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Wikidata weekly summary #297
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Closed request for comments: Defining account creators


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: IRC office hour on the channel #wikimedia-office, January 30th, at 18:00 (UTC+1). Special topic: how to address the growth of Wikidata
 * Upcoming: Wikidata hackathon in London, February 3rd
 * Past: PIDapalooza 2018 - Slides on FigShare
 * Mapping Wikidata to Bibframe (representation of books)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Breaking change: wbcheckconstraints status parameter
 * Wikidata-driven infoboxes, with multilingual labels, are now available on Wikimedia Commons category pages
 * Wikidata vandalism dashboard for Wikipedians
 * Grant proposals looking for review: WikidataJS, GlobalFactSync


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: cinematografo film ID, CiNii author ID (articles)


 * Query examples:
 * Buildings higher than the Eiffel Tower (source)
 * Descendants of Charlemagne by year of birth (source)
 * Cinemas in Berlin (source)
 * Things (or people) depicted in the xkcd webcomic (source)
 * Image grid of inductees to WITI Hall of Fame (source)
 * Movies filmed in Austria (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * Newest gadgets: Mix'n'Match gadget: loads all Mix’m’match entries about an item, shows descriptions, lets you drag’n’drop entries as references


 * Newest database reports: tennis federations, Davis Cup and Fed Cup teams
 * Showcase items:


 * Development
 * Constraint violations can now be checked on qualifiers and references (T168532)
 * Implemented usage tracking deduplication to reduce database load (T178079). This should not have any effect on what users see on recent changes and watchlists.
 * Redirects on client wikis that are connected to a Wikidata item can have a tracking category, if set up (T185743). Thanks, Matěj!
 * Improved [//www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Bpageterms documentation] of the  query module (406240). Thanks, Niedzielski!
 * Improved empty "content was:" in deletion logs for entities (T184025)
 * Fixed links to external user pages in recent changes (T183019)
 * Fixed user names beginning with a star sometimes being rendered as a list (T182800)
 * Fixed constraint check results possibly showing up in the wrong language (T185688)
 * Fixed ArticlePlaceholders possibly not showing up in search results (406168)
 * Some of the developers attended to the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2018. You can find some notes on the Phabricator board

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
 * 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: 2018-05
 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 later this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 31 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Wikimedia Foundation is working on how to get less unmaintained code on Wikimedia wikis. This could be by finding maintainers or removing unmaintained features. They are now looking for feedback on what do do with AbuseFilter, the IRC RecentChanges feed, the RelatedSites extension and TimedMediaHandler. You can leave feedback on the linked talk pages.

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The Signpost: 5 February 2018
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Facto Post – Issue 9 – 5 February 2018
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 * Facto Post – Issue 9 – 5 February 2018

 

m:Grants:Project/ScienceSource is the new ContentMine proposal: please take a look.

Wikidata as Hub
One way of looking at Wikidata relates it to the semantic web concept, around for about as long as Wikipedia, and realised in dozens of distributed Web institutions. It sees Wikidata as supplying central, encyclopedic coverage of linked structured data, and looks ahead to greater support for "federated queries" that draw together information from all parts of the emerging network of websites. Another perspective might be likened to a photographic negative of that one: Wikidata as an already-functioning Web hub. Over half of its properties are identifiers on other websites. These are Wikidata's "external links", to use Wikipedia terminology: one type for the DOI of a publication, another for the VIAF page of an author, with thousands more such. Wikidata links out to sites that are not nominally part of the semantic web, effectively drawing them into a larger system. The crosswalk possibilities of the systematic construction of these links was covered in Issue 8.

External links speaks of them as kept "minimal, meritable, and directly relevant to the article." Here Wikidata finds more of a function. On viaf.org one can type a VIAF author identifier into the search box, and find the author page. The Wikidata Resolver tool, these days including Open Street Map, Scholia etc., allows this kind of lookup. The hub tool by takes a major step further, allowing both lookup and crosswalk to be encoded in a single URL.

Links
To subscribe to Facto Post go to Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see below. Editor, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him. Back numbers are here. Reminder: WikiFactMine pages on Wikidata are at WD:WFM. If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:50, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
 * What galleries, libraries, archives, and museums can teach us about multimedia metadata on Wikimedia Commons, Wikimedia Foundation blogpost, 29 January 2018, by Jonathan Morgan and Sandra Fauconnier
 * The Wikipedia Library/1Lib1Ref/Connect, 2018 institutional participation in the #1lib1ref campaign
 * Newspeak House queries, created at 3 February 2018 event in London led by
 * Cochrane–Wikipedia Initiative, Wikipedia Signpost special report 5 February 2018, by
 * What is the Last Question?, 5 February 2018
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Wikidata weekly summary #298
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * AICAT grants proposal
 * ScienceSource grants renewal
 * Open request for adminship: Kostas20142


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * From the life of Wikidata: with the Wikidata Concepts Monitor we can now begin to discover how our communities use knowledge across the Wikimedia projects, by Goran S. Milovanović
 * See also: WDCM Journal, several examples of the use of Wikidata on the Wikimedia projects
 * What GLAM can teach us about multimedia metadata on Wikimedia Commons, by Jonathan Morgan and Sandra Fauconnier
 * Wikidata and the German handball player nicknames by k-nut


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * We are saddened to report that Polish Wikimedian Krzysztof Machocki (who was also active on Wikidata) died on 31 January 2018, aged 36, after a couple of weeks of illness. Our condolences to his family and friends.
 * Notes of the IRC office hour of January 30th
 * The call for submissions for Wikimania (Cape Town, July 2018) is now open. Deadline is March 18th. Ideas of submissions related to Wikidata can be discussed here
 * Based on community discussions, the ArticlePlaceholder will soon be deployed on Urdu and Estonian Wikipedias.
 * Statistics
 * January 2018 brought us 9,770,248 edits, 445,027 new items were created.
 * The number of users that edited Wikidata per day grew in 2017 from 2439 to 2672 users, 9,6% more compared to 2016. The number of edits by them grew with 18% to 190k edits per day. We also get edited by 542 IP adresses per day, 50% more than in 2016.
 * In 2017, Wikidata got edited by 46 various bots per day, executing 334k edits per day (63% more than in 2016). The most active bot in 2017 was Emijrpbot, who added 18 million edits to Wikidata.
 * 284 million statements now contain references, compared to 67 million at the start of 2017. The average number of statements per item grew from 5 to almost 9. 73 million qualifiers are now used to provide more details for statements, 13 million in early 2017.
 * New tool based on Wikidata: Random TV episodes


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: uses data storage type, commanded by, dam
 * External identifiers: Who's Who UK ID, Basketball-Reference.com euro player ID


 * Query examples:
 * Items that have or will have been gone for as long as they were there this month (source)
 * Members of the current UK Parliament who have ancestors in Wikidata who are identified as possibly mythical (source)
 * Older siblings who died less than a month before their younger sibling entered an office (source)
 * List of tram lines in Vienna (source)
 * Adjacent districts in Vienna that have no tram line connecting them (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Query%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP2538%20%3FNatmus.%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%0Aselect%20distinct%20%20%3Farticle%20%3Fperson%20%3FpersonLabel%20%20%3FpersonDescription%20%20%28floor%28year%28%3Fbirthdate%29%2F100%29%2a100%20as%20%3Flayer%29%20%3Fpic%20%3Fcoord%20%3Fcoord2%20%3Fcoord3%20%3FNatMus%20%7B%0A%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP2538%20%3FNatMusID.%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fbirthdate%20.%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fpic%20.%7D%20%09%09%09%09%09%23%20If%20we%20have%20an%20illustration%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP1442%20%3FpicGrave%20.%7D%20%09%09%09%23%20If%20we%20have%20a%20picture%20of%20the%20grave%0A%20%20%20BIND%20%28URI%28CONCAT%28%22http%3A%2F%2Fcollection.nationalmuseum.se%2FeMuseumPlus%3Fservice%3DExternalInterface%26module%3Dartist%26objectId%3D%22%2C%3FNatMusID%29%29%20AS%20%3FNatMus%29%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP19%20%3Floc%20.%20%09%09%09%23%20P19%20Place%20of%20Birth%0A%20%20%20%20%3Floc%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoord%20%7D%20.%20%20%20%20%09%09%09%09%23%20Get%20coordinates%20from%20Place%20of%20Birth%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP20%20%3Floc2%20.%20%09%09%09%23%20P19%20Place%20of%20Death%0A%20%20%20%20%3Floc2%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoord2%20%7D%20.%20%20%20%20%09%09%09%09%23%20Get%20coordinates%20from%20Place%20of%20Death%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP119%20%3Floc3%20.%20%09%09%09%23%20P19%20Place%20of%20Burial%0A%20%20%20%20%3Floc3%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoord3%20%7D%20.%20%20%20%20%09%09%09%09%23%20Get%20coordinates%20from%20Place%20of%20Burial%0A%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fperson%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3AinLanguage%20%22sv%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fsv.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fperson%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3AinLanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fsv.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP106%20%3Fgroup%20.%7D%20%09%09%09%23%20Occupation%20in%20Layer%0A%0A%7D%20%20%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22sv%22%2C%22en%22%7D%0A%7D%0AOrder%20by%20%3FpersonLabel Places of birth, death and burial of the artists hosted in the Sweden’s museum of art and design] (source)
 * Newest gadgets and scripts: a script for semi-automated import of information from Commons categories is waiting for feedback


 * Development
 * Diffs now show the entity ID in the page title (T181077)
 * Improved handling of translations in the Query Service UI (406301, 406996), thanks to Li Song
 * Continued working on diffs for forms on Lexemes (eg. T186317)
 * Added summaries for edits on representations or grammatical features of a form (T184702)
 * Worked on showing links to Lexemes and statements (T185332)
 * Rolling out fine grain usage tracking on more wikis, so only relevant changes are shown in the watchlist and recent changes (T185032)
 * Improved scalability of fine grain usage tracking (T185693)

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
 * 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: 2018-06
 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
 * Bureaucrats can now add and remove the accountcreator permission by default. This means the user can help create a large number of accounts, for example for an editathon. Wikis can change this if they want to.
 * The Wikidata vandalism dashboard is a new tool to monitor vandalism on Wikidata labels and descriptions. It is filtered by language.
 * Info pages for file pages now show the file's SHA1 hash value in the table of basic information. This is so users can see that the file is the same as the one they uploaded.

Problems
 * Special:Export has a higher error rate right now. This means that the export does not always work. You should check to make sure your page exports worked. The developers are working on fixing this.

Changes later this week
 * When you review an edit made with the visual editor you can check a visual diff of your changes besides the wikitext diff. If you pick one diff type it will remember and show you that in future. The visual diff will now be the type first shown to new users.
 * When you use a gallery to show images you can define the size, like . You could use   or   instead of   but it would make no difference. You can now only use   or nothing . If you write something else, instead of treating it like , it will not work.
 * The wording when you send a thanks message will change. Instead of  or   it will say   and  . It will also be easier to understand that all thanks are public.
 * Redirects connected to Wikidata can create double Wikidata items. There will now be a tracking category for this. Wikis that don't want it can disable it.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 February. It will be on all wikis from 8 February (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The Education Program extension will be removed on 30 June. It is replaced by the Programs and Events Dashboard.

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This Month in GLAM: January 2018
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Wikidata weekly summary #299
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Monthly Wikidata workshop in Paris, February 16th
 * Upcoming: Wikimedia Community User Group Brasil promotes the 4th Wikdata Lab: How to add a lot of data, 22th February 2018
 * Upcoming: #datatónCervantes, Wikidata workshop in Madrid, February 24th
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Lausanne, February 24th
 * Discovering Types for Entity Disambiguation, on OpenAI blog
 * The File (Dis)connect, by Magnus Manske
 * WDCM Journal: What is Love (Q316)? Accessing Wikidata P279 and P31 paths from WDCM by Goran Milovanović


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * IRC office hour for Structured Data on Commons on Tuesday, 13 February from 18:00-19:00 UTC. More information available on Meta.
 * mySociety is looking for a vacancy for a WikiData-experienced Community Manager for their Democratic Commons project
 * The next Weekly Summary (February 19th) will be the 300th edition of the newsletter! To help making it special, you can share your favorite Wikidata tool, so the other readers discover nice tools


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: identifiers.org prefix, season starts, make-up artist, sets environment variable, reads environment variable, Technical Element Score, deductions (in figure skating), Program Component Score
 * External identifiers: Basketball-Reference.com referee ID, Basketball-Reference.com NBL player ID, member of the Assembly of Madrid ID, BTO Birds of Britain ID, Rugby Australia ID, EUAP ID, LoC and MARC vocabularies ID, BVPB authority ID, Amtrak station code, Compagnon de la Libération ID, Gaming-History identifier, Fauna Europaea New ID, Royal Academy new identifier, BWSA ID, Statistical Service of Cyprus Geocode, PARES ID, Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture control number, Lemon 64 ID, Panoptikum identifier, Swedish portrait archive, TORA ID, Cour des comptes magistrate ID, La Poste personality ID, American National Biography ID, org-id.guide ID, Swimrankings meet ID, JORFsearch person ID, Swiss Enterprise Identification Number, Landslagsdatabasen ID, Bandysidan player ID, World Sailing regatta ID, Sailboatdata ID, Deutsche Synchronkartei series ID


 * Query examples:
 * Timeline of the Soviet Space Program (source)
 * Countries with the most sister cities with French towns (source)
 * JO2018: all 108 French competitors at the 2018 Winter Olympics by year of birth (source)
 * Languages used by poeple in Austria, other than German (source)
 * Biologists with Twitter accounts (source)
 * Feed readers by license and operating system (source)
 * List of female UK MPs who were descended from UK MPs (source)


 * Development
 * Make grammatical forms persistent (T173742)
 * Improve the edit summary of Forms (T184702)
 * Handle adding and/or removing forms in lexeme diffs (T186317)
 * Improve formatting of the Lexemes(T185332)
 * Enable Lua fine grained usage tracking on more wikis (T186645)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

<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 &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:39, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

Tech News: 2018-07
<section begin="technews-2018-W07"/> 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
 * TemplateStyles has been deployed to the Swedish Wikipedia. TemplateStyles is a feature to make it easy to add CSS to templates without administrator privileges. This allows for better adaptability to screen sizes, especially on mobile where are half our total page views. If your community would like to be the next to have the feature, please submit a task on Phabricator.
 * Registration pages now collect keyboard/mouse usage information for research on identifying spambots.

Changes later this week
 * You can opt in to a new beta feature that lets you use visual diffs on history pages.
 * The visual editor shows and lets you edit templates in one way, and reference lists in another. This meant that templates that only contain a fake reference list, like, would not get updated as you edited. Now they will update as you edit, but you will no longer be able to visually edit them as templates.
 * The abuse filter extension has a new feature  that you may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 February. It will be on all wikis from 15 February (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 February at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The settings page and beta options for the mobile website are being improved.

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Wikidata weekly summary #300
<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;"> The weekly newsletter was started by Lydia at the very beginning of the Wikidata project, even before the first deployment, to keep the community informed about the developments, the new projects and tools. More than five years later, the newsletter is still there, its content powered by the community, and sent every week all along the years. I wanted to say a warm "thank you!" to each person who helped filling the Weekly Summary <3
 * Welcome to the 300th Weekly Summary!

Over the past years, as you know, Wikidata has grown a lot. More data, more tools, more editors and reusers, more exciting projects led by the community. The Weekly Summary has evolved with us, and the 300th edition seems a good moment to ask you all your suggestions about the newsletter, how it could continue evolving, and how you would like to improve it.

On that purpose, you can find a feedback page to express all your ideas about the Weekly Summary. We're very interested to know more about your reading habits, the parts you're more or less interested in, the new topics you would like to share with the community. Thanks in advance for filling it.

I stay available anytime to discuss with you, feel free to contact me if you have any question or concern! Cheers, Léa

''Here are a few tools that are recommended by some Wikidata community members. External websites, gadgets or scripts, they are very useful for Wikidata editors or users!''
 * A selection of cool tools on Wikidata
 * The Wikidata Query Service is an infinite source of amazing data and one of the best ways to explore and use Wikidata. (TweetsFactsAndQueries)
 * QuickStatements is a powerful tool that can edit or add Wikidata item en masse, via a text editor or importing a spreadsheet. (Éder Porto via Facebook)
 * Mix'n'match (manual), which helps us to interlink Wikidata with the rest of the web and the world :-) (Spinster, Siobhan via Twitter)
 * WikiShootMe! allows you to see Wikidata items plotted out on a map and shows you whether they have images or not. (Ham II)
 * Yair Rand's WikidataInfo script adds the QID of the equivalent Wikidata item to the page being viewed (on sister projects), along with its Wikidata label and description. (Andy Mabbett)
 * Recoin measures the degree of completeness of relevant properties of a Wikidata item and suggests any relevant statements that can be added to the item. (Rachmat04)
 * Template:Wikidata list ("Listeria") Self-updating lists on wiki pages, to drive projects and show results. Over 14,000 now live. (Jheald)
 * DuplicateReferences gadget adds a link to copy references and add them to other statements on the same item. (PKM)
 * checkConstraints gadget adds notifications on the interface to easily notice the violation of constraints and help people fixing them (Léa)
 * Resolve authors lists scientific articles with the property author name string (P2093) and groups them on the basis of co-authors and topic, which helps to distinguish people referred to by identical name strings. (Daniel Mietchen)
 * The Wiki Loves Monuments map is powered by Wikidata. You can look for a city and find the monuments around. (Stefano Sabatini via Facebook)


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Lab: How to add a lot of data, São Paulo, February 22th
 * Upcoming: #datatónCervantes, Wikidata workshop in Madrid, February 24th
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Lausanne, February 24th
 * Upcoming: Wikidata seminar, Oxford e-Research Centre, February 28th
 * Ongoing: Fourth Annual month wide d:Wikidata:Events/Nepal
 * Past: Wikidata doathon, 14-15 February 2018, Göttingen
 * A Reconciliation Recipe for Wikidata by Martin Poulter
 * Some ways Wikidata can improve search and discovery by Martin Poulter
 * From Wikidata to Scholia: creating structured linked data to generate scholarly profiles
 * Querying Wikidata about Vienna tram lines, by Stefan Daschek
 * Using wikidata for linked data WordPress indexes, by Phil Barker
 * Using Wikidata to build an authority list of Holocaust-era ghettos


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * There are now over 100,000 ORCID iDs in Wikidata.
 * The usage history graph that is being linked to on property talk pages now shows usage since the end of August 2016. This used to be 50 days. Thanks Lockal!
 * Feedback needed: ontology for structured data on Commons


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: has command line option, Wolfram Language entity code, total fertility rate, development of anatomical structure, research intervention, permitted food additive, maximum food additive use level
 * External identifiers: TheTVDB.com ID, Irish Women Rugby Football Union ID, CATO ID, Directory of Czech publishers ID, ASHRAE refrigerant number, Bulbapedia article, Lemon Amiga identifier, CPC-Power identifier, Libraries.org ID, International Numbering System number, JECFA database ID, JMPR database ID, Uppslagsverket Finland ID, Phasmida Species File ID


 * Query examples:
 * Women with an Erdős number
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fclass1%20%3Fclass1Label%20%3FphysClass%20%3FphysClassLabel%20%3FabsClass%20%3FabsClassLabel%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fclass%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fclass%20wdt%3AP279%2B%20wd%3AQ223557%20%20.%20%0A%23%20%20%20%20hint%3APrior%20hint%3Agearing%20%22reverse%22.%0A%20%20%7D%20LIMIT%2040000%0A%7D%20AS%20%25physicalClasses%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fclass%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fclass%20wdt%3AP279%2B%20%20wd%3AQ7184903%20.%20%0A%23%20%20%20%20hint%3APrior%20hint%3Agearing%20%22reverse%22.%0A%20%20%7D%20LIMIT%2040000%0A%7D%20AS%20%25abstractClasses%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20%20SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fclass%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25physicalClasses%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25abstractClasses%20.%0A%20%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25commonClasses%20%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20%20SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fclass%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25commonClasses.%0A%20%20%20%20%20MINUS%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%20SELECT%20%28%3Fclass%20AS%20%3FparentClass%29%20WHERE%20%7B%20INCLUDE%20%25commonClasses.%20%7D%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fclass%20wdt%3AP279%20%3FparentClass.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25reducedClasses%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25reducedClasses%20.%0A%20%20%3Fclass%20wdt%3AP279%2a%20%3Fclass1%20.%0A%20%20hint%3APrior%20hint%3Agearing%20%22forward%22.%0A%20%20%3Fclass1%20wdt%3AP279%20%3FabsClass%20.%0A%20%20%3FabsClass%20wdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ7184903%20.%0A%20%20hint%3APrior%20hint%3Agearing%20%22forward%22.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FabsClass%20wdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ223557%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20hint%3APrior%20hint%3Agearing%20%22forward%22.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%20%281%20AS%20%3Fno_go%29%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28%21bound%28%3Fno_go%29%29%20.%0A%20%20%3Fclass1%20wdt%3AP279%20%3FphysClass%20.%0A%20%20%3FphysClass%20wdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ223557%20.%0A%20%20hint%3APrior%20hint%3Agearing%20%22forward%22.%0A%23%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%23%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FphysClass%20wdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ7184903%20.%0A%23%20%20%20%20%20%20hint%3APrior%20hint%3Agearing%20%22forward%22.%0A%23%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%20%281%20AS%20%3Fno_go2%29%20.%0A%23%20%20%7D%20%20%20%20%0A%23%20%20FILTER%20%28%21bound%28%3Fno_go2%29%29%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20%3FabsClassLabel%0A Classes that are subclass of both physical object and abstract object] (thread)
 * Countries sharing land borders only with larger countries (source)
 * Alive actors and actresses without an image, ordered by number of films they appear in (source)
 * Beast species in the Harry Potter universe (source)
 * Places that have been indicated as the topic of scientific articles indexed in Wikidata (source)
 * Scientists whose cause of death was "death by burning" (source)
 * Women who have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (source)
 * WikiProject ShEx
 * Newest database reports: winter sport disciplines, people and equipment


 * Development
 * Fixed incomplete "Label:", "Description:" and "Statement:" entity usage messages in various places (T178090). Thanks, Matěj!
 * Improved violation messages for ranges involving the current date (e. g. “should not be in the future”).
 * Continued work on caching constraint check results.
 * Enabled Lua fine-grained usage tracking for better performance on several more wikis: hywiki, frwiki, svwiki, itwiki, zhwiki, bewiki, nlwiki, glwiki, and Wikimedia Commons (T187265 T186714)
 * Representation and grammatical features of the form can be changed using the UI (WikibaseLexeme) (T173743, T160525)

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
 * 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: 2018-08
<section begin="technews-2018-W08"/> 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 explanation of the abbreviations on the recent changes page could overlap with the list of changes. This has been fixed.
 * You can now see statistics for pageviews per wiki per country. You can see this on maps or in a table.

Problems
 * Linter is reporting estimated counts instead of actual counts for some wikis. This is because of performance problems. You might notice a false higher number in linter counts for some categories. This will be fixed as soon as the performance problem has been fixed.
 * Last week the way that Visual Editor displays references lists was changed. As a result, the references generated by specific templates like   are not visible in the references list whilst editing.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 February. It will be on all wikis from 22 February (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 20 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The way edit summaries and log comments are stored in the database is being changed. In the future this will make longer comments possible.
 * Edit conflicts could be solved in a different way in the future. You can test a new prototype.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2018-W08"/> 22:54, 19 February 2018 (UTC)