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The Signpost: 1 March 2020
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Administrators' newsletter – March 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2020).

Administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Athaenara • DeltaQuad
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Fishhead64 • Kudpung • Mikaey

Bureaucrat changes
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CheckUser changes
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Oversight changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * Following an RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops must not undo or alter CheckUser or Oversight blocks, rather than should not.
 * A request for comment confirmed that sandboxes of established but inactive editors may not be blanked due solely to inactivity.

Technical news
 * Following a discussion, Twinkle's default CSD behavior will soon change, most likely this week. After the change, Twinkle will default to "tagging mode" if there is no CSD tag present, and default to "deletion mode" if there is a CSD tag present.  You will be able to always default to "deletion mode" (the current behavior) using your Twinkle preferences.

Miscellaneous
 * Following the 2020 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: BRPever, Krd, Martin Urbanec, MusikAnimal, Sakretsu, Sotiale, and Tks4Fish. There are a total of seven editors that have been appointed as stewards, the most since 2014.
 * The 2020 appointees for the Ombudsman commission are Ajraddatz and Uzoma Ozurumba; they will serve for one year.

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Wikidata weekly summary #405
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Kostas20142


 * Events
 * March 7: Wikidata introductions and editathon during OpenDataDay in Hasselt, Belgium
 * July 2-4, Lisbon: WikiData Days 2020. Call for proposals is open until April 15.
 * Program submissions for the Celtic Knot Conference are open until March 30th. Submissions about languages on Wikidata, GLAM or supporting minority languages are very welcome.


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Tutorial on how to use machine learning with Wikidata.
 * Bob DuCharme's blog post: Populating a Schema.org dataset from Wikidata
 * About Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons:
 * Explainer video with a beginner-level introduction about Structured Data on Commons
 * Connecting the work of three generations of decorative artists, with structured data, by Sandra Fauconnier
 * Structured Data on Commons and GLAM: open questions and fresh challenges, by Sandra Fauconnier
 * OpenRefine: results of the 2020 user survey


 * Tool of the week
 * Wikidata graph builder is a front-end on top of the Query service, allowing to easily build graphs.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The Wikidata Languages Landscape dashboard provides insights into the ways languages are organized and used in Wikidata and across the Wikimedia projects that reuse Wikidata.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: business model, format of creative work, associated electoral district
 * External identifiers: Adelsvapen ID, Irish playography play ID, Irish playography person ID, Corpus Corporum author ID, Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon ID, Adventure Gamers company ID, Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland: 1880-2000 ID, NHLR ID, The Washington Post writer ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Type of bow used, staking lock-up period, validator bond lock-up period, URL match pattern, Pertainym, cognate, symbol of, transactions per month, compatible wallets, minimum amount to run a validator, minimum amount to participate in voting
 * External identifiers: Kooora player ID, Marvel Comics creators ID, DC Comics talent ID, EcuRed, IGCD fictional car ID, Chicago Landmarks ID, URL on Nintendo eShop, BC Register of Historic Places ID


 * Query examples:
 * Updated chart of the number of infections and deaths caused since the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2, as reported by the World Health Organisation
 * British Prime Ministers with children under the age of 5 when elected, or born during their time in office (source)
 * Timeline of countries of origin of the winner of the European Film Award for Best European Film
 * People with profiles on the Washington Post website


 * Development
 * Started working on Federated Properties for Wikibase
 * Bridge: more style adjustments
 * Research on reference rendering for the Bridge (T244987)
 * Disable WDQS jump to focus when used in an iframe (T245637)

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) 16:28, 2 March 2020 (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 #406
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Closed request for adminship: Fralambert, Kostas20142, welcome on board!
 * New request for comments: Restrictions on making items


 * Events
 * WikiGap Challenge, online editing challenge to improve the coverage of women on Wikipedia and Wikidata, from March 8th to April 8th


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Knowledge Graphs on the Web -- an Overview - Nicolas Heist, et al.
 * Some issues with this paper's reporting of Wikidata are identified in this Twitter thread
 * The List Revolution: Creating dynamic lists using linked data, by Alex Stinson


 * Tool of the week
 * wikibase-cli (Q87194660) now (>= v9.2.0) has a batch mode, and EditGroups support (auto-activated for batch edits targeting Wikidata): ready to make some mass edit, and open for feedback!


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The WikidataCon 2019 grant report has been published
 * EqualStreetNames.Brussels shows streets in Brussels named after men and women, visualized with data from OpenStreetMap and Wikidata


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: The Washington Post contributor ID, DoME artist ID, ArchiWebture ID, Museu de Memes ID, WeChangEd ID, GreatSchools ID, Czech War Graves Register, Marvel Comics creators ID, DC Comics talent ID, The First Amendment Encyclopedia ID, Indiegogo project ID, RealGM basketball coach ID, Global Music Rights work ID, SESAC work number, Directory of Maîtres d'art, Chicago Landmarks ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: SIUSA archive conservator ID, ToposText IDs, content partnership category, eligible award recipient, NetBSD package, OpenBSD port, Number of recoveries, footedness, HTML autocomplete attribute, SoloTutes, see talk page discussion at
 * External identifiers: BC Register of Historic Places ID, Encyclopédie sur le développement des jeunes enfants ID, RFI Musique ID, Moravian Lives, EL, Dictionnaire des femmes de l’ancienne France ID, Google Scholar case ID, TaDiRAH ID, Movie Review Query Engine ID, SkiMo Stats ID


 * Query examples:
 * Subjects and panelists of the BBC radio programme In Our Time (source)
 * People affected by COVID-19
 * Map of hillforts in the UK (source)
 * Images for language items (source)


 * Development
 * Querying the URL datatype with haswbstatement is now possible (T243693). It will take two to three months before URLs are indexed for all Wikidata items.
 * Wikidata Bridge: more style fixes, preparing a prototype to show how we will display references
 * Fixing various production errors
 * Monitoring the run of wb_terms migration
 * Fixing an issue with the Commons files search field (T196165)

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) 16:34, 9 March 2020 (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 #407
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Closed request for comments: Wikidata:Wikidata to use data schemas to standardise data structure on a subject


 * Events
 * Note: Due to the ongoing COVID-19 situation, most meetups, including all those funded by Wikimedia Foundation grants, have been cancelled, or moved online, for the foreseeable future.
 * Past: Wikidata workshop at the central library of Göttingen. Slides: connecting Wikidata and other databases (in German)
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Paris, March 20th, will take place online starting at 20:00 on IRC (freenode:wikidata-fr)
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #5, March 22
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Wochenende in Ulm, June 12-14
 * Postponed:
 * Wikidata Days 2020 (July, Portugal) will be postponed (more information)
 * WikiCite Satellite Cologne 2020 (May, Germany) is postponed until "late 2020"
 * Cancelled:
 * Wikimedia Hackathon (9-11 May, Tirana) is cancelled due to COVID-19.


 * '''Press, articles, blog posts
 * People First: Wikimedia’s Response to COVID-19 - Update from Katherine Maher, Wikimedia Foundation CEO
 * Wikimedia Foundation’s Knowledge Infrastructure with Grant Ingersoll, CTO of Wikimedia Foundation
 * Improving Neural Named Entity Recognition with Gazetteers - "describes how to generate gazetteers from the Wikidata knowledge graph"
 * Introduction to Wikidata video by Jason Evans and Aaron Morris, available both in English and in Welsh
 * Video of the live Wikidata Querying, March 15th, by WikidataFacts


 * Tool of the week
 * TabulistBot, a tool to generate and update tabular data on Commons, based on Wikidata SPARQL queries. Sample: earthquakes.tab


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New help page: Suggesters and selectors
 * All identifiers are now sorted mostly alphabetically according to the RfC regarding the sorting of identifiers, which remains open if you have improvement proposals. Feel free to comment here!
 * Maximilian Klein applied for a project grant to merge and improve WHGI and Denelezh, tools that heavily rely on Wikidata to provide statistics about gender gap and biographical content in Wikimedia projects.
 * QuickStatements change (4 March). QuickStatements is now executing "run in background" batches with the same priority as direct batches run from the browser. Background batches may now run many times faster than they previously did (discussion), when the WDQS updater can handle this.
 * News and discussions about Structured Data on Commons SPARQL endpoint


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: historic county, corresponding HTML autocomplete attribute
 * External identifiers: Joconde Discovery ID, Joconde Genèse ID, Dictionnaire des femmes de l’ancienne France ID, Cell Ontology ID, Scilit work ID, NetBSD package, OpenBSD port, VR GameCritic ID, DAR ancestor ID, FandangoNow ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: descriptive solubility, Unicode character (item), Donations, endorsed by, countermeasure, Venue of the final, Tournament format, tilt
 * External identifiers: Social Blade YouTube channel ID, Dizionario di Filosofia ID, re:publica speaker ID, ACM Conference ID, HuijiWiki Wiki ID, ACM Journal ID, m3db.com film ID, m3db.com person ID, TripAdvisor ID 2


 * Query examples:
 * Timeline of films about pandemics
 * World map of hospitals (source)
 * English and Scottish health trusts & boards (source)
 * Videogames nominated at the Pégases award (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject COVID-19
 * Newest database reports: COVID-19 deaths


 * Development
 * Add monolingual codes nrf-gg (Guernésiais), nrf-je (Jèrriais), thanks to Mbch331! (T165648)
 * Article Placeholder: make the entity field required (T247478)
 * Remove legacy Wikibase service containers (T245865)
 * Fix an error UnresolvedEntityRedirectException when viewing certain Wikidata item pages (T243779)
 * Fix an issue with new edit summaries not always showing what expected (T246873)
 * Federated properties: enable search with remote properties (wbsearchentities) (T246349)
 * showing the updated Wikipedia article after changing a value via Bridge (T235208)
 * research how to do reference rendering (T244987)

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
 * 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) 16:57, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #408
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events
 * Upcoming: Wikidata and Wikibase office hour, April 7th, 18:00 Berlin time (UTC+2) in the Wikidata Telegram group
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #6, March 29
 * Postponed: Wikimania Bangkok is postponed until 2021


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Wikidata as a knowledge graph for the life sciences, Andra Waagmeester et.al.
 * Tensor Decompositions for Temporal Knowledge Base Completion ("Additionally, we propose a new dataset for knowledge base completion constructed from Wikidata ... for evaluating temporal and non-temporal link prediction methods.")


 * Tool of the week
 * Wikidata Lexeme Forms allows quickly generating a new lexeme with all its forms in selected languages; you can also use the tool to add forms to an existing lexeme, or bulk upload many lexemes and forms at once.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * A task force is formed under WikiProject India to work on 2020 coronavirus pandemic in India (Q84055514)
 * Important for tool maintainers: last steps of wb_terms table migration (wb_terms is not updated anymore and will be renamed next week)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: food energy, quantity symbol, depicted format, electron configuration, endorsed by, ordered by, research subject recruitment status, footedness, IM channel, number of recoveries, number of clinical tests
 * External identifiers: FandangoNow ID, CVR person ID, Faculté des sciences de Nancy ID, Filmfront film ID, stargate-wiki.de article, AncientFaces person ID, Decine21 ID, ACM Conference ID, Clavis Patrum Latinorum ID, ExoticA ID, Hrvatska enciklopedija ID, ACM Journal ID, Kanopy ID, Mirabile author ID, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca ID, Clavis Patrum Graecorum ID, Mirabile manuscript ID, Mirabile saint ID, Mirabile title ID, Poeti d'Italia in lingua latina author ID, Treccani Dizionario di Filosofia ID, Colecovision Zone ID, NHS Health A to Z ID, EH.Net Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History ID, Gry Online company ID, Podchaser podcast ID, Haz-Map ID, Social Security Death Index entry, ColecoVision.dk ID, US Bureau of Prisons Inmate Register Number, Google Scholar case ID, Adventure Games series ID, Trakt.tv ID, Compendium heroicum ID, Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development English ID, Encyclopédie sur le développement des jeunes enfants ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: tilt, Dog and cat breed registries, terminology, perpetrator, virtual tour, victims, décès, subpopulation 2, Institutionskennzeichen (IK), ODMP person ID, is metaclass for, correct spelling
 * External identifiers: Unified registration number, AGROVOC ID, Forest Stewardship Council Certificate Code, Forest Stewardship Council License Code, PIV Online ID, MusicBrainz genre ID, Curran Index Contributor ID, Curran Index Periodical ID, Artprice artist ID, Reta Vortaro, National Register of Historic Monuments in Bosnia and Herzegovina ID, identifiant co-optimus.com, Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon ID, Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity ID, CIRIS author ID, motorsportstats.com series, National-Football-Teams.com club ID, motorsportstats.com driver ID, motorsportstats.com team ID, CAB ID, motorsportstats.com venue ID, curlingzone.com ID, Visit Tuscany ID


 * Query examples:
 * Most recent common ancestors of George W. Bush and Queen Elizabeth II
 * Notable people with COVID-19 by number of sitelinks
 * COVID-19 case statistics for India:
 * State-level map
 * State-level line graph
 * Lakes spanning at least 3 countries (source)
 * Michelin starred restaurants in Luxembourg (source)


 * Development
 * Federated properties: set up a test system (T247734)
 * ore work on search for remote properties (T246349)
 * Bridge: more work on messages about the license (T238728)

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) 16:24, 23 March 2020 (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!

The Signpost: 29 March 2020
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Wikidata weekly summary #409
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events
 * Today: Edit tools for Wikidata, on-line workshop in Polish, access link, March 30, 17:00 GMT (7pm Warsaw time)
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #7, April 5
 * Upcoming: Wikidata for beginners, April 1
 * Upcoming: Wiki Workshop, researchers forum (fully remote), on April 21. More information, registration
 * Upcoming: The Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference will take place fully remotely in July 2020. Call for submissions with remote formats is open until April 30th.
 * Upcoming: the Wikidata Wochenende (previously in Ulm) will take place fully remote on June 12-14


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Video: How can Wikimedia projects help fight the pandemic, by Susanna Ånäs
 * Investigating Software Usage in the Social Sciences: A Knowledge Graph Approach ("we linked the entities of the knowledge graph to other knowledge bases such as the Microsoft Academic Knowledge Graph, the Software Ontology, and Wikidata")
 * Wikidata Queries around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and pandemic (free eBook)
 * Video: Live SPARQL editing in French by Vigneron
 * Video: Live editing in English by Ainali and Abbe98: Youtube, Twitch, Periscope, Facebook


 * Tool of the week
 * IdentifierInput: when adding identifiers, it lets you paste the full URL, and extracts the ID part


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * About Wikidata dumps:
 * No second XML dump in March
 * RDF and JSON dumps generation is broken (no new dump since March 11th, fix in progress)
 * Wikidata knowledge imbalance dashboard - Alpha release
 * Internet Archive has launched a National Emergency Library and would like to work together with WikiCite
 * wb_terms migration: a temporary table has been created, the current wb_terms table will be emptied on April 6th (more details)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: generational suffix, LiverTox likelihood score, size designation, perpetrator, victim
 * External identifiers: IGCD game ID, Kickstarter project ID, Gram.pl game ID, Kooora/Goalzz player ID, RFI Musique artist ID, VideoGamer.com game ID, Nobel Laureate API ID, VGMRips system ID, VGMRips company ID, GameRevolution game ID, PIV Online ID, Movie Review Query Engine ID, VcBA ID, m3db.com film ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Chinese Clinical Trial Registry identifier, donated to, number of hospitalized cases, number of home cases, ARK formatter, Filceolaire, viability on surface, entry receptor, birth rate
 * External identifiers: SAN archive producer ID, SAR ancestor ID, National Catalog of Hospitals ID, Pinakes copyist or possessor ID, Frankfurter Personenlexikon ID, Encyklopedia Solidarności ID, Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters author ID, identifiant Geneastar, Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters work ID, Women of Scotland ID, Women of Scotland subject ID, World Biographical Information System ID, COTREX trail ID, Natural Atlas ID, Apache Project ID, Amazon Prime Video ID, Archival Resource Key, UM-BBD compound ID, BitterDB Compound ID, FooDB compound ID, ModelSEED compound ID, Hopital.fr ID, BookBrainz publisher ID, Macdonald Dictionary ID, FHF hospital group ID, FHF establishment ID, Ameli ID, Pascal et Francis ID, Retronews ID, Elephind.com, What Do They Know organisation ID, Papers Past, Internetowy Polski Słownik Biograficzny ID, I-Revues ID, BDSP ID


 * Query examples:
 * People born more than a year after one of their parents
 * UK MPs who were born after their father's death (source)
 * National flags representing mountains (source)
 * Map of Umgebindehäuser (Upper Lusatian houses) (source)
 * Map of megaliths in Morbihan (Bretagne) (source)


 * Development
 * Fix an issue with the Wikidata dumps (T248612)
 * Migrate to and read from new store for item terms (T219123)
 * Create wb_terms_no_longer_updated to ease the transition to the new tables
 * Bridge: improve the rendering of references (T238661)
 * More work on editing references (T240333)
 * Continue setting up a test system to work on federated properties
 * More research on suggesting references

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.

<div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:22, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Create a scraper for Mix'n'match from the catalogue list.
 * 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!