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Wikidata weekly summary #228
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.  Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 21:32, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: WikiCon 2016
 * Past: OASPA conference (slides)
 * Past: State of the Map
 * Past: National Institute of Health: frontiers in data science lecture series (slides)
 * Upcoming: SMWCon
 * Upcoming: office hour on IRC
 * Blog post about Wikidata and data about Czech trees
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The query examples have been migrated from mediawiki.org to wikidata.org at d:Wikidata:SPARQL examples
 * HPI is doing a linked data engineering course online
 * TXT Werk is doing automatic entity recognition in text with the help of Wikidata. Previously only German was supported. English is now supported as well.
 * Andy has mapped most of the W3C's ontology for vCard to Wikidata properties.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Heritage Lighthouse of Canada ID, Heritage Railway Station of Canada ID, New General Catalogue ID, Vine user ID, data.gouv.fr ID, patient of, Ciné-Ressources person ID, Ciné-Ressources movie ID, UAI code, Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities ID, Northern Ireland charity number, charity number (Isle of Man), JewishGen Locality ID, Federal Heritage Buildings ID, USGS earthquake id, league points system, INA video ID, GS1 Manufacturer code, Last.FM music ID, IMIS person ID, innervates, innervated by, Nobel prize ID, Marburger Professorenkatalog ID, TAXREF ID, VKontakte username, Czech National Bibliography book ID, WSJ topic ID, FANTOIR code, OpenCitations bibliographic resource ID
 * Query examples: taxonomy of squirrels (source), good or featured articles about people on Wikipedia but with no picture on Wikidata (source), Nordic Cross flags (source)
 * Development
 * mnc (for Manchu) will soon be available as a language code for monolingual text values (T137808)
 * Worked on foreign EntityIds in order to be able to use Wikidata's items and properties on Commons in the future (T145516, T146030, T146274)
 * More work on usage tracking UI (T145965, T143148, T145189, T144923)
 * RFC discussion about Multi-Content-Revisions - another big blocker for structured data on Commons (E273)
 * Ran a bot to mark dates that need a check of their calendar model (T105100)
 * Getting unit conversion into the query service soon. We'll start with units for length and then expand based on feedback. (T117032)
 * Working on extension to automatically link pages between languages on Wiktionary (T145412)
 * Added the value that is responsible for an error in the error message so it can be found and fixed more easily (T144303)
 * Working on fix for issue with extremely large or small date values in RDF (T146356)
 * Expanding references again in diffs (T129836)
 * Unbroke CopyReferences gadget. More work is needed. (T142203)
 * Fixed issue with 2 search suggestion boxes showing up instead of 1 (T119492)
 * Worked on improving the query service documentation (T133052)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

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Wikidata weekly summary #229
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Expanding Wikidata’s Parenthood Information by 178%, or How To Mine Relation Cardinalities, by Paramita Mirza, Simon Razniewski and Werner Nutt (Q27038095)
 * Extracting Scientists from Wikipedia, by Gustaf Harari Ekenstierna and Victor Shu-Ming Lam (Q27037451)
 * Comparison of Wikidata and DBpedia projects as spatial data sources (cs), by Jan Macura (Q27042632)
 * Wikidata challenge to take on language obstacles in medical analysis on Warriors Planet
 * The Wikidata scholarly profile page on Finn Årup Nielsen's blog
 * Wikidata as a digital preservation knowledgebase on Open Preservation Foundation


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * We need you for Wikidata's birthday! Organize an event or tell us your story about Wikidata
 * Item Q27000000 was created, about Stakihnúkur, a hill in Iceland
 * Log of our last office hour discussion
 * The first WikiCite newsletter has been published
 * You can help a research project to understand the use of the SPARQL query service


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: OKPD2 code of the good or service, OKP ID of the good or service, OKP Code, OKVED 2 code of the economic activity, OKPD code of the good or service, OKVED 1.1 code of the economic activity, SIC code, Catholic Encyclopedia ID, NBN System Key, trunk prefix, KU Leuven person ID, PhilPapers publication, PhilPapers topic, Library of Congress Cultural Heritage Organizations, PhilPapers profile, PhilPapers author, Mediaarts-DB ID, SCAR Composite Gazetteer, South Dakota legislator ID, Schläfli symbol, Cultural Heritage Kosovo ID, HAS member ID, Corporate Number (Japan), NAICS code, List of lights id, Nationalencyklopedin Online ID, NYT topic ID, KvK company ID, Encyclopædia Universalis Online ID, Auñamendi ID, Dictionary of Swedish National Biography, ClassInd rating, SIRET number, Onisep occupation ID, Indian census area code, ISAN


 * Query examples:
 * Most populous commune of France whose name begins by a certain letter (source)
 * Works mentioning #Wikidata properties (source)
 * Places where people born in Brittany died (source)
 * trees grown from seeds that went around the Moon (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Virtual Twins
 * Newest external tools: Free Software Directory plugin with a bot
 * Newest database reports: list of articles with "uses property" (P3176)


 * Development
 * Worked more on making it possible to use Wikidata items and properties to make statements about multimedia files on Commons in the future
 * Adding a list of items used in an article to the edit page on Wikipedia and co (T144921)
 * More work on automated language links for Wiktionary (T145412)
 * Improve the way to count and display the number of items on the main page (T144687)
 * Solved a bug on the gadget DuplicateReferences (T146318)
 * Clicking on the desired property while adding a new Statement didn't focus the value input. That has been fixed (T144037).
 * Made it possible to use the  and   protocols in URL data types (T146692)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help merge items of people with the same name and dates.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:34, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-40
 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 this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 October. It will be on all wikis from 6 October (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 4 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg Tidy will be replaced. Instead the HTML 5 parsing algorithm will be used to clean up bad HTML in wikitext. This would cause problems on a number of wikis. They need to be fixed first.


 * will not work on Wikivoyage after 24 October. You should use  instead. If you need help to fix this before 24 October you should ask for it as soon as possible.

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Wikidata weekly summary #230
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * During the British wildlife edit-a-thon 2016, attendees added bird sounds from Europeana Sounds to Wikidata and over 60 Wikipedias
 * Past: WikiConference in San Diego, USA
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop by Wikimedia Nederland, October 20, Utrecht
 * Wikidata & Wikipedia edit-athon about Ramon Llull by Amical Wikimedia (ca)
 * A Natural Language Query Engine without Machine Learning, on A Young Programmer's blog
 * The Wikimedia Foundation will now directly fund basic expenses for Wikidata software development, on WMF blog
 * People buried on cemetery and if they have a picture of the grave or not by Magnus Sälgö
 * Sunday Query : où meurent les Bretons ? (fr) by Ash_Crow
 * Charts and data about Brexit & US Elections, by Hector Perez


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Proposition for upgrading the default copyright license for Wikimedia projects to CC-by-SA 4.0 (does not affect the structured data part of Wikidata, which uses CC0).
 * 3 Wikidata-related projects will be funded by WMF grants : Librarybase, Lua module and WikiFactMine
 * Query service analysis: What kind of things are people doing with WDQS? and Who are our WDQS users and where are they from?
 * chemical compounds in Wikipedia and Wikidata, talk by Sebastian Burgstaller
 * PetScan tool past half a million queries since April (source)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: KANTL member ID, Angel List ID, storyboard artist, content deliverer, Actorenregister ID, Zeri image ID, compulsory education (maximum age), compulsory education (minimum age), Fotografen.nl ID, PORT organization URL, Flickr user ID, LocFDD ID, MySpace ID, radix, base, has anatomical branch, anatomical branch of, points awarded, intangible cultural heritage status, LiveJournal ID, Queensland place ID, Cave E-Cadastre ID, Property proposal discussion, optimum viable temperature, maximum viable temperature, minimum viable temperature


 * Query examples:
 * Chemistry Nobel prizes through time (source)
 * Former countries without continent (P30) (source)
 * Rivers without any mouth specified (source)
 * Interesting items near you (source)
 * Newest external tools: new Wikidata game, Alias Candidates (by MagnusManske)
 * Newest database reports: List of embassies has now summaries by host country and by country represented


 * Development
 * The property talk namespace now has subpages enabled (T146271)
 * More work on automated sitelinks for Wiktionary (T987)
 * More work on federation for Commons in order to be able to use Wikidata's items and properties there (T76007)
 * Adding entity usage information in action=edit on Wikipedia and co (T144921)
 * Working on making it possible to get formatted values back on the client. With this we will for example link the value to a Wikipedia article where possible. (T142940)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:13, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-41
 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
 * You can show Special:RecentChanges on a page by using . You can now use tag filters by using.
 * The notification badge is coloured if you have notifications. When you check the notification the badge will now turn grey on all wikis instead of just the local one.
 * Colours used in the Wikimedia wikis' main interface changed slightly. This is to make them easier to see for readers and editors with reduced eyesight.

Changes this week
 * Hidden HTML comments will be more visible when you edit with the visual editor.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 October. It will be on all wikis from 13 October (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 11 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week is CREDITS files. The meeting will be on 12 October at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Language converter syntax will soon no longer work inside external links. Wikitext like  must be replaced. You will have to write   instead. This only affects languages with Language Converter enabled. Examples of such languages are Chinese and Serbian.

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Editing News #3—2016
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Did you know?

Did you know that you can easily re-arrange columns and rows in the visual editor?



Select a cell in the column or row that you want to move. Click the arrow at the start of that row or column to open the dropdown menu (shown). Choose either "Move before" or "Move after" to move the column, or "Move above" or "Move below" to move the row.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has mainly worked on a new wikitext editor. They have also released some small features and the new map editing tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the list of work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, releasing the 2017 wikitext editor as a beta feature, and improving language support.

Recent changes

 * You can now set text as small or big.
 * Invisible templates have been shown as a puzzle icon. Now, the name of the invisible template is displayed next to the puzzle icon.  A similar feature will display the first part of hidden HTML comments.
 * Categories are displayed at the bottom of each page. If you click on the categories, the dialog for editing categories will open.
 * At many wikis, you can now add maps to pages. Go to the Insert menu and choose the "Maps" item. The Discovery department are adding more features to this area, like geoshapes. You can read more on MediaWiki.org.
 * The "Save" button now says "Save page" when you create a page, and "Save changes" when you change an existing page. In the future, the "" button will say "".  This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems.  More information is available on Meta.
 * Image galleries now use a visual mode for editing. You can see thumbnails of the images, add new files, remove unwanted images, rearrange the images by dragging and dropping, and add captions for each image.  Use the "Options" tab to set the gallery's display mode, image sizes, and add a title for the gallery.

Future changes
The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining 10 "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next month. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect several languages, including Thai, Burmese and Aramaic.

The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. The 2017 wikitext editor will look like the visual editor and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices in October 2016. You can read about this project in a general status update on the Wikimedia mailing list.

Let's work together
Do you teach new editors how to use the visual editor? Did you help set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki? Have you written or imported TemplateData for your most important citation templates? Would you be willing to help new editors and small communities with the visual editor? Please sign up for the new VisualEditor Community Taskforce. If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:18, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 October 2016
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Tech News: 2016-42
 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 newsletter from the Collaboration team at the Wikimedia Foundation. It will have more details about for example Flow and notifications. You can read the first issue.

Problems
 * Some users got a warning about Wikipedia's security certificate last week. This was because of a problem GlobalSign had. This has now been fixed. Only a small number of users got the warning.
 * Editors couldn't edit semi-protected pages in the Wikipedia app for Android. This has now been fixed in the beta version.

Changes this week
 * There will be no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes
 * The Editing Department are working on a new wikitext editor. It will have tools that are in the visual editor but not in the wikitext editor today. You can read more about this. This is an early plan and things can change. The old wikitext editor will still exist.

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Wikidata weekly summary #231
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;"> <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 21:56, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Upcoming: Connected Data London meetup with Navino Evans
 * Upcoming: Andy Mabbett & Liam Wyatt speaking about GLAM-Wiki (including Wikidata) at Muzeum Cyfrowe in Warsaw, 19 October.
 * Upcoming: Andy Mabbett speaking about Wikidata & running a GLAM-Wiki workshop at SFK 16 ("Software Freedom Kosova Conference") in Pristina, 21-23 October.
 * Past: CCBWIKI
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * World Spider Catalog has been added to Mix'n'match
 * Mix’n’match can now limit auto-matches to instances of a specific item and its subclasses
 * Sitelinks for the new Livvi-Karelian Wikipedia (olowiki) can be added
 * There is now a "userbox" for Wikidatans wishing to mark Wikidata's fourth birthday on their user pages
 * myMuseum was created at the hack4heritage hackathon and won a prize
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: DRÚSOP ID, code, encoding, BALaT image ID, DocCheck Flexikon De ID, DocCheck Flexikon En ID, biography at the Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Cellosaurus ID, World Spider Catalog ID, Squash Info ID, MSC ID, Yahoo! Japan Talent Database ID, Bandcamp artist ID, French National Assembly Lobbyist ID, BanQ author ID, statistical leader, Sandbox-Monolingual text II
 * Query examples:
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20First%20Nobel%20Prize%20winner%20born%20after%20Alfred%20Nobel%E2%80%99s%20death%0A%23%20Nobel%20Prize%20data%20seems%20to%20be%20a%20bit%20messy%20right%20now%2C%20so%20we%20cover%20three%20different%20ways%20to%20represent%20%E2%80%9Cawardee%20got%20prize%20on%20date%20X%E2%80%9D%20%E2%80%93%20hopefully%20that%E2%80%99s%20enough%E2%80%A6%0ASELECT%20%3Fawardee%20%3FawardeeLabel%20%3FawardeeBorn%20%3Fawarded%20%3FprizeLabel%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20wd%3AQ23810%20wdt%3AP570%20%3FnobelDied.%0A%20%20%3Fawardee%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP569%20%3FawardeeBorn.%0A%20%20%3Fprize%20wdt%3AP279%20wd%3AQ7191.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3FawardeeBorn%20%3E%20%3FnobelDied%29.%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20awardee%20has%20award%20received%3A%20nobel%20prize%20with%20point%20in%20time%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fawardee%20p%3AP166%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP166%2Fwdt%3AP31%3F%20%3Fprize%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP585%20%3Fawarded%0A%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20nobel%20prize%20has%20winner%3A%20awardee%20with%20point%20in%20time%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fprize%20p%3AP1346%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP1346%20%3Fawardee%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP585%20%3Fawarded%0A%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20awardee%20has%20award%20received%3A%20%3Cyear%3E%20nobel%20prize%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fawardee%20wdt%3AP166%20%3FyearPrize.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FyearPrize%20wdt%3AP31%20%3Fprize%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP585%20%3Fawarded.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3Fawarded%0ALIMIT%201 first Nobel Prize winner who was born after Alfred Nobel’s death] (source)
 * streets in Paris named after doctors (source)
 * international land tripoints (source)
 * national flags depicting stars or constellations (source)
 * national flags with inscriptions (source)
 * people who died the furthest away from where they were born (source)
 * closest pairs of capitals (of UN member states, <500km) (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20People%20who%20received%20military%20decorations%20from%20two%20different%20countries%0ASELECT%0A%3Fperson%20%3FpersonLabel%0A%28SAMPLE%28CONCAT%28%3Faward1Label%2C%20%22%20%28%22%2C%20%3Fcountry1Label%2C%20%22%29%22%29%29%20AS%20%3FfirstAward%29%0A%28SAMPLE%28CONCAT%28%3Faward2Label%2C%20%22%20%28%22%2C%20%3Fcountry2Label%2C%20%22%29%22%29%29%20AS%20%3FsecondAward%29%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP166%20%3Faward1%2C%20%3Faward2.%0A%20%20wd%3AQ1788716%20%5E%28wdt%3AP31%7Cwdt%3AP279%29%2a%20%3Faward1%2C%20%3Faward2.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3Faward1%20%21%3D%20%3Faward2%29.%0A%20%20%3Faward1%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fcountry1.%0A%20%20%3Faward2%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fcountry2.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3Fcountry1%20%21%3D%20%3Fcountry2%29.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%28%3Fcountry1%20%21%3D%20wd%3AQ159%20%7C%7C%20%3Fcountry2%20%21%3D%20wd%3AQ15180%29%20%26%26%20%28%3Fcountry1%20%21%3D%20wd%3AQ15180%20%7C%7C%20%3Fcountry2%20%21%3D%20wd%3AQ159%29%29.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FpersonLabel.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FpersonLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Faward1%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Faward1Label.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3Faward1Label%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Faward2%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Faward2Label.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3Faward2Label%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fcountry1%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fcountry1Label.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3Fcountry1Label%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fcountry2%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fcountry2Label.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3Fcountry2Label%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fperson%20%3FpersonLabel%0ALIMIT%2050 people who received military decorations from two different countries] (source)
 * volcanoes and earthquakes (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fratio%20%28COUNT%28%3Fitem%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ3305213%20.%0A%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP2048%2Fpsv%3AP2048%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3FbaseHeight%3B%0A%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP2370%2Fpsv%3AP2370%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3FunitHeight%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ11573%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%0A%20%20%20%20%5D%0A%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20BIND%28%3FbaseHeight%20%2a%20%3FunitHeight%20AS%20%3Fheight%29.%0A%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP2049%2Fpsv%3AP2049%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3FbaseWidth%3B%0A%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP2370%2Fpsv%3AP2370%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3FunitWidth%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ11573%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%0A%20%20%20%20%5D%0A%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20BIND%28%3FbaseWidth%20%2a%20%3FunitWidth%20AS%20%3Fwidth%29.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20BIND%28%3Fheight%20%2F%20%3Fwidth%20AS%20%3Fr%29%20.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20BIND%28IF%28%3Fr%3C0.5%2C%22%3C%200.5%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fr%3C0.6%2C%220.5%20-%200.6%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fr%3C0.7%2C%220.6%20-%200.7%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fr%3C0.8%2C%220.7%20-%200.8%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fr%3C0.9%2C%220.8%20-%200.9%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fr%3C1.0%2C%220.9%20-%201.0%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fr%3C1.1%2C%221.0%20-%201.1%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fr%3C1.2%2C%221.1%20-%201.2%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fr%3C1.3%2C%221.2%20-%201.3%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fr%3C1.4%2C%221.3%20-%201.4%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fr%3C1.5%2C%221.4%20-%201.5%22%2C%20%22%3E%201.5%22%29%29%29%29%29%29%29%29%29%29%29%20AS%20%3Fratio%29%20.%0A%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fratio%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29%0A height/width ratios of paintings] (source)
 * birthplaces of Members of the European Parliament (source)
 * birthplaces of US Senators (source)
 * New template: d:Template:Poland properties. Please add labels in your own languages, and consider making a similar template for your country or region.
 * Development
 * Worked further on automatic linking of pages between Wiktionary language editions
 * Worked further on making it possible to use Wikidata's items and properties to describe files on Commons
 * Reviewed error messages and made them easier to understand
 * Added tooltips in some places in the UI to make them more understandable (e.g. ranks, special values)
 * Made the loading animation clearer in embedded query results (T148042)
 * Making it possible to paste the full URL of an image on Commons into image properties (T147917)
 * Worked on a small birthday present
 * Fixed run button not being reenabled after some queries (T147114)
 * More work on better parser function and Lua functions that return formatted values (T142940)
 * Undoing the last edit to an item will now show a undo summary, not a restore one (T147631) Thanks Matěj!
 * Lule Sami and Pite Sami are now supported languages in Wikidata (T146707)
 * Brainstormed about how to make it easier to write queries without knowing SPARQL
 * Fixed a bug with spaces in language codes in queries (T147729)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Asian 10,000 Challenge invite
Hi. The WikiProject Asia/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland The 10,000 Challenge and WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like South East Asia, Japan/China or India etc, much like The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. At some stage we hope to run some contests to benefit Asian content, a destubathon perhaps, aimed at reducing the stub count would be a good place to start, based on the current WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon which has produced near 200 articles in just three days. If you would like to see this happening for Asia, and see potential in this attracting more interest and editors for the country/countries you work on please sign up and being contributing to the challenge! This is a way we can target every country of Asia, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant! Thank you. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 01:28, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #232
<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;"> Wikidata celebrates its 4th anniversary on October 29th. Around this date, a lot of events will happen online and offline.
 * Wikidata's birthday is coming!

Birthday events

Editors all around the world organize meetups to celebrate the birthday. You can join one of them or create an event in your own town!
 * San Francisco (USA), October 26th
 * Torino (Italy), October 26th
 * Tokyo (Japan), October 28th
 * Paris (France), October 29th
 * Utrecht (NL), October 29th
 * Berlin (Germany), November 4th
 * Rennes (France), November 5th

Online

A lot of surprises, stories and presents will be shared between October 29th and November 4th. Check the project chat or the mailing-list every day to see what happens!

You can also participate by posting a story (more info here), a tweet with #WikidataBirthday, let a message or a present on the birthday page.

If you're participating to Wikidata's birthday, you can add this template to your user page.


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Wikidata workshops in Paris : every month, Wikimédia France and editors organize a workshop about Wikidata and related tools. Check out the schedule
 * Upcoming: Ladies that FOSS October 29th in Berlin, organized by Lucie and Julia from the Wikidata team


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * WikiCite 2016 report


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Third-party formatter URL, Open Media Database film ID, broadcast by, musical conductor, Student register of the University of Helsinki 1640–1852 ID, Belgian Senate person ID, Flemish Parliament person ID, DRÚSOP ID


 * Query examples:
 * places of birth of living US senators (compare with last week's)
 * Wikidata map of filming locations (source)
 * Streets in Paris named after a physician (source)
 * Moons of trans-Neptunian objects (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Chess


 * Development
 * Fixed a rounding error in the geo coordinate formatter (see [//github.com/DataValues/Geo/pull/78 GitHub]). Thanks, 0x686578!
 * Improvements to technical error messages, e.g. "illegal value" when editing a Commons media statement (T141880).
 * Continued working on a new parser function to get rich, formatted statements.
 * Continued working on making entity usage information visible to users.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

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Tech News: 2016-43
<section begin="technews-2016-W43"/> 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
 * The abuse filters had a problem and caught too many edits. This has now been fixed.

Changes this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from October 26. It will be on all wikis from October 27 (calendar).
 * The "Search" text in the search box will show the name of the project. For example, on Wikipedia it will say "Search Wikipedia".
 * About a dozen wikis now have numerical sorting in categories. If your wiki wants numerical sorting in categories you can ask for it.
 * Some wikis that want numerical sorting in categories can also ask to use UCA to sort categories. The biggest difference is that characters with diacritics will be sorted together. For example, for most languages Ä will be sorted with A instead of at the end of the alphabet. This is not true for languages that have Ä as a character in their alphabet. Wikis that already use UCA are listed on Meta. Languages that can use UCA are listed on MediaWiki.org. You can test it.

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Wikidata weekly summary #233
<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;"> The birthday week started and already a lot of events happened, presents have been shared, stories have been told! Here's what you may have missed:
 * Wikidata's birthday: presents, stories and events
 * a word from the development team by Lydia
 * a new version of the map showing all the Wikidata items with geolocalisation, by Addshore, who explains how he generated it in a blog post
 * The 4th birthday logo by Incabell
 * A new release of the Wikipedia and Wikidata Tools for Google Spreadsheets add-on has made working with Wikidata a lot easier for Google Sheets users, by Tomayac
 * A guide to SPARQL and the Wikidata Query Service, by TweetsFactsAndQueries
 * Four new types of charts for the Query Service: line chart, bar chart, scatter chart and area chart (read more and try examples in the documentation) by Jonas
 * , a new parser function is currently in development with better features that you can try on beta by the Wikidata dev team and volunteers
 * Search field added in Scholia, a tool to create scholarship profiles, by fnielsen
 * 10 cool queries for Wikidata that will blow your mind. Number 7 will shock you, by Jens and Cornelius
 * 4 years of Wikidata by Stryn
 * A lot of people celebrating and posting pictures on Twitter or on Commons!

The birthday party is not finished yet, every day until November 4th you will discover new presents and stories. Follow the project chat or the mailing-list or #Wikidatabirthday to get the news!


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Wikidata birthday in Kanpur (India), November 3rd
 * Wikidata birthday in Berlin (Germany), November 4th
 * Wikidata birthday in Rennes (France), November 5th
 * OKlab Berlin hacknights, October 31st and November 7th
 * Pidapalooza, Reykjavik, November 9-10
 * Past: Ladies that FOSS (livetweet report)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: SummitPost ID, lib.reviews ID, Galiciana Author ID, ICAA rating, KINENOTE person ID, NGS pumping station ID, third-party formatter URL, Open Media Database film ID, broadcast by


 * Query examples:
 * Deities and their families
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20p%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20v%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fstatement%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20q%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fqualifier%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20rdfs%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2F01%2Frdf-schema%23%3E%0APREFIX%20ps%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fstatement%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20psv%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fstatement%2Fvalue%2F%3E%0A%0A%20%20%20%23%20%20Query%20to%20find%20the%20most-frequently%20represented%0A%20%20%20%23%20%20variants%20of%20the%20male%20given%20name%20%3Ftgt_name%0A%20%20%20%23%20%20when%20%3Ftgt_name%20%3D%20Q2958359%0A%20%20%20%23%20%20Query%20generated%20by%20%5B%5BTemplate%3ANameVariantStatsM%5D%5D%0A%0ASELECT%20%3Fname%20%3FnameLabel%20%3Fcount%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20hint%3AQuery%20hint%3Aoptimizer%20%22None%22%20.%20%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fname%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fa%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fname%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%3Fname%20wdt%3AP460%2A%20wd%3AQ15235674%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%20wd%3AQ15235674%20wdt%3AP460%2A%20%3Fname%7D%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fname%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ12308941%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%20LIMIT%20100%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fa%20wdt%3AP735%20%3Fname%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fa%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fname%0A%20%20%7D%20.%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%0A%23%20HAVING%20%28%3Fcount%20%3E%201%29%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29%20%3FitemLabel%0A Most frequently variants of given names] (source)
 * Cheese made with cow milk (source)
 * Abandoned villages in the Czech Republic (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Informatics: File Formats
 * Newest database reports: Liam Neeson filmography


 * Development
 * We proposed a meaningful initial order for the statementSort gadget (T147062)
 * Commons media file properties now support pasting full Wikimedia Commons URLs (T147917)
 * Added distinct hover tooltips to rank and snak type selectors, as well as some of the "add" buttons (T139356)
 * Our concept base URI will be exposed as part of the [#action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=general ] API (T143910). Thanks, user Lokal Profil!
 * Progress on the  API module to query entity usage information (T145880)
 * Progress on the new parser function for rich, formatted statements (T142940)
 * Released [//github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModel/releases/tag/6.2.0 Wikibase DataModel 6.2.0]
 * Released [//phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/GDVV/browse/master/RELEASE-NOTES.md ValueView 0.18.0]

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

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Tech News: 2016-44
<section begin="technews-2016-W44"/> 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
 * Now you can include Commons video films with subtitles in your wiki language. Before you could see translated videos on file page at Commons only.
 * Search now has an updated preference tab to configure the search completion suggester.
 * The visual editor is now available on all wikis using only one language script.

Changes this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 1st. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 2nd. It will be on all wikis from November 3rd (calendar).
 * Now you can use autocomplete for page names in "" field when editing templates.
 * Special:NewPages can now be filtered by page size.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg New MediaWiki deployments will be now based on MediaWiki 1.29.

Miscellaneous
 * The Wikimedia Foundation's Technical Collaboration Guideline is available for community review. Any feedback welcome, in any language.

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2016-W44"/> 16:18, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 19
<div style = "color: #936c29; font-size: 4em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif"> The Wikipedia Library <span style="font-size: 2em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif">Books & Bytes

Issue 19, September–October 2016 by Nikkimaria, Sadads and UY Scuti <div style = "margin-top: 1.5em; border: 3px solid #ae8c55; border-radius: .5em; padding: 1em 1.5em; font-size: .9em"> Read the full newsletter 19:07, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
 * New and expanded donations - Foreign Affairs, Open Edition, and many more
 * New Library Card Platform and Conference news
 * Spotlight: Fixing one million broken links

The Signpost: 4 November 2016
<div class="hlist" style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:51, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

Europe 10,000 Challenge invite
Hi. The WikiProject Europe/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like Germany, Italy, the Benelux countries, Iberian Peninsula, Romania, Slovenia etc, much like The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. If you would like to see masses of articles being improved for Europe and your specialist country like WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon, sign up today and once the challenge starts a contest can be organized. This is a way we can target every country of Europe, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant and also sign under any country sub challenge on the page that you might contribute to! Thank you. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 02:46, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #234
<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;">

Thanks to everyone who celebrated the birthday by organizing or attending to an event, letting a message on Wikidata or on the social networks, writing a story or creating a present!
 * Fourth birthday: thank you!

Here's the list of the birthday presents from the community and development team:
 * d:Template:User Wikidata birthday 2016 (Pigsonthewing)
 * A new version of the map showing all the Wikidata items with geolocalisation (Addshore)
 * Wikidata's 4th birthday logo (Incabell)
 * A new release of the Wikipedia and Wikidata Tools for Google Spreadsheets add-on has made working with Wikidata a lot easier for Google Sheets users. (Tomayac)
 * A guide to SPARQL and the Wikidata Query Service (TweetsFactsAndQueries)
 * Four new types of charts for the Query Service: line chart, bar chart, scatter chart and area chart! Read more and try examples in the documentation (Jonas)
 * , a new parser function is currently in development with better features: try it here! (Thiemo, Wikidata dev team and volunteers)
 * Search field added in Scholia, a tool to create scholarship profiles (fnielsen)
 * Technical documentation about Wikibase for PHP and JS scripts (Ladsgroup and Jonas)
 * new feature for the graph view in the Query Service: it can now browse the properties of items. see in the video (Jonas)
 * graph builder tool for the query service to create and export graphs (demo video) (Jonas, [[d:user:Smalyshev (WMF)|Smalyshev)
 * d:Module:PropertyPath and d:Template:Show Path Items (TomT0m)
 * Everything is connected, a knowledge game based on Wikidata and Commons (list of levels) (Denny)


 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Editing descriptions from Wikipedia Android app


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Histropedia: “The power of data visualisation combined with free knowledge” on WMF's blog
 * Presenting the Wikidata Human Gender Indicators by Max Klein
 * How the world’s first Wikidata Visiting Scholar created linked open data for five thousand works of art on WMF's blog


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Music in Canada at 150 Wikipedia Project, a multifaceted campaign to increase the amount and quality of content about Canadian music in Wikipedia and Wikidata
 * 400,000,000th edit was made.
 * The average amount of statements per item became higher than five and is still growing.
 * Wikidata entities usage on Wikimedia projects


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: DRÚSOP ID, code, encoding, BALaT image ID, DocCheck Flexikon De ID, DocCheck Flexikon En ID, biography at the Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Cellosaurus ID, World Spider Catalog ID, Squash Info ID, MSC ID, Yahoo! Japan Talent Database ID, Bandcamp artist ID, French National Assembly Lobbyist ID, BanQ author ID, statistical leader, Sandbox-Monolingual text II


 * Query examples:
 * Continents on Wikidata (All eleven of them) (source)
 * Sluices on the river "Vilaine" in Brittany (source)
 * Countries with most cities named after saints (source)
 * Disney characters who share name with their actors (source)
 * 204 items that cite themselves (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20statements%20with%20two%20references%20where%20one%20source%20cites%20the%20other%0ASELECT%20%3Fsubject%20%3FsubjectLabel%20%3FpropertyLabel%20%3FobjectLabel%20%3Fsource1Label%20%3Fsource2Label%0AWITH%20%7B%20%23%20subquery%20that%20actually%20finds%20the%20statements%20and%20sources%20%28written%20as%20named%20subquery%20to%20ensure%20it%E2%80%99s%20only%20run%20once%2C%20independently%20of%20the%20rest%20of%20the%20query%3B%20see%20https%3A%2F%2Fwiki.blazegraph.com%2Fwiki%2Findex.php%2FNamedSubquery%29%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fstatement%20%3Fsource1%20%3Fsource2%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fstatement%20prov%3AwasDerivedFrom%2Fpr%3AP248%20%3Fsource1%2C%20%3Fsource2.%20%23%20statement%20has%20two%20%E2%80%9Cstated%20in%E2%80%9D%20references%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fsource1%20wdt%3AP2860%20%3Fsource2.%20%23%20first%20source%20cites%20the%20second%20one%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Fsource1%20%21%3D%20%3Fsource2%29.%20%23%20apparently%20some%20items%20cite%20themselves%3F%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25results%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25results.%0A%20%20%23%20auxiliary%20query%20to%20find%20the%20subject%2C%20property%20and%20object%20of%20the%20statement%2C%20as%20well%20as%20labels%0A%20%20%3Fsubject%20%3Fp%20%3Fstatement.%0A%20%20%3Fstatement%20%3Fps%20%3Fobject.%0A%20%20%3Fproperty%20a%20wikibase%3AProperty%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3Aclaim%20%3Fp%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AstatementProperty%20%3Fps.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D Statements with two references where one source cites the other] (source)


 * Development
 * Stable interface policy update
 * More work on federation in order to be able to use Wikidata's items and properties to describe media files on Wikimedia Commons in the future (T149580)
 * Worked on first version of Lexeme entity type (T148139)
 * Worked more on linking values in Lua and the property parser function instead of just returning the label (T142940) You can test it here: https://de.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Statements
 * Improved map layer colors in the query service (T148022)
 * Improved size of map markers in the query service (T148496)
 * Upcoming: quantity changes
 * Worked more on automated sitelinks for Wiktionary (T987) Test system is coming in the next days.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

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Tech News: 2016-45
<section begin="technews-2016-W45"/> 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
 * Victoria Coleman is the new Chief technology officer for the Wikimedia Foundation.
 * First release candidate for MediaWiki 1.28 is now available.
 * Octicons-tools.svg for MediaWiki branches and extensions switched from targeting a specific branch to using.
 * Section numbers in Table of Contents boxes will use grey to improve readability.

Changes this week
 * The 2016 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 7 November.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 8th. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 9th. It will be on all wikis from November 10th (calendar).
 * Special:ActiveUsers will allow users groups selection.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 8 November 2016 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are Image Thumbnail API and allow SVG files uploaded on MediaWiki to have XHTML namespaces. The meeting will be on 9 November at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * RevisionSlider will be enabled by default on all beta wikis, on testwiki, testwiki2, mediawikiwiki and de.wikipedia.org.
 * Upcoming holidays will impact deployments. The schedule has been published.

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Wikidata weekly summary #235
<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;"> This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-11-12.


 * Discussions
 * Current request for comments: Editing descriptions from Wikipedia Android app


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Wikidata and the Chain of Death, by Karl Beecher
 * Scaling multilingual name tags with Wikidata OpenStreetMap contributor blog post
 * Wikidata and Persistent Identifiers was presented at PIDapalooza November 9th.
 * Wikidata in OpenStreetMap
 * Wikidata and the Semantic Web of Food


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * A new Wikidata PageRank dataset has been published. The dataset was computed in August 2016 and provides PageRank scores for 10,364,840 Wikidata entities.
 * Due to a possible hack, please consider resetting your passwords.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: generation time, hazard on site,	ACM Digital Library event ID,	ACM Digital Library citation ID,	HGVS nomenclature,	Supermodels.nl ID,	CIViC variant ID,	wurvoc.org measure ID,	Réserves Naturelles de France ID,	World Waterfall Database ID,	Ylioppilasmatrikkeli 1853–1899 ID,	ID petit-patrimoine.com,	opponent during disputation,	Vlindernet ID,	male form of label,	board member,	Patrimonio Inmueble de Andalucía ID,	BDI ID,	ICCF ID,	chesstempo ID,	365chess player ID,	plan image,	muscle action,	SummitPost ID,	lib.reviews ID,	Galiciana Author ID,	ICAA rating,	KINENOTE person ID,	NGS pumping station ID,	third-party formatter URL,	Open Media Database film ID,	broadcast by,	musical conductor,	Student register of the University of Helsinki 1640–1852 ID,	Belgian Senate person ID,	Flemish Parliament person ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of educational institutes from all over the world (source)
 * Current US Supreme Court justices by their date of birth (source)
 * Death dates of people with Wikidata items (source)
 * French towns that a street in Paris is name after(source)
 * Statements with “reason for deprecation” rank that aren’t deprecated(source)


 * Development
 * More work on federation (T76007)
 * Worked on first basic version of Lexeme entity type for Wiktionary support (T148139)
 * Test system for automated language links for Wiktionary (T987)
 * Analysed feedback prototype for editing on Wikipedia in order to refine it
 * Worked on mapping Commons workflows and needs
 * Analysed queries used with Listeria
 * More work on making ArticlePlaceholder pages indexeable by search engines (T117693)
 * More work on enabling translations from existing articles in other languages on ArticlePlaceholder pages (T124036)
 * Link to local articles in ArticlePlaceholders (T113955)
 * Fix for bug that prevented editing (T150401)
 * Experimented with improvements for property suggestions (T132839)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

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Tech News: 2016-46
<section begin="technews-2016-W46"/> 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
 * When you edit with the visual editor you can use  +   +   to add a reference. The meta key is often the control key or command key.

Changes this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 16. It will be on all wikis from November 17 (calendar).
 * In Special:Preferences you can choose which language menus and buttons will be in. If there is no translation for that language, MediaWiki has a list of fallback languages. A fallback language is a language many will understand better than English. MediaWiki will now use English when there is no Ukrainian translation.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 15 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Magic links might not work in the future.

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Wikidata weekly summary #236
<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
 * New request for comments: How to make new languages enabled on Wikidata


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Problematizing and Addressing the Article as Concept Assumption in Wikipedia (Q27827559)
 * schema.org, Wikidata, Knowledge Graph: strands of the modern semantic web by Dan Scott


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Parlement & Politiek ID (P1749) has been completed in Mix'n'match. Over 5000 politicians from the Netherlands (and also Belgium) now have a link to this resource
 * Two policies about abandoned tools on Tool Labs are currently voted on
 * The Community Wishlist Survey is now closed and the vote phase will start on November 28. Here's the category for Wikidata
 * Data import hub and Data import guide: feel free to give feedbacks on these documents!


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: musipedia tune ID, Adult Film Database person ID, WHO international non-proprietary names ID, designed to carry, National Library of Greece ID, PermID, HKMDb person ID, RxNorm CUI, Vote Smart ID, legislation.gov.uk ID, significant person, Kvikmyndir person ID, Kvikmyndir film ID, World Surf League ID, Encyclopedia of Surfing ID


 * Query examples:
 * Occupations of women, with French female-form labels (source, database report)
 * Documents with most signatories (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Wikidata%20map%20of%20James%20Bond%20filming%20locations%0A%23%20SPARQL%20by%20Jura1%2C%202016-11-05%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%09%3Ffilm%20%28CONCAT%28str%28%3FactorLabel%29%2C%20%22%20%2Fin%2F%20%22%2C%20str%28%3FfilmLabel%29%2C%20%22%20--%20the%20%22%2C%20str%28%3FfilmDescription%29%29%20as%20%3Flayer%29%20%0A%09%09%3Fenwiki_article%09%3Fcoor%09%0A%09%09%3Ffilminglocation%09%3FfilminglocationLabel%0A%7B%09SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Ffilm%09%3FfilmLabel%20%3FfilmDescription%20%09%3Fenwiki_article%09%3Fcoor%09%3Ffilminglocation%09%3FfilminglocationLabel%20%3FactorLabel%20%3FpropertyLabel%20%0A%09%7B%0A%20%20%09%3Fstatement%20pq%3AP453%20wd%3AQ2009573%20.%0A%20%20%09%3Ffilm%20p%3AP161%20%3Fstatement%20.%20%3Fstatement%20ps%3AP161%20%3Factor%20.%0A%20%20%09%3Ffilm%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2A%20wd%3AQ11424%20.%0A%20%20%09%3Ffilm%20wdt%3AP915%20%3Ffilminglocation%20.%0A%20%20%09%3Ffilminglocation%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoor%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Ffilminglocation%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Ffilminglocation%20%7D%20%20%0A%09OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fenwiki_article%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Ffilm%20%3B%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20%7D%0A%09SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Ffilm%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FfilmLabel%20.%20%3Ffilm%20schema%3Adescription%20%3FfilmDescription%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Ffilminglocation%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FfilminglocationLabel%20.%20%3Factor%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FactorLabel%20%20%7D%0A%09%7D%0A%7D Filming locations of James Bond films] (source)
 * United States National Historic Landmarks not actually located in the United States (source)
 * Items with VIAF, but no P31/279 (source)
 * Newest database reports: List of Italian language films without articles in Italian Wikipedia


 * Development
 * Unit conversion has been rolled out for the first dimension for a short while now.
 * Undo diffs now utilize language fallbacks for property and item labels (315291). Thanks to Matěj Suchánek!
 * Reworked database schema for Cognate (the extension that will do automatic interwiki links for Wiktionary). It is still waiting for security review before it can be deployed.
 * Worked more on basic version of Lexeme entity type
 * Fixed a bug where the links on action=info where wrong (T149598)
 * Getting close to finishing the groundwork for Federation so that in the future you'll be able to use Wikidata's items and properties to describe files on Commons.
 * Added Innu-aimun as a language for monolingual text values (T151129)
 * Worked on linking to Wikipedia articles in the statements on an ArticlePlaceholder (T113955)
 * ArticlePlaceholder got a button to translate articles via the ContentTranslation extension (T124036)
 * Prepared a bot to fix quantity values after the recent changes to precisions (T142087)
 * Did user interviews for use cases and workflows on Commons
 * Analyzed more Listeria queries in order to figure out steps forward for easier query writing

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

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Tech News: 2016-47
<section begin="technews-2016-W47"/>

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
 * Administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers can now use two-factor authentication. This makes their Wikimedia accounts more secure. This can be turned on in Special:Preferences. There are discussions on how to best turn it on for everyone.
 * You can now search for file properties. For example you can search for media type, how big a file is or what resolution it has.
 * The latest Collaboration team products newsletter has been published. It has more details about their work than Tech News has.

Problems
 * A hacker group is hacking Wikimedia accounts. They can probably do this because users have the same passwords on Wikimedia wikis as on other sites. Please have a password you use only on the Wikimedia wikis and nowhere else. This is especially important for administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers. These users can also turn on two-factor authentication.

Changes this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
 * RevisionSlider will be a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia. This will happen on 22 November. It will come to other wikis later.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 22 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * It will be possible to do cross-wiki search. The developers who work on this are looking for communities that want to test this.
 * Hovercards will leave the beta stage. The Wikimedia Foundation Reading Web team wants communities to set Hovercards as a default option for readers who are not logged in. Communities that are interested can say so on the Hovercards talk page.

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The Signpost: 4 November 2016
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Wikidata weekly summary #237
<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
 * Closed request for comments: Semi-automatic Addition of References to Wikidata Statements


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: Wikidata introduction by Pigsonthewing at DJUK 2016


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Items without statements is down to 5% for enwiki (source)
 * Wikidata:WikiProject Biographical Identifiers


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Auckland Art Gallery artist ID, Observatoire du Patrimoine Religieux ID, Géopatronyme ID, Prabook ID, GECD film ID, GECD person ID, Enciclopedia Treccani, stereoisomer of, Tennishof ID, operating income, PictoRight ID code, Nobel Prize People Nomination ID, negative prognostic predictor, positive prognostic predictor, negative diagnostic predictor, positive diagnostic predictor, negative therapeutic predictor, positive therapeutic predictor, National Recreation Trails Database ID


 * Query example : List of sovereign state flags by proportion (source)
 * Newest tool: Display the link to Wikiversity in the title of Wikipedia using Wikidata
 * Newest database report: Unique films: film items with a link to a single Wikipedia


 * Development
 * Adding new wikis to interwiki sort order and move sort orders to WMF config. T111023

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

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Tech News: 2016-48
<section begin="technews-2016-W48"/> 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 this week
 * When someone tries to log in to a blocked account they will be blocked by a cookie. This means their browser will be blocked even if they change their IP address. This makes it more difficult for returning vandals.
 * When you use Content Translation to adapt a template to a new translation it will work differently. You can adapt big templates such as infoboxes. Translators will have control over the template parameters. A first version of this is released this week. It is possible it will not work correctly with all templates. There will be more updates for this soon.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 November. It will be on all wikis from 1 December (calendar).
 * Octicons-tools.svg Gadgets will have a new option called "hidden". This means you can register gadgets that can't be turned on or off from the preferences page. Hiding gadgets was already possible by using . You should now use   instead.   in old gadgets should be changed to.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 29 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg Tool Labs could get two new policies. One would be to be able to adopt tools without an active developer. The other would be a right to fork. There is a request for comment on Meta.

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User warning templates
Hi, Chewings72. Thanks for your good work reverting vandalism. Please consider leaving warnings for vandals. I usually can't block vandals if they haven't been warned. Also, I have tens of thousands of vandals' IP addresses in my watchlist, so only if you warn them, am I alerted to their activity, and can block them. Warning vandals only takes a second if you use WP:TWINKLE. If you're interested, tick the box to enable Twinkle in your Preferences under "Gadgets". Cheers– Gilliam (talk) 10:21, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Yes, I don't always put warnings on, as many of the vandals are one-off types (particularly anonymous 'contributors') rather than those who are intending to causing ongoing problems.  I also prefer providing feedback to the 'one-offers' (other than those who are just looking for kicks through using inappropriate language or just deleting whole swathes of text) via comments against my reverts so there is a better chance they will read it, as I believe many of the anonymous vandals don't even bother to look at their talk page. However, you are right, I should make more use of warnings and will look to do so via Twinkle.  Regards --Chewings72 (talk) 10:35, 5 December 2016 (UTC)