current: Chaos Communication Congress (35C3) where several Wikidata people are present and related sessions happening
  • Next Wikidata IRC office hour: January 8th, 18:00 (UTC+1) on the channel wikimedia-office

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Wikidata architecture overview by Addshore
  • Créer une carte avec Wikidata, OpenRefine et uMap (in French) by Jean-Baptiste Pressac

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Structured data on Commons: Multilingual captions beta testing
  • Lingua Libre now adds audio pronunciation on Forms
  • Check out the roadmap for the development of Wikidata and Wikibase for 2019

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: API endpoint, demonym of, specific rotation, concentration, copyright representative, Berlin protected area ID, advertises
    • External identifiers: Garzanti Linguistica ID, Multiplayer ID, Danmarks svampeatlas ID, Boobpedia article, Amazon Music artist ID, Objectif Gard topic ID, Epic Games Store ID, ZVR-Number, IPPDH ID, French Academy of Sciences member ID, MNopedia ID, NCpedia ID, Weeds in Ontario ID, ICCD ID - S form, ICCD ID - CF form, ICCD ID - CG form, ODNR Division of Wildlife ID, Penthouse ID, bbcmicro.co.uk identifier, YSA ID, ARTIC exhibition ID, ARTIC artist ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: maintenance method, second family name in Scandinavian names, organizational unit, story by, Code of Natura 2000 FFH habitats, century fl., adjective of, holonym 2, meronym 2, has contraction 2, yield, colorist, distinguishing property, Wikispecies template for this work, affiliation string
    • External identifiers: bgm.tv person identifier, bgm.tv character identifier, PC-9801DB ID, ACB.com coach ID, The Armory Show at 100 ID, researchportal.helsinki.fi profile URL, Scoresway tennis person ID, Dictionnaire de spiritualité ID, Muséosphère ID, Historical RNA ID, TheFinalBall coach ID, TheFinalBall referee ID, WorldFootball.net referee ID, teams.by player ID, pressball.by player ID, AMFR player ID, premierliga.ru staff ID, premierliga.ru referee ID, CFU player ID, AIC player ID, RusTeam player ID, Critique d'art ID, Centre Pompidou ID, Agence photo RMN ID, INE ID (Portugal), Agence photo RMN package ID, Wikiapiary entry, England Football Online player profile, England Football Online manager profile, DVR Number, Politika topic, Goodreads character ID
  • Deleted properties: P4570 (Wikidata project)
  • Query examples:
    • Catchphrases in Wikidata (source)
    • Timeline of Indian mathematicians (source)
    • Painting part of the Bavarian State Painting Collections (source)
    • Types of pasta in Wikidata with pictures (source)

• Development
  • Writing a maintenance script to make configuring WikibaseQualityConstraints easier (phab:T209958)
  • Working on new ID generator using different SQL to attempt to stop lock errors when creating lots of items (phab:T194299)
  • Making more parts of the Query Service UI more configurable such as the copyright page, title, and started work on the favicon / logos (phab:T194175)
  • Adding tracking for Wikibase Lua functions so we can see how they are used on various different projects (phab:T191416)
  • Working on fixing alignment issues with glosses (phab:T207401)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 13:04, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #345

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Do we want automatic inverse property creation and if so, how should they happen?

• Events
  • Video of Lydia's keynote at GNDCon

• Press/Blogs
  • Introduction to Wikidata as a platform and data source
  • Europeana Innovation Agenda
  • The Hand-editor’s Tale
  • mySociety 2018 report including their work on Wikidata
  • Using WikiData API to get the sense of words
  • The Evolution of Power and Standard Wikidata Editors: Comparing Editing Behavior over Time to Predict Lifespan and Volume of Edits

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • In Pywikibot, you can now add a new statement with qualifiers and/or references in a single edit (phab:T112577, phab:T170432)
  • A couple of gran proposals under review need your input and endorsement
  • There are now over 2 million Wikidata infoboxes on Commons!
  • Happy New Year! ^(L40653)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: bgm.tv character identifier, ACB.com coach ID, bgm.tv person identifier, PC-9801DB ID, Hymnary author ID, The Armory Show at 100 ID, Dictionnaire de spiritualité ID, Swedish Anbytarforum, researchportal.helsinki.fi profile ID, Wikimedia OTRS ticket number, AllMusic performance ID, Wikibase Registry ID, Scoresway tennis person ID, Historical RNA ID, Muséosphère work ID, pressball.by player ID, premierliga.ru staff ID, premierliga.ru referee ID, WorldFootball.net referee ID, TheFinalBall referee ID, TheFinalBall coach ID, RusTeam player ID, CFU player ID, AIC player ID, AMFR player ID, teams.by player ID, vehicle identification number, Centre Pompidou ID, INE ID (Portugal)
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: agglomerative, urban population, rural population, Linear reference, located in urban area
    • External identifiers: SHARE-VDE author ID, Panorama de l'art ID, PCGamingWiki ID, MDWS place ID, JKT48 member ID, Uppsala General Catalogue ID
  • Query examples:
    • Graph of student-master relationship of Christian Thielemann #Neujahrskonzert (source)
    • Cricket teams in the world by number of players and their gender (source)
    • Buildings designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer (source)
    • Species have been named after Donald Trump (source)
    • Catchphrases (source)

• Development
  • Not much happened this week because we took some time off over the holidays. Getting back to full speed again in the next days.

• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 22:42, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #346

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for comments: Referencing websites: how do we store the website title?

• Events
  • Past: 35th Chaos Communication Congress in Leipzig, December 27-30. Several talks about Wikidata can be watched in replay:
    • Introduction to Wikidata and the Query Service by Lucas Werkmeister and Amir Sarabadani
    • AI in Wikipedia by Amir Sarabadani
    • How to become a Mediawiki hacker by Andre Klapper
    • Live-coding: building a Wikidata tool by Lucas Werkmeister
  • Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, at 18:00 (UTC+1, Berlin time) on the channel #wikimedia-office
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in WikiBär, Berlin, January 15th (in German)
  • Upcoming: Academic workshop on data quality management in Wikidata, Berlin, January 18th (registration needed)

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Citation.js: a format-independent, modular bibliography tool for the browser and command line, by Lars G. Willighagen (preprint)
  • Toward an abstract Wikipedia, by Denny Vrandečić
  • Wikidata and the sum of all video games, by Jean-Fred
  • Building a Wikidata Tool – Behind the Scenes by Lucas Werkmeister (follow-up from the "Building a Wikidata tool" live-coding session, see above)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • >1000 sitelinks to the new Shan Wikipedia (shnwiki) have been added since November
  • Swiss foundation MY-D has published a call for projects for Wikidata showcase applications
  • Reminder: you can give your input on issues when requesting a new language for Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: title of broader work, colorist, data interval
    • External identifiers: Critique d'art ID, DVR Number, Goodreads character ID, Politika topic, SHARE-VDE author ID, England Football Online manager profile, England Football Online player profile, Panorama de l'art ID, Agence photo RMN package ID, MDWS place ID, JKT48 member ID, PCGamingWiki ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: IFPNI species ID, corporate purpose, Lace bugs database ID, Катэгорыя членаў, The White-files species ID, at distance, representative image, Wikia Article URL 2
    • External identifiers: Dictionnaire des Wallons ID, Hymnary text ID, Doctrine ID, Genius artist numeric ID, Archives of Maryland Biographical Series ID, OSGS-Number, OLAC video game genre vocabulary, De Agostini ID, Baltisches Biographisches Lexikon Digital ID (new scheme), MNAM ID, IHOI ID, Conférence du stage secretary ID, Genius album numeric ID, Musée Picasso ID, Genius song numeric ID, Crew united Titel, Crew united Name
  • Query examples:
    • Articles about obituaries (source)
    • Map of Slovenian cultural monuments coloured by type (source)
    • French settlements with more than one word in the name (source)
    • People after which a state is named (source)
    • "official name" statements including a slash punctuation mark (source)
    • Streets in the Netherlands named after a woman described in Els Kloek's book (source)
    • Map of parts of the wall of Philip II Augustus in Paris (source)

• Development
  • Working on getting final pieces in place to regularly run constraint check jobs so all constraint violations get fed into the query service (phabricator:T204031)
  • Fixed alignment issues with Glosses on Lexeme pages (phabricator:T207401)
  • Working on getting the layout right for the termbox in the mobile view so that in the future you can also see labels, descriptions and aliases in different languages on mobile (phabricator:T207150)
  • Getting ready to start working on basic Shape Expression support

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:29, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #347

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

• Events
  • Past: IRC office hour, January 8th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in WikiBär, Berlin, January 15th (in German)
  • Upcoming: Academic workshop on data quality management in Wikidata, Berlin, January 18th (registration needed)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata hackathon in Ulm, Germany, on February 22-24. The organization team is looking for people who can give introduction to Wikidata, QuickStatements or gadgets (in German).

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Connecting PCGamingWiki and Wikidata by Connor Shea
  • VOSviewer supports large number of new data sources (including Wikidata)
  • Interview of Denny Vrandečić on the podcast Between the Brackets, about Wikidata and plenty of other things

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Structured data for Commons: multilingual captions are deployed on Commons on January 10th (documentation)
  • The Wikidata Query Service has been encountering some data corruption issues that impact the results you can see when running a query. Some may still be running. You can check the current ticket for more updates.
  • New dashboard for percentage of pages on a Wikimedia project make use of data from Wikidata (doesn't include sitelinks, doesn't include Commons file and category pages for now)
  • Science Stories, a project highlighting women in sciences, uses Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: urban population, rural population, corporate purpose, closest approach
    • External identifiers: Uppsala General Catalogue ID, IFPNI species ID, Dictionnaire des Wallons ID, The White-files species ID, Hymnary text ID, Lace bugs database ID, Doctrine ID, Genius artist numeric ID, OLAC video game genre vocabulary, OSGS-Number, MNAM artwork ID, IHOI work ID, Conférence du stage secretary ID, Musée Picasso artwork ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: official color, euler characteristic, REDIZO, number of articles, property for implied values, BNP Catalog ID, Psyl'list species ID, charter URL, works in collection, precedes word-initial, WordLift ID
    • External identifiers: Litchfield Ledger ID, NicoNicoPedia, Bahamut Gamer's Community ACG Database, Bunkacho Media Art Database (Development Version): Animation Database, Bunkacho Media Art Database (Development Version): Comic Database, Interpol WOA ID, MAMVP ID, VectorBase Taxonomy ID, Köztaurusz azonosító, TV Spielfilm, Norwegian silvertax 1816 contributor ID, Krugosvet article, infosport.ru person ID, Viperson ID, iTunes TV season ID, sportufo.ru person ID, RBU person ID, biathlon.com.ua person ID, skiresort.info ID, AiF dossier, JORFSearch organization ID, ELNET ID, U-DISE code, AISHE code, EIIN number
  • Query examples:
    • Schools of magic by numbers of students (source)
    • Members of the Association for Computing Machinery who also gave TED talks (source)
    • Languages where some lexemes have more than one grammatical gender entered in Wikidata (source)
    • Timeline of early French aviation pioneers (source)
    • Map of schools where virtual twins were educated (source)
    • Most cited Magnuses in Wikidata (source)

• Development
  • Solving an issue that blocked deployments over the past weeks (phab:T212427)
  • Improved the visual appearance of glosses (phab:T207401)
  • Fixing problems with reverting Sense addition (phab:T211438)
  • Improving our Javascript to be more standard (phab:T210744)
  • Working on performing more constraint type checks in PHP before falling back to SPARQL (phab:T209504)
  • Making the query service logo and favicon configurable in one's own Wikibase (phab:T212210)
  • More work on displaying the termbox on mobile (phab:T207150)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:40, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #348

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

• Events
  • Past: Workshop on Data Quality Management in Wikidata, 18 January, Berlin. You can check the collaborative documentation
    • Keynote by Amrapali Zaveri (video)
    • Keynote by Daniel Mietchen (slides, video)
  • Upcoming: free software workshop (including Wikidata) in Lyon, France, January 23rd
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Côte d'Ivoire, February 9th
  • Upcoming: Library data camp, a training for librairies about open data and Wikidata, Manchester, UK, March 11th

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: WordLift ID, official color, member category, located at street address, charter URL, works in collection
    • External identifiers: Crew united title ID, Genius album numeric ID, Genius song numeric ID, Litchfield Ledger ID, Microsoft Academic ID, Bahamut Gamer's Community ACG Database, Bunkacho Media Art Database (Development Version): Animation Database, Bunkacho Media Art Database (Development Version): Comic Database, REDIZO, Archives of Maryland Biographical Series ID, Interpol WOA artwork ID, Online Catalog of Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal ID, MAMVP artwork ID, Psyl'list species ID, VectorBase taxonomy ID, iTunes TV season ID, Hungarian public thesaurus ID, TV Spielfilm film ID, Viperson ID, Krugosvet article, biathlon.com.ua person ID, RBU person ID, sportufo.ru person ID, Skiresort.info ID, Educational Institution Identification Number, U-DISE code, AISHE code
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: inverse label, tussenvoegsel, Linked to profession, chassis, Swedish Organization Number, COOL species ID, Trading name, funk channel ID, personal pronoun
    • External identifiers: Skimap.org ID, Gault et Millau ID, ID theatreonline.com, Swiss Films, Dizionario di Storia Treccani ID, Romanian Soccer player ID, sports.md athlete ID, iTunes movie ID, iTunes book ID, vodnimlyny.cz ID, Smarthistory ID, World Cube Association ID, CORE (Connecting Repositories) ID, GEOFON earthquake ID, LevskiSofia.info player ID, LevskiSofia.info coach ID, Homosaurus identifier, DIZIE ID, identificador Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música
  • Query examples:
    • Images of exoplanets (source)
    • Types of protected historical objects in Loire-Atlantique, France (source)
    • Common long words in scholarly article titles (source)
    • Timeline of writing systems and alphabets (source)
    • Image grid of synthesizers produced by ARP Instruments (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Data Quality

• Development
  • Fixed a small bug that we introduced with editing badges on wd.org (phab:T213998)
  • Finished collecting data about the user of the termbox (phab:T211015)
  • Fixed an i18n message (phab:T206416)
  • Created some maintenance scripts for creating and approving oauth consumers (phab:T211568)
  • Checked for possible data coruptions due to an issue with change tags (phab:T213281)
  • Fixed an issue with restoring merge revisions in Lexeme (phab:T204041)
  • Configured WikibaseQualityConstraints on test.wikidata (phab:T209922)
  • Turned on the new entity id formatting for properties (phab:T201838)
  • Continued work on glosses, displaying the language name also in edit mode (phab:T209931)
  • Starting investigating on Shape Expressions
  • Mobile termbox: showing language, description and aliases (phab:T207150)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:06, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

Proposed merger at Intermediate frequency

If you add a proposed merge template, you are really obliged to provide a rationale for merging and link the discussion from the template. I can't reply to a rationale that has not been made. SpinningSpark 15:49, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

@Spinningspark: if it's not obvious, please ignore. fgnievinski (talk) 18:36, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

If it's not obvious, and you can't be bothered to make a case for it, I'm going to remove it. SpinningSpark 18:46, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #349

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

• Discussions
  • Open requests for adminship: Deror avi, Wildly boy

• Events
  • February 19th: Wikidata meetup in London - Facebook event
  • Incoming: Wikidata Lab XII in São Paulo, Brazil, February 14th.

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Making Wikidata visible, by Martin Poulter on Bodleian Digital Library's blog
  • How to query Wikidata using R, by Envel Le Hir
  • Inventory of the Cleveland Museum of Art images, by Magnus Manske

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • There is now a tool to validate mappings between Wikidata and external RDF vocabularies done with the properties equivalent property and equivalent class.
  • Topic matcher, a tool to help you adding a "main topic" or "depicts" statement to items about streets, articles, painting, etc.
  • Editing Wikidata - Swedish Cuisine by JanAinali on Twitch
  • City-Country-Shapes visualization based on Wikidata: how many of a country's largest cities do you need to put on a map to be able to recognise the country?

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: ELNET ID, iTunes book ID, iTunes movie ID, Romanian Soccer player ID, Skimap ID, sports.md athlete ID, Gault et Millau ID, Theatreonline.com ID, Dizionario di Storia Treccani ID, Smarthistory ID, vodnimlyny.cz ID, World Cube Association ID, COOL species ID, CORE ID, LevskiSofia.info coach ID, LevskiSofia.info player ID, Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música ID, JORFSearch organization ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: journal series, has alt-text, has lyrics, day of regular release, CBFC rating, full work on commons
    • External identifiers: sport-strana.ru article ID, football.odessa.ua person ID, NMSRCP reference number, AKB48 member ID, TV Spielfilm Series ID, MCULE ID, Global Species ID, Georgian National Filmography ID, Bureau van Dijk Orbis company ID, Bureau van Dijk Orbis person ID, Musicbrainz Event ID, ManualsLib brand ID, LGD local body code, Hymnary hymnal ID, Hymnary tune ID, Hymnary instance ID, Getty Images ID, Amsterdam code
  • Query examples:
    • Things depicted in the collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Ashmolean Museum (source)
    • Stradivari(us) instruments (source)
    • Rivers whose names in Spanish start with "Guad" (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Protected areas in Germany

• Development
  • Started development on Shape Expressions
  • Termbox: show an expanded-by-default section for the user's preferred languages (phab:T211865)
  • Provide visualization LUA usage on a dashboard (phab:T211768)
  • Fixed issues with sense ID wrapping (phab:T210502)
  • Background work to support the deployment of the next pieces for Structured Data on Commons

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:59, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 January 2019

• Op-Ed: Random Rewards Rejected

• In focus: The Collective Consciousness of Admin Userpages

• News and notes: WMF staff turntable continues to spin; Endowment gets more cash; RfA continues to be a pit of steely knives

• In the media: The Signpost's investigative story recognized, Wikipedia turns 18 and gets a birthday gift from Google, and more editors are recognized

• Discussion report: The future of the reference desk

• Featured content: Don't miss your great opportunity

• Arbitration report: An admin under the microscope

• Traffic report: Death, royals and superheroes: Avengers, Black Panther

• Technology report: When broken is easily fixed

• Gallery: Let us build a memorial fit for such pain and suffering

• News from the WMF: News from WMF

• Recent research: Ad revenue from reused Wikipedia articles; are Wikipedia researchers asking the right questions?

• Essay: How

• Humour: Village pump

• From the archives: An editorial board that includes you

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:50, 31 January 2019 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Linear profile

The article Linear profile has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

In its present form, with one paragraph and no references, this is only a dictionary definition, and should be expanded or deleted.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Robert McClenon (talk) 21:58, 3 February 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #350

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

• Events
  • Next Wikidata workshop/meetup in Paris: February 15th
  • Next Wikidata meetup in Berlin: March 12th
  • The conference grant proposal for WikidataCon was submitted and could use endorsements.

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • „Eisberg voraus!“ – Sächsische Landeskunde mit SXRM, Wikisource und Wikidata by Jens Bemme (in German)
  • Linking the OLAC Video Game Vocabulary with Wikidata by Tracy Hoffmann and Peter Chan
  • Adam blogged about how to update an existing Wikibase docker instance

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Got some time? SpeedPatrolling, a tool to simplify patrolling of recent changes on Wikidata (documentation), has been announced and you can use it to help fight vandalism.
  • Got some time? Match some streets and the humans they are named after.
  • Got some time? Help link OpenStreetMap and Wikidata Items with the new OSM <-> Wikidata matcher.
  • Wikidata Query Service now has over 7 billion triples.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: affiliation string, RightsStatement status according to source website, trading name, Alexander–Briggs notation
    • External identifiers: DIZIE ID, football.odessa.ua person ID, sport-strana.ru article ID, Homosaurus ID, funk channel ID, GEOFON earthquake ID, Georgian National Filmography ID, infosport.ru person ID, ManualsLib brand ID, MusicBrainz event ID, LGD local body code, HAER ID, Hymnary hymnal ID, Hymnary instance ID, Hymnary tune ID, Global Species ID, Amsterdam code
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: does not have quality (2), Den Digitale Byport-ID, expression of, calendar feed url, Total goals in career, Strepsiptera database species ID, Brentidae of the world species ID, Illustrated catalog of Tessaratomidae species ID, WBCHSE code
    • External identifiers: Douban Book ID, Douban Musician ID, Douban Author ID, Douban Music ID, Douban Drama ID, Douban Game ID, Douban Read Author ID, Douban Read eBook ID, Douban Site Name, Douban Username, Zhihu username, Bilibili user ID, QQ number, Bilibili video ID, Bilibili bangumi ID, Bilibili tag ID, Mtime movie ID, Mtime people ID, Dictionary of Anhui Writers ID, Fuzhou Architecture Heritage ID, Eventa Servo ID, Rocks Backpages author ID, Rocks Backpages artist ID, Rocks Backpages publication ID, Hulu movie ID, Hulu series ID, Democracy Club ID, ISA ID, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Schutzgebiete-ID, DALFAN ID, GameFAQs franchise ID, CABB player ID, castingvideos ID, Bildarchiv, Herder-Institut, IEEEXplore document ID, IEEEXplore author ID, Antarctica NZ Digital Asset Manager, Pacific Coast Architecture Database building ID, Twitter user ID, Australian Antarctic Data Center, Enciclopedia delle donne ID
  • Deleted properties: P1112 (Pokédex number)
  • Query examples:
    • Common topics of publications by people affiliated with a given organization
    • World __ days and other awareness days in calendar order (Source)
    • timeline of writing systems (source)
    • family tree of Donald Duck (source)
    • Common long words in titles of scholarly articles (source)
    • schools of magic by number of students (source)

• Development
  • Making progress towards first showable version of basic Shape Expression support
  • Layout polishing for the mobile termbox (the box that shows labels, desctiptions and aliases) and continuing work on the "in more languages" and "all entered languages" sections in it
  • Added tracking for the number of Senses and Forms to our graph for tracking the number of Items, Properties and Lexemes
  • Worked more on making it easier to set up Quickstatements in other Wikibase instances
  • Preventing an entity to redirect to itself (phabricator:T214919)
  • Working on making Federation (reusing Wikidata's Items and Properties to make statements) work for Wikimedia Commons to get the rollout of the next stage (support for depicts statements) unstuck
  • Fixed an issue with adding sitelinks from Commons (phabricator:T213975)
  • Fixing Cognate support for yue Wiktionary (phabricator:T214400)

• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 21:33, 4 February 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Oceania (continent) for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Oceania (continent) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Oceania (continent) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.

- BilCat (talk) 01:38, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #351

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

• Events
  • Past: Linking OpenStreetMap and Wikidata at FOSDEM

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Paper: Discovering Implicational Knowledge in Wikidata

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • There is now an experimental SPARQL service to query Wikidata history

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: day of regular release, Euler characteristic, has lyrics, maintenance method, CBFC rating, does not have quality
    • External identifiers: Code of Natura 2000/FFH habitat, Douban Author ID, Douban Book ID, Douban Drama ID, Douban Game ID, Douban Music ID, Douban Musician ID, Douban Read Author ID, Douban Read eBook ID, Douban Site Name, Douban Username, Zhihu username, Bilibili bangumi ID, Bilibili tag ID, Bilibili username, Bilibili video ID, Eventa Servo ID, Mtime movie ID, QQ number, Swedish Organization Number, Rock's Backpages artist ID, Rock's Backpages author ID, Rock's Backpages publication ID, Mtime people ID, Democracy Club ID, Hulu movie ID, Hulu series ID, ISA ID, Fuzhou Architecture Heritage ID, DALFAN ID, Den Digitale Byport ID, GameFAQs franchise ID, NMSRCP reference number, Swiss Films ID, CABB player ID, castingvideos ID, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern protected area ID, IEEEXplore author ID, IEEEXplore document ID, Strepsiptera database species ID, Image Archive, Herder-Institut, WBCHSE code, Antarctica NZ Digital Asset Manager, Brentidae of the world species ID, Pacific Coast Architecture Database building ID, Illustrated catalog of Tessaratomidae species ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: creator name string, Literate population, Illiterate population, designated survivor, stall speed, maintain, Insects (Insecta) of the World ID, solar eclipse type, student organization of
    • External identifiers: BibliotecaVirtualAndalucia authority ID, BIDICAM authority ID, BVPH authority ID, CCBAE ID, identifiant sur l'annuaire du service public, Joan Miró Online Image Bank ID, ISTC No., KSI player ID, Board Game Atlas ID, LSE article ID, JWF Wrestlers Database, Georgian National Filmography ID for Persons, Eliseu Visconti Project ID, Indian census area code (1991), AICTE Permanent ID, German School ID, DOGC ID, DoBIH Number
  • Query examples:
    • Counts of Indian films directed and written by the same person, sorted by film language (source)
    • Sovereign states that have more than one capital city (source)
    • Decreases in sex ratio for mandals of West Godavari district between 2001 and 2011 (source)
    • Counts of articles published in different Indian medical journals, sorted by year/journal (source)
    • Forms to Lexeme ratio per language (source)
    • Airports and railway stations named after fictional people or works of fiction (source)
    • Species of hummingbirds, their genus, and image (source)

• Development
  • Working on the "in more languages" and "all entered languages" parts of the termbox on mobile
  • Working on making undo, revert, edit summaries and more work for Shape Expressions
  • Fixed an error when detecting the same label and description in another Item (phabricator:T194770, thanks Matěj)
  • Making Lemma input on Lexeme pages save your input when you press enter (phabricator:T206140)
  • Making QuickStatements work more easily for other Docker-powered Wikibase instances (phabricator:T205606)
  • Worked more on making Federation work for making Statements on Wikimedia Commons (phabricator:T214557)
  • Working on stripping whitespaces at the beginning and end of Glosses when saving them (phabricator:T212019)
  • Looking into adding more signals to ORES' vandalism detection model so we can detect bad edits more accurately (phabricator:T194737)
  • Preventing a redirect of an Entity onto itself (phabricator:T214775)
  • Fixed an issue with adding sitelinks from Wikimedia Commons (phabricator:T213975)
  • Unified the separators between language and lexical category in different places (phabricator:T201808)

• 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 #352

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: NewDataB
  • New request for comments: semi-protection to prevent vandalism on most used Items, Allow for Wikidata items to be created that only link to a single Wikimedia Commons category (Wikidata notability discussion)

• Events
  • February 19th: Wikidata meetup in London - Facebook event
  • February 21st to 24th: International Mother Language Day edit-a-thon
  • February 23rd: editathon about Parliament of Ghana in Accra - Registration
  • March 28th: GLAM & Wikidata day in Switzerland (registration running until March 18th)

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Let’s Tango: Computational Musicology Using Wikidata, MusicBrainz and the Wolfram Language, by Toni Schindler

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Got some time? Add QIDs to the tools on Edit items, Query data, Enhance user interface, Visualize data, Lexicographical data, For programmers and List of properties. If some tools don't have their own Items, feel free to create them.
  • Hardware issues at Toolforge and CloudVPS affect lots of tools and coincide with changes in the statement stats dynamics
  • WikibaseCirrusSearch will become a Mediawiki extension
  • You can still help Shani Evenstein with her research: Wikidata as a Learning Platform

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: drag coefficient, illiterate population, literate population, non-free artwork image URL, taxon author citation, total goals in career, stall speed
    • External identifiers: Enciclopedia delle donne ID, Joan Miró Online Image Bank ID, BIDICAM authority ID, Board Game Atlas ID, BVPH authority ID, CCBAE publication ID, ISTC No., KSI player ID, Biblioteca Virtual Andalucía authority ID, Georgian National Filmography ID for Persons, JWF Wrestlers Database person ID, Indian census area code (1991), Lithuanian Sport Encyclopedia (LSE) article ID, Eliseu Visconti Project ID, UN/CEFACT common code
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: ScaleNet ID, Lokalhistoriewiki article, Identifiant itch.io, approach angle, departure angle, ride height, type of front suspensions, type of rear suspensions, Football Money League rank, is model of, constraint clarification, has phenotype, observed in, replacement property, evidenční číslo domu, Stack Exchange site
    • External identifiers: WhoSampled artist, äriregister, ISO 639-3 Change Request ID, Queerly Represent Me identifier, V.League player ID, Martindale-Hubbell profile, Google Play Movies & TV id, Fondation Maeght ID, identifiant d'un jeu de données sur data.gouv.fr, BHL part ID, ETS Designated Institution code, Gateway to Research Project ID, Yandex.Music label ID, Yandex.Music genre ID
  • Query examples:
    • Bubble chart of Indian universities with the most people ever employed by them (source)
    • Graph of shared borders between certain West Bengal community development blocks (source)
    • Tree map of ambassadors to India (source)
    • Fictional swords (source)
    • Taxa named after women scientists (source)
    • Timeline of red pandas (source)

• Development
  • Improve the tools dropdown on query.wikidata.org, which now links Tools categories and the Toolforge (phabricator:T214577)
  • Implement the diff view for Schemas (phabricator:T214396, phabricator:T215514)
  • Implement undo for Schemas (phabricator:T214914)
  • Prevent redirecting an entity to itself (phabricator:T214775)
  • Make pressing enter when editing a lemma save the lemma (phabricator:T206140)
  • Strip whitespace around sense glosses (phabricator:T212019)
  • Create LilyPond datatype (phabricator:T215284)
  • More work to get the new version of the termbox readable on mobile

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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 #353

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Talk pages consultation 2019 (feel free to add more sub-sections)

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata hackathon in Ulm with Open Knowledge Foundation. Video of the presentation of the projects (in German)
  • Running until March 2nd: International Mother Language Day edit-a-thon
  • Upcoming: Wikidata and the Diversity of Knowledge workshop in Graz, Austria, on March 3rd
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, March 12th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris, March 15th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikipedia workshop in Aberdeen, Scotland, on March 19th

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Inside the Alexa-Friendly World of Wikidata, by Tom Simonite on Wired
  • Align BNF's video games and Wikidata with Dataiku DSS (in French) by Envel Le Hir

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • If you're using Wikidata's data dumps, you may want to give feedback on a potential change about when those dumps are generated (ticket)
  • Some games and tools developed during the Wikidata hackathon in Ulm:
    • Card game generator
    • Multiplayer game Guess the (German) Politician
    • Telegram bot @WikidataMisfitBot, sending pictures with one wrong label
    • WikiProjekt offeneregister.de
  • If you're developing new tools or hear about new tools, please add them to Wikidata:Tools so other people can find them :)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: expression of, provisional house number in the Czech Republic, has role in modeling, observed in, has phenotype, type of front suspension, type of rear suspension
    • External identifiers: AICTE Permanent ID, DOGC ID, DoBIH Number, ScaleNet ID, WhoSampled artist ID, Business Registry code (Estonia), ISO 639-3 Change Request ID, Lokalhistoriewiki article, Crew united person ID, Fondation Maeght artist ID, data.gouv.fr dataset ID, V.League men's player ID, V.League women's player ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Total assists in career, Total points in career, Career plus-minus rating, Penalty minutes in career, Total power play goals in career, Total power play assists in career, Total shots in career, MeSH Descriptor, Former street name
    • External identifiers: NZ On Screen person ID, NZ On Screen work ID, Brazilian Electoral Unit ID, Catálogo de Patrimonio Cultural de Castilla-La Mancha ID, PCAD firm ID, Inventário dos Monumentos RJ ID, SICRIS researcher ID, Physics History Network ID, Sachsen-Anhalt Schutzgebiete-ID, Amis du Louvre ID, Nationation Wrestling Hall of Fame d'un lutteur, Brillant Wiki ID, Official Charts artist ID, Nationation Wrestling Hall of Fame d'une équipe universitaire, Dimensions.guide ID, SensaCine movie ID, SensaCine series ID, Bilibili channel ID
  • Query examples:
    • Women having a good or featured article on Russian Wikipedia but no article on French Wikipedia (source)
    • Timeline of Renaissance humanists (source)
    • Map of cities from the Hanseatic League (source)
    • Image gallery of musicians who have a software title named after them (source)
    • Frequency of first letter in Breton words in Wikidata (source)
    • Items about buildings with coordinates and at least one sitelink, but no image (source)

• Development
  • Updated some icons with the new WikimediaUI icon set (phab:T209259)
  • Fixed an issue that was causing occasional failures when creating new Items (phab:T194299)
  • Investigated Wikidata Tours not loading correctly (phab:T215919)
  • Adjusted spacing between Sense ID, bar and Gloss (phab:T215502)
  • Fixing a long time issue with introducing new data types in production (phab:T216728)
  • Fixing docs for backup of wikibase container images (phab:T214941)
  • Making undo, rollback and restore work on schema content pages (phab:T214399)
  • Improving edit summaries for schema content pages (phab:T213724)
  • Tightening up the process for editing "identifying information" for Schemas (phab:T214466)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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: 28 February 2019

• From the editors: Help wanted (still)

• News and notes: Front-page issues for the community

• In focus: Wikimedia affiliate organizations seek community participation in 2019 board election

• Discussion report: Talking about talk pages

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• Traffic report: Binge-watching

• Technology report: Tool labs casters-up

• Gallery: Signed with pride

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Wikidata weekly summary #354

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Esteban16
  • Closed request for comments: 2018 administrator policy update

• Events
  • Upcoming: WikiConNL in Utrecht (Netherlands), on March 8-9th (in Dutch and English)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, on March 12th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris, on March 15th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikipedia workshop in Aberdeen, Scotland, on March 19th
  • Upcoming: GLAM and Wikidata in National Library, Bern (Switzerland), on March 28th (in German and French).
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop for GLAM in Lausanne (Switzerland), on March 29th (in French).

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Matching BnF and Wikidata video games using Dataiku DSS (in English) by Envel Le Hir

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Congratulations to Siobhan Leachman (d:User:Ambrosia10), awarded the "Companion of the Auckland War Memorial Museum" medal for her volunteer work, including contributions to Wikidata: [1].
  • You can now try Shape Expressions on a test system
  • Creative Commons has a proposal for tool development with Wikidata's copyright metadata for the 2019 edition of Google Summer of Code. Interested student developers are invited to apply.
  • Tpt's Wikidata history query service stores and allows querying metadata about Wikidata's edit history
  • A new beta version of the Daty Wikidata Editor has been released, check out the changelog. You can also show your endorsement to the project over here.
  • Scholarship application phase for Wikimania 2019 is now open until March 15th. The call for track leaders is also open.
  • OpenRefine 3.2 beta was released, with a collection of new features and bug fixes, many of which improve the Wikidata integration.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: multi-channel network, Stack Exchange site, total shots in career, total points in career, total assists in career, penalty minutes in career, career plus-minus rating, preferred pronoun
    • External identifiers: BHL part ID, Gateway to Research Project ID, Yandex.Music genre ID, Yandex.Music label ID, Catálogo de Patrimonio Cultural de Castilla-La Mancha ID, Inventário dos Monumentos RJ ID, NZ On Screen person ID, NZ On Screen work ID, Pacific Coast Architecture Database firm ID, Physics History Network ID, Twitter user ID, identifier of games on Queerly Represent Me, Brazilian Electoral Unit ID, SICRIS researcher ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Location specifics, Mountain chain, temperature record, stroke order, Höchstes Break, Dutch Instrument Makers ID, Lucerna person ID, Endowment, Guggenheim fellows ID, Downloads page, is a synonym of taxon name
    • External identifiers: Académie de Rouen member ID, Sistem Registrasi Nasional Cagar Budaya ID, Musenor ID, ProQuest document ID, Florida Historical Marker List ID, Klexikon-Article-ID, Federal-State Cooperative System ID, identifikátor v Adresáři knihoven a informačních institucí v ČR, Cour des comptes report ID, Directorio Legislativo ID, Deportation Database transport-ID, Art Fund ID, Scripts.com script, National Book Foundation author ID, National Book Foundation book ID, DFD-ID, Mutual Art artist ID, a-tremasov.ru biography ID, Project Drawdown solution ID, Paintings by Salvador Dalí ID, HCA Red List of Endangered Crafts ID, flgr-results.ru athlete ID, Resident Advisor artist ID, Resident Advisor record label ID, ACA ID
  • Query examples:
    • Average distance between a French museum and its hosted artists' place of birth (source)
    • Persons with a surname that matches the past participle form of a Danish verb (source)
    • Town halls of communes bordering Paris (source)
    • Literary awards with 0–2 recipients (source)
    • Female Howard medical grads before 1900 (source)
    • items including the property "preferred pronoun" (source)
    • Map of tram service in Ulm (source)

• Development
  • Added monolingual language code tlb (Tobelo), thanks User:Mbch331! (T216798, will be deployed next week)
  • Integrating the termbox with Wikibase (phab:T214679)
  • Viewing historic revisions and fetching the termbox data from Special:EntityData (phab:T210615)
  • Fixing emoji breaking the termbox (phab:T217244)
  • Renamed special pages under Wikibase to avoid confusion with Schemas special pages (phab:T216719)
  • Removed unsupported php 7 constant in production, causing a notice and potential undefined behavior ([[phab:T217241
  • Investigated wb_term normalization solution (phab:T215902)
  • Fix for outdated cached WB datatypes on client-side (phab:T216728 (blocks enabling new datatypes, e.g. phab:T216730))
  • Allowing access to wikibase entities from multiple (wikibase) databases (phab:T214557)
  • Allowing to return a proper API error on 'wbformatvalue' action (phab:T207479)
  • Providing open-graph title and discretion meta-tags for lexemes (phab:T206414)
  • Allowing quickstatements to work out-of-the-box in wikibase-quickstatments docker image (phab:T205606)
  • Implementing “undo” for Schemass (phab:T214914, making it work via the API (phab:T217250)
  • Implementing “restore” for Schemas (phab:T214915)
  • Adding created and edited Schemas to the watchlist according to the user’s preferences (phab:T213725)
  • Splitting edit parts on Schemas (phab:T215395, phab:T215393, phab:T215392, phab:T215394)
  • Improving support for multilingual edit comments in MediaWiki (phab:T215637)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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 #355

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Dimon2711
  • Closed request for adminship: Esteban16, welcome onboard!

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, on March 12th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris, on March 15th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikipedia workshop in Aberdeen, Scotland, on March 19th
  • Upcoming: GLAM and Wikidata in National Library, Bern (Switzerland), on March 28th (in German and French).
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop for GLAM in Lausanne (Switzerland), on March 29th (in French).
  • Upcoming: Where iNaturalist meets Wiki (Invasive plants) April 16th, Meise, Belgium
  • Upcoming: How does Wikimedia Solve the Problems of Biodiversity Informatics? Biodivesity Next (Leiden, the Netherlands), October 19th-25th 2019

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Combining AI and Human Judgment to Build Knowledge about Art on a Global Scale by Andrew Lih
  • Data Quality Management in Wikidata – Workshop write-up, by Cristina Sarasua, Claudia Müller-Birn, and Mariam Farda-Sarbas
  • Museum Collections on Wikipedia: Opening Up to Open Data Initiatives by Elena Villaespesa and Trilce Navarrete

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Client wikis calling geocoordinate statements from Wikidata using mw.wikibase.entity:formatStatements or the #statements parser function will now have it displayed using a Kartographer <maplink> if available. In case of bug or question, feel free to ask in phab:T210926. Thanks to Tpt for the change!
  • A Google Summer of Code/Outreachy project seeks to add structure to the Commons app. Photographers will be able to pick Wikidata items that are depicted by the picture they upload.
  • Suggestions based on constraints can be enabled for all users

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: key performance indicator, inscription mentions, taxa especially protected in area, number of words, collective noun for animals, Cook Partisan Voting Index, league system, endowment, highest break, maximum temperature record, OSM zoom level, hyperonym
    • External identifiers: Dimensions.guide ID, National Wrestling Hall of Fame University Team ID, Official Charts artist ID, Saxony-Anhalt protected area ID, AiF dossier ID, Google Play Movies & TV id, Brilliant Wiki ID, Musenor artwork ID, Indonesian Cultural Heritage Registration System ID, Florida Historical Marker List ID, ProQuest document ID, Klexikon-Article-ID, Libraries & Information Centers in the Czech Republic ID, Académie de Rouen member ID, Art Fund artwork ID, Cour des comptes report ID, MutualArt artist ID, National Book Foundation author ID, National Book Foundation book ID, Deportation Database transport ID, Dutch Instrument Makers ID, Lucerna person ID, Scripts.com script, Directorio Legislativo ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: located in the constituency, feed-in tariff, General Material Designation, CDEC ID, Family progenitor, solar irradiance
    • External identifiers: film-documentaire.fr author ID, theatre-contemporain.net ID, SNISB ID, Rheinland-Pfalz Schutzgebiete-ID, Zagat, Zomato, Libreflix ID, JMdictDB ID, Bibliography of the History of the Czech Lands ID, EmacsWiki ID, FFS athlete ID, FSkate.ru skater ID, Plant Illustrations artist ID, FaroeSoccer coach ID, FaroeSoccer player ID
  • Deleted properties:
  • Query examples:
    • Calendar of Saints' feast days and other calendar queries
    • A bunch of new GLAM-related queries including image gallery of the most notable libraries and map of museums colour-coded by type.
    • the number of songs in Wikidata named after days of the week by day
    • Map of preserved Concorde aircrafts
    • Timeline of video games having at least 42 Wikipedia sitelinks (source)
    • Timeline of Microscopists (source)
    • Map of all the libraries in the world present on Wikidata (source)
    • People with songs named after them (source)
    • Animals most frequently depicted in artworks (source)
    • Field of work of the Austrian scientists with an Orcid ID (source)
  • Women from Africa sorted by number of sitelinks (source)

• Development
  • Work page to get the Schema Text by subpage syntax (phab:T214383)
  • Set up a page to set label, description and aliases for Schema (phab:T215392, phab:T217313)
  • Remove edit tab from Schema pages (phab:T215394)
  • Disable possibility to enter duplicate aliases for the same Schema (phab:T217634, phab:T217749)
  • Add ULS, Babel and CLDR support on wikidata-shex.wmflabs.org (phab:T216146)
  • Add the option to restore Schemas! (phab:T214915)
  • Undo edit on Schemas through API (phab:T217250)
  • Multilingual support on Special:NewSchema (phab:T216154)
  • Work on Termbox SSR integration (phab:T214679)
  • Provide meta tags for lexemes (phab:T206414)
  • Make Quickstatements work out of the box in wikibase docker image (phab:T205606)
  • Disabling RDF for Media Info (phab:T213483)
  • Add tooltips for statements linking to a lexeme form (phab:T205279)
  • Allowing multiple wikibase DBs access (phab:T214557)
  • Add baserevid to WikibaseLexeme API (phab:T217243)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:55, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #356

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

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikipedia workshop in Aberdeen, Scotland, on March 19th
  • Upcoming: Training "Valoriser les collections patrimoniales et la recherche en histoire de l’art sur Wikipédia, WikiCommons et Wikidata" in Paris, 28 and 29 March (in French)
  • Upcoming: GLAM and Wikidata in National Library, Bern (Switzerland), on March 28th (in German and French).
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop for GLAM in Lausanne (Switzerland), on March 29th (in French).
  • Upcoming: Monthly Wikidata meetup in Buenos Aires

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • What Wikidata offers Oxford’s GLAM Digital Strategy

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A new data type is available : musical notation
  • A research report is now available for the project Wikimedia Commons Data Roundtripping. The research investigates which (updated) metadata cultural institutions would like to retrieve back from (Structured) Wikimedia Commons, and what the main barriers are. Research summary / presentation slides / full report
  • If you're using Wikidata dumps, please note that the update schedule may change from fixed weekday to fixed day of the month. More info in this ticket
  • Slides of the Wikidata presentation during UNESCO's Mobile Learning Week by Shani Evenstein now available on Commons.
  • A project to link branded businesses in Open Street Maps to Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Guggenheim fellows ID, Sandbox-Musical Notation
    • External identifiers: Paintings by Salvador Dalí ID, a-tremasov.ru biography ID, Digital Dictionary of Surnames in Germany ID, flgr-results.ru athlete ID, HCA Red List of Endangered Crafts ID, Resident Advisor artist ID, Resident Advisor label ID, Rhineland-Palatinate protected area ID, film-documentaire.fr author ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: average speed, Digital Author Identifier, date of the latest value change, chữ Nôm, capacity factor, study or design for, motif (music), chess position
    • External identifiers: Salvador Dali Museum ID, Tainacan MHN ID, AWARE ID, Cini Foundation ID, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam ID, Semantic Scholar topic ID, Artcurial ID, Ashmolean museum ID, Index to American Botanical Literature ID, Periscope pscp.tv, LinkedIn personal profile ID, Library of Parliament Person ID, Gamepedia Article ID, 100 bombardirov person ID, JRC Names id, Fandango theater ID, Epitafier.se
  • Query examples:
    • Color associations in national flags (source)
    • List of German-language female science fiction authors (source)
    • List of the Wikimedia projects in French and languages of France (source)

• Development
  • Prepare new constraint icons (phab:T191322)
  • View history revisions of entities on new termbox mobile (phab:T210615)
  • Caching termbox output on the Wikibase side (phab:T214679)
  • Fix emojis breaking the termbox layout in Chrome (phab:T217244)
  • Work on multilingual support for schemas (phab:T215387)
  • Implement a length limit for the schema text (phab:T216148)
  • Replace the heading/title for schema pages similar to what Wikibase does (phab:T215759)
  • Deploy the shex-simple website, which can be used to check entities against a schema in the browser, on Toolforge (phab:T217333)
  • Deploy the score data type to production

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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 #357

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Stanglavine
  • An open discussion on how to model one-way train routes is now taking place, and everyone is welcome to pitch in

• Events
  • Past: Researcher meets Curator, 22 March 2019, Maastricht: meeting about biographies, where Wikidata was mentioned in many talks, eg. Visual Biographies of Scholars and the Topics they Studied, Egon Willighagen
  • Upcoming: Training "Valoriser les collections patrimoniales et la recherche en histoire de l’art sur Wikipédia, WikiCommons et Wikidata" in Paris, 28 and 29 March (in French)
  • Upcoming: GLAM and Wikidata in National Library, Bern (Switzerland), on March 28th (in German and French)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop for GLAM in Lausanne (Switzerland), on March 29th (in French)
  • Upcoming: Monthly Wikidata meetup in Buenos Aires
  • Upcoming: Where iNaturalist meets Wiki April 16th, in Meise (Belgium)

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • SPARQL via WDQS (very basic introduction for archivist) (in French).
  • "Build your own Digital Bodleian with IIIF and SPARQL", Martin Poulter, Bodleian Digital Library blog
  • A call to action: Wikidata-fy your Commons photos, Martin Poukter, Wikimedia UK blog
  • On Wikimedia Research from March 2019: Learning How to Correct a Knowledge Base from the Edit History, by Thomas Pellissier Tanon, Camille Bourgaux and Fabian Suchanek (slides, video)
  • The panEuropean Research Infrastructure "Mobilising Data, Experts and Policies in Scientific Collections" initiative's kick-off meeting had a workshop on the "Authority Management of People Names". Wikidata featured strongly - and was highly praised: Twitter thread
  • Lexicographical data on Wikidata: Words, words, words by Jens Ohlig

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • It is now possible to filter by property in EditGroups. For instance, you can get an overview of the author disambiguation efforts by filtering on .
  • Related Wikidata Properties: new tool to explore Wikidata properties and find properties used together (example: external id properties used in conjunction with Elo rating (P1087)).
  • New tool: BNF Scrapper generates content ready for QuickStatement from an author file from the French National Library
  • Tips for Wikidata SPARQL query optimization

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: study or design for, constraint clarification, General Material Designation, value hierarchy property
    • External identifiers: Plant Illustrations artist ID, Ashmolean museum ID, Semantic Scholar topic ID, FFS athlete ID, CSKA person ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: quotation or excerpt (music), Classification RCQ, CHVRS Classification
    • External identifiers: Kicker.de player ID, XING company ID, Le Figaro tag ID, Le Parisien tag ID, L'Express tag ID, Orlando person ID, Identifier, Sumo Reference, SA Rugby Player ID, EUNIS ID for habitats, Japan Search name ID, FIS telemark skier ID, Rxivist author ID, Rxivist preprint ID, Motorsports Hall of Fame of America ID
  • Query examples:
    • Maximum temperatures on Earth (°F/°C) (source)
    • People with social media accounts that are identical but differently capitalised (source)

• Development
  • Update property suggester data (phab:T216270)
  • Add a link to the shex-simple tool to make it easier to check entities against a Schema (phab:T217331)
  • Make the placeholders on Special:NewSchema now match the ones on Special:NewItem (phab:T215386)
  • Check for edit conflicts when editing schemas (phab:T217338, phab:T218300)
  • Enable the parser cache for Schema pages (phab:T218459, phab:T218769)
  • Use the FormatAutocomments hook for Schemas to implement translatable edit summaries (phab:T218889)
  • Implement a proper Wikibase-Termbox-Integration according to the ADR (phab:T214679)
  • Fix the emoji breaking the termbox column layout (phab:T217244)
  • Correctly showing revisions with the new termbox (phab:T210615)
  • Correctly handle user-specific language settings in the new termbox (phab:T218111)
  • Fix an issue for score extension (phab:T218535)
  • Turn off RDF support for entity types that doesn't support it (phab:T213483)
  • Respect nofollow config on wikidata identifier links (phab:T175230)
  • Allow accessing Wikibase entities from multiple (Wikibase) databases (phab:T214557)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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: 31 March 2019

• From the editors: Getting serious about humor

• News and notes: Blackouts fail to stop EU Copyright Directive

• In the media: Women's history month

• Discussion report: Portal debates continue, Prespa agreement aftermath, WMF seeks a rebranding

• Featured content: Out of this world

• Arbitration report: The Tides of March at ARBCOM

• Traffic report: Exultations and tribulations

• Technology report: New section suggestions and sitewide styles

• News from the WMF: The WMF's take on the new EU Copyright Directive

• Recent research: Barnstar-like awards increase new editor retention

• From the archives: Esperanza organization disbanded after deletion discussion

• Humour: The Epistolary of Arthur 37

• Op-Ed: Pro and Con: Has gun violence been improperly excluded from gun articles?

• In focus: The Wikipedia SourceWatch

• Special report: Wiki Loves (50 Years of) Pride

• Community view: Wikipedia's response to the New Zealand mosque shootings

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Wikidata weekly summary #358

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

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata meetup during the Wikimedia Summit, March 29th in Berlin (collaborative notes)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop for archives in Saint-Etienne, France, on April 3rd and 5th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin in Wikibär on April 14th
  • Upcoming: Where iNaturalist meets Wiki April 16th, in Meise (Belgium)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • WikidataCon 2019 application, program submission and scholarship processes are now open until April 29th
  • Structured Data on Commons: You can now test creating depicts statements
  • While editing OpenStreetMap from the iD editor, it will now be possible to match map data with Wikidata by typing in names and getting an autocompleted label.
  • OpenStreetMap is participating in this year's Google Summer of Code, and quite a few of the project ideas involve Wikidata integration.
  • Discussion going on in W3C SPARQL 1.2 Community Group about the improvements in SPARQL language

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: capacity factor, position in Forsyth-Edwards Notation
    • External identifiers: Libreflix ID, Kicker.de player ID, Library of Parliament of Canada person ID, RoMEO publisher ID, Federal-State Cooperative System ID, XING company ID, L'Express person ID, Le Figaro tag ID, Le Parisien tag ID, Gamepedia article ID, FSkate.ru skater ID, Salvador Dali Museum ID, Index to American Botanical Literature ID, FaroeSoccer player ID, FaroeSoccer coach ID, Artcurial lot ID, SNISB ID, Tainacan MHN ID, 100 bombardirov person ID, Cini Foundation ID, LinkedIn personal profile ID, ACA author ID, CDEC ID, AWARE ID, JRC Names id, Zomato ID, TV Spielfilm series ID, Fandango theater ID, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam ID, JMdictDB ID, Zagat ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: First attestation, match interval, réédité par, calligrapher, Ordained by, code produit, Wikidata property example for media
    • External identifiers: Baden-Württemberg Schutzgebiete-ID, K10plus editions, Utpictura18 ID, Le Vif tag ID, Common Sense Media review ID, Pro-Linux.de DBApp ID, Libregamewiki ID, Democracy Club Election ID, MARGS ID, Kobo author ID, WoRMS source ID, Kobo narrator ID, NGMDb Prod ID, Memórias da Ditadura ID, Placar UOL Eleições ID, AntWiki, MESH Concept ID, MESH Term ID, Desaparecidos Políticos ID
  • Query examples:
    • Siblings who have won the Israel Prize (source)
    • British female engineers, 1919-2019 (source)
    • Female scientific illustrators (source)
    • French archivists with a picture (source)
    • Archive institutions in Switzerland and how much they hold (source)
    • Graph of open source research software by field (source)
    • Groups of characters in the Marvel universe (source)
    • In what type of places are ancient Greek potteries stored? (source)

• Development
  • Work on a dashboard for external identifiers (phab:T204440)
  • Add baserevid to WikibaseLexeme API modules (phab:T217243)
  • Add tests for embed.html (phab:T212649)
  • Improve features for wikibase vandalism detection model (phab:T194737)
  • Improve Property Info cache performance (phab:T218115, phab:T218197)
  • Adding nofollow to external identifiers links (phab:T175230)
  • Hide query helper by default in Query Service (phab:T217886)
  • More work on wb_terms normalization (Phab board)
  • Enable trimming whitespace around Label/Description/Aliases and Schema text (phab:T215761)
  • Prevent moving Schemas between namespaces (and generally) (phab:T219313)
  • Limit the length of Schema labels, descriptions, aliases, and schema text in the frontend (phab:T218867)
  • Add tracking for clicks on the “check entities against this Schema” link (phab:T218899)
  • Disallow importing of Schemas from another wiki or XML files to avoid ID conflicts (phab:T218181)
  • Make sure RTL text is being handled correctly in the Schema labels, descriptions and aliases table (phab:T219136)
  • Add a publish button on mobile termbox: (phab:T218573)
  • Building the wbeditentity request to be fired on save request: (phab:T218577)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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 #359

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: Stanglavine (welcome onboard!)
  • New request for comments: Countries, subdivisions, and disputed territories
  • Closed request for comments: Talk pages consultation 2019

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, April 9th at 16:30 UTC (18:30 in Berlin)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, April 14th in Wikibär
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris, April 19th
  • Upcoming: The Celtic Knot Conference, dedicated to languages on the Wikimedia projects, will take place in Cornwall on July 4-5. Call for submissions is now open

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Using Wikidata’s entities and ontology to measure how much attention content receives, by Conrad Lee on Parse.ly

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • [Breaking change] Empty containers in JSON outputs will be serialized as empty object "{}"
  • [Breaking change] A new status of constraint will be enabled, causing some changes in the WikibaseQualityConstraints constraint checking API
  • The Wikimedia URL shortener will be launched on 11 April; see Wikidata:URLShortener. It will not be immediately incorporated into the Query Service but the feature is planned.
  • The Library of the African Studies Centre in Leiden compiled an experimental web dossier which combines the components of a classical ASCL web dossier with features offered by Wikidata.
  • The gender gap tool Delenezh is online again and now hosted by Wikimedia France
  • New tool: Related Properties, exploring Wikidata properties by the similarity of their use (see blog post by Envlh)
  • Property statistics on Wikiprojects: sum of all paintings, video games

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: stroke order, CHVRS Classification, Classification RCQ, musical quotation or excerpt
    • External identifiers: Democracy Club Election ID, Martindale-Hubbell profile, Sumo Reference ID, ETS Designated Institution code, Periscope pscp.tv, BHCL ID, Baden-Württemberg protected area ID, Rxivist author ID, Rxivist preprint ID, Springboks Rugby Player ID, Utpictura18 artwork ID, Le Vif tag ID, Pro-Linux.de DBApp ID, Libregamewiki ID, MARGS ID, theatre-contemporain.net ID, FIS telemark skier ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Arcade system, Audio system, IANA time zone identifier, has sequenced genome, WMF short URL, translated to (language translation)
    • External identifiers: OpenEdition books ID, OpenEdition ID, MassBank Accession ID, identyfikator sztuki w e-teatr.pl, identifiant GameFAQs d'un jeu, CIN ID, New York City Neighborhood Tabulation area ID, Alexander Turnbull Library Name ID, Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG cards ID, DCMI metadata term, CroRec ID, Radio Courtoisie program ID, Russia.tv actor profile ID, LNB Coach id, Sachsen Schutzgebiete-ID, Dictionnaire des Vendéens ID, Trainline ID
  • Query examples:
    • Public art in London (source)
    • Software titles that have their own mascot (source)
    • Wikipedia articles using a transgender person’s deadname in the title (source)
    • Entities linked to a 3d model (source)
    • Graph of parties at the Feb 1974 general election in the UK (source)
  • Newest database reports: first names of Italians

• Development
  • More work on documenting and preparing the announcement for the Wikidata External Landscape dashboard (phab:T204440)
  • Improved the documentation of WMDE analytic documents (phab:T219844)
  • Set up translatable schema edit summaries using the FormatAutocomments hook (phab:T218893)
  • Improved right-to-left support on schema pages (phab:T219298)
  • Protected schemas against imports (phab:T218181) and page moves (phab:T219313) and disabled the useless “move” and “create” protections for them (phab:T219980)
  • Improved schema edit conflict detection to allow merging of non-conflicting edits (phab:T218300, phab:T219173)
  • Improved the Extension:WikibaseSchema documentation on mediawiki.org (phab:T219979)
  • Fixed a bug on Lexicographical Data when editing existing grammatical features (phab:T219318)
  • Increased musical notation datatype string length limit to 1500 characters (phab:T218767)
  • Got ready for the last steps of new constraint level for suggestions (phab:T204439)
  • More work on allowing editing of mobile termbox fields (phab:T216987)
  • Let term value fields grow with their content (phab:T220185)
  • More work on migrating away from wb_terms

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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 #360

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Non-free content

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata IRC office hour, on April 9th (read the log)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris, April 19th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XIV, April 25th in São Paulo, Brazil

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Wikidata at work on tcworld.info
  • Searching News Articles Using an Event Knowledge Graph Leveraged by Wikidata (pdf) (search engine demonstration)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New tool: qwikidata, a Python package to process Wikidata entities and dumps
  • New dashboard: visualisations of external identifiers on Wikidata
  • Several Wikidata-related projects will be funded by WMF Project Grants
  • The page Wikidata:Wikimania 2019 is here to help you coordinating with other people regarding your submissions for Wikimania 2019. The opening of submissions is planned for late April.
  • Reminder: you can apply to participate to the WikidataCon 2019 before April 29th

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: first attested from, Wikidata property example for media, musical motif
    • External identifiers: French public service directory ID, Placar UOL Eleições ID, Memórias da Ditadura ID, Desaparecidos Políticos ID, OpenEdition book ID, OpenEdition Books author ID, WoRMS source ID, e-teatr.pl play ID, MESH Term ID, EUNIS ID for habitats, Motorsports Hall of Fame of America ID, Alexander Turnbull Library Name ID, IANA timezone ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Recognition, recognized by, not recognized by, jurisdiction status, job title, military unit size, business partner, microarchitecture, Video system, Mesh Qualifier ID, cache l1-l2-l3, text features, Software development model, Dimore Storiche Italiane ID, SIUSA ID, FTP server
    • External identifiers: Shanghai Library person ID, Shanghai Library place ID, IMTL.org id, CNV-SP ID, MyNeta.info political party ID, GruCultura ID, CEMDP ID, identifiant Projet de recherche en littérature de langue bretonne, SportSport.ba player ID, SportSport.ba club ID, SportSport.ba news ID, Heritage Gazetteer of Libya, FoodOn ID, Finnish Trade Register ID
  • Query examples:
    • Gender balance of art prizes and Gender balance of literary awards (source)
    • Images used on more than one item about a person (source)
    • Map of public libraries in Wales coloured by county (source)
    • Artworks by street artist Invader in Versailles (source)
    • American Sign Language signs for the letters of the English alphabet
    • French Sign Language signs for the letters of the French alphabet

• Development
  • Added Sámi monolingual language codes sia (Akkala), sjk (Kemi) and sjt (Ter), thanks to Jon Harald Søby (phab:T217521)
  • Moving forward with enabling constraints suggestions for everyone and remove beta feature (phab:T220609)
  • Fixing an issue with displaying mapframes for geocoordinate on client (phab:T220122)
  • Make it impossible to set the same content in the same language for label and description (phab:T212869)
  • Catch Exceptions where the entity can not be serialized due to being too big (phab:T217741)
  • Fix the order of value suggestions based on constraint (phab:T220587)
  • Add links on entity suggestions from constraint definitions (phab:T207363)
  • Increase musical notation datatype string length limit to 1500 characters (phab:T218767)
  • More work on making the new mobile termbox editable (phab:T216987)
  • More work on migrating away from wb_terms

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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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Renaming sections

If you want to rename a section, you should either check for incoming section links, or add an anchor, see: Template:Anchor Freelance Intellectual (talk) 11:45, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #361

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

• Events
  • Past: Editathon Where iNaturalist meets Wiki, on April 16th in Meise, Belgium
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Argentina, April 25th
  • Upcoming; Wikidata workshop in Pardubice, Czech Republic

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Association of Research Libraries White Paper on Wikidata: Opportunities and Recommendations
  • Open-sourcing PyTorch-BigGraph for faster embeddings of extremely large graphs and the example of Wikidata, on AI Facebook blog
  • OpenTapioca: Lightweight Entity Linking for Wikidata (paper by Antonin Delpeuch)
  • Update on the Factgrid project with Wikibase and GND by Olaf Simons

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Plenty of documentation pages have been translated into Spanish: Wikidata in one page, Query Service in one page, a new data model example based on Marie Curie, and the flyer "Wikidata for developers". Thanks a lot to Mlemusrojas and the Wikidata group in Argentina!
  • Depicts statements were due to arrive on Commons on April 23rd
  • The Wikimedia URL Shortener is live and now included in the Query Service to create short links to queries or direct results (announcement)
  • Reminder: the application phase for the WikidataCon is open until April 29th: if you want to attend to the conference, don't forget to participate!
  • Wikidata Sign Languages Browser
  • You can help by training ORES, the machine learning system, to better judge if edits are good or bad. We need another 7000 edits judged

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: number of sentences, Football Money League rank
    • External identifiers: National Wrestling Hall of Fame wrestler ID, MassBank Accession ID, CNV-SP ID, GruCultura ID, CEMDP ID, NGMDb Prod ID, MESH Concept ID, PRELIB organization ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: supported metadata, expansion, CatholicSaints.info ID, Musixmatch track ID, transfer speed, KeyWiki page ID, художник-мультипликатор, Number of polling stations, music video
    • External identifiers: The Atlas of African Frogs, Ming Qing Archive authority ID, Kinosozvezdie biography ID, RGALI ID, Referee.ru person ID, NSW Capital Conviction ID, Australian War Memorial ID, Flora of Australia (new) ID, Drobné památky ID, Identifiant IndieDB for video game, Whitney Museum of American Art ID, Archaeology Data Service person ID, CanLII ID, Justia Patents assignee ID, interwiki, Identifiant Mod DB for video game, OBIS ID, Alvin, FemBio ID
  • Query examples:
    • All deaths in Game of Thrones (source)
    • Wikidata knows of at least 5263 buildings started before Notre Dame de Paris (query based on this discussion)
    • Timeline for the History of Telecommunications (source)
    • Graph of London Tube stations that are on at least three lines (source)
    • Map of churches in Sri Lanka (source)

• Development
  • Improved the external identifiers landscape (phab:T204440)
  • Prepare process and announcement for the wb_terms migration to come
  • Allow configuring WDQS UI without changes to files under version control (phab:T194179)
  • Configure suggestion constraint level on Beta (phab:T221107)
  • Graduate suggestions based on constraints beta feature out of beta features (phab:T209879)
  • Editing of labels and descriptions on mobile (phab:T216987)
  • Editing aliases on mobile (phab:T218690)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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 #362

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: BRPever

• Events
  • Past: WikiNusantara 2019, the first Wikimedia Indonesia conference was successfully held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on Apr 27-28, 2019. The conference included two Wikidata talks:
    • Wikidata I: Intro to Wikidata by Raisha Abdillah from WMID
    • Wikidata II: Advancements for Wikidata by Adila Krisnadhi, Ph.D. and Dr. Fariz Darari from Faculty of Computer Science, Universitas Indonesia
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in London on May 2nd
  • Upcoming: Ghent University Wikidata and Wikibase Workshop, 3 - 5 July 2019

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Wikidata is mentioned in Mozilla's Internet Health report

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Breaking change - Important for Wikidata tools maintainers: wb_terms table to be dropped at the end of May
  • The ability to add structured depicts (P180) statements to file pages is live on Commons.
  • Suggestions based on the on-of constraints are now enabled for all users
  • New tool: Wikimedia Related Projects provides statistics about Wikimedia projects and the relations between them, using the number of sitelinks they have in common

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: approach angle, departure angle, Løøv classification, linear reference, data transfer speed
    • External identifiers: Japan Search name ID, Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG cards ID, Saxony protected area ID, Referee.ru person ID, Shanghai Library person ID, Shanghai Library place ID, FrogMAP ID, Ming Qing Archive ID, De Agostini ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: specifying descriptor, SciGraph IDs, era name, moved by, seconded by, debated by, Commons quality assessment, National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities code, OBO Gazetteer ID
    • External identifiers: FemBio ID, BlackPast.org ID, CineChile filmmaker ID, grwar.ru person ID, Whitney Museum of American Art artwork ID, Arabic Ontology ID
  • Query examples:
    • A map of the Rio de Janeiro light rail network
    • Nigerian women with Wikipedia article and pictures (source)
    • Map of places of residence for accused witches with a layer for occupations (source)
    • Map of Wikidata items that are dedicated to, named after or depict etc, St George. (source)
    • Partigiani color-coded by year of death (source)

• Development
  • Displaying mapframes for geocoordinate on client requires preprocessing by the user (phab:T220122)
  • Fixing cursor jumping to next field and overlapping of menus (phab:T172937)
  • Wikidata a focus issue on grammatical features field (phab:T218229)
  • Add language codes rm-rumgr, rm-sursilv, rm-surmiran, rm-sutsilv, rm-vallader, rm-puter for Lexemes (phab:T210293)
  • Align RTL languages in glosses to right (phab:T203081)
  • Add new monolingual codes: qya + sjn, el-cy, syc, abq, hbo) (phab:)
  • Fix a bug with NewLexeme suggester menu (phab:T199409)
  • Created a dedicated Phab board to help tool builders with the changes on wb_terms
  • More internal work to get the first version of mobile termbox ready for deployment

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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.
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The Signpost: 30 April 2019

• News and notes: An Action Packed April

• In the media: Is Wikipedia just another social media site?

• Discussion report: English Wikipedia community's conclusions on talk pages

• Featured content: Anguish, accolades, animals, and art

• Arbitration report: An Active Arbitration Committee

• Traffic report: Mötley Crüe, Notre-Dame, a black hole, and Bonnie and Clyde

• Technology report: A new special page, and other news

• Gallery: Notre-Dame de Paris burns

• News from the WMF: Can machine learning uncover Wikipedia’s missing “citation needed” tags?

• Recent research: Female scholars underrepresented; whitepaper on Wikidata and libraries; undo patterns reveal editor hierarchy

• From the archives: Portals revisited

• Humour: Jimbo and Larry walk into a bar ...

• Opinion: The gaps in our knowledge of our gaps

• Interview: Katherine Maher marks 3 years as executive director

• Community view: 2019 Wikimedia Summit gathers movement affiliate representatives to discuss movement strategy

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Wikidata weekly summary #363

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: BRPever, welcome on board!

• Events
  • Upcoming: Adding structured and machine-readable data for copyright and licensing on Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata, workshop by Sandra Fauconnier about modelling copyright statuses on Wikidata, 10 May, at the Creative Commons Global Summit in Lisbon
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Utrecht, Netherlands, on May 11th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XV about lexicographical data, May 23th in São Paulo, Brazil

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Kennisverrijking via Wikidata (in Dutch), by Netwerk Oorlogsbronnen, Hanno Lans and Janneke Jorna
  • Solving Art's Data Problem - Part One, Museums. Interview with Neil Stimler by Jason Bailey, mentioning Wikidata quite a few times
  • Technical usability of Wikidata's linked data: Evaluation of machine interoperability and data interpretability - Nuno Freire and Antoine Isaac.
  • Fine-Grained Named Entity Recognition using ELMo and Wikidata - C. Deha Doğan, et al.
  • Debiasing Vandalism Detection Models at Wikidata (PDF), Stefan Heindorf et al.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Scholia receiving a grant from the Sloan Foundation
  • An upcoming version of the iD OpenStreetMap editor will prevent users from accidentally removing notable features if they have a link to Wikidata QIDs
  • New status of constraint, "suggestion", is now enabled

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: precedes word-initial, music video, specifying descriptor
    • External identifiers: Australian War Memorial ID, Whitney Museum of American Art artist ID, SIUSA ID, MyNeta.info political party ID, IndieDB video game ID, interwiki prefix at Wikimedia, K10plus editions, FemBio ID, BlackPast.org ID, Trainline ID, CatholicSaints.info ID, NSW Capital Conviction ID, Dimore Storiche Italiane ID, Dictionnaire des Vendéens ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: gene sequence, Has written for, Rigging, Guix Variable Name, review of, NSF FICE Code ID
    • External identifiers: Watercolour World artist ID, VTB United League player ID, GNU ELPA package ID, MELPA package ID, Paměť národa ID, FragDenStaat public body ID, MobyGames genre ID, Interactive Fiction Database ID, Recreation.gov campground ID, HAL institution ID, Swedish Royal Theater
  • Query examples:
    • Some people are named after the strangest sorts of things (source)
    • Commons categories for a set of books, that have categories for people other than those 'explained' by statements on Wikidata for author, contributor, etc. (source)
    • Timeline for members of the Illuminati Order (source)
    • Newspapers founded before 1900 with their Twitter hashtag (source)

• Development
  • Remove heading elements in Wikibase diffs (phab:T220772)
  • Fix several issues on the Query Service interface (phab:T222182, phab:T222133, phab:T222129)
  • Rename the Schema extension to EntitySchema (phab:T221942)
  • Add data value type to Special:ListDatatypes (phab:T210598)
  • Investigate surprising rise in mobile page views (phab:T220977)
  • Show placeholders for label, description and alias on mobile termbox (phab:T217000)
  • Show each alias in a separate line in edit mode on mobile termbox (phab:T218690)
  • Cancel edit mode on mobile termbox (phab:T215951)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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 #364

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

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikimedia hackathon in Prague, that will include many Wikidata-related sessions and projects, May 17-19
  • Upcoming: UGent Wikidata and Wikibase Workshop 2019, by Julie Birkholz, 3 - 5 July 2019 Ghent, Belgium
  • Upcoming: DC-2019 Hack Day on Wikidata, Wikibase, Application Profiles and FAIR data at DC19 in Seoul, South Korea 23rd - 26th September 2019, Hackathon by Tom Baker and Andra Waagmeester
  • Upcoming: How does Wikimedia Solve the Problems of Biodiversity Informatics, Workshop in Leiden, the Netherlands, 20-25 October

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • How to use a Wikidata full json dump, requirements, steps and script, by Aliakbar Akbaritabar
  • New testing ground for Wikibase: A federal agency goes on an expedition in the Wiki universe, by Barbara Fischer and Jens ohlig

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities code, number of polling stations
    • External identifiers: VTB United League player ID, Archaeology Data Service person ID, Watercolour World artist ID, Drobné památky ID, grwar.ru person ID, Whitney Museum of American Art artwork ID, Russia.tv actor profile ID, Justia Patents assignee ID, Kinosozvezdie biography ID, Musixmatch track ID, LNB Coach id, FragDenStaat public body ID, Orlando author ID, Paměť národa ID, Recreation.gov campground ID, tads.org Unique Identifier, CanLII ID, CineChile filmmaker ID, Heritage Gazetteer of Libya ID, RGALI ID, OBIS ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Xikao School ID, Xikao Repertoire ID, langue d'écriture, nominalised item for this sense, copyright clarification, WMI Code, archevêque, langue liturgique, date d'élévation, province ecclésiastique, diocèse suffragant, f-number, paroisse, prêtre, religieux, religieuse, diacre
    • External identifiers: Victoria and Albert Museum name ID, Campendium ID, ROR ID, MEMORIA ID, Unified Social Credit Identifier, Prazdne Domy architect ID, Know Your Meme entry, Danskefilmstemmer.dk person ID, Harper's author ID, The Atlantic author ID, Character entry on LGBT fans deserve better database, Igromania ID, Pro-Football-Reference coach ID, Keybase username, RFGS person ID
  • Query examples:
    • Street signs in Rennes (source)
    • Lines linking UK MPs' place of birth and their constituency with colour-coded layers for each political party (source)
    • Map of birthplaces for Members of Scottisch Parliament born outside Scotland (source)
    • Global map of dams and reservoirs (source)
    • Lexemes language overlap tree map (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Limits of Wikidata

• Development
  • Finish renaming WikibaseSchema to EntitySchema
  • Investigate how to port Wikibase Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js (phab:T221638)
  • Include a clear two step process in shex simple tool (phab:T221612)
  • Fix the "edit visually" on the Query Service interface (phab:T222181)
  • More work on wb_terms redesign (see documentation on phab:T221764)
  • More work on mobile termbox
  • Investigate on a bug found on wbeditentity not removing all aliases (phab:T203337)
  • Getting ready for the Wikimedia hackathon

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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 #365

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Talk pages consultation 2019, phase 2

• Events
  • Past: Wikimedia hackathon 2019 in Prague, where plenty of people worked on Wikidata and Wikibase related projects (see list below)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Affinity Group Meeting, 21 May 2019
  • Upcoming: Hacknowledge 2019 hackathon, where you can make a project that uses or improves Wikidata. Moscow, Russia, May 25-26
  • Upcoming: Let's start Wikidata!/ウィキデータを始めよう！, 25 May 2019@Tokyo

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Ordia: A Web application for Wikidata lexemes, by Finn Årup Nielsen
  • Papers on Rust by Magnus Manske
  • Building Knowledge Base through Deep Learning Relation Extraction and Wikidata (Published in AAAI Spring Symposium: Combining Machine Learning with Knowledge Engineering, 2019)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • [Breaking Change] wbeditentity including empty alias set will remove all aliases
  • Update: change of dates regarding wb_terms redesign. More information in this ticket
  • Support for shape expressions will be enabled on Wikidata on May 28th
  • Reminder: the program submission phase for Wikimania runs until June 1st
  • QAnswer, a question answering system based on Wikidata and other projects, now supports lexicographical data
  • Wikidata-related projects presented during the Wikimedia Hackathon 2019 (see all documented projects)
    • Integraality/Template:Property dashboard, to generate property statistics tables for Wikiprojects like the ones made for Sum of all Paintings, hospitals and video games
    • BlockQuery: Prototype of a graphical QueryBuilder to click and drag.
    • Prototype of an Alexa Skill of Voice assisted editing of Wikidata Source Code Screenshot
    • Wikidata Quality Score Display: Gadget that displays on a Wikipedia article the quality level of the related Wikidata item
    • Wikidocumentaries service approaches beta quality and displays content from Wikimedia and other openly licensed sources for each Wikidata item. The latest user interface translations are Indonesian and Russian, and the newest content source plugin for the related images section is the brand new Creative Commons Search catalog.
    • GPS-friendly download of query result & Download of RDF Formats
    • Some documentation about shape expressions was prepared
    • Improvements on Namescript (documentation, descriptions for kanji names)
    • Wiki loves iNaturalist, a tool to look for images in iNaturalist, matching them with Wikidata
    • Mortar: easily upload GLAM collections in Wikidata and Commons
    • Fixing the URL shorteners on the Query Service interface
    • AddQuickClaim.js: pass the property and target item you want to add to an item into the url so you can quickly add a statement
    • ExternalItemSuggester.js: a gadget that provides autocomplete for selected external ID properties
    • Localization for the Saami and Romani languages was improved.
    • All of the copyright-negative pictures and metadata of the digital image repository of the National Archive of Curaçao were scraped. They will possibly be batch-uploaded later on.
    • Wikidata Stream: A nice view of the Wikidata edit stream to use as an eye-catcher for people interested in Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: exposure time, supported sports team
    • External identifiers: Flora of Australia ID (new), NARA record group number, Know Your Meme ID, NARA collection identifier, FilmFreeway ID, Dictionary of Anhui Writers ID, V&A artist ID, Guix Variable Name, Who's on First ID, FoodOn ID, SportSport.ba news ID, CNKI article ID, Swiss National Sound Archives ID, Arabic Ontology ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Seating chart properties, Arachne Bauwerk ID, ISO speed, target muscle, Pinakes author ID, University of Amsterdam Album Academicum ID
    • External identifiers: Buddhist Author Authority Database ID, ITF women's tournament ID, Digital Giza ID, National Library of Wales Catalogue ID, ATP tennis tournament edition ID, NooSFere edition ID, TV Tropes identifier, Find New Zealand Artists iD, Kobo author ID, Malaysia company number, GLIMS ID, Gamepedia Wiki id, ProofWiki ID, Mediapart tag ID, abART ID, Corporate Number (South Korea), Art Gallery of South Australia work ID, Art Gallery of South Australia creator ID, speedrun.com game ID, JIS standard, Hoopla artist ID, OSZMI ID, Hoopla publisher ID, Repology, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant ID, Elhuyar Dictionary ID
  • Query examples:
    • Most common properties for maps, with their top 5 values (source)
    • Timeline of pioneers of photography, via Wikidata and DBpedia (source)
    • Maps of synagogues in Czech Republic (source)
    • Lexemes that lack Senses but have at least one usage example (source)

• Development
  • Added lastrevid of entities to JSON dumps – thanks Pintoch!
  • Working to scale the Wikidata Concepts Monitor system (phab:T203366)
  • Imrpove logging in on mobile (phab:T215913)
  • More work on mobile termbox
  • Several developers from the Wikidata team attended to the hackathon, discussed with the community, gathered feedback, hacked on things together with volunteers :)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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 #366

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

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata Labs XV in Brazil, with an introduction to lexicographical data (slides)
  • Past: Workshop for experienced editors of nl.wiktionary to explore the possibilities of lexicographical data.

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Using contemporary constraints to ensure data consistency. David Abián, Jorge Bernad, Raquel Trillo LadoPublished in SAC 2019. DOI:10.1145/3297280.3297509 (Paywalled)
  • Published in WWW 2019
    • Fast Interval Joins for Temporal SPARQL Queries. Melisachew Wudage Chekol, Giuseppe Pirrò, Heiner Stuckenschmidt. DOI:10.1145/3308560.3314997
    • QAnswer: A Question Answering prototype bridging the gap between a considerable part of the LOD cloud and end-users. Ronan Cummins, et al. DOI:10.1145/3308558.3314124
    • Implicit Bias in Crowdsourced Knowledge Graphs. Gianluca Demartini. DOI:10.1145/3308560.3317307
    • Learning to Map Wikidata Entities To Predefined Topics. Preeti Bhargava, et al. DOI:10.1145/3308560.3316749
  • Citation.js: Wikidata Update, by Lars Willighagen
  • Wikidata: Open Linked Data for Library Publishing, by Mairelys Lemus-Rojas et al.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The US Library of Congress are integrating Wikidata QIDs into their authority files (blog post)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Buddhist Author Authority Database ID, HAL structure ID, Mod DB video game ID, Finnish Trade Register ID, IMTL.org ID, Danskefilmstemmer.dk person ID, OBO Gazetteer ID, (speedy delete me), LGBTFansDB character ID, ProofWiki ID, ROR ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: title qualifiers, goodwill ambassador of, UPA transcription, hospital beds, Courage ID, bibliography url
    • External identifiers: Messes.info Catholic parish ID, The DRAGON Archive id, racing-reference track ID, racing-reference race ID, Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic (DPRR) ID, MSX Games World ID, Coco Game List ID, Dictionary of Irish Biography ID, Ask.fm ID, National Film Board of Canada director identifier
  • Query examples:
    • European countries that have a street named after them in Rennes
    • Map of meteor impact craters (source)
    • Bubble chart of all instances of color which have an sRGB color hex triplet (source)
    • Number of riots per country (source)
    • European country having the most female politicians (source)

• Development
  • Deploy the EntitySchema extension on test.wikidata.org and beta.wikidata.org
  • Remove the remaining beta feature config for constraint-suggestions (phab:T220609)
  • Introduce baserevid for conflict checking in Lexeme (phab:T217245)
  • Fix a bug making impossible to get Lexeme Forms and Senses via the API (phab:T223995)
  • Add Wikidata query service lag to Wikidata maxlag (phab:T221774)
  • Allow accessing Wikibase entities from multiple Wikibase databases (phab:T214557)
  • More work to get termbox ready for deployment
  • Add a login warning on mobile termbox editing (phab:T221831)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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: 31 May 2019

• From the editors: Picture that

• News and notes: Wikimania and trustee elections

• In the media: Politics, lawsuits and baseball

• Discussion report: Admin abuse leads to mass-desysop proposal on Azerbaijani Wikipedia

• Arbitration report: ArbCom forges ahead

• Traffic report: Dark marvels, thrones, a vile serial killer biopic, that's entertainment!

• Technology report: Lots of Bots

• News from the WMF: Wikimedia Foundation petitions the European Court of Human Rights to lift the block of Wikipedia in Turkey

• Recent research: Wikipedia more useful than academic journals, but is it stealing the news?

• Essay: Paid editing

• From the archives: FORUM:Should Wikimedia modify its terms of use to require disclosure?

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Wikidata weekly summary #367

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

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata workshop, May 27th at UIN Maliki, Malang, Indonesia (in collaboration with Faculty of Computer Science, UI) - Slideset link - Press release
  • Past: OSM x Wikidata workshop, June 3rd, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Days 2019, June 7-8th in Lisbon, Portugal.
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XVI, June 13th in São Paulo, Brazil
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Edit-a-thon during Atla 2019, June 13th, Vancouver, Canada

• Press, articles, blog posts

• • Blogpost by RightStatements.org - a system of standardised interoperable rights and reuse information for GLAMs - describing the role and importance of the property P6426.
  • Welcome Japan Search to the web of Linked Open Data by Martin Poulter, Bodleian Digital Library

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Shape expressions are now live on Wikidata
  • At WikiWoordenboek (Dutch wiktionary) a project titled Widawiwo has begun to explore how the maximal mutual benefit of Wikidata and WikiWoordenboek can be achieved.
  • Hauki is a new tool by d:User:Vesihiisi to browse lexicographical data.
  • Wikidata trainings & online courses for librarians by WikiEdu

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: ISO speed, f-number, WMI Code, minimum wage, UPA transcription
    • External identifiers: speedrun.com game ID, Harper's author ID, Pakistan Railways station code, National Library of Wales Catalogue ID, Arachne building ID, Messes.info Catholic parish ID, The Atlantic author ID, Find NZ Artists ID, Unified Social Credit Identifier, OSZMI ID, MSX Games World ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: motif represents, Shape Expression for class, Album Academicum-identificatiecode, gender educated, ABA League ID, start grade, end grade, digilibLT author ID, IntraText author ID, in defining formula, PHI Latin Texts author ID, associated shape, comparison image, emergency services, Married by
    • External identifiers: Rugby League Project ID (general), Hungarian National Namespace, Pakistan EMIS code(s), CCDC Number, swMATH work ID, Czech parliament ID, Tainacan MAI ID, Biographical Dictionary Of Iowa ID, Pro Football Hall of Fame ID (new), euroleague.net coach ID, eurobasket.com coach ID, Who's Who of American Comic Books, PCE Daisakusen ID, Musixmatch artist ID, eBiodiversity ID
  • Query examples:
    • Gay parades in Italy in 2019
    • Map of communes of the French area "Ille-et-Vilaine" which share borders (source)
    • Connections between the subject and printing location of Welsh landscape prints (source)
    • Dunes in Wikidata (source)
    • Co-author network of Journal of Cheminformatics authors (source)
    • Map of archives in the world (source)
  • Newest database reports: frequent first names in Spain

• Development
  • Specify license of mediawiki/Wikibase/WikibaseLexeme ontology (phab:T216842)
  • Enable bugfix on beta for wbeditentity setting aliases to empty array (phab:T223300)
  • Use correct validator in alias changeop and provide error messages if alias is too short (phab:T223311)
  • More work on the use of special pages Special:SetAliases and Special:SetLabelDescriptionAliases with aliases containing | character (phab:T223270)
  • Add Wikidata query service lag to Wikidata maxlag (phab:T221774)
  • Fix BadMethodCallException wbgetentities when getting Lexeme subentities (forms, senses) (phab:T223995)
  • Scale the machine learning components of the WDCM system w. {text2vec} WarpLDA implementation (phab:T203366)
  • Inspect strange behavior of the WD_percentUsageDashboard (phab:T217994)
  • WDCM dashboards maintenance: eliminating the need to use the wdcm.maintable in Hive, WDCM Geo is now independent of it (with its update engine running Spark instead) and re-designed to match the WDCM standards (phab:T217994, phab:T214586, phab:T217997)
  • Further preparations for the Wikidata Languages Landscape project (phab:T221965)
  • More progress in order to get the mobile service deployed
  • Adding an IP edit warning popup for mobile termbox (phab:T221831)
  • Allowing users to ignore this popup permanently (phab:T221833)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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 #368

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

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Edit-a-Thon in Atla, Canada, 13 June 2019
  • Upcoming: the Celtic Knot Conference, dedicated to minority languages in the Wikimedia projects, will take place in Penryn, Cornwall, on July 4-5. The program is published and will contain several Wikidata-related sessions. The registration is open

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Batches of Rust - Magnus' improvements to QuickStatements
  • Robustifying Scholia — Developing a Wikipedia interface for exploring the research ecosystem

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The W3C Entity Reconciliation Community Group has launched

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: sequenced genome URL, number of hospital beds, related image, taxa found at location, calendar feed URL, calligrapher, replacement property, feed-in tariff
    • External identifiers: GLIMS ID, Art Gallery of South Australia creator ID, Art Gallery of South Australia work ID, racing-reference race ID, racing-reference track ID, SportSport.ba player ID, Xikao History ID, Xikao Repertoire ID, Prazdne Domy architect ID, AntWiki article ID, Mediapart tag ID, NWBib ID, University of Amsterdam Album Academicum ID, The Dragon Archive ID, SVT Open archive ID, Australian bank branch ID, Alvin ID, Tainacan MAI ID, GNU ELPA package ID, RFGS person ID, Igromania ID, Czech parliament ID, Dictionary of Irish Biography ID, swMATH work ID, Pinakes author ID, IndicePA ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Married by, Access status, Musixmatch album ID, Antecedent anatomical structure, effective temperature, aperture, surface gravity, historic first
    • External identifiers: ECI Lok Sabha constituency code, DR.dk Tag ID, Réunionnais du monde ID, Planilla Códigos Únicos Territoriales (CUT), Doximity ID, dbSNP ID, Bloodhound ID, Xing profile ID, NeoGeoSoft ID, Den Store Danske Encyklopædi ID, MAHG ID, Syriac Biographical Dictionary ID, Ciência ID
  • Query examples:
    • Items in Japanese museums by British sculptors (federated query with Japan Search) (source)
    • Number of items about Australia created over time (source)
    • Federated query comparing Wikidata and UK Parliament database, to show differences of more than 10km in locations of UK parliamentary constituencies (source)

• Development
  • When typing an item ID on Special:Search, labels are now shown in the suggestion menu
  • More work on preparing the migration of wb_terms to the new design
  • Add CC0 License overlay popup on termbox editing (phab:T221835)
  • Add "You are not logged in" overlay popup on termbox editing (phab:T221831)
  • Add the "Remember my choice" checkbox to the "You are not logged in" popup on mobile termbox editing (phab:T221833)
  • Add EntitySchema in the license footer (phab:T224536)
  • Several improvements to shex simple tools (phab:T221604, phab:T221606)
  • Work on an issue with a deleted constraint still appearing on Lexemes (phab:T223372)
  • Work on normalistation in the Lua API mw.wikibase.getEntityIdForTitle (phab:T224593)
  • Improved tests and fixed failing tests

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Academic journals associated with universities and colleges of Australia

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Wikidata weekly summary #369

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Unifying GO activities and enzyme articles

• Events
  • Upcoming: ld4-Wikidata Affinity Group call on June 18th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Paris, France, on June 21st
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Wellington, New Zealand, on June 22nd

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • EventKG - the Hub of Event Knowledge on the Web - and Biographical Timeline Generation - Simon Gottschalk, Elena Demidova (in ArXiv)
  • Assessing The Factual Accuracy of Generated Text Ben Goodrich, et al. (in ArXiv)
  • Enriching Bibliographic Data by Combining String Matching and the Wikidata Knowledge Graph to Improve the Measurement of International Research Collaboration Xuan Nguyen, et al. (in ArXiv)
  • Treasured Manuscript collection gets the Wikidata Treatment, on the National Library of Wales' blog
  • On the road to joint embedding with Wikidata lexemes? by Finn Årup Nielsen
  • Wikipedia and Wikidata user contributions as part of Wikipedia for Peace at Europride Vienna 2019

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata-Toolkit 0.10.0 was released
  • New Grafana board: number of edits per namespace

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: title in HTML, title in LaTeX, student organization of, emergency services, average speed
    • External identifiers: Pro Football Reference coach ID, Keybase username, Elhuyar Dictionary ID, TV Tropes identifier, ITF tournament ID, Campendium ID, Malaysia company number, abART person ID, abART document ID, abART exhibition ID, abART group ID, abART institution ID, DR.dk topic ID, ABA League ID, Biographical Dictionary Of Iowa ID, CCDC Number, Coco Game List ID, Dimensions grant ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: text of verse, literary motif, scribe.amanuensis or copyist.illuminator, distribution format, phosphorylates, RogerEbert.com film ID, literacy rate, Retrosheets ID
    • External identifiers: 7digital United Kingdom artist ID, Metacritic person ID, Nacionālā enciklopēdija, IMVDb artist ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts artist ID, Charts in France artist ID, VG-lista artist ID, Beatport artist ID, Djshop artist ID, Gaana.com artist ID, Juno Download artist ID, Moov artist ID, Murfie artist ID, Napster artist ID, Qobuz artist ID, YouTube Music channel ID, Bebo profile ID, Steam profile ID, Pandora artist ID, SNBP ID, Fundamental.org Baptist Church ID, EMIS codes for Pakistani provinces, RIAA artist ID, Gambay ID, Facebook Gaming game ID, Cameo ID, Amburger database ID, BVLarramendi, Equipboard artist ID
  • Query examples:
    • Table of counts of distinct MPs, legislative terms and per constituency P39s for UK parliamentary constituencies, with links to per constituency reports (source)
    • Reverse taxon names of 100 mosquitoes (source)
    • Five-letter words beginning with "f", from wikidata's lexeme collection (source)
    • Péniches in Lyon
    • Lexemes ordered according to compound parts (source)
    • Airports named after a person, color-coded by gender (source)
    • Timeline of the Chief Mousers of 10 Downing Street, with photographs when available
  • Newest WikiProjects: European Colonialism

• Development
  • Grafana now tracks the number of edits per namespace (phab:T218901) and the EntitySchemas on the entity by type board (phab:T216835)
  • Fixed a bug Special:MobileDiff for an EntitySchema Revision (phab:T224545)
  • Make possible to edit items via wbeditentity when they have same label and description, if the edit is about making them different (phab:T222621)
  • Fix a bug on ArticlePlaceholder hook on SpecialSearch (phab:T207235)
  • Add CC0 License overlay popup on termbox editing (phab:T221835)
  • More maintainance on the WDCM dashboards T214586 (phab:T217997)
  • Maintain the WDCM Biases Dashboard to make it fully client-side dependent

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  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 14

Newsletter • June 2019

Updates: I've been focusing largely on the development side of things, so we are a lot closer now to being ready to actually start discussing deploying it and testing it out here.

There's just a few things left that need to be resolved:

• A bunch of language support issues in particular, plus some other release blockers, such as the fact that currently there's no good way to find any hubs people do create.
• We also probably need some proper documentation and examples up to even reference if we want a meaningful discussion. We have the extension documentation and some test projects, but we probably need a bit more. Also I need to be able to even find the test projects! How can I possibly write reports about this stuff if I can't find any of it?!

Some other stuff that's happened in the meantime:

• Midpoint report is out for this round of the project, if you want to read in too much detail about all the problems I've been running into.
• WikiProject Molecular Biology have successfully set up using the old module system that CollaborationKit is intended to replace (eventually), and it even seems to work, so go them. Based on the issues they ran into, it looks like the members signup thing on that system has some of the same problems as we've been unable to resolve in CK, though, which is... interesting. (Need to change the content model to the right thing for the formwizard config to take. Ugh, content models.)

Until next time,

-— Isarra ༆ 21:43, 21 June 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #370

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for comments: semi-protection to prevent vandalism on most used Items

• Events
  • Upcoming: 1st Iberoamerican Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web Conference keynote on Wikidata by José E. Labra Villa Clara, Cuba 24-28 June
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meeting for researchers in Sfax University, Tunisia, 25-27 June 2019
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in London, June 29th
  • Upcoming: July 3rd: UGent Wikidata and Wikibase Workshop 2019

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Demonstrating Spindra: A Geographic Knowledge Graph Management System, Yuhan Sun, et al (in 2019 IEEE 35th International Conference on Data Engineering)
  • Comparing DBpedia, Wikidata, and YAGO for Web Information Retrieval, Sini Govinda Pillai, et al.
  • WikiDataSets: Standardized sub-graphs from WikiData, Armand Boschin, in ArXiv
  • Ordia: A Web application for Wikidata lexemes, Finn Årup Nielsen
  • Combining embedding methods for a word intrusion task Finn Årup Nielsen, et al
  • Query expansion using Wikidata attributes’ values Sarah Dahir, Abderrahim et al., in ICCWCS'19
  • Automatic Question Generation based on MOOC Video Subtitles and Knowledge Graph Lin Ma, Yuchun Ma, in ICIET 2019
  • Wikidata as a linked-data hub for Biodiversity data, Andra Waagmeester, et al.
  • Using Crowd-curation to Improve Taxon Annotations on the Wikimedia Infrastructure, Andra Waagmeester, et al.
  • Using Shape Expressions (ShEx) to Share RDF Data Models and to Guide Curation with Rigorous Validation, et al. Best in-use paper award ESWC
  • From “an” Identifier to “the” Identifier, Theo van Veen
  • Developing workflows for local authority file conversion from MARC to Wikidata

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Structured Data on Commons: qualifiers for depicts support have been enabled on June 20th
  • Result format change for Query Service JSON query output
  • Filename scheme for Wikidata RDF entity dumps will change
  • The development of Wikidata Bridge (editing Wikidata's data from Wikipedia) started
  • CheckShex userscript adds an in-page way of checking if an item fits an Entityschema

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: has written for, motif represents, solar irradiance, effective temperature
    • External identifiers: JIS standard, Réunionnais du monde ID, Corporate Number (South Korea), dbSNP ID, digilibIT author ID, Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic ID, eBiodiversity ID, eurobasket.com coach ID, euroleague.net coach ID, Gamepedia Wiki ID, Hoopla artist ID, Hoopla publisher ID, Latvian National Encyclopedia Online ID, ECI Lok Sabha constituency code, IntraText author ID, Musixmatch artist ID, MAHG ID, Amburger database ID, ATP tennis tournament edition ID, Rugby League Project ID (general), RIAA artist ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: extracted from, Instagram hashtag, Historical Archives of the European Union ID, number of pins, number of pin positions, Representative in legislature, subscribers
    • External identifiers: nchdb asset id, Biblioteca Nacional Aruba ID, Bangladesh administrative division code (2017-), Goodreads series ID, Heritage Gazetteer of Cyprus, Retrosheet ID, The DJ List artist ID, BBC artist ID, The Independent topic ID, NME artist ID, Metro topic ID, MangaSeek person ID, Soccerway coach ID, Nederlandse Top 40 artist ID, Dutch Charts artist ID, hitparade.ch artist ID, Aviation Safety Network Wikibase ID, Find & Connect ID, SA Flora ID, ATRF ID, geograph, ArtBrokerage artist ID, Indian gallantry awardee ID, Scandipop topic ID, iTunes movie collection ID, SLNSW unpublished item ID, LB.ua dossier, FPBR person ID, RBF amateur boxer ID, RBF professional boxer ID, Roskomnadzor media license number, 2014 Commonwealth Games athlete ID, Music certifictions ID, El portal de Música artist ID
  • Query examples:
    • Most commonly used qualifiers on depicts (P180) statements on Wikidata, with top 10 classes or items that each one is used on (source)
    • Most commonly used properties connecting military people to military organisations (source)
    • Bubblechart of most frequent WMF import sources
    • French male first names ending with "ée" (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Australia
  • Newest database reports: Property completion by country leaderboard

• Development
  • Beginning of wb_terms migration (phab:T221764)
  • Fixed a bug with phan on Wikibase (phab:T226083)
  • Enable bugfix for wbeditentity setting aliases to empty array (phab:T223303)
  • Fix an issue with pipe character on some special pages (phab:T223270)
  • Fix an issue with removed constraint still displayed on Lexeme (phab:T223372)
  • Make edits to EntitySchema pages autopatrolled (phab:T224495)
  • Work on creating better edit summaries for wbeditentity API endpoint (phab:T224010)
  • Deploy the work environment for new mobile termbox
  • Start setting up the technical environment for Wikidata bridge

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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 June 2019 Signpost is out!

• Discussion report: A constitutional crisis hits English Wikipedia

• News and notes: Mysterious ban, admin resignations, Wikimedia Thailand rising

• In the media: The disinformation age

• On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

• Traffic report: Juneteenth, Beauty Revealed, and more nuclear disasters

• Technology report: Actors and Bots

• Gallery: Unlike the North Face, Wiki Loves Earth

• Special report: Did Fram harass other editors?

• Recent research: What do editors do after being blocked?; the top mathematicians, universities and cancers according to Wikipedia

• From the archives: Women and Wikipedia: the world is watching

• Opinion: Why the Terms of Use change didn't curtail undisclosed paid editing—and what might

• In focus: WikiJournals: A sister project proposal

• Community view: A CEO biography, paid for with taxes

• Op-Ed: 2019 Wikimedia Affiliate Selected Board Seats Election Results

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Celestial navigation (disambiguation) listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Celestial navigation (disambiguation). Since you had some involvement with the Celestial navigation (disambiguation) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Wugapodes [t^hɑk] [ˈkan.ˌʧɹɪbz] 22:55, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #371

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

• Events
  • Upcoming: July 3rd: UGent Wikidata and Wikibase Workshop 2019
  • Upcoming: OSM TW x Wikidata TW Meetup, June 3rd, Taipei, Taiwan - Facebook event
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XVII in São Paulo, Brazil, July 11th
  • Upcoming: Inventaire & OpenData Week 2019 in Wurzen, Germany, July 18th-25th
  • State of the Map 2019: early bird tickets are available until July 7th. The program will include a Wikidata workshop

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Placing EveryPolitician on hold by MySociety ("it's clear that Wikidata should be the natural global home for this type of data")
  • Celebrity Profiling by Matti Wiegmann et al.,
  • Published in ArXiv:
    • DocRED: A Large-Scale Document-Level Relation Extraction Dataset by Yuan Yao et al.
    • ConTrOn: Continuously Trained Ontology based on Technical Data Sheets and Wikidata by Kobkaew Opasjumruskit et al.
  • Wikidata as opportunity for special collections: the 20th Century Press Archives use case. Presentation at LIBER 2019 (LOD working group of the Association of European Research Libraries), by Joachim Neubert

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Wikibase community Telegram group has been recreated, here's the invitation link

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: LilyPond notation, target muscle, historical region, writing language, match interval, microarchitecture, literacy rate, era name, seconded by, moved by
    • External identifiers: MELPA package ID, Nchdb asset ID, National Film Board of Canada director identifier, Fundamental.org Baptist Church ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts artist ID, Beatport artist ID, Bangladesh administrative division code (2017-), Djshop artist ID, NeoGeoSoft ID, New York City Neighborhood Tabulation area ID, NicoNicoPedia, NooSFere edition ID, ArtBrokerage artist ID, ATRF ID, Bebo profile ID, National Library of Aruba ID, BVLarramendi ID, Cameo ID, Charts in France artist ID, CIN ID, Dutch Charts artist ID, Equipboard artist ID, Facebook Gaming game ID, Gaana.com artist ID, Gambay ID, Heritage Gazetteer of Cyprus, Historical Archives of the European Union ID, hitparade.ch artist ID, Indian gallantry awardee ID, Juno Download artist ID, MangaSeek person ID, Metro topic ID, Moov artist ID, Murfie artist ID, Musicalics composer ID, Nederlandse Top 40 artist ID, NME artist ID, PCE Daisakusen ID, CUT code, Pro Football Hall of Fame ID, Repology project name, Rogerebert.com film ID, SA Flora ID, Syriac Biographical Dictionary ID, The DJ List artist ID, Who's Who of American Comic Books ID, SNBP ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: double major, Poster, Throwing handedness, Batting handedness, Institut-ID in der Unternehmensdatenbank der BaFin, Wolfram Language unit code, National Transportation Safety Board report, enemy of, PHI Latin Texts author ID, default description for instances
    • External identifiers: ACNP journal ID, Personnel de l'administration préfectorale ID, Bursa Malaysia stock code, etrain.info station ID, Rupa Publications author ID, Pro Kabaddi League player ID, OYO Hotel ID, Anime Characters Database, IMFDB work ID, Australian Faunal Directory publication ID, Ident.Nr., Sverigetopplistan artist ID, Musiikkituottajat artist ID, Radio Courtoisie show ID, Biyografya ID
  • Query examples:
    • Nouns without grammatical gender in a chosen language (source)
    • Current UK Members of Parliament ranked by number of Wikimedia sitelinks (source)
  • Architectural drawings depicting cathedrals in France (source)
    • Music bands named after Tolkien's universe, by genre (source)
  • Newest database reports: education by country

• Development
  • More work on preparing the technical setup for Wikidata Bridge development
  • Implement Feature Flag for Wikidata Bridge (phab:T225935)
  • Discuss the best way to connect template parameter to corresponding Wikidata property (phab:T224832)
  • Improve the documentation for Wikibase sites setup (phab:T218282)
  • Prepare the last steps for reading from new term store implementation (phab:T225603) according to the migration plan (phab:T221765)
  • Fixed a bug and reduced significantly the amount of addUsagesForPage jobs in our jobs queue (phab:T205045)
  • Removed feature flag for the bugfix for wbeditentity setting aliases to empty array (phab:T223305)
  • Decreased EntityUsageTable addUsage batch size to 100 (phab:T225500)
  • Configured query service lag for Wikidata maxlag (phab:T222193)
  • Helped fixing an issue with moving files on Commons (phab:T226672)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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 #372

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: ZI Jony

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, Tuesday, June 16th, at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time), on the #wikimedia-office channel
  • Past: Celtic Knot Conference 2019 - minority languages on Wikimedia projects. Slides to be added in the Commons category

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • A new Wikidata map and comparison with previous maps, by Addshore
  • The story of building the inteGraality tool at the Wikimedia Hackathon, by JeanFred
  • Des identifiants ouverts pour la science ouverte by the Comité pour la Science ouverte (Open Science Committee), June 2019. Extract: "Since 2012, the Wikidata database has gradually become the global point of convergence for open identifiers." (Depuis 2012, la base Wikidata est devenue progressivement le point de convergence mondial des identifiants ouverts.)
  • Lydia Pintscher submitted a chapter for the collaborative book Wikipedia@20, called Wikidata - Wikipedia’s not so little sister is finding its own way. Feel free to have a look, review is open until July 19th
  • You can also check out Denny Vrandečić's submission about Abstract Wikipedia and Wikidata

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Because of a server switch, Wikidata will be in read-only mode on July 30th from 05:00 to 05:30 AM UTC (phab:T227063)
  • Change in the name pattern of new Wikidata RDF dumps: starting on July 15th, dumps will have a new name format (phab:T226153)
  • Reminder for tool builders: Python tools should use a user-agent to access the Query Service. If you recently encountered issues with the Query Service, please check that your tool is compliant to m:User-Agent policy.
  • New user script for lexicographical data to add Forms on Lexemes that don't have any, by suggesting and filling out templates

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: animator, video system, announcement date, access status, literary motif, review of, middle family name
    • External identifiers: FPBR person ID, PHI Latin Texts author ID, VG-lista artist ID, Bloodhound ID, Steam profile ID, Find & Connect ID, Goodreads series ID, Scandipop topic id, 2014 Commonwealth Games ID, El portal de Música artist ID, Balochistan Education Management Information System code, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Education Management Information System code, Punjab Education Management Information System code, Sindh Education Management Information System code, IMVDb artist ID, Institute-id in the BaFin company database, Musiikkituottajat artist (certyfication) ID, IFPI Austria artist ID, IFPI Danmark artist ID, SNEP artist ID, hitparade.ch artist (certyfication) ID, BVMI artist ID, Music Canada artist ID, IFPI Norge artist ID, Napster artist ID, Personnel de l'administration préfectorale ID, RBF professional boxer ID, Retrosheet ID, SLNSW unpublished item ID, LB.ua dossier ID, ACNP journal ID, Australian Faunal Directory publication ID, Sverigetopplistan artist ID, Rupa Publications author ID, OYO Hotel ID, Hungarian National Namespace place ID, Hungarian National Namespace person ID, Hungarian National Namespace organisation ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: catalogue raisonné, Wikia Article URL 2, Wikispecies template for this work, imprimatur, periphrasis, terms of service, privacy policy, Musisque Deoque author ID, SAR Value, IAAF competition category, Academic rank, MPG ID, newspaper archive, unabbreviated text, identifiant Q-Codes, ft.dk politician identifier
    • External identifiers: Biyografya ID, Magazine in BitArkivo.org, PharmGKB ID, World Encyclopedia of Puppetry Arts ID, identifiant Missions étrangères de Paris, DigitalNZ ID, Handball123 player ID, ScOT ID, Atlas of Living Australia ID, номер российской организации, AtlasFor ID, Repertorium van ambtsdragers en ambtenaren id, Adventure Gamers ID, Bebo profile numeric ID, MovieLens ID, WikiApiary, Scribd Book ID, Penguin India author ID, Spanish Catalogued Heritage
  • Query examples:
    • 762 people made edits on lexicographical data, 571 created at least one Lexeme (source)
    • Map with percentage of Welsh speakers in the regions of Wales (source)
    • Publication dates of works used as usage example for Swedish Lexemes (source)
    • Ratios of male/female organizers and speakers at conferences (source)
    • World map of sign languages by country (source)
    • Number of punk bands from Indonesia by region (source)
    • Map of World Heritage places in Europe (source)
    • Map of parishes of New South Wales, Australia, colour-coded by county (source)
  • Newest database reports: Glasnevin Cemetery, Mount Jerome Cemetery

• Development
  • Enabled JSONLD support for entity data (example)
  • Fixed JSON dump issue (phabricator:T226601)
  • Readded qualifier hashes in JSON output that accidentally got lost (phabricator:T227207)
  • Made sure changes on Entity Schema pages by autoconfirmed users are autopatrolled (phabricator:T224495)
  • Looked into issues with partial blocking on Wikidata entities (phabricator:T207893)
  • Adding MediaInfo as an entity type that can be used in the "allowed entity types"-constraint (phabricator:T224362)
  • Investigating an issue with the tours on Wikidata (phabricator:T223999)
  • Initial work for the edit dialog that is needed for editing of Wikidata's data from Wikipedia (Wikidata Bridge)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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 #373

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

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, Tuesday, July 16th, at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time), on the #wikimedia-office channel
  • Upcoming: Next LD4-Wikidata Affinity Group Meeting on July 16th
  • Upcoming: Structured Data on Commons IRC office hour for "other statements" on 18 July, 17:00-18:00 UTC on the #wikimedia-office channel
  • Upcoming: The Wikidata Menu Challenge - Wikimania 2019 edition starts July 16 and goes on until August 11.

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • An International Knowledge Base for all Heritage Institutions by Giovanna Fontenelle and Beat Estermann on SocietyByte
  • How to estimate completeness of classes in Wikidata by Michael Luggen et. al. on SocietyByte
  • Videos of the presentations given during the Wikidata + OSM workshop in London

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Structured Data on Commons: RDF output for MediaInfo is now available (example)
  • Edits with the tag #suggestededit-add 1.0 come from the suggested edit feature on Wikipedia's Android app: see the FAQ for more information
  • Property number 7000: DigitalNZ ID is live. This data aggregator has over 30 million records. The proposal was the first from Ambrosia10, a New Zealand editor.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: IMFDB work ID, Pro Kabaddi League player ID, RBF amateur boxer ID, National Transportation Safety Board report ID, Epitafier.se ID, magazine in BitArkivo.org, iTunes movie collection ID, Musisque Deoque author ID, DigitalNZ ID, PharmGKB ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Perseus ID, TuttoCalciatori.Net player ID, TuttoCalciatori.Net coach ID, Typing discipline, video game mod, Arachne collection ID, NOTAM, begin and end of covered period ; covered period, periphrasis, Kerala state school code, The Latin Library author ID, type code, FEC campaign committee id, Documenta Catholica Omnia author ID, Ex æquo with, EU Publication office ID, Supreme Court docket number
    • External identifiers: National Library of Luxembourg ID, Lebanese National Library ID, National Library of Morocco ID, National Library of Iceland ID, Syriaca person ID, Syriaca work ID, Flemish Public Libraries ID, National Library of Russia ID, National Library of Chile ID, ACMI ID, Australian Suppliers Directory ID, Hazardous Chemical Information System ID, ANZCTR ID, National Pollutant Inventory ID, AICS Chemical ID, PBS Manufacturer ID, PBS Drug Code, BIC of the Canary Islands ID, Arachne object ID, Gotlands museum, Indian Super League player ID, Premier Badminton League player ID, Colonial Frontier Massacres ID, TheTVDB episode ID, Album of the Year artist ID, Album of the Year album ID, HOV-ID, Nosdéputés.fr identifiant, TikTok username, NosSénateurs.fr identifiant, eBay username, Jaxsta profile ID, Jaxsta release ID, Jaxsta recording ID, Musixmatch writer ID
  • Query examples:
    • places in Canada with no English label
    • Languages having the most usage examples in Wikidata's lexicographical data (source)
    • Map of places of residence of accused witches in Scotland, colour-coded by gender (source)
    • Symphonies written by Camille Saint-Saëns (source)

• Development
  • Create docker image for wdqs version 0.3.2 (phab:T226939)
  • Fix an issue with JSON output lacking qualifier hashes (phab:T227207)
  • Track number of links to schema pages (phab:T218903)
  • Disable Wikidata sitelinks in ProofreadPage namespaces (thanks to Matěj Suchánek) (phab:T227201)
  • Fix a cache issue with the language of the "check entities against this schema" link (phab:T224594)
  • Add EntitySchema extension to wikibase-docker bundle image (phab:T226152)
  • Enable JSON-LD support for Wikidata (phab:T220696)
  • Add baserevid to WikibaseLexeme API module (phab:T225073)
  • Extracting (and logging) Data Bridge parameters from edit links (phab:T226994)
  • Opening a modal with edit this link information (phab:T226996)
  • Showing the current Wikidata value in edit modal (phab:T226997)
  • Disabling interactive elements while saving on mobile termbox (phab:T222886)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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 #374

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: 1997kB

• Events
  • Past: IRC office hour, July 16th (log)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Tainan Meetup in Taiwan, July 31st (Facebook event)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Reminder: because of a database switch, Wikidata will be read-only on July 30th, between 05:00AM-05:30 AM UTC (Phabricator task, help translate the banner)
  • You can nominate tools for the Coolest Tool Award until July 29th
  • Wikimania's draft program has been published
  • User:Bodhisattwa joined CIS-A2K as Wikidata Advisor
  • wbEntity config value to be dropped on July 24th - if you use it, please consider replacing it

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Wolfram Language unit code, unabbreviated text, extracted from, imprimitur granted by, terms of service, surface gravity, lexeme, chassis, enemy of
    • External identifiers: PharmGKB ID, Handball123 player ID, ACMI web ID, AtlasFor ID, Adventure Gamers ID, BIC of the Canary Islands ID, Russian organisation number, World Encyclopedia of Puppetry Arts ID, Anime Characters Database character ID, Anime Characters Database anime ID, ANZCTR ID, Arachne collection ID, Arachne object ID, Australian Suppliers Directory ID, Biyografya ID, Flemish Public Libraries ID, HCIS ID, Lebanese National Library ID, MPG ID, National Library of Luxembourg ID, National Library of Russia ID, National Pollutant Inventory ID, Penguin India author ID, Repertorium van ambtsdragers en ambtenaren id, Australian Educational Vocabulary ID, Syriaca work ID, TuttoCalciatori.Net coach ID, TuttoCalciatori.Net player ID, COURAGE ID, Documenta Catholica Omnia author ID, National Library of Iceland ID, NosDéputés.fr identifiant, Perseus author ID, The Latin Library author ID, TheTVDB episode ID, Colonial Frontier Massacres ID, HOV-ID, PBS Drug Code, AICS Chemical ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: image of bone or fossil record, (de)evolution method, WeChat Official Account, Dose, hat Mitglied, Variété de la forme, value group number, orientation, Digital audio workstation, title geographic ref, location of point of view
    • External identifiers: misas.org Catholic church ID, identificador de arte público de Zaragoza, Taxonomicon ID, Wayback ID, Common Sense Media ID, FFR fencer ID, Australian Marine Algal Name Index ID, ABBBS Taxon ID, AFCD PFKID, Plant Breeders Rights Database AID, WaterNSW Rivers and Streams Site No., Lens ID, LezWatch.TV actor ID, LezWatch.TV show ID, Grand Canyon Trust ID, LezWatch.TV character ID, Bossu ID, Textile Connect publication ID
  • Query examples:
    • Number of living people who have walked on the Moon (source)
    • Artworks depicting the Moon (source)
    • People that have been on spaceflights operated by at least two different sovereign states, and their time in space (source)
    • Temporal distribution of book editions in Swedish (source)
    • How long after a UK general election that a political party has appointed a new leader, since 1945 (source)
  • Newest database reports: family names in Ireland

• Development
  • Fix a bug that was preventing to add multiple glosses (phab:T228080)
  • Show number of senses and forms on page information for WikibaseLexeme entities (phab:T224844)
  • Show number of statements and external identifiers on page information for Wikibase entities (phab:T224842))
  • Track number of external identifiers on Wikidata over time (phab:T224129)
  • Fix a few queries on Grafana (phab:T227788)
  • Update the query host for Grafana (phab:T218710)
  • Add support for "MediaInfo" as value for "allowed entity types"-constraint (phab:T224362)
  • Data bridge: open a modal with edit link information (phab:T226996)
  • Show the current Wikidata value in edit modal (phab:T226997)
  • Extract data bridge parameters from edit links (phab:T226994)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 10:53, 22 July 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #375

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: 1997kB, welcome on board!
  • Closed request for comments: Adopt a username policy

• Events
  • Past: lecture on Wikidata and Mix'n'Match at the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School, Oxford University, 24 June
  • Upcoming: Wikimania, 16-18 August in Stockholm. Full program, list of Wikidata-related sessions
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4-Wikidata Affinity Group call discussing communication in Wikidata/Wikimedia communities, 30 July. Agenda

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Technical usability of Wikidata’s linked data - Evaluation of machine interoperability and data interpretability, by Nuno Freire and Antoine Isaac

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Reminder: because of a database switch, Wikidata will be read-only on July 30th, between 05:00AM-05:30 AM UTC (Phabricator task, help translate the banner)
  • Scripts that use the Query Service need to be identified by user-agent header
  • Structured Data on Commons - testing statements other than Depicts is ongoing this week before release into production on Commons.
  • OpenRefine 3.2 was released
  • The config value mw.config.get('wbEntity') has been dropped in order to improve the page load time

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: IAAF competition category, video game mod of, typing discipline, shrinkage, specific absorption rate, quotation or excerpt, surface roughness, related category, start grade, inverse label item, end grade, privacy policy URL, start of covered period, end of covered period
    • External identifiers: Album of the Year artist ID, Atlas of Living Australia ID, Jaxsta profile ID, Indian Super League player ID, misas.org Catholic church ID, Jaxsta release ID, Jaxsta recording ID, FEC Campaign Committee ID, National Library of Morocco ID, Premier Badminton League player ID, NosSénateurs.fr identifier, Supreme Court docket number, PBS Manufacturer ID, Kerala state school code, Taxonomicon ID, Album of the Year album ID, Gotlands museum, Musixmatch writer ID, Qobuz artist ID, wiki on WikiApiary, extension on WikiApiary, skin on WikiApiary, Zaragoza public art ID, Paris Foreign Missions Society ID, TikTok username, AFCD PFKID, Australian Marine Algal Name Index ID, Common Sense Media ID, FFR fencer ID, ABBBS Taxon ID, WaterNSW Rivers and Streams Site No., Lens ID, Grand Canyon Trust ID, LezWatch.TV actor ID, LezWatch.TV character ID, LezWatch.TV show ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: estimated IQ, Manner of torture, date of the first one & date of the last one, Glacier Status, School code of the Ministry of Education, Taiwan, bequest, Sells, Opinion joined by, ComingSoon.it film ID, Acknowledgments, copyright exemption, Subscribers, external georeferencer URL, 出演作品, Bar
    • External identifiers: Media Art Database console games ID, Acharts artist ID, Acharts chart ID, Museu do Diamante ID, CUP2002.RU person ID, Euro04.Ru person ID, Germany06.Ru person ID, 08euro.Ru person ID, WorldCup10.Ru person ID, Gazeta.Ru Euro 2012 person ID, AMPAS collections person ID, AMPAS collections film ID, Hiking Project ID, Douyin, Vidwan ID, AllTrails ID, Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America ID, PEPC ID, Bureau des longitudes ID, Goibibo Hotel ID, Cleartrip Hotel ID, identifier of french public Forest, Rijksmonument complex ID, Mojarto artist ID, located on street with OSM relation ID, muenchenwiki.de article ID
  • Query examples:
    • Settlements along the Way of Saint James in Basque Country (source)
    • Map of places of residence of accused witches in Scotland (source)
    • List of regional languages of France (source)

• Development
  • Re-evaluate supporting dcatap namespace (feel free to give feedback)
  • Data bridge: open modal with edit link information (phab:T226996)
  • Show the current Wikidata value in the modal (phab:T226997)
  • Add editing widget/input to client edit modal (phab:T226998)
  • supporting baserevid request param in lexeme api endpoints (phab:T217245)
  • Fix new store code in order to continue the terms migration (phab:T226008)
  • Fix an issue with broken WikibaseQualityConstraints tests (phab:T228855)
  • Fix issue that used to cause many fatals on production (phab:T227450)
  • Drop wbEntity config in entity pages (phab:T85499)
  • Fix an Internal error in Recent Changes for Lexeme (phab:T228996)
  • Create better summaries for our wbeditentity endpoint (phab:T220696)
  • Respect user's preference for thumbnail sizes on Wikidata (phab:T224189)
  • Allow linking to Schemas in statements (phab:T214884)
  • Fix a bug with Wikidata Tours (phab:T223999)
  • Update accounting for WDQS lag in wikidata maxlag param (phab:T221774)
  • More work on allowing accesing one wikibase instance from another (phab:T214557)
  • Deploy the mobile termbox on test.wikidata.org and fix various bugs
  • Show progress/activity on termbox mobile if a save request is still being processed (phab:T222890)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
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  • 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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Storm surge (disambiguation) moved to draftspace

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Wikidata weekly summary #376

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

• Events
  • Upcoming: OSM TW x Wikidata Taipei Meetup, August 12nd - Facebook event
  • Upcoming: Wikimania, 16-18 August in Stockholm. Full program, list of Wikidata-related sessions

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Wikidata: From "an" Identifier to "the" Identifier, Theo van Veen , Information Technology and Libraries, 38(2), 72-81.
  • Opening up Research Data in Film Studies by Using the Structured Knowledge Base Wikidata', Adelheid Heftberger et al, in "Digital Cultural Heritage", pp 401-410.
  • Bridging the gap between linked open data-based recommender systems and distributed representations, Pierpaolo Basile, et al, Information Systems, Volume 86, December 2019, pp 1-8.
  • OpenRefine Beginners Tutorial, video tutorial by Emmacarroll3 demonstrating how to import a dataset with OpenRefine.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • soweego version 1.0 is out: a machine learning system that links Wikidata to large-scale third-party catalogs
  • New data type for EntitySchemas will be available on August 7th

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: location of the point of view, opinion joined by, date of the first one, date of the latest one, Mac OS type code, acknowledged
    • External identifiers: Acharts.co artist ID, Textile Connect publication ID, 08euro.Ru person ID, CUP2002.RU person ID, Euro04.Ru person ID, Gazeta.Ru Euro 2012 person ID, WorldCup10.Ru person ID, Hiking Project trail ID, Media Art Database console games ID, AMPAS collections film ID, AMPAS collections person ID, Douyin ID, School code of the Ministry of Education, Taiwan, AllTrails trail ID, Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America ID, PEPC park ID, Vidwan ID, Bureau des longitudes ID, ComingSoon.it film ID, Cleartrip Hotel ID, Mojarto artist ID, Rijksmonument complex ID, Goibibo Hotel ID, Acharts.co chart ID, ONF forest national ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: axis, Principal, Epigraph, contact area count, Cases consolidated, detail of painting, exonerated of, possibly reproduction of, Werke ohne Opuszahl, obituary of, significant place
    • External identifiers: Poincaré Papers person ID, Acharts album ID, Rollerstory.net skater ID, CHESNO politician ID, Nauka Ukrainy scientist ID, OhRanger.com ID, Wynk artist ID, Plus Music artist ID, WP Muzyka artist ID, Interia Muzyka artist ID, Empik author ID, merlin.pl author ID, The Top Tens ID, Raptekster.dk ID
  • Query examples:
    • French female authors whose work is in the public domain (source)
    • Timeline of hypertext systems (source)
    • Megaliths in the Basque Country, color-coded by type (source)
    • Heavy metal bands from Finland with or without picture and date of the picture (source)
    • Types of GLAMs in Wikidata (source)

• Development
  • Fix logging for errors on wbcontentlanguages requests (phab:T228888)
  • Add request information to request timeout errors (phab:T228885)
  • Show an error message when saving fails on mobile termbox (phab:T222884)
  • Add editing widget/input to client edit modal (phab:T226998)
  • Show the current Wikidata value in the Bridge modal (phab:T226997)
  • EntitySchema datatype (phab:T214884)
  • Reduce the number of ResourceLoader modules that WikibaseClient register: (phab:T203696)
  • Reduce text returned by EntityContent::getTextForFilters (phab:T226216)
  • Fixed a bug with PHP Warning (phab:T229482)
  • Fixing a bug about value pickers being broken (phab:T229604)
  • Fixed BadMethodCallException wbgetentities when getting Lexeme subentities (phab:T223995)
  • Investigate on Graphoid issues (phab:T229236)
  • Fix issues on Wikidata Tours (phab:T214884)
  • Make logging warning or info of not finding entity for revision configurable (phab:T229574)
  • Fix Grafana Datamodel References dashboard (phab:T214894)
  • Move "Wikidata item" link outside of "toolbox" sidebar to "other projects" sidebar (phab:T66315)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:11, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #377

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

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Conclusion of 7th Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana Wikidata Editathon (grant report)
  • "Creating Library Linked Data with Wikibase: Lessons Learned from Project Passage" OCLC Research. DOI: 10.25333/faq3-ax08

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The open source geocoder w:en:Nominatim used by the OpenStreetMap project is participating in the Google Summer of Code with an internship working on integrating Wikidata as a ranking metric for its search results. Check the development blog.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: musical bar, epigraph (literature), copyright exemption, significant place
    • External identifiers: München Wiki article ID, Poincaré Papers person ID, Acharts.co album ID, NOTAM (FAA), CHESNO politician ID, Rollerstory.net skater ID, Nauka Ukrainy scientist ID, OhRanger.com ID, Wynk artist ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: legend for number, does not have effect, word stem type, Voting system, Class, Peer-review-process properties for journals, Wikisource-Kategorie, line(s), Election called by, image or photo-making technique
    • External identifiers: FGrHist ID, Acharts.co song ID, shmup.com ID, TA2 ID, Hacker News User ID, Swedish lighthouses, EPW author ID, Gaana.com album ID, Cinestaan film ID, Cinestaan person ID, Service d'Information sur les Etudes et les Professions job ID, IBP 4-letter bird species alpha code, PLIA ID, Planespotters.net ID, Awards & Winners artist ID, TuneIn artist ID, AccuRadio artist ID, Jango artist ID, LiveXLive artist ID, mora artist ID, CD Universe artist ID, Ex Libris author ID, Fishpond.co.nz author ID, YesAsia author ID, Supraphonline artist ID, Image-Line artist ID, RMF FM artist ID, eska.pl topic ID, Register nehnuteľných NKP, deejay.de artist ID, Bandsintown artist ID, musica.com artist ID, GreatSong artist ID, AZLyrics.com artist ID, RauteMusik artist ID, Getty Images topic ID, Tunefind artist ID, SoundHound artist ID, SongMeanings artist ID, Census of India ID, OpenWeatherMap city ID
  • Query examples:
    • Bands whose name is part of Tolkien's legendarium (source)
    • Map of offshore windfarms (source)
    • Cities having more Wikipedia sitelinks than their country (source)

• Development
  • Fix a caching problem on termbox (phab:T228978)
  • Investigate options for termbox load testing (phab:T229790)
  • Use thumbnail preferences for thumbnail of Commons media file (phab:T224189)
  • Add tags parameter to Wikibase APIs that edit entities (phab:T229917)
  • Move "Data item" link outside of sidebar toolbox (phab:T66315)
  • Create Maintenance Script to Remove Terms in a Language from Current Revision (phab:T222606)
  • Fix Grafana Datamodel References dashboard (phab:T214894)
  • Add editing widget/input on Bridge (phab:T226998)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:33, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #378

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Improved instructions for translation admin

• Events
  • Current: Wikimania in Stockholm and hackathon, August 14 to 18. Check out the list of all Wikidata-related events. Each session page should include notes, slides and streaming if available.

• Tool of the week
  • In this new section, you can share your favourite tool with the other Wikidata users. You can add some suggestions here.
  • NameGuzzler allows you to automatically add an identical label or alias into many languages (for example, the name of a person or a place). You can define your own custom list of languages that you want to add.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • There is now a Wikiquote page for Wikidata
  • ISA is a new tool to easily add structured data to Commons files, including from mobile
  • You can help improve the vandalism detection by completing a set of labels for ORES
  • QuickStatements won the Coolest Tool Award, category "editor", during the first ceremony at Wikimania 2019
  • New Wikidata-related projects developed during the Wikimania hackathon:
    • Documentation translation sprint: several people translated Wikidata help pages in their own language. Feel free to continue the efforts to make Wikidata more accessible!
    • Item creation helpers helps create similar items, and link them together, with a simple form. Example with skating competitions

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: manner of inhumane treatment, cases consolidated, typically sells, noun class, does not have effect, substitute director/manager, school class
    • External identifiers: Empik author ID, WP Muzyka artist ID, Interia Muzyka artist ID, The Top Tens ID, merlin.pl author ID, Plus Music artist ID, Kinsky–Halm Catalogue, Raptekster.dk ID, Acharts.co song ID, FGrHist ID, register of real estate NKP, Hacker News User ID, shmup.com ID, TA2 ID, Gaana.com album ID, XING profile ID, Cinestaan film ID, Cinestaan person ID, job ID in Service d'Information sur les Etudes et les Professions, Planespotters.net aircraft ID, PLIA ID, IBP 4-letter bird species alpha code, EPW author ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: graph radius, Belgian Species List ID, amino acid (start, end) position, ordeal by, protected region scheme, image revision-id, region within image, access restriction status, georeferencing data, number of processor threads, part number, CPUID, based on tabular data, Siddham script name, Number of active electronic terminals
    • External identifiers: OpenWeatherMap city ID, Scribd Publication ID, moly.hu azonosító, Hungarian Movie Database film ID, Lyrics007 artist ID, jog.fm artist ID, Hype Machine artist ID, Liber Liber author ID, Dizionario biografico dei Friulani ID, Just Hear It artist ID, Lyrics Translations artist ID, LINE BLOG user ID, Digitalt Museum ID, MTV UK artist ID, MTV Germany artist ID, MTV Polska artist ID, Vox FM artist ID, Allcinema person ID, Eiga.com person ID, Eiga.com movie ID, GoodRx, BEACON ID
  • Query examples:
    • Books in Bengali Wikisource that are validated (source)
    • Flightless birds of New Zealand (source)
    • Islands in Germany (source)
    • Clandestine center of detention and torture in Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina (source)
    • Same-sex married couples where neither partner has a sexual orientation (source)
  • Schema examples:
    • Danish numerals
    • Danish hyphenation

• Development
  • Fix an issue with the pop up of Wikidata Tours (phab:T223999)
  • Call WikibaseLexeme API with baserevid parameter from the UI (phab:T217245)
  • Fix a bug with CheckConstraintsJob (phab:T227450)
  • Fix a bug with wbgetentities when getting Lexeme subentities (phab:T223995)
  • Add editing widget/input to client edit modal: (phab:T226998)
  • Add tags parameter to Wikibase APIs that edit entities: (phab:T229917)
  • More work on the the production Termbox service
  • tidying up our browser test suite (phab:T229910)
  • adding browser tests for basic editing (phab:T230187)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:50, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #379

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

• Events
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4-Wikidata Affinity Group call: Wikimania recap, 27 August. Agenda

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • What we talk about when we talk about Wikidata quality: a literature survey, by Alessandro Piscopo and Elena Simperl
  • Introduction to OpenRefine in video by Emma (University of Edimburgh) (12min)
  • Old but gold: introduction to Wikidata by Asaf Bartov (7min)

• Tool of the week
  • In this new section, you can share your favourite tool with the other Wikidata users. You can add some suggestions here.
  • Integraality generates tables to assess the completeness of properties on sets of items, such as properties on railway stations for instance. Tables are automatically updated and highly configurable.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Edit 1,000,000,000 - the one-billionth, or 10⁹ - was the creation of The band structure in microwave frequency for quasi-1-D coaxial photonic crystals (Q66665412) by User:Stevenliuyi
  • New termbox interface on mobile is enabled - you can view and edit easily the labels, descriptions and aliases on mobile devices (full announcement)
  • Random finds from WikiProject Random
  • Starting from July 2019, Wikimedia Sverige and the Wikimedia Foundation's GLAM team work together to create a more sustainable technical infrastructure for global heritage and content partnerships. Read more about this initiative on meta.wikimedia.org.
  • Wiki Loves Monuments and other Wikimedia Commons campaign organizers can now specify structured data fields in the campaign UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons.
  • The new termbox interface is now enabled on mobile, you can edit labels, descriptions and aliases from a mobile device

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: ordeal by, newspaper archive url, periphrastic definition, lexeme for periphrastic definition, link for periphrastic definition
    • External identifiers: Awards & Winners artist ID, eska.pl topic ID, Image-Line artist ID, Jango artist ID, LiveXLive artist ID, mora artist ID, RMF FM artist ID, Supraphonline artist ID, TuneIn artist ID, YesAsia author ID, AZLyrics.com artist ID, Bandsintown artist ID, musica.com artist ID, OpenWeatherMap city ID, RauteMusik artist ID, Scribd publication ID, SongMeanings artist ID, SoundHound artist ID, Belgian Species List ID, Dizionario biografico dei Friulani ID, Mafab.hu film ID, jog.fm artist ID, Lyrics007 artist ID, moly.hu book ID, Liber Liber author ID, GreatSong artist ID, LINE BLOG user ID, Lyrics Translations artist ID, Allcinema person ID, Eiga.com person ID, MTV Polska artist ID, MTV UK artist ID, Vox FM artist ID, Eiga.com movie ID, Transfermarkt team ID, Insects (Insecta) of the World ID, BEACON ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: associated with, present on map, translated title, Wikia Article URL 2, position in sequence, color produced, Itch.io ID, mobile formatter, subscribers, Attribution text, difficulty
    • External identifiers: RPGGeek, Faculté des sciences de Nancy ID, DIBAVOD ID, Fundación Goya en Aragón ID, Estudanky ID, LongSwimsDB ID, L-number, Dove.org work ID, WTA ID, iTunes (gb) artist ID, Arnet Miner publication ID, Chinese Engineering Expert Tank ID, Open Science Framework ID, Laws & Regulations Database of the Republic of China ID, NLP ID, SCTrails ID, Transporter Classification Database ID, UN treaty reference, musicbrainz tag, Identification code for universities and colleges, Toons Mag, YouTube Music channel ID, The Independent topic ID, Pandora artist ID
  • Query examples:
    • https://w.wiki/7UY timeline of competitions of the 2019-2020 figure skating season]
    • Future figure skating competitions
    • Currently happening figure skating competitions
    • French ships whose name start with an A (source)
    • Map of birth places of delegates to the Alaska Constitutional Convention (source)
  • Schema examples:
    • human chromosome, built on chromosome, built on sequence assembly
    • Lunar crater

• Development
  • Deploy mobile termbox, follow-up and bug fixing
  • Deploy then rollback the move of "Wikidata item" link on clients due to cache issues (phab:T66315)
  • Work on adjusting the save button of the Entity Schema editor (phab:T230398)
  • Work on the bridge emitting button (phab:T230326)
  • Introduce a header for the bridge modal (phab:T230328)
  • Produce initial statistics/indicators for the Wikidata Languages Landscape (phab:T223119)

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Wikidata weekly summary #380

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

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Working with Structured Data on Commons: A Status Report, by Lucas Werkmeister
  • Citation.js: a format-independent, modular bibliography tool for the browser and command line, article in PeerJ Computer Science (Q27726596) by Lars Willighagen (Q45907528)
  • A systematic literature review on Wikidata (paywalled) - Marçal Mora-Cantallops et al.
  • GeneDB and Wikidata - Magnus Manske, et al.
  • Wikidata from a Research Perspective -- A Systematic Mapping Study of Wikidata - Mariam Farda-Sarbas, Claudia Mueller-Birn
  • Enriquecimiento de entidades de Wikidata mediante un modelo de descomposición y mapeado de categorías de Wikipedia ("Enrichment of Wikidata entities through a decomposition model and mapping of Wikipedia categories") - Tomás Saorín et al.; text in Spanish

• Tool of the week
  • In this new section, you can share your favourite tool with the other Wikidata users. You can add some suggestions here.
  • Cocoda is a web application to manage mappings between authority files. It supports editing Wikidata-mappings including GND, Basisklassifikation, Regensburg Classification, Iconclass, and Nomisma. Cocoda can be used like mix'n'match but for more complex mappings.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The vision and strategy papers for Wikidata and Wikibase have been published - comments welcome on the talk page
  • Follow-up from Wikimania: you can now give input about the language barrier on Wikidata and federating Wikibase instances with Wikidata
  • New tool: a Python library to create bots, scripts and tools for lexicographical data by MichaelSchoenitzer
  • There is now a new API parameter to add tags on edits summaries
  • soweego version 1.1 is on its way, thanks to a WMF Rapid Grant
  • Several job offers related to Wikidata were published in the last few weeks:
    • Scribe, a Wikimedia Foundation funded software and research project, is looking for a full-stack software engineer
    • The Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a software engineer for its Search Platform team, including work on Wikidata Query Service
    • Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a UX designer and a full-stack developer for Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: access restriction status, in defining formula
    • External identifiers: RPGGeek ID, DIBAVOD ID, Fundación Goya en Aragón ID, AccuRadio artist ID, eSTUDÁNKY ID, LongSwimsDB ID, WTA trail ID, Scribd Item ID, Dove.org work ID, Chinese Engineering Expert Tank ID, Open Science Framework ID, SCTrails trail ID, Laws & Regulations Database of the Republic of China ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Mediawiki Wiki, Pilze Deutschland ID, Moose Deutschland ID, scope and content, Number of nodes, Performance, use restriction status, Significant number, FCC Product Code, Hardware Version Identification Number, amount cataloged, number of decimal digits, Gregorian calendar, food energy, pronunciation
    • External identifiers: YouTube Music channel ID 2, Pandora artist ID 2, The Independent topic ID 2, NÖ Proposal ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos brazilian comic ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos international comic ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos brazilian publishing house ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos international publishing house ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos artist ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos character ID, ScienceOpen author ID, ScienceOpen publication ID, Newspapers.com ID, ESPN.com College Football Player ID, WGA writer ID, WGA project ID, FCC Grantee Code, Spectrum Management System Company Number, Radio Equipment List Certification Number, National Equipment Registration System Supplier Number, Prime Pages ID, New Encyclopedic Dictionary of Czech, Peakbagger climber ID, Naver Music artist ID, Naver Music album ID, Hiking Project area ID, Hiking Project site ID, Slovo i Dilo person ID, playmarkerstats.com team ID, WorldFootball.net team ID, FNL player ID, Peakbagger key col ID, MUBI film ID, MUBI person ID
  • Query examples:
    • Public art in London by female artists
    • People used as examples in Wikidata properties (source)
    • Closest capitals of non bordering countries (<200 km) (source)
    • Hillforts mapped with their heritage designation/protection status
    • YouTubers without a YouTube channel
    • Racing automobile drivers who died in a car crash (source)
  • Schema examples:
    • Public library branch in The Netherlands
  • Newest database reports: papers about Wikipedia

• Development
  • Adjust label of save button of the Entity Schema and add accesskey for easier editing editor (phab:T230398)
  • Get Grafana Datamodel References dashboard back up and running (phab:T214894)
  • Fix an issue in EntitySchema tests that caused some CI failures (phab:T231065)
  • Localize Wikibase API help links (phab:T231269)
  • Support tags parameter on Wikibase APIs that edit entities (phab:T229917)
  • Add in Wikidata support for sitelinks to https://nap.wikisource.org (phab:T212886)
  • Reading property terms from new store in production now (phab:T225053)
  • Adding WDQS lag to maxlag info, to avoid stress on WDQS machines (phab:T221774)
  • Implementing the fallback version of the new better edit summary messages on items through API (phab:T224010)
  • Fixing the issue of an invisible quality constrain violation indicator (phab:T227866)
  • Switching item terms to migration stage of writing to both wb_terms and the new store (phab:T225055)
  • Preparing to run migration of item terms (phab:T219123)
  • Allowing to access Wikibase entities from multiple (Wikibase) databases (phab:T214557)
  • Hiding non-supported languages in old termbox (phab:T227083)
  • Work on a new solution to move "Data item" link outside of sidebar toolbox avoiding the cache issues (phab:T66315)
  • Bridge: saving the Wikidata edit when submitting (phab:T226999)
  • Showing the current Wikidata value in the edit modal (phab:T226997)

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Wikidata weekly summary #381

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

• Events
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: References in Wikidata, 10 September. Agenda

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Merging Open Data Sources to Plan Learning Activities for Online Students - Antonio Sarasa Cabezuelo, et al., in: 2019 23rd International Conference Information Visualisation (IV)
  • Open-Access Society Publishers in Wikidata by A. Britton

• Tool of the week
  • moveClaim allows you to move or copy claims from one item to another. This is especially useful when splitting items, or creating lots of similar items.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Seventh birthday of Wikidata: you can start thinking about organizing a meetup in your area to celebrate the birthday, or about a present for the community!
  • The first draft of the program of the WikidataCon is now available. The content of the three main session rooms will be live-streamed and recorded for people who cannot participate in the conference.
  • Because of a database switch, Wikidata will be in read-only more on September 10th at 05:00 UTC, for max. 30min (phab:T230762)
  • Recent tool: @Wikidatabot, a Telegram bot that allows you to search for something on Wikidata from Telegram
  • New game: Wikidata Mall, a Telegram management simulation game where content is generated from Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: mobile formatter URL, degree of difficulty, color produced, computer performance, use restriction status, FCC Product Code, Itch.io ID, Gregorian calendar start date
    • External identifiers: Identification code for Japanese universities and colleges, Pilze Deutschland ID, Moose Deutschland ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos artist ID, Toons Mag ID, Newspapers.com ID, Transporter Classification Database ID, ESPN.com College Football Player ID, Prime Pages ID, FCC Grantee Code, FNL player ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos brazilian comic ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos brazilian publishing house ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos character ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos comic ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos international publishing house ID, Hiking Project area ID, Hiking Project site ID, National Equipment Registration System Supplier Number, Naver Music album ID, Naver Music artist ID, New Encyclopedic Dictionary of Czech, Pandora artist ID, Peakbagger climber ID, Peakbagger key col ID, playmarkerstats.com team ID, Radio Equipment List Certification Number, Slovo i Dilo person ID, Spectrum Management System Company Number, The Independent topic ID, WGA project ID, WGA writer ID, WorldFootball.net team ID, Bursa Malaysia stock code, CPUID, L-number, Arnet Miner publication ID, NLP ID (record)
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: IP Code, dénivelé cumulé positif, Supports qualifier, climbing route, madhhab, TDV İslam Ansiklopedisi ID
    • External identifiers: Auckland Museum ID, Al-Jazeera Topic ID, Highland Historic Environment Record ID, Grammy Awards artist ID, SNK ID, Online PWN Encyclopedia, VAT identification number, TOP500 System ID, ACUF unique ID (UFI), Marine Regions Geographic IDentifier, Downdetector ID, National Wildlife Refuge Trails ID, Behind the voice Actors short ID, Rate Your Music label ID, Labelcode, Maine Trail Finder ID, Aozora Bunko author ID, Aozora Bunko work ID, iHeartRadio podcast ID, iHeartRadio artist ID, WeChat ID
  • Query examples:
    • UK Cabinet Ministers and their links in the UK National Archives | (Histropedia timeline)
    • Most common properties on Senses (source)
    • Place of birth of actors in The Matrix (source)
    • Graph of all species in the Heron (Ardeidae) family with an IBP alpha code (source)

• Development
  • Wikidata got a high-resolution logo, thanks to Odder (phab:T230120)
  • New monolingual code languages are added, thanks to Jon Harald Søby: TLI (Tlingit), clc (Tsilhqotʹin), alc (Kawésqar), kld (Gamilaraay), peo (Old Persian)
  • Fixed a bug in constraint violations indicator that was not showing up sometimes (phab:T227866)
  • Make Lua's function mw.wikibase.entityExists return true for redirects (phab:T192462)
  • Reviewed and followed up on highlighting statements when using "#P" in URL (phab:T178745)
  • Wikidata Bridge: saving the Wikidata edit when submitting (phab:T226999)
  • Showing the label for the Property instead of the id (phab:T227759)
  • Overcoming a conceptional oversight between mediawiki and standard language codes (phab:T231833)

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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 15

Newsletter • September 2019

A final update, for now:

The third grant-funded round of WikiProject X has been completed. Unfortunately, while this round has not resulted in a deployed product, I am not planning to resume working on the project for the foreseeable future. Please see the final report for more information.

Regards,

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Category:Continuous journals has been nominated for discussion

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Real estate

I have undone your move of Real estate to Real estate business. That would need a discussion on the article talk page with a clear consensus for the move. Thanks, The Mirror Cracked (talk) 17:07, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

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Checking comment on revert

Good morning! If I understand your comment on this revert correctly, you would be okay with removing Category:Award winners from Category:Fellows of learned societies if simultaneously Category:Awards would be removed from Category:Fellowships. Is that the correct interpretation? Marcocapelle (talk) 10:35, 4 January 2020 (UTC)

@Marcocapelle: at least that would be consistent, although I'm not sure it'd be desirable. fgnievinski (talk) 15:43, 4 January 2020 (UTC)

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Use of ";"

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Illegal

Hi Fgnievinski, I have removed Informal from Illegal because I couldn't understand why it would be there. I'd be happy to revert myself if I've made an error. Thanks, Leschnei (talk) 13:14, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Pole (surveying)

The article Pole (surveying) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

This doesn't seem very useful. The first paragraph is about a different topic than the second, and the picture is something different entirely. And all three are redundant with other articles.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:ChemPubSoc Europe academic journals

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Angular diameter is not what you mean there

Sorry for the second revert at Beam divergence, but please take a closer look. The article you are linking to, Angular diameter, is describing a different thing than the quantity you mean to refer to. The phrase you quoted in your summary (from Beam diameter rather than Beam width) mentions "angular width", not "angular diameter". Your text would not be wrong without the erroneous link to angular diameter, but by itself the phrase "angular diameter" is vague. The original text is clearer. I don't see any way to fix it that is better than simply reverting it, so I have reverted it again. --Srleffler (talk) 03:49, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

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English literature

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Nomination of Cartography and Geographic Information Science for deletion

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Journal stubs

You've created a bit of journal stubs recently. It would be really helpful if you expanded them a bit more per WP:JWG, and added the infobox (there's a useful script for that here). Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 13:51, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

@Headbomb: yes, it's in my to-do list, it just might take a while. fgnievinski (talk) 16:28, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Images of Earth from satellites

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Thanks

Hello Fgnievinski,

I noticed that you made a helpful edit to Skyhook Wireless. Thanks again, Bekkadn (talk) 08:48, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

Draft:Sentinel-6

Hello there, while reviewing the pending drafts at AfC, I came across this draft which was submitted by you earlier today. I also noticed that after submitting the draft for review, you created a redirect at Sentinel-6 which is blocking the move. To be honest, I was ready to accept this but now I wonder whether you think this topic is suitable for a standalone article at the moment or not. It appears that you have an expertise in this field so I prefer to take my decision on accepting this draft after knowing your opinion. Regards. Hitro talk 15:42, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

@HitroMilanese: yes, please move the draft over the redirect, I've only created it because I thought it'd take much longer for the AfC to be processed. The subject will attract a lot of attention from the press by November. Thanks. fgnievinski (talk) 16:18, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Indian Society of Remote Sensing

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