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This Month in GLAM: January 2019
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Wikidata weekly summary #351
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events
 * Past: Linking OpenStreetMap and Wikidata at FOSDEM


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


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


 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: day of regular release, Euler characteristic, has lyrics, maintenance method, CBFC rating, does not have quality
 * External identifiers: Code of Natura 2000/FFH habitat, Douban Author ID, Douban Book ID, Douban Drama ID, Douban Game ID, Douban Music ID, Douban Musician ID, Douban Read Author ID, Douban Read eBook ID, Douban Site Name, Douban Username, Zhihu username, Bilibili bangumi ID, Bilibili tag ID, Bilibili username, Bilibili video ID, Eventa Servo ID, Mtime movie ID, QQ number, Swedish Organization Number, Rock's Backpages artist ID, Rock's Backpages author ID, Rock's Backpages publication ID, Mtime people ID, Democracy Club ID, Hulu movie ID, Hulu series ID, ISA ID, Fuzhou Architecture Heritage ID, DALFAN ID, Den Digitale Byport ID, GameFAQs franchise ID, NMSRCP reference number, Swiss Films ID, CABB player ID, castingvideos ID, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern protected area ID, IEEEXplore author ID, IEEEXplore document ID, Strepsiptera database species ID, Image Archive, Herder-Institut, WBCHSE code, Antarctica NZ Digital Asset Manager, Brentidae of the world species ID, Pacific Coast Architecture Database building ID, Illustrated catalog of Tessaratomidae species ID
 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: creator name string, Literate population, Illiterate population, designated survivor, stall speed, maintain, Insects (Insecta) of the World ID, solar eclipse type, student organization of
 * External identifiers: BibliotecaVirtualAndalucia authority ID, BIDICAM authority ID, BVPH authority ID, CCBAE ID, identifiant sur l'annuaire du service public, Joan Miró Online Image Bank ID, ISTC No., KSI player ID, Board Game Atlas ID, LSE article ID, JWF Wrestlers Database, Georgian National Filmography ID for Persons, Eliseu Visconti Project ID, Indian census area code (1991), AICTE Permanent ID, German School ID, DOGC ID, DoBIH Number
 * Query examples:
 * Counts of Indian films directed and written by the same person, sorted by film language (source)
 * Sovereign states that have more than one capital city (source)
 * Decreases in sex ratio for mandals of West Godavari district between 2001 and 2011 (source)
 * Counts of articles published in different Indian medical journals, sorted by year/journal (source)
 * Forms to Lexeme ratio per language (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#select%20distinct%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FtypeLabel%20%3FcountryLabel%20%3FsubjectLabel%20%3FnamesakeLabel%20%3Fnamesake%0Awhere%0A%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20%3Ftype%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%20item%20is%20...%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Ftype%20wdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ20977775%20%7D%20union%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20an%20airport%20(defined%20broadly)%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Ftype%20wdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ55488%20%7D%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20or%20a%20rail%20station%20(ditto)%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP138%20%3Fnamesake%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%20item%20is%20named%20after%20something%0A%20%20%3Fnamesake%20wdt%3AP31%20%3Fsubject%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20namesake%20is%20...%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Fsubject%20wdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ95074%20%7D%20union%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20a%20fictional%20character%0A%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%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20(definition%20here%20excludes%20deities%20%26%20biblical%20figures)%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Fsubject%20wdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ7725634%20%7D%20union%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20or%20a%20literary%20work%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Fsubject%20wdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ7725310%20%7D%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20or%20a%20series%20of%20works%0A%20%20optional%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fcountry%20%7D%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20what%20country%20is%20the%20something%20in%3F%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%20order%20by%20%3FitemLabel Airports and railway stations named after fictional people or works of fiction] (source)
 * Species of hummingbirds, their genus, and image (source)


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


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

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 20:32, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #352
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: NewDataB
 * New request for comments: semi-protection to prevent vandalism on most used Items, Allow for Wikidata items to be created that only link to a single Wikimedia Commons category (Wikidata notability discussion)


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


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


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


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: drag coefficient, illiterate population, literate population, non-free artwork image URL, taxon author citation, total goals in career, stall speed
 * External identifiers: Enciclopedia delle donne ID, Joan Miró Online Image Bank ID, BIDICAM authority ID, Board Game Atlas ID, BVPH authority ID, CCBAE publication ID, ISTC No., KSI player ID, Biblioteca Virtual Andalucía authority ID, Georgian National Filmography ID for Persons, JWF Wrestlers Database person ID, Indian census area code (1991), Lithuanian Sport Encyclopedia (LSE) article ID, Eliseu Visconti Project ID, UN/CEFACT common code


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: ScaleNet ID, Lokalhistoriewiki article, Identifiant itch.io, approach angle, departure angle, ride height, type of front suspensions, type of rear suspensions, Football Money League rank, is model of, constraint clarification, has phenotype, observed in, replacement property, evidenční číslo domu, Stack Exchange site
 * External identifiers: WhoSampled artist, äriregister, ISO 639-3 Change Request ID, Queerly Represent Me identifier, V.League player ID, Martindale-Hubbell profile, Google Play Movies & TV id, Fondation Maeght ID, identifiant d'un jeu de données sur data.gouv.fr, BHL part ID, ETS Designated Institution code, Gateway to Research Project ID, Yandex.Music label ID, Yandex.Music genre ID


 * Query examples:
 * Bubble chart of Indian universities with the most people ever employed by them (source)
 * Graph of shared borders between certain West Bengal community development blocks (source)
 * Tree map of ambassadors to India (source)
 * Fictional swords (source)
 * Taxa named after women scientists (source)
 * Timeline of red pandas (source)


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

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


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

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:36, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #353
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Talk pages consultation 2019 (feel free to add more sub-sections)


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


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


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


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: expression of, provisional house number in the Czech Republic, has role in modeling, observed in, has phenotype, type of front suspension, type of rear suspension
 * External identifiers: AICTE Permanent ID, DOGC ID, DoBIH Number, ScaleNet ID, WhoSampled artist ID, Business Registry code (Estonia), ISO 639-3 Change Request ID, Lokalhistoriewiki article, Crew united person ID, Fondation Maeght artist ID, data.gouv.fr dataset ID, V.League men's player ID, V.League women's player ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Total assists in career, Total points in career, Career plus-minus rating, Penalty minutes in career, Total power play goals in career, Total power play assists in career, Total shots in career, MeSH Descriptor, Former street name
 * External identifiers: NZ On Screen person ID, NZ On Screen work ID, Brazilian Electoral Unit ID, Catálogo de Patrimonio Cultural de Castilla-La Mancha ID, PCAD firm ID, Inventário dos Monumentos RJ ID, SICRIS researcher ID, Physics History Network ID, Sachsen-Anhalt Schutzgebiete-ID, Amis du Louvre ID, Nationation Wrestling Hall of Fame d'un lutteur, Brillant Wiki ID, Official Charts artist ID, Nationation Wrestling Hall of Fame d'une équipe universitaire, Dimensions.guide ID, SensaCine movie ID, SensaCine series ID, Bilibili channel ID


 * Query examples:
 * Women having a good or featured article on Russian Wikipedia but no article on French Wikipedia (source)
 * Timeline of Renaissance humanists (source)
 * Map of cities from the Hanseatic League (source)
 * Image gallery of musicians who have a software title named after them (source)
 * Frequency of first letter in Breton words in Wikidata (source)
 * Items about buildings with coordinates and at least one sitelink, but no image (source)


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

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


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

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:58, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

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