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Wikidata weekly summary #431
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events
 * Past: Editing contest - Members of the 3rd Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana. By Global Open Initiative - YouTube (1), (2)
 * Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 1 at 18:00 CEST
 * Upcoming: WMF search platform team office hour, September 2nd at 17:00 CEST (15:00 GMT). Etherpad, Google Meet. You can come and chat about the Wikidata & Commons Query Service.
 * Upcoming: Wikidata birthday events organizers call, September 2nd at 19:00 CEST.
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #28, September 6
 * Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #18 Facebook, YouTube, September 5 at 19.00 UTC
 * Upcoming: Onam label-a-thon (September 1st and 2nd): Online label-a-thon to improve Wikidata items related to Kerala and Malayalam on this Onam holidays.


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Video: How to use the Wikidata Query Service, by Dr Chris Langley
 * Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #17 Facebook, YouTube
 * Video: Creating a Wikidata item (in Spanish) - YouTube
 * WikiCite and bibliographic data on Wikidata, how to contribute and how to view it with Scholia (in Spanish) - YouTube
 * Wikipedia's not so little sister is finding its own way - article by Lydia Pintscher in the Wikipedia Signpost


 * Tool of the week
 * Wikidata for Firefox is a browser extension that displays Wikidata items while browsing the web, adds missing IDs and extracts information from websites to Wikidata.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Entity Explosion, the browser add-on for Chrome is now also available for Firefox. When the user visits a web page, it displays data from Wikidata, about the subject of that page.
 * WMF will be performing data center maintenance operations by switching all traffic to the secondary data centre on Tuesday, September 1st 2020. You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for up to an hour from 14:00 UTC
 * The Wikidata community now has a channel on the newly-established Wikimedia Chat service.
 * reconciler, a Python wrapper for Open Refine's API to reconcile pandas data frames with Wikidata items.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: Butcher tableau, front and back matter, external auditor
 * External identifiers: edukado.net Panteono ID, Chrome Webstore extension ID, PARADISEC Catalog, NPR station ID, JSTOR publisher ID, Emporis company ID, Art Bonus ID, British Museum object ID, monumenta.ch ID, The Living New Deal ID, Jewish Virtual Library person ID, YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe ID, Spanish Artists from the Fourth to the Twentieth Century ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: parent superproperty, publisher of, performed at, Barcelona Public art identifier, opening hours (v.3), Fanbase name, aerial view, ground clearance, axle track, placeholder text element ID, displacement, Deutsche Bahn station abbreviation, entry in abbreviations table, Liturgical rank
 * External identifiers: NHK Archives Portal person ID, EPA Ecoregion Level 1 Code, EPA Ecoregion Level 2 Code, EPA Ecoregion Level 3 Code, EPA Ecoregion US Level 3 Code, EPA Ecoregion US Level 4 Code, Encyclopaedia of Architects, Vienna 1770–1945, Firefox add-on ID, London Stock Exchange company, Fatcat ID, NDL law ID, e-Gov law ID, OFAC sanction ID, British and Irish Furniture Makers Online ID, Library of Congress Children's Subject Headings ID, Occupational Outlook Handbook ID, Regesta Ecclesiastica Salisburgensia ID, Wisconsin Historical Society NRHP ID, YUAG ID, Grove Music Online ID, Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe person ID, McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia ID, Dostoyevsky and His Entourage ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of cities and towns in the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland combined statistical area - OSM/Wikidata query
 * Map of structures that have won architectural awards - OSM/Wikidata query
 * Birth places of Buffalo Sabres players (Source)
 * Timeline of all of Bird’s tunes (Source)
 * Approximate proportion of people called "John" in any given UK Parliament since 1372 (Source)
 * People born in Czechia who died in Germany and vice versa, by decade of birth (Source)
 * [https://sophox.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fosm%20%3FmakeLabel%20%3FmodelLabel%20%3Flayer%20%3Fcoordinates%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20Prevent%20optimizer%20from%20querying%20for%20everything%20tagged%20with%20wikidata%3D%2a%20before%20querying%20the%20service.%0A%20%20hint%3AQuery%20hint%3Aoptimizer%20%22None%22%20.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Query%20OpenStreetMap%20for%20decommissioned%20aircraft%0A%20%20%3Fosm%20osmt%3Ahistoric%20%22aircraft%22.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Get%20the%20make%20and%2For%20model%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fosm%20%28osmt%3Amanufacturer%3Awikidata%7Cosmt%3Aaircraft%3Amodel%3Awikidata%29%20%3FmakeModel.%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Query%20Wikidata%20for%20the%20make%2Fmodel%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20If%20it%E2%80%99s%20a%20model%2C%20get%20the%20make%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FmakeModel%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ76920834%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP176%20%3Fmake.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%3FmakeModel%20AS%20%3Fmodel%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Get%20the%20model%20name%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fmodel%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FmodelLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FmodelLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20A%20make%20must%20be%20a%20business%20to%20distinguish%20it%20from%20a%20model%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FmakeModel%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ4830453.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%3FmakeModel%20AS%20%3Fmake%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Or%20it%20must%20be%20part%20of%20an%20industry%20%28e.g.%2C%20Wright%20Brothers%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FmakeModel%20%28wdt%3AP106%7Cwdt%3AP452%29%20%5B%5D.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%3FmakeModel%20AS%20%3Fmake%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Get%20the%20manufacturer%E2%80%99s%20name%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fmake%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FmakeLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FmakeLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND%28COALESCE%28%3FmakeLabel%2C%20%22Unknown%22%29%20AS%20%3Flayer%29%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Get%20coordinates%20to%20display%20on%20a%20map%0A%20%20%3Fosm%20osmm%3Aloc%20%3Fcoordinates.%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20ASC%28%3FmakeLabel%29 Location of decommissioned aircraft] - OSM/Wikidata query (Source)
 * Railway network in Czechia (Source)
 * People born in Czechia who died in Germany and vice versa, by decade (of birth) (Source)
 * List of locations of Woolf's books (Source)


 * Development
 * Working on Automated Configuration Discovery to make it easier for tool builders to make their tools work for other Wikibase instances as well
 * Polishing remaining pieces of the first version of Federated Properties to make it possible to use Wikidata's Properties in other Wikibase instances
 * Continuing to work on improving the way ORES automatically scores the quality of an Item to make it more accurate

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 · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:49, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Editing news 2020 #4
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Reply tool


The Reply tool  has been available as a Beta Feature at the Arabic, Dutch, French and Hungarian Wikipedias since 31 March 2020. The first analysis showed positive results.


 * More than 300 editors used the Reply tool at these four Wikipedias. They  posted more than 7,400 replies during the study period.
 * Of the people who posted a comment with the Reply tool, about 70% of them used the tool multiple times. About 60% of them used it on multiple days.
 * Comments from Wikipedia editors are positive. One said, أعتقد أن الأداة تقدم فائدة ملحوظة؛ فهي تختصر الوقت لتقديم رد بدلًا من التنقل بالفأرة إلى وصلة تعديل القسم أو الصفحة، التي تكون بعيدة عن التعليق الأخير في الغالب، ويصل المساهم لصندوق التعديل بسرعة باستخدام الأداة.  ("I think the tool has a significant impact; it saves time to reply while the classic way is to move with a mouse to the Edit link to edit the section or the page which is generally far away from the comment. And the user reaches to the edit box so quickly to use the Reply tool.")

The Editing team released the Reply tool as a Beta Feature at eight other Wikipedias in early August. Those Wikipedias are in the Chinese, Czech, Georgian, Serbian, Sorani Kurdish, Swedish, Catalan, and Korean languages. If you would like to use the Reply tool at your wiki, please tell User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF).

The Reply tool is still in active development. Per request from the Dutch Wikipedia and other editors, you will be able to customize the edit summary. (The default edit summary is "Reply".) A "ping" feature is available in the Reply tool's visual editing mode. This feature searches for usernames. Per request from the Arabic Wikipedia, each wiki will be able to set its own preferred symbol for pinging editors. Per request from editors at the Japanese and Hungarian Wikipedias, each wiki can define a preferred signature prefix in the page MediaWiki:Discussiontools-signature-prefix. For example, some languages omit spaces before signatures. Other communities want to add a dash or a non-breaking space.

New requirements for user signatures

 * The new requirements for custom user signatures began on 6 July 2020. If you try to create a custom signature that does not meet the requirements, you will get an error message.
 * Existing custom signatures that do not meet the new requirements will be unaffected temporarily . Eventually, all custom signatures will need to meet the new requirements. You can check your signature and see lists of active editors whose custom signatures need to be corrected.  Volunteers have been contacting editors who need to change their custom signatures.  If you need to change your custom signature, then please read the help page.

Next: New discussion tool
Next, the team will be working on a tool for quickly and easily starting a new discussion section to a talk page. To follow the development of this new tool, please put the New Discussion Tool project page on your watchlist.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:47, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-36
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * This is a reminder. All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 14:00 and 15:00 UTC. Please check on the details on the announcement message.

Changes later this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  20:08, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Short descriptions
Hi, just a note to say that the documentation for short description content says: "Use sentence case, starting with a capital letter ...".  Esowteric + Talk  11:35, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you. :) Chewings72 (talk) 12:01, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #432
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: Rob Fernandez (Wikimedia District of Columbia) on Listeria, a tool that uses SPARQL queries to define a list, and provides a bot that will update a wiki page containing that list if the results of that SPARQL query change, all based on Wikidata, 08 September. Agenda
 * Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 8 at 18:00 CEST
 * Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #19 Facebook, YouTube, September 10
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #29, September 13


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Semantic Wikibase has been released by Professional.Wiki (Demo video)
 * Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #18, workflows for SPARQL queries and QuickStatements Facebook, YouTube
 * OpenRefine 3.4 was released
 * How can I get data on all the dams in the world? Use Wikidata. By Addshore
 * Wikidata Training Workshop 2, by Canadian Arts Presenting Association - YouTube
 * Contributing to Wikidata - (Parts 1, 2, 3 & 4)
 * Contributing to Wikidata (in French) - (Parts 1, 2, 3 & 4)
 * Video: How to use QuickStatements - a tool to bulk upload data onto Wikidata. By Dr Sara Thomas


 * Tool of the week
 * is a dashboard that measures Wikidata's usage and coverage on Wikimedia Foundation projects.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Entity Explosion, the browser add-on for Chrome is now also available for Firefox. When the user visits a web page, it displays data from Wikidata, about the subject of that page.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: LSG local body code, NYARC Discovery ID, Encyclopaedia of Architects, Vienna 1770–1945 ID, Hrvatska tehnička enciklopedija ID, ICP artist ID, TracesOfWar person ID, Firefox add-on ID, NHK Archives Portal person ID, Hrvatski biografski leksikon ID, InciWeb ID, YUAG ID, Wikipedia Library partner ID, FIPRESCI person ID, Anais do Museu Paulista article ID, Legacies of British Slave-ownership place ID, Wisconsin Historical Society NRHP ID, Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: applies to form or aspect, blocked on the territory of, Liturgical category, Flickr image URL, turning radius, number of reboots, financials URL, SI base units, rank insignia2
 * External identifiers: Syro-Malabar Church Parish ID, Database of Umgebinde houses in Bohemian Switzerland ID, Re-Member ID, DIL ID, Naver Vibe Artist ID, American Battlefield Trust battlefield ID, American Battlefield Trust person ID, L'Officiel des spectacles ID, VA facility ID, Hikr Waypoint ID, tvmaze ID, Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia ID, Danish educational institution number, Past Fellow of the Royal Society ID, photoLondon ID, uta-net.com song ID, Historic Montana ID, KHRI ID, Seattle Art Museum ID, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art artwork ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of companies developing/manufacturing a COVID-19 vaccine candidate that is at least in a phase 1 clinical trial
 * [https://sophox.org/embed.html#SELECT%20%3Fosm%20%3Famount%20%3Fiso4217%20%3FamountUSD%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20hint%3AQuery%20hint%3Aoptimizer%20%22None%22%20.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Query%20Wikidata%20for%0A%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Currencies%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fcurrency%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ8142%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Their%20ISO%204217%20codes%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP498%20%3Fiso4217%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Their%20exchange%20rate%20statements%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP2284%20%3FrateStatement.%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Preferred%20statement%20about%20a%20USD%20exchange%20rate%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FrateStatement%20wikibase%3Arank%20wikibase%3APreferredRank%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20psv%3AP2284%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3FpreferredConversion%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ4917%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Normal%20statement%20about%20a%20USD%20exchange%20rate%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FrateStatement%20wikibase%3Arank%20wikibase%3ANormalRank%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20psv%3AP2284%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3FnormalConversion%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ4917%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Normally%20a%20triple%20would%20use%20the%20preferred%20statement%20if%20available%2C%20falling%20back%20to%20a%20normal%20statement%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20However%2C%20we%20have%20to%20do%20the%20fallback%20manually%20because%20we%20got%20the%20raw%20statements%20in%20order%20to%20filter%20by%20qualifier%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28COALESCE%28%3FpreferredConversion%2C%20%3FnormalConversion%29%20AS%20%3Fconversion%29%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20BOUND%28%3Fconversion%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Query%20OpenStreetMap%20for%20prices%20of%20services%0A%20%20%3Fosm%20osmt%3Acharge%20%3Fcharge.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Only%20flat%20fees%2C%20since%20rates%20by%20time%20are%20difficult%20to%20compare%20across%20service%20types%0A%20%20FILTER%20REGEX%28%3Fcharge%2C%20%22%5E%5B0-9%5D%2B%28%3F%3A%5C%5C.%5B0-9%5D%2B%29%3F%20%5BA-Z%5D%7B3%7D%24%22%29%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Parse%20the%20price%20and%20convert%20it%20from%20the%20local%20currency%20to%20USD%0A%20%20BIND%28xsd%3Adecimal%28STRBEFORE%28%3Fcharge%2C%20%22%20%22%29%29%20AS%20%3Famount%29%0A%20%20BIND%28STRAFTER%28%3Fcharge%2C%20%22%20%22%29%20AS%20%3Fiso4217%29%0A%20%20BIND%28%3Famount%20%2A%20%3Fconversion%20AS%20%3FamountUSD%29%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3FamountUSD%29%0ALIMIT%20100 A table of the 100 highest fees charged for using various kinds of facilities, normalized to United States dollars] - OSM/Wikidata query
 * Youngest age of UK MPs leaving office since 1900 (Source)
 * Longest time UK MPs lived after leaving office since 1900 (Source)
 * British cabinet members with past military service (Source)
 * Earliest written record of 10 largest Czech cities (Source)
 * Churches dedicated to Czech patron St. Wenceslas (blue) and Moravian patrons St. Cyril and Methodeus (orange) (Source)
 * German municipality names ending with -in, -ing, -heim (Source)


 * Development
 * Added Wikidata support to Japanese Wikivoyage. T261451
 * Investigating the nature of our training outliers to improve the way ORES automatically scores the quality of an Item.
 * Working on error that sometimes causes Wikidata UI to report 2 error messages when saving a sitelink in an item. T260869
 * Completed various investigations to make an informed decision on the output format of WikibaseManifest files (automated configuration detection for toolbuilders) T261285
 * Completed various bug fixes and wrap-up tasks to conclude the major engineering work on the Federated Properties project
 * More work on Item Quality Scoring and Federated Properties

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 · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:43, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-37
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week
 * Normally pages can be moved to a title that has no existing page yet or to a page that has only one revision, which is a redirect to the page to be moved. A new user right allows editors to move pages over one-revision pages that redirect to anywhere.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 September. It will be on all wikis from 10 September (calendar).
 * Octicons-tools.svg All MediaWiki API modules will now use  instead of  . This was inconsistent before.

Future changes
 * The Wikipedia Android app team might work on patrolling tools in the future. You can let them know what tools would be useful for you or for less experienced patrollers. See the page on mediawiki.org.
 * OTRS will be updated to a new version. This will probably take around two days. OTRS agents will not have access to the system during these days. Emails that come in during the update will be delivered when the update is done. The plan is to start around 08:00 UTC on 14 September. This could change.
 * The Wikipedia Android app will send push notifications if users want them. This could help you see for example when someone wrote on your talk page or your edit was reverted. This will need Google Play Services to work. It will also be possible to get the app without Google Play Services but push notifications will not work. Google Play Services is also used to make the app work for Android 4.4 users.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Wikimedia code review could move to GitLab. It would be hosted on Wikimedia servers. You can take part in the consultation.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Dropdown menus in the Vector skin use a  class. This will not work in the future. Scripts can use   instead.   and   will also not work. Some scripts need to be updated. You can read more in Phabricator.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  15:59, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 40
 The Wikipedia Library Books & Bytes

Issue 40, July – August 2020 
 * New partnerships
 * Al Manhal
 * Ancestry
 * RILM
 * #1Lib1Ref May 2020 report
 * AfLIA hires a Wikipedian-in-Residence

Read the full newsletter Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --10:14, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #433
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Alternate disclosure policy


 * Events
 * Past: The Workshop On Open Citations And Open Scholarly Metadata 2020 took place in Bologna and online on September 9 and included a talk State of WikiCite in 2020, available on Zenodo via doi:10.5281/zenodo.4019954.
 * Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 15 at 18:00 CEST
 * Upcoming: Wikidata birthday organizers call, September 16th at 13:00 UTC/GMT
 * Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #20: Facebook, YouTube, September 19
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #30, September 20


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Video: Youtuber Tom Scott tries to answer the question What Is The Best Thing?, using Wikidata to curate a collection of "things", and an online poll for people to vote on those things.
 * "Our admiration for Wikidata and for the people who work with it knows no bounds. Having a single source of well modelled, massively interlinked, well managed data that anyone can query at the press of a button is a real thing of wonder." - says the UK Parliament data team
 * Houcemeddine Turki, et al. (2020). Using logical constraints to validate information in collaborative knowledge graphs: a study of COVID-19 on Wikidata (Zenodo Preprint).
 * Video: Wikidata basics short videos by Wikimedian in Residence at University of Edinburgh (YouTube)
 * A brief intro to Wikidata and how to set up an account
 * How to add a new item to Wikidata
 * How to add an image to Wikidata
 * Video: Creating a Mix'n'Match set for Queensland Biota on Wikidata - YouTube
 * Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #19: Cradle and colours in queries. Facebook, YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Mbabel is a tool that simplifies article creation by providing pre-made sentences based on Wikidata statements.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The consultation phase for the Wikimedia movement Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) is in progress until 6 October 2020. The UCoC drafting committee wants to learn which parts of the draft would present challenges for you or your work. What is missing from this draft? What do you like, and what could be improved?
 * All the lists of languages used on Wikidata: feel free to improve this draft documentation page.
 * The Wikidata development team is seeking to evaluate and improve the process of collecting and reacting to bug reports and feature requests. You can give feedback about your experience using this anonymous form until September 30th or add feedback publically to Wikidata talk:Contact the development team/Process review 2020.
 * WikiMap, a tool by User:DB111 that maps geocoded images from Commons and Wikipedia articles, now supports Wikidata items as well (Q99232292)
 * Wikidata QID's are approaching 9 digits. Now is the time to fix any code or schemas that assume that Q numbers are smaller than 9 characters.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: aerial view, ride height, category for the exterior of the item, axle track
 * External identifiers: Anais do Museu Paulista article ID, Legacies of British Slave-ownership place ID, Wisconsin Historical Society NRHP ID, Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe ID, Jewish Encyclopedia ID, Grove Music Online ID, Hikr waypoint ID, DIL ID, Seattle Art Museum ID, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art artwork ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: expansion of, Oakeshott typology, Slack URL, TDD number, Hill size, K point, number of negative votes, number of support votes
 * External identifiers: Historic Montana ID, KHRI ID, KinoWiki ID, BD Gest' series ID, Portugal. Dicionário Histórico ID, Discord username, China Treaty Database ID, Discord channel, Bollywood Hungama movie, NMC Heritage ID, identifiant d'un artiste département des arts graphiques du musée du Louvre, SPoT skater ID, Canadian Women Artists History Initiative ID, Lambiek Special pages, Lambiek comic magazines, Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank ID, Delft municipal monument ID


 * Query examples:
 * Shortest path of descent from Charlemagne to George Washington, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Elizabeth II
 * List of most recent common ancestors (ordered by number of total degrees separated) between George Washington and George W. Bush (9th cousin 8 times removed), George Washington and Barack Obama (12th cousin 9 times removed), George Washington and Elizabeth II (2th consin 7 times removed), George W. Bush and Barack Obama (11th cousin), George W. Bush and Elizabeth II (14th cousin once removed), Barack Obama and Elizabeth II (19th cousin 3 times removed)
 * Artists that have recorded songs in several languages, by number of different languages used (Source)
 * Average age of companies listed on major indices (Source)
 * Basque Country sister cities with world municipalities (Source)
 * Map of companies developing/manufacturing a COVID-19 vaccine candidate that is at least in a phase 1 clinical trial (Source)
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Map of mountains in Austria showing their heights; from red for the lowest through green to black for the highest] (Source)
 * Top World Heritage sites by number of paintings depicting them (Source)
 * [https://sophox.org/embed.html#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3Fosm%20%3FwdLabel%20%3FmaxPlayers%20%3Fcoordinates%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20hint%3AQuery%20hint%3Aoptimizer%20%22None%22%20.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fv%20%3FwdLabel%20%3FmaxPlayers%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Query%20the%20OpenStreetMap%20Wiki%20for%20data%20items%20of%20tags%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fosmd%20osmdt%3AP10%20osmd%3AQ723%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20their%20key-value%20pairs%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20osmdt%3AP19%20%3Fkv%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20their%20corresponding%20Wikidata%20concepts%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20osmdt%3AP12%20%3Fqid.%0A%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Convert%20the%20Wikidata%20QID%20from%20a%20string%20into%20a%20URL%2C%20which%20is%20how%20entities%20are%20normally%20represented%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28IRI%28CONCAT%28%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%22%2C%20%3Fqid%29%29%20AS%20%3Fwd%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Isolate%20the%20value%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28STRAFTER%28%3Fkv%2C%20%22%3D%22%29%20AS%20%3Fv%29%0A%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Query%20Wikidata%20for%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20The%20matching%20Wikidata%20item%20as%20long%20as%20it%20is%20a%20team%20sport%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fwd%20%28wdt%3AP31%7Cwdt%3AP279%29%2B%20wd%3AQ216048%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP1873%20%3FmaxPlayers.%0A%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20As%20long%20as%20between%2010%20and%2020%20players%20would%20be%20on%20the%20field%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3FmaxPlayers%20%3E%3D%2010%20%26%26%20%3FmaxPlayers%20%3C%3D%2020%29%0A%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Get%20the%20item%E2%80%99s%20label%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fwd%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FwdLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FwdLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Query%20OpenStreetMap%20for%20features%20tagged%20with%20this%20sport%0A%20%20%3Fosm%20osmt%3Asport%20%3Fv%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20osmm%3Aloc%20%3Fcoordinates.%0A%7D Map of sports pitches for team sports that require between 10 and 20 players on the field] - Wikidata/OSM query


 * Development
 * Fixing an error that sometimes causes Wikidata UI to report 2 error messages when saving a sitelink in an Item instead of just one. (T260869)
 * Development of version one of Federated Properties has concluded! Expect an announcement with timing of the release of this feature soon. Wikibase users who want an early look at the feature are invited to reach out to participate in the pre-release testing round.
 * Development of the WikibaseManifest extension has continued into its second sprint; we focused on determining a product specification for the Manifest output.
 * Finishing a draft documentation for a REST API to get it ready for a feedback round before implementation.
 * Finished improvements to the automated scoring of the quality of Items with ORES. Still need to retrain ORES and deploy the changes before the scores are actually different though.

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!

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Tech News: 2020-38
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Problems
 * The Wikipedia apps briefly showed pages without CSS last week. This meant they looked wrong. It was quickly fixed but cached pages without CSS were shown for a few hours.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 September. It will be on all wikis from 17 September (calendar).

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Guild of Copy Editors September 2020 Newsletter
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Wikidata weekly summary #434
<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;">


 * Events
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata Introduction Workshop (German) (September 29)
 * Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 21 at 18:00 CEST
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: A starting point for newer institutions to think through what is involved in coordinating a Wikidata project, including shared infrastructure, training, and documentation, 22 September. Agenda
 * Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #21 WikiDojo: Facebook, YouTube, September 25


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * "Representing COVID-19 information in collaborative knowledge graphs: a study of Wikidata"
 * ProWD: Detecting Knowledge Imbalances on Wikidata on blog.wikimedia.de
 * Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #20 WLM: Facebook, YouTube
 * Video: Wikidata Training Workshop 3, by Canadian Arts Presenting Association (YouTube)
 * Wikidata Query Service - (Parts 1, 2 & 3)
 * Wikidata Query Service (in French) - (Parts 1, 2 & 3)


 * Tool of the week
 * copy-qid is a user script by Abbe98 that allows you to copy the Qid with one click.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The Wikidata development team is seeking to evaluate and improve the process of collecting and reacting to bug reports and feature requests. You can give feedback about your experience using this anonymous form until September 30th or add feedback publically to Wikidata talk:Contact the development team/Process review 2020.
 * WDQS/WCQS Status update (September 2): "We are planning to spend more time doing some analytics on our data. (1) What are the most expensive queries, what are they trying to achieve and is that reasonable? (2) Do we have performant subgraphs that we could expose independently?"


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: category for the exterior of the item, axle track, Stairway To Hell ID, Oakeshott typology, construction point, turning radius, hill size, bibliography
 * External identifiers: Seattle Art Museum ID, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art artwork ID, TV Maze series ID, Barcelona Public art ID, University of Ghana Digital Collections (UGSpace) ID, Istrapedia ID, OnlyFans person ID, Linked Open Data Cloud identifier, The Cutting Room Floor ID, Fatcat ID, China Treaty Database ID, e-GOV law ID, Portugal. Dicionário Histórico ID, past Fellow of the Royal Society ID, Regesta Ecclesiastica Salisburgensia ID, Slack organization ID, Kansas Historic Resources Inventory ID, Historic Montana ID, ITF player ID 2020, BD Gest' series ID, American Battlefield Trust battlefield ID, P8624


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: defining mutations, nombre d'essais marqués, Netflix maturity rating, held event, number of paying subscribers, has census
 * External identifiers: Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank ID, Delft municipal monument ID, identificativo Ministero dell'interno, Dallas Museum of Art ID, Cincinnati Art Museum ID, Energy Identification Code, Wikimedia Chat channel, Symptom Ontology ID, MnDOT Historic Bridges ID, monumentsauxmorts.fr ID, monumentsdememoire.fr ID, Lower Sorbian place name ID, Région Île-de-France ID, Museen Dresden article ID, Turkey's Culture Portal ID, NPS place ID, SSYK 2012


 * Query examples:
 * Map of anything that memorializes or is named after a Whig Party member - OSM/Wikidata query
 * Map of every railway station presently connected directly or indirectly to St Pancras on Wikidata
 * Age of the winners of the Tour de France (Source)
 * Location and date of death of Danish rulers (Source)
 * Map of the places & causes of death of Roman Emperors (Source)
 * Images of members of the 16th Odisha Assembly (2019-24) (Source)
 * Star signs of Japanese Prime Ministers (Source)
 * Video game series with the longest time gap between a game and its direct sequel (Source)


 * Development
 * WQS now supports mwapi service request for Wikibooks (T261125)
 * The language codes lij-mc, ja-Hira, ja-Kana, ja-Hrkt, ja-Hani, ojp, ojp-Hira and ojp-Hani" have been added for use in monolingual text property values (T254968, T195816)
 * The language codes de-1901, eo-hsistemo and eo-xsistemo, ja-hira, ja-kana and ja-hrkt have been added for Lexemes (T262330,T257422, T250559)
 * P1438 has been converted from string to external ID datatype (T262198)
 * Worked on fixing an input issue with invisible characters (T261071)
 * Investigating what work would be needed to get the new termbox that's available on mobile to also work on desktop
 * Fixing several issues with Special:Undelete (T261747)
 * Fixing an error message being shown twice (T260869)
 * Starting the coding work on the Query Builder
 * Continuing to write a draft for a REST API specification
 * Finishing the remaining work needed to get the improved quality scoring for Items deployed to ORES
 * Continuing work on WikibaseManifest: Determined the essential metadata that will be included in the WikibaseManifest file, added some new features (mostly MediaWiki metadata) to the Manifest that were requested by the OpenRefine team (T262805 and T262804) and set up a test system that will soon be ready for tool builders to use for testing the integration of their tools with WikibaseManifest

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!

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Tech News: 2020-39
<section begin="technews-2020-W39"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * There is a new tag for reverted edits. For example you can see it in the recent changes feed or in the article history. It is added to edits when they have been undone, rollbacked or manually reverted to an older version of the page.

Changes later this week
 * The number of times you can do something in a period of time on wiki is limited. This could be the number of edits per minute or the number of users you email in a day. Some users are not affected by all limits because of their user rights. They could soon see the limit even if it does not affect them.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 September. It will be on all wikis from 24 September (calendar).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2020-W39"/> 21:26, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 September 2020
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The Signpost: 27 September 2020
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Wikidata weekly summary #435
<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;">


 * Events
 * Linking the 20th century paper history to the sum of all knowledge (Best practice presentation at DCMI Virtual 2020)
 * Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 29 at 18:00 CEST
 * Upcoming: WikiNeocomensia: Wikidata + OpenRefine, workshop in Neuchâtel (Switzerland) and in French, October 3
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #32, October 4


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions [IFLA] have published a series of six videos "discussions with professionals in order to discuss projects, issues, progress of Wikidata, Wikibase and bibliographic data in the field of libraries." Currently available as a playlist on YouTube under CC-By (Wikimedia Commons upload soon), with subtitles in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French (Arabic and Chinese coming soon). The production was made by the IFLA Wikidata Working Group and funded by a WikiCite grant.
 * Sidestepping the limitations of collection catalogues with machine learning and Wikidata
 * Navigating the maze of Wikidata query logs by Angela Bonifati, Wim Martens, Thomas Timm
 * Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #21 - WikiDojo on the Global Climate Strike: Facebook, YouTube
 * Video: Wikidata tutorial for lecturers (in Czech) - YouTube
 * Video: Creating and enriching linked data with Wikidata - YouTube
 * Video: Mix'n'Match Tutorial - YouTube
 * Video: Introduction to Wikidata for librarians (in Portuguese) - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * omeka-s-wikidata is an Omeka-S module for auto-suggesting Wikidata URIs and labels.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The Wikidata development team is seeking to evaluate and improve the process of collecting and reacting to bug reports and feature requests. You can give feedback about your experience using this anonymous form until September 30th or add feedback publically to Wikidata talk:Contact the development team/Process review 2020.
 * Nominate your favorite tools for the Coolest Tool Award 2020 before October 14th.
 * Wikidata Walkabout is a new site that lets you browse and drill down through different "classes" of data on Wikidata: wikidatawalkabout.org
 * Como is a new Android app, that uses Wikidata lexemes and senses to create a word-guessing game. It let's players create new senses and tests them on other players to finally save them in Wikidata. The app is developed as part of a BA thesis, to determine if this concept is useful to create more lexicographical data, and testers would be very welcome.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: construction point, turning radius, hill size, bibliography, opening time, closing time, engine displacement, expansion of, Netflix maturity rating, TDD number
 * External identifiers: American Battlefield Trust battlefield ID, American Battlefield Trust ID (person), Occupational Outlook Handbook ID, Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia ID, Canadian Women Artists History Initiative ID, Book Marks ID, Re-Member ID, SPoT skater ID, NDL law ID, McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia ID, L'Officiel des spectacles ID, British and Irish Furniture Makers Online ID, Cincinnati Art Museum ID, Dallas Museum of Art ID, FBref.com squad ID, Dostoyevsky and His Entourage ID, Lambiek comic magazines ID, Energy Identification Code, Library of Congress Children's Subject Headings ID, Ministry of the Interior of Italy ID, National Park Service place ID, MnDOT Historic Bridges ID, Open Civic Data Division ID, Museen Dresden article ID, SSYK 2012 The Swedish Standard Classification of Occupations, LoC HABS/HAER/HALS place ID, Symptom Ontology ID, photoLondon ID, Syro-Malabar Catholic Church ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Regional Council of Tuscany ID, level of professionalness, defined in terms of, form of property constraint, Attraction to, group identity, analog television standard, ritual object, number of rooms
 * External identifiers: USA Water Polo Hall of Fame ID, Encyclopaedia Beliana ID, Indonesian prison database ID, LinkedIn group ID, Naver movie ID, CINE21 film ID, Movist film ID, KOBIS-ID, Max Movie film ID, The Boardr profile ID, Slovník českých nakladatelství 1848-1949 person ID, Google Play developer slug, Passion Patrimoine ID, FVLB work ID, BBC Sound Effects Asset ID, ITHL author ID, Quebec Dams Directory ID, Doktori.hu ID


 * Query examples:
 * [https://sophox.org/embed.html#SELECT%20%2A%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20Prevent%20optimizer%20from%20querying%20for%20everything%20tagged%20with%20wikidata%3D%2A%20before%20querying%20the%20service%0A%20%20hint%3AQuery%20hint%3Aoptimizer%20%22None%22.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Query%20the%20MediaWiki%20API%20Query%20Service%20through%20the%20Wikidata%20Query%20Service%2C%20where%20it%20is%20enabled%0A%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Amwapi%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Get%20the%20100%20most%20recent%20%3Cmapframe%3E%20or%20%3Cmaplink%3E%20additions%20to%20English%20Wikipedia%20articles%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Aapi%20%22Generator%22%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3Aendpoint%20%22en.wikipedia.org%22%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3Alimit%20100%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20mwapi%3Agenerator%20%22categorymembers%22%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Inserting%20%3Cmapframe%3E%20and%20%3Cmaplink%3E%20automatically%20adds%20an%20article%20to%20this%20category%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20mwapi%3Agcmtitle%20%22Category%3APages%20using%20the%20Kartographer%20extension%22%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Articles%2C%20not%20other%20namespaces%20like%20portals%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20mwapi%3Agcmnamespace%20%220%22%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Sort%20by%20most%20recent%20addition%20to%20the%20category%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20mwapi%3Agcmsort%20%22timestamp%22%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20mwapi%3Agcmdir%20%22descending%22%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20mwapi%3Agcmprop%20%22ids%7Ctitle%7Ctimestamp%22.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Output%20the%20title%2C%20Wikidata%20item%2C%20and%20last-edited%20timestamp%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Ftitle%20wikibase%3AapiOutput%20mwapi%3Atitle.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fwd%20wikibase%3AapiOutputItem%20mwapi%3Aitem.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Ftimestamp%20wikibase%3AapiOutput%20mwapi%3Atimestamp.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Some%20articles%20have%20no%20linked%20Wikidata%20item%20yet%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Leaving%20this%20variable%20unbound%20would%20cause%20the%20query%20to%20search%20for%20all%20Wikidata-tagged%20features%20in%20OpenStreetMap%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28BOUND%28%3Fwd%29%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Query%20OpenStreetMap%20for%20features%20representing%20the%20subject%20of%20the%20article%0A%20%20%3Fosm%20osmt%3Awikidata%20%3Fwd.%0A%7D%0A%23%20Uncomment%20this%20line%20to%20sort%20the%20most%20recently%20edited%20articles%20to%20the%20top%2C%20regardless%20of%20when%20a%20map%20was%20added%20to%20the%20article%0A%23ORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Ftimestamp%29 Table of the 100 most recent additions of interactive OpenStreetMap maps to English Wikipedia articles] - OSM/Wikidata query
 * Map of the birthplace of persons with an ELEM id on Wikidata (Source)


 * Development
 * A long-standing bug has been fixed (T217144) where Items and Lexemes created via OAuth would not be added to the user’s watchlist even if the user had the  setting enabled. (The  setting was probably likewise ineffective, but this was not tested specifically.) Affected tools include QuickStatements, Mix'n'Match, and Wikidata Lexeme Forms; users of these and other tools may see more pages being added to their watchlists now. (This only applies to new edits and page creations; previously created or edited pages will not be automatically added to the watchlist retroactively.)
 * Working on the basic building blocks of the Query Builder towards making it possible to create the first very simple query with it
 * Talking to people about comparing Wikidata's data against other databases and flagging mismatches
 * Fixing an issue with Item creations via the API by blocked users leading to skipped entity IDs (T232620)
 * Fixed an input issue with invisible characters (T261071)
 * Finishing the draft of the REST API spec to get it ready for feedback
 * WikibaseManifest: created a separate key for local entities and decided what we do about non-local entity sources based on tool-builder feedback (T263527) and specifying the API in OpenApi format (T262919)

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!

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Tech News: 2020-40
<section begin="technews-2020-W40"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes Problems
 * Admins can now see links to diffs of deleted revisions on Special:AbuseLog. This uses the interface of Special:Undelete.
 * Editors are automatically added to some user groups. For example editors are added to autoconfirmed users when they have edited enough times and long enough. Abuse filters can hinder users from automatically getting user rights for a period of time. They can also remove rights user have. Wikis can now ask to change how long this period of time is for their wiki in Phabricator. It is currently five days.
 * Last year some abuse filters stopped working because of a new change. If they tried to use variables that were unavailable for that action they would fail. This has now been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 September. It will be on all wikis from 1 October (calendar).

Future changes
 * You can't see the language links to other language versions from the talk page or history page. They are also not shown when you edit an article. This could change. It is not decided if for example the history page should link to another history page or to the article. You can take part in the discussion in Phabricator.
 * The link colours could change. This is to make the difference between links and other text more clear. You can read more in Phabricator.
 * In your preferences you can choose to get different notifications on the web or by email. You will see  as one of the alternatives later this week. This is because the Android and iOS Wikipedia apps will use push notifications for those who want them. You can see the preferences on the test wiki. The goal is to have push notifications on Android in October and on iOS in early 2021.
 * You can soon put pages on your watchlist for a limited time. This could be useful if you want to watch something for a shorter time but don't want it on your watchlist forever. It now works on mediawiki.org and will come to more wikis later. You can read more and see when it will come to other wikis.
 * You can see what Wikimedians think are the best new technical tools this year. You can also nominate them.

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Wikidata weekly summary #436
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 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Fuzheado


 * Events
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Professor Toby Hudson on Entity Explosion, a browser extension which allows you to get information about entities on the web page you’re visiting, 06 October. Agenda
 * Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikibase office hour, October 27th at 17:00 CEST (15:00 GMT)
 * Upcoming: plenty of events for the Wikidata birthday, check the calendar and feel free to organise one!


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * What does/doesn’t follow Benford’s law: An analysis of hundreds of sets of numbers from Wikidata.
 * Video: How to create and edit items on Wikidata (in Spanish) - YouTube
 * Video: Introduction to Wikidata and wikiprojects of interest to librarians (in Spanish) - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * IllWill.js is a userscript that searches Wikidata for foreign-language sitelinks, to populate Template:ill and replace plain red links on other Wikimedia projects.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * omeka-s-wikidata is a new module for the open source GLAM collection management software Omeka, that allows cataloguers to use Wikidata as a vocabulary for persons, places, subjects, etc.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: TDD number, twin town sign, character designer, Deutsche Bahn station code
 * External identifiers: Museen Dresden article ID, SSYK 2012 The Swedish Standard Classification of Occupations, LoC HABS/HAER/HALS place ID, Symptom Ontology ID, photoLondon ID, Syro-Malabar Catholic Church ID, Native Plants Database ID, Lower Sorbian place name ID, Les roses cultivées à l'Haÿ en 1902 ID, Maniadb album ID, USA Water Polo Hall of Fame ID, Présence Compositrices work ID, Regional Council of Tuscany ID, Indonesian prison database ID, Encyclopaedia Beliana ID, Twitter topics ID, Naver movie ID, Bollywood Hungama movie ID, BoardGameGeek family ID, London Stock Exchange company ID, Région Île-de-France ID, Slovník českých nakladatelství 1848-1949 person ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Infobox based on, CompositionToday composers showcase ID, parallel street, World Factbook country code, port calls, described at Wikipedia page, erected by, PIM award ID, Stadtwiki Dresden article
 * External identifiers: Quebec Dams Directory ID, Doktori.hu ID, CompositionToday composer ID, Slovník českých nakladatelství 1848-1949 publishing house ID, ACER code, Dictionnaire biographique du fouriérisme ID, NSW State Archives and Records Authority ID, SwissLipids identifier, Scottish Brick History Brick & Tileworks ID, Minecraft UUID, Minecraft username, Science Museum Group ID, Kicker.de player ID (actual scheme), RNACentral ID, NPS people ID, Directory of Belgian Photographers-ID, Dresden Street ID, Spotify playlist ID


 * Query examples:
 * Birthplace of people named Michael or any other variant of the name (Source)
 * [https://sophox.org/embed.html#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fosm%20%3FmakeLabel%20%3FmodelLabel%20%3Flayer%20%3Fcoordinates%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20Prevent%20optimizer%20from%20querying%20for%20everything%20tagged%20with%20wikidata%3D%2A%20before%20querying%20the%20service.%0A%20%20hint%3AQuery%20hint%3Aoptimizer%20%22None%22%20.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Query%20OpenStreetMap%20for%20outdoor%20warning%20sirens%0A%20%20%3Fosm%20osmt%3Aemergency%20%22siren%22.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Get%20the%20make%20and%2For%20model%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fosm%20%28osmt%3Amanufacturer%3Awikidata%7Cosmt%3Asiren%3Amodel%3Awikidata%29%20%3FmakeModel.%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Query%20Wikidata%20for%20the%20make%2Fmodel%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20If%20it%E2%80%99s%20a%20model%2C%20get%20the%20make%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FmakeModel%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ76920834%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP176%20%3Fmake.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%3FmakeModel%20AS%20%3Fmodel%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Get%20the%20model%20name%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fmodel%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FmodelLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FmodelLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20A%20make%20must%20be%20a%20business%20to%20distinguish%20it%20from%20a%20model%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FmakeModel%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2A%20wd%3AQ4830453.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%3FmakeModel%20AS%20%3Fmake%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Get%20the%20manufacturer%E2%80%99s%20name%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fmake%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FmakeLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FmakeLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND%28COALESCE%28%3FmakeLabel%2C%20%22Unknown%22%29%20AS%20%3Flayer%29%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Get%20coordinates%20to%20display%20on%20a%20map%0A%20%20%3Fosm%20osmm%3Aloc%20%3Fcoordinates.%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20ASC%28%3FmakeLabel%29 Map of outdoor warning sirens, color-coded by manufacturer. A layer selector lets you toggle individual manufacturers on and off. Clicking a siren shows its make and model if available.] - OSM/Wikidata query
 * Soviet cartoons in descending order of popularity in the world (Source)
 * List of ISO countries showing each country's synonyms, labels, etc. (Source)
 * Norwegian politicians who have been members of at least 3 parties (Source)
 * Streets in Leiden named after people/things (Source)
 * Maps of arts and humanities research grants funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council in UK between 2013-2019. Sorted by year, Sorted by budget (Source)
 * Newest database reports:
 * EntitySchema directory - feedback welcome on the report talk page.


 * Development
 * First pieces of the Query Builder are coming together and we are working towards making it generate the first dumb query
 * Talking to people about their thoughts on checking Wikidata's data against other databases. If you're interested reach out to Mohammed.
 * Got some first internal feedback for the REST API specification draft. We'll publish it for feedback in the next days.
 * Fixing an issue with certain language codes no longer being available (T264294)
 * Working on making sure blocked bots don't waste Item IDs when trying to create new Items (T232620)

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!

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Tech News: 2020-41
<section begin="technews-2020-W41"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * There is a new tool where you can see which home wiki users have in discussions on Meta. This can help show which communities are not part of the discussion on wikis where we make decisions that affect many other wikis.
 * You can now thank users for file uploads or for changing the language of a page.

Problems
 * There were many errors with the new MediaWiki version last week. The new version was rolled back. Updates that should have happened last week are late.
 * Everyone was logged out. This was because a user reported being logged in to someone else's account. The problem should be fixed now.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Many pages have JavaScript errors. You can read more and now see a list of user scripts with errors.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 October. It will be on all wikis from 8 October (calendar).
 * Letters immediately after a link are shown as part of the link. For example the entire word in  is linked. On Arabic wikis this works at both the start and end of a word. Previously on Arabic wikis numbers and other non-letter Unicode characters were shown as part of the link at the start of a word but not at the end. Now only Latin and Arabic letters will extend links on Arabic wikis.

Future changes
 * You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on 27 October around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour.

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Tech News: 2020-42
<section begin="technews-2020-W42"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * Because of the problems with the MediaWiki version two weeks ago last week's updates are also late.

Changes later this week
 * Live previews didn't show the templates used in the preview if you just edited a section. This has now been fixed. You can also test CSS and JavaScript pages even if you have the live preview enabled. Previously this didn't work well.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 October. It will be on all wikis from 15 October (calendar).

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg A new stable version of Pywikibot is coming soon.

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Wikidata weekly summary #437
<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
 * Open request for adminship: MsynABot
 * Closed request for adminship: Fuzheado (successful)


 * Events
 * Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, October 13 at 18:00 CEST
 * Upcoming: Wikidata birthday organizers call, October 14 at 12:00 GMT
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #34, October 18
 * Search Platform Office Hours happens first Wednesday of each month. Come with questions related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service, Wikimedia Commons Query Service, etc.


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Wikidata reaches Q100000000, by Lydia Pintscher and Denny Vrandečić
 * A new extension can add support for linking to local media files in Statements (and not just files on Wikimedia Commons) to a Wikibase instance (Demo video, developed by Professional.Wiki)
 * LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group presentation: How Entity Explosion fits into the Wikidata ecosystem, by Toby Hudson
 * Video: Wikidata and COVID-19: Creating a collaborative knowledge graph from CORD-19, by Csisc


 * Tool of the week
 * OD2WD automatically converts CSV files from Open Data portals into QuickStatements for Wikidata republishing. Demo video


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * noratelimit for bots to be removed on October 20th
 * The new Wikibase/Consultants and Support Providers' directory on Meta lists people/companies that provide professional help with Wikibase -- be it technical support (installation and setup), custom development, or data modeling services.
 * The 2020 Coolest Tool Award is still accepting nominations until October 14th. Please use this form to recommend tools. You can nominate as many tools as you want by filling out the form multiple times.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: number of negative votes, number of support votes, x-offset, y-offset, social media followers, fandom, has census, parallel street, entry in abbreviations table
 * External identifiers: Dictionary of Occupational Titles Code (fourth edition, revised), FVLB work ID, Passion Patrimoine ID, Biographical dictionary of Fourierism ID, CompositionToday composer ID, ITHL author ID, Quebec Dams Directory ID, SwissLipids identifier, ACER code, Science Museum Group ID, Slovník českých nakladatelství 1848-1949 publishing house ID, Directory of Belgian Photographers ID, RNACentral ID, Turkey's Culture Portal ID, NSW State Archives and Records Authority ID, Scottish Brick History Brick & Tileworks ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: ship's captain, planetary coordinates, Date of signature, Unicode name
 * External identifiers: CPV Supplementary, PeoplePill person ID, O*NET OnLine code, Emojipedia ID, GADM ID, CTAN package ID, MinDat taxon ID, AniList anime ID, AniList manga and light novel ID, Normattiva ID, ILO Thesaurus ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of trees whose species is categorized as threatened on the IUCN Red List - OSM/Wikidata query
 * Women actress less than 70 years old who are descendants of the first king of Navarre, ordered by number of sitelinks
 * Dead Social Democratic Party members who have been ministers in 1992 or later (Source)
 * Artworks with an image in Wikidata by year of creation (Source)
 * Map of mountains in Switzerland (Source)
 * Map of markets in the city of Surabaya (Source)
 * National Anthems by tonality (Source)


 * Development
 * The RFC to semi-protect all property pages has been implemented, all properties now require the “autoconfirmed” right to edit (T254280)
 * Working on enabling JSON dumps for Lexemes (T220883)
 * Finishing preventing blocked users from making us skip QIDs (T232620)
 * Continuing work on the Wikibase Manifest extension that allows toolbuilders to easily access configurations of a specific Wikibase instance so it is easier for them to make their tools work with not just Wikidata but also other Wikibase instances
 * Started analyzing what we consider a mismatch for our work around checking Wikidata's data against other databases
 * Continued work on the Query Builder to get it to create the first very simple query. It can do that now but not yet visualize the result.

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!

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