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Wikidata weekly summary #293
Here's your first Wikidata Weekly Summary of the year 2018 (Calendar: Gregorian)! 
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: Wikidata team and volunteers were at 34C3. Check the videos, the tweets, a new design made by Bleeptrack for a cake. Videos of Wikidata-related workshops will be published soon.
 * Upcoming: Cultural heritage Wikidata workshop in Prague, 13th January 2018
 * Using Scholia as Open Notebook Science tool to support literature searching


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New tool that allow users to fill labels and descriptions to Wikidata items en masse
 * Change on the editing interface: save becomes publish. Please help translating in your language and update documentation


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Minneapolis Institute of Art ID, CHGIS ID, Guardiana ID, Barnes Foundation ID, VOGRIPA ID, Rugby Canada ID, Ent'revues ID, World of Spectrum ID, Smithsonian American Art Museum ID, HATVP ID, Google Arts & Culture partner ID, Google Arts & Culture asset ID, Cairn journal ID, Canal-U channel ID, Conseil de Presse Luxembourg journalist ID, Historic Place Names of Wales ID, CIQUAL2017 ID, GEMS Code, Arquivo Arq ID, Argentine deputy ID, American Art Collaborative object ID


 * Query examples:
 * Landlocked countries bordering coastal countries (source)
 * Most common years of birth in Wikidata (source)
 * Map of lighthouses around the world (source)
 * Bubble chart showing countries with the highest number of children out of school in 2013 (source)
 * Playwright dead in 1947 (whose works are now in Public Domain) (source)


 * Development
 * Fixed a problem with references in history of items (T182767) Thanks to Matěj Suchánek who helped providing a workaround
 * Make statements on forms persistent for lexicographical data (T163724)
 * Fix a bug that removed the collapse button (T175492)
 * Remove cache constraint check results on purge (T182107)
 * Add sitelinks to hif.wiktionary (T180785)
 * Read constraint check results from cache and check freshness (T182106)
 * Re-label the "Save" links to "Publish" (T161367)

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!

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:43, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #294
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Jarekt
 * New request for comments: Changes to P2737 and P2738, Privacy and Living People


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: IRC office hour on January 30th - you can share ideas for topics to discuss
 * Call for papers for WikiIndaba is open
 * Scholarship applications for Wikimania are open
 * Registration is open for the Wikimedia hackathon
 * Paper submission deadline for Wiki Workshop (part of The Web Conference) is closing later this month
 * The Tom Longboat Awards as Wikidata - Mita Williams
 * Using the Semantic Web to Improve Knowledge of Translations - Karen Smith-Yoshimura (OCLC)
 * There is no deadline so every second is one: on anxiety, perfectionism, and Wikimedia projects by Léna
 * ''Up2date software versions for Wikidata by Michi


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata will be in read-only mode on January 9th from 06:00 to 06:30 UTC
 * The WikidataCon 2017 report has been published
 * Results of two research projects for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons have just been published:
 * Supporting Commons contributions by GLAM institutions: an overview of how cultural institutions contribute to Wikimedia Commons, and which issues they encounter there
 * Baseline Metrics for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons: an overview of measurable behaviors on Wikimedia Commons, against which the effectiveness of structured data can be measured in the future
 * You can start organizing an event for Wikidata's 6th birthday in October 2018
 * A short summary of the workshop with historians using Wikibase to collect data about the Illuminati has been published at Wikidata:FactGrid
 * How would the World look like if countries were as large as their Wikidata items are used across the Wikimedia projects?
 * New catalogs in Mix'n'match - for example Rolling Stone artist]
 * New tool: Hub


 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: MuBE Virtual ID, Basketball-Reference.com WNBA coach ID, Basketball-Reference.com NBA coach ID, Académie française member ID, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres member ID, Guide to North American Birds ID, title page number, Walters Art Museum ID, Minneapolis Institute of Art artwork ID, CHGIS ID, Guardiana ID, Barnes Foundation ID, VOGRIPA ID, Rugby Canada ID, Ent'revues ID, World of Spectrum ID, Smithsonian American Art Museum ID
 * Query examples:
 * Events starting in 2017 and ending in 2018, shortest duration first (source)
 * Newest database reports: days of 2018


 * Development
 * Tweaked the ranking of the results in the entity suggester
 * Finished persistently storing edits of statements on forms (T163724)
 * Cleaned up some of the hard-coded demo data on the demo system for lexicographical data
 * Working on diff support for Forms on Lexemes (T182424)
 * Prevented checking of constraints on "Wikidata property example" statements (T183267)
 * Added link to the property's talk page to the constraint violation dialog to guide people there to discuss the constraint if necessary (T164351)


 * 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!

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 20:34, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #295
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Mahir256
 * Closed request for adminship: Jarekt (as successful)


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Vienna
 * WikiJabber podcast with Andy Mabbett


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * GraFa, a new faceted browser for Wikidata is looking for feedback.
 * Analysis: How much are items about scientific articles, genes and chemical entities used on the Wikimedia projects?
 * New catalogs in Mix'n'match - for example Nobel Prize People Nomination (More than 600 properties now have a corresponding catalog in Mix'n'match.)
 * Next round of Projects Grants is open for applications until the end of January (see also this blog post)


 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: National Historic Ships certificate no., Dictionnaire des auteurs luxembourgeois ID, Line Music album ID, Line Music artist ID, Elhuyar ZTH ID, is proceedings from, Basketball-Reference.com NBDL player ID, animal breed, Uniform Resource Identifier Scheme, OpenEdition journal ID, Brooklyn Museum artwork ID, Musée des Augustins artwork ID, Yale Center for British Art artwork ID, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum artwork ID, IBM graphic character global identifier, IBM coded character set ID, IBM code page identifier, produced sound, IUPAC GoldBook ID, The Baseball Cube player ID, Mir@bel journal ID, INRAN Italian Food ID, uBio ID, Deutsche Synchronkartei dubbing voice actor ID, Sign@l journal ID, C-SPAN organization ID, Le Maitron person ID, GSMArena phone ID, Érudit journal ID
 * Query examples:
 * Gallery of photography techniques
 * Street names that exist several times in Berlin (source)
 * Average length of movie by genre and year (source)
 * Inventions by Republicans (source)
 * Celebrities born in January of a leap year (source)
 * Countries with no rivers (source)
 * Female aviation pioneers born before 1900 (source)
 * People who died on K2 (source)
 * Showcase items: 15 January 2018


 * Development
 * Wikidata moved to a new and bigger server.
 * Added support for a constraint scope in the constraint check gadget (T183542)
 * Now ignoring deprecated constraints in the constraint check gadget (T180874)
 * Added new Lua function getAllStatements (T166056 - thanks Eran!)
 * Worked on diff support and edit summaries for edits on Forms (T182424)
 * Worked on persistent editing of the grammatical features of a Form (T173742)
 * Google Code-In 2017 work on the Wikidata Query Service UI:
 * add highlight and selection for query result table, by Anpans (T183807)
 * keyboard accessibility, by eflyjason (T173213 and subtasks)
 * make more areas translatable, by Albert221 (T171636)
 * mobile / responsive menus, by eflyjason (T154890)
 * lazy loading in ImageGrid, by Sydney (T166216)


 * 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!

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 21:47, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #296
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Closed request for adminship: Mahir256 (as successful)


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Getting data from Wikidata into WordPress custom taxonomy
 * PIDapalooza - Girona, 23-24 January,with a session on PIDs in Wikidata by Andy Mabbett
 * The EuropeanaTech Call for Proposals is open till February 7. Themes are Data, Discovery, Delivery. The conference will take place in Rotterdam, NL, May 15-16, 2018.
 * Call for papers for Celtic Knot conference is open


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Nominations for the Steward elections are open
 * Grant proposal for GlobalFactSync
 * repology is a nice new project about software packages with the help of Wikidata. They have a list of potentially outdated packages on Wikidata that might need updating or fixing.
 * Painters gives you a list of paintings that don't have a creator statement but "painting by" in the description
 * Big City Lights: where are the cities whose items are most used across the Wikimedia projects?


 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: Commons compatible image available at URL, is a hydrated form of, biological phase, lot number, MAC Address Block Large ID, has boundary
 * External identifiers: SRCBB coach ID, Manus Online ID, Ecocrop ID, Harvard botanical journal ID, UK railway station code, V Live channel ID, Songwriters Hall of Fame ID, MONA ID, Luminous-Lint ID, LTI Korea Library ID, Images d'Art artwork ID, Common Database on Designated Areas ID, crates.io ID, Arcade artwork ID, Australian honours ID, cinematografo company ID, cinematografo name ID, GameRankings game ID, compArt institution ID, compArt person ID, MobyGames company ID, USA Rugby player ID, MYmovies actor ID, MYmovies movie ID, MYmovies director ID, Movieplayer characters ID, Movieplayer film ID, Movieplayer TV-series ID, MYmovies name ID
 * Query examples:
 * Map of nuclear tests (source)
 * Languages with more than one writing system (source)
 * Subclasses of malware (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20male%20actors%20who%20starred%20in%20a%20trilogy%20of%20movies%20when%20they%20were%20in%20their%2020s%20and%20then%20no%20fewer%20than%2040%20years%20later%20played%20the%20same%20character%20again%0A%23%20source%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fmedium.com%2F%40hitRECordJoe%2Fa-new-old-skywalker-253efda3809c%2C%2013th%20paragraph%0A%23%20%28%E2%80%9Cyoung%E2%80%9D%2C%20%E2%80%9Cprotagonist%E2%80%9D%20and%20%E2%80%9Cas%20an%20older%20man%E2%80%9D%20are%20elided%3B%20%E2%80%9Cactor%E2%80%9D%20is%20taken%20to%20be%20implied%20by%20a%20%E2%80%9Ccast%20member%E2%80%9D%20statement%20on%20a%20movie%20without%20requiring%20an%20%E2%80%9Coccupation%E2%80%9D%20statement%20on%20the%20actor%29%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Factor%20%3FactorLabel%20%3FcharacterLabel%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Factor%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ6581097%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fdob.%0A%20%20%3Fmovie1%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ11424%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP179%20%3Ftrilogy%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP161%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP161%20%3Factor%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP453%20%3Fcharacter%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP577%20%3Fmovie1Publication.%0A%20%20%3Ftrilogy%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ13593818.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3Fdob%20%2B%20%22P20Y%22%5E%5Exsd%3Aduration%20%3C%3D%20%3Fmovie1Publication%20%26%26%20%3Fmovie1Publication%20%3C%20%3Fdob%20%2B%20%22P30Y%22%5E%5Exsd%3Aduration%29%0A%20%20%3Fmovie2%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ11424%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP161%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP161%20%3Factor%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP453%20%3Fcharacter%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP577%20%3Fmovie2Publication.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3Fmovie1Publication%20%2B%20%22P40Y%22%5E%5Exsd%3Aduration%20%3C%20%3Fmovie2Publication%29%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D Male actors who starred in a trilogy of movies when they were in their 20s and then no fewer than 40 years later played the same character again](source - see whole thread for more)
 * Bands from the UK whose member's average age is at least 70 (source)
 * Disney movie narrative locations (source)


 * Development
 * Worked on persistent editing of grammatical features of a lexeme’s form (T173742)
 * Made diffs for statements, grammatical features and representations of a form work (T182424)
 * Turned off access to lexicographical data from the clients for now (T178904)
 * Started logging warning on pages that use too many items (T184319)
 * Added support for relation instance or subclass of in the constraint checks (T169858)
 * Now also checking single value and multi value constraints on qualifiers and references (T175566)
 * Now also checking difference within range constraints on qualifiers and references (T175565)
 * Fixed a bug with duplicate items in “distinct values” violation message in the constraint checks gadget (T184705)


 * 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!

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 08:10, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

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!

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:27, 29 January 2018 (UTC)