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Wikidata weekly summary #400
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Welcome to the 400th Weekly Summary! Here are some interesting Wikidata facts or queries collected by the community and related to the number 400:
 * Item #400 is Jenna Jameson; Property #400 is platform (software), and Lexeme #400 is "vierhonderd" - Dutch for "four hundred". The QID for the natural number 400 is Q1535396. The QID for the year 400 is Q25621.
 * The page ID 400 is Ludwig van Beethoven; the Wikidata page version ID 400 was a version of printer.
 * The Greek philosopher Hypatia, one of the first women scientists, became head of the Neo-Platonist school at Alexandria, in 400 AD. We include her here in tribute to those working to reduce Wikidata's gender gap.
 * Wikimedia Commons has 627 images taken with the Canon PowerShot A400 - you can see one on baritone saxophone.
 * Map of things at an altitude of 400 m.
 * Map of places with a population of 400 ± 5 (yellow) graduating to 400 ± 0 (red).
 * From this query, Wikidata knows of 21 theatres, 15 cinemas, 11 sports venues, 11 event venues, and 9 ships having a maximum capacity of 400.
 * Image grid of taxa with a highest observed lifespan of at least 400 years.
 * Image grid of items with a mass of 400 kilograms and image grid of items with a mass of 400 grams.
 * List of 400m distance sports events.
 * 400 Ducrosa is a main-belt asteroid named after J. Ducros.
 * List of items with an external ID equal to 400.
 * Last but not least, 400 dahlias for Léa, Lydia and the other contributors to this list!


 * Events
 * Past: Wikidata office hour on Telegram, January 22nd. Notes of the meeting
 * Upcoming: WikiTuesday / Wikidata Talks Meetup in Istambul, Turkey, January 28th
 * Upcoming: online meeting dedicated to organizers of Wikidata's 8th birthday, January 29th


 * Tool of the week
 * Duplicate Item copies the current item (without descriptions or sitelinks) to a new item. This tool is useful for splitting items and for making sets of similar items. Recommended for experienced users.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New development roadmap for Wikidata and Wikibase for 2020
 * OpenRefine usage survey 2020
 * Wikidata has an entry in Google's new data search tool


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: attested as, category for files created with program, period of lactation, aperture
 * External identifiers: C64.COM ID, c64games.de ID, eu-football.info team ID, museum in Salzburg (AT) ID, fyyd podcast episode ID, Upper Austria Museum ID, WorldCat Identities ID, word in DEJ of RAE ID, HAL article ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: LiverTox Likelihood Score, dean, stated age in source, US Bureau of Prisons Register Number, located in the constituency, motherboard, WMF short URL, Recognition, recognized by, not recognized by, jurisdiction status, supported metadata, expansion, historic first, number of pins, number of pin positions, catalogue raisonné, Dose, value group number, external georeferencer URL, axis, Voting system, image revision-id, region within image, georeferencing data, based on tabular data, Number of active electronic terminals, associated with, translated title, position in sequence, Attribution text, food energy, madhhab, Maximum number of playable characters, Main deity, electron configuration, capital social, gained territory from, key col of, religion or world view, CMF identifier, masculine form, feminine form, menu items, food composition, IP address or range, featured in, lighting, general law, territorial entity ranking context, references, mentions named entity, hardiness
 * External identifiers: NASA active astronaut ID, VGMRips company ID, DSSTOX compound identifier, Roglo person ID, VGMRips system ID, Museu de Memes ID, Nobel API ID, VideoGamer.com game ID, Canmore object-type ID, Canmore maritime-type ID, GameRevolution game ID, TrueAchievements game ID, PARADISEC Catalog, ELAR ID, ChemSynthesis ID, Whaling History ID, ft.dk politician identifier, Ciência ID, 7digital United Kingdom artist ID, Ident.Nr., GoodRx, part number, Faculté des sciences de Nancy ID, MIC, UEFA referee ID, name-suggestion-index identifier, TrueAchievements series ID, Bollywood Hungama ID 2, Gamekult game ID


 * Query examples:
 * The results of the Australian Triple J Hottest 100, 2019 music voting poll were published on 25 January 2019. See the results with associated music videos to watch.
 * Map of destinations from Wuhan Tianhe International Airport
 * 50 philosophers for which DBpedia and Wikidata state different date of birth (source)


 * Development
 * More work on wb_terms migration
 * Units support for quantity datatype (T239474)
 * Fix the link to rawgraphs.io from WDQS (T222257)
 * More work on showing messages related to permissions on the Wikidata Bridge
 * Tainted references: fix minor alignment issues (T243269, T242212)
 * Add a "remove warning" button to confirm a correct reference (T234789)
 * Preparing the ground for a unified component library for the Wikidata UI

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.

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:03, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
 * 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!

Wikidata weekly summary #401
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Mike Peel


 * Events
 * Past: | Wikidata in Social Science Classroom - Workshop, Dubai, January 21st
 * Upcoming: Wikibase Community User Group online meeting (date to be decided, you can vote here)
 * Upcoming: OSM TW x Wikidata Taiwan meetup, February 10th, Taipei


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * A newbie's guide to querying Wikidata, by Mark Needham


 * Tool of the week
 * VizQuery allows you to use the Wikidata Query Service without having to know SPARQL. Simply use a couple of autocomplete input boxes and you can do most basic queries.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Bruno and Denny present how to use Lexical Masks in ShEx to validate lexemes, including a first set of example schemata. They also invite everyone to work on more languages, and will keep adding more ShEx schema over time.
 * 2020 report on Property constraints by user:Abián
 * Wikimedia Hackathon in Tirana: scholarship requests and registration for people needing visa support are open until February 9th.
 * Mismatched reference: first version to be deployed this week
 * OpenRefine 3.3 was released


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: category for maps, number of reviews/ratings, merged into, 8-bits.info ID
 * External identifiers: CoBiS author ID, marterl.at ID, NPDRIM record ID, Analysis & Policy Observatory node ID, Analysis & Policy Observatory term ID, PCBdB game ID, Diccionari del cinema a Catalunya ID, EFIS film festival ID, EFIS person ID, Eurogamer ID, FlashScore.com team ID, GameStar ID, Soccerdonna team ID, The Video Games Museum game ID, Voetbal International player ID, Games Database game ID, ft.dk politician identifier, Historical Marker Database ID, Joconde Inscription ID, Joconde time period ID, Media Art Database ID, Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology ID, EFIS filmfirm ID, EFIS film ID, Ciência ID, Swedish School Registry ID, Whaling History ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: hierarchy switch, Wikipedia infobox field, ontological level of Wikidata item, status of mortal remains, TheTVDB person ID, fails compliance with
 * External identifiers: Gamekult company ID, Gamekult franchise ID, CNGB project ID, Gamekult platform ID, Adelsvapen ID, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina ID, Clavis Clavium ID, FEMA number, SerialStation game ID, GBAtemp game ID, AnimalBase ID, RPGamer ID, Denkmalatlas Niedersachsen Objekt-ID, DR music artist ID, Jurisdiction List Number, Médias 19 ID, ArchiWebture ID, MOCAGH ID


 * Query examples:
 * Number of cases coronavirus reported per country
 * Release date of albums from before 1980 by artists of the EDM genre (source)
 * Books related to LGBTI+ topics (source)
 * Map of medical facilities in Kalimpong district, India, color-coded by type (source)


 * Development
 * Enable the first version of tainted/mismatched references on wikidata.org
 * Work on adding a button to hide the notification (T234789)
 * Show the icon after canceling editing if the icon was shown before (T234790)
 * More work on Wikidata Bridge (restrict editing based on user rights or data types)
 * More work on wb_terms migration

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.

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:00, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
 * 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 #402
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Nomen ad hoc


 * Events
 * Learn about the use of Wikidata, Wikipedia and sister projects in education, at the Wikimedia in Education UK Summit at Coventry University on 26 February
 * Hackday Niederrhein, Germany, on March 28-29, including a Wikidata workshop
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: further discussion of labels and aliases; start looking at Google Sheets, 11 February. Agenda
 * WikiCite meetup in Melbourne, Australia, on February 14th
 * Wikidata Wednesday in Vienna, Austria, on February 19th


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Wikidata and Beyond – Knowledge for everyone by everyone, keynote video from Denny Vrandečić at SWAT4HCLS 2019
 * Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2019 edition, by Jean-Frédéric
 * Discovering Implicational Knowledge in Wikidata, by Tom Hanika, Maximilian Marx and Gerd Stumme.


 * Tool of the week
 * Reasonator offers a visual formatted display of Wikidata information. It is useful for introducing Wikidata to new audiences and can help find missing or incorrect data by presenting a different view than the standard editing interface.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The Kensho Derived Wikimedia Dataset is a a cleaned English subset of Wikipedia/Wikidata with 2.3B tokens, 5.3M pages, 51M nodes, and 120M edges for use in natural language processing (NLP) research
 * Property talk pages now include a link to query for a few random items using the "SERVICE bd:sample" in SPARQL. Example: look for "random list" on d:Property talk:P279
 * "Status of Wikidata Query Service" update from WMF, on Wikidata mailing list
 * Facebook page of a volunteer working on Wikidata about the French local elections in Conflans
 * Swiss newspaper Le Temps built a new front-end to interact with a Wikibase backend developed by nonprofit PersonalData.IO to power its citizen-led investigation of personal data flows.
 * There are now 100,000 people with the name "John" in Wikidata. "Elizabeth" is now the most frequent female given name.
 * Knowledge Grapher is a new tool to create Wikidata knowledge graphs without needing any knowledge of Wikidata Query or SPARQL code. Developed by Fuzheado, it is currently in early testing mode and helps create graphs as described by MartinPoulter at his 2019 blog post Making Wikidata Visible. Feedback is appreciated.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Academia.edu publication ID, TI-99/4A Videogame House ID, National Aviation Hall of Fame ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: гражданский чин, uses dataset, CVR person ID, description, Wikimedia community discussion, The Great Biography
 * External identifiers: Visual AIDS Artist+ Registry ID, CYRI ID, Mendeley publication ID, CODEPAC-Bauru ID, Daughters of the American Revolution ancestor ID, PC Games Database.de game ID, Encyclopedia of Chicago, DANFS ID, Deutsche Biographie ID, Haz-Map ID, RAL ID, PC Games Database.de company ID, Kickstarter project ID, Adventure Games company ID, VcBA ID, Adventure Games series ID, Hrvatska enciklopedije ID, Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland: 1880-2000 ID, Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development ID, Trakt.tv uri, Open Food Facts label, Compendium heroicum ID, Gry Online game ID, Gram.pl game ID, startrekdb.se query, Legislative Assembly of Ontario MPP ID, Gry Online company ID


 * Deleted properties: lithography (P2157)
 * Query examples:
 * Timeline of same-sex marriage legalization in various countries (source)
 * Chart of the number of infections and deaths casued since the outbreak of novel coronavirus, as reported by the World Health Organisation
 * Adjacent constituencies of the UK Parliament - query federated with Ordnance Survey's SPARQL endpoint. (source)
 * List of this year’s Academy Awards winners


 * Development
 * Wikidata Bridge: more work on enabling error messages for various cases (datatype not supported, user can't edit on client or repo, etc.)
 * Including the property label in the title of the Data Bridge dialog (T233295)
 * Mismatched references: follow-up of the deployment in production, adding the "remove warning" button
 * Monitoring the number of times the feature reference warnings are being triggered and opened (T231731)
 * Fixing some issues connected to the train deployment
 * Fixing an issue with new edit summaries not being displayed on client wikis (T244129)
 * Fixing an issue with ittem having label conflict with itself (T243158)

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) 16:24, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

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