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Wikidata weekly summary #173
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:43, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Merging relationship properties
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Removing use of Mediawiki’s API ‘rawmode’ in Wikibase
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New page: Wikidata:OpenStreetMap to facilitate cooperation with our colleagues at OpenStreetMap
 * Inventaire now shows links to ProjectGutenberg ebooks based on Wikidata data (example)
 * First version of units is ready for testing
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: ResearchGate ID, GitHub username, African Plant Database, LinkedIn personal profile, Project Gutenberg ebook ID, Category for pictures taken with camera, work period end, work period start, NASA biographical ID, Dictionary of Ulster Biography ID, United States Armed Forces service number, Colour Index International constitution ID, Avibase ID
 * Newest WikiProjects: Reasoning
 * Newest gadgets: List of missing pairs queries, DuplicateReferences
 * Newest External tools: Commons:Database reports/Cameras
 * Development
 * Lucie posted a sneak-peek of her work on the article placeholder extension
 * Optimized Wikidata for viewing on mobile devices. You will be redirected to m.wikidata.org automatically when using a mobile device soon the same way it already happens on Wikipedia. (Editing will only be possible via the special pages!)
 * Started working on a page to track how much Wikidata's data is used on each Wikimedia project
 * API breaking change coming soon
 * API custom summary will no longer override the autocomment (T97247)
 * Paging and sorting has been added to Special:ListProperties and it now also shows the IDs of the properties
 * Worked more on making the edit summaries on the client more meaningful and readable
 * Introduced a limit of 250 different entities that can be used on a page in the client via arbitrary access. The limit does not apply to convenience functions in lua, such as  which use a TermLookup instead of loading a full entity to get labels. (T93885)
 * Properties are now linked in the diff view (T105411)
 * Ricordisamoa made several improvements to special pages (eg T68744, T48248, T86647)
 * Fixed a bug that made aliases too prominent in entity selectors (T110021)
 * Fixed a bug that made entries show up twice in the entity selector (T109697)
 * Started working on a special page to list all pages on a wiki with a certain badge
 * Fixed remaining blockers for first rollout of unit support
 * Bene worked on a new feature for DuckDuckGo to show instant results from Wikidata on their site
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Tech News: 2015-36
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Recent changes
 * VisualEditor will now automatically create a link when you type in or paste an ISBN, PMID, or RFC.
 * The link editor in VisualEditor is now a bit wider. It's now the same width as the automatic citation tool.
 * VisualEditor gadget authors can no longer use the backwards-compatibility module . Use   instead.
 * Gadget writers can now use mediawiki.ForeignApi to communicate between different Wikimedia wikis.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 1. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 2. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 3 (calendar).

Meetings
 * You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on September 1 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The Wikidata API will be updated with breaking changes. This will probably happen on September 9.

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WikiCup 2015 September newsletter
The finals for the 2015 Wikicup has now begun! Congrats to the 8 contestants who have survived to the finals, and well done and thanks to everyone who took part in rounds 3 and 4.

In round 3, we had a three-way tie for qualification among the wildcard contestants, so we had 34 competitors. The leader was by far in Group B, who earned 1496 points. Although 913 of these points were bonus points, he submitted 15 articles in the DYK category. Second place overall was at 864 points, who although submitted just 2 FAs for 400 points, earned double that amount for those articles in bonus points. Everyone who moved forward to Round 4 earned at least 100 points.

The scores required to move onto the semifinals were impressive; the lowest scorer to move onto the finals was 407, making this year's Wikicup as competitive as it's always been. Our finalists, ordered by round 4 score, are:


 * , who is competing in his sixth consecutive Wikicup final, again finished the round in first place, with an impressive 1666 points in Pool B. Casliber writes about the natural sciences, including ornithology, botany and astronomy.  A large bulk of his points this round were bonus points.
 * , second place both in Pool B and overall, earned the bulk of his points with FPs, mostly depicting currency.
 * , first in Pool A, came in third. His specialty is natural science articles; in Round 4, he mostly submitted articles about insects and botany.  Five out of the six of the GAs he submitted were level-4 vital articles.
 * , second in Pool A, took fourth overall. He tends to focus on articles about cricket and military history, specifically the 1640s First English Civil War.
 * , from Pool A, was our highest-scoring wildcard. West Virginia tends to focus on articles about the history of (what for it!) the U.S. state of West Virginia.
 * , from Pool A, likes to work on articles about British geography and places. Most of his points this round were earned from two impressive accomplishments: a GT about Scheduled monuments in Somerset and a FT about English Heritage properties in Somerset.
 * , from Pool B, came in seventh overall. RO earned the majority of her points from GARs and PRs, many of which were earned in the final hours of the round.
 * , also from Pool B, who was competing with RO for the final two spots in the final hours, takes the race for most GARs and PRs—48.

The intense competition between RO and Calvin999 will continue into the finals. They're both eligible for the Newcomers Trophy, given for the first time in the Wikicup; whoever makes the most points will win it.

Good luck to the finalists; the judges are sure that the competition will be fierce!

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Please comment on Talk:Supernatural
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Stub Contest date
The "last update" for the stub contest says August; I believe it should be September.
 * Stub_Contest/Scoreboard — "Last updated on 20:20, 3 August 2015 (UTC)"

Thanks, SBaker43 (talk) 21:01, 4 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks - I don't think we've ever been updating that since the start, so I've removed it. Andrew Gray (talk) 14:42, 5 September 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #174
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:39, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikimedia Grafana graphs of Wikidata profiling information
 * Past: Wikimedia Science Conference (blog posts: Liberating Science Daily With, and To, Wikidata, Wikidata, Wikipedia, and #wikisci)
 * Past: Wikidata workshop in Rennes
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New date for the next Arbitrary access rollout has been set: 16th of September.
 * Support for units on Wikidata is coming on Wednesday (9th of September).
 * A new version of Kian has been released
 * The Wikidata Game has got a new mode: Books without author.
 * A new IEG proposal needs your review and support. You can also submit your own until the 29th of September.
 * >8K Fellows of the Royal Society have been added to mix’n’match
 * You can have a look at the spiffy new mobile view
 * Want to work with the data in Wikidata? There is a new release of the Wikidata Toolkit for you.
 * Your help is needed with the most important constraint violations.
 * A new noticeboard has been created to help with classification issues: d:Wikidata:Classification noticeboard
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Artsy artist, National Gallery of Victoria artist identifier, CITES Species+ ID
 * Development
 * Worked on search on the mobile site
 * Started working on automatically linking identifiers without a gadget and the new datatype for identifiers
 * We have a new Special page to query badges (finally!) After the next update it will be at Special:PagesWithBadges on Wikipedia and others
 * Fixed some of the remaining known issues with unit support to make it ready for rollout on Wednesday
 * Continued with making it possible to show meaningful edit summaries in the watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and others
 * Made change dispatching faster (This is what makes Wikipedia and others aware of changes happening on Wikidata)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Tech News: 2015-37
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Recent changes
 * You can now mention up to 50 users in a post and they will get a notification. Previously you could notify up to 20 users.
 * A new version of the Wikidata Toolkit has been released. It now has Wikibase API support.
 * You can now use Wikidata to find all good or featured articles in a Wikipedia version.

Problems
 * There was a problem with Tool Labs due to kernel issues. This has been fixed.
 * The Content Translation tool published some pages with the same reference repeated several times. This has been fixed.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 9. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 10 (calendar).
 * The maximum character length when you search for something on the Wikimedia wikis is now 300 characters.
 * The notifications list has been split into two lists. As a first step, notifications about messages on your user talk page will be placed in the second list. Feedback is requested at the Echo talk page.

Meetings
 * You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on September 8 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * You can join the Wikitech ambassadors mailing list. The list is for Wikimedians interested in spreading information about Wikimedia technology news. See how to join.

Future changes
 * The Wikimedia mailing lists will be moved to a new server and the software will be upgraded. This will happen on September 9 at 14:00 (UTC). The mailing lists will not be working during the move. It can take up to four hours.
 * Wikidata will soon be able to store measurements, such as a mountain's height or the distance between two places.

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Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Community portal
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Invitation to subscribe to the edit filter mailing list
Hi, as a user in the edit filter manager user group we wanted to let you know about the new wikipedia-en-editfilters mailing list. As part of our recent efforts to improve the use of edit filters on the English Wikipedia it has been established as a venue for internal discussion by edit filter managers regarding private filters (those only viewable by administrators and edit filter managers) and also as a means by which non-admins can ask questions about hidden filters that wouldn't be appropriate to discuss on-wiki. As an edit filter manager we encourage you to subscribe; the more users we have in the mailing list the more useful it will be to the community. If you subscribe we will send a short email to you through Wikipedia to confirm your subscription, but let us know if you'd prefer another method of verification. I'd also like to take the opportunity to invite you to contribute to the proposed guideline for edit filter use at WP:Edit filter/Draft and the associated talk page. Thank you! Sam Walton (talk) and  MusikAnimal  talk  18:22, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Geonotice request
Hi. I posted a Geonotice request for a Sept. 26 event the other day. Could you take a look at it? Many thanks.Alafarge (talk) 16:35, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2015-38
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * You can now use the Wikidata query service.
 * Belarusian-Taraškievica Wikipedia was moved from be-x-old.wikipedia.org to be-tarask.wikipedia.org. This caused some issues, but most of them were resolved.
 * Language preferences might not be changed immediately when you adjust them. Language selection might work slower. Please report any problems.

Problems Changes this week
 * There was a problem when editing International Standard Book Numbers in Visual Editor. This has now been fixed.
 * The Wikimedia mailing lists should have been upgraded on September 9. It didn't work as planned and will now happen later.
 * The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 16. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 17 (calendar).

Meetings
 * You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on September 15 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * ContentTranslation will show more data on the Special:ContentTranslationStats page. For example, it will show translation trends and information about deleted translations.
 * The first version of the translation suggestions feature will be deployed soon.

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Wikidata weekly summary #175
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:21, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: Wikidata edit-a-thon at Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2015 in Estonia
 * Upcoming: Office hour on IRC, 23 September
 * Upcoming: Mobilizing Open Cultural Data, Helsinki, 2 October
 * Upcoming: Wikidata tutorial at SWAT4LS, December
 * Un-deleting 500,000 Wikidata items
 * Wikimania 2015 report by Multichill
 * DSS Wikidata Editathon
 * A simple way to write Wikidata bots
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Please vote for Wikidata to win the people's choice award of Land der Ideen (voting instructions)
 * We passed 70M statements.
 * Stalagmites and stalactites visualizes items without statements, items with statements, and deleted/redirected items by batches of 100,000 QIDs
 * Mix n Match is now available for mobile, has an improved automatic matching algorithm, got speed improvements and new catalogs were added like the National Gallery of Victoria, World Heritage Sites and CulturaItalia
 * The annual Wikipedia editing competition organized by the International Society for Computational Biology will include a Wikidata component this year for the first time.
 * Matched birth and death days seeks to investigate all pairs of humans (in various subsets) that appear to have the same birth dates and death dates. De-duplication underway!
 * You can now use the new special page Special:PagesWithBadges to see which articles on that project have a badge like "featured article".
 * New tool by Magnus to suggest links to Wikidata items while you type
 * Meta, MediaWiki, Wikispecies and Wikibooks will get (more) access to Wikidata soon
 * Wikidata now has an official SPARQL endpoint so you can query the data
 * announcement
 * examples
 * How US Presidents Died According to Wikidata
 * Wikidata now supports units
 * announcement
 * properties with units already created
 * Properties with units waiting for creation
 * example
 * Prototype database to store all Wikipedia references
 * Duplicity can show you how many (and which) articles on a Wikipedia are not connected to an item on Wikidata (example for frwp)
 * Magnus wrote a user script to let you edit Listeria-powered lists on Wikipedia directly
 * Musicpedia has been released in beta and is using data from Wikidata
 * New tool by Magnus to create a Commons creator page from a Wikidata item
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: length, elevation above sea level, orbital inclination, area, duration, height, width, wingspan, M x sin i, speed, watershed area, density, electrical conductivity, heat capacity, HMDB ID, depositor, luminosity, aspect ratio, HSDB ID, LIPID MAPS ID, KNApSAcK ID, NIAID ChemDB ID, Fusion enthalpy, mass
 * Development
 * Release of the query service and unit support (see above)
 * Made quantities not show URIs when editing a value but instead show the label
 * Worked on new datatype for identifiers to be able to split them from the other statements in the user interface, link them without the need for the authority control gadget and be able to link them in JSON/RDF
 * Worked more on making the edit summaries in the watchlist on Wikipedia and co more meaningful
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.