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Wikidata weekly summary #259
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Updating References for External Data


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Registration is open for the Celtic Knot Conference 2017 (July 6th, Edinburgh)
 * Pre-hackathon of the Wikimedia Hackathon, May 12th-14th in Prague
 * Wikimedia Hackathon 2017, May 19th-21st in Vienna. On site or remotely, you can join the Wikidata documentation sprint


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Vote in the board election (see also Voter guides and rationales
 * Sitelinks for the new Doteli Wikipedia (dtywiki) can be added
 * You can now track the number of identifier properties for an item
 * We provide weekly a new type of database dumps: nt truthy dumps
 * Wikipedia article-draft-generator developed by Pharos for Met Museum project
 * Schema.org proposes to encourage the use of Wikidata as a common entity base for the target of the sameAs relation


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: light sector, Wikidata SPARQL query equivalent, Canadian Coastguard Lighthouse ID, contributed to published work


 * Query examples:
 * All places (with coordinates) that gave its name to something (source)
 * Paintings depicting monkeys (source)
 * Artworks with presumably depicted persons (source)
 * Newest database reports: list of oldest lighthouses


 * Development
 * Worked more on support for lexicographical data (specifically support for lexicographic category and statements on forms)
 * Dealt with issues after the deployment of automatic interwiki links for Wiktionary
 * Worked on constraint violation user script based on your feedback (improving messages to make it more understandable, layout, etc)
 * Add support for the following new language codes for monolingual text properties: brx, chn, cop, gez, quc, kjh, nr (will become available in a few days)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
 * 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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Tech News: 2017-19
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * Some users have a problem with the watchlist. Some changes in categories make the watchlist a blank page. The developers are working on this. Until this is fixed you can try some things that have helped other editors if you have this problem. You can turn on  in your watchlist preferences. You can turn off   in your watchlist preferences. You can remove problematic categories from Special:EditWatchlist/raw.
 * There was a problem with the visual editor for several days. You could not save edits that triggered a CAPTCHA. This would for example be when a new user added external links in references. This was fixed on 2 May.

Changes this week
 * When you edit you can switch between the visual editor and the wikitext editor. This works if the wiki you edit has the visual editor. The menu will now say  and   instead of   and  . This is because it was confusing when the menu said you could switch to the editor you were already using.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 May. It will be on all wikis from 11 May (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 9 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * You will be able to get a notification when a page you created is connected to a Wikidata item. This will come to Wikivoyage on 9 May. If there are no problems it will come to most Wikipedias on 30 May. It will come to other projects and English, French and German Wikipedia later in the summer. It will be opt-in for existing users and opt-out for new users.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Markup that looks like code for language variants might need to be fixed. If  is used in transclusions or web addresses it has to be escaped appropriately. You can use   for transclusions and   in web addresses. A transclusion could for example be when you use   in a template:  . This is because of some code fixes to the preprocessor and affects all wikis.

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Wikidata weekly summary #260
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Development input: Client editing prototype


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: Pre-hackathon of the Wikimedia Hackathon, May 12th-14th in Prague (see a video of the Wikidata and SPARQL training)
 * Upcoming: Wikimedia Hackathon 2017, May 19th-21st in Vienna. On site or remotely, you can join the Wikidata documentation sprint
 * Upcoming: WikiCite, May 23rd-25th in Vienna
 * Next Wikidata meetup in Berlin: June 7th in WikiBÄR
 * You can still register for the Wikidata/election data hackathon in Ulm, Germany (June 23-25)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Discuss the movement strategy on Wikidata. The Cycle 2 started on May, 11.
 * WikidataCon: join the program committee and other teams!
 * TwoColConflict is now enabled on Wikidata
 * OSMgadget is a tool to help Wikipedia editors find objects in OpenStreetMap, and tag them with their Wikidata IDs
 * The OSM ↔ Wikidata matcher tool
 * Two language properties will be merged but the discussion still needs to go on
 * Tabular data files datatype is now enabled
 * The constraint table has been updated


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: NLL player ID, Italian Senate ID, ALPG golfer ID, Stereo Ve Mono artist ID, BioRxiv ID, narrower external class, Juwra.com ID, MLL player ID, Directorio Grierson ID, RANM member ID, Old Bailey Proceedings ID, Tumblr ID, Bmx-results.com rider ID, Israel Antiquities Authority ID, OlimpBase Chess Olympiad player ID, ESTC citation number, named by, Reactome pathway ID, NFF person profile ID, Chamber of Deputies of Italy ID, face value, Cinema ID, Digital Valencian Library author ID, copyright owner, Rallye-info.com driver or co-driver ID, V&A item ID, MotoGP racer ID, eWRC-results.com athlete ID, USATF athlete ID, Track and Field Statistics male athlete ID, Track and Field Statistics female athlete ID, Diamond League athlete ID


 * Query examples:
 * Paintings in the Louvre Museum, with heights and widths (source)
 * Chart of USA cities founded per year (source)
 * Country flags including a symbol of sun (source)
 * Birthplace of Spanish Queen Consorts (source)


 * Development
 * More work on Special:NewLexeme page (T164582)
 * Correctly compare time values on constraints (T164279)
 * Check wording of messages/constraint check results (T164354)
 * Creating grammatical features for Forms (T160525)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Help adding missing statements to properties
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
 * 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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Tech News: 2017-20
 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 ISBNs to automatically generate citations in the visual editor. This works on wikis that have enabled Citoid.
 * The Two Column Edit Conflict View is available as a beta feature on all wikis. It is a new interface for the edit conflict resolution page.

Problems
 * The  library does not load automatically any more. Your Special:MyPage/common.js may use it. If you have technical problems that started a couple of weeks ago you can try adding   as the first line in the file and   as a last one. Tech News wrote about this in the 2017/18 issue.

Changes this week
 * The RevisionSlider extension will be a default feature on all wikis. RevisionSlider is an easier way to move between changes in the page history. It has been a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia and a beta feature on all wikis. You will be able to turn it off in your preferences.
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes
 * Administrators will soon be able to search through deleted pages.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Markup that looks like code for language variants might need to be fixed. Tech News wrote about this last week. If   is used in transclusions or web addresses it has to be escaped appropriately. You can use   for transclusions and   in web addresses. This is because of some code fixes to the preprocessor and affects all wikis. You can now see the full list of wikis with this problem and help fix them to avoid that things break later this month. You might find false positives. You can read more about what to fix.

Older unreported changes
 * Your Meta user page is shown on all wikis where you don't have a local user page. You can now add the magic word  to your Meta user page to stop this.

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Tech News: 2017-21
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 May. It will be on all wikis from 25 May (calendar).
 * Octicons-tools.svg There will be a  tag around HTML from the MediaWiki wikitext parser. Gadgets with code that does not follow recommendations could have problems with this. You can report new problems you think are related to this.

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Wikidata weekly summary #261
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: MisterSynergy, Queryzo, ChristianKl


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Wahlsalon (event Codefor.de about election data): Kickoff on May 24th in Berlin
 * Upcoming: Open Science: the National Plan and you meeting for Dutch researchers: May 29th in Delft, The Netherlands
 * Current: WikiCite, May 23rd-25th in Vienna
 * Current: Met Open Access Artworks Challenge (May 15th-June 30th) help improving the data about the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art!
 * Past: Wikimedia Hackathon 2017, May 19th-21st in Vienna
 * Paper: Becoming Wikidatians: evolution of participation in a collaborative structured knowledge base (Alessandro Piscopo, Christopher Phethean, Elena Simperl)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The extension RevisionSlider is now available by default on Wikidata. Try it on a talk or project page!
 * Check out some updates about the WikidataCon
 * We reached Q30,000,000! Help us improve it and make a showcase item out of it.
 * An additional 10k article placeholders on Welsh Wikipedia will be made indexable in search engines


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Unifrance person ID, Unifrance company ID, IECIC 2015 ID, Songkick venue ID, BVMC work ID, secretary general, Nature preserve in North Rhine-Westphalia ID, PIM authority ID, PASE Domesday place, PASE Domesday person ID, channel number, signed form, CETS no., final event, programming paradigm, Bridgeman artist ID, BDCYL authority ID, Clochers de France ID, Global Trade Item Number, Unifrance film ID, Base biographique AUTOR ID, NNL work ID


 * Query examples:
 * Websites but without an official website
 * Plants with associated emoji (source)
 * Languages ordered by number of speakers (source)
 * HMDB identifiers with more than one item (source)
 * Painters with a lot of identifiers on Wikidata, but few Wikipedia articles (source)
 * Buildings with the greatest numbers of elevators (source)
 * Map of female writers on Wikidata by birthplace- generated by SPARQL query (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Counter-Vandalism, WikiProject Documentation


 * Development
 * Participating to the Wikimedia hackathon 2017, having a lot of interesting talks with users, designers, developers...
 * Helping improving the documentation for the property constraints, the beginner documentation about Wikidata, how to install Wikibase
 * Rewriting most constraint violation messages to include more useful information (T164354, help update translations)
 * Working on a tree view for the Query Service (T152676)
 * Setting up a constraints development/testing wiki
 * Moving PropertySuggester extension from github to gerrit (T104309)
 * Working on performance of change dispatching so database of wikidata goes read-only in lower rate (T162557)
 * Reducing number of duplicates rows in our database table for labels, descriptions and aliases to make it faster (T163551)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
 * 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 #262
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 * Discussions
 * Closed request for adminship: MisterSynergy, Queryzo, ChristianKl (all successful)
 * New request for comments: Allow the creation of links to redirects in Wikidata


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: WikiCite, May 23rd-25th in Vienna. Documentation will be available soon, in the meantime you can check on Twitter and the video streams to see what happened
 * Six degrees on Wikidata, by Andrew Gray
 * Some statistics on scholarly data in Wikidata, by Finn Årup Nielsen
 * Wikidata for librarians, by Dan Scott


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Eurowings app uses Wikidata
 * Are you searching for geolocations of Wikipedia articles on the OSM map? Alex-7 created a web app.
 * Breaking change: sitelink encoding changing in RDF export/WDQS


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Filmweb.pl ID, racon signal, Vitaskrá ID, SSB urban settlement number, Austrian Textbook ID, EKATTE place ID, members have occupation, National Library Board Singapore ID, SHARE Catalogue author ID, Sequence Ontology ID, supports programming language, subreddit, sports league level, TA98 Latin term, Misjonsarkiv person ID, Unifrance person ID, Unifrance company ID, IECIC 2015 ID, Songkick venue ID, BVMC work ID, secretary general, nature preserve in North Rhine-Westphalia ID, PIM authority ID, PASE Domesday place, PASE Domesday person ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of subreddits associated to a place on Earth (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23TEMPLATE%3D%7B%20%22template%22%3A%20%22potential%20reviewers%20for%20papers%20in%20%3Ffield%22%2C%20%22variables%22%3A%20%7B%20%22%3Ffield%22%3A%20%7B%20%22query%22%3A%20%22SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fid%20WHERE%20%7B%20%3Fid%20wdt%3AP2578%20%5B%5D.%20%7D%22%20%7D%20%7D%20%7D%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Freviewer%20%3FreviewerLabel%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fwebsite%29%20AS%20%3Fwebsite%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Forcid%29%20AS%20%3Forcid%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Ftwitter%29%20AS%20%3Ftwitter%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20BIND%28wd%3AQ21198%20AS%20%3Ffield%29.%0A%20%20%3FsubField%20wdt%3AP279%2a%20%3Ffield.%0A%20%20%3Freviewer%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5.%0A%20%20MINUS%20%7B%20%3Freviewer%20wdt%3AP570%20%5B%5D.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fwork%20wdt%3AP50%20%3Freviewer%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP577%20%3FworkDate.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3FworkDate%20%3E%20%28NOW%28%29%20-%20%22P5Y%22%5E%5Exsd%3Aduration%29%29.%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Fwork%20wdt%3AP921%20%3FsubField.%20%7D%20UNION%20%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Freviewer%20wdt%3AP101%20%3FsubField.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Freviewer%20wdt%3AP856%20%3Fwebsite.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Freviewer%20wdt%3AP496%20%3Forcid_.%20BIND%28IRI%28CONCAT%28%22https%3A%2F%2Forcid.org%2F%22%2C%20%3Forcid_%29%29%20AS%20%3Forcid%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Freviewer%20wdt%3AP2002%20%3Ftwitter_.%20BIND%28IRI%28CONCAT%28%22https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2F%22%2C%20%3Ftwitter_%29%29%20AS%20%3Ftwitter%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Freviewer%20%3FreviewerLabel%0AORDER%20BY%20RAND%28%29 Potential reviewers for papers in computer science] (source)
 * Paintings with 'portrait' in the name that lack P180 / depicts (source)
 * Publications and presentations about WikiCite (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Zika Corpus
 * Newest external tools: Wikidata to CSV
 * Newest database reports: Roger Moore filmography


 * Development
 * Attending WikiCite
 * Showing badges on other projects (T73887)
 * Improving label tracking (T151717)
 * Working more on statements on forms in order to support lexicographical data

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
 * 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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