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Tech News: 2017-28
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Recent changes
 * There are sometimes links to pages about the same thing on other Wikimedia projects. A Wikipedia article about Berlin can link to the Wikivoyage guide or Wiktionary entry about Berlin. You can now see when that page has a badge. A badge could be the star that shows that an article is a featured article.

Changes this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Mobile users will be able to edit Wikipedia without JavaScript. This will make it possible to edit the wikis from older mobile phones. This will probably happen on 18 July for most wikis.
 * We will not use Tidy on Wikimedia wikis in the future. It will be replaced by June 2018. It could be earlier. Editors will need to fix pages that could break. You can read the simplified instructions for editors.

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July 19: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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The Signpost: 15 July 2017
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Wikidata weekly summary #269
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: talk about Wikidata at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing by Lydia
 * Past: Wikidata hackathon during Africa Open Data Conference in Accra
 * Upcoming: Café OpenStreetMap e Wikidata, July 22nd, in São Paulo, Brazil
 * Report of the workshop about election data (in German)
 * Integrating Wikidata and other linked data sources – Federated SPARQL queries, on The SuLab


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


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


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: NPSN Indonesian school ID, EmbassyPages.com ID, ESEC person ID, Titan ID, Who's Who in France biography ID, French National Assembly ID


 * Query examples:
 * Graph of operating systems (source)
 * Couples of Members of Parliament in UK (source)
 * People who have the same person listed as both their parent and their child (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0A%0APREFIX%20lgdo%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Flinkedgeodata.org%2Fontology%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20geo%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.opengis.net%2Font%2Fgeosparql%23%3E%0APREFIX%20geom%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fgeovocab.org%2Fgeometry%23%3E%0APREFIX%20bif%3A%20%3Cbif%3A%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20%3FrailwayThing%20%3Fgeometry%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Flabel%29%20AS%20%3Flabel%29%20%3Flayer%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Flinkedgeodata.org%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3FrailwayThing%20a%20lgdo%3ARailwayThing%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20geom%3Ageometry%20%5B%20geo%3AasWKT%20%3Fgeometry%20%5D.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28bif%3Ast_intersects%28%3Fgeometry%2C%20bif%3Ast_point%2813.383333%2C%2052.516667%29%2C%200.1%29%29%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FrailwayThing%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Flabel.%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FrailwayThing%20a%20lgdo%3ASubway.%20BIND%28%22subway%22%40en%20AS%20%3Fsubway%29%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FrailwayThing%20a%20lgdo%3ARail.%20BIND%28%22rail%22%40en%20AS%20%3Frail%29%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FrailwayThing%20a%20lgdo%3ALightRail.%20BIND%28%22light%20rail%22%40en%20AS%20%3Flightrail%29%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FrailwayThing%20a%20lgdo%3ATramway.%20BIND%28%22tramway%22%40en%20AS%20%3Ftramway%29%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FrailwayThing%20a%20lgdo%3APlatform.%20BIND%28%22platform%22%40en%20AS%20%3Fplatform%29%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FrailwayThing%20a%20lgdo%3AAbandonedRailway.%20BIND%28%22abandoned%20railway%22%40en%20AS%20%3Fabandoned%29%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FrailwayThing%20a%20lgdo%3AHistoricThing.%20BIND%28%22historic%22%40en%20AS%20%3Fhistoric%29%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND%28COALESCE%28%3Fsubway%2C%20%3Flightrail%2C%20%3Frail%2C%20%3Ftramway%2C%20%3Fplatform%2C%20%3Fabandoned%2C%20%3Fhistoric%2C%20%22other%22%40en%29%20AS%20%3Flayer%29%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3FrailwayThing%20%3Fgeometry%20%3Flayer Map of “railway things” in Berlin, as classified by LinkedGeoData.org] (source)
 * Map of discovery locations of the objects stored in the Musée Saint-Raymond (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fstation%20%3FstationLabel%20%3Fpicture%20%28SAMPLE%28%3FpictureCategory%29%20AS%20%3FpictureCategory%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20hint%3AQuery%20hint%3Aoptimizer%20%22None%22.%0A%0A%20%20%23%20get%20metro%20stations%20in%20germany%0A%20%20%3Fstation%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ928830%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP17%20wd%3AQ183%20.%0A%0A%20%20%23%20and%20pictures%20of%20them%0A%20%20%3Fstation%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fpicture%20.%0A%0A%20%20%23%20build%20commons%20urls%0A%20%20BIND%28STRAFTER%28str%28%3Fpicture%29%2C%20%22Special%3AFilePath%2F%22%29%20AS%20%3Ffilename%29%0A%20%20BIND%28wikibase%3AdecodeUri%28CONCAT%28%22File%3A%22%2C%20%3Ffilename%29%29%20AS%20%3Ffile%29%0A%0A%20%20%23%20and%20ask%20commons%20for%20the%20categories%20the%20pictures%20are%20in%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Amwapi%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Aapi%20%22Categories%22.%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Aendpoint%20%22commons.wikipedia.org%22.%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20mwapi%3Atitles%20%3Ffile.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FpictureCategory%20wikibase%3AapiOutput%20mwapi%3Acategory.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20%23%20and%20only%20get%20those%20with%20a%20Public%20Domain%20category%0A%20%20FILTER%28STRSTARTS%28%3FpictureCategory%2C%20%22Category%3APD-%22%29%29%0A%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22de%2C%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fstation%20%3FstationLabel%20%3Fpicture%0ALIMIT%20100 metro stations in Germany with public domain images on Commons] (source)
 * UK Members of Parliament who are born out of the UK (source)


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

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2017-29
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * "Wikimedia Labs" is now called "Cloud VPS". "Wikimedia Tool Labs" is now called "Wikimedia Toolforge". This is to help clarify the purpose of these services.

Problems
 * On some pages, the Table of Contents is not being shown. It will normally appear if you edit the page again. Investigation is currently ongoing.

Changes this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 July. It will be on all wikis from 20 July (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 18 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is: Migrate to HTML5 section ids. The meeting will be on 19 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Page Previews, currently a Beta Feature, will be enabled for logged-out users for all remaining Wikipedias (with the exception of English and German) the week of 24 July. An A/B test will be run on English Wikipedia to collect data before approaching the community for further discussion.

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Sunday July 30: Action=History Wiki-Hackathon @ Ace Hotel
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Wikidata weekly summary #270
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Wikidata SPARQL workshop, July 25th in Rennes (France)
 * Upcoming: Ladies that FOSS, July 26th in Berlin
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Montreal, August 14th (in French). We're looking for trainers!
 * Using Wikidata as an open, community-maintained database of biomedical knowledge, by Andrew Su


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


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


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Patrimonioculturale-ER ID, linguistic typology, annual energy output, USHMM person ID, Cinema Treasures ID


 * Query examples:
 * Properties with most “statement disputed by” qualifiers (source)
 * Last meals of people (source)
 * Colors on national flags (source)
 * images of all winners of Free Software Foundation's Free Software Awards (source)
 * lib.reviews now allows searching Wikidata directly to choose subjects to review. (more info)


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

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:21, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-30
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. This will make it easier to make templates look good on mobile devices. This now works on mediawiki.org and Wikitech. It will come to more wikis later.
 * Octicons-tools.svg  modifier class is deprecated and has been removed.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * It will be possible to restrict who can send you notifications on a wiki. This new feature will accessible in your preferences, in the Notifications tab, on Wednesday, July 26. Please see the documentation.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the Wikimedia Foundation July 2017 Metrics & Activities Meeting. The meeting is about how Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement are perceived and understood by the world. The meeting will be on at 19:00 (UTC). See the agenda and how to join.

Future changes
 * New Filters for Edit Review, at the moment available as a Beta feature, will be released by default for the Recent Changes in September.

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Wikidata weekly summary #271
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


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


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


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


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: maximum age, WIGOS station ID


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


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

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:26, 31 July 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-31
<section begin="technews-2017-W31"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Problems
 * Some pages show the error . This problem happens on pages with a Lua module that uses Wikidata. The developers are working on fixing the problem. You can fix a page by opening it for editing and then saving without changing anything.
 * Wikidata and German Wikipedia could not be edited for an hour on 28 July. You can read why and how we could avoid it in the future in the incident report.

Changes later this week
 * Some wikis already have the larger and brighter OOjs UI edit page buttons. All remaining wikis except Commons will have these from 1 August.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 August. It will be on all wikis from 3 August (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 1 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The default font in the edit window will soon change for some users. Instead of using the browser default it will be monospace. Users can change this in their preferences. This should only change this for some users on Macs and iOS devices.

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The Signpost: 5 August 2017
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Wikidata weekly summary #272
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Wikimania hackathon and documentation sprint, August 9-10, Montreal
 * Upcoming: Wikimania, August 10-13, Montreal. Check out all the things related to Wikidata
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in French, August 14, Montreal


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


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: offset, File format magic numbers, game mechanics, weather history, conjugate base, conjugate acid, Atheneum museum ID, Atheneum person ID, Atheneum artwork ID, Finnish List of Lights ID, RIWAQ Registry of Historic Buildings in Palestine ID, Gatehouse Gazetteer place ID, energy storage capacity, National Assembly of Nigeria ID, Treasury of Lives ID, muzzle velocity, WIGOS station ID


 * Query examples:
 * Timeline of the programming languages created in the past 10 years (source)
 * Countries where no european language has official or national status (source)
 * Gallery of Star Trek characters (source)
 * Timeline of female medieval writers (source)
 * Newest script: moveClaim.js allows moving claims across items. Try it and give feedback to Matěj Suchánek
 * Newest external tools: d3-sparql allows you to query a SPARQL endpoint and get the data in a d3js-useful format


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

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

<div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:33, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-32
<section begin="technews-2017-W32"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Recent changes
 * You can now see which Wikipedia language versions are read in a specific country. This tool is called Wikipedia Views Visualized.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Architecture Committee is now the Wikimedia Technical Committee. You can read the charter.

Problems
 * You can get an email when a page on your watchlist was edited. You can choose not to get emails for minor edits. There is a bug that means that you then don't get an email when someone does a normal edit after a minor edit. The developers are working on fixing this. Until it has been fixed you can activate "" at the bottom of "" in your preferences if you want to.
 * The thanks button sometimes didn't work for mobile users. This was because of a new bug and has now been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 August. It will be on all wikis from 10 August (calendar).

Future changes
 * Editors and readers who still use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP will not be able to use Wikipedia. Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP can't connect securely to the wikis. When we allow them to do so it means that we get less security for everyone else. If you use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP you can install Firefox 52 ESR instead. Around 0.1% of the traffic to the Wikimedia wikis comes from Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP.
 * Links to sections on Wikipedia don't work well in languages that don't use the Latin script. The URL in the address bar in your browser shows Latin characters like  instead of the section heading in the wiki's language. Links to sections in non-Latin scripts will be in the script of that wiki in the future. This will happen in the next few months.
 * Wiki pages printed by the web browser "Print" function will have an updated style. This new style will be similar to the when you download a page as PDF. It will be better at showing tables, infoboxes and headings.

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Wikidata weekly summary #273
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Discussions
 * Restrict merging rights to autoconfirmed users
 * Change "Nearby" link to list items nearby the item?
 * New request for comments: P31 or P279 for geo-objects


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


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


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


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: YCBA agent ID, IEDB Epitope ID, Dagens Næringsliv topic ID, Georgian National Register of Monuments ID, CODECS ID, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum ID, magnification, AUR package, Michelin Voyages ID, Michelin Restaurants ID, WeRelate person ID, autores.ar id, MEG ID, Czech Registration ID, separator, National Forest Foundation ID


 * Query examples:
 * Most-depicted musical instruments (source)
 * People who died in 2017 without a French label (source)
 * Moar goats (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Goats, WikiProject Torture
 * Newest external tools: WD edits stats counting edits mades on a certain dataset between two dates

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

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2017-33
<section begin="technews-2017-W33"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Recent changes
 * Bureaucrats can now set users as confirmed. Previously only stewards could do this on most wikis. Nothing will change for wikis that have previously decided to let administrators set users as confirmed.

Problems
 * The symbols in the language list that show that an article is good or featured in that language doesn't work. Links to the Commons category in the sidebar doesn't work either. The developers are working on fixing it.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 August. It will be on all wikis from 17 August (calendar).

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Wikidata weekly summary #274
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


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


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


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: World Heritage Tentative List ID, eParks unit ID


 * Query examples:
 * Surnames, similar to Muller, according to Cologne phonetics, Caverphone and Soundex algorithms
 * Shortest streets in Moscow
 * A timeline of theologians with a connection to Berlin (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3ATimeline%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Ft%20%3FppLabel%20%3FvalueLabel%20%3FrrLabel%20%20%3Fimage%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20%7Bwd%3AQ9711%20%3Fprop%20%3Ft%20FILTER%20%28datatype%28%3Ft%29%3Dxsd%3AdateTime%29%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fvalue%20wikibase%3AdirectClaim%20%3Fprop.%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20wd%3AQ9711%20%3Fq%20%3Fstatement%20%20FILTER%20regex%20%28STR%28%3Fq%29%2C%22prop%2FP%22%29%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fstatement%20%3Fp%20%3Ft%20FILTER%20regex%20%28STR%28%3Fp%29%2C%20%22prop%2Fqualifier%2FP%22%29%20FILTER%20%28datatype%28%3Ft%29%3Dxsd%3AdateTime%29%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fstatement%20%3Fr%20%3Fvalue%20FILTER%20regex%20%28STR%28%3Fr%29%2C%22prop%2Fstatement%2F%22%29%20.%0A%20%20%20BIND%28IRI%28CONCAT%28CONCAT%28SUBSTR%28STR%28%3Fr%29%2C1%2C29%29%2C%22direct%2F%22%29%2CSUBSTR%28STR%28%3Fr%29%2C40%29%29%29%20as%20%3Frprop%29%20%20%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20wikibase%3AdirectClaim%20%3Frprop%20.%20%20%0A%20%20%20BIND%28IRI%28CONCAT%28CONCAT%28SUBSTR%28STR%28%3Fp%29%2C1%2C29%29%2C%22direct%2F%22%29%2CSUBSTR%28STR%28%3Fp%29%2C40%29%29%29%20as%20%3Fpprop%29%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fpp%20%20wikibase%3AdirectClaim%20%3Fpprop%20.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fvalue%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20wd%3AQ9711%20wdt%3AP800%20%3Fvalue%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fvalue%20%3Fprop%20%3Ft%20FILTER%20%28datatype%28%3Ft%29%3Dxsd%3AdateTime%29%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20wikibase%3AdirectClaim%20wdt%3AP800%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fpp%20wikibase%3AdirectClaim%20%3Fprop.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fvalue%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3Ft Timeline of the life of Honoré de Balzac] (source)
 * Twin cities of places in South Africa (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20UK%20parliaments%20with%20count%20of%20Johns%20and%20count%20of%20women%0A%23defaultView%3ALineChart%0ASELECT%20%3Fdate%20%3Fcount%20%3Flabel%20WITH%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20all%20MPs%20with%20their%20associated%20parliament%0A%20%20SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fmp%20%3Fparliament%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fmp%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5.%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20new%20data%20model%3A%20position%20held%20%E2%80%93%20Member%20of%20the%20nth%20Parliament%20of%20the%20United%20Kingdom%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fmp%20p%3AP39%2Fps%3AP39%20%3Fposition.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fposition%20wdt%3AP279%20wd%3AQ16707842%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP279%2Fpq%3AP2937%7Cwdt%3AP2937%20%3Fparliament.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20old%20data%20model%3A%20member%20of%20%E2%80%93%20nth%20Parliament%20of%20the%20United%20Kingdom%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fmp%20p%3AP463%2Fps%3AP463%20%3Fparliament.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fparliament%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ21094819.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25MPsWithParliament%20WITH%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20count%20of%20Johns%20in%20each%20parliament%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fparliament%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fmp%29%20AS%20%3Fjohns%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25MPsWithParliament.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fmp%20wdt%3AP735%20wd%3AQ4925477.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fparliament%0A%7D%20AS%20%25johns%20WITH%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20count%20of%20women%20in%20each%20parliament%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fparliament%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fmp%29%20AS%20%3Fwomen%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25MPsWithParliament.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fmp%20wdt%3AP21%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ6581072.%20%23%20%28P279%2a%3A%20include%20transgender%20females%20%E2%80%93%20non%20yet%2C%20but%20will%20probably%20happen%20in%20the%20future%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fparliament%0A%7D%20AS%20%25women%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20get%20%3Fjohns%20and%20%3Fwomen%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25johns.%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25women.%0A%20%20%23%20fan%20out%20single%20result%0A%20%20%23%20%3Fparliament%20%3Fjohns%20%3Fwomen%0A%20%20%23%20into%20two%20results%0A%20%20%23%20%3Fparliament%20%22Johns%22%20%3Fjohns%0A%20%20%23%20%3Fparliament%20%22women%22%20%3Fwomen%0A%20%20%23%20so%20the%20line%20chart%20works%0A%20%20VALUES%20%3Flabel%20%7B%20%22Johns%22%40en%20%22women%22%40en%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND%28IF%28%3Flabel%20%3D%20%22Johns%22%40en%2C%20%3Fjohns%2C%20%3Fwomen%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%0A%20%20%23%20get%20parliament%20date%20for%20the%20chart%0A%20%20%3Fparliament%20wdt%3AP571%7Cwdt%3AP580%20%3Fdate.%0A%20%20%23%20add%20labels%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3Fdate 51st UK parliament (1992) was the first one with more women than Johns] (source)
 * All places that are named "earth" in at least one language (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Parliaments


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

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2017-34
<section begin="technews-2017-W34"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Recent changes
 * You can now test the new Timeless skin on the test wiki and mediawiki.org. You can turn it on in your preferences. You can report bugs in Phabricator. It will come to more wikis soon.
 * Your watchlist can now have the option to unwatch pages. You have to turn this on in your preferences.
 * If a table has several columns you can often choose which column you want to use to sort the table. This has not worked for some columns for readers who have used Firefox or Safari. This has now been fixed.
 * The RelatedArticles extension has shown related pages on Wikivoyages. You will now see the related pages at the end of the article together with an image. Previously the links were in the sidebar. Wikis that want this extension can request it on Phabricator.

Changes later this week
 * Videos will now be played in the WebM format in all browsers. Previously some browsers used Ogg Theora (.ogv). If you use Safari, Internet Explorer or Edge you may see slower playback speed at high resolutions. Instead we will get better quality and smaller file size. You can still upload video as Ogg files. They are automatically converted to WebM. This doesn't affect Ogg audio files.
 * The default font in the edit window will change for some users this week. Instead of using the browser default, it will be monospace. Users can change this in their preferences. This should only change this for some users on Macs and iOS devices.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 August. It will be on all wikis from 24 August (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 22 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Wikidata weekly summary #275
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: علاء
 * New request for comments: How to capture negative results in Wikidata?
 * Comment about approach on items about pages in cebwiki created by Lsjbot
 * Comment about whether to have a "Wikimedia username" property


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


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


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


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: National Natural Landmarks site ID, GujLit Book ID, GujLit Person ID, tabular population, Beazley Archive Pottery Database ID, Finnish National Gallery person ID, effective firing range, Patreon person ID, Wikimedia username, Instagram location ID, America's Byways road ID


 * Query examples:
 * number of persons per QID (using P735=Q4925477) (source)
 * QID milestones by date
 * Timeline for biochemist and Nobel Laureate Hans Adolf Krebs (source)
 * Canadian actors who twice played a US president (source)
 * Duration of Steven Spielberg's films (source)
 * Newest external tools: Metaphacts, a feature to search in Wikidata via Alexa


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

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

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 * 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!

Tech News: 2017-35
<section begin="technews-2017-W35"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * Syntax highlighting is now a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. It will come to right-to-left wikis later. This beta feature is based on CodeMirror.
 * You will now get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device or IP address that have logged in to your account before you will be notified after five failed attempts. You can turn this off or choose to get an email notification in your preferences. You can also turn on to get an email when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address.

Problems
 * Some pages show the error . This problem happens on pages with a Lua module that use Wikidata. This has now been fixed and no new pages will get this problem. You still need to fix pages that were broken before and still show the error message. You can see how on this page.

Changes later this week
 * You can block users from sending you notifications.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 August. It will be on all wikis from 31 August (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 29 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the next meeting with the Technical Committee. The topic this week is Migrate to HTML5 section ids. The meeting will be on 30 August at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * In the future you will have global preferences. This means you could set something in your preferences to work in the same way on all wikis. You will not be forced to use global preferences. The developers are now asking if editors need exceptions. This is where you want to use global settings on almost all wikis, but have some wikis where you want it to work in a different way. If you want this you need to tell the developers now. You can do so on the talk page.
 * New filters for edit review is a beta feature to improve recent changes pages. It will work on watchlists from 5 September.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The jQuery library will be upgraded to version 3 in September 2017. Wikis can ask on Phabricator to get it early, so they can help find and solve problems now.

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Wikidata weekly summary #276
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Chandigarh, India - September 9-10
 * Doctoral Advisor or Medical Condition: Towards Entity-specific Rankings of Knowledge Base Properties, by Simon Razniewski et al.
 * ctj rdf: Part One, showing linking text minded data to Wikidata with SPARQL.
 * Creating parliament charts with Wikidata by Knut
 * The great Wikipedia bot-pocalypse by Aaron Halfaker on WMF's blog
 * When Westminster Was Wikified, by Luca Martinelli


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


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: THL Simplified Phonetic Transcription, Tibetan pinyin, Wylie transliteration, Australian Women's Register ID, iconographic symbol, slope, angle from vertical


 * Query examples:
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0A%23%20Carte%20des%20pays%20selon%20la%20ville%20de%20naissance%20du%20cr%C3%A9ateur%20de%20la%20peinture%20ayant%20le%20plus%20de%20liens%20Wikimedia%20%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fq%20%3FqLabel%20%3Fnb%20%3Fpays%20%3FpaysLabel%20%3Floc%20%3Fimage%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%09%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%09SELECT%20%28MAX%28%3Fnb%29%20AS%20%3Fnb%29%20%3Fpays%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fq%20%28wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%29%20wd%3AQ3305213%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fq%20wdt%3AP170%20%3Fcrea.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcrea%20wdt%3AP19%20%3Fvillenaissance%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fvillenaissance%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fpays.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fq%20wikibase%3Asitelinks%20%3Fnb%0A%09%09%7D%0A%09%09GROUP%20BY%20%3Fpays%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20HAVING%20%28%3Fnb%3E1%29%0A%09%09ORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fnb%29%0A%09%7D%0A%09%3Fq%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ3305213%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fq%20wdt%3AP170%20%3Fcrea.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fcrea%20wdt%3AP19%20%3Fvillenaissance%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fvillenaissance%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fpays.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%7B%3Fq%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fq%20wikibase%3Asitelinks%20%3Fnb%20.%0A%09%3Fpays%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Floc%20.%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20%23BabelRainbow%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22fr%2Cen%2Car%2Cbe%2Cbg%2Cbn%2Cca%2Ccs%2Cda%2Cde%2Cel%2Ces%2Cet%2Cfa%2Cfi%2Che%2Chi%2Chu%2Chy%2Cid%2Cit%2Cja%2Cjv%2Cko%2Cnb%2Cnl%2Ceo%2Cpa%2Cpl%2Cpt%2Cro%2Cru%2Csh%2Csk%2Csr%2Csv%2Csw%2Cte%2Cth%2Ctr%2Cuk%2Cyue%2Cvec%2Cvi%2Czh%22.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%7D The most famous painting from each country] (source)
 * Ranking universities according to PageRank (source)
 * Actors who were casted in two different films with the same name (source)
 * Newest external tool: official map for Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 displays cultural heritage monuments worldwide, using Wikidata
 * Newest database reports: Mireille Darc filmography, given names by soundex


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

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

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The Signpost: 6 September 2017
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Wikidata weekly summary #277
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 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * RDFIO: extending Semantic MediaWiki for interoperable biomedical data management - Paper demonstrating interoperatility between WikiData and Semantic MediaWiki, among other things.
 * Données structurées, la puissance de Wikidata au service de Wikimedia Commons - French-language article by Rama about Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons.
 * Europeana is interested in linking its new Entity Collection to Wikidata, and will talk about this at the WikidataCon.
 * Upcoming (21.9.2017): "Wikidata as a linking hub for knowledge organization systems? Integrating an authority mapping into Wikidata and learning lessons for KOS mapping". Presentation by Joachim Neubert at the 17th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop, TPDL 2017 Conference, Thessaloniki (Greece)
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Zurich, one day dedicated to Wikidata and the Query Service in Zurich, Switzerland, September 14th
 * Upcoming: Monthly Wikidata meetup in Paris, France, September 15th
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Kolkata, India, September 16th and 17th
 * Past: Wikidata workshop in Chandigarh, India


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


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


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: danskfilmogtv title ID, Billboard artist ID, Italian National Earthquake Center ID, Flemish organization for Immovable Heritage person ID, Foursquare username, The Times of India Topic ID, ROARMAP ID, WFD Chemical status, PagesJaunes ID, Christie's creator id, Google Play Music album ID, Google Play Music artist ID, Graphic character set global ID, cytogenetic location, category for employees of the organization, CNPS taxon ID, Familypedia person ID, LNH player ID, Alljudo athlete ID, Rivers.gov river ID


 * Query examples:
 * Places of education of the UK members of Parliament (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23Churches%2C%20with%20another%20church%20really%20close%20by%0A%0ASELECT%20%3Fchurch%20%3FchurchLabel%20%3Fchurchloc%20%3Fdist%20%3Fother%20%3FotherLabel%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20%3Fchurch%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ16970%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20this%20thing%20is%20a%20church%0A%20%20%3Fchurch%20wdt%3AP17%20wd%3AQ145%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20and%20it%27s%20in%20the%20UK%0A%20%20%3Fchurch%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fchurchloc%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20and%20it%20has%20a%20location%0A%20%20%3Fother%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ16970%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20another%20thing%20is%20also%20a%20church%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Aaround%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fother%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fotherloc%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Acenter%20%3Fchurchloc%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Aradius%20%220.025%22%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20and%20is%20pretty%20much%20exactly%20on%20the%20same%20spot%20%28%C2%B125m%29%0A%20%20%7D%20%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28STR%28%3Fchurch%29%20%3E%20STR%28%3Fother%29%29%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20filter%20so%20each%20pair%20only%20shows%20up%20once%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND%28geof%3Adistance%28%3Fchurchloc%2C%20%3Fotherloc%29%20as%20%3Fdist%29%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3Fdist Pairs of churches in the UK that are within 25 metres of each other] (source)
 * National parks in India (source)
 * Persons buried more than 13000 km away from their death place (warning: some errors needing correction)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject India
 * Newest user scripts: Overpass (adds a map showing features tagged, in OpenStreetMap, with the ID of the current Wikidata item, if any)


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

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2017-37
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Recent changes
 * You can get a notification when a page you created is connected to a Wikidata item. You can choose to get these notifications in your preferences. Some wikis already had this option. It is now available on all wikis.
 * The Newsletter extension is now on mediawiki.org. The newsletter extension is for newsletters where you can subscribe by getting a notification when a new issue has been published. It will come to more wikis later.
 * The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. There is now a new high-priority category: . This usually affects templates with horizontal lists. You can read more about using Linter and the Tidy whitespace bug.

Problems
 * Tech News 2017/36 reported about new filters for edit review coming to watchlists. This was planned to happen last week. It will happen next week instead.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 September. It will be on all wikis from 14 September (calendar).
 * Octicons-tools.svg OOjs UI will be updated. This could affect some icons. You can read more about the changes.

Meetings
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 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * You can't use OCG to create PDFs after 1 October. This is because of technical problems. You can use Electron instead. Most PDFs are already created with Electron. Electron will get missing features before 1 October. You can create books but they will not have all planned features until November or December. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
 * New filters for edit review are available now on recent changes as a beta feature. Some of those filters and other features will be deployed as default features in the coming weeks. Users will be able to opt out in their preferences.

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Tech News: 2017-38
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Recent changes
 * You can now see contributions from an IP range at Special:Contributions. Before you could only see contributions from single IP addresses. Some older contributions from IP ranges could be missing at first because it will take some time to add them.
 * Flow has been re-scoped to become Structured Discussions and the development has restarted. Phabricator projects and repositories have been renamed.

Changes later this week
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Meetings
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Future changes
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Wikidata weekly summary #278
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Wahldaten Workshop 2017 – 30 September 2017 in Vienna, Austria
 * Upcoming: Wikimedia Research Showcase
 * Past: Wikidata workshop in Zurich (the slides of the speakers are linked on the page)
 * Past: GLAMhack Wikidata workshop in Lausanne (see the slides of the Query Service introduction)
 * Past: Wikidata workshop in Kolkata, India
 * Bridging real and fictional worlds in Wikidata, by Martin Poulter
 * Weekend at the Museum (of Brittany), by Envel Le Hir
 * Wiki Loves Monuments und Wikidata, by SW
 * The French Connection at the Wikimania 2017 Hackathon, by Envel Le Hir


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


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: United Nations Treaty Series Registration Number, Sefaria ID, ICD-10-CM, Encyclopedia of Australian Science ID, Indonesian Small Islands Directory ID, Cyworld ID, IPA Braille, category contains, Enciclopedia Italiana ID, United Nations Treaty Series Volume Number, National Criminal Justice ID, order of battle, Tyrolean Art Cadastre inventory ID, shelf life, UK Electoral Commission ID, LNB Pro A player ID, nLab ID, highest observed lifespan, Unicode hex codepoint, PACTOLS thesaurus ID, Bashkir encyclopedia (Russian version) ID, Bashkir encyclopedia (Bashkir version) ID


 * Query examples:
 * Algorithms and the problems they solve (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20map%20of%20Swiss%20items%20with%20article%20in%20exactly%20one%20of%20German-%2C%20French-%2C%20Italian-%2C%20and%20Romansh-language%20Wikipedias%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Ftitle%29%20AS%20%3FitemLabel%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Flocation%29%20AS%20%3Flocation%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Flanguage%29%20AS%20%3Flayer%29%20WITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%2a%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ39%20p%3AP1332%2Fpsv%3AP1332%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLatitude%20%3Fn%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP1333%2Fpsv%3AP1333%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLatitude%20%3Fs%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP1334%2Fpsv%3AP1334%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLongitude%20%3Fe%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP1335%2Fpsv%3AP1335%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLongitude%20%3Fw.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25switzerlandBoundingBox%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20VALUES%20%3Fwiki%20%7B%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fde.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Ffr.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fit.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Frm.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP17%20wd%3AQ39%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Flocation.%0A%20%20%3Farticle%20a%20schema%3AArticle%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fitem%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Fwiki%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3AinLanguage%20%3Flanguage%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3Aname%20%3Ftitle.%0A%20%20%23%20filter%20out%20some%20stray%20results%20that%20have%20country%20Switzerland%20but%20coordinates%20outside%20it%20%28e.%E2%80%AFg.%20rivers%29%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25switzerlandBoundingBox.%0A%20%20BIND%28geof%3Alatitude%28%3Flocation%29%20AS%20%3Flat%29%0A%20%20BIND%28geof%3Alongitude%28%3Flocation%29%20AS%20%3Flon%29%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3Fs%20%3C%3D%20%3Flat%20%26%26%20%3Flat%20%3C%3D%20%3Fn%20%26%26%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fw%20%3C%3D%20%3Flon%20%26%26%20%3Flon%20%3C%3D%20%3Fe%29%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%0AHAVING%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fwiki%29%20%3D%201%29 Swiss items with article in exactly one of German-, French-, Italian-, and Romansh-language Wikipedias] (source)
 * Popular gender-neutral given names (source)
 * Computer network protocols and their ports (source)
 * Software developers by number of software titles (source)
 * Spacecraft and what they were named after (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject property constraints


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

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

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The Signpost: 25 September 2017
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Tech News: 2017-39
<section begin="technews-2017-W39"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * Wikitext syntax highlighting is a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. This beta feature is based on CodeMirror. You can now search through the entire article with +  or  +  when you edit. Before it just searched through a part of the article. The developers are also fixing a couple of other bugs.
 * Administrators on wikis that use Structured Discussions as a beta feature or by default can now create and move Structured Discussions boards. Structured Discussions was previously called Flow.

Changes later this week
 * You now get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device or IP address that have logged in to your account before you will be notified after five failed attempts. For security reasons you will soon get an email by default when someone tries to log in to your account and when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address. This can be turned off in your preferences.
 * Users with extremely old browsers (for example Netscape 2–4, released from 1995–1997) which do not support Unicode will no longer be able to edit. They should try to install a new browser.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 September. It will be on all wikis from 28 September. (calendar).

Meetings Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.


 * The Wikimedia Foundation Readers department has proposed changing the mobile website. You can read more on mediawiki.org. This would be a big change.
 * You can't use OCG to create PDFs after 1 October. This is because of technical problems. You can still create PDFs. Tech News 2017/37 said the function to create PDFs from books would still work. It is now clear it will not work for the next few months. The developers are working on fixing this. You can read more on mediawiki.org.

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Wikidata weekly summary #279
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


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


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


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


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

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

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Wikidata weekly summary #280
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


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


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


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


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


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2017-40
<section begin="technews-2017-W40"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * You can now use preload features in the visual editor. This means you can create links to create new pages and some text will already be in the edit window when someone clicks on it.

Changes later this week
 * If you have turned on "" you will now get the 2017 wikitext editor. Before this you had to turn it on manually even though it is a beta feature.
 * Special:Block and Special:Unblock will get the OOUI look.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The jQuery library will be upgraded to version 3 on all Wiktionary wikis from 2 October. It will be on all non-Wikipedia wikis from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * A new feature called Reading Lists are coming to the Wikipedia mobile apps. First it will be in the Android version. Reading Lists are a private user preference where you can see lists of articles on multiple devices. You can give feedback on this feature.
 * The search function has used fallback languages for language analysis. This means a language could be analysed with the grammar of a completely unrelated language to find related words. This will be removed from most wikis the week starting with 9 October. You can read more and give feedback.

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Tech News: 2017-41
<section begin="technews-2017-W41"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * The number of active users listed by  and on Special:Statistics will now only include Wikidata edits as activity on Wikidata and not on other wikis too.
 * Previously you could create wiki links starting with two colons. Now you need to use one colon. :File:X.jpg now has to be File:X.jpg . There is now a new Linter category. You can see a list on Special:Linterrors/multi-colon-escape. The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. You can read more about using Linter.

Problems
 * You will not be able to edit or upload files to Commons for around 30 minutes on 11 October. This will start at 06:00 UTC. This is because of work to let Commons show 3D models.

Changes later this week
 * The font in the edit window is monospace by default. Today you can change preferences to another font family or use "the browser default" instead of monospace. Switching to the browser default has only changed the font on Macs. The option to use browser default will be removed this week.
 * If you want to print a page or make a PDF of a page you can do so in the side menu. The way the pages look when you do this will change. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 October. It will be on all wikis from 12 October (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Wikidata weekly summary #281
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


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


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


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


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


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2017-42
<section begin="technews-2017-W42"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * When you edit a template with the visual editor it follows the template's  configuration on how to save it. You can now change the format in more powerful ways if your wiki wants it.
 * The TwoColConflict extension is a new way to solve edit conflicts. It makes it easier to copy and paste the relevant text to the text field. It has been a beta feature for the last five months. You can now try out the new interface on a page where you will actually get simulated edit conflicts. You can give feedback to the developers.

Problems
 * There is a problem with recent changes pages and your watchlist that show a large number of pages. Until it is fixed, Wikidata edits will not be shown on recent changes or in your watchlist on Commons or Russian Wikipedia. If necessary, Wikidata edits will be removed from all wikis.
 * Notifications are not working for some actions. For example some users don't get a notification when they are mentioned. The developers are working on fixing this.
 * Users on some wikis could not change their preferences. This has now been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * Editors and readers who still use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP will not be able to use Wikipedia from 17 October. Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP can't connect securely to the wikis. When we allow them to do so it means that we get less security for everyone else. If you use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP you can install Firefox 52 ESR instead. Around 0.1% of the traffic to the Wikimedia wikis comes from Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 October. It will be on all wikis from 19 October (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 17 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2017-W42"/> 15:31, 16 October 2017 (UTC)