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Wikidata weekly summary #200
Wikidata weekly summary #186

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.  Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 12:00, 15 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Upcoming: WikiArabia
 * Upcoming: Wikimedia Hackathon
 * Upcoming: digikult.se
 * Wikidata Tour Down-Under
 * Open culture session at Open Belgium
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Coming to Wikimania? Consider submitting a Wikidata related poster, training or discussion! Deadline is on the 20th.
 * Wikidata has passed the milestone of 1 Billion Datapoints (Triples) on Wednesday, 9th of March.
 * Wikidata Graph Builder now supports arbitrary SPARQL queries (example)
 * ESWC 2016 has a new Wikidata Bonus Challenge
 * Playing with Wikidata in BigQuery
 * There will be server maintenance work next week on all Wikimedia servers that will prevent editing for a short time.
 * Wikidata external ID resolver now uses SPARQL and supports lookup of properties via English name (fragment)
 * iSpecies now has multilingual summaries and links to Wikidata (example)
 * Awarder lets you add awards to a biographical item, or use the Wikipedia text of the award to add all recipients]
 * A new version of the Wikidata nuclide chart is online
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: thickness, World Heritage criteria (2005), Valencian Property of Local Relevance id, BookBrainz creator ID, PlayStation ID, ČSFD person ID, Kinopoisk person ID, Kinopoisk film ID, Hockeydb.com player ID, Eurohockey.com player ID, Geni.com profile ID, block size, serial number, Gram staining, culture, maximum gradient, Latvian Olympic Committee athlete ID
 * Query examples: [http://yasgui.org/#query=SELECT+%3FstateLabel+(COUNT(%3Fitem)+as+%3Fcnt)+%7B%0A%09%3Fitem+wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*+wd%3AQ33506+.%0A%09%3Fstate+wdt%3AP31+wd%3AQ35657+.%0A%09%3Fitem+wdt%3AP131*+%3Fstate+.%0A%09SERVICE+wikibase%3Alabel+%7B+bd%3AserviceParam+wikibase%3Alanguage+%22en%22++%7D++++%0A%7D%0AGROUP+BY+%3FstateLabel&contentTypeConstruct=text%2Fturtle&contentTypeSelect=application%2Fsparql-results%2Bjson&endpoint=https%3A%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fsparql&requestMethod=GET&tabTitle=Query&headers=%7B%7D&outputFormat=gchart&outputSettings=%7B%22chartConfig%22%3A%7B%22options%22%3A%7B%22hAxis%22%3A%7B%22useFormatFromData%22%3Atrue%2C%22viewWindow%22%3A%7B%22max%22%3Anull%2C%22min%22%3Anull%7D%2C%22minValue%22%3Anull%2C%22maxValue%22%3Anull%7D%2C%22vAxes%22%3A%5B%7B%22useFormatFromData%22%3Atrue%2C%22viewWindow%22%3A%7B%22max%22%3Anull%2C%22min%22%3Anull%7D%2C%22minValue%22%3Anull%2C%22maxValue%22%3Anull%7D%2C%7B%22useFormatFromData%22%3Atrue%2C%22viewWindow%22%3A%7B%22max%22%3Anull%2C%22min%22%3Anull%7D%2C%22minValue%22%3Anull%2C%22maxValue%22%3Anull%7D%5D%2C%22displayMode%22%3A%22regions%22%2C%22booleanRole%22%3A%22certainty%22%2C%22colors%22%3A%5B%22%23f9cb9c%22%2C%22%23ffe599%22%2C%22%23b6d7a8%22%5D%2C%22defaultColor%22%3A%22%23f5f5f5%22%2C%22width%22%3A%22100%25%22%2C%22height%22%3A%22100%25%22%2C%22region%22%3A%22US%22%2C%22resolution%22%3A%22provinces%22%7D%2C%22state%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22view%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22isDefaultVisualization%22%3Afalse%2C%22chartType%22%3A%22GeoChart%22%2C%22containerId%22%3A%22yasq_qqpsgffguswqbnzmpldi_gchartWrapper%22%7D%2C%22motionChartState%22%3Anull%7D Number of museums by U. S. state on map], Film directors ranked by number of sitelinks multiplied by their number of films, all museums in Barcelona with coordinates, women mushers, women scientists, women artists, air accidents, Twitter accounts of biologists, torture devices, [https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%0A%20%20%3Fitem%0A%20%20(SAMPLE%20(%3FtitleL)%20AS%20%3Ftitle)%0A%20%20(group_concat(distinct%20%3FcreatorL%20%3B%20separator%20%3D%20%22%2C%20%22)%20as%20%3Fcreator)%0A%20%20(group_concat(distinct%20%3FgenreL%20%3B%20separator%20%3D%20%22%2C%20%22)%20as%20%3Fgenre)%0A%20%20(group_concat(distinct%20%3FplaceL%20%3B%20separator%20%3D%20%22%2C%20%22)%20as%20%3Fplace)%0A%20%20(group_concat(distinct%20%3Farr%20%3B%20separator%20%3D%20%22%2C%20%22)%20as%20%3Farrondissement)%0A%20%20(SAMPLE%20(%3Fimg)%20AS%20%3Fimage)%0A%20%20(SAMPLE%20(%3Fcoord)%20AS%20%3Fcoordinates)%0A%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FtitleL%20%3FcreatorL%20%3FgenreL%20%3FplaceL%20%3Farr%20%3Fimg%20%3Fcoord%0A%20%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20selecting%20items...%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20items%20in%20Paris...%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP131%20wd%3AQ90%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20...or%20in%20an%20arrondissement%20of%20Paris%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP131%2Fwdt%3AP131*%20wd%3AQ90%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20genre%3A%20public%20art%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP136%20wd%3AQ557141%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20creators%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP170%20%3Fc.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fc%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FcreatorL%20filter%20(lang(%3FcreatorL)%20%3D%20%22fr%22)%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%23genre%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP136%20%3Fg%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%20(%20STR(%3Fg)%20!%3D%20'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2FQ557141')%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20%3Fg%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fg%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FgenreL%20filter%20(lang(%3FgenreL)%20%3D%20%22fr%22)%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20place%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP276%20%3Fp%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fp%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FplaceL%20filter%20(lang(%3FplaceL)%20%3D%20%22fr%22)%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20arrondissement%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP131%20%3Fa%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fa%20wdt%3AP131%20wd%3AQ90%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fa%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FarrL%20filter%20(lang(%3FarrL)%20%3D%20%22fr%22).%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND(REPLACE(%3FarrL%2C%20'%5E(%5B0-9%5D%2B).*%24'%2C%20%22%241%22%2C%20%22si%22)%20AS%20%3Farr)%20%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20image%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP18%20%20%3Fimg.%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20coordinates%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoord.%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20title%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fitem%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FtitleL%20filter%20(lang(%3FtitleL)%20%3D%20%22fr%22)%20.%7D%0A%20%20%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20xsd%3Ainteger(%3Farr)%20%3FtitleL%20%3FgenreL%20%3FcreateurL%20%3FlieuL%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%0AORDER%20BY%20xsd%3Ainteger(REPLACE(%3Farrondissement%2C'%5E(%5B0-9%5D%2B)%2C.*%24'%2C%20%22%241%22%2C%20%22si%22))%20%3Fplace%20%3Ftitle%0A%0A public art in Paris], Locations of Pablo Picasso works
 * Development
 * We reduced the loading time of items significantly. Enjoy a faster Wikidata :) Wikidata item loading time.png
 * Wikidata Query GUI now supports maps. Check it out with one of the example queries above. (Select Map under Display results menu).
 * Pywikibot now has SPARQL endpoint support.
 * We worked on getting the first pieces of Commons support on a test system. Nothing shiny to see yet but we're making progress.
 * Converted more identifier to the new identifier datatype. Still some to go but 450 properties have been converted by now.
 * Updated the data that generates suggestions when adding a new statement
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Wikidata weekly summary #201
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.  Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 11:50, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Reforming the property creation process
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: Color History with the Smithsonian!
 * Past: Accessibility Edit-a-Thon at the DC Public Library
 * Past: Admin meetup of the German-language Wikipedia
 * Automatic Extraction of Knowledge from Biomedical literature
 * Identifying problematic statements in Wikidata via multi-level modeling theory
 * Wikidata as a semantic framework for the Gene Wiki initiative
 * Adding disclosures to Wikidata with Bioclipse
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Dutch language Wikipedia has a consistently low number of articles unconnected to Wikidata: Duplicity statistics for nlwiki
 * MusicBrainz now uses Wikidata to fetch images for their entities
 * The query service is now linked in the sidebar
 * Mix'n'match has new catalogs among them TED speakers
 * Maarten made some reports to make it easier to connect paintings on Wikidata with images on Wikimedia Commons
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: BBFC rating, German tax authority ID, ISO 9362 SWIFT/BIC code, DNF person ID, PASE ID, MetroLyrics ID, MEK ID, Companies House ID, Site of Special Scientific Interest (England) ID, ISO 15924 numeric code, Hungarian company ID, SHOWA ID, formatterURL for Wikidata ID, World Heritage criteria (2005), TED talk ID, TED topic ID, TED speaker ID
 * Query examples: distribution of public art by place
 * Development
 * The query service now has Ctrl+enter as a shortcut to run a query
 * Started working on improving input for geocoordinates and dates (changing the advanced settings)
 * Worked on database performance improvements for the client (Wikipedia and co) (T125838)
 * Experimenting with arbitrary access for Wikimedia Commons on http://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org
 * Converted more identifiers from string datatype to identifier datatype
 * Worked on improved localization of dates that are very far in the past or future (T127820)
 * Fixed undo actions going through abuse filter (T126861)
 * Fixed issues in the query service with Internet Explorer 11
 * Improved query service display on small screens
 * Improved autocompletion in the query service
 * Fixed a bug with an add button for qualifiers being shown when it shouldn't (T128317)
 * Further work on Wikimedia Commons support (Special Pages, API)
 * You can now add a default view to a query like here. This then shows the defined view (map, table, image grid) when executing the query.
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Wikidata weekly summary #202
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.  Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:21, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: Wikidata intro at the École de Bibliothécaires Documentalistes (slides)
 * Upcoming: IRC office hour
 * Upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon
 * Migrating pKa data from DrugMet to Wikidata
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * A little Easter present for the WikiVerse from Magnus
 * The page for institutions, companies, etc who want to donate data to Wikidata has been reworked and expanded by John and Jens
 * WMDE is looking for a product management intern to work with Lydia
 * Arbitrary access for Commons is getting ready and needs testing
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: next crossing downstream, next crossing upstream, SOATO ID, Google Knowledge Graph identifier, has parts of the class, discontinued date, variability of property value, corresponding template, Datahub page, alcohol by volume, units sold, tier 1 capital ratio (CETI), consumption rate per capita, target interest rate, topographic prominence, topographic isolation, Scoville grade, EU transparency register ID, FIFA World Ranking, Estyn ID, partnership with, CRICOS Provider Code, interested in, Cycling Quotient url (mens team), Cycling Quotient identifier (races for men), source of material, mirTarBase ID, mean lifetime, Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, FedCup player ID, Davis Cup player ID, Swimrankings.net swimmer ID, Filmportal ID, TV.com ID, RARS rating, Minkultury Film ID, number of parts of a work of art, model, geography, place of detention, Turner Classic Movies film ID, cost of damage
 * Query examples: Library and Information Science journals, number of statements backed by a reference with a DOI
 * Development
 * You see that you can now show labels/descriptions/aliases for all languages that have been added to an item by clicking "more languages"
 * Preparation for arbitrary access on Commons
 * Getting ready for the hackathon in Israel
 * More work on making the extended input for geocoordinates and dates less complicated to understand
 * Worked on making scrolling of large items less laggy
 * Made the query service map visualization no longer show coordinates that are not on earth
 * Fixed a bug where the removal of a sitelink couldn't be done (T129450)
 * Query service no longer restores previous query as requested
 * Fixed a bug where adding a statement would leave a stray "add qualifier" link (T128317)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Wikidata weekly summary #203
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.  Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 08:57, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press SparQL - Wikidata - École de Bibliothécaires Documentalistes - 2016-04-04.pdf
 * Upcoming: WWW 2016
 * Upcoming: WikiCite 2016
 * Past: Wikimedia hackathon.
 * Some of the things that were worked on (but are not finished yet):
 * Easier referencing like it is done in VisualEditor
 * Data imports including National Library of Israel
 * Getting the ArticlePlaceholder ready for deployment on the first small Wikipedias
 * Updated maps of the geocoordinates in Wikidata (Adam will publish a blog post with them soon)
 * Improvements for Librarybase
 * Automated language links for Wiktionary
 * Cleanup of existing data import tools
 * partial group photo
 * Objetos culturales y metadatos: hacia la liberación de datos en Wikidata
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Lucie published her thesis about supporting small Wikipedias through article placeholders based on Wikidata [[File:Generating Article Placeholders from Wikidata for Wikipedia - Increasing Access to Free and Open Knowledge.pdf|thumb|Lucie's thesis: Generating Article Placeholders from Wikidata for Wikipedia - Increasing Access to Free and Open Knowledge]]
 * This article from Russian Wikipedia is generated only with Lua Module and Listeria, based on its Wikidata item.
 * If you're into Wikidata, GLAM and Facebook there is now a Facebook group for you.
 * There are 4 new games to help with the migration of the Persondata template on English Wikipedia.
 * There was a huge increase in the number of qualifiers over the last 2 weeks. It went from 2.6 to 3.7 Million due to additions of qualifiers for evidence codes on human and mouse proteins.
 * Interested in seeing Wikidata training sessions at Wikimania? Add yourself to interested attendees for the sessions.
 * PetScan now has item creator functionality.
 * The catalog of the National Library of Israel has been added to Mix'n'match
 * Great examples on French and Russian Wikipedia for infobox based on Wikidata: fr:Andrew Tanenbaum, ru:Таненбаум, Эндрю and references based on Wikidata: fr:Trappeur, ru:Доказательство с нулевым разглашением
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: dataset distribution, file format, protocol, URL, CricketArchive player ID, ESPNcricinfo player ID, FIG gymnast identifier, type locality, ISU figure skater identifier, New York Times Semantic Concept: Descriptor, New York Times Semantic Concept: Location, New York Times Semantic Concept: Organization, New York Times Semantic Concept: Person, BARTOC ID, Box Office Mojo person ID, NDL JPNO, Opensecrets Identifier, Basketball-Reference.com NBA player ID, Kijkwijzer rating, Bekker Number, is verso of, is recto of, author of afterword, author of foreword, Russiancinema.ru film ID, relative position within image, rating certificate ID, reply to
 * Newest WikiProjects: Historical Place
 * Query examples: phrases, Redewendungen, most commons eponyms
 * Development
 * 4 years ago we started coding on Wikidata. What a ride it has been and continues to be. <3 to everyone who is a part of it.
 * We are going to make a change to the RDF format for geocoordinates.
 * Here is a preview of geospatial search on the query service.
 * The query service now has bubble charts as a visualization option (example)
 * Busy at the Wikimedia hackathon.
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Wikidata weekly summary #204
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.  Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 10:58, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Discussion
 * Splitting a property to limit formatter URLs to one per property: Authority_control#DE-ISIL
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: digikult.se
 * Upcoming: IRC office hour
 * Upcoming: FOSSCOMM
 * A week of looking at women
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Document with lots of useful links around Wikidata for workshops etc
 * Nice list of species with sounds linked on Wikidata
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: typeface/font, disjoint union of, union of, Biographical Directory of Federal Judges id, UNZ journal identifier, UNZ author identifier, Persée journal ID, Persée author ID, Projeto Excelências ID, ISSF ID, Badminton World Federation ID, CageMatch worker ID, United World Wrestling ID, UIPM ID, GOG application ID, Deezer track ID, Deezer album ID, Deezer artist ID, Encyclopaedia Metallum release ID, embed URL, Hungarian-style transcription, lowest-observed-adverse-effect level, no-observed-adverse-effect level, collage image, elected in, sectional view, median lethal concentration, minimal lethal concentration, Cycling Quotient identifier (cyclist, woman), Cycling Quotient identifier (women races), Karate Records ID, EIDR identifier, British Film Institute identifier
 * Query examples: women with most sitelinks and no image born in 1921 or later, what is depicted in artwork, most eponymous mathematicians
 * Showcase items: Iron Man (film)
 * Development
 * Lucie successfully defended her thesis about the ArticlePlaceholder. Congrats!
 * Worked more on the first version of the user interface for structured data for multimedia files
 * Worked on simplifying input of queries for people who do not know SPARQL
 * Improved localizability of the sitelink and reference counters
 * Allow input and output of localized dates with precision smaller than years (T95532 and T127820)
 * More string properties have been converted to external id ones, so that we have over 850 external id properties now
 * Experimenting with Citoid support for Wikidata to make it easier to add complete references in the way Visual Editor does it
 * Improved performance of sticky property labels (T103485)
 * Released [//github.com/wmde/DataValuesJavascript DataValues JavaScript 0.8.1]
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Wikidata weekly summary #205
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;"> <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; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 15:19, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Discussion
 * Closed request for comments: Reforming the property creation process, Improve bot policy for data import and data modification
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: office hour on IRC (log)
 * Past: ISB2016 (slides)
 * Past: WWW2016 - Freebase to Wikidata migration (slides)
 * Past: CUNY Wikidata intro (slides)
 * National Library of Wales: Our Wikidata Visiting Scholar
 * New TSRI Project Helps Researchers Build a Biomedical Knowledgebase
 * Yle <3 Wikidata - using Wikidata for concept tagging
 * Other noteworthy stuff
 * ArticlePlaceholder is going live on the first small Wikipedias on May 11th and could use your help
 * Wikimedia Commons will get the arbitrary access feature on April 26th
 * The Europeana Art History Challenge has started
 * Magnus made a handy user-script for duplicating items, for when a new item has similar property values to an existing one. See for instance, this set of edits for a second version of an artwork.
 * Listeria now has a status page
 * PetScan has now the option "Has no statements" to find items without statements for a category at Wikipedia (sample: en:Category:United States geography stubs) or an entire language version (sample: "sowiki").
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: production statistics, DNZB, PASE name, this zoological name is coordinate with, Australian Geological Provinces Database Identifier, Tate artist identifier, ResearchGate institute ID
 * Newest WikiProjects: d:Wikidata:WikiProject Museums
 * Query examples: items named after their shape, recent events, assemblies by number of seats, characters portrayed by most actors
 * Development
 * Query results for the query service are now cached by default for 60 seconds (T126730)
 * Finishing touches on easier input of geocoordinates and dates (sneak peek)
 * Finishing touches on easier manipulation of SPARQL queries (sneak peel - should go live later today)
 * Significantly reduced the write access to the database to make sure we're not frying the poor servers unnecessarily
 * Getting ArticlePlaceholder ready for first deployment
 * More work on first prototype for structured data support for Wikimedia Commons
 * Cleaned up icons for selecting rank and value type
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Wikidata weekly summary #206
<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;"> <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; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 20:42, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Writing a bachelor's thesis at Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
 * Europeana Art History Challenge begins
 * TED is partnering with the Wikimedia community to add “ideas worth spreading” to Wikimedia projects
 * Wikidata meets world literature
 * Centralizing content and distributing labor: a community model for curating the very long tail of microbial genomes (conference poster)
 * Past: Wikimedia Conference
 * Other noteworthy stuff
 * SQUID: a new class and property browser for Wikidata (background info)
 * Wikidata Graph Builder now can visualize graphs with different node sizes. See for instance, types of artists with number of people, occupied with each subclass item
 * List of items that have English, German, and French sitselinks, but no statements
 * List of articles on English Wikipedia with a video where the corresponding item has no video
 * Listeria bot (the one generating lists on Wikipedia based on Wikidata data) will now begin auto-replacing simple WDQ queries with SPARQL ones
 * Magnus is looking for a designer to help with a logo for PetScan
 * Arbitrary access for Wikimedia Commons is coming as planned on the 26th
 * Wikidata surpassed English Wikipedia in items/articles using files from Wikimedia Commons
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Danish listed buildings case ID, Models.com client ID, Race time, IAT diver ID, IAT weightlifter ID, IAT triathlete ID, FIS snowboarder ID, FIS Nordic combined skier ID, FIS ski jumper ID, FIS freestyle skier ID, FIS cross-country skier ID, FIS alpine skier ID, D-U-N-S, source of income, budget, BNE journal ID, JudoInside.com ID, ISO 4063 process number, blue-style.com ID, Wrestlingdata person id, Danish protected area ID, Skyscraper Center building complex ID, Research Papers in Economics Series handle, NUTTAB Food Identifier, AUSNUT Food Identifier, CNC film rating, EIRIN film rating, exploitation visa number, production date, Dictionary of Canadian Biography ID, New Zealand Organisms Register ID, Roller Coaster Database ID, Photographers' Identities Catalog ID, PRONOM software identifier, PRONOM file format identifier, Filmiroda rating
 * Newest WikiProjects: Olympics
 * Query examples: songs with longest melody (source), subjects with most art dedicated to them (source), versions of The Scream (source)
 * Development
 * There will be some maintenance on the query service in a few hours
 * Redesigned the rank selector as well as snak type selector icons (T129033, 283968)
 * The snak type selector icon also has a tooltip now (283945)
 * The term table header row as well as language column will now be marked as  instead of   (283395)
 * Fixed an issue with newline characters in quantity values (T110728)
 * Fixed the month-precision time parser ignoring the minus in "January -150" (T132441)
 * Continued working on diffing and patching support for new entity types (T132442)
 * Continued working on support for creating entities of new types as part of the work for Wikimedia Commons support (T132964)
 * Rolled out a little query explanation field to query.wikidata.org to help you better understand a query if you don't understand SPARQL well
 * Fixed a bug where the map wouldn't show in the visualization of a query result (T132669)
 * Fixed issues with the duplicate references gadget (T131920)
 * Added basic support for more languages to the query service (T132756)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Wikidata weekly summary #207
<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;"> <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; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 15:03, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Wikidata, a stable source for disambiguation items?
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Find, Prioritize, and Recommend: An article recommendation system to fill knowledge gaps across Wikipedia
 * Upcoming: CSVconf
 * Upcoming: Open Tech Summit
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Commons now has arbitrary access
 * Work on ORES to make vandalism fighting easier is progressing well. "Damaging" and "goodfaith" models for Wikidata are now online.
 * Wikimind
 * New coverage maps have been created (see thumbnails)
 * We have new images you can use to indicate your website/app/service is using data from Wikidata. (2 of the files have a problem still. We're working on a fix and will reupload.) Wikidata stamp.png
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Loop ID, sound power, 3DMet ID, locality or place, Index Hepaticarum ID, clearance, ASF KID Cave Tag Number, power consumed, net tonnage, connects with, Czech neighbourhood ID code, longest span, aerodrome reference point, Mercalli intensity scale
 * Category reports on without claims by site now link to PetScan's fast "has no statements"-option. A report for your preferred Wikipedia can be added.
 * Query examples: software with most versions (source), oldest software (source), map of U1 stations in Berlin (source)
 * Development
 * Created the first MediaInfo entity through the API (screenshot, a bit more background)
 * Substantially reduced server load for item and property displaying (T132662)
 * There are currently some issues with the order of latitude/longitude inn coordinates in the query service map visualization. It will be fixed tonight.
 * Removed unsupported  and   parameters from the   JavaScript module. This may break user JavaScript calling   (T119856).
 * Worked on new flyers for institutions that want to cooperate with Wikidata and developers wanting to use our data (will be published on Commons once they're done)
 * Moved forward with internationalization of the query service interface (not on translatewiki.net yet but being worked on)
 * Worked on making it possible to extend SPARQL queries in simplified natural language version. It will also no longer add query prefixes when editing the query. Those are not live yet.
 * Fixed a bug where admins got a blank page when trying to view deleted revisions (T132645)
 * Investigating issues with bad suggestions for properties when adding new statements (T132839)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.