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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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:20, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 22 – 28 March 2019

Facto Post – Issue 22 – 28 March 2019 The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page. To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see the footer. Back numbers are here. When in the cloud, do as the APIs do Half a century ago, it was the era of the mainframe computer, with its air-conditioned room, twitching tape-drives, and appearance in the title of a spy novel Billion-Dollar Brain then made into a Hollywood film. Now we have the cloud, with server farms and the client–server model as quotidian: this text is being typed on a Chromebook. File:Cloud-API-Logo.svg Logo of Cloud API on Google Cloud Platform The term Applications Programming Interface or API is 50 years old, and refers to a type of software library as well as the interface to its use. While a compiler is what you need to get high-level code executed by a mainframe, an API out in the cloud somewhere offers a chance to perform operations on a remote server. For example, the multifarious bots active on Wikipedia have owners who exploit the MediaWiki API. APIs (called RESTful) that allow for the GET HTTP request are fundamental for what could colloquially be called "moving data around the Web"; from which Wikidata benefits 24/7. So the fact that the Wikidata SPARQL endpoint at query.wikidata.org has a RESTful API means that, in lay terms, Wikidata content can be GOT from it. The programming involved, besides the SPARQL language, could be in Python, younger by a few months than the Web. Magic words, such as occur in fantasy stories, are wishful (rather than RESTful) solutions to gaining access. You may need to be a linguist to enter Ali Baba's cave or the western door of Moria (French in the case of "Open Sesame", in fact, and Sindarin being the respective languages). Talking to an API requires a bigger toolkit, which first means you have to recognise the tools in terms of what they can do. On the way to the wikt:impactful or polymathic modern handling of facts, one must perhaps take only tactful notice of tech's endemic problem with documentation, and absorb the insightful point that the code in APIs does articulate the customary procedures now in place on the cloud for getting information. As Owl explained to Winnie-the-Pooh, it tells you The Thing to Do. Links Wikidata as a semantic framework for the Gene Wiki initiative, 2016 paper by Andrawaag and others, commenting inter alia on the role of the API on Wikidata Working With Wikibase From Go, Digital Flapjack blogpost 26 November 2018, Michael Dales, developer for ScienceSource using golang, with a software engineer's view on Wikibase and the MediaWiki API Dealing with the Rust, Magnus Manske blogpost 12 March 2019, on the Rust language and the MediaWiki API mw:API:RecentChanges, mediawiki.org page on the API for access to "recent changes" on a wiki wikitech:Analytics/AQS/Pageviews, wikitech.wikimedia.org for the Pageview API, giving Wikimedia traffic information xkcd cartoon, API Guide If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 4

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (March 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the fourth issue of the new Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

Joeytje50's JWB

PAC2: Chouette • Just A Click Away

DannyS712: FPC voter • Easy-link

Zackmann08's unwatch deleted • Begoon's addUploadsLink

Pythoncoder's voteSymbols (now in release 3.0.3) • Evad37's rater (now in release 1.2.0)

Abelmoschus Esculentus retired from Wikipedia; DannyS712 is now maintaining their scripts:

Ajax Rollback • Ajax Rollback with summary • Contributions Search • Tags Manager
Teahouse Talkback • Mass Category Modifying Helper • EFFP Response Helper
Skip to bottom • Source Assess Table Generator • Userspace • RandomAfC
Mass Message Sender • Discussion Closer

FR30799386 was blocked from Wikipedia; DannyS712 is now maintaining their scripts:

communicator • copyvio-check • Undo • Quick-undo • Readonly • Redirectify • Section-strike

Pending requests

• A request for helping with help requests
• Hyphenating ISBNs
• ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

Miscellaneous

• The Wikimedia Foundation has requested help with the testing of and feedback on a new tool for "Automated article section recommendations" for stub articles. See the village pump notice for more.
• mw.loader.getScript has been added to mw.loader, closing a feature request from 2010. It allows users to load a script via URL (like mw.loader.load()) and specify a callback function (like mw.loader.using()). See mw:ResourceLoader/Core modules#mw.loader.getScript for more.

Enjoy your April Fool's, --DannyS712 (talk) 18:43, 30 March 2019 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 31 March 2019

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

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• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:42, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:49, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:59, 15 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 09:11, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

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.
  • Help write the next summary!

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 5

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (April 2019). Hello everyone and welcome to the 5th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

The Evil IP address' Heading Editor

Newslinger's Notifier • Suffusion of Yellow's View Source

BrandonXLF: To Top Button • Restorer • Easy Summary • Subpage Mover

Evad37: Xunlink (v2.0.0, handles portals) • XFDcloser (v3.13.0, upgrades at TfD and removal of backlinks, minor tweaks and fixes)

Twinkle (commit 26305a2, major updates to csd, xfd, and tag menus, additional improvements to other smaller features)

DannyS712 is now maintaining Visual editing, a fork of Flooded with them hundreds' VisualEditist script

Pending requests

• Twinkle for mobile
• Working with "psuedo-headings"
• ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

Until next month, --DannyS712 (talk) 00:22, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

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Facto Post – Issue 23 – 30 April 2019

Facto Post – Issue 23 – 30 April 2019 The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page. To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see the footer. Back numbers are here. Completely clouded? Cloud computing logo Talk of cloud computing draws a veil over hardware, but also, less obviously but more importantly, obscures such intellectual distinction as matters most in its use. Wikidata begins to allow tasks to be undertaken that were out of easy reach. The facility should not be taken as the real point. Coming in from another angle, the "executive decision" is more glamorous; but the "administrative decision" should be admired for its command of facts. Think of the attitudes ad fontes, so prevalent here on Wikipedia as "can you give me a source for that?", and being prepared to deal with complicated analyses into specified subcases. Impatience expressed as a disdain for such pedantry is quite understandable, but neither dirty data nor false dichotomies are at all good to have around. Issue 13 and Issue 21, respectively on WP:MEDRS and systematic reviews, talk about biomedical literature and computing tasks that would be of higher quality if they could be made more "administrative". For example, it is desirable that the decisions involved be consistent, explicable, and reproducible by non-experts from specified inputs. What gets clouded out is not impossibly hard to understand. You do need to put together the insights of functional programming, which is a doctrinaire and purist but clearcut approach, with the practicality of office software. Loopless computation can be conceived of as a seamless forward march of spreadsheet columns, each determined by the content of previous ones. Very well: to do a backward audit, when now we are talking about Wikidata, we rely on integrity of data and its scrupulous sourcing: and clearcut case analyses. The MEDRS example forces attention on purge attempts such as Beall's list. Links Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-03-31/In focus#The_Wikipedia_SourceWatch by Headbomb. Wikipedia:WikiProject Academic Journals/Journals cited by Wikipedia/Questionable1 d:Wikidata:ScienceSource project/Beall's list: Beall's list, final version, matched into Wikidata. SPARQL query for Quackwatch: query to find items on Wikidata for articles subject to the Quackwatch blacklist of "Nonrecommended Periodicals", under "Journals (Fundamentally Flawed)". SPARQL query to find retracted articles on Wikidata. d:Wikidata:ScienceSource project/NCBI2wikidata dashboard, metadata for biomedical articles being built up, sourced from PubMed and PubMed Central. If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

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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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