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Administrators' newsletter – August 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2019).

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Wikidata weekly summary #376
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events
 * Upcoming: OSM TW x Wikidata Taipei Meetup, August 12nd - Facebook event
 * Upcoming: Wikimania, 16-18 August in Stockholm. Full program, list of Wikidata-related sessions


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Wikidata: From "an" Identifier to "the" Identifier, Theo van Veen, Information Technology and Libraries, 38(2), 72-81.
 * ''Opening up Research Data in Film Studies by Using the Structured Knowledge Base Wikidata', Adelheid Heftberger et al, in "Digital Cultural Heritage", pp 401-410.
 * Bridging the gap between linked open data-based recommender systems and distributed representations, Pierpaolo Basile, et al, Information Systems, Volume 86, December 2019, pp 1-8.
 * OpenRefine Beginners Tutorial, video tutorial by Emmacarroll3 demonstrating how to import a dataset with OpenRefine.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * soweego version 1.0 is out: a machine learning system that links Wikidata to large-scale third-party catalogs
 * New data type for EntitySchemas will be available on August 7th


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: location of the point of view, opinion joined by, date of the first one, date of the latest one, Mac OS type code, acknowledged
 * External identifiers: Acharts.co artist ID, Textile Connect publication ID, 08euro.Ru person ID, CUP2002.RU person ID, Euro04.Ru person ID, Gazeta.Ru Euro 2012 person ID, WorldCup10.Ru person ID, Hiking Project trail ID, Media Art Database console games ID, AMPAS collections film ID, AMPAS collections person ID, Douyin ID, School code of the Ministry of Education, Taiwan, AllTrails trail ID, Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America ID, PEPC park ID, Vidwan ID, Bureau des longitudes ID, ComingSoon.it film ID, Cleartrip Hotel ID, Mojarto artist ID, Rijksmonument complex ID, Goibibo Hotel ID, Acharts.co chart ID, ONF forest national ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: axis, Principal, Epigraph, contact area count, Cases consolidated, detail of painting, exonerated of, possibly reproduction of, Werke ohne Opuszahl, obituary of, significant place
 * External identifiers: Poincaré Papers person ID, Acharts album ID, Rollerstory.net skater ID, CHESNO politician ID, Nauka Ukrainy scientist ID, OhRanger.com ID, Wynk artist ID, Plus Music artist ID, WP Muzyka artist ID, Interia Muzyka artist ID, Empik author ID, merlin.pl author ID, The Top Tens ID, Raptekster.dk ID


 * Query examples:
 * French female authors whose work is in the public domain (source)
 * Timeline of hypertext systems (source)
 * Megaliths in the Basque Country, color-coded by type (source)
 * Heavy metal bands from Finland with or without picture and date of the picture (source)
 * Types of GLAMs in Wikidata (source)


 * Development
 * Fix logging for errors on wbcontentlanguages requests (T228888)
 * Add request information to request timeout errors (T228885)
 * Show an error message when saving fails on mobile termbox (T222884)
 * Add editing widget/input to client edit modal (T226998)
 * Show the current Wikidata value in the Bridge modal (T226997)
 * EntitySchema datatype (T214884)
 * Reduce the number of ResourceLoader modules that WikibaseClient register: (T203696)
 * Reduce text returned by EntityContent::getTextForFilters (T226216)
 * Fixed a bug with PHP Warning (T229482)
 * Fixing a bug about value pickers being broken (T229604)
 * Fixed BadMethodCallException wbgetentities when getting Lexeme subentities (T223995)
 * Investigate on Graphoid issues (T229236)
 * Fix issues on Wikidata Tours (T214884)
 * Make logging warning or info of not finding entity for revision configurable (T229574)
 * Fix Grafana Datamodel References dashboard (T214894)
 * Move "Wikidata item" link outside of "toolbox" sidebar to "other projects" sidebar (T66315)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:11, 5 August 2019 (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!

Wikidata weekly summary #377
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Conclusion of 7th Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana Wikidata Editathon (grant report)
 * "Creating Library Linked Data with Wikibase: Lessons Learned from Project Passage" OCLC Research. DOI: 10.25333/faq3-ax08


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The open source geocoder Nominatim used by the OpenStreetMap project is participating in the Google Summer of Code with an internship working on integrating Wikidata as a ranking metric for its search results. Check the development blog.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: musical bar, epigraph (literature), copyright exemption, significant place
 * External identifiers: München Wiki article ID, Poincaré Papers person ID, Acharts.co album ID, NOTAM (FAA), CHESNO politician ID, Rollerstory.net skater ID, Nauka Ukrainy scientist ID, OhRanger.com ID, Wynk artist ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: legend for number, does not have effect, word stem type, Voting system, Class, Peer-review-process properties for journals, Wikisource-Kategorie, line(s), Election called by, image or photo-making technique
 * External identifiers: FGrHist ID, Acharts.co song ID, shmup.com ID, TA2 ID, Hacker News User ID, Swedish lighthouses, EPW author ID, Gaana.com album ID, Cinestaan film ID, Cinestaan person ID, Service d'Information sur les Etudes et les Professions job ID, IBP 4-letter bird species alpha code, PLIA ID, Planespotters.net ID, Awards & Winners artist ID, TuneIn artist ID, AccuRadio artist ID, Jango artist ID, LiveXLive artist ID, mora artist ID, CD Universe artist ID, Ex Libris author ID, Fishpond.co.nz author ID, YesAsia author ID, Supraphonline artist ID, Image-Line artist ID, RMF FM artist ID, eska.pl topic ID, Register nehnuteľných NKP, deejay.de artist ID, Bandsintown artist ID, musica.com artist ID, GreatSong artist ID, AZLyrics.com artist ID, RauteMusik artist ID, Getty Images topic ID, Tunefind artist ID, SoundHound artist ID, SongMeanings artist ID, Census of India ID, OpenWeatherMap city ID


 * Query examples:
 * Bands whose name is part of Tolkien's legendarium (source)
 * Map of offshore windfarms (source)
 * Cities having more Wikipedia sitelinks than their country (source)


 * Development
 * Fix a caching problem on termbox (T228978)
 * Investigate options for termbox load testing (T229790)
 * Use thumbnail preferences for thumbnail of Commons media file (T224189)
 * Add tags parameter to Wikibase APIs that edit entities (T229917)
 * Move "Data item" link outside of sidebar toolbox (T66315)
 * Create Maintenance Script to Remove Terms in a Language from Current Revision (T222606)
 * Fix Grafana Datamodel References dashboard (T214894)
 * Add editing widget/input on Bridge (T226998)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


 * 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) 14:33, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #378
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Improved instructions for translation admin


 * Events
 * Current: Wikimania in Stockholm and hackathon, August 14 to 18. Check out the list of all Wikidata-related events. Each session page should include notes, slides and streaming if available.


 * Tool of the week
 * In this new section, you can share your favourite tool with the other Wikidata users. You can add some suggestions here.
 * NameGuzzler allows you to automatically add an identical label or alias into many languages (for example, the name of a person or a place). You can define your own custom list of languages that you want to add.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * There is now a Wikiquote page for Wikidata
 * ISA is a new tool to easily add structured data to Commons files, including from mobile
 * You can help improve the vandalism detection by completing a set of labels for ORES
 * QuickStatements won the Coolest Tool Award, category "editor", during the first ceremony at Wikimania 2019
 * New Wikidata-related projects developed during the Wikimania hackathon:
 * Documentation translation sprint: several people translated Wikidata help pages in their own language. Feel free to continue the efforts to make Wikidata more accessible!
 * Item creation helpers helps create similar items, and link them together, with a simple form. Example with skating competitions


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: manner of inhumane treatment, cases consolidated, typically sells, noun class, does not have effect, substitute director/manager, school class
 * External identifiers: Empik author ID, WP Muzyka artist ID, Interia Muzyka artist ID, The Top Tens ID, merlin.pl author ID, Plus Music artist ID, Kinsky–Halm Catalogue, Raptekster.dk ID, Acharts.co song ID, FGrHist ID, register of real estate NKP, Hacker News User ID, shmup.com ID, TA2 ID, Gaana.com album ID, XING profile ID, Cinestaan film ID, Cinestaan person ID, job ID in Service d'Information sur les Etudes et les Professions, Planespotters.net aircraft ID, PLIA ID, IBP 4-letter bird species alpha code, EPW author ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: graph radius, Belgian Species List ID, amino acid (start, end) position, ordeal by, protected region scheme, image revision-id, region within image, access restriction status, georeferencing data, number of processor threads, part number, CPUID, based on tabular data, Siddham script name, Number of active electronic terminals
 * External identifiers: OpenWeatherMap city ID, Scribd Publication ID, moly.hu azonosító, Hungarian Movie Database film ID, Lyrics007 artist ID, jog.fm artist ID, Hype Machine artist ID, Liber Liber author ID, Dizionario biografico dei Friulani ID, Just Hear It artist ID, Lyrics Translations artist ID, LINE BLOG user ID, Digitalt Museum ID, MTV UK artist ID, MTV Germany artist ID, MTV Polska artist ID, Vox FM artist ID, Allcinema person ID, Eiga.com person ID, Eiga.com movie ID, GoodRx, BEACON ID


 * Query examples:
 * Books in Bengali Wikisource that are validated (source)
 * Flightless birds of New Zealand (source)
 * Islands in Germany (source)
 * Clandestine center of detention and torture in Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina (source)
 * Same-sex married couples where neither partner has a sexual orientation (source)
 * Schema examples:
 * Danish numerals
 * Danish hyphenation


 * Development
 * Fix an issue with the pop up of Wikidata Tours (T223999)
 * Call WikibaseLexeme API with baserevid parameter from the UI (T217245)
 * Fix a bug with CheckConstraintsJob (T227450)
 * Fix a bug with wbgetentities when getting Lexeme subentities (T223995)
 * Add editing widget/input to client edit modal: (T226998)
 * Add tags parameter to Wikibase APIs that edit entities: (T229917)
 * More work on the the production Termbox service
 * tidying up our browser test suite (T229910)
 * adding browser tests for basic editing (T230187)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


 * 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) 16:50, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #379
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4-Wikidata Affinity Group call: Wikimania recap, 27 August. Agenda


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * What we talk about when we talk about Wikidata quality: a literature survey, by Alessandro Piscopo and Elena Simperl
 * Introduction to OpenRefine in video by Emma (University of Edimburgh) (12min)
 * Old but gold: introduction to Wikidata by Asaf Bartov (7min)


 * Tool of the week
 * In this new section, you can share your favourite tool with the other Wikidata users. You can add some suggestions here.
 * Integraality generates tables to assess the completeness of properties on sets of items, such as properties on railway stations for instance. Tables are automatically updated and highly configurable.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Edit 1,000,000,000 - the one-billionth, or 10⁹ - was the creation of by User:Stevenliuyi
 * New termbox interface on mobile is enabled - you can view and edit easily the labels, descriptions and aliases on mobile devices (full announcement)
 * Random finds from WikiProject Random
 * Starting from July 2019, Wikimedia Sverige and the Wikimedia Foundation's GLAM team work together to create a more sustainable technical infrastructure for global heritage and content partnerships. Read more about this initiative on meta.wikimedia.org.
 * Wiki Loves Monuments and other Wikimedia Commons campaign organizers can now specify structured data fields in the campaign UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons.
 * The new termbox interface is now enabled on mobile, you can edit labels, descriptions and aliases from a mobile device


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: ordeal by, newspaper archive url, periphrastic definition, lexeme for periphrastic definition, link for periphrastic definition
 * External identifiers: Awards & Winners artist ID, eska.pl topic ID, Image-Line artist ID, Jango artist ID, LiveXLive artist ID, mora artist ID, RMF FM artist ID, Supraphonline artist ID, TuneIn artist ID, YesAsia author ID, AZLyrics.com artist ID, Bandsintown artist ID, musica.com artist ID, OpenWeatherMap city ID, RauteMusik artist ID, Scribd publication ID, SongMeanings artist ID, SoundHound artist ID, Belgian Species List ID, Dizionario biografico dei Friulani ID, Mafab.hu film ID, jog.fm artist ID, Lyrics007 artist ID, moly.hu book ID, Liber Liber author ID, GreatSong artist ID, LINE BLOG user ID, Lyrics Translations artist ID, Allcinema person ID, Eiga.com person ID, MTV Polska artist ID, MTV UK artist ID, Vox FM artist ID, Eiga.com movie ID, Transfermarkt team ID, Insects (Insecta) of the World ID, BEACON ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: associated with, present on map, translated title, Wikia Article URL 2, position in sequence, color produced, Itch.io ID, mobile formatter, subscribers, Attribution text, difficulty
 * External identifiers: RPGGeek, Faculté des sciences de Nancy ID, DIBAVOD ID, Fundación Goya en Aragón ID, Estudanky ID, LongSwimsDB ID, L-number, Dove.org work ID, WTA ID, iTunes (gb) artist ID, Arnet Miner publication ID, Chinese Engineering Expert Tank ID, Open Science Framework ID, Laws & Regulations Database of the Republic of China ID, NLP ID, SCTrails ID, Transporter Classification Database ID, UN treaty reference, musicbrainz tag, Identification code for universities and colleges, Toons Mag, YouTube Music channel ID, The Independent topic ID, Pandora artist ID


 * Query examples:
 * https://w.wiki/7UY timeline of competitions of the 2019-2020 figure skating season]
 * Future figure skating competitions
 * Currently happening figure skating competitions
 * French ships whose name start with an A (source)
 * Map of birth places of delegates to the Alaska Constitutional Convention (source)
 * Schema examples:
 * human chromosome, built on chromosome, built on sequence assembly
 * Lunar crater


 * Development
 * Deploy mobile termbox, follow-up and bug fixing
 * Deploy then rollback the move of "Wikidata item" link on clients due to cache issues (T66315)
 * Work on adjusting the save button of the Entity Schema editor (T230398)
 * Work on the bridge emitting button (T230326)
 * Introduce a header for the bridge modal (T230328)
 * Produce initial statistics/indicators for the Wikidata Languages Landscape (T223119)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:05, 26 August 2019 (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!

Thank you
Thanks for speaking up at meta:User_talk:Billinghurst.

Your talk page on meta referred me to here, so I am commenting here. Your question is quite reasonable.  Blue Rasberry  (talk)  22:55, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

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