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Wikidata weekly summary #246
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * We need your input about quality criteria for building a tool to evaluate item quality


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: FOSDEM
 * Upcoming: WSDM Cup 2017
 * Upcoming: WikiCite 2017, Vienna, May 23-25, 2017
 * Upcoming: A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners, by Asaf Bartov, February 9th, 19:00 UTC (livestream on Youtube)
 * Scaling the matching of Wikidata to OpenStreetMap with wikimama
 * Software product management as an internship in the Wikidata development team
 * Being a Volunteer Developer for Wikimedia projects: An Interview with Greta Doçi


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Inspire Campaign on outside knowledge networks launched
 * What would you like to talk about during Wikimania Montreal?
 * Join the Wikimania program committee!
 * OpenStreetMap uses several -related tags in its database. See also the related documentation
 * Dutch is now the most used language for descriptions on Wikidata (56,7%), leaving English (55,8%) and German (34,7%) behind.
 * An OpenRefine service for Wikidata is waiting for testing: https://tools.wmflabs.org/openrefine-wikidata/
 * WMDE looking for a data analyst to work mostly on Wikidata
 * WMF looking for a project manager to work on structured data for Commons


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Saros cycle of eclipse, World Checklist of Selected Plant Families ID, Relations Ontology ID, GCD series ID, WNBA player ID, Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures ID, CricketArchive playing ground ID, UltraSignup runner ID, ITRA runner ID, Surfline ID, SunshineTour ID, Pro Football Hall of Fame ID, SIPCA code, Sina Weibo id, autologous cell line, Croatian Football Federation player ID, TLG author ID, data size, Fangraphs ID, European Handball Federation ID, ESPNcricinfo playing ground ID, ESPN MLB player ID, European Case Law Identifier, Cultureel Woordenboek identifier, OWGR ID, Legends of Hockey ID, Just Sports Stats ID, J.League Data Site ID, Global Poker Index ID, NGA Lighthouse ID, Admiralty number, pro-football-reference ID, College Football Data Warehouse ID, maximum size or capacity, USCF ID, World Curling Federation ID, World Curling Tour ID, World Guide to Covered Bridges ID, World Series of Poker ID, Zhihu topic ID


 * Query examples:
 * Places of worship south of 48°S(source)
 * Fictional items named after real items(source)


 * Development
 * You can now download query results as SVG images
 * When posting a link to an item to social networks and on messenger apps that show previews the previews will now be nicer and show an image. (T51859)
 * We published the results of our research around Commons usage: How do heavy Commons users work? ...and what does that mean for structured data on Commons?
 * Setting up test system for federation (being able to use Wikidata's items and properties on Commons)
 * Setting up test system for lexemes
 * Setting up test system for improved change dispatching (sending notifications about edits on Wikidata to Wikipedia and co)
 * Doing more groundwork for lexemes
 * Working on better integration with Elastic
 * More work on Federation
 * Getting ready to deploy automated sitelinks for Wiktionary
 * Fixing a number of keyboard navigation issues based on your feedback
 * Working on the new datatype for geoshapes (T57549)
 * Looking into linking more complicated external identifiers properly (T151329)
 * Improved the link to the help portal on the query service (T154993)

See all open tickets related to 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!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
 * The Cebuano and Swedish wikis have a lot of bot-created content which is unconnected to other wiki articles. A good way to tackle that problem is by checking constraint violations for property GeoNames ID.

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Tech News: 2017-07
 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
 * Octicons-tools.svg EventStreams is a new way to show activity on Wikimedia wikis. For now it works with the recent changes feed. It will do more things later. It will replace RCStream. Tools that use RCStream should move to EventStreams before 7 July.

Problems
 * The Firefox add-on Firefogg can cause problems with the Upload Wizard. This will not be fixed, because Firefox will not support Firefogg in the future. The Upload Wizard will no longer work with Firefogg.
 * Tool Labs and Wikimedia Labs databases will be under maintenance on 15 February. This will start at 17:00 (UTC) and last for about six hours. Some tools could have problems during or after this.

Changes this week
 * The TwoColConflict extension is a new way to solve edit conflicts. It makes it easier to copy and paste the relevant text to the text field. It will come to Meta and German Wikipedia this week. It is already available on MediaWiki.org. It will come to more wikis later.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 February. It will be on all wikis from 16 February (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 14 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Page Previews will be turned on for logged-out users on the Catalan, Greek, Russian, and Italian Wikipedias in the middle of February. Page Previews shows readers a short part of a linked article when they rest their mouse pointer on the link. This is to help them understand what it is about without leaving the article they are reading. Page Previews used to be called Hovercards. It will come to more wikis later this spring.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Developer Wishlist is a list where developers prioritize tools they need. The voting closes at 14 February 23:59 (UTC). This process is only for developers.

Review
 * You can read the 2016 product summary from the Wikimedia Foundation Product group to see what they did with things they said they would work on in the annual plan.

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Wikidata weekly summary #247
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: P171 (property "parent taxon"), changing the label of property "has role"


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Probing Parliament(s) with Wikidata, by Martin Poulter
 * Jan Dittrich and Charlie Kritschmar gave a talk at FOSDEM on finding user needs and gave some examples from their work.
 * A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners by Asaf Bartov: video and slides
 * Validating Wikidata tags on OpenStreetMap
 * Reminder: the deadline for Wikimania's scholarship is February 20 (and you can discuss about your ideas for Wikidata here)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The satisfaction survey concerning Flow has been published (and Wikidata is the community which prefers Flow the most)
 * Module Wikidata on Wikidata received an update to improve its performance. If your wiki has forked this one, consider updating it and report any problems (already reported one).
 * Experimental c:Template:Category contains for categories on Commons, including a per-category Wikidata query. See introductory discussion on Commons Village Pump. Presented together with current statistics on Commons category <-> Wikidata links
 * ContentMine looking for a Wikimedian in Residence to work on Wikidata and WikiFactMine in Cambridge
 * It is now possible to edit the Wikidata description from the Wikipedia app in some languages in beta


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: base salary, Visions of Britain place ID, Visions of Britain unit ID, DigDag ID, Sweden Nature Reserve ID, Le Monde diplomatique subject ID, Borden Code, fare zone, Recreation.gov area ID, EU VAT number, Booking.com hotel ID, BOLD Systems taxon ID, 90minut player ID, ITU triathlete ID, Minneapolis Institute of Art Constituent ID, candidacy in election, MarineTraffic Lighthouse ID, protected heritage site in Brussels ID, Archives nationales producer record, Hockey-reference player ID, F-Droid package, Danish ancient monument ID, BLF article ID, Araneae Spider ID, AFI Catalog of Feature Films ID


 * Query examples:
 * Collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK
 * Office-holders convicted of crimes (source)
 * |wdt%3AP39%29%2F%28wdt%3AP31|wdt%3AP279%29*%20wd%3AQ116%3B%20%23%20occupation%20or%20position%20held%3A%20some%20kind%20of%20monarch%0A%20wdt%3AP1399%20wd%3AQ1475448.%20%23%20convicted%20of%3A%20regicide%0A%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D Monarchs convicted of regicide (source)
 * Timeline of antipopes (source)
 * Battles etc of the U.S. Civil War, that have maps (source) -- but the results are a bit patchy.
 * Grade I listed buildings in Bedfordshire (source: Commons "category contains" template)
 * Newest external tools: new reconciliation for OpenRefine


 * Development
 * Doing a trial run of allowing search engines to index a number of ArticlePlaceholder pages on Welsh Wikipedia. If there are no major issues we will enable this for all placeholders.
 * Improving Federation-related after initial tests,
 * Getting ready to deploy automated sitelinks for Wiktionary
 * Further work on the new datatype for geoshapes (T57549)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * 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!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 08:41, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:2017 World Rally Championship
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Protection of Template:Infobox
Can you lower the protection of template:infobox to "template protection", so template editors can edit it? --George Ho (talk) 21:07, 11 February 2017 (UTC)


 * Wow, that one was a long time ago! Happy to - template protection wasn't around in 2006 and per WP:PP it looks like it's recommended for these cases. Might be worth running a report to switch it on all these old heavily-used ones... Andrew Gray (talk) 21:40, 15 February 2017 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #248
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: GLAMwiki meeting in Paris, February 16-17th
 * Incoming: Wikidata workshop in Grenoble (France), March 7th
 * If Voltaire had used Wikipedia… using Wikidata to share knowledge about an author


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * WMF open call for Project Grant proposals (Feb 13-Mar 14)
 * Wikimania: the deadline for applying for scholarships is 20 February 2017 23:59 UTC. Submissions are running until end of March (see our discussions about Wikidata-related topics)
 * Wikimedia Deutschland is hiring a fullstack developer and an engineering manager to work on Wikidata
 * Editing Wikidata descriptions from Wikipedia app (beta)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: USA Gymnastics athlete ID, Tennis Archives player ID, Swimming Australia swimmer ID, Sambafoot player ID, International Weightlifting Federation ID, EPCR player ID, L'Équipe football player ID, Futsal Planet player ID, Fotbal DNES player ID, Football Federation of Ukraine player ID, Fora De Jogo manager ID, FootballFacts.ru player ID, Estonian Football Association player ID, DZFoot.com player ID, Croatian Football Statistics ID, Cross-tables.com Scrabble player ID, BDFutbol player ID, Chess.com player ID, ARRS runner ID, Kontinental Hockey League player ID, American Hockey League player ID, JMK film rating, IDEAS person ID, NatureServe conservation status, NBA player ID, Basketball Hall of Fame ID, All Blacks player ID, FFR player ID, significant environmental impact, ARCHON code, Uniform Type Identifier, National Drug Code, Key to English Place-Names (KEPN) ID, Oorlogsmonument ID, European Medicines Agency product number, PDB ligand ID, Peakbagger area ID, The Met object ID, British Museum place ID, British Museum thesaurus ID, Babelio work ID, Babelio author ID, stated age at event, British History Online VCH ID, Historical Gazetteer of England's Place Names ID, Australian Antarctic Gazetteer ID, Kirshenbaum, Common Weakness Enumeration ID, BadmintonLink player ID, rusbandy player ID, Darts Database player ID, Bwfbadminton.com player ID, ski-db.com skier ID


 * Query examples:
 * People born at the sea (source)
 * Persons buried in Père-Lachaise cemetery, Paris (source)
 * Paintings by women painters in the Louvre (source)
 * [http://histropedia.com/showcase/wikidata-viewer.html?query=%23People%20born%20on%20valentine%27s%20day%0ASELECT%20?personItem%20?person%20?personDescription%20?date%20?Country_of_citizenship%20?Occupation%20?Gender%20?image%20?rank%20(if(BOUND(?personDescription),%20CONCAT(?person,%27%20(%27,?personDescription,%27)%27),%20?person)%20as%20?title)%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%7B%0ASELECT%20?personItem%20?date%20?countryItem%20?occupationItem%20?genderItem%0A(SAMPLE(?image)%20as%20?image)%0A(COUNT(DISTINCT%20?article)%20as%20?rank)%20%0AWHERE%20%7B%09%0A?personItem%20wdt:P569%20?date%20.%0A?personItem%20wdt:P18%20?image%20.%0A?personItem%20wdt:P21%20?genderItem%20.%0A?personItem%20wdt:P106%20?occupationItem%20.%0A?personItem%20wdt:P27%20?countryItem%20.%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20?article%20schema:about%20?personItem%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%20(SUBSTR(STR(?article),12,19)%20%3D%20%22wikipedia.org/wiki/%22)%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%0AFILTER%20(datatype(?date)%20%3D%20xsd:dateTime%20&&%20month(?date)%20%3D%202%20&&%20day(?date)%20%3D%2014)%09%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20?personItem%20?date%20?countryItem%20?occupationItem%20?genderItem%0A%7D%0ASERVICE%20wikibase:label%20%7B%0Abd:serviceParam%20wikibase:language%20%27en%27%20.%0A?personItem%20schema:description%20?personDescription%20.%0A?personItem%20rdfs:label%20?person%20.%0A?countryItem%20rdfs:label%20?Country_of_citizenship%20.%0A?occupationItem%20rdfs:label%20?Occupation%20.%0A?genderItem%20rdfs:label%20?Gender%20.%0A%7D%0A%7D%20%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC(?rank)&url=personItem&title=title&from=date&imageUrl=image&colourCodeBy=Country_of_citizenship&threshold=1&filterBy=Gender,Occupation&view=timeline People born on Valentine's day, colour coded by country of citizenship] (source)
 * Newest external tools: wikidata-cli can now edit Wikidata, edit Wikidata from NodeJS


 * Development
 * Making final fixes to initial version of Federation (needed to be able to use Wikidata items and properties to describe media on Commons in the future)
 * More work on baseline for Lexeme entity type for Wiktionary support
 * Fixed an error on d:Special:ConstraintReport (T158183)
 * Wikidata Query Service got additional servers, the data has been reloaded to fix a number of issues caused by missed updates and an increase of the time-out of 30s is being looked into.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * 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!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:56, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-08
 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
 * The edit summary box is now a little bit bigger. This is to make it follow the Wikimedia design guide.

Changes this week
 * Page Previews will be updated on 23 February. This fixes many bugs. Page Previews can be turned on as the Beta Feature called Hovercards.
 * Octicons-tools.svg There has been a problem where the CSS of gadgets has been loading twice. The Gadgets extension has two new options:  and  . The   option solves this problem. You can use   to create gadgets with more than one style module. Read more about type and peers.
 * Octicons-tools.svg OAuth will handle blocked users in a more consistent way.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 February. It will be on all wikis from 23 February (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 21 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  19:25, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

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Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)
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Request for Geonotice - Lima Peru
Hi, Andrew!

I have just added a request for a Geonotice for an edit-a-thon taking place on March 11 in Lima, Peru: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Geonotice#Requests However, the link to the meetup page is showed in red, so now I don't know if I have put my request in the right place. Is there a different page for requests for Spanish Wikipedia? I would really appreciate any help on this. --Yhhue91 (talk) 18:25, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

Southern American English dispute
Hello, I got your name off and active list of admins. I was wondering if you could please help in regards to this topic: On the southern American English page, Me, along with Kelthan and Dubyavee ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Southern_American_English#Delete_image ) opposed taking the map off. It was originally removed without any edit summary. Since it was sourced, I heard you can't remove content without justification. That's three opinions against one that have given feedback on this. I took this to Bilcat who reverted our edits. I politely contacted Bilcat on his talk page (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:BilCat&action=history), and he immediately removed and ignored my message. Can you please help? If you look at the history page https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Southern_American_English&action=history You can see both Kelthan and I were against taking the map off. And there was a previous discussion about this on the talk page here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Southern_American_English#Delete_image where Dubyavee disagreed with taking the map off. Bilcat then reverted this falsely claiming the consensus was against this. The map was originally taken off without given and edit summary, despite it being sourced. Can you please help? Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kevinfromtx (talk • contribs) 23:45, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

Libraries Without Borders
Hello, I'm very new to wikipedia, and I wanted to correct the Libraries Without Borders article on the site. Bibliothécaires Sans Frontières means Librarians without borders, a separate, different organization. So, I wanted to change the title to: Bibliothèques Sans Frontières, or Libraries Without Borders as the translation of the page "Bibliothèques Sans Frontières" that already exists in French.

I'm not much of an online editor, but I do translation work and wanted to contribute. I don't know who created this page, but both the English content and the redirects to this page indicate that Bibliothécaires Sans Frontières page title is a typo that should be the English version for Bibliothèques Sans Frontières. Even the links on the page send me to their websites.

I'd really appreciate your help, M MattBenoît (talk) 09:33, 27 February 2017 (UTC)