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Wikidata weekly summary #277
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * RDFIO: extending Semantic MediaWiki for interoperable biomedical data management - Paper demonstrating interoperatility between WikiData and Semantic MediaWiki, among other things.
 * Données structurées, la puissance de Wikidata au service de Wikimedia Commons - French-language article by Rama about Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons.
 * Europeana is interested in linking its new Entity Collection to Wikidata, and will talk about this at the WikidataCon.
 * Upcoming (21.9.2017): "Wikidata as a linking hub for knowledge organization systems? Integrating an authority mapping into Wikidata and learning lessons for KOS mapping". Presentation by Joachim Neubert at the 17th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop, TPDL 2017 Conference, Thessaloniki (Greece)
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Zurich, one day dedicated to Wikidata and the Query Service in Zurich, Switzerland, September 14th
 * Upcoming: Monthly Wikidata meetup in Paris, France, September 15th
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Kolkata, India, September 16th and 17th
 * Past: Wikidata workshop in Chandigarh, India


 * WikidataCon
 * The program of the WikidataCon is now published on-wiki. You will find there a lot of different formats, topics and speakers, during the two days of the conference.
 * The official visuals have also be released! Check out the conference logo and the volunteers visual, both designed by Bleeptrack under CC-BY-SA.
 * The event is now complete, no more tickets available. The last tickets have been attributed to the first persons who registered on the waitlist. If some more seats get free because another attendee cancels participation, the next person on the waitlist will be informed.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Q39000000 was created
 * Wikidata passed 7 average statements per item
 * The ArticlePlaceholder is now deployed on Albanian Wikipedia


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: danskfilmogtv title ID, Billboard artist ID, Italian National Earthquake Center ID, Flemish organization for Immovable Heritage person ID, Foursquare username, The Times of India Topic ID, ROARMAP ID, WFD Chemical status, PagesJaunes ID, Christie's creator id, Google Play Music album ID, Google Play Music artist ID, Graphic character set global ID, cytogenetic location, category for employees of the organization, CNPS taxon ID, Familypedia person ID, LNH player ID, Alljudo athlete ID, Rivers.gov river ID


 * Query examples:
 * Places of education of the UK members of Parliament (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23Churches%2C%20with%20another%20church%20really%20close%20by%0A%0ASELECT%20%3Fchurch%20%3FchurchLabel%20%3Fchurchloc%20%3Fdist%20%3Fother%20%3FotherLabel%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20%3Fchurch%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ16970%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%23%20this%20thing%20is%20a%20church%0A%20%20%3Fchurch%20wdt%3AP17%20wd%3AQ145%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%20%20%23%20and%20it%27s%20in%20the%20UK%0A%20%20%3Fchurch%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fchurchloc%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%23%20and%20it%20has%20a%20location%0A%20%20%3Fother%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ16970%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%20%23%20another%20thing%20is%20also%20a%20church%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Aaround%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fother%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fotherloc%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Acenter%20%3Fchurchloc%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Aradius%20%220.025%22%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20and%20is%20pretty%20much%20exactly%20on%20the%20same%20spot%20%28%C2%B125m%29%0A%20%20%7D%20%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28STR%28%3Fchurch%29%20%3E%20STR%28%3Fother%29%29%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20filter%20so%20each%20pair%20only%20shows%20up%20once%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND%28geof%3Adistance%28%3Fchurchloc%2C%20%3Fotherloc%29%20as%20%3Fdist%29%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3Fdist Pairs of churches in the UK that are within 25 metres of each other] (source)
 * National parks in India (source)
 * Persons buried more than 13000 km away from their death place (warning: some errors needing correction)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject India
 * Newest user scripts: Overpass (adds a map showing features tagged, in OpenStreetMap, with the ID of the current Wikidata item, if any)


 * Development
 * The new Echo notification is now deployed on all wikis
 * Looked into further possible improvements for change dispatching
 * Worked on persistently storing edits in more parts of a Lexeme
 * Worked on getting expanded URIs for identifiers into the RDF exports (T121274)
 * Continued work on caching constraints results so we can roll it out for more users (T173696)
 * Fixing a bug that highlights input in value fields as not recognized when it shouldn't be (T175525)
 * Released version 2.1.0 of the [//github.com/wmde/WikibaseSerializationJavaScript Serialization JavaScript component] (T174011)
 * Released version 2.0.0 of the [//github.com/DataValues/DataValues DataValues base component] (T168681)
 * Released version 0.9.0 of the [//github.com/wmde/DataValuesJavaScript DataValues JavaScript component] (T172916)
 * Released version 0.8.6 of the [//github.com/DataValues/Time DataValues Time component] (T151088)

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
 * 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) 14:49, 11 September 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-37
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * You can get a notification when a page you created is connected to a Wikidata item. You can choose to get these notifications in your preferences. Some wikis already had this option. It is now available on all wikis.
 * The Newsletter extension is now on mediawiki.org. The newsletter extension is for newsletters where you can subscribe by getting a notification when a new issue has been published. It will come to more wikis later.
 * The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. There is now a new high-priority category: . This usually affects templates with horizontal lists. You can read more about using Linter and the Tidy whitespace bug.

Problems
 * Tech News 2017/36 reported about new filters for edit review coming to watchlists. This was planned to happen last week. It will happen next week instead.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 September. It will be on all wikis from 14 September (calendar).
 * Octicons-tools.svg OOjs UI will be updated. This could affect some icons. You can read more about the changes.

Meetings
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * You can't use OCG to create PDFs after 1 October. This is because of technical problems. You can use Electron instead. Most PDFs are already created with Electron. Electron will get missing features before 1 October. You can create books but they will not have all planned features until November or December. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
 * New filters for edit review are available now on recent changes as a beta feature. Some of those filters and other features will be deployed as default features in the coming weeks. Users will be able to opt out in their preferences.

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Tech News: 2017-38
 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 see contributions from an IP range at Special:Contributions. Before you could only see contributions from single IP addresses. Some older contributions from IP ranges could be missing at first because it will take some time to add them.
 * Flow has been re-scoped to become Structured Discussions and the development has restarted. Phabricator projects and repositories have been renamed.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 September. It will be on all wikis from 21 September (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 September at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * We are replacing Tidy on Wikimedia wikis. Editors need to fix pages that could break. You can read the simplified instructions for editors. Some wikis have already switched. If your wiki would like to switch to the new format now, you can file a task.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  15:31, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #278
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Wahldaten Workshop 2017 – 30 September 2017 in Vienna, Austria
 * Upcoming: Wikimedia Research Showcase
 * Past: Wikidata workshop in Zurich (the slides of the speakers are linked on the page)
 * Past: GLAMhack Wikidata workshop in Lausanne (see the slides of the Query Service introduction)
 * Past: Wikidata workshop in Kolkata, India
 * Bridging real and fictional worlds in Wikidata, by Martin Poulter
 * Weekend at the Museum (of Brittany), by Envel Le Hir
 * Wiki Loves Monuments und Wikidata, by SW
 * The French Connection at the Wikimania 2017 Hackathon, by Envel Le Hir


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata ontology explorer: creates a tree of a class or property, shows common properties and statements
 * Join the mysterious group of Wikidata:Flashmob who improve labels, or summon them on an item
 * A breaking change to the wbcheckconstraints API output format was announced
 * Q40000000 was created
 * Improvements coming soon to Recent Changes
 * Several new catalogs in Mix'n'Match incl. Encyclopædia Britannica, National Gallery artists and ArtCyclopedia


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: United Nations Treaty Series Registration Number, Sefaria ID, ICD-10-CM, Encyclopedia of Australian Science ID, Indonesian Small Islands Directory ID, Cyworld ID, IPA Braille, category contains, Enciclopedia Italiana ID, United Nations Treaty Series Volume Number, National Criminal Justice ID, order of battle, Tyrolean Art Cadastre inventory ID, shelf life, UK Electoral Commission ID, LNB Pro A player ID, nLab ID, highest observed lifespan, Unicode hex codepoint, PACTOLS thesaurus ID, Bashkir encyclopedia (Russian version) ID, Bashkir encyclopedia (Bashkir version) ID


 * Query examples:
 * Algorithms and the problems they solve (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20map%20of%20Swiss%20items%20with%20article%20in%20exactly%20one%20of%20German-%2C%20French-%2C%20Italian-%2C%20and%20Romansh-language%20Wikipedias%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Ftitle%29%20AS%20%3FitemLabel%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Flocation%29%20AS%20%3Flocation%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Flanguage%29%20AS%20%3Flayer%29%20WITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%2a%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ39%20p%3AP1332%2Fpsv%3AP1332%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLatitude%20%3Fn%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP1333%2Fpsv%3AP1333%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLatitude%20%3Fs%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP1334%2Fpsv%3AP1334%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLongitude%20%3Fe%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP1335%2Fpsv%3AP1335%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLongitude%20%3Fw.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25switzerlandBoundingBox%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20VALUES%20%3Fwiki%20%7B%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fde.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Ffr.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fit.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Frm.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP17%20wd%3AQ39%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Flocation.%0A%20%20%3Farticle%20a%20schema%3AArticle%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fitem%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Fwiki%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3AinLanguage%20%3Flanguage%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3Aname%20%3Ftitle.%0A%20%20%23%20filter%20out%20some%20stray%20results%20that%20have%20country%20Switzerland%20but%20coordinates%20outside%20it%20%28e.%E2%80%AFg.%20rivers%29%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25switzerlandBoundingBox.%0A%20%20BIND%28geof%3Alatitude%28%3Flocation%29%20AS%20%3Flat%29%0A%20%20BIND%28geof%3Alongitude%28%3Flocation%29%20AS%20%3Flon%29%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3Fs%20%3C%3D%20%3Flat%20%26%26%20%3Flat%20%3C%3D%20%3Fn%20%26%26%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fw%20%3C%3D%20%3Flon%20%26%26%20%3Flon%20%3C%3D%20%3Fe%29%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%0AHAVING%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fwiki%29%20%3D%201%29 Swiss items with article in exactly one of German-, French-, Italian-, and Romansh-language Wikipedias] (source)
 * Popular gender-neutral given names (source)
 * Computer network protocols and their ports (source)
 * Software developers by number of software titles (source)
 * Spacecraft and what they were named after (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject property constraints


 * Development
 * Worked more on the constraints gadget in order to make it also qork for references and qualifiers
 * Made progress on persistently storing edits for the new Lexeme entity type (next to items and properties)
 * Worked on the RDF mapping for full URIs of external identifiers (T121274)

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
 * 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) 15:36, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 September 2017
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Tech News: 2017-39
 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
 * Wikitext syntax highlighting is a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. This beta feature is based on CodeMirror. You can now search through the entire article with +  or  +  when you edit. Before it just searched through a part of the article. The developers are also fixing a couple of other bugs.
 * Administrators on wikis that use Structured Discussions as a beta feature or by default can now create and move Structured Discussions boards. Structured Discussions was previously called Flow.

Changes later this week
 * You now get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device or IP address that have logged in to your account before you will be notified after five failed attempts. For security reasons you will soon get an email by default when someone tries to log in to your account and when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address. This can be turned off in your preferences.
 * Users with extremely old browsers (for example Netscape 2–4, released from 1995–1997) which do not support Unicode will no longer be able to edit. They should try to install a new browser.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 September. It will be on all wikis from 28 September. (calendar).

Meetings Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.


 * The Wikimedia Foundation Readers department has proposed changing the mobile website. You can read more on mediawiki.org. This would be a big change.
 * You can't use OCG to create PDFs after 1 October. This is because of technical problems. You can still create PDFs. Tech News 2017/37 said the function to create PDFs from books would still work. It is now clear it will not work for the next few months. The developers are working on fixing this. You can read more on mediawiki.org.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  15:59, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #279
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: Wikimedia Research Showcase - A Glimpse into Babel: An Analysis of Multilinguality in Wikidata
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop about the Austrian election data, September 30th, Vienna
 * Upcoming: The next IRC office hour will take place on November 14th, 19:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2) on the channel #wikimedia-office
 * Weekend at the Museum (of Brittany)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata's 5th birthday is about 1 month away. Time to think about birthday presents? ;-)
 * Siri shows more information based on Wikidata in iOS 11
 * 2 funding proposals are looking for comments and support: soweego and CrossWikiFact
 * Quick graph of the relation of the number of labels in a given language on Wikidata and the number of first language speakers of that language


 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: candidate number, maximal rate of climb, refine date, regular expression syntax, vocalized name, webcam page URL, Heritage Building in Finland ID, PatientLikeMe symptom ID, PatientLikeMe treatment ID, PatientLikeMe condition ID, Figshare author ID
 * Query examples: standards bodies by number of standards they are connected to (source)


 * Development
 * Rolled out more fine-grained usage tracking on Greek Wikipedia. This will lead to less irrelevant changes showing up in watchlist and recent changes on those projects. We're testing this on Greek Wikipedia to see if the solution we have scales before rolling it out further. (T151717)
 * Adding an API module to copy a statement from one item to another (T55619)
 * Working more on checking constraints also on qualifiers and references (T168532)
 * Added support for the Creator namespace to the constraints check for Commons links (T176062)
 * Fixed an error message on Special:GoToLinkedPage (T176327)
 * Finishing touches on including full URIs for external IDs in the RDF export (T121274)

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
 * 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; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 20:52, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #280
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 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Using Wikidata data, fixing wrong Wikipedia and Wikidata tags, by Mateusz Konieczny
 * One Knowledge Graph to Rule Them All? Analyzing the Differences Between DBpedia, YAGO, Wikidata & co
 * Modeling the Domain of Digital Preservation in Wikidata
 * Wikidata as a linking hub for knowledge organization systems? Integrating an authority mapping into Wikidata and learning lessons for KOS mappings (Paper and presentation), by Joachim Neubert, NKOS Workshop 2017 at TPDL
 * Knowledge exploration in public linked data ontologies


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The ArticlePlaceholder has been enabled on Bengali Wikipedia (example)
 * There is a new page with information around Wikidata:Wikidata in Wikimedia projects. You can help expand and improve it.
 * New Wikidata Game to help you evaluate merge candidates based on projectmerge.
 * A reading tip from Spinster (not mentioning Wikidata, but interesting general background knowledge): Indigenous peoples and responsible data: an introductory reading list from responsibledata.io
 * Where's Wally (aka Waldo)? Right here on Wikidata, of course!
 * Wikidata passed 8 average statements per item
 * Statement 300.000.000 was created
 * 20 million edits were done in September 2017


 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: TSE number, defined daily dose, Vincoli in Rete ID, The Black Book ID, Tagesschau election ID, LfD-HB object ID, cultural heritage monument in Serbia ID, Bavarian monument authority ID
 * Query examples: What exists in the "... as a service" genre? (source)


 * Development
 * Added a css class to values that link to redirects so they can more easily be identified by editors who want that for maintenance work (T70567) Thanks Matej!
 * Continued work on persistent editing of forms as part of the work to support lexicographical data (T173742, T173744)
 * Finishing touches on adding full URIs for external identifiers to our RDF export so we're good citizens of the semantic web (T121274)
 * Added a new  Lua function in addition to the existing , that returns all statements regardless of their rank (T176124)
 * Looking into an issue where unwanted email notifications are being sent (T174794)
 * Released version 2.1.1 of the base DataValues component


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

<div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 17:53, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-40
<section begin="technews-2017-W40"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * You can now use preload features in the visual editor. This means you can create links to create new pages and some text will already be in the edit window when someone clicks on it.

Changes later this week
 * If you have turned on "" you will now get the 2017 wikitext editor. Before this you had to turn it on manually even though it is a beta feature.
 * Special:Block and Special:Unblock will get the OOUI look.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The jQuery library will be upgraded to version 3 on all Wiktionary wikis from 2 October. It will be on all non-Wikipedia wikis from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * A new feature called Reading Lists are coming to the Wikipedia mobile apps. First it will be in the Android version. Reading Lists are a private user preference where you can see lists of articles on multiple devices. You can give feedback on this feature.
 * The search function has used fallback languages for language analysis. This means a language could be analysed with the grammar of a completely unrelated language to find related words. This will be removed from most wikis the week starting with 9 October. You can read more and give feedback.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2017-W40"/> 23:25, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-41
<section begin="technews-2017-W41"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * The number of active users listed by  and on Special:Statistics will now only include Wikidata edits as activity on Wikidata and not on other wikis too.
 * Previously you could create wiki links starting with two colons. Now you need to use one colon. :File:X.jpg now has to be File:X.jpg . There is now a new Linter category. You can see a list on Special:Linterrors/multi-colon-escape. The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. You can read more about using Linter.

Problems
 * You will not be able to edit or upload files to Commons for around 30 minutes on 11 October. This will start at 06:00 UTC. This is because of work to let Commons show 3D models.

Changes later this week
 * The font in the edit window is monospace by default. Today you can change preferences to another font family or use "the browser default" instead of monospace. Switching to the browser default has only changed the font on Macs. The option to use browser default will be removed this week.
 * If you want to print a page or make a PDF of a page you can do so in the side menu. The way the pages look when you do this will change. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 October. It will be on all wikis from 12 October (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Wikidata weekly summary #281
<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
 * Upcoming: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October (sold out)
 * We will have two exciting keynotes. The first keynote speaker is Fabian M. Suchanek, professor at Télécom Paris Tech University, working on the knowledge base YAGO. The second keynote speaker is Michael Kreil, datajournalist working on the project Data Sciences and Stories.
 * Please volunteer for some tasks at the conference if you are attending.
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop at XLDB, October 12th, Clermont-Ferrand, France
 * Rebuild the map of famous artwork with Wikidata by Poulpy (in French)
 * Research libraries and Wikimedia: A shared commitment to diversity, open knowledge, and community participation


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * There is now a good start for documentation for QuickStatements. Feel free to help improve it!
 * New Mix’n’match mode to show just the entries with multiple matches (example)


 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Lega Pallavolo Serie A player ID, KNAU ID, PfaF id, YouTube Playlist ID, Wheelchair ITF player ID, VBL player ID, MIL-STD-2525 Symbol Identification Code, stellar rotational velocity, readership, PROSPERO ID, PM20 folder ID, possessed by spirit, panorama view, official app, LFH player ID, UK National Fruit Collection ID, Riigikogu ID, Nominis saint ID, Theses.fr person ID, Nominis given name ID, LUMIERE director ID, LUMIERE film ID, LNV player ID, International Standard Text Code, hydrological order number, FCI rider ID, Daum movie ID, Cinémathèque québécoise work identifier, Japanese Database of National important cultural properties, Tunisian geographic code, New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission ID, DPLA subject ID, rating, Daum TV series ID, half maximal effective concentration, half maximal inhibitory concentration (IC50), Landtag of Liechtenstein ID, Bavarian geotope ID, Reddit user name, LinkedIn company ID, THW Kiel player ID, Footoféminin.fr player ID, FFVoile sailor ID, NPB player ID, Lega Pallavolo Serie A Femminile player ID, Gallica ID, National Museums of Japan e-museum ID, Spanish "Boletín Oficial del Estado" ID, Banglapedia (English version) ID, Banglapedia (Bengali version) ID, number of constituencies, All-Russian Mathematical Portal ID
 * Query examples:
 * Women who won the Nobel Prize in Physics (source)
 * For each award, percentage of women who received it (source)
 * Intelligent personal assistants described in Wikidata (source)
 * Units of measurement named after German people (source)
 * Buildings constructed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Delhi Metro
 * Newest database reports: television series by camera setup


 * Development
 * Breaking change: "wb_entity_per_page" table will not be updated and replicated on ToolLabs anymore
 * A  Lua function will be added (T173262)
 * The  Lua function will accept a second parameter with the global identifier of a wiki (e.g. "enwiki") to link to (T142903)
 * Had to temporarily turn off showing Wikidata's changes on Commons and Russian Wikipedia because of database issues. We're working on turning it back on.
 * Continued work on persistently storing edits to Forms on Lexemes
 * Finishing work on checking constraints on qualifiers and references with the constraint checks gadget
 * Fixed a bug where notification emails for Wikidata changes were sent when they shouldn't have been (T174794)
 * Full URIs for external identifiers will soon be in the RDF export (T121274)


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

<div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 20:27, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

Tiberius
Hi,please correct me if I am mistaken, but I think Tiberius died in his 78th year. Being born in November of 42 BC and having died in March 37 AD, he had turned 77, i.e. completed his 77th year. Thus, he was in his 78th year: 42 years before plus 37 years after the birth of Christ, minus 2, as he had not completed his last year and there was no year zero. Yupanqui (talk) 12:14, 11 October 2017 (UTC)
 * You are right. I was working on the number of birthdays rather than years of his life.  So you are correct regarding the calculation.  I will revert my change.  Thanks --Chewings72 (talk) 06:57, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

Hephthalite Empire
so strange: in the first paragraph is "unnecessary", but in the forth one still necessary… Regarding the year: in the historical article is the first binding of chronology is badly needed! -- wishing you happiness and hope for your understanding ·1e0nid· (talk) 10:04, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Greetings - As a general convention in all Wikipedia articles, names related to articles only need to be linked the first time they are used in an article (see MOS:OVERLINK)and years do not need to be linked at all (see WP:YEARLINK). Regards --Chewings72 (talk) 11:15, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-42
<section begin="technews-2017-W42"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * When you edit a template with the visual editor it follows the template's  configuration on how to save it. You can now change the format in more powerful ways if your wiki wants it.
 * 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 has been a beta feature for the last five months. You can now try out the new interface on a page where you will actually get simulated edit conflicts. You can give feedback to the developers.

Problems
 * There is a problem with recent changes pages and your watchlist that show a large number of pages. Until it is fixed, Wikidata edits will not be shown on recent changes or in your watchlist on Commons or Russian Wikipedia. If necessary, Wikidata edits will be removed from all wikis.
 * Notifications are not working for some actions. For example some users don't get a notification when they are mentioned. The developers are working on fixing this.
 * Users on some wikis could not change their preferences. This has now been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * Editors and readers who still use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP will not be able to use Wikipedia from 17 October. Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP can't connect securely to the wikis. When we allow them to do so it means that we get less security for everyone else. If you use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP you can install Firefox 52 ESR instead. Around 0.1% of the traffic to the Wikimedia wikis comes from Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 October. It will be on all wikis from 19 October (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 17 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Wikidata weekly summary #282
Wikidata weekly summary #282

<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 &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 21:39, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Association Football Matches
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Upcoming: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October (sold out)
 * If you organize a local event for the Wikidata birthday, feel free to add it on the events page and the birthday page
 * A blog post describing Textes d'affiches, a tool using Wikidata to show movies and the works they are adapted from, developed during a hackathon at the national French library (by Shonagon, in French)
 * Slides of the presentation "Wikidata Query Service: The State of the Engine" by Stas Malyshev
 * Slides of the presentation "Wikidata and structured data initiatives at Wikimedia. Current trends and priorities" by Dario Taborelli
 * Wikidata as a linking hub for knowledge organization systems? Integrating an authority mapping into Wikidata and learning lessons for KOS mappings by Joachim Neubert
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * If you are interested in Structured Data on Commons, and helping out as a Wikidata contributor, please consider joining the new Structured Commons community focus group!
 * Participate to the Global Legislative Openness Week with MySociety and organize a Wikidata workshop in your country, from 20th to 30th November 2017
 * Inventaire now has a News section where you can follow ongoing discussions and developments of the project
 * wikidata-cli added bot support and new commands (wd search, wd aliases, wd add-alias, wd remove-alias, wd set-alias)
 * wikidata-edit added bot edits support and new functions (alias.add, alias.remove, alias.set)
 * HarvestTemplates has a new collaboration platform
 * You can now use reCh to patrol items from your PagePile
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Women's Sports Foundation ID, Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame ID, North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame ID, New Mexico Sports Hall of Fame ID, National Trust Collections ID, Infopatrimônio ID, KBO pitcher ID, KBO hitter ID, Cairn author ID, Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame ID, Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame ID, Kansas Sports Hall of Fame ID, Hawai‘i Sports Hall of Fame ID, Georgia Sports Hall of Fame ID, DSMHOF athlete ID, ASHOF athlete ID, ExecutedToday ID, Monumentos de São Paulo ID, gravsted.dk ID, Dutch lost building register ID, Musikverket person ID, Megalithic Portal ID, PROSITE documentation ID, Search formatter URL, nominated by, BillionGraves cemetery ID, Cravo Albin artist ID, salinity, Lotsawa House Indian author ID, Lotsawa House Tibetan author ID, Florida Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, T4T35 megalith ID, excavation director, QEdu ID, WBPLN author ID, Store norske leksikon ID, synodic period, PubsHistory pub ID, Organization ID on Radio Radicale, LOINC ID, digitised page from Lloyd's Register of Ships from 1930 to 1945, Lloyd's Register Ship ID, IDESCAT territorial code in Catalonia, Heritage Conservation District of Ontario ID, GenBank Assembly accession, Deutsche Synchronkartei actor-ID, Department of Education and Skills roll number, contains, Wikimedia template, Brueckenweb id, BHL bibliography ID, BFI-Filmography person ID, APA phoneme code, combination classification, young rider classification, best sprinter classification, best combative classification, mountains classification, Elite Prospects staff ID, Scottish Sports HoF athlete ID, GARD rare disease ID, kinship equivalent in SPARQL at Wikidata, SwimSwam ID, SpeedskatingResults.com speed skater ID, musée de Bretagne identifiant collections ID, camera setup, FOIH taxon ID, FOIH decree types ID, FOIH event types ID, FOIH value types ID, FOIH heritage types ID, FOIH periods ID, FOIH styles and cultures ID, FOIH materials ID
 * Query examples:
 * Flags with more than 5 stars (source)
 * Timeline of programming languages (source)
 * Female scientists sorted by number of citations of their work (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Women
 * Newest database reports: Jean Rochefort Filmography
 * Development
 * Continued working on persistently storing edits on Lexeme pages (specifically Forms)
 * Dealt with issues caused by too many edits being injected into recent changes on Commons and Russian Wikipedia
 * Constraint checks will also be done on qualifiers and references (T176863)
 * Fixed a regression with the focus not automatically being set after a property was selected (T177485)
 * Full URIs for external identifiers will soon be in the RDF export (T121274)
 * The secondary  table got removed now (T140890)
 * The secondary  table does have a   column now (T167114)
 * Released version 4.0.0 of the [//github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModelJavaScript Wikibase DataModel JavaScript library] as a pure NPM package with no MediaWiki dependency (T177476)
 * Released version 3.0.0 of the [//github.com/wmde/WikibaseSerializationJavaScript Wikibase Serialization JavaScript library] as a pure NPM package with no MediaWiki dependency (T177613)
 * Released version 0.10.0 of the [//github.com/wmde/DataValuesJavaScript DataValues JavaScript library] as a pure NPM package with no MediaWiki dependency (T177232)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

Books and Bytes - Issue 24
<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 24, August-September 2017

<div style = "margin-top: 1.5em; border: 3px solid #ae8c55; border-radius: .5em; padding: 1em 1.5em; font-size: .9em"> Arabic, Kiswahili and Yoruba versions of Books & Bytes are now available in meta! Read the full newsletter Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:53, 21 October 2017 (UTC)
 * User Group update
 * Global branches update
 * Star Coordinator Award - last quarter's star coordinator: User:Csisc
 * Wikimania Birds of a Feather session roundup
 * Spotlight: Wiki Loves Archives
 * Bytes in brief

The Signpost: 23 October 2017
<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) 02:36, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-43
<section begin="technews-2017-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.

Recent changes Changes later this week
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can use  when you create an abuse filter. This can be used to look for multiple words or phrases within a string. It will find words where some characters have been replaced. You can read more in the documentation.
 * When you search in some languages the search function could use specific other languages if the first language didn't work. This is called a fallback language. This didn't work properly and created bad searches. The search index is being fixed to work better.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 October. It will be on all wikis from 26 October (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 24 October at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 25 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * There is a Structured Commons community focus group for Commons and Wikidata contributors who want to give input on structured data on Wikimedia Commons. You can sign up to join it.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2017-W43"/> 18:18, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #283
Wikidata weekly summary #282

<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 &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 08:53, 24 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: Zugang Gestalten (slides by multichill)
 * Past: Coding Da Vinci (slides by Jonas)
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Birthday Tokyo, 27 October from 12:00 to 14:00 in Roppongi Hills
 * Upcoming: WikiArabia 2017, Cairo, Egypt, 23-25 October
 * Upcoming: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October (sold out)
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Birthday Seoul, 29 October from 15:00 to 18:00
 * Upcoming: Biographical Data in a Digital World 2017 6-7 November 2017 (in cooperation with Wikimedia Austria)
 * COOL-WD: A Completeness Tool for Wikidata (tool website)
 * Provenance Information in a Collaborative Knowledge Graph: an Evaluation of Wikidata External References
 * Question Answering Benchmarks for Wikidata
 * Using Word Embeddings for Search in Linked Data with Ontodia (tool website)
 * Unlocking the human potential of Wikidata
 * Textes d’Affiches, des films à lire sur Gallica
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * If you have a present or organize an event for the Wikidata's fifth birthday, feel free to add link and pictures here
 * New version of the Alexa skill for Wikidata by metaphacts
 * Nice short gif tutorial for writing a Wikidata query
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Ontario Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Quora username, Women's Basketball Hall of Fame ID, Baseball Almanac ID, sports.ru player ID, Opera Vivra singer ID, Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame ID, NLBPA ID, MusicBrainz recording ID, caliber, Women's Collegiate Tennis Hall of Fame ID, Museus.br ID, Memória Globo, Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural ID, Canada's Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, International Paralympic Committee athlete ID, Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum athlete ID, BrainInfo ID (hierarchical), NeuroNames ID (plain mode), Anvisa drug ID, BC Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, TheSports.org athlete ID, mapping relation type, Science Museum people ID, Mappy place ID, update method, Virginia Sports Hall of Fame ID, Missouri Sports Hall of Fame ID, DAMIT asteroid ID, Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, LFB player ID, Soccerdonna player ID, Sandrart.net artwork ID, youth wing
 * Query examples:
 * Average age of members of the 19th German Bundestag (source)
 * Mountains in CH by height (topographic prominence) (source)
 * Mountains in CH by height (elevation above sea level) (source)
 * Monuments in Berlin for which Berlin cultural heritage ID and geolocation are known in Wikidata (source)
 * Initial characters of names of free software (source)
 * Initial characters of names of nonfree software (source)
 * First World Heritage site per country (source)
 * Newest database reports: list of kinship types
 * Development
 * Query Service throttling has been tweaked, to block a type of abusive client
 * Adding diff support for Lexeme-related edits
 * More work on checking constraints on qualifiers and references (T168532)
 * Now caching constraints results to make it ready for rollout for more users
 * Continued work on more fine-grained usage tracking so we better know which parts of an item is used on an article on Wikipedia and the other sister projects
 * Improved the way Wikidata changes are shown in watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and Co so they are more in-line with the other changes (T48329, T50684) Thanks Matej!
 * Released the [//github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModel Wikibase DataModel] component in version 7.2.0 (T177486)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

Wikidata weekly summary #284
<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: Defining account creators


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: WikiArabia 2017, Cairo, Egypt, 23-25 October
 * Past: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October. You can find the slides, notes and video recordings for most of the sessions
 * Past: Wikidata's fifth birthday in Tokyo, Seoul, Munich
 * Upcoming: Using Wikidata to create a multi-lingual multi-dialectal dictionary for Arabic dialects in the 14th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2017), Yasmine Hammamet, Tunisia, 30 October-3 November.
 * Upcoming : Wikidata and Wiki Loves Monuments editathon in Berlin, 24-26 November (in German). We're looking for trainers to explain the basic use of QuickStatements, Open Refine and Mix'n'Match. If you want to join, please contact MB-one


 * Wikidata's birthday
 * The fifth anniversary of Wikidata was celebrated, as every year, with a lot of presents, events and stories. You can find an overview on the birthday page.
 * Birthday presents
 * Search index now contains statements with and  . These can be used to influence search rankings and in the future also for matching.
 * inventaire.io CC0 Wikidata-ready NDJSON and TTL dumps are now accessible at dumps.inventaire.io
 * You can now move claims to new items with moveClaim.js. You can do so by typing "new".
 * Prefix search on Wikidata (wbsearchentities API) now is using ElasticSearch as backend. This should improve search quality and also is more flexible and tunable.
 * Wikidata becomes a proper citizen of the linked open data web
 * graves.wiki – visualization of grave locations stored in Wikidata
 * Wikidata Concepts Monitor (WDCM) - Wikidata semantic topics and usage statistics
 * Happy Birthday to You, Dear Wikidata – recording and improvisation (Lucas Werkmeister)
 * You can now create items from the command-line
 * Crochet your own cute structured data bee to express your appreciation for structured data in the Wikimedia movement! And ask her/him/it to join the.
 * Wikidata Query Service UI: Geoshapes from Commons are now displayed in the Map view: [https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23defaultView%3AMap%0A%23%20constituencies%20for%20the%20election%20to%20the%20German%20Bundestag%202017%2C%20with%20winning%20candidate%20and%20party%0ASELECT%20%3Fdistrict%20%3FdistrictLabel%20%3FdistrictNumber%20%3Fmdb%20%3FmdbLabel%20%3Fparty%20%3FpartyLabelCONF%20%28%3FpartyLabel%20AS%20%3Flayer%29%20%3FvotesPercentage%20%3Frgb%20%3Fshape%20%3FsanityCheckMdb%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20find%20districts%20with%20shape%0A%20%20%3Fdistrict%20wdt%3AP3896%20%3Fshape%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20successful%20candidate%20for%2019th%20German%20Bundestag%20with%20party%20and%20%25%20votes%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP991%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP991%20%3Fmdb%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP2937%20wd%3AQ30579723%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP1268%20%3Fparty%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pqv%3AP1111%20%5B%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3FvotesPercentage%3B%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ11229%20%5D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20district%20number%20in%202017%20Bundestag%20constituencies%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP528%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP528%20%3FdistrictNumberString%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP972%20wd%3AQ26971257%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%23%20turn%20string%20district%20number%20into%20integer%0A%20%20BIND%28xsd%3Ainteger%28%3FdistrictNumberString%29%20AS%20%3FdistrictNumber%29%0A%20%20%23%20sanity%20check%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fmdb%20p%3AP39%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP39%20wd%3AQ1939555%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP2937%20wd%3AQ30579723%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP768%20%3Fdistrict%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP4100%20%3Fparty%0A%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28true%20AS%20%3FsanityCheckMdb%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%23%20find%20original%20color%20of%20party%0A%20%20%3Fparty%20wdt%3AP462%3F%2Fwdt%3AP465%20%3FrgbOriginal.%0A%20%20%23%20fade%20color%20depending%20on%20%25%20votes%2C%20knowing%20that%20the%20original%20colors%20are%20only%20composed%20of%20FF%2C%2080%2C%2000%3A%20shift%2080%20to%20A0%20or%20C0%2C%20and%2000%20to%2040%20or%2080%0A%20%20%23%20%28using%20separate%20calls%20to%20replace%20R%2C%20G%2C%20and%20B%20components%20so%20that%20the%20replacements%20are%20aligned%20to%20them%29%0A%20%20BIND%28IF%28%3FvotesPercentage%20%3E%3D%20%28100%2F2%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FrgbOriginal%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3FvotesPercentage%20%3E%3D%20%28100%2F3%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28%3FrgbOriginal%2C%20%2280%28..%29%28..%29%22%2C%20%22A0%241%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%2980%28..%29%22%2C%20%22%241A0%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%29%28..%2980%22%2C%20%22%241%242A0%22%29%2C%20%2200%28..%29%28..%29%22%2C%20%2240%241%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%2900%28..%29%22%2C%20%22%24140%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%29%28..%2900%22%2C%20%22%241%24240%22%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28%3FrgbOriginal%2C%20%2280%28..%29%28..%29%22%2C%20%22C0%241%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%2980%28..%29%22%2C%20%22%241C0%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%29%28..%2980%22%2C%20%22%241%242C0%22%29%2C%20%2200%28..%29%28..%29%22%2C%20%2280%241%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%2900%28..%29%22%2C%20%22%24180%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%29%28..%2900%22%2C%20%22%241%24280%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%29%20AS%20%3Frgb%29%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fdistrict%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FdistrictLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fparty%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FpartyLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fmdb%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FmdbLabel.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FdistrictNumber Constituencies for the election to the German Bundestag 2017, with winning candidate and party]
 * Wikidata Query Service UI: The query service now shows you code examples for how to use your query in many programming languages (example query)
 * [//www.johl.io/dungeonofknowledge/ Dungeon of Knowledge] ([//github.com/johl/dungeonofknowledge source]), a roguelike game where you explore a dungeon full of bits of Wikidata wisdom
 * Simple WD an experiment of a simple frontend API on top of Wikidata using JSON-LD and schema.org.
 * mapview widget/user script on Wikidata
 * Images fragments for an item depicted on several artworks
 * Histropedia Query Timeline tool - Demo of cool new features launched today for WikidataCon
 * Q42395533 - the first item about a notable item!
 * SQID now suggests statements that we are missing (example page, log in to see suggestions) -- more on WikiProject_Reasoning soon
 * From labs VM to Wikibase Query Service in 2 minutes (using Docker images and docker-compose)
 * Stories and reflections
 * Wishes for the year to come, by Tpt
 * Happy Birthday Wikidata! by the Gene Wiki Team
 * Some random thoughts on the occasion of Wikidata's fifth birthday, by PKM
 * Wishes and a personal story, by Spinster
 * Happy Birthday, Wikidata by RolandUnger from Wikivoyage
 * Happy Birthday, Wikidata by Katherine Maher
 * Two years of Wikidata experience from ArthurPSmith
 * Happy Birthday wishes from Wikimedia Deutschland
 * Message from the development team


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Biblioteca Nacional de México ID, MNCARS artist ID, BFI Film and TV ID, FPB rating, The Coptic Library ID, snap package, LesBiographies.com ID, Indian Foundation for Butterflies ID, AKL Online Artist ID, Google Doodle, New York City Parks Monument ID, Pro14 player ID, implementation of, GACS ID, Y-DNA Haplogroup, mtDNA haplogroup, mandates, Portuguese lighthouse ID, U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame athlete ID, Sportbox.ru ID, VNDB ID, Videolectures ID, New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame ID, rfpl.org player ID, Panthéon des sports du Québec ID, Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee ID, New Brunswick Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Ontario Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Quora username, Women's Basketball Hall of Fame ID


 * Query examples:
 * Organic acids with images (source)
 * People who are their father's father (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0A%23%20constituencies%20for%20the%20election%20to%20the%20German%20Bundestag%202017%2C%20with%20winning%20candidate%20and%20party%0ASELECT%20%3Fdistrict%20%3FdistrictLabel%20%3FdistrictNumber%20%3Fmdb%20%3FmdbLabel%20%3Fparty%20%3FpartyLabelCONF%20%28%3FpartyLabel%20AS%20%3Flayer%29%20%3FvotesPercentage%20%3Frgb%20%3Fshape%20%3FsanityCheckMdb%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20find%20districts%20with%20shape%0A%20%20%3Fdistrict%20wdt%3AP3896%20%3Fshape%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20successful%20candidate%20for%2019th%20German%20Bundestag%20with%20party%20and%20%25%20votes%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP991%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP991%20%3Fmdb%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP2937%20wd%3AQ30579723%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP1268%20%3Fparty%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pqv%3AP1111%20%5B%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3FvotesPercentage%3B%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ11229%20%5D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20district%20number%20in%202017%20Bundestag%20constituencies%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP528%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP528%20%3FdistrictNumberString%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP972%20wd%3AQ26971257%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%23%20turn%20string%20district%20number%20into%20integer%0A%20%20BIND%28xsd%3Ainteger%28%3FdistrictNumberString%29%20AS%20%3FdistrictNumber%29%0A%20%20%23%20sanity%20check%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fmdb%20p%3AP39%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP39%20wd%3AQ1939555%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP2937%20wd%3AQ30579723%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP768%20%3Fdistrict%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP4100%20%3Fparty%0A%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28true%20AS%20%3FsanityCheckMdb%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%23%20find%20original%20color%20of%20party%0A%20%20%3Fparty%20wdt%3AP462%3F%2Fwdt%3AP465%20%3FrgbOriginal.%0A%20%20%23%20fade%20color%20depending%20on%20%25%20votes%2C%20knowing%20that%20the%20original%20colors%20are%20only%20composed%20of%20FF%2C%2080%2C%2000%3A%20shift%2080%20to%20A0%20or%20C0%2C%20and%2000%20to%2040%20or%2080%0A%20%20%23%20%28using%20separate%20calls%20to%20replace%20R%2C%20G%2C%20and%20B%20components%20so%20that%20the%20replacements%20are%20aligned%20to%20them%29%0A%20%20BIND%28IF%28%3FvotesPercentage%20%3E%3D%20%28100%2F2%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FrgbOriginal%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3FvotesPercentage%20%3E%3D%20%28100%2F3%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28%3FrgbOriginal%2C%20%2280%28..%29%28..%29%22%2C%20%22A0%241%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%2980%28..%29%22%2C%20%22%241A0%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%29%28..%2980%22%2C%20%22%241%242A0%22%29%2C%20%2200%28..%29%28..%29%22%2C%20%2240%241%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%2900%28..%29%22%2C%20%22%24140%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%29%28..%2900%22%2C%20%22%241%24240%22%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28%3FrgbOriginal%2C%20%2280%28..%29%28..%29%22%2C%20%22C0%241%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%2980%28..%29%22%2C%20%22%241C0%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%29%28..%2980%22%2C%20%22%241%242C0%22%29%2C%20%2200%28..%29%28..%29%22%2C%20%2280%241%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%2900%28..%29%22%2C%20%22%24180%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%29%28..%2900%22%2C%20%22%241%24280%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%29%20AS%20%3Frgb%29%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fdistrict%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FdistrictLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fparty%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FpartyLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fmdb%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FmdbLabel.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FdistrictNumber 2017 German federal election results by district with geoshapes and color depending on the % of votes] (source)
 * Cities with most first performances of works (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20UK%20parliaments%20with%20count%20of%20Johns%20and%20count%20of%20women%0A%23defaultView%3ALineChart%0ASELECT%20%3Fdate%20%3Fcount%20%3Flabel%20WITH%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20all%20MPs%20with%20their%20associated%20parliament%0A%20%20SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fmp%20%3Fparliament%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fmp%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5.%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20new%20data%20model%3A%20position%20held%20%E2%80%93%20Member%20of%20the%20nth%20Parliament%20of%20the%20United%20Kingdom%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fmp%20p%3AP39%2Fps%3AP39%20%3Fposition.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fposition%20wdt%3AP279%20wd%3AQ16707842%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP279%2Fpq%3AP2937%7Cwdt%3AP2937%20%3Fparliament.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20old%20data%20model%3A%20member%20of%20%E2%80%93%20nth%20Parliament%20of%20the%20United%20Kingdom%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fmp%20p%3AP463%2Fps%3AP463%20%3Fparliament.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fparliament%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ21094819.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25MPsWithParliament%20WITH%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20count%20of%20Johns%20in%20each%20parliament%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fparliament%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fmp%29%20AS%20%3Fjohns%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25MPsWithParliament.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fmp%20wdt%3AP735%20wd%3AQ4925477.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fparliament%0A%7D%20AS%20%25johns%20WITH%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20count%20of%20women%20in%20each%20parliament%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fparliament%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fmp%29%20AS%20%3Fwomen%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25MPsWithParliament.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fmp%20wdt%3AP21%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ6581072.%20%23%20%28P279%2a%3A%20include%20transgender%20females%20%E2%80%93%20non%20yet%2C%20but%20will%20probably%20happen%20in%20the%20future%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fparliament%0A%7D%20AS%20%25women%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20get%20%3Fjohns%20and%20%3Fwomen%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25johns.%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25women.%0A%20%20%23%20fan%20out%20single%20result%0A%20%20%23%20%3Fparliament%20%3Fjohns%20%3Fwomen%0A%20%20%23%20into%20two%20results%0A%20%20%23%20%3Fparliament%20%22Johns%22%20%3Fjohns%0A%20%20%23%20%3Fparliament%20%22women%22%20%3Fwomen%0A%20%20%23%20so%20the%20line%20chart%20works%0A%20%20VALUES%20%3Flabel%20%7B%20%22Johns%22%40en%20%22women%22%40en%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND%28IF%28%3Flabel%20%3D%20%22Johns%22%40en%2C%20%3Fjohns%2C%20%3Fwomen%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%0A%20%20%23%20get%20parliament%20date%20for%20the%20chart%0A%20%20%3Fparliament%20wdt%3AP571%7Cwdt%3AP580%20%3Fdate.%0A%20%20%23%20add%20labels%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3Fdate Count of women Vs. guys names “John” in the UK parliament] (source)
 * Percentage of popes who died in Rome (source)
 * First sites registered at Unesco for each country (source)


 * Development
 * Continued working on persistent storage of edits on Lexeme pages
 * Fixed an encoding problem in the SVG download of query results in the query service (T178564)
 * Fixed a problem with change dispatching changes to Wikipedia and co, that sometimes lead to single wikis falling way behind. (T179060)
 * Added full URIs for external identifiers to the RDF export
 * You can leave feedback on how improved fulltext search result page should look like

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
 * 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: 2017-44
<section begin="technews-2017-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
 * You can now block users from emailing you through the Wikimedia wikis.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 November. It will be on all wikis from 2 November (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 31 October at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
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Wikidata weekly summary #285
<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: Obaid Raza


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Wikidata, a rapidly growing global hub, turns five on WMF's blog by Andrew Lih and Robert Fernandez
 * Locating IMDB IDs of movies in the Internet Archive using Wikidata, by Petter Reinholdtsen
 * Mix-n-Match: Large Catalogs, by Magnus Manske


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * If you want to review what happened during the WikidataCon, here is the list of all the sessions, with slides, notes and videos, when available
 * Release of wikidata-edit v2.0.0: brings qualifiers and references support, and a few breaking changes. See changelogs
 * Release of wikidata-cli v5.0.0: brings qualifiers and references support, multi-entity summary|label|description|description requests, a new `edit-item` command, and a few breaking changes. See changelogs


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Barbarian R.C. id, Barbarian F.C. id, Isidore ID, Team GB athlete ID, HOC athlete ID, COAM architect ID, Camera Decision ID, Google Play developer ID, INDUCKS miniseries ID, INDUCKS issue ID, INDUCKS story ID, INDUCKS publisher ID, INDUCKS creator ID, INDUCKS publication ID, INDUCKS character ID, Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Accused witch ID, Humble Store ID, Australian Baseball League player ID, European Fencing Confederation athlete ID, IBHOF boxer ID, Melon artist ID, Czech Jockey Club horse ID, Rush Parliamentary Archive ID, British Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association ID, IGHOF athlete ID, Mountain Bike Hall of Fame inductee ID, Twitch game ID, Unified Astronomy Thesaurus ID, Ecole des chartes thesis abstract ID, Rugby League Project player ID, Canadian Ski Hall of Fame inductee ID, Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame inductee ID, World Golf Hall of Fame player ID, Kaitai Struct format gallery ID, Diccionario biográfico español ID, Dutch Cemetery in Chinsurah ID, Discography of American Historical Recordings ID, Internet Off-Broadway Database ID, Coinage of the Roman Republic Online ID, Argentine Chamber of Deputies ID, Argentine Senate member ID, Thibaudeau classification, Scoresway handball person ID, HAL author ID, Shirat Nashim person ID, cash back, Minimum Spend Bonus, reward program, grace period, reward, Card Network, mean age, hydraulic head


 * Query examples:
 * endemic moths of New Zealand with images in Wikidata (source)
 * Images of people commemorated by plaques in Jena, Germany (source)
 * Paintings located in Le Louvre without pictures on Wikidata, with the location in the museum (source)
 * Persons who will have their work in public domain in 2018 in Denmark, with their occupations (source)
 * Political parties by ideology in a tree view (source)
 * Organic acids with pictures (source)
 * Levels of education in France, from kindergarten to high school, with their US equivalents (source)
 * Horses drawn on hills in the UK (source)
 * Frequency of “retrieved” dates in Wikidata references (source)
 * Newest database reports: completeness of family relation properties

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
 * Development
 * query service UI improvements (Ided10bb8c8, I3c6ec22a15, Ieb6e561563, I9a526fc8b4, Ib4ea273ab1
 * proposed changes to HTML around statements – feedback welcome!
 * Finished diff support for lexeme T178757
 * Refactoring PropertySuggester-python for better maintainability and performance (T179664)
 * JavaScript libraries used by Wikibase have been integrated as submodules into Wikibase's git repository (T177087)
 * Git repository of the Wikibase JavaScript API has been moved. Check your settings! (T178226)


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * The Cebuano and Swedish wikis have a lot of bot-created content which is unconnected to other wiki articles. A good way to tackle that problem is by checking constraint violations for property GeoNames ID.
 * Help write the next summary!

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Changes later this week
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Future changes
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November 2017
Hello, I'm Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi. An edit that you recently made to Wars of the Roses seemed to be a test and has been removed. If you want more practice editing, please use the sandbox. If you think a mistake was made, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks! &mdash; fortuna  velut luna  06:45, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your comment on my triple reverse somersault edit. I have accepted your comment as being well intended, but please note that I have been editing Wikipedia for a long time and, normally, know what I am doing.  I just had a change of mind as to which side did in fact win the Battle of Bosworth.  So sorry about the confusion.  At this stage, I have no plans to demote myself to the sandbox :) --Chewings72 (talk) 08:42, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Get ye back in your cage! I do apologise, Chewings72, for failing WP:DTTR. What was your thinking then, re. who won Bosworth? ("1485 And All That"!) I hope you're keeping well. Cheers, &mdash; fortuna  velut luna  09:05, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your response. I wish other editors were as pleasant as you have been to interact with. All is well on the Aussie side of the world.  All the best to you!  --Chewings72 (talk) 09:35, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

Muhammad Ali of Egypt article
Hi, don't revert the stable version as the discussion is still ongoing and editors involved have not come to an agreement yet. Your opinion is welcomed on talk page. Cheers. Ktrimi991 (talk) 19:50, 10 November 2017 (UTC)