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Wikidata weekly summary #309
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events
 * Past: Wikimedia Conference in Berlin
 * Wikidata meetup
 * how to train new Wikidata trainers
 * Structured Data on Commons and GLAM pilots session
 * Wikibase workshop in Antwerp, Belgium, April 23-25
 * WikiWorkshop, a forum bringing together researchers exploring all aspects the Wikimedia projects, in Lyon, April 24th. Seven papers related to Wikidata will be presented.
 * Wikidata meetup in Zurich, Switzerland, April 25th
 * DDJ Monaco: Wikidata for digital Journalists; Open-Source-Treffen: SPARQL-Workshop, Munich, April 25 and 27


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Old Periodicals, a New Datatype and Spiderfied Query Results in Wikidata by Simon Cobb (National Library of Wales)
 * Wikimedia and The Met: A Shared Digital Vision by Katherine Maher and Loic Tallon


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata:Tools has been reorganized and updated, thanks to Pasleim! Feel free to help keeping this page up to date.
 * Wikidata:List of properties has also been reorganized and updated.
 * Lexicographical data on Wikidata will start at the end of May. Some property proposals are already discussed
 * A rate limit for edits and page creation has been set up
 * Please give feedback on a first proposal on GLAM metadata and ontology mapping for Structured Data on Commons. This feedback round runs until 4 May.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: fastest lap, cabinet, patronym or matronym for this person, modified version of, unit symbol, wind speed, operating temperature, non-operating temperature, service life, French standard size for oil paintings, boiler pressure, presented in
 * External identifiers: IRMNG taxon ID, Handball Bundesliga ID, e-teatr.pl ID, DOAB publisher ID, ILI ID, World of Physics identifier, Flanders Arts Institute person ID, JAAF ID, Polish Athletics Federation ID, Römpp online ID, Russian Athletics ID, Athletics Canada ID, NVE lake ID, Norsk biografisk leksikon ID, Norsk kunstnerleksikon ID, Store medisinske leksikon ID, Adult Film Database film ID, Yahoo Answers category, Pschyrembel Online ID, FIPS string code for US states, FIPS numeric code for US states, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy ID, USGS-ANSS event page, ARRS race ID, HanCinema drama ID, ISC event ID, road number (Estonia), Heritage of Portuguese Influence ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Commercialized from, synonym, translation, antonym, demonym of, item for this sense, pronunciation variety, grammatical gender, grammatical number, etymology, person, areas affected, award category, nature of statement, donation platform, has grammatical gender, has grammatical person, Phonetic pronunciation, medical finding model, landmass, accessed from, research measurement, hyperonym, hyponym, meronym, holonym, troponym
 * External identifiers: Swedish Literature Bank, Logainm ID, Wikipedia glossary entry, Réunion des musées nationaux id, Il mondo dei doppiatori ID, FIS speed skier ID, cryptocurrency address, New Zealand Gazetteer ID, Bridge number, HanCinema film, Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures ID


 * Scarcely used properties created >3 months:
 * Indian Financial System Code (P4635), RCR number (P4645), partition type identifier (P4654), partition table type (P4653), Wiki Aves bird ID (P4664), Buenos Aires legislator ID (P4667), Sjukvårdsrådgivningen Category ID (P4670), tabular software version (P4669), constraint scope (P4680), GEMS Code (P4695)
 * Query examples:
 * Historical monuments in Wales (source)
 * Software titles ranked by the number of dependencies listed for them (source)
 * National parks around the world (source)
 * Narrative locations of TV series and episodes (source)
 * Newest database reports: Sports equipment: balls

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.
 * Development
 * Track the number of constraints by type (T191891)
 * Include thumbnails in image statements (T46727)
 * Install Query Service on Factgrid (T189863)
 * Page creation and edit rates (T184948)
 * Implement unit constraint (T164372)
 * Implement no bounds constraint (T170610)
 * Started working on the constraint violation type to restrict to indicate that certain properties can only be used on items or lexemes (T164744)
 * Creating a Docker container for QuickStatements (T192079)
 * Removed hardcoded demo data in Wikibase Lexeme (T188899)
 * New data type for linking to Forms (T165579)


 * 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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Titles and styles in article names
Please see WP:TITLESINTITLES - "Styles, such as "His Grace" or "HRH", are not used in the page titles of biographical articles". I have reverted your move of Henry Fetherstonhaugh, 2nd Baronet. GiantSnowman 09:32, 27 April 2018 (UTC)


 * There's a bit more detail on this at Naming conventions (royalty and nobility), linked from that page - baronets are a weird special case. Sir ABC XYZ, Nth Baronet is treated as an acceptable article naming form (though ABC XYZ is preferred). In practice, it seems the full form is used much more commonly than the short one. I think it's a little clunky, personally, but it's been standard like that for a long time.
 * In this particular case, though, Henry Fetherstonhaugh, 2nd Baronet seems definitely off - the guideline explicitly deprecates this form and suggests that it should be Henry Fetherstonhaugh (unmodified), Henry Fetherstonhaugh (disambiguator), or Sir Henry Fetherstonhaugh, 2nd Baronet. It looks like there's no other HF so we can take the simple form of the name. Andrew Gray (talk) 11:39, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, I came across at that page after I posted here - like you say, it looks like 'Sir' is used to disambiguate, so doesn't apply here. Thanks, GiantSnowman 11:50, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Looks like we can do without the disambiguators for both the father and son as the names are unique (for the time being). I'll move them accordingly. Andrew Gray (talk) 12:16, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #310
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events
 * Past:
 * Wikibase workshop in Antwerp, Belgium, April 23-25
 * Phabricator workboard
 * Wikibase registry
 * WikiWorkshop, a forum bringing together researchers exploring all aspects of the Wikimedia projects
 * Wikidata meetup in Zurich, Switzerland, April 25th
 * DDJ Monaco: Wikidata for digital Journalists; Open-Source-Treffen: SPARQL-Workshop, Munich, April 25 and 27
 * Daten in Wikidata einbringen (Bringing data into Wikidata) - Hands-on tutorial within the DINI KIM Workshop 2018
 * Upcoming:
 * Wikidata workshop in Köln, Germany, on May 5th and 6th
 * Wikidata workshop in Vienna, Austria, on May 5th
 * Wikidata workshop in Pardubice, Czech Republic, on May 5th


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New badge available for sitelinks: good list
 * Sitelinks for the new Ingush Wikipedia (inhwiki) can be added
 * Support for the second new Gorontalo Wikipedia (gorwiki) is here
 * Articles of the third new Lingua Franca Nova Wikipedia (lfnwiki) may be connected
 * A Wikidata Telegram group has been created by volunteers
 * Constraint Summary script is showing the total amount of constraints reports on the top of an item page
 * Contexto is a Wordpress plugin displaying Wikidata info in a hovercard. See demo, you can also let feedback to the developer
 * Sixth months before Wikidata's sixth birthday: you can organize a local event


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: fault, member of the crew of, nature of statement
 * External identifiers: Logainm ID, IAFD film ID, Il mondo dei doppiatori ID, Réunion des musées nationaux ID, Swedish Literature Bank AuthorID, FIS speed skier ID, New Zealand Gazetteer place ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: crop, date of first attestation, place of first attestation, Wikidata property example for lexemes, Wikidata property example for forms, Wikidata property example for senses, false-friend, demonym (Lexeme), Allaboutjazz musician ID, homonym, paronym, streetViewUrl, constraint, WikiCFP eventID, WikiCFP conference series ID, Mascot of, program committee member, applies to name, values for this type, items for this type, Maintained by Wikiproject, Amateur Radio Callsign
 * External identifiers: Ontario public library ID, Italian School ID, TFRRS athlete ID, Linux Game Database properties, Swedish Literature Bank book ID, ICAA film catalogue ID, Stepwell Atlas ID, OnsOranje player ID, OnsOranje tournament ID, OnsOranje match ID


 * Infrequently used properties created >3 months:
 * Historic Place Names of Wales ID (P4697), American Art Collaborative object ID (P4692), Arquivo Arq ID (P4694), Argentine deputy ID (P4693), HATVP person ID (P4703), Ent'revues ID (P4706), VOGRIPA ID (P4708), Rugby Canada ID (P4707), title page number (P4714), Conseil de Presse Luxembourg journalist ID (P4698)
 * Query examples:
 * Timeline of Wikibase instances and WikidataCon events (federated query)
 * User-friendly list of news articles by Kim Wall, as linked from the German and English Wikipedia (based on work of fnielsen)
 * Places of birth of the European Parliament members (source)
 * Obelisks in Rome (source)
 * Artists from Cameroon and their places of birth (source)
 * Place of birth of people with an ORCID ID (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Metro%20stations%20in%20Milano%20by%20date%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%7B%22layer%22%3A%22%3FdateBin%22%7D%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fcoord%20%3Fimage%20%3FminDate%20%3FdateBin%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20BIND%28%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%28YEAR%28%3FminDate%29%29%20%3C%201970%2C%20%22%3C%201970%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%28YEAR%28%3FminDate%29%29%20%3C%201980%2C%20%221970%20-%201979%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%28YEAR%28%3FminDate%29%29%20%3C%201990%2C%20%221980%20-%201989%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%28YEAR%28%3FminDate%29%29%20%3C%202000%2C%20%221990%20-%201999%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%28YEAR%28%3FminDate%29%29%20%3C%202010%2C%20%222000%20-%202009%22%2C%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%222010%2B%22%29%29%29%29%29%20%0A%20%20%20AS%20%3FdateBin%29%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%28MIN%28%3Fdate%29%20AS%20%3FminDate%29%20%3Fcoord%20%3Fimage%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP361%20wd%3AQ735559.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoord.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage.%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1619%20%3Fd1.%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP571%20%3Fd2.%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28IF%28BOUND%28%3Fd1%29%2C%20%3Fd1%2C%20%3Fd2%29%20AS%20%3Fdate%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%20%3Fcoord%20%3Fimage%0A%20%20%7D%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%3FminDate History of Milano metro stations on a map] (source)
 * Number of versions, editions and translations by language of work (source)

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.
 * Development
 * More work on the internal API for Wikibase-Lexeme (T190906)
 * Fix some errors happening when editing Lexemes (T192766, T192264)
 * Use language code validation for forms representations (T193010, T193011)
 * Add badge for good lists to Wikidata (T190976)
 * Fix bugs regarding the thumbnails on media statements (T192910, T192601, T192869)
 * Investigate on dispatch lag problems (T193349)
 * Fix a bug on the watchlist on Wikipedia (T192673)


 * 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: 2018-18
 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 parameter for unpatrolled edits in recent changes filters changed name. You might need to update saved filters and links.

Problems
 * Octicons-tools.svg We are migrating wikis from Tidy to Remex. Because of a bug the 250 wikis which do not yet use Remex were switched on 23 April. This is two months early. This meant that pages with broken wikitext showed wrongly to readers. The bug was undone the next day. You can help fix broken wikitext to avoid this problem when your wiki switches. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. You can follow the process on Phabricator.

Changes later this week
 * You will be able use CodeMirror in the 2017 wikitext editor on all wikis. CodeMirror helps with syntax highlighting. It has previously been a beta feature and only available on wikis with scripts that are written from left to right.
 * When an administrator blocks someone they will have a calendar they can use to choose when the block ends. This is to make it easier to pick a specific date.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can soon turn on the Performance Inspector in the section in your preferences. It shows information about the performance of pages. This could be the size of modules in the page, how many CSS selectors are defined on the page and how many are used, or the size of the images on the page. This tool is intended to help editors fix pages that load slowly.
 * Octicons-tools.svg There is a new abuse filter function called . You can use it to check if its first argument is equal  to any of the following ones. For example you can use it to check if the page's namespace is amongst a given set of values in a more compact way than you could earlier. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 May. It will be on all wikis from 3 May (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 May at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-sync.svg 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 2 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The Wikimedia Cloud Services team is working on a new project called Toolhub. The goal is to make it easier for Wikimedians to discover software tools they can use. You can leave feedback on the talk page or email jhare@undefinedwikimedia.org to leave private feedback.
 * Octicons-tools.svg All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in all namespaces will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 2 May. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Wikibooks wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch on 9 May. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018.

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WikiCup 2018 May newsletter
The second round of the 2018 WikiCup has now finished. Most contestants who advanced to the next round scored upwards of 100 points, but two with just 10 points managed to scrape through into round 3. Our top scorers in the last round were:


 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Cas Liber, our winner in 2016, with three featured articles
 * Iazyges, with nine good articles and lots of bonus points
 * 🇮🇳 Yashthepunisher, a first time contestant, with two featured lists
 * SounderBruce, a finalist last year, with seventeen good topic articles
 * 🇺🇸 Usernameunique, a first time contestant, with fourteen DYKs
 * Muboshgu, a seasoned competitor, with three ITNs and
 * Courcelles, another first time contestant, with twenty-seven GARs

So far contestants have achieved twelve featured articles between them and a splendid 124 good articles. Commendably, 326 GARs have been completed during the course of the 2018 WikiCup, so the backlog of articles awaiting GA review has been reduced as a result of contestants' activities. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met; most of the GARs are fine, but a few have been a bit skimpy.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:10, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #311
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments:
 * Sort identifier statements on items that are instances of human
 * Make "developer" and "programmer" properties clearer


 * Events
 * Wikidata and GLAM workshop day in the context of the EuropeanaTech Conference, Rotterdam, Monday 14 May 2018
 * Wikidata access methods, slides by Dan Scott


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * More than 850 living people' articles from the English Wikipedia which have date of death or place of death on their Wikidata item: manual checks needed. You can also check Category:P570 missing in Wikipedia
 * Florian will be improving Wikidata support in the Wikipedia plugin for OpenStreetMap's JOSM editor, for the Google Summer of Code 2018
 * Prssanna Desai will work on improvements for the Query Service during Google Summer of Code


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: Deutsche Bahn station category, has grammatical gender, has grammatical person, Wikimedia outline, assistant director, island of location, possible medical findings, suggests the existence of, has evaluation, evaluation of, greater than, less than
 * External identifiers: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures ID, Behind The Voice Actors character ID, HanCinema film ID, Italian School ID, Directory of Open Access Journals ID, LGDB game ID, LGDB emulator ID, LGDB tool ID, LGDB engine ID, TFRRS athlete ID, All About Jazz musician ID, Ontario public library ID, Swedish Literature Bank book ID, WikiCFP event ID, WikiCFP conference series ID, ICAA film catalogue ID, Stepwell Atlas ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: IMDA rating, is program committee member of, officialized by, KAVI rating, topographic map, child monotypic taxon, Köppens klimaklassifisering, Möllendorff transliteration, attested, geographic center, season of club or team, sports competition competed at, factorizsation, coastline, forest cover, vehicles per capita, audio transcription
 * External identifiers: e-MEC entry, Norwegian war sailor register ship ID, Thesaurus For Graphic Materials, GNOME Wiki ID, Israel Film Fund ID, The New Fund for Cinema and Television (Israel) ID, Cinema Project ID, Chinese Political Elites Database ID, Israeli Movie Testimonial Database Person ID, Israeli Movie Testimonial Database Movie ID, JMA Seismic Intensity Database ID, Portale della Canzone italiana IDs, Trustpilot company ID, Ester ID, Dictionary of Swedish Translators


 * Properties lacking use created > 3 months:
 * Sign@l journal ID (P4726), INRAN Italian Food ID (P4729), produced sound (P4733), IBM code page ID (P4734), IBM graphic character global ID (P4736), Line Music album ID (P4748), Line Music artist ID (P4747), is proceedings from (P4745), National Historic Ships certificate no. (P4750), Manus Online ID (P4752)
 * Deleted properties: Réunion des musées nationaux ID (P5100)
 * Query examples:
 * Map of birth places of authors in the Portuguese Wikisource
 * Video games that are set in the Star Wars Expanded Universe by game mode (source)
 * Timeline of Programming Languages (source)
 * Timeline of people named Karl born in Karlsruhe (source)


 * Development
 * Allow continuing Wikidata entity dumps (T193688)
 * Make sure Wikidata entity dump scripts run for a short amount of time (T190513)
 * Add monolingual language code shy (T184783)
 * More work on preparing QuickStatements to be run by other parties (T193606, T192079, T192365)
 * Expand references with constraint violations (T177970)
 * Improving validation of Form representations on WikibaseLexeme (T193011)
 * Fixing a bug that replaces a representation by another (T192264)
 * Enable finding forms using wbsearchentities API (T191981)

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 &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:10, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-19
 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 Wikimedia Commons mobile app has a new version. It is now easier to find nearby places that need pictures. It helps you with direct uploads and title and category suggestions. The app only works on Android phones.

Problems
 * Octicons-tools.svg The abuse filters had a problem with blocks where you had changed how long they last. It used the default length everywhere. This was in late April. Abuse filter users should make sure the right block length is used and change them if needed. This is only for filters where how long blocks last had been changed.

Changes later this week
 * The advanced search function beta feature will be on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 May. It will be on all wikis from 10 May (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 8 May at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-sync.svg 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 9 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 16 May. Other wikis will switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018.

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