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Wikidata weekly summary #258
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: FOSSnorth (Gothenburg), where Lydia gave a keynote about Wikidata
 * Past: Wikidata meetup in Berlin
 * Past: Datensummit in Berlin, organized by OKFN, where we introduced Wikidata and the query service
 * Combining Forces with the Wikipedia Universe - by Songkick, about their data donation
 * Introducing Wikimedian in Residence, Mr Andy Mabbett - by The History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Attention: Editing will be disabled for an hour on May 3rd, to allow a server switch
 * New filters for the Recent Changes will be deployed on May 9th. (more info)
 * new data type for tabular data to be deployed on May 15th
 * Try our new script that displays constraint violations on the item pages
 * Get involved in the movement strategy for Wikidata
 * Query the Mediawiki API with the Query Service? Give us your feedbacks
 * Documentation on using OpenRefine to match from a data set you have to items in Wikidata


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Canadian Coastguard Lighthouse ID, contributed to published work, Répertoire national des associations identifier, IPA number order, UNESCO Thesaurus ID, Athletics Australia athlete ID, GuideStar Israel organization ID, MobyGames developer ID, newspaper format, STW Thesaurus for Economics ID, Bollywood Hungama ID, last words, Reprezentacija ID, LoJ peak ID, Ishim ID, GINCO ID, VIVC grape variety ID, column, had as last meal, ADAGP artist ID, CONICET person ID, Medium username


 * Query examples:
 * 15415 people who died in 2016
 * Maps of statues of Jeanne d'Arc on a horse (source)
 * Families who’ve had the same occupation for five generations (source)
 * Couples of capitals more than 19,000 km away from each other (source)
 * A ten-persons “surname = given name” chain on Wikidata (source)
 * Newest database reports: list of newspapers by newspaper format


 * Development
 * Working on Lexeme support - specifically grammatical features of Forms of a Lexeme and statements on Forms
 * Finishing touches on a new notification type for Echo. This will notify the creator of an article when it has been connected to an item on Wikidata.
 * The new d:Special:AvailableBadges list all badges that can be used for sitelinks.
 * Discussed implementation plan for Multi Content Revisions which are a building block for structured data on Commons (T107595)
 * Worked on feedback for the constraints API and user script
 * Worked on database and access improvements to take load off a much-used database table

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!

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:09, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

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!

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:57, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

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!

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 19:48, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

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!

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 11:57, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #262
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * 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!

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:22, 29 May 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #263
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
 * Open request for bureaucrat: Lymantria


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, June 7th, 18:00, in the WikiBÄR local room
 * Upcoming: An introduction to Wikidata for GLAMs, Berlin, June 9th (more info in German)
 * Upcoming: Hackathon cartographie des logiciels libres in Paris on June 10th
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop during HackZurich, September 14th (registration opening on June 9th)
 * Wikidata, WikiCite, and the "bibliography of life" by Rod Page (Q7356570)
 * MySociety (Q10851773) are publishing a "five part series examining how to use Wikidata to answer the question: 'What is the gender breakdown of heads of government across the world?'".
 * Help us find the offices of heads of governments across the world!
 * Help us to show who fills the role of head of government on Wikidata
 * Linking back in the other direction
 * Check that the data is consistent
 * Wikicite 2017, and the 7 features Wikidata needs most


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Breaking change: "wb_entity_per_page" table will not be updated and replicated on ToolLabs anymore
 * Data donation: following WikiCite, our friends at DBLP (Q1224715) have begun to donate data, with >4,800 values in the first batch, including >1,300 DBLP ID (P2456) plus assorted aliases, and values for VIAF ID (P214), GND ID (P227), ORCID iD (P496), ACM Digital Library author ID (P864), zbMATH author ID (P1556), & Google Scholar ID (P1960).
 * Sitelinks of Wiktionary will be enabled on June 20th


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: reviewed by, Hungarian NGO ID, PLU Code, Latvian Protected Nature Territory ID, Google Scholar paper ID, DNCI musical work ID, Cullum number, Pinakothek artist ID, ADW taxon ID, DFB datacenter player ID, danskefilm TV series ID, danskefilm animated film ID, dimension, USL player ID, The Arabidopsis Information Resource Accession, Ustream username, SlideShare username, Vimeo username, Australian Statistical Geography 2011 ID, Giphy username, Semantic Scholar author ID, Semantic Scholar paper ID, GDP (PPP), RKY national built heritage environment ID, Early Aviators people ID, DBS ID, overrules, Bavarikon ID, shield image, official Facebook page, WFD Ecological status, Latvian Protected Nature Territory URL


 * Query examples:
 * Number of citizens with “blood type” statements per country (source)
 * Works with most citations (running time 20-45s) (source)
 * Female recipients of the Palme d'Or award (source)
 * Timeline of albums by Manu Chao and Mano Negra (source)
 * Female given names ending in "o" (source)
 * Newest external tools: Wikidata Diff (compares two items; proof-of-concept, doesn't yet include qualifiers, etc.), Wikidata Recent Changes livestream
 * Newest database reports: list of items with the property "has fruit type"


 * Development
 * Removing some config variables (T93773)
 * Fixing a conflict with Language Converter (T166429)
 * Showing badges in the sidebar (T73887)
 * Fixing a bug on Query Service (T166762)
 * Adjusting code reading from wb_terms (T162673)
 * Adding an accesskey to the undo button (T165078)
 * Fixing preferences settings for the new Echo notification (T166657)
 * Adding Rangi language (lag) to Wikidata (T161983)
 * Working on moving PropertySuggester extension from github to gerrit (T104309)
 * More work on usage tracking (T151717)
 * More work on Lexemes (T157974)
 * More work on statements (T165480)
 * More work on constraints (T167107)

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!

<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) 14:42, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #264
<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
 * Discussion: Convert UBERON ID to external-id


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Query Service workshop in Berlin, June 28th
 * Querying OSM + Wikidata from a single RDF database intro (YouTube video) by Yuri Astrakhan
 * The Role of Librarians in Wikidata and WikiCite, by Katie Mika
 * MySociety (Q10851773) have now completed publishing a "five part series examining how to use Wikidata to answer the question: 'What is the gender breakdown of heads of government across the world?'". Here is the full set:
 * Help us find the offices of heads of governments across the world!
 * Help us to show who fills the role of head of government on Wikidata
 * Linking back in the other direction
 * Check that the data is consistent
 * Conclusion: So, what is the gender breakdown of heads of government?


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The call for submissions for the WikidataCon program is now open! Submit your projects to share your experience with the community until July 31st
 * You can also apply for a scholarship for the WikidataCon
 * Breaking change: improving the schema of wb_terms table
 * Wikidata Diff, a tool to compare the basic properties (no qualifiers/ ranks, yet) of two Wikidata items
 * OSM ↔ Wikidata matcher, new tool for OpenStreetMap mappers, to match objects in OSM to Wikidata items, using the wikidata= tag in OSM
 * Announcement & guide


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: EspritBleu athlete ID, J.League manager ID, Sandbox-Geographic shape, SIMC place ID, Sandbox-Tabular data, therapeutic area, emulates, ESBL athlete ID, Rock.com.ar album ID, Rock.com.ar artist ID, Rock.com.ar biography ID, Danish List of Lights and Fog signals ID, South Australian Heritage Register Database ID, field of view, Shironet song ID, Shironet artist ID, Mastodon address, reviewed by, Hungarian NGO ID, PLU Code, Latvian Protected Nature Territory ID, Google Scholar paper ID, DNCI work ID, Cullum number, Pinakothek artist ID


 * Query examples:
 * Coordinates of parallels and meridians according to Wikidata (source)
 * Uses of the property "IPv6 routing prefix" (source)
 * Non-politician jobs that UK Prime Ministers had (source)
 * Newest external tools: matching things in OSM with Wikidata (more information)
 * Newest database reports: new people gallery


 * Development
 * Updating wording re associated Wikidata item following move (T158842)
 * More work on Forms (T163723)
 * Fixing rank icon (T85388)
 * Add monolingual code fkv (T167259)
 * Add monolingual code lag (T161983)
 * More work on property constraints (T167126)
 * Script for populating term_full_entity_id column in wb_terms table (T162533)
 * Full support for wikibase edits in enhanced changes format (T46874)
 * Adding Lua function to get Wikibase entity by site link (T74815)
 * New datatype for referencing Lexemes (T165578)

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!

<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) 13:24, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #265
<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 requests for comments:
 * How would you state the number of (rooms, restaurants, suites) in a hotel?
 * Findagrave removed as a source for information


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Hackathon about election data in Ulm, Germany, June 23-25th
 * Upcoming: Peer-to-peer Wikidata workshop 2017, June 24th, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic
 * Upcoming: Query Service workshop in Berlin, June 28th, 18:00, in WMDE's office
 * Upcoming: IRC office hour, June 28th, at 20:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2), on the channel
 * Wikidata as authority linking hub (PDF). Presentation by Joachim Neubert (ZBW) and Jakob Voß (GBV) at ELAG 2017 conference in Athens
 * Facto Post newsletter, first issue and comments on Wikidata at Project chat. Contains a number of blog links, particularly about WikiCite.


 * WikidataCon
 * Registration is now open! Check the information and fill the form to register.
 * Let's build the program by proposing a project until July 31st
 * Due the necessary time for people to get visas (about 3 months), we changed the deadline for the scholarship applications. You can apply for a scholarship before July 16th. We will then make sure that the applicants receive a response on July 25th.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * We have reached 500,000,000 edits.
 * You can now query the Mediawiki API from the Query Service (documentation)
 * Your feedback is still welcome on the prototype for editing Wikidata from Wikipedia
 * beaTunes 5’s new Album Info pane is powered by Wikidata


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Zemereshet song ID, Zemereshet artist ID, identifier shared with, CONI athlete ID, CIS Chinese Athletes Database ID, COSR athlete ID, MOB athlete ID, COA athlete ID, Team USA athlete ID, ČOV athlete ID, LTOK athlete ID, COB athlete ID, Irish National Monument ID, FINESS medical facility ID, Irish Sites and Monuments Record ID, NZOC athlete ID, Norwegian List of Lights ID, Team Canada athlete ID, Deutsche Olympiamannschaft athlete ID, Academia.edu institutional ID, Ukrainian regulations base ID


 * Query examples:
 * Gallery of monsters of the Japanese folklore
 * Lang by number of label (with quarry.wmflabs.org)
 * The 10 smallest countries with some kind of urban rail transit system (source)
 * Occupations with highest rate of deaths by homicide (source)
 * Software titles ranked by number of readable file formats (source)
 * Newest external tools: Causegraph, a tool to visualize and analyze cause/influence relationships using Wikidata


 * Development
 * Improvements to Wikidata Query Service UI
 * Continued work on importing property constraints from statements (T102759)
 * Started to add support for Senses of Lexeme entities (T160053)
 * More experimenting with the new front-end framework
 * Added RDF mapping for "tabular data" data type (T167951)

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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