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Wikidata weekly summary #241

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: 33C3
  • Scaling OpenStreetMap with Wikidata knowledge
  • Scraping data from Wikipedia using Wikidata
  • Using cbimport to import Wikibase data to JSON documents
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Linked data fragment enabled on the Query Service
  • Quora topic IDs have been added to Mix'n'match
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Belvedere artist ID, Calflora ID, basic unit of settlement code (Czech/Slovak), Google Play Store ID, Quora topic ID, end period, start period
  • Query examples:
    • List of heads of state by Erdős number (source)
    • Airports named after people (source)
    • Graves with no grave pictures of people buried in Norra Begravningsplatsen (source)
    • Graves with grave pictures of people buried in Norra Begravningsplatsen (source)
    • Solidays occurring today (source)
    • Streets in Paris named after current countries (source)
    • Streets in Paris named after battles (source)
    • Wikipedia articles (in any language) of paintings by painter (source)
    • Sovereign state flags with no red, white, or blue (source)
    • Graph of number of compositions over age at first composition (source)
• Development
  • Worked more on the first entity type (Lexeme) for Wiktionary support
  • Worked more on federation in order to allow using Wikidata items and properties to describe images on Commons in the future
  • Fixed a bug with getLabelWithLang returning the wrong language (phabricator:T152241)
  • Fixed an issue where some coordinate values displayed 60 seconds instead of rounding to 1 minute (phabricator:T153429)
  • Adjusted language for simple English sitelinks (phabricator:T152915)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 13:30, 26 December 2016 (UTC)

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Views/Day	Quality	Title	Tagged with…
77		Washington, Missouri (talk)	Add sources
469		All Grown Up! (talk)	Add sources
379		LGBT rights in the United Kingdom (talk)	Add sources
9		Offshore Leaks (talk)	Add sources
1,011		Communist state (talk)	Add sources
107		Sex workers' rights (talk)	Add sources
291		The Replacements (TV series) (talk)	Cleanup
72		Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (talk)	Cleanup
244		Intestacy (talk)	Cleanup
148		Nobel Oil Group (talk)	Expand
168		SOCAR (talk)	Expand
67		Israel Space Agency (talk)	Expand
235		Right to a fair trial (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
402		Shell corporation (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
338		Anchor baby (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
175		Telia Company (talk)	Merge
36		Evasion (ethics) (talk)	Merge
1,254		Sex worker (talk)	Merge
21		Reforms of Portuguese orthography (talk)	Wikify
11		Juan Armando Hinojosa (talk)	Wikify
33		Iqbal Mirchi (talk)	Wikify
2		Knight Crew (talk)	Orphan
55		Ingemar Macarine (talk)	Orphan
3		Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo (talk)	Orphan
33		Betaworks (talk)	Stub
3		Chemung, Pennsylvania (talk)	Stub
68		Brian Oulton (talk)	Stub
25		The Keenen Ivory Wayans Show (talk)	Stub
15		A Foreign Policy of Freedom (talk)	Stub
16		Société Nationale des Pétroles du Congo (talk)	Stub

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This week's article for improvement (week 1, 2017)

Some of the Aeolian Islands Hello, Tom Morris. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Aeolian Islands Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Tectonics • Helena Bergström Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:08, 2 January 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #242

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

• Discussions
  • Open requests for adminship: יונה בנדלאק, Pyb

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Next IRC office hour on January 5th
  • Past: we were at 33c3
  • Scaling OpenStreetMap with Wikidata knowledge
  • 2016 – A busy year for Gene Wiki and WikiData

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata and the celebrity deaths of 2016 on Buzzfeed
  • Welsh Wikipedia has some 16,000 lists regularly maintained from Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: INSEE arrondissement code, INSEE countries and foreign territories code
  • Query examples:
    • Filtered timeline of Spotify artists
    • Paintings of the Eiffel Tower by Robert Delaunay (source)
    • Ratio of “famous” (≥25 sitelinks) people’s deaths since 2000 (source)
    • Things with coordinates on globes other than Earth (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: US Virgin Islands
  • Newest external tools: "Descriptioner" - Tool to add descriptions batchwise
  • Newest database reports: Popular items without claims, Portuguese-language films without articles in Portuguese

• Development
  • When a {{#statements:…}} property couldn't be resolved, a tracking category will be added (phab:T50799)
  • Rewrote Special:NewItem and all other Special:New… pages to use OOUI error handling (phab:T150205)
  • Getting ready the basic Lexeme prototype (phab:T146662)
  • Continued work on federation basics (phab:T149580)
  • Release version 1.0.0 of the DataTypes component
  • Enjoying the holidays and getting ready for this year's challenges. Hope you do to :)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:55, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia:HAPPYPLACE listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Wikipedia:HAPPYPLACE. Since you had some involvement with the Wikipedia:HAPPYPLACE redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. - CHAMPION ^{(talk) (contributions) (logs)} 23:23, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 2, 2017)

Professional audio – pictured is a portable setup of various live audio production and recording equipment Hello, Tom Morris. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Professional audio Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Aeolian Islands • Tectonics Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:08, 9 January 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #242

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Current: Wikimedia Dev summit in San Francisco (January 9-11th) If you are there, come and meet our developers and volunteers!
  • Upcoming: WikiIndaba, January 20-22th, Accra, Ghana
  • Wikidata used to connect people giving interviews for the oral history project at the computer history museum

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Video: how institutions can donate data to Wikidata, explained in a cartoon
  • Category:Articles with infoboxes completely from Wikidata on English Wikipedia
  • Mix'n'match encountered some problems with labels and descriptions, some of them are now fixed, cf post from Magnus
  • Wikidata-powered citation lists with citation.js
  • How to use objects from OpenStreetMap in Wikidata
  • Video: Navigating a cemetery using Spotify and Wikidata (by Magnus Sälgö)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: eBird taxon ID, Victorian Heritage Database ID, Debian package, FIFA country code, time signature, angular resolution, vehicle normally used, people or cargo transported, AELG ID, VGMDb artist ID, ERIH PLUS ID, biological variant of, parent cell line, Publons Publication ID, Social Networks Archival Context ID, Electronic Enlightenment ID, INCAA film rating, as.com athlete ID, ArbetSam ID, Natura 2000 site ID, Polish cultural heritage register number
  • Query examples:
    • Birth place of Academy Award winners
    • Neujahrskonzert with conductor by country and age (source)
    • 9 species named after the President of the USA (source)
  • Newest external tools: R wrapper for WDQS API (by Mikhail Popov), Wikidata authority file mapping tool (by Jakob Voß)
  • Newest database reports: list of episodes of Desperate Housewives (in English and German)

• Development
  • Log of our last IRC office hour
  • This week, most of the developers are at the Dev Summit hacking stuff and doing great things!
  • Continued working on "federation" – support for multiple Wikibase repositories (phab:T76007)
  • New dimensions for unit conversion in the query service (phab:T150881)
  • Fixed a timing issue that can happen when using the property suggester (phab:T115267)
  • Still investigating an issue in which the "save" button stays disabled, as reported in December
  • We may remove the sliding animation when using the date, geo, monolingual, and quantity experts (gerrit:330145). The preview popup may now cover parts of the page. Please try it at wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org and tell us what you think on our contact page.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Add statements to items without
  • Help with one of the bot requests
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:00, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

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Views/Day	Quality	Title	Tagged with…
3		Moosavi Peace Formula (talk)	Add sources
182		Who's Who (talk)	Add sources
186		Marriage law (talk)	Add sources
18		Camargo Corrêa (talk)	Add sources
194		Mandatory sentencing (talk)	Add sources
71		Mona Washbourne (talk)	Add sources
1,770		SOAP (talk)	Cleanup
198		Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (talk)	Cleanup
731		Homeschooling (talk)	Cleanup
17		Immigration equality (talk)	Expand
2,653		Watch Dogs (talk)	Expand
30,593		United States presidential election, 2016 (talk)	Expand
224		Variety store (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
44		Taylor Law (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
114		History of same-sex unions (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
21		Social panic (talk)	Merge
319		Freight transport (talk)	Merge
8		Bristol record labels (talk)	Merge
4		Marriage in the Isle of Man (talk)	Wikify
8		National Roofing Contractors Association (talk)	Wikify
187		Scott Trust Limited (talk)	Wikify
3		Deltan Dallagnol (talk)	Orphan
4		Child labour in the Netherlands (talk)	Orphan
9		Chromalox, Inc. (talk)	Orphan
296		Deedee Magno (talk)	Stub
19		Conservatoire for Dance and Drama (talk)	Stub
4		Doc NYC (talk)	Stub
18		Edie Martin (talk)	Stub
48		Laurent Pokou (talk)	Stub
552		Scrappy Little Nobody (talk)	Stub

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This week's article for improvement (week 3, 2017)

Some of the human organs Hello, Tom Morris. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Organ (anatomy) Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Professional audio • Aeolian Islands Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:08, 16 January 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •