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Happy First Edit Day!
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Invitation to join the Fifteen Year Society
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WikiCup 2019 November newsletter
The WikiCup is over for another year! Our Champion this year is, who over the course of the competition has amassed 91 featured pictures, including 32 in the final round. Our finalists this year were:


 * 1) with 964 points
 * 2) with 899 points
 * 3) with 817 points
 * 4) with 691 points
 * 5) with 388 points
 * 6) with 146 points
 * 7) with 145 points
 * 8) with 74 points

All those who reached the final will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, these prizes are awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round, or in the event of a tie, to the overall leader in this field. Awards will be handed out in the coming weeks. Please be patient!


 * wins the featured article prize, for a total of 7 FAs during the course of the competition.
 * wins the good article prize, for 14 GAs in round 5.
 * wins the featured list prize, for 4 FLs overall.
 * wins the featured picture prize, for 91 FPs overall.
 * wins the topic prize, for 7 articles in good topics in round 2.
 * wins the DYK prize, for 14 did you know articles in round 5.
 * wins the ITN prize, for 7 in the news articles in round 1.
 * wins the reviewer prize, for 56 good article reviews in round 1.

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have achieved much this year. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition, not forgetting User:Jarry1250, who runs the scoring bot.

We have opened a scoring discussion on whether the rules and scoring need adjustment. Please have your say. Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2020 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth 14:18, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #389
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events
 * Past: Wikidata Zurich Training 2019
 * Upcoming: Next Wikidata office hour on Tuesday, November 5th at 18:00 Berlin time (UTC+1)  on the the Wikidata Telegram channel
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Martin Poulter on Wikidata projects at the University of Oxford, 05, November. Agenda


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * ZBW Labs: 20th Century Press Archives: Data donation to Wikidata
 * The WikidataCon Card Game, Envel Le Hir
 * The Great(er) Bear - using Wikidata to generate better artwork
 * ''Linked (Open) Data for Knowledge Solutions, Artificial Intelligence and more presentation touching amongst others Wikidata and schema.org at Semantics 2019 by Felix Sasaki and Christian Lieske
 * Querying the Edit History of Wikidata - Thomas Pellissier Tanon & Fabian Suchanek
 * Online Disinformation and the Role of Wikipedia - Diego Saez-Trumper (WMF)


 * Tool of the week
 * SPARQL RC is showing the recent changes on items that are listed from a specific query. It is very useful to monitor the changes on a specific subset of data, for example data that you recently imported in Wikidata.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikimedia Deutschland is hiring a Product Manager for Wikibase
 * Live Wikidata editing videos: Jan Ainali makes videos showing his process while editing Wikidata. Magnus Sälgö also makes videos showing specific features and tools
 * is a new template that can be used to store SPARQL queries on a dedicated wiki page, to be transcluded in various styles (announcement)
 * New feature on Mix'n'match: job management


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: comorbidity, audio system, election called by, XML namespace
 * External identifiers: Austrian Parliament 1848 - 1918 ID, Eu-football.info match ID, playmarkerstats.com match ID, Soccerway match ID, Fussballdaten.de team ID, NZPCN ID, Wolfram Language entity type, Women Film Pioneers ID, Van Wijngaarden quarry ID, Golden ID, Ovrtur Biography ID, Jeugdliteratuur ID, ACL Anthology article ID, Naver Encyclopedia ID, Ben Yehuda author ID, Estonian biographical database ID, doujinshi.org author ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: food composition, landscape architect, charge conjugation quantum number, IP address or range, featured in, Room number, Jabber channel, lighting, Mentioned at
 * External identifiers: Sega Retro ID, CA Prop 65 ID, Gaming-History company ID, dp.ru company ID, Filmový přehled film ID, Filmový přehled person ID, SK cinema film ID, SK cinema authority ID, ePSD ID, classicamiga ID, Czech cadastral area ID, MEA Indian Mission ID, Planète Aventure ID, AaRC person ID, fyyd podcast identifer, Encyclopedia of Mathematics wiki ID, fyyd podcast episode ID, UEFA referee ID, Flowers of India ID, Panoptikum podcast episode ID, NBAIR pest ID, Reptiles of India ID, Odonata of India ID, Birds of India ID, Moths of India ID, India Biodiversity Portal species ID, Indian Medicinal Plants Database ID, ZSI author ID, Biodiversity of West Bengal species ID, UK Lakes Portal ID, askArt person ID


 * Deleted properties: P2035 (LinkedIn personal profile URL), P1946 (N6I ID)
 * Query examples:
 * Map of UK MPs coloured by party (source) - may change in the next few weeks
 * Maintenance query: items which have a value of "unknown" (Q24238356) rather than the "unknown" special value (source)
 * 100 cities closest to the North pole with more than 200k inhabitants (source)
 * Actors with whom Shah Rukh Khan collaborated, in a bubble chart showing how many times it happened (source)
 * New Integraality dashboards: Journals by publisher, Theses by institution
 * Schema examples:
 * Painting
 * Member of parliament from Sweden
 * Malayalam lexeme
 * Newest WikiProjects: Sum of all Podcasts
 * Newest database reports:
 * Uniform Resource Name (URN) in Wikidata
 * Universally Unique IDentifier (UUID) constraint check


 * Development
 * Made the Lua functions mw.wikibase.getBestStatements and mw.wikibase.getAllStatements faster if called more than once for the same statement on a single page
 * Fix a bug on the mobile termbox (T236677)
 * Update Wikibase Lua documentation (T225497)
 * Highlight individual statements when selecting them in the URL (T234079)
 * Add monolingual language code "sa-Sidd", "pi-Sidd", tnq (Taíno), car (Kalinago) and bdr (T230881, T220284, T234330)
 * Make it possible to collapse the "All entered languages" section when at the end of the section (T232595)
 * Cache php.getEntityStatements in mw.wikibase (T236491)
 * Tracking Wikidata Bridge openings by Datatype in Grafana (T231204)
 * Not showing Bridge edit pens when the editor cannot edit the article (T235152)
 * A bugfix to only show scrollbars where they are supposed to be shown (T235622)
 * Enabling/Disabling the Save button depending on the bridge state (T230342)
 * More work on tainted references

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


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

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Wikidata weekly summary #390
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Wikidata to use data schemas to standardise data structure on a subject


 * Events
 * Past: Wikidata office hour (notes)
 * Past: "Using Wikidata to describe the structure of a book" Webinar by Martin Poulter for LD4P2 project (Video), (Slides), (Notes)
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop OpenRefine in Prague on 12 November
 * Upcoming: Online editathon in Swedish 17 November


 * Tool of the week
 * Speedpatrolling is a tool to easily patrol Wikidata recent changes, typically on mobile devices.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikipedia Personality Infobox in Catalan and French display now the Heritage Institution in charge of their archives via P485 (archives at).
 * The Discord server Wikimedia Community has now a Wikidata channel.
 * @Wikipedia talks about @Wikidata by GerardM


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: landscape architect, charge conjugation quantum number, statement is regarded as spoiler for, room number, scope and content
 * External identifiers: startrek.com Database ID, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant ID, Chinese Professional Baseball League player ID, Software Preservation Society ID, Sega Retro ID, classicamiga ID, Filmový přehled film ID, Filmový přehled person ID, Gaming-History company ID, SK cinema authority ID, SK cinema film ID, CA PROP 65 ID, ePSD identifier, Czech cadastral area ID, dp.ru company ID, Fortuna liga player ID, MEA Indian Mission ID, AaRC person ID, MIC market code


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: general law, population rank, area rank, population density rank, references, territorial entity ranking context, mentions named entity, plot features event, Jyutping (2)
 * External identifiers: National Health Portal hospital ID, IPC ID, Plusliga player ID, Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility's Species List ID, Sinemalar person ID, UVL game ID, WikiTreeCategories, Ahotsak Lexeme, UVL platform ID, Inguma database ID, UVL company ID, UVL group ID, Home of the Underdogs game ID, name-suggestion-index identifier, OGDB game title ID, common exchange code, Memorial Book Bundesarchiv ID, CISCE school code, CBSE Affiliation No., JNAF artist ID, OGDB compilation ID


 * Query examples:
 * Persons in the genealogy family tree WikiTree were WIkidata has a source from the Swedish National Archives Birth/Death records
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23defaultView%3AMap%0A%23%20minimum%20temperatures%20on%20Earth%20%0A%23%20from%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fwiki%2FProperty_talk%3AP7422%0ASELECT%20%3Fdegrees_Celsius%20%3Fdegrees_Fahrenheit%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Flocation%20%3FlocationLabel%20%3Fdate%20%3Fcoor%20%3Flayer%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%09%3Fitem%20p%3AP7422%20%3Fst%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fst%20psv%3AP7422%20%20%5B%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3Fdegrees_Celsius%20%3B%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ25267%20%5D%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%20%28%20ROUND%20%28%20%3Fdegrees_Celsius%20%2a%201.8%20%2B%2032%20%29%20as%20%3Fdegrees_Fahrenheit%20%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20UNION%0A%09%7B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fst%20psv%3AP7422%20%20%5B%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3Fdegrees_Fahrenheit%20%3B%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ42289%20%5D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%20ROUND%28%20%28%20%3Fdegrees_Fahrenheit%20-%2032%20%29%20%2F%201.8%20%2a%2010%29%2F10%20as%20%3Fdegrees_Celsius%20%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fst%20pq%3AP276%20%3Flocation%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Flocation%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoor0%20%7D%20%7D%20%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fst%20pq%3AP585%20%3Fdate%20%7D%20%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoor1%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28%20COALESCE%28%3Fcoor0%2C%20%3Fcoor1%29%20as%20%3Fcoor%29%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28%20CONCAT%28str%28Floor%28%3Fdegrees_Celsius%20%2F%2010%29%29%2C%220s%20%C2%B0C%22%29%20as%20%3Flayer%29%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%20%7D%20%20%20%20%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20ASC%28%3Fdegrees_Celsius%29%0ALIMIT%201000 Minimum temperature records on Earth]
 * Map of districts of India by ratio of illiterate to literate population in 2011 (source)
 * List of episodes of Detective Conan's Case Closed, with date and place of publication and series and season number, sorted by date of publication (source)
 * Parent and child who both had a governor mandate in the USA (source)
 * Belgian artists whose work will be in public domain starting in 2020 (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Wolfram Language, most frequent first names in Poland, Paintings and images of signatures of painters


 * Development
 * In order to decrease the size of what we store in caches we stopped storing the actual EntityUsage objects in ParserOutput and now just store minimal identifier strings (T236749)
 * Investigated why Termbox broke on an update (T235261)
 * Removed auto jump of focus from Property field to value field (T234322 - thanks to Envlh for the patch)
 * Removed non-functional site link groups for other Wikibase installations that don't need them (T232248)
 * Continued working on the migration of the wb_terms table to address scalability issues
 * Continued working on the shortened version of edit summaries for edits made through the mobile termbox (T224013)
 * For the Wikidata Bridge we are not showing edit pens when the user can not edit the article anymore (T235152)
 * Working on viewing existing references in the Wikidata Bridge (T233397)
 * Worked on showing an information popup when clicking the tainted reference icon to tell you what went wrong and how to solve it.
 * Worked on defining first version of Federation for wikis outside Wikimedia
 * Commons search have stopped indexing statements (structured data) since 30 October 2019 (T237849)

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


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

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This Month in GLAM: October 2019
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Wikidata weekly summary #391
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Recap of WikidataCon and WikiConference North America, 19 November. Agenda


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Online Disinformation and the Role of Wikipedia


 * Tool of the week
 * The Mix'n'Match gadget displays on an item all unconfirmed matches on Mix'n'match, allowing to quickly add them.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * There are now over 2.5 million Wikidata Infoboxes in Commons categories.
 * OpenRefine is awarded a USD 200,000 grant by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to fund its development in 2020.
 * Autojump from a field to another will be removed
 * Panandâ, a mobile app powered by Wikidata (and Wikimedia Commons), won the top prize in the App for Social Good category in the Android Masters 2019 competition organized by Google Developer Group Philippines. Eugene, the app's developer, recently gave a lightning talk about the app at WikidataCon 2019.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: Commons category for the interior of the item
 * External identifiers: Birds of India ID, India Biodiversity Portal species ID, Moths of India ID, NBAIR pest ID, Odonata of India ID, Planète Aventure ID, Reptiles of India ID, ZSI author ID, Indian Medicinal Plants Database ID, askArt person ID, Flowers of India ID, National Health Portal hospital ID, UK Lakes Portal ID, Biodiversity of West Bengal species ID, International Paralympic Committee athlete alphabetical ID, Plusliga player ID, Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility's Species List ID, Sinemalar person ID, Encyclopedia of Mathematics wiki ID, UVL game ID, UVL platform ID, Inguma database ID, Ahotsak Lexeme, UVL company ID, UVL group ID, Home of the Underdogs game ID, OGDB game title ID, CISCE school code, JNAF artist ID, OGDB compilation ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: IAST transliteration, Hunterian transliteration, IFCO rating, stellar age, Wildlife Protection Act 1972 schedule, nominalisated form, date of assent, effective date, valid for, supervisor, Xmodmap keysym, Properties for Indian ragas
 * External identifiers: Digital Corpus of Sanskrit ID, OGDB company ID, Sri Granth Punjabi word ID, Broadcast Radio Bearer URI, AboutTheArtists artist ID, Czech city district ID, Prague administrative district ID, NinDB game ID, DUC ID, VideoGameGeek game ID, VideoGameGeek platform ID, Cinepub person ID, Disney+ movie ID, Disney+ series ID, Lutris game ID, Cinept film ID, CinePT person ID, Finnish generals and admirals in the Imperial Russian Army 1809–1917 ID, Biblioteche dei filosofi ID, Lutris platform ID, Beaux-arts ID, Dictionary of Wisconsin History ID, India PlayStation Store ID, Enciclopedia dei Papi ID, The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church ID, SHARE Catalogue work ID, Czech municipality ID, Lutris genre ID


 * Query examples:
 * Adaptations of The War of the Worlds (source)
 * Graves at the Stockholm church Riddarholmskyrkan who use book Riddarholmskyrkan - inventories and graves (Q61765464) as a source, source
 * Map of sisterly relationships with cities in India (source)
 * Map of the languages without any Wikidata Lexemes yet (source)
 * Newest database reports: translations for port/starboard and windward/leeward


 * Development
 * Tainted references: Show warning icon if statement value is changed but reference is not changed in the same edit (T231728)
 * Make WikibaseQualityConstraints link using SpecialMyLanguage (T233003)
 * Work on the issue of property labels not showing up on some pages (T237984)
 * Track Bridge openings by property datatype (T231204)
 * Viewing existing references in the Bridge (T233397)
 * Attaching the link listener sooner, so the user gets a bit less often wrongly forwarded to wikidata (T235765)

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