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Wikidata weekly summary #468
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New request for comments:
 * Separating "citations" from all Wikipedia articles by using Wikidata
 * IP Masking Engagement
 * Closed request for comments:
 * Allow for Wikidata items to be created that only link to a single Wikimedia Commons category (Wikidata notability discussion). Outcome --> no change to WD:N
 * Inverse constraint on cause-and-effect properties. Outcome --> constraints were removed


 * Events
 * Ongoing:
 * Data literacy snacks - Talk about "Wikibase knowledge graphs for data management & data science" on 23rd of June. For registration, send e-mail to info@undefinedberd-bw.de
 * Upcoming
 * SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, May 18 at 18:00 CEST
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Mahir Morshed will be discussing Lexemes in Wikidata; Agenda, May 18th.
 * May 21-22, 2021 Boston Rock City: Explore Wikidata and Learn About Local Music: Boston Public Library is partnering with Harvard Library for a guided exploration of Wikidata and local music history. Join us for two days of music and Wikidata editing; no prior experience or punk cred necessary! This public event is free to all and will take place via Zoom; please register in advance. The subject of this project is the Arthur Freedman Collection, and audiovisual archive that captures over four decades of Boston rock music performances. We’ll provide: instructions, tools, data sources, visualizations, optional Discord chat, and a soundtrack. If you have questions, please contact Harvard Library staff member Peter Laurence at laurenc@fas.harvard.edu.
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #63, May 23
 * OpenStreetMap Taiwan x Wikidata Taiwan Taipei (Q1867) Meetup 2021-06-07 Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245).


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Papers
 * Hiba Arnaout et al, Negative Knowledge for Open-world Wikidata (full text link)
 * Videos
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #44 - YouTube
 * Link to all the Wikipedia Weekly Network/Live Wikidata Editing sessions by Ainali and Abbe98
 * Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons und Wikipedia bearbeiten 2021/001 (in German) - YouTube
 * SPARQL #Wikidata retour aux bases #4 - YouTube
 * How to use Wikidata to list nearby tourist places on a web page (in French) - YouTube
 * How to add lexemes to Wikidata (in Swedish) - YouTube
 * How to edit library data in Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
 * Editing the drawings in the Gambara Bovardi collection at the Levi Foundation in Venice on Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * User:Lucas Werkmeister/hyphenation-point.js is a user script that replaces any | characters with U+2027 HYPHENATION POINT when editing hyphenation snaks.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * 20k+ DOIs of Chinese language scientific journal articles have now been added to WD, thanks to scraping->validation->matching->quickstatements workflow built by Stevenliuyi (via a WikiCite eScholarship)
 * Template:Annotate QID (currently on en. & de.Wikisource) allows names and other terms in texts to be semantically annotated with the equivalent QIDs. sv.Wikisource has a similar template.
 * Template:Item documentation displays Template:Generic queries for occupations for items of class occupation (Q12737077) and Template:Generic queries for filmmakers for items with occupation (P106) filmmaker (Q2526255)
 * Wikimedia Foundation 2021 Board Elections has been announced. Please sign-up as an Election Volunteer if you'd like to support the elections. Election Volunteers serve as a bridge between the Elections Committee, the facilitation team and the movement.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: identifier shared with lexeme, audio transcription, counterpart position, earned run average, official podcast, diel cycle, intended background color, scope note
 * External identifiers: LMIC musician ID, Scholarpedia article ID, Historic Hawai‘i Foundation place ID, Digital Library of Armenian Literature author ID, Den Danske Ordbog article ID, Den Danske Ordbog idiom ID, OpenCorporates register ID, Biblioteche della Custodia di Terra Santa a Gerusalemme ID, IBSF competition ID, SAIA authority ID, Football Association of Norway club ID, music austria ID, Secondary Archive artist ID, Editorial Freelancers Association member ID, MacArthur Fellows Program ID, representatives1821.gr ID, Memento Vienna person ID, universal equine life number, Encyclopedia of China Online Database ID, Indiana State Historical Marker Program ID, Apple Music label ID (US version), bio.se movie theater ID, MyBIS protected area ID, Dialnet thesis ID, hPSCreg cell line ID, Michigan State University Library Comic Art Collection Record Number, LTit person ID, JECFA number, Badok ID, Sigla ID, DCinemaToday company ID, CEV coach ID, CEV team ID, Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy ID, Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity ID, AdServio ID, PeakVisor peak ID, PeakVisor range ID, PeakVisor area ID, PeakVisor park ID, Anime Filler List show ID, Anime Filler List episode slug, Australian Music Centre composer ID, Danish 2010 redlist identifier, synonymer.se ID, SOUNZ work ID, vedidk ID, Microlepidoptera.nl ID, UNITER Award person ID, sense on DHLE


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: infects, setlist, oral history at, DIVA author ID, DIVA record ID, type of lens
 * External identifiers: ToateAnimalele ID, Muziekencyclopedie ID, CDep.Ro NGO ID, causesanti.va ID, Adevărul topic ID, bathingWaterIdentifier, Scenic Washington scenic drives and road trips ID, Bodleian Archives & Manuscripts ID, cIMeC.Ro Museum ID, Newspaper Genre List ID, Styria Museum ID, What Works Clearinghouse study ID, WUA author ID, hush.am person ID, Archive Alsharekh person ID, Douban series ID, RomArchive IDs, Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa ID, Scholasticon person ID, Japan PlayStation Software Database ID, WMF lang code


 * Deleted properties: iFixit repairability score (P7478)
 * Query examples:
 * Number of species belonging to the different IUCN conservation categories (Source)
 * List of Wikimedia language codes (Source)
 * Plant genera that honor women (Source)
 * Poets whose fathers are lawyers (Source)
 * Phrase-book for types of food (mapping Catalan and English) (Source)


 * Development
 * Fixed the entity usage dashboards that no longer showed data due to technical issues. It tracks how much data from Wikidata is used on the other Wikimedia projects. (T279762)
 * Configured the Property Suggester to not suggest Google Knowledge Graph ID (P2671) and Wolfram Language entity code (P4839) (T280779)
 * Investigated remaining issue with updating the page_props table on the client wikis, which is confusing some bots making use of that table (T280627)
 * Fixed an issue in the Query Builder where it got confused when adding several conditions with the same Property (T279945)
 * Working on tracking the number of edits per namespace over time (T281356)
 * Working on fixing a bug where old revisions of Items have edit buttons but should not (T281587)
 * Fixing an issue where value suggestions are not showing all values that are defined in the property constraint (T280650)

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
 * 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.
 * Near 6,100 items have the Template:Item documentation in their talk page. Help deploy this template.
 * Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:18, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

Agreed Measures
Hi Andrew! Sorry if I'm posting this in the wrong place but I saw you thanked me for work on the Agreed Measures page and was wondering if you had any advice for me to get this article upgraded from a stub? Thanks! Bambixie (talk) 09:48, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
 * FYI - Bambixie asked at Teahouse about upgrading. I jumped it to B-class. David notMD (talk) 14:41, 21 May 2021 (UTC)


 * I see has beaten me to it, but I agree this looks like a pretty solid B - congratulations! I was delighted to see someone working on some of the Treaty stuff, which doesn't always get the attention it deserves. I've taken the opportunity to put it up for WP:DYK so hopefully it'll have a brief main-page appearance at some point.
 * Reading it over, I think there's only one substantive query I have, which is the expiry of the Measures - the article says that they ran until 2011, but while there's one sentence in the lead which explains what happens, it's not really mentioned again after that. I've revised the lead a bit to cover this (assuming my understanding is correct - please correct if not!) but it might be worth adding a paragraph just at the end of "bilateral treaties" to tie all this together and explain what happened to the Measures. Otherwise, the reader can be left a bit confused at the end as to their current status.
 * Otherwise, it all looks pretty great! One stylistic note - it probably doesn't need so much linking - eg "The Agreed Measures strictly prohibited attempted killing, harming, or capturing of native mammals or birds without permit..." - you probably don't need to link common concepts like prohibit, capture, native, permit. It's not a major issue but it helps the reader concentrate a bit more on the more significant links. Andrew Gray (talk) 23:01, 21 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Thank you so much!!! What you added was really great thanks, the reason I didn't talk much about the expiration was because I didn't come across much in my own research! Sorry about the hyperlinks; I had recieved advice from someone else that I didn't have enough! Oops!! Thanks so much for taking a look, I really appreciate it! Bambixie (talk) 18:04, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #469
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events
 * Past
 * HackaLOD Online: Estimating the interest of art relationships with Wikidata - YouTube
 * Ongoing
 * #1Lib1Ref Campaign by IFLA Wikidata Working Group (May 15 - June 5)
 * #1Lib1Ref Campaign in Italy, as part of the IFLA Wikidata Working Group campaign (May 15 - June 5); more than 10k references have already been added (see the dashboard for more details)
 * Upcoming
 * The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 27th May 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). Everyone is welcome to come and share out about your project or what you're working on around Wikibase.
 * 27/05 (17h UTC): Wikidata Lab XXIX: Roundtripping process with Ederporto, Pharos e Susannaanas (in English), on YouTube
 * SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, May 25 at 18:00 CEST
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #45 - YouTube, Facebook, May 29 at 18:00 UTC
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #64, May 30
 * LD4 Wikibase Working Hour: The history, present and future of WBStack & WBaas (Wikibase as a service) 27 May 2021, 1PM Eastern US. Please fill in this form to register!


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * KELM: Integrating Knowledge Graphs with Language Model Pre-training Corpora. Wikidata was used to generate sentences to train a language model.
 * An Introduction to Knowledge Graphs
 * Videos
 * Wikimedia Hackathon 2021 - Main track - Saturday 22
 * Curating bibliographic metadata of scholarly publications: demo of Wikidata-based Scholia workflows
 * Demo of Ordia, a Wikidata tool to visualize lexicographic information from Wikidata
 * Adding references to Wikidata items, as part of #1Lib1Ref campaign (in Italian)


 * Tool of the week
 * User:Jon Harald Søby/compact items.css is a stylesheet that shrinks the vertical space items take up on your screen, reducing the need to scroll to get an overview of an item. (screenshot)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The prefix  allows to link to a search for lexemes on any Wikimedia wiki. Sample: lexemes:describe (project chat announcement).
 * The JS module got a major update, and now makes accessible pre-generated mappings between Wikidata ids, Wikimedia language code (P424), ISO 639-1 code (P218), ISO 639-2 code (P219), ISO 639-3 code (P220), and ISO 639-6 code (P221), that can also be used by non-JS programs by fetching the desired JSON. Examples:
 * mapping of Wikimedia language codes to Wikidata ids
 * mapping of ISO 639-2 to Wikimedia language codes
 * Wikidata-related projects that have been developed/improved during the Wikimedia Hackathon 2021:
 * User:Lucas_Werkmeister/Ranker - Finished and announced the batch modes for the Ranker tool, allowing users to edit the ranks of statements in Wikidata or Structured Data on Commons in bulk
 * Wikidata Lexeme Forms: Portuguese modal adverb - Deployed support for Portuguese modal adverbs in the Wikidata Lexeme Forms tool
 * User:Jon Harald Søby/addSenseImage.js - User script to add images to sense statements on lexemes
 * Wikidata:Tools/Enhance user interface#identifierInput.js - fixing a bug in IdentifierInput.js gadget for Wikidata to better handle when a property has no format restraints


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: type of lens, oral history at, official map URL
 * External identifiers: The Criterion Collection film ID, Lexikon der österreichischen Provenienzforschung ID, Apple TV movie ID, Canadian Music Centre Composer Showcase ID, causesanti.va ID, Muziekencyclopedie ID, North Carolina session law, #SOSBrutalism ID, Online Archive of California finding aid ID, Museums in Styria ID, Bodleian Archives & Manuscripts person ID, SOR bird ID, ToateAnimalele ID, Polo bibliografico della ricerca entity ID, Polo bibliografico della ricerca author ID, OSDN project, Scholasticon person ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: music for work, in sense, academic calendar type
 * External identifiers: Romanistenlexikon ID, Buzer.de law identification, senato.archivioluce.it person ID, Apple TV show ID, Apple TV episode ID, Australian Music Centre work ID, fondoambiente.it ID, Unified book number, GLEI ELF, RBF event ID, Poetsgate poet ID, Badkartan.se ID, Book Owners Online person ID, ifixit device ID, Price One Penny Author ID, Price One Penny Publisher ID, Price One Penny Work ID, Medical Institution Code, AlternativeTo software ID, RoBasketballFed IDs, Online Coins of the Roman Empire ID, bathingWaterIdentifier, Enciclopedia della Matematica ID


 * Query examples:
 * Danish idioms (Source)
 * Map of coronavirus research organizations active from before 2020 (Source)
 * Scholarly articles about COVID-19 with "Wikipedia" in the title
 * 20th-century UK parliaments with count of father/mother who were MPs (Source)
 * The tallest known female politicians (Source)
 * Writing systems/characters and their year of appearance (Source)
 * Nocturnal animals based on diel cycle (Source)
 * Newest database reports: Doctor Who episodes (new series)


 * Development
 * Designing and planning for the first version of a tool to compare Wikidata's data against other databases and find mismatches that might need fixing
 * Looking into unit conversion for the Commons Query Service (T281468)
 * Improving RDF export performance problems for very large Items (T281272)
 * Fixed entity suggestions not showing all Items defined in that Property's constraint (T280650)
 * Removed edit buttons that had reappeared on old revisions of Items where they shouldn't be (T281587)

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
 * 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 · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:45, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #470
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Closed request for comments:
 * Cleaning up the ontology of anonymous. Outcome: New model adopted, documentation updated.


 * Events
 * Past
 * Wikibase Community User Group monthly meetings- May 2021
 * How to add references on Wikidata (# 1Lib1Ref 2021) - working hour (2)
 * SPARQL #Wikidata divers
 * Session du mardi 18 mai
 * Session du mardi 25 mai
 * Upcoming
 * SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, June 1 at 18:00 CEST
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Affinity Group Co-facilitators will recap the last year, introduce plans for the coming year, and receive suggestions from the community for future sessions.;, June 1st.
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #65, June 6
 * Meta meeting of the Wikibase Community User Group, to solve issues related to its affilation to the Wikimedia Foundation, June 9
 * Wikidata Bug Triage Hour about quality constraints, June 17


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Papers
 * Mapping of ImageNet and Wikidata for Knowledge Graphs Enabled Computer Vision
 * Videos
 * Wikidata Lab XXIX: Roundtripping process
 * Use of VanderBot Wikidata API writing script (testing)
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #45 - YouTube, Facebook


 * Tool of the week
 * User:So9q/ordia-link.js - is a script to add a link to Ordia in the Tools section on items.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Call to participation in interview study to building a recommender system that can help improve the editing experience in Wikidata: Researchers at King's College London develop a personalized recommendation system to suggest Wikidata items for the editors based on their interests and preferences. The researchers are inviting volunteers to interview them about their current ways to choose the items you work on in order to understand the factors that might influence such a decision.
 * dewiki considered, but rejected the introduction of local short descriptions to replace those from Wikidata
 * User:Nikki/LexemeEntitySuggester.js was improved to now
 * automatically suggests the existing senses/forms when using demonstrates sense/form
 * automatically suggests items (based on the lemma matching the label or an alias) when using item for this sense
 * and searches for lemmas exactly matching the input when using synonym, antonym, hyperonym or pertainym


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: district heating grid
 * External identifiers: DiVA authority-person, CDep.Ro NGO ID, WUA author ID, hush.am person ID, Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa ID, What Works Clearinghouse study ID, PoetsGate poet ID, Repositório da Produção da USP person ID, ctext data entity ID, Australian Music Centre work ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Martian coordinates, gobbledygook
 * External identifiers: Nevada Women's History Project ID, AADFI member ID, Bod-Inc Online author ID, Erfgoedkaart ID, Price One Penny Periodical ID, Price One Penny Library ID, composers.am person ID, armradioarchive.am person ID, Armeniapedia ID, Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers ID, AZGS Document Repository ID, electronic Essential Medicines List medicine ID, PAS member ID, ℒoviℱm Top Songs ID, 20th Century Chinese Biographical Database ID, Dizionario Biografico dell'Educazione (1800-2000) ID, BIU Santé image bank ID, cadastral plot in France, Internet Game Database developer ID, allabolag.se person ID, Olschki author ID


 * Query examples:
 * People with bird-like surnames in Czech (Source)
 * Properties used to link from preprints (Q580922) to scholarly articles (Q13442814) (Source)
 * Birthplace of Spanish poets (Source)
 * UK Parliaments since 1801 with number of members, number of distinct member-terms, and count of missing seats/parties. (Source)
 * Newest database reports: Fresnel lenses of lighthouses


 * Development
 * Italian Wikiversity used Lua on their Recent Changes SpecialPage via overwriting a MediaWiki message. Our code used to not expect that, now it does. (T283240)
 * Updating the panel that tracks Wikidata edits over time in different namespaces to include all namespaces (T281356)
 * Working on adding a new constraints type for Lexemes (T200689)
 * Working on designs for improving Special:NewLexeme
 * Working on designs for the system to find mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases
 * Fixing some malformed globe-coordinate precisions in the database (T283576)

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
 * 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 · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 13:16, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

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DYK for Agreed Measures for the Conservation of Antarctic Fauna and Flora
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Wikidata weekly summary #471
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events
 * Past:
 * Wikimedia Hackathon 2021 (replay) "Wikidata Live Querying" by Lucas Werkmeister
 * SPARQL #Wikidata Préfixes 1/2 (in French) - YouTube
 * Upcoming:
 * Meta meeting of the Wikibase Community User Group, Wednesday, June 9, 16:00 UTC
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #46 - YouTube, Facebook, June 12 at 18:00 UTC
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #66, June 13
 * (Dutch) 16 june 2021, 15.00-16.30 CEST, "Universiteitsbibliotheek: Bijzondere Collecties zichtbaar en vindbaar maken in Wikidata", during "Digitaal Erfgoed @UM | zichtbaar, bruikbaar, houdbaar"


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * "Wikidata and R: a perfect pair" by Evolution and evolvability and Canley. A WikiCite eScholarship.
 * "Brazil’s Laws: Modeling the Brazilian legislation in Wikidata", by Ederporto. A WikiCite project grant project.
 * Papers
 * (Preprint) KGPool: Dynamic Knowledge Graph Context Selection for Relation Extraction (Wikidata dataset used in evaluation)
 * (Article) “Wikidata Projects in Times of COVID-19: IUPUI Libraries’ Engagement in Open Knowledge”
 * (Presentation) Explore, Analyse and Translate Multilingual Wikidata Properties by User:Jsamwrites at Contribuling
 * Videos
 * Understanding data import into Wikidata via Quickstatements (in Portuguese) - YouTube
 * Workshop for "Cita": a Wikidata addon for Zotero, hosted by Diegodlh - English & en español. A WikiCite grant project.
 * Wikidata: Municipalities of Romania + a map of places in Kuopio - YouTube
 * Wikidata Editing training (in Tamil) - YouTube
 * Excursus: Wikidata Knowledge Graph - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Wikidata Image Positions is a tool to show and add relative position within image (P2677) qualifiers on depicts (P180) statements on Wikidata items as areas on the item’s image (P18).


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Badkartan.se ID, Eionet bathingWaterIdentifier, ifixit device ID, AlternativeTo software ID, Price One Penny author ID, Nevada Women's History Project ID, Treccani's Enciclopedia della Matematica ID, Price One Penny work ID, Price One Penny library ID, Price One Penny publisher ID, Dizionario Biografico dell'Educazione (1800–2000) ID, Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers ID, Romanistenlexikon ID, composers.am person ID, Armeniapedia ID, OpenCorporates register jurisdiction, armradioarchive.am person ID, PANGO lineage code, AZGS Document Repository ID, AADFI member ID, electronic Essential Medicines List medicine ID, Japan PlayStation Software Database ID, Erfgoedkaart ID, Romanian diplomatic mission ID, Foreign diplomatic mission in Romania ID, PAS member ID, fondoambiente.it ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Range, not found in, LdiF person ID, board game mechanism, Date of resignation
 * External identifiers: DIP-ID, Castforward ID, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti member ID, EBAF ID, FCCOS ID, Dutch Caribbean Species Register ID, TBDB ID, cirkev.cz bohoslužby ID, Ropiky.net pillbox ID, GCD creator ID


 * Query examples:
 * Properties used to describe themselves (Inspiration)
 * Most common name in Germany by year of birth (Source)
 * Famous (not French) people born in France (Source)


 * Development
 * You can now add a title to a query visualisation by adding  to your SPARQL code (T225883, example query with a title)
 * Added a new constraints type to indicate that a certain Property should only be used on Lexemes of a certain language (T200689)
 * Working on not checking the format constraints via SPARQL to take that load off the SPARQL endpoint and make it technically better (T176312)
 * Working on making the API-Sandbox not suggest edits to real Items (T219215)

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
 * 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 · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:02, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2021). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Ashleyyoursmile • Less Unless
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Husond • MattWade • MJCdetroit • Carioca • Vague Rant • Kingboyk • Thunderboltz • Gwen Gale • AniMate • SlimVirgin (deceased)

Guideline and policy news
 * Consensus was reached to deprecate Editor assistance.
 * Following a Request for Comment the Book namespace was deprecated.

Technical news
 * Wikimedia previously used the IRC network Freenode. However, due to changes over who controlled the network with reports of a forceful takeover by several ex-staff members, the Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts decided to move to the new Libera Chat network. It has been reported that Wikimedia related channels on Freenode have been forcibly taken over if they pointed members to Libera. There is a migration guide and Wikimedia discussions about this.

Arbitration
 * After a Clarification request, the Arbitration Committee modified Remedy 5 of the Antisemitism in Poland case. This means sourcing expectations are a discretionary sanction instead of being present on all articles. It also details using the talk page or the Reliable Sources Noticeboard to discuss disputed sources.

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Wikidata weekly summary #472
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events
 * Past
 * SPARQL #Wikidata Préfixes 2/2 (session 8) - YouTube
 * Open Repositories 2021: Wikidata Integration with Repository Contents - YouTube
 * Information Service Engineering 2021
 * SPARQL complex queries, SPARQL aggregation and variable assignment, Wikidata SPARQL examples
 * SPARQL Federated Queries, DBpedia and Wikidata, SPARQL query aggregation and variable assignment
 * Upcoming
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Diego de la Hera on Cita, a Wikidata add-on for Zotero. Agenda, June 15
 * Wikidata Bug Triage Hour about quality constraints, June 17
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #47 - YouTube, Facebook, June 19 at 18:00 UTC
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #67, June 20
 * OpenStreetMap TW x Wikidata Taiwan Taipei (Q1867) Meetup 2021-07-05


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Videos
 * Gateway into Linked Data: Breaking silos with Wikidata - YouTube
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #46 - YouTube, Facebook


 * Tool of the week
 * SPARQL Jupyter notebooks in PAWS: PAWS is a wikitech services which allows to run Jupyter notebooks. There is a SPARQL kernel which makes it possible to run SPARQL queries. See this example notebook.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata Community/Diversity 2021 Survey has been published. The results are meant to serve as a baseline to see how the community might (not) change in the future.
 * WikidataCon 2021: A sustainable future for Wikidata. Information about "the conference theme, its three-day program structure and a special project on diversity taking place before the conference itself".
 * The call for candidates for 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board elections has begun on June 9. The last date to apply is June 29, 2021.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: personality trait of fictional character
 * External identifiers: Dizionario Biografico dell'Educazione (1800–2000) ID, Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers ID, Romanistenlexikon ID, composers.am person ID, Armeniapedia ID, OpenCorporates register jurisdiction, armradioarchive.am person ID, PANGO lineage code, AZGS Document Repository ID, AADFI member ID, electronic Essential Medicines List medicine ID, Japan PlayStation Software Database ID, Erfgoedkaart ID, Romanian diplomatic mission ID, Foreign diplomatic mission in Romania ID, PAS member ID, fondoambiente.it ID, Olschki author ID, French Etalab parcel visualization code, Geneanet family name ID, Online Coins of the Roman Empire ID, senato.archivioluce.it person ID, DIP ID, Newspaper Genre List ID, Dutch Caribbean Species Register ID, Internet Game Database developer ID, Book Owners Online person ID, Bod-Inc Online author ID, Burke Herbarium Image Collection ID, Ropiky.net pillbox ID, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti member ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: LdiF person ID, board game mechanism, Date of resignation, sex or gender of the position, regime, earliest known OpenTimestamps, Biblioteca Nacional de Maestros, named after lexeme
 * External identifiers: TBDB ID, cirkev.cz bohoslužby ID, GCD creator ID, Memobase ID, Central records of collections ID, Musica Baltica person ID, Standard Citation Forms ID, Montana Field Guide species ID, PRISM Break project ID, Idaho Species ID, Room of Names ID, ZKM person ID, fotodok ID, IFFR film director ID, EUIPO OoC-name id, Gutenberg Biographics ID, EUIPO OoC-work id, Games@Mail.ru ID, museumPASSmusées ID, Handlingar.se, NAD agent ID, Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung person ID, OlympicsIL ID


 * Query examples:
 * Lakes within 10 km of Berlin
 * Old bath pictures from Swedish Digitalmuseum
 * Bath water in Sweden [https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23title%3A%20Swedish%20Bathwaters%20with%20line%20to%20connected%20water%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%7B%22hide%22%3A%5B%22%3Fbathcoord%22%2C%22%3Flakecoord%22%2C%22%3Fline%22%2C%22%3Fstr%22%2C%22%3Flayer%22%5D%7D%0ASELECT%20%3Fstr%20%3Fbathwater%20%3FbathwaterLabel%20%3Fbathcoord%20%3Flake%20%3FlakeLabel%20%3Flakecoord%20%3Fdist%20%3Fline%20%3FSJOID%20%3Flayer%20%3FEionetBathingWaterIDentifier%20%3FHav%20%3FVISS%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fbathwater%20wdt%3AP6104%20wd%3AQ106774536.%0A%20%20%20%3Fbathwater%20%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fxx.%0A%20%20%20%3Fbathwater%20%20p%3AP625%20%5B%20a%20wikibase%3ABestRank%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20psv%3AP625%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AgeoLatitude%20%3Fbathcoordlat%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AgeoLongitude%20%3Fbathcoordlon%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AgeoGlobe%20%3Fglobe%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP625%20%3Fbathcoord%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fbathwater%20wdt%3AP9616%20%3FEionetBathingWaterIDentifier.%20%7D%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fbathwater%20wdt%3AP206%20%3Flake.%0A%20%20%20%3Flake%20%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Frr.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Flake%20%20p%3AP625%20%5Ba%20wikibase%3ABestRank%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20psv%3AP625%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AgeoLatitude%20%3Flat%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AgeoLongitude%20%3Flong%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AgeoGlobe%20%3Fglobe2%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP625%20%3Flakecoord%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Flake%20wdt%3AP761%20%3FSJOID.%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20BIND%28geof%3Adistance%28%3Fbathcoord%2C%20%3Flakecoord%29%20as%20%3Fdist%29%20.%20%0A%20%20%23filter%20%28%3Fdist%20%3E%3D%203%29%0A%20%20BIND%20%28floor%28%3Fdist%2F10%29%2a10%20as%20%3Flayer%29%20%0A%20%20BIND%28CONCAT%28%27LINESTRING%20%28%27%2C%20STR%28%3Fbathcoordlon%29%2C%20%27%20%27%2C%20STR%28%3Fbathcoordlat%29%2C%20%27%2C%27%2C%20STR%28%3Flong%29%2C%20%27%20%27%2C%20STR%28%3Flat%29%2C%20%27%29%27%29%20AS%20%3Fstr%29%20.%0A%20%20BIND%28STRDT%28%3Fstr%2C%20geo%3AwktLiteral%29%20AS%20%3Fline%29%20%0A%20%20BIND%28URI%28CONCAT%28%22https%3A%2F%2Fbadplatsen.havochvatten.se%2Fbadplatsen%2Fkarta%2F%23%2Fbath%2F%22%2C%3FEionetBathingWaterIDentifier%29%29%20AS%20%20%3FHav%29%0A%20%20BIND%28URI%28CONCAT%28%22https%3A%2F%2Fviss.lansstyrelsen.se%2FWaters.aspx%3FwaterEUID%3DSE%22%2C%3FSJOID%29%29%20AS%20%3FVISS%29%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%2Csv%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fdist%29 with distance to the center of the lake it is connected to]
 * Bath water in Sweden located in Nature reserves (protected area, geojson)
 * Map of the standard English and Welsh spellings of all places in the database (Source)
 * Films directed by Agnès Varda and their publication date (Source)
 * List of women who hold or have held the position of rector at a university (Source)
 * Schema examples:
 * EntitySchema:E319 - European bath waters
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject European Bath Waters - Europe is open up and its summer - lets add bath waters to Wikidata


 * Development
 * Working on no longer using the Query Service to evaluate Constraints Checks regular expressions (this should make our checks faster and allow for further improvements) (T176312)
 * Changing the rate limits for assigning Item IDs further, which should result in even fewer Q-IDs being skipped in the future (T284538)
 * Finalizing the concepts for a tool to help work on mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases/websites/...

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
 * 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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Battle of Blenheim
Battle of Blenheim, which you nominated for FAC, has been nominated for TFA. Gog the Mild (talk) 17:28, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #473
<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
 * Upcoming
 * The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 24th June 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). This month we'll have a team member from Wikibase Stakeholders Group talk briefly about their work, and then we'll welcome people to share out about their work around Wikibase. We'll leave some space in the agenda to discuss meta issues related to the Wikibase Community Usergroup.
 * SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in English by Vigneron, June 22 at 18:00 CEST
 * 24/06 (17:30 UTC): Wikidata Lab XXX: Roundtripping process for tainacan with Ederporto and Dalton Lopes Martins (https://tainacan.org/en/ Tainacan) (in English), on YouTube
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #68, June 27
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #47 - YouTube, Facebook, June 26 at 18:00 UTC


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Papers
 * Beyond VIAF. Wikidata as a Complementary Tool for Authority Control in Libraries (with detailed statistics on VIAF and Wikidata)
 * Videos
 * Using OpenRefine and creating wikidata schema - YouTube
 * Query SPARQL Wikidata around genealogy (in French) - YouTube
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #47 - YouTube, Facebook
 * Global Open Initiative Foundation editing session - Adding statements about Ghanaian Members of Parliament using OpenRefine - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Template:PositionHolderHistory displays the full list of position holders for a given position.
 * Template:Generic queries for positions new template with generic queries for positions.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Interlanguage links now work for multilingual Wikisource. T275958
 * User:Nikki/LexemeEntitySuggester.js now supports searching for senses for the translation property.
 * The call for candidates for 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board elections has begun on June 9. The last date to apply is June 29, 2021.
 * Since the beginning of the month, phabricator tickets about language codes (and names of languages) were reviewed and triaged to better reflect their content and current status. Some work was done to better identify the steps for such changes, highlight and address bottlenecks and system issues. Patches for a few codes were contributed and are being released. Phabricator "Language codes" workboard provides an overview, T284856 attempts to identify maintenance steps and T284276 determine turn-around times. T284808 should finally close a gap in termbox language handeling. A way to better address some or all aspects of changes of language codes applicable to Wikipedia editions still needs to be found. Don't hesitate to request the addition or update of language names (e.g. the name of Dutch in Danish) or missing language codes, notably for monolingual strings (see Help:Monolingual text languages).


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: not found in, named place on map
 * External identifiers: Ropiky.net pillbox ID, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti member ID, Memobase ID, Standard Citation Forms for Rare Materials Cataloging ID, Skipsrevyen ID, EBAF authority ID, LdiF person ID, Musica Baltica person ID, EGID, RBF event ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: named after lexeme, replacement value, Qualis rank, role of component, table of contents available at URL, DICOM modality page, Flemish Heritage Themes ID
 * External identifiers: OlympicsIL ID, EBIDAT ID, Crosscut author ID, identifier BNM, Chidlovski.Com USSR national ice hockey team player ID, Handzone player ID, BES-Net user ID, Hokej.cz player ID, Research Resource Identifier, VK artist ID, MonumentalTrees.com, Lexikon Westfälischer Autorinnen und Autoren person ID, E-Flora BC species ID, E-Fauna BC species ID, Villo! station ID, LexM ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of public bookcases
 * SPARQL Jupyter notebook to explore generic queries for positions (using PAWS)
 * Biographies that can be linked in different Wikipedias (apart from deWP) (Source)
 * Vulnerable, endangered or extinct languages with number of lexemes in Wikidata (Source)
 * Articles in English Wikipedia about women that have the good article badge but do not have an article written in Spanish (Source)
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject Outdoor Gyms


 * Development
 * Fixed a bug that broke the "Add sitelink" popup on Commons (T284854)
 * Working on a fix for suggesters popping up unexpectedly when tabbing quickly (284219)
 * Reviewing code for a new Property Suggester by a student (T284820)
 * Mismatch Finder: Working on a tool to work through mismatching data between Wikidata and external databases. Your feedback is welcome on Wikidata talk:Mismatch Finder
 * Curious Facts: We developed a tool to help editors check random curious facts on Wikidata. Try it and give us your feedback on Wikidata talk:Curious Facts
 * Kicked off our continued work on Wikidata-Wikibase federation (Federation v2) with preparatory work, including:
 * Testing infrastructure investigation and decision
 * Investigation: How to refer to entities that have the same IDs as the source wikibase entities

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
 * 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: 27 June 2021
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Wikidata weekly summary #474
<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
 * New request for comments: Automatic analysis and breakdown of links (for social accounts reference)


 * Events
 * Past:
 * log of Wikibase Live session 2021-06-24
 * Upcoming:
 * SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, June 28 at 18:00 CEST
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Robert Chavez (Northeastern University) will provide an introduction to SPARQL and using the Wikidata Query Service.;, June 29th.
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #69, July 4


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * A Journey Into Wikidata with Five Indigenous Artists
 * Adding Data to Wikidata is Efficient with QuickStatements
 * Papers
 * Which methods are the most effective in enabling novice users to participate in ontology creation? A usability study (compares Wikidata to other knowledge modelling tools)
 * Videos
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #47 - YouTube, Facebook, for the #ArcticKnot.
 * SPARQL queries live on Twitch about lexicography and lexemes by Vigneron, for the #ArcticKnot.
 * Wikidata Lab XXX: Roundtripping process for Tainacan - YouTube
 * Creating a new faculty item in Wikidata - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu68LM5NicM YouTube
 * Writing data to Wikidata, Wikidata Sandbox items
 * Writing data to Wikidata, Wikidata Sandbox items


 * Tool of the week
 * Template:Item documentation now includes Template:Generic queries for positions. It can be used for every position item in the talk page. See example with head of the United Nations Secretariat.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata Community/Diversity 2021 Survey has been published. The results are meant to serve as a baseline to see how the community might (not) change in the future. Feel free to give us your feedback on this discussion page.
 * Call for candidates for the 2021 election to the position of primary contact for the Wikibase Community User Group. Applicants should present themselves on this page before 2021-07-08 17:00 (UTC), after which voting will commence.
 * Bodh is a new tool to edit Lexemes by hand on a larger scale.
 * Wikidata Vertical Analysis by AKhatun (WMF)
 * Wikidata Lexeme Forms now supports Igbo nouns
 * Wikidata Lexeme Forms now supports Malayalam proper nouns
 * A new version of the Open Art Browser allows discovering works of art in the new section "Types", which presents you more than 1500 expressions of art. Explore it!


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: date of resignation, curid, consequence of text
 * External identifiers: RBF event ID, cirkev.cz Catholic services ID, Olympic Committee of Israel athlete ID, ZKM person ID, Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung person ID, Fotodok ID, museumPASSmusées ID, Burke Herbarium Image Collection contributor ID, Vindskyddskartan.se ID, Hokej.cz player ID, Franciscan Center of Christian Oriental Studies ID, Companies Registration Office (Ireland) Registration Number


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: delta of, Astrological sign, announced at, contact point (2)
 * External identifiers: WTA-Trainer-ID, Villo! station ID, LexM ID, Classical Archives composer ID, UFC ID, Tapology ID, Bellator ID, Bauforschung Baden-Württemberg Objekt-ID, FightMatrix ID, World Curling Federation Championship ID, Ethereum token address, Legie 100 legionary ID, PsycNET ID, Index Theologicus ID, MK ID, CCC in Idaho Collection ID, Gameblog.fr game ID, African Film Database ID, Games und Erinnerungskultur Datenbank ID, Great Ukrainian Encyclopedia Online ID, Native-Land.ca Territory ID, Native-Land.ca Language ID, Great Encyclopedia of Cyril and Methodius ID, HockeyLive player ID, eishockey.info player ID


 * Query examples:
 * Street names in Alsatian (source)
 * What kind of places in Wales host public toilets? (Source)
 * UK Health Ministers and their occupations on Wikidata (Source)
 * Count of statements by property for theatrical plays (Source)
 * Things dedicated to St. John the Baptist (Source)


 * Development
 * Mismatch Finder: We started building the foundation of the place that will store the mismatches between Wikidata and other databases/catalogs/...
 * Continued work on migrating the checks of regular expressions for constraints from SPARQL to a better solution to take that load off of the SPARQL endpoint (T176312)
 * Made it possible to show language links from multilingual Wikisource to the other language versions of Wikisource (T275958)
 * Added a new constraint type to indicate that a certain Property should only be used on Lexemes with a specific language (T200689)
 * Fixed a weird issue with suggesters popping back up when they shouldn't (T284219)
 * Invalid data will not be handled better in RDF outputs (T285131)
 * Working on lowering the rate limit at which a misbehaving bot can waste new Item IDs to further reduce the percentage of skipped Item IDs (T284538)
 * Working on not suggesting real Item IDs in the API sandbox to avoid accidental edits by people who think it is not making real edits (T219215)
 * Working on reducing the time it takes between entering a value in a new statement and being able to save the statement (T281669)
 * Improved documentation of the usage tracking aspects in API help pages. Usage tracking is an internal mechanism to track which article on Wikipedia etc uses which data from an Item on Wikidata. (T283040)
 * Language codes for monolingual strings "gsw-fr", "ykg", "wya", "osa-latn" were made available: Alsatian, Tundra Yukaghir, Wendat, Osage (T262922, T252198, T283364, T265297)
 * The English name for language code "crh" and the Swedish name for "fa" were corrected (T240350, T281702)
 * Lexeme language codes ha-arab, sux-latn, sux-xsux, gsg, tlh-piqd, tlh-latn, bfi, pwn, enm were added. That is Hausa in Arabic script, Sumerian in cuneiform and Latin-script,  German Sign Language, Klingon in pIqaD and Latin script, British Sign Language, Paiwan and Middle English. (T282512, T279557)
 * It was determined that language codes can be activated for Wikidata while being blocked for use on Incubator (T273705), this to avoid projects such as a "British English Wikipedia"
 * Language code "es-419" for Latin American Spanish has been available for labels and descriptions for quite some time (T230786)
 * A possibly confusing Russian mis-translation of the name of the language code for "multiple languages" (mul) is being reviewed (T245927)
 * "en-simple:" can be used instead of "simple:" to link to Simple Wikipedia. Query Services outputs "en-simple", not "simple" for sitelinks to Simple Wikipedia (T283149).
 * There was some discussion about the creation of a language code "en-in" for monolingual strings, but "en-in" as interface language seems to be preferred (T212313)

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
 * 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 · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:03, 28 June 2021 (UTC)