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Tech News: 2017-07
 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
 * Octicons-tools.svg EventStreams is a new way to show activity on Wikimedia wikis. For now it works with the recent changes feed. It will do more things later. It will replace RCStream. Tools that use RCStream should move to EventStreams before 7 July.

Problems
 * The Firefox add-on Firefogg can cause problems with the Upload Wizard. This will not be fixed, because Firefox will not support Firefogg in the future. The Upload Wizard will no longer work with Firefogg.
 * Tool Labs and Wikimedia Labs databases will be under maintenance on 15 February. This will start at 17:00 (UTC) and last for about six hours. Some tools could have problems during or after this.

Changes this week
 * The TwoColConflict extension is a new way to solve edit conflicts. It makes it easier to copy and paste the relevant text to the text field. It will come to Meta and German Wikipedia this week. It is already available on MediaWiki.org. It will come to more wikis later.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 February. It will be on all wikis from 16 February (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 14 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Page Previews will be turned on for logged-out users on the Catalan, Greek, Russian, and Italian Wikipedias in the middle of February. Page Previews shows readers a short part of a linked article when they rest their mouse pointer on the link. This is to help them understand what it is about without leaving the article they are reading. Page Previews used to be called Hovercards. It will come to more wikis later this spring.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Developer Wishlist is a list where developers prioritize tools they need. The voting closes at 14 February 23:59 (UTC). This process is only for developers.

Review
 * You can read the 2016 product summary from the Wikimedia Foundation Product group to see what they did with things they said they would work on in the annual plan.

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Wikidata weekly summary #247
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: P171 (property "parent taxon"), changing the label of property "has role"


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Probing Parliament(s) with Wikidata, by Martin Poulter
 * Jan Dittrich and Charlie Kritschmar gave a talk at FOSDEM on finding user needs and gave some examples from their work.
 * A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners by Asaf Bartov: video and slides
 * Validating Wikidata tags on OpenStreetMap
 * Reminder: the deadline for Wikimania's scholarship is February 20 (and you can discuss about your ideas for Wikidata here)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The satisfaction survey concerning Flow has been published (and Wikidata is the community which prefers Flow the most)
 * Module Wikidata on Wikidata received an update to improve its performance. If your wiki has forked this one, consider updating it and report any problems (already reported one).
 * Experimental c:Template:Category contains for categories on Commons, including a per-category Wikidata query. See introductory discussion on Commons Village Pump. Presented together with current statistics on Commons category <-> Wikidata links
 * ContentMine looking for a Wikimedian in Residence to work on Wikidata and WikiFactMine in Cambridge
 * It is now possible to edit the Wikidata description from the Wikipedia app in some languages in beta


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: base salary, Visions of Britain place ID, Visions of Britain unit ID, DigDag ID, Sweden Nature Reserve ID, Le Monde diplomatique subject ID, Borden Code, fare zone, Recreation.gov area ID, EU VAT number, Booking.com hotel ID, BOLD Systems taxon ID, 90minut player ID, ITU triathlete ID, Minneapolis Institute of Art Constituent ID, candidacy in election, MarineTraffic Lighthouse ID, protected heritage site in Brussels ID, Archives nationales producer record, Hockey-reference player ID, F-Droid package, Danish ancient monument ID, BLF article ID, Araneae Spider ID, AFI Catalog of Feature Films ID


 * Query examples:
 * Collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK
 * Office-holders convicted of crimes (source)
 * |wdt%3AP39%29%2F%28wdt%3AP31|wdt%3AP279%29*%20wd%3AQ116%3B%20%23%20occupation%20or%20position%20held%3A%20some%20kind%20of%20monarch%0A%20wdt%3AP1399%20wd%3AQ1475448.%20%23%20convicted%20of%3A%20regicide%0A%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D Monarchs convicted of regicide (source)
 * Timeline of antipopes (source)
 * Battles etc of the U.S. Civil War, that have maps (source) -- but the results are a bit patchy.
 * Grade I listed buildings in Bedfordshire (source: Commons "category contains" template)
 * Newest external tools: new reconciliation for OpenRefine


 * Development
 * Doing a trial run of allowing search engines to index a number of ArticlePlaceholder pages on Welsh Wikipedia. If there are no major issues we will enable this for all placeholders.
 * Improving Federation-related after initial tests,
 * Getting ready to deploy automated sitelinks for Wiktionary
 * Further work on the new datatype for geoshapes (T57549)

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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Guild of Copy Editors February 2017 News
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:20, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #248
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: GLAMwiki meeting in Paris, February 16-17th
 * Incoming: Wikidata workshop in Grenoble (France), March 7th
 * If Voltaire had used Wikipedia… using Wikidata to share knowledge about an author


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * WMF open call for Project Grant proposals (Feb 13-Mar 14)
 * Wikimania: the deadline for applying for scholarships is 20 February 2017 23:59 UTC. Submissions are running until end of March (see our discussions about Wikidata-related topics)
 * Wikimedia Deutschland is hiring a fullstack developer and an engineering manager to work on Wikidata
 * Editing Wikidata descriptions from Wikipedia app (beta)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: USA Gymnastics athlete ID, Tennis Archives player ID, Swimming Australia swimmer ID, Sambafoot player ID, International Weightlifting Federation ID, EPCR player ID, L'Équipe football player ID, Futsal Planet player ID, Fotbal DNES player ID, Football Federation of Ukraine player ID, Fora De Jogo manager ID, FootballFacts.ru player ID, Estonian Football Association player ID, DZFoot.com player ID, Croatian Football Statistics ID, Cross-tables.com Scrabble player ID, BDFutbol player ID, Chess.com player ID, ARRS runner ID, Kontinental Hockey League player ID, American Hockey League player ID, JMK film rating, IDEAS person ID, NatureServe conservation status, NBA player ID, Basketball Hall of Fame ID, All Blacks player ID, FFR player ID, significant environmental impact, ARCHON code, Uniform Type Identifier, National Drug Code, Key to English Place-Names (KEPN) ID, Oorlogsmonument ID, European Medicines Agency product number, PDB ligand ID, Peakbagger area ID, The Met object ID, British Museum place ID, British Museum thesaurus ID, Babelio work ID, Babelio author ID, stated age at event, British History Online VCH ID, Historical Gazetteer of England's Place Names ID, Australian Antarctic Gazetteer ID, Kirshenbaum, Common Weakness Enumeration ID, BadmintonLink player ID, rusbandy player ID, Darts Database player ID, Bwfbadminton.com player ID, ski-db.com skier ID


 * Query examples:
 * People born at the sea (source)
 * Persons buried in Père-Lachaise cemetery, Paris (source)
 * Paintings by women painters in the Louvre (source)
 * [http://histropedia.com/showcase/wikidata-viewer.html?query=%23People%20born%20on%20valentine%27s%20day%0ASELECT%20?personItem%20?person%20?personDescription%20?date%20?Country_of_citizenship%20?Occupation%20?Gender%20?image%20?rank%20(if(BOUND(?personDescription),%20CONCAT(?person,%27%20(%27,?personDescription,%27)%27),%20?person)%20as%20?title)%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%7B%0ASELECT%20?personItem%20?date%20?countryItem%20?occupationItem%20?genderItem%0A(SAMPLE(?image)%20as%20?image)%0A(COUNT(DISTINCT%20?article)%20as%20?rank)%20%0AWHERE%20%7B%09%0A?personItem%20wdt:P569%20?date%20.%0A?personItem%20wdt:P18%20?image%20.%0A?personItem%20wdt:P21%20?genderItem%20.%0A?personItem%20wdt:P106%20?occupationItem%20.%0A?personItem%20wdt:P27%20?countryItem%20.%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20?article%20schema:about%20?personItem%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%20(SUBSTR(STR(?article),12,19)%20%3D%20%22wikipedia.org/wiki/%22)%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%0AFILTER%20(datatype(?date)%20%3D%20xsd:dateTime%20&&%20month(?date)%20%3D%202%20&&%20day(?date)%20%3D%2014)%09%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20?personItem%20?date%20?countryItem%20?occupationItem%20?genderItem%0A%7D%0ASERVICE%20wikibase:label%20%7B%0Abd:serviceParam%20wikibase:language%20%27en%27%20.%0A?personItem%20schema:description%20?personDescription%20.%0A?personItem%20rdfs:label%20?person%20.%0A?countryItem%20rdfs:label%20?Country_of_citizenship%20.%0A?occupationItem%20rdfs:label%20?Occupation%20.%0A?genderItem%20rdfs:label%20?Gender%20.%0A%7D%0A%7D%20%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC(?rank)&url=personItem&title=title&from=date&imageUrl=image&colourCodeBy=Country_of_citizenship&threshold=1&filterBy=Gender,Occupation&view=timeline People born on Valentine's day, colour coded by country of citizenship] (source)
 * Newest external tools: wikidata-cli can now edit Wikidata, edit Wikidata from NodeJS


 * Development
 * Making final fixes to initial version of Federation (needed to be able to use Wikidata items and properties to describe media on Commons in the future)
 * More work on baseline for Lexeme entity type for Wiktionary support
 * Fixed an error on d:Special:ConstraintReport (T158183)
 * Wikidata Query Service got additional servers, the data has been reloaded to fix a number of issues caused by missed updates and an increase of the time-out of 30s is being looked into.

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 &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:56, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-08
 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
 * The edit summary box is now a little bit bigger. This is to make it follow the Wikimedia design guide.

Changes this week
 * Page Previews will be updated on 23 February. This fixes many bugs. Page Previews can be turned on as the Beta Feature called Hovercards.
 * Octicons-tools.svg There has been a problem where the CSS of gadgets has been loading twice. The Gadgets extension has two new options:  and  . The   option solves this problem. You can use   to create gadgets with more than one style module. Read more about type and peers.
 * Octicons-tools.svg OAuth will handle blocked users in a more consistent way.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 February. It will be on all wikis from 23 February (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 21 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Wikidata weekly summary #249
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Proposal to include command line arguments to Command line tool
 * We need your input on SPARQL federation


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Describing Wikidata items with OpenStreetMap tags
 * Deadline for applying to Wikicite 2017 is February 27th
 * Quora blog post about their collaboration with Wikidata. They are now displaying links to Wikidata items in their topic management pages - about 88K of them, so far.
 * Community Digest: Using data to visualize Wikipedia knowledge gaps; news in brief


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * There is now a Community for Wikidata editors on Facebook
 * You can now make your Harvest Templates tasks run automatically. After you have generated a permalink to your task, add  to the url. When you open it next time, it will load and then run automatically. Alternatively, you can use   which will only prepare the task for running.
 * Wikidata description editing in the Wikipedia Android app for Hebrew, Russian and Catalan


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: GPnotebook ID, regulated by, NCMEC person ID, MEROPS enzyme ID, social classification, NISH Hall of Fame ID, Recreation.gov facility ID, category for value not in Wikidata, objective of a project or mission, Vanderkrogt.net Statues ID, Jewish Encyclopedia Daat ID, category for value different from Wikidata, PhDTree person ID, Gridabase glacier ID, RITVA Person ID, RITVA Program ID, KMDb film ID, JMDb person ID, Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts ID, incarnation of, NHF player ID, Transfermarkt referee ID, Tennis Australia player ID, SRCFB player ID, SRCBB player ID, SpeedSkatingStats speed skater ID, SpeedSkatingNews speed skater ID, ShorttrackOnLine speed skater ID, NCAA sports team ID, ISHOF swimmer ID, IFSC climber ID, ICF slalom canoer ID, ICF sprint canoer ID, ESPN NHL player ID, ESPN NFL player ID, ESPN NBA player ID, DriverDB driver ID, LFP.fr player ID, AOC athlete ID, ESPN FC player ID, statement supported by, stock market index, SA Rugby player ID, Wereld van Oranje player ID, National Bridge Inventory Number, Hans Christian Andersen Centre's work ID, Mutopia composer ID, film-documentaire.fr film ID, International Orienteering Federation athlete ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of cheese by milk used (source)
 * The many flags of Afghanistan (source)
 * Real works written by fictional authors (source)
 * Maps of churches in Pyrénées-Orientales (France) (source)
 * Cities with millions of inhabitants that not a single person in Wikidata was born, has lived, or died in (source)


 * Development
 * Continued to finalize the initial version of Federation (needed to be able to use Wikidata items and properties to describe media on Commons in the future)
 * More work on baseline for Lexeme entity type for Wiktionary support

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. These other tasks need a volunteer.


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

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:54, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-09
 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
 * On 22 February the wikipedia.org portal did not work for an hour. This was because of a problem with a JavaScript file.

Changes this week
 * You will be able to use  to write chemical formulas in the visual editor. Previously this only worked in the wikitext editor.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 March. It will be on all wikis from 2 March (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 28 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * You can soon upload 3D files to Commons. The file formats are AMF and STL. The plan is for this to work later this week but it could be later.
 * The name "Wikipedia" will be more obvious at the top of the page when you read Wikipedia in the mobile view. This is because many readers don't realize they are on Wikipedia.

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The Signpost: 27 February 2017
 * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:20, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

Roy Cohn
Sorry, what? https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Roy_Cohn&oldid=prev&diff=768342351 MartinSFSA (talk) 07:21, 3 March 2017 (UTC)
 * It's up to you. But I don't see how your addition is adding value to the Wikipedia article on Roy Cohn.--Chewings72 (talk) 09:32, 3 March 2017 (UTC)
 * A section on references in the media? With other examples from The Simpsons? How is it not? MartinSFSA (talk) 13:33, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #250
<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/Press/Blogs
 * International Open Data Day was on Saturday, 4 March (tweets about Wikidata)
 * Wikidata documentation sprint during the Wikimedia hackathon (May 19-21): We need your help to improve Wikidata help pages!
 * Getting to know Wikidata (from Bob DuCharme, author of the book "learning SPARQL")
 * Tutorial to mashup Wikidata and government data with Dataiku DSS and Palladio (fr)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Library of Congress updated their inventory of Format Description Documents to include Wikidata URIs
 * Surfacing Wikidata objects with coordinates to match them with OSM
 * The Wikiproject Welcome has been created to work on welcoming the new editors, feel free to participate


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: FIH player ID, seed dispersal, number of works, inflorescence, minimum wavelength of electromagnetic sensitivity, maximum wavelength of electromagnetic sensitivity, Eurovision Song Contest song ID, Ghetto Encyclopedia ID, category for value same as Wikidata, MOOMA artist ID, PhilPapers record, Serbia cadastral municipality ID, next higher rank, next lower rank, New Zealand Heritage List number, Serbia municipality ID, Eu-football.info player ID, CEV player ID, USHMM Holocaust Encyclopedia ID, USCG Lighthouse ID, Commons maps category, public key fingerprint


 * Query examples:
 * Countries with similar populations (source)
 * Items that have "feminist art" as a value (source)
 * Books, incipits, concatenating a sentence to the incipit (source and inspiration)
 * Paintings by Vermeer depicting maps (source)
 * Painters sorted by the number of Wikipedia articles about their works (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Fashion


 * Development
 * Finishing touches on the new geo shape data type. It is available on the first test wiki now (T57549).
 * SetLabel, SetDescription, SetAliases, SetLabelDescriptionAliases, SetSiteLink have been migrated to ooUI. Thanks, Ricordisamoa! (T48248)
 * Making progress on integrating the new Lexeme entity type with the wbeditentity API (T155699).

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: 2017-10
<section begin="technews-2017-W10"/> 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 now search on English, French, Hebrew and Greek wikis and find words even if you forget the diacritics. It also works if you use diacritics in your search but the wiki doesn't.
 * When you use the mobile view and click on a link to an article in another language you will see that article in the mobile view. Previously it changed to the desktop view.

Problems
 * Some watchlist gadgets didn't work for a period of time last week. This has now been fixed.
 * Admins who click on "mass delete" on a user's Special:Contributions will be taken directly to a list pages created by that user. It has worked like this before, but not lately.

Changes this week
 * The way you switch between wikitext and the visual editors in the desktop view has changed. It is now a drop-down menu. This is the same as in the mobile view.
 * The "flag the edit in the abuse log" checkbox will be removed from the abuse filter interface. This is because the edits are always flagged in the abuse log.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 March. It will be on all wikis from 9 March (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 7 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Clarification
 * The 2017/09 issue of Tech News mentioned 3D file formats you can soon upload to Commons. The AMF format will be available later.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2017-W10"/> 23:23, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

Revert on Sri Chinmoy page
Hi there please could you inform me why you reverted my edit on the Sri Chinmoy article page on March 10th? There was no edit summary at all so I have no idea what the reason was? As far as I can see I was just adding a small line of information from one of the verified news article references already used before in the article. If you could let me know please that might help in my future editing. Thank you.Maryanne881 (talk) 06:14, 12 March 2017 (UTC) Maryanne881 (talk) 06:14, 12 March 2017 (UTC)


 * . Thank you for your question. As has already explained to you, Wikipedia articles are not the place for self-promotion or for non-noteworthy events.  I am sure that there were numerous events that took place in India and around the world to celebrate India's 50th anniversary.  Including a specific reference to the Sri Chinmoy concerns associated with India's 50th anniversary seems to be a trivial event on that basis. --Chewings72 (talk) 06:41, 12 March 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-11
<section begin="technews-2017-W11"/> 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
 * You will be able to show references from  tags in more than one column on your wiki. This is the list of footnotes for the sources in the article. How many columns you see will depend on how big your screen is. On some wikis, some templates already do this. Templates that use   tags will need to be updated, and then later the change can happen for all reference lists.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 March. It will be on all wikis from 16 March (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 14 March at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Some old web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis in the future. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can upgrade to a newer version.
 * Octicons-tools.svg CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future.

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Wikidata weekly summary #251
<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/Press/Blogs
 * Ladies that FOSS, March 15th, 18:00, Berlin. Meetup dedicated to women who want to start coding for Wikidata, Mediawiki or other open source software
 * Wikidata workshop in Manchester, March 17th, 10:00, at the Manchester Central Library (information)
 * Wikidata workshop in Paris, March 17th, 20:30. More questions about SPARQL and the Query Service (information and registration)
 * Would you like to attend to a Wikidata meetup in Berlin? You can choose the next date!
 * Wizards, Muggles and Wikidata: The Room of Requirements for structured knowledge by Jens Ohlig, John Cummings and Navino Evans
 * Wikidata for winners (in Economics) by Martin Poulter
 * Des Successions à Wikidata : vers un réseau social des philosophes antiques ? (fr) by Pierre-Carl Langlais


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Do you want to help watching the recent changes? Have a look at this useful collection of links by YMS
 * Watch the gender gap on Wikipedia and Wikidata with this tool by Envlh
 * Play Stadt, Fluss, Land with Wikidata! (by Knut)
 * Deadline for submitting a presentation for Wikimania 2017 is March 30th: discuss about ideas or ask for help
 * WMF is hiring a program manager, a product manager and a community liaison to work on the structured data project on Commons


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: pole position, MIMO instrument ID, openMLOL author ID, IPv4 range, Iditarod musher ID, SAHRA heritage site ID, DOCOMOMO Ibérico ID, average space complexity, best-case space complexity, worst-case space complexity, average performance, best-case performance, worst-case performance, Shoftim BeIsrael judge ID, KMDb documentary ID, Google Maps CID, Israel Football Association player ID, SSRN author ID, Wildflowers of Israel ID, World Rugby Sevens Series ID, number of subscribers, ITU/ISO/IEC object identifier


 * Query examples:
 * List of female bioinformaticians/computational biologists (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20most%20gender-imbalanced%20occupations%20in%20%3Fcountry%20citizens%0ASELECT%20%3FoccupationLabel%20%3Fwomen%20%3Fmen%20WITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Foccupation%20%28SUM%28%3Fwoman%29%20AS%20%3Fwomen%29%20%28SUM%28%3Fman%29%20AS%20%3Fmen%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28wd%3AQ30%20AS%20%3Fcountry%29.%20%23%20substitute%20country%20of%20your%20choice%20here%20%28remove%20the%20Q30%2C%20hit%20Ctrl%2BSpace%20and%20start%20typing%20the%20country%20name%2C%20select%20the%20right%20one%20from%20the%20suggestions%20with%20the%20arrow%20keys%20and%20insert%20it%20with%20Enter%29%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP27%20%3Fcountry%3B%20%23%20remove%20this%20to%20search%20world-wide%20%E2%80%93%20results%20in%20query%20timeout%20unless%20you%20reduce%20the%20dataset%20in%20some%20other%20fashion%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP106%2Fps%3AP106%20%3Foccupation.%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ6581097.%20BIND%281%20AS%20%3Fman%29.%20%7D%20UNION%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ2449503.%20BIND%281%20AS%20%3Fman%29.%20%7D%20UNION%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ6581072.%20BIND%281%20AS%20%3Fwoman%29.%20%7D%20UNION%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ1052281.%20BIND%281%20AS%20%3Fwoman%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20TODO%20consider%20how%20to%20count%20P21%3A%20Q48270%20%28genderqueer%29%20and%20Q1097630%20%28intersex%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Foccupation%0A%7D%20AS%20%25results%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25results.%20%23%20subquery%20as%20optimization%3A%20don%E2%80%99t%20make%20the%20label%20service%20fetch%20labels%20for%20every%20%3Fperson%20in%20the%20subquery%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%0A%20%20%23%20divide%20%3Fvariable%2B1%20instead%20of%20%3Fvariable%20to%20avoid%20division%20by%20zero%0A%20%20%23%20%28unfortunately%2C%20we%20can%E2%80%99t%20use%20ABS%28LOG%28x%2Fy%29%29%20instead%20of%20the%20IF%28%29%20because%20SPARQL%20has%20no%20LOG%20function%29%0A%20%20DESC%28IF%28%3Fwomen%20%3E%20%3Fmen%2C%20%28%3Fwomen%2B1%29%2F%28%3Fmen%2B1%29%2C%20%28%3Fmen%2B1%29%2F%28%3Fwomen%2B1%29%29%29%0A%20%20%23%20if%20the%20ratio%20is%20the%20same%2C%20show%20results%20with%20more%20people%20in%20total%20first%0A%20%20DESC%28%3Fwomen%2B%3Fmen%29 Most gender-imbalanced occupations in US citizens] (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20awards%20received%20by%20more%20women%20than%20men%0ASELECT%20%3Faward%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Flabel%29%20AS%20%3FawardLabel%29%20%3Fwomen%20%3Fmen%20WITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Faward%20%28SUM%28%3Fwoman%29%20AS%20%3Fwomen%29%20%28SUM%28%3Fman%29%20AS%20%3Fmen%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP166%2Fps%3AP166%20%3Faward.%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ6581097.%20BIND%281%20AS%20%3Fman%29.%20%7D%20UNION%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ2449503.%20BIND%281%20AS%20%3Fman%29.%20%7D%20UNION%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ6581072.%20BIND%281%20AS%20%3Fwoman%29.%20%7D%20UNION%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ1052281.%20BIND%281%20AS%20%3Fwoman%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Faward%0A%20%20HAVING%28%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20more%20women%20than%20men%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwomen%20%3E%20%3Fmen%20%26%26%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20but%20exclude%20women-only%20awards%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fmen%20%3E%200%0A%20%20%29%0A%7D%20AS%20%25results%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25results.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Faward%20wdt%3AP1448%20%3FofficialName.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Faward%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FenLabel.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FenLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Faward%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FanyLabel.%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND%28COALESCE%28%3FofficialName%2C%20%3FenLabel%2C%20%3FanyLabel%29%20AS%20%3Flabel%29.%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Faward%20%3Fwomen%20%3Fmen%0AORDER%20BY%20STR%28%3FawardLabel%29 Awards received by more women than men] (source)
 * Transgender characters played by trangender actors/actresses (source)
 * The most famous astronomical objects in Solar System according to Wikipedia sitelinks (source)
 * Natural arches around the globe (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Board Games
 * Newest external tools: official first release of WikidataIntegrator


 * Development
 * Converted undo/restore interface to use OOUI. You can test it here (T134643).
 * Fixed an other rounding issue on geo coordinates (T158772).
 * Added thumbnail images to the Wikimedia Commons suggester (T160319).
 * Continued working on introducing Lexeme entity type.
 * Finishing federation prototype.
 * We are going to change all snak, reference, and qualifier hashes with the planned DataModel 7.0 release. If you are a tool developer, make sure you do not persist hashes, and never use them to request edits to entities. Statement IDs are safe (T157965).
 * Removed unnecessary CSS on ooui special pages (T159702)
 * Allowed example queries to be searched for SPARQL commands (T154768)
 * Converted Wikibase interface for undoing/restoring a revision to OOUI (T134643)
 * Converted image header user script to gadget (T159929)
 * Started writing spec for technical data model for Wiktionary support (T150785)
 * Worked on providing API for constraint check (T102757)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


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

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Weekly Summary #252
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 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin on March 31st
 * Upcoming: Datensummit in Berlin, April 29th. We're looking for Wikidata editors to help :)
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop in Rennes, March 22nd
 * A successful Wikidatathon about women's history in Puri, India
 * Wikidata as information source to support the Dutch elections
 * Quora: Adding Locations via Wikidata
 * Quora: Identifying Topics about People
 * How to quickly generate word analogy datasets with Wikidata by Finn Arup Nielsen


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Deadline for submitting a presentation for Wikimania 2017 is March 30th: discuss about ideas or ask for help
 * SWAT4LS 2016 poster Linking Wikidata to the Semantic Web
 * Mix’n’match interface update


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: FFA ID, European Athletics ID, All-Athletics.com ID


 * Query examples:
 * Gallery of authors of scientific articles that have been published on this day of the year (source)
 * Scholarly articles that have Wikipedia articles about them (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0A%23%20Faux%20Vermeer%20%0A%23%20Genre%2Fp136%20%3A%20faux%2FQ1400612%20%0A%23%20Cr%C3%A9ateur%2Fp170%20avec%20qualificateur%20d%27apr%C3%A8s%2FP1777%20Vermeer%2Fwd%3AQ41264%0ASELECT%20distinct%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fdate%20%28GROUP_CONCAT%28distinct%20%3FcreaLb%3B%20separator%3D%22%20-%20%22%29%20as%20%3Fcreateur%29%20%3Fimg%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP136%20wd%3AQ1400612%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP170%20%3Fcrea%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimg%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP170%20%5B%20pq%3AP1777%20wd%3AQ41264%20%5D%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP571%20%3Fdeclarationdate%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20MINUS%20%7B%3Fdeclarationdate%20pq%3AP1319%20%3Fpasavant%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20MINUS%20%7B%3Fdeclarationdate%20pq%3AP1480%20wd%3AQ5727902%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fdeclarationdate%20ps%3AP571%20%3Fdateunique%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%20%28year%28%3Fdateunique%29%20AS%20%3Fdate%29%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20MINUS%20%7B%3Fdeclarationdate%20pq%3AP1319%20%3Fpasavant%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fdeclarationdate%20pq%3AP1480%20wd%3AQ5727902.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fdeclarationdate%20ps%3AP571%20%3Fdateunique%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%20%28CONCAT%28%22c.%22%2CSTR%28year%28%3Fdateunique%29%29%29%20AS%20%3Fdate%29%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fdeclarationdate%20pq%3AP1319%20%3Fpasavant%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fdeclarationdate%20pq%3AP1326%20%3Fpasapres.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%20%28CONCAT%28STR%28year%28%3Fpasavant%29%29%2C%22-%22%2CSTR%28year%28%3Fpasapres%29%29%29%20AS%20%3Fdate%29%7D%0A%20%20%3Fcrea%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FcreaLb%20.%20filter%20%28lang%28%3FcreaLb%29%20%3D%20%22fr%22%29%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7Bbd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22fr%22%7D%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fdate%20%3Fimg%20 False Vermeer works] (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AGraph%0APREFIX%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%20gas%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bigdata.com%2Frdf%2Fgas%23%3E%0A%0Aselect%20%3Fauthor%20%3FauthorLabel%20%3Fwork%20%3FworkLabel%20where%20%7B%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20select%20%3Fwork%20%3Fauthor%20where%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20service%20gas%3Aservice%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20gas%3Aprogram%20gas%3AgasClass%20%22com.bigdata.rdf.graph.analytics.BFS%22%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20gas%3Ain%20wd%3AQ173746%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20gas%3Atarget%20wd%3AQ25975509%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20gas%3AtraversalDirection%20%22Undirected%22%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20gas%3Aout%20%3Fwork%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20gas%3Aout1%20%3Fdepth%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20gas%3Aout2%20%3Fpredecessor%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20gas%3AlinkType%20wdt%3AP50%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20gas%3AmaxIterations%2012%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20gas%3AmaxVisited%202000%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fwork%20wdt%3AP50%20%3Fauthor%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20union%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bind%28wd%3AQ25975509%20as%20%3Fwork%29%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwork%20wdt%3AP50%20%3Fauthor%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20 From Natalie Portman to Paul Erdös graph] (source)


 * Development
 * Fixing a bug on the save button (T159244)
 * Fixing a bug with the link to the Query Service on an ember query (T156013)
 * More work on Federation (T157442, T158169)
 * Fixing a bug on geoformats (T158772)
 * Fixing a bug on the treemap view (T160320) Thanks EdouardHue for the patch!
 * More groundwork on Lexemes (T157791)
 * Show thumbnails in commons suggester (T160319)
 * Fixing a bug on coordinate (T153429)
 * Applying WikimediaUI color palette to Wikibase (T151194)
 * Writing spec for technical data model for Wiktionary support (T150785)
 * Working on providing API for constraint check (T102757)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


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

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Tech News: 2017-12
<section begin="technews-2017-W12"/> 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
 * The  button now says   or   on the Wikimedia wikis except for Wikipedias and Wikinewses. This change will come to Wikipedias later. The point is to make it more clear that the edit will change the page immediately.   is when you save a new page and   when you edit an existing page.
 * DMOZ no longer works. Templates that use DMOZ can be redirected to archive.org or another mirror. DMOZ has been removed from the RelatedSites extension on Wikivoyage.
 * You can see monthly page views when you click on  in the sidebar. Developers can also get monthly page views through the API.
 * The Linter extension is now on smaller Wikimedia wikis. It helps editors find some wikitext errors so they can be fixed. It will come to other Wikimedia wikis later. The extension will be able to find more errors later.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The MediaWiki-Vagrant portable development environment has been updated to use Debian Jessie. This means local development and testing will be more like on the majority of Wikimedia production servers.

Problems
 * On 15 March some interwiki links to other languages were not correctly sorted. This has been fixed. If you still see pages where the interwiki links are not sorted as they should be, they should be fixed automatically with time or you can edit the page and save it without changing anything. If this doesn't work, please report it.

Changes this week
 * When you edit with the visual editor, you will be able to switch the direction you write in from right-to-left to left-to-right as you are editing. This is especially important for editors who edit in languages that write from right to left. You can do this with a tool in the editing menu. You can also use the keyboard shortcut + +  on PCs or  + +  on Macs.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 March. It will be on all wikis from 23 March (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 21 March at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Wikidata weekly summary #253
<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 2017-03-27.


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, Friday, March 31st at 19:30 in Neukölln
 * Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, April 5th, 16:00 UTC, on
 * A tool to estimate gender gap on Wikidata and Wikipedia (source)
 * (fr) Odonymie rennaise : que nous apprend Wikidata sur les noms des voies de Rennes ? (source)
 * Wikidata's excellent sample SPARQL queries by Bob DuCharme
 * 10 steps to integrate CIViCdb with other public data in Wikidata


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * RFC: Wikidata → OSM lookup table
 * Participate to the definition of the Wikimedia movement's strategy
 * The deadline for Wikimania talks submission has been extended to April 10th (check what we're planning around Wikidata)
 * Conceptual documentation for the Lexemes and examples (feel free to help translating)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: FI WarSampo army unit ID, KMRB film rating, FI WarSampo person ID, film script, volcano observatory, BoF person ID, Bivouac.com pass ID, Elle.fr person ID, Evidence & Conclusion Ontology ID, Parks.it ID, YerelNET district ID, The Numbers movie ID, S2A3 Biographical Database ID, Mapa place ID, Tax-exempt heritage asset ID, TV Guide show ID, original film format, Launchpad.net project ID, INEGI municipality ID, Safsal coach ID, Safsal player ID, Star Wars Databank ID, autonomous system number, Bureau of Meteorology station ID, Flora of Israel plant ID, Dictionary of Sydney ID, IPv6 routing prefix, rate of fire, Art Renewal Center ID, AnimeCons.com ID, Telegram username, BNA author ID, danskefilm silent film ID, danskefilm person ID, danskefilm film ID, CiteSeerX ID, Christie's work ID, Artnet artist ID, has active ingredient, active ingredient in, negative allosteric modulator of, positive allosteric modulator of, antisense inhibitor of, inhibitor of, disrupting agent for, blocker of, antagonist of, agonist of, activator of, PeakFinder ID, It's Rugby ID, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain Book ID


 * Query examples:
 * Time zones that are more than 12 hours away from UTC (source)
 * Countries which have the same name as their capital in their official language (source)
 * Roman amphitheatres on Wikidata (source)
 * Sluices on canals in Bretagne (France) (source)
 * Newest database reports: film scripts
 * Showcase items: Wressle Castle (Q8037764)


 * Development
 * Fixing a bug that prevented users to edit descriptions in some non-latin alphabets (T161263)
 * Worked on Special:NewLexeme which will be used to create new Lexemes for supporting lexicographical data (T157973)
 * Aligned some more colors with Wikimedia color palete (T151194)
 * Added more autocompletion for the Wikidata Query Service (T150950)
 * Started working on support for Forms of words in the UI for supporting lexicographical data (T160520)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


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

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Tech News: 2017-13
<section begin="technews-2017-W13"/> 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 see a visual diff as well as a wikitext diff when you review your changes.

Problems
 * Special:AllPages was disabled for two days due to some performance issues. It is back, but the filter for redirects is gone as the cause of the performance problem. It still needs to be fixed.

Changes this week
 * New filters for Recent changes will be released on Portuguese and Polish Wikipedias and MediaWikiwiki on March 28. Other wikis will get it progressively. The new filters include filtering, highlighting and, on certain wikis, user intent prediction.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from March 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from March 29. It will be on all wikis from March 30 (calendar).

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Wikidata weekly summary #254
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 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Grenoble (France), April 4th (more info)
 * Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, April 5th, 16:00 UTC, on
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in London (UK), April 8th (more info)
 * Bunhill Fields: Wikimedia, gamification and richer media content
 * Biocuration 2017
 * Talk: Repurpos.us: A fully open and expandable drug repurposing portal by Sebastian Burgstaller-Muehlbacher, PhD
 * Poster: Best practices for data provenance in Wikidata by Gregory S. Stupp et al.
 * Poster: Using Shape Expressions (ShEx) to model, validate and curate Wikidata by Andra Waagmeester et al.
 * Five years ago, the development of Wikidata started


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Attention: Editing will be disabled during parts of April 19 and May 3, to allow a server switch
 * New filters for the Recent Changes will be deployed on April 11. (more info)
 * Data donation: Songkick have donated a datafile with 155K of their Songkick artist ID (P3478). ~45K are already matched, and the rest are in Mix'n'Match, awaiting your kind attention.
 * Query Service: you can now create a template to explain what your query is doing
 * new data type for geographical shapes will be enabled on April 24th
 * Several CC0 databases are now federated with the Query Service endpoint


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: located in present-day administrative territorial entity, Human Phenotype Ontology ID, slope rating, Tab4u artist ID, Tab4u song ID, United States Public Law, Pinterest username, Mendeley person ID, RTC film rating, diaspora, Europeana Fashion Vocabulary ID, object has role, CueTracker player ID, Publons author ID, wears, JSTOR topic ID, Welsh Rugby Union player ID, United States Statutes at Large citation, VTJ-PRT building ID, Ethnologue language status, rules for classification, Bangla Movie Database ID, Flanders Arts Institute venue ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of the megaliths of the World, coloured by type (showing some nice paterns, source)
 * French people without a gender (source)
 * Eldest members of noble families (source)
 * Map of places with population “zero” (0) (source)


 * External Tools News
 * wikidata-cli
 * new command: wd summary
 * improved support for custom Wikibase instances
 * wikidata-edit:
 * new function: remove claim
 * improved support for custom Wikibase instances
 * wikidata-sdk:
 * new function: simplify.entity
 * major documentation restructuration
 * wikidata-filter:
 * new filter criteria: sitelinks. Example of a query that times out on the SPARQL endpoint but that is now possible with wikidata-filter: Get all entities with a Chinese and a French Wikipedia article, keeping only id, labels, and sitelinks matching those languages
 * Monumental: brand new app for displaying heritage data


 * Development
 * A warm welcome to our new intern, Lucas Werkmeister! You may now him for his work on queries as WikidataFacts. He will work in the team for the next months.
 * Attending to Wikimedia Conference, talking with Wikidata and Wiktionary users
 * Improving performance on Special:Entities pages (T161631)
 * Tracking the number of identifier properties on an item in page_props (T114617)
 * More work on Senses (T161523) and Forms (T160524)
 * Improving the autocompletions of Query Service (T150950)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


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

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Tech News: 2017-14
<section begin="technews-2017-W14"/> 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
 * The  button now says   or   on most Wikipedias. The point is to make it more clear that the edit will change the page immediately.   is when you save a new page and   when you edit an existing page.
 * The tracking category    : is now added when a template loop is found. A template loop is for example when a template tries to use a second template that uses the first template.
 * English Wikipedia now has cookie blocks. It will come to more wikis in the future. This is an extension to the autoblock system so when a user is blocked, the next time they visit the wiki a cookie will be set. This means that even if the user switches accounts and to a new IP address the cookie will block them again.

Problems
 * Wikidata descriptions, aliases and labels that used some characters could not be saved. 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 4 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 April. It will be on all wikis from 6 April (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 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * You can join the next office hour with the Wikidata team. The meeting will be on 5 April at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * New filters for Recent changes will come to Wikidata and Persian, Dutch, Russian, Turkish, Czech and Hebrew Wikipedia on 11 April. The new filters include filtering, highlighting and user intent prediction. User intent prediction means the filter tries to help editors determine if the edit was made in good faith or not. Other wikis will get it later.

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Books and Bytes - Issue 21
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Wikidata weekly summary #255
<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: Zolo
 * New request for comments: Proposed client side disambiguation page


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * The Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) helps unlock millions of connections between scholarly research, on WMF blog, by Dario Taborelli
 * Le canal de Nantes à Brest sur Wikidata (fr) by Édouard Hue
 * Comprende!, a quiz interface on top of MediaWiki/WikiBase by Magnus Manske
 * Next Wikidata meetup in Berlin: April 26th, 18:00 in WMDE's office


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Deadline for submitting a talk, workshop or roundtable for Wikimania is today, April 10th, at midnight (UTC)!
 * There's now also a #100wikidays challenge on Wikidata, aptly named #100wikidatadays! It is a personal challenge in which a person very significantly improves (at least) one Wikidata items per day, for 100 days in a row. There was already a version of the challenge on various Wikipedias, on Commons and on Wikisource - now on Wikidata as well. Participate and make Wikidata shine!
 * New filters for Recent Changes: the beta deployment is rescheduled on May 9th
 * Grant application to extend the work of John Commings at UNESCO
 * New MapRoulette challenges: Add missing Wikidata ids to cities and capitals on OpenStreetMap
 * You can be a candidate for the Wikimedia Foundation's board of trustees
 * Log of the last IRC office hour with Wikidata development team
 * Help us translating this short message in your language


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: TV Guide person ID, Deutsche Synchronkartei film ID, DLV athlete ID


 * Query examples:
 * Notable integers
 * Longest streets of Moscow
 * Top 20 of heaviest humans in Wikidata (source)
 * Timeline of Paris marathons (source)
 * Countries not involved in any world war (source)
 * People whose place of birth is named after them (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Figure skating
 * Newest external tools: Sistercities, an overview of sister cities of German cities on Wikipedia and Wikidata
 * Newest database reports: list of duos


 * Development
 * Preparing for making more ArticlePlaceholder indexable by search engines on Welsh Wikipedia (T162244)
 * Preparing the deployments of Cognate and geoshape data type
 * Lexemes: starting adding sections for forms and senses

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


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

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Tech News: 2017-15
<section begin="technews-2017-W15"/> 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
 * Octicons-tools.svg Tidy is going to be replaced with an HTML5 parsing algorithm. Bad HTML in wikitext would cause problems on a number of wikis. There is now a ParserMigration extension on all wikis that you can use to help clean this up. You can read more about how you can use it.

Changes this week
 * Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis from this week. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can upgrade to a newer version.
 * New filters for Recent changes will come to Wikidata and Persian, Russian, Turkish and French Wikipedia on 11 April. The schedule has been changed to fix the user intent prediction filters for some wikis. User intent prediction means the filter tries to make it easier for editors to determine if the edit was made in good faith or not. Other wikis will get it later.
 * The list of special characters in the wikitext editor and the visual editor will now have a group of Canadian Aboriginal characters.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 April. It will be on all wikis from 13 April (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 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April and 3 May. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this.
 * RevisionSlider will change how you move between revisions. This will be available on the test wiki from 11 April. It will come to other wikis later if users like the change. You can test it and give feedback.

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Talkback
Just giving you notice in case you missed it. Saku ura Cart elet  Talk 01:40, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the heads up re Maryanne881's concerns. I doubt that the user is upset with my comment on her talk page.  I think it more likely that she is reacting to Softlavender's comments regarding her edits on the Sri Chinmoy talk page.  Maryanne881 and Softlavender having been having ongoing disagreements for some time regarding the material that Maryanne881 is trying to include in the Sri Chinmoy article. Thanks. --Chewings72 (talk) 02:03, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-16
<section begin="technews-2017-W16"/> 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 add  to the end of the URL on Wikimedia wikis to disable your personal CSS and JavaScript. Example:  . This means you can test if a problem is because of your user scripts or gadgets without uninstalling them.
 * You can now see a list of all autoblocks on Special:AutoblockList.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Wikiversity and Wikinews logos are now shown directly from the configuration and not from . If you want to change logo or have an anniversary logo, see how to request a configuration change. This is how it already works for other projects. They can request logo changes the same way.

Problems
 * Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this. This will also happen on 3 May.

Changes this week
 * There is no new Mediawiki version this week. This is because of the data centre test.

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 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * stats.wikimedia.org will be replaced. You can see the new prototype. You can leave feedback on this change.
 * Page Previews will be turned on for logged-out users on a large number of wikis in May. It could be postponed and happen later. Page Previews shows readers a short part of a linked article when they rest their mouse pointer on the link. This is to help them understand what it is about without leaving the article they are reading. Page Previews used to be called Hovercards. Users who have tested the feature can give feedback.
 * Octicons-tools.svg From next week, user scripts using very old deprecated wikibits functions will show errors. These functions have not worked since 2013. You should fix or disable broken scripts. You can see examples of how to upgrade scripts.

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