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Redirector
Please stop. At least two of your CHANGED redirectors are clearly incorrect. Besides, you appear to be running an unregistered bot. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 08:42, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

for. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make constructive contributions. If you believe this block is unjustified, you may contest the block by adding the text  below, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first. You have made 5 errors since my previous comment. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 08:48, 29 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi. would you please list the incorrect redirects for me so i could fix them! I am not running a bot, all my edits are manual. --Ciphers (talk) 08:49, 29 September 2009 (UTC)


 * More than 10 edits per minute generally indicates a bot.
 * The edits where you change a redirect or replace an article by a redirect are almost certainly errors.
 * The rest of the edits may be redirects from other languages, which should not, in general, be automatically created, at least according to this Wikipedia's guidelines.
 * If you agree to stop using the redirector ( http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/redirector.php, according to your edit comment), without getting a ruling that it's legitimate here, I'll unblock. — Arthur Rubin  (talk) 08:59, 29 September 2009 (UTC)


 * I checked the errors. you are right! i can not promise of stop using the script (because it was created in order to be used) but i can promise to use with much care, and on lower frequencies not to be mistaken as a bot.--Ciphers (talk) 09:04, 29 September 2009 (UTC)


 * It acts like a bot; If you promise not to use it without first getting approval from the bot group, I'll unblock. — Arthur Rubin  (talk) 09:12, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm going to delete the negative numbers, as well. We had someone do that before, and consensus is that -10 (or &minus;10, to be more precise) should redirect to 10 (number), if at all; but it should only be created if there's a specific reason.  — Arthur Rubin  (talk) 09:17, 29 September 2009 (UTC)


 * As i mentioned in my previous reply, i would not use it on high frequency as i did before (it acts like a bot just because i am fast in saving pages ;) ). I over trusted the tool, but now i am checking the terrible edits ( i did not know it writes over existing pages). it should really be used with care. sorry for the troubles and thanks for your attentions and the revert as well. --Ciphers (talk) 09:18, 29 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks again. --Ciphers (talk) 09:30, 29 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Hey Arthur, the automatic block is still active would you please remove the automatic block. --Ciphers (talk) 09:33, 29 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Sorry. I think I got it now.  Please check, as I'm heading off to bed shortly.  — Arthur Rubin  (talk) 09:38, 29 September 2009 (UTC)


 * You might also want to check to make sure that you don't create any redirects to itself under the en:Wikipedia capitalization rules; dvips seemed to be redirected to Dvips. — Arthur Rubin  (talk) 09:53, 29 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Sure. Thanks --Ciphers (talk) 09:55, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

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Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to our encyclopedia, but one or more redirects you created have been considered disruptive and/or malicious, and have been reverted. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. Oneiros (talk) 11:30, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Please do not create malicious redirects. They are disruptive and are considered vandalism, and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Oneiros (talk) 11:32, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

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Hi there
Hello Ciphers,

Wow, you seem to be quite a language genius! I have started to learn Arabic, so I was wondering if you could recommend any method to learn it quickly and efficiently? Thanks in advance,

all the best,

Heike (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:HeikeLoechel)


 * Hallo Heike,

Thanks for the message. I am not a genius, in fact it is just i have a plenty of time to practice languages :) . Arabic is just the same, you may learn reading and writing in a short time, however speaking it needs a lot of practice, and plenty of brave to practice. best luck. --Ciphers (talk) 05:27, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

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Mughal Gardens
Just curious as to why you deleted my entry on Mughal Gardens. Was it somehow in error? I felt that the subject deserved more attention so I added some of my 8 months of graduate research on the subject. Leverett.lisa (talk) 00:51, 30 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi. Yes you are true, the reason that led you edit to trigger the abuse filter was using without actually putting a reference. Good that you reverted my revert and i removed the test phrase anyway. best --Ciphers (talk) 06:47, 30 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks :)Leverett.lisa (talk) 18:23, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

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Thanks for reverting that. I've brought it up with an admin User:Bettia to see what can be done about this. Welshleprechaun (talk) 09:03, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
 * sure, my pleasure! --Ciphers (talk) 09:06, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you for reverting vandalism to my talk page. Oda Mari (talk) 09:08, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

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 * Sourcing of every statement
 * Events
 * Foss.in
 * Intro and Q&A in Bangalore
 * WhereCamp Berlin
 * Upcoming: Wikidata talk as part of a lecture on knowledge management, Karlsruhe
 * Announced next office hours
 * Still looking for people/projects to join us for the mass collaboration assembly
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New mockups for phase 2: 1 and 2
 * New admin notice board
 * “How to Edit Wikidata” presentation by Sven
 * “Working With MediaWiki” has been released. First book to mention Wikidata!
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Give feedback on phase 2 mockups
 * Code on one of these
 * Have a look at Wikidata:Contribute

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Wikidata weekly summary #36
<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="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; Global message delivery 14:46, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Development
 * Deployed new code on wikidata.org. All changes can be found here
 * Updated demo system
 * http://test2.wikipedia.org now uses http://wikidata.org for getting language links and wikidata.org edits affecting the existing articles on test2 show up in RecentChanges (if they are not hidden)
 * Statements (think of “population: 2.000.000” and similar things) are taking shape in the interface. They are still pretty buggy though at this point.
 * It is now possible to link to images on Wikimedia Commons in a statement (think of “image: sundown_at_the_beach.png” for example)
 * Links are now protocol-relative (42534)
 * No longer possible to create new items and set labels when database is set to read-only
 * Added more tests to the GeoCoordinate parser
 * Make use of EditEntity in removeclaims API
 * Removed many singletons to reduce global state
 * Made SpecialSetLabel work with non-item entities
 * Improved settings system
 * Improved options of ValueFormatters
 * Improved options of ValueParsers
 * Moved label+description uniqueness check out of transaction to avoid deadlocks and changed it to only be enforced for edits changing any violating values
 * Fixed serialization of SiteArray
 * ~=[,,_,,]:3
 * Had to fix reporting of aliases in wbsearchentities again
 * Implemented integration of baserevids for statements UI API calls for editconflict detection for statements/claims/snaks
 * Universal Language Selector fallback fix for Selenium tests
 * Report URL to entity in wbsearchentites API module
 * Moved the demo system to a larger server
 * Fixed several bugs in Statements user interface, most notably, adding Statements to existing sections and layout fixes
 * Added wikibase API module on the client to provide information about the associated repo (e.g. url, script path, article path)
 * A bunch of messages for autocomments were fixed (they are automatically added as an edit summary for edits on items and co in Wikidata - for example: “‎Changed [en] description: Finnish rock band”)
 * Discussions/Press
 * “Wikidata: Summing the sum of human knowledge“
 * Events
 * WhereCamp
 * Wikidata talk as part of a lecture on knowledge management in Karlsruhe
 * upcoming: 29C3
 * upcoming: Office hours
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * More pretty Wikidata artwork
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Wikidata weekly summary #38
<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. It's rather short this time because pretty much everyone enjoys some well-deserved vacation.'' <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; Global message delivery 19:46, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Development
 * Some of us unwrapped gifts (-:
 * Started working on supporting different kinds of Snaks in the user interface
 * Fixing support for PostgreSQL in core, which was broken with introduction of the sites stuff
 * Code reviewing of changes in MediaWiki core
 * Adding watchlist filter in client for Wikidata changes
 * Discussions/Press
 * Ranking of Items
 * Events
 * right now: 29C3
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Wikidata weekly summary #39
<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="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; Global message delivery 21:36, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Development
 * Updates for selenium testenvironments (browsers, ruby, selenium-tools)
 * Extended tests for statements user interface
 * Refactored snakview user interface to handle other property-snak types than PropertyValueSnak
 * Layout improvements in the user interface
 * Several minor bugfixes in the user interface
 * Updated Vagrant for Wikidata
 * More work on AbuseFilter
 * Deployed new version of Wikibase and MediaWiki core to wikidata.org and test2.wikipedia (bugfixes - all Wikibase changes here)
 * Fix for bug 43595 which was seen on Wednesday during attempted deployment of the wmf7 version of MediaWiki core. Thanks Marius!
 * Discussions/Press
 * Created prototypes for parsing coordinates and time in Wikidata that need feedback
 * Bureaucrat support requirements
 * Defining administrators
 * Events
 * 29C3
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * We’ve reached item ID 2.000.000
 * You can now enable the SitelinkCheck gadget in your preferences that makes it easier to check if a certain link is already in use in an existing item
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Give feedback on prototypes for parsing time and coordinates
 * Help translate the client extension (especially to Hungarian in light of the upcoming deployment)
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Wikidata weekly summary #40
<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="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; Global message delivery 16:22, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Development
 * Bene* developed a new tool to show existing or missing items for a given Wikipedia category
 * Selenium test-groups for (non)experimental features (43828)
 * Notification for IP edits that IP will be logged (42954)
 * Verified fix & added Selenium tests for broken error-reporting on label/description uniqueness constraint (43301)
 * Label-edit-button links to Special:SetLabel when JavaScript disabled (43814)
 * Updated PHP, MySQL, Ruby, Selenium, etc.. on internal test server and enabled APC + memcached
 * Work on AbuseFilter to make it work with Wikidata content (42064)
 * Implemented length constraint for labels, descriptions and aliases (configurable with a default of 2500 UTF8 characters)
 * Implementing a new mechanism for dispatching change notifications to client wikis
 * Worked more on how Wikidata changes are handled in the client watchlist (43124)
 * Some work went into using Solr for the search. Still very simple
 * Prepared improvements to our puppet files on labs
 * Worked on statements UI (snaktypes/references)
 * Fixed bugs in UI event handling of widgets
 * Put EntityId parsing code into a dedicated class
 * Finished EntityDiff cleanup
 * Discussions/Press
 * Reworked inclusion syntax completely 1 2
 * Updates to time and space model
 * Is there a need for bureaucrats?
 * Planned improvement to the search field
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Deployment on the Hungarian Wikipedia is still planned for Monday (Jan 14th)
 * Jens writes a bit about Wikidata’s mascots
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Give feedback on inclusion syntax draft version 3, the updated time and space model and the plans for improving the search field
 * Hack on one of these

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Wikidata weekly summary #41
<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="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; Global message delivery 15:52, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Development
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 * We have an intern for a week, Marius aka User:Hoo man. He’ll be working on the wizard for linking a new Wikipedia article to an existing item or creating a new item for it if none exists yet. (the first two stories here)
 * Refactored sites code to improve design
 * Changed item datatype to use entityid as datavalue rather than string
 * Added lots of new Selenium tests
 * Changed AbuseFilter so Wikibase can hook into it
 * Implemented new change dispatcher script
 * ~=[,,_,,]:3
 * Working on combining successive changes to avoid watchlist clutter
 * Claims error handling (i.e. they now show error messages when needed)
 * Implemented initial version of Solr-based search for Wikidata in extension WikibaseSolr
 * Started investigating use of Lua/Scribunto for the Wikibase client
 * Updated the Wikidata Vagrant development machine
 * Improved the setup via puppet on Labs
 * Discussions/Press
 * Latest updates on time and coordinate datatypes
 * Schedule for the reconfirmation of the first round of admins
 * RFC on en:wp about the transition to language links from Wikidata
 * Signpost, among others, covers the deployment on the Hungarian Wikipedia
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Congrats to our sister Wikivoyage on their official launch
 * There’s now a manual for using the Pywikipediabot on Wikidata
 * Deployed new code on wikidata.org
 * Community Portal got a rework
 * Tried to drop www from Wikidata URLs but that was more difficult than expected. Sorry for the issues it caused. We're working on resolving the remaining ones.
 * Open Tasks for You
 * d:Wikidata:Press coverage needs some love and attention
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AFT5 newsletter
Hey all; another newsletter.


 * If you're not already aware, a Request for Comment on the future of the Article Feedback Tool on the English-language Wikipedia is open; any and all comments, regardless of opinion and perspective, are welcome.
 * Our final round of hand-coding is complete, and the results can be found here; thanks to everyone who took part!
 * We've made test deployments to the German and French-language projects; if you are aware of any other projects that might like to test out or use the tool, please let me know :).
 * Developers continue to work on the upgraded version of the feedback page that was discussed during our last office hours session, with a prototype ready for you to play around with in a few weeks.

That's all for now! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 16:11, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #42
<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="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; Global message delivery 14:52, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Development
 * Updated demo system
 * Improved design of sites code in core
 * Fixed SQLite compatibility
 * Worked on implementing references handling in statements user interface
 * Useful error messages will be shown in statements user interface in case of data value mismatches
 * Switched the demo system to Labs’ puppet
 * Selenium tests for length constraint, claim edit-conflicts
 * Setting up dispatcher script on internal test machine
 * More work on wikibase.getEntities function for Scribunto/Lua-Templates
 * AbuseFilter is now working with Wikibase
 * The change dispatcher script is now ready for use on the WMF cluster
 * Initial implementation of parser function for the client
 * Created a widget for the client to connect a page to a Wikidata item and add interwiki language links to a page
 * Preparing a page to list unconnected pages on the clients
 * Discussions/Press
 * VIAF
 * Events
 * InfoLunch at Hasso-Plattner-Institut
 * Deutscher Sprachtechnologietag
 * upcoming: FOSDEM
 * upcoming: talk about MediaWiki groups
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Reconfirmation of temporary admins
 * Next deployment (Hebrew and Italian Wikipedia) still scheduled for 30th of January as planned
 * Planning for Wikimania in Hong Kong
 * Wikimedia data center move went rather smoothly
 * Request from the Bosnian Wikipedia community to be among the next to use Wikidata
 * Project about paid editing that might also become relevant for Wikidata at some point
 * Open Tasks for You
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Wikidata weekly summary #43
<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="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; Global message delivery 13:22, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Development
 * Deployment on the Hebrew and Italian Wikipedia
 * Switched the Wikipedias over to a new, more scalable dispatching changes script for propagating changes from the repository to the clients
 * Fixing various deeply buried bugs and a few minor bugs reported after deployment
 * Preparations for next deployment on wikidata.org
 * Working on property parser function for the client
 * Implemented robust serialization of changes for dispatching
 * Resumed work on linked data interface
 * References can now be created, edited and removed on existing statements
 * Several minor user interface fixes
 * Styling of the user interface for statements
 * Selenium tests for references
 * Selenium tests for non-JS SpecialPages
 * Worked on puppet
 * Discussions/Press
 * Abuse filter guidelines
 * Policy on properties
 * First external tool for output in RDF: and
 * Running your own instance of Wikibase (for science!)
 * Events
 * We’ve set the date for the next office hours
 * upcoming: FOSDEM
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Admin reconfirmation is still ongoing
 * Deployment of first parts of phase 2 on wikidata.org are planned for February 4 and deployment on English Wikipedia for February 11. See this blog post for details and more dates.
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 * Test statements on the [demo system before the roll-out to wikidata.org on February 4
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Wikidata weekly summary #44
<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="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; Global message delivery 16:07, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Development
 * Deployment of the first parts of phase 2 (infoboxes/statements) on wikidata.org done - see it live for example here, here and here
 * Diffs for statement edits can now be shown
 * Started work on query definitions
 * Edit links are now disabled in the interface when the user does not have the rights to edit
 * Edit links are now hidden when viewing old revision
 * Worked on search field for WikibaseSolr
 * More work on Lua templates for Wikibase entities
 * Worked on bugfixes in the statement user interface
 * New features in the statement user interface (references counter/heading)
 * JavaScript editing for table showing labels and description of the same item in different languages
 * Repaired and updated the demo system
 * Resumed work on Linked Data interface
 * Support for enhanced recent changes format in client
 * There are automatic comments for statement edits as well in the history now
 * Special page for unconnected pages, that is pages on the client that are not connected to items on the repository
 * Added permission checks for statements, so a user that can not edit will not be able to edit or that only a group can be allowed to do some changes like creating statements
 * Discussions/Press
 * Signpost
 * Lots of discussions about the usage details and policies of phase 2 on d:Wikidata:Project chat
 * Events
 * FOSDEM
 * upcoming: office hour (English; German later)
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Deployment of phase 1 (language links) on the English language Wikipedia is still planned for Monday late evening UTC (pending a performance review)
 * List of existing properties and their usage
 * List of new proposed properties
 * Open Tasks for You
 * d:User:PinkAmpersand is looking for someone to write a script that once someone has been made an autopatroller, retroactively patrols all of their prior edits
 * d:Wikidata:Press coverage could use some love and care
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Wikidata weekly summary #45
<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="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; Global message delivery 21:27, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
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 * Fix various minor bugs in client, including watchlist toggle with preference to default to always show Wikidata edits
 * Added the new Baso Minangkabau Wikipedia (min)
 * Fixed wrong revision of statements being shown in diff and old revision view
 * Diff visualization for claims (simple version for main snak)
 * Diff visualization for claims (extended version for references, qualifiers, ranks)
 * Tooltip that notifies about the license your contributions will be covered by while editing (can be disabled by each user)
 * Started with valueview refactoring
 * Started with user interface handling of deleted properties
 * Started with refactoring of local partial entity lookup
 * Started with refactoring of toolbar usage in jQuery.wikibase view widgets
 * Finished improvement on jQuery.wikibase.claimview’s edit mode handling
 * Improved search by using entity selector in search field instead of normal MediaWiki search field
 * More work on Lua-based templates for entities
 * Specified the capabilities of the query language we need
 * Created query object
 * Proper bot-flagging of edits (44857)
 * Use of ID to directly address an item or property
 * Search should give more of the complete matches now
 * Special:ItemByTitle should work for canonical namespaces and later on for local namespaces
 * More robust format for notifications of changes on the repository to the client
 * Started work on refactoring API and autocomments code
 * Started to maintain documentation of configuration options in git
 * Discussions/Press
 * List of currently existing properties
 * Proposals for new properties
 * Events
 * Upcoming: Wikipedia Day NYC
 * Upcoming: office hour in English tomorrow
 * Note: changed day of next German office hour to March 8
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * We have a time scheduled when Wikidata will be read-only for a database migration. The window for that is Feb 20 19:00 to Feb 21 2:00 UTC.
 * New features and bugfixes on Wikidata are planned to be deployed on Monday (Feb 18). This should among other things include:
 * Showing useful diffs for edits of claims (they’re currently empty)
 * Automatic comments for editing of claims (there are currently none)
 * Ability to add items to claims by their ID
 * Better handling of deleted properties
 * More results in the entity selector (that’s the thing that lets you select properties, items and so on) so you can add everything and not just the first few matches that are shown
 * We’re still working on the issue that sometimes editing of certain parts of items or properties isn’t possible. If you’re running into it try to reload the page and/or change the URL to the www. version or the non-www. version respectively.
 * Deployment on all other Wikipedias is currently planned for March 6 (a note to the Village Pumps of all affected projects will follow soon)
 * Check out a well-done item
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New Article Feedback version available for testing
Hey all.

As promised, we've built a set of improvements to the Article Feedback Tool, which can be tested through the links here. Please do take the opportunity to play around with it, let me know of any bugs, and see what you think :).

A final reminder that the Request for Comment on whether AFT5 should be turned on on Wikipedia (and how) is soon to close; for those of you who have not submitted an opinion or !voted, it can be found here.

Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 19:12, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #46
<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.
 * Development
 * Deployed new features and bugfixes including diffs for statements and the ability to enter items and properties by their ID
 * Updated demo system
 * Database maintainance (Wikidata was in read-only mode for a bit)
 * Implemented first version of a string data type
 * Worked on better error reporting from the API
 * Ported Lua function mw.wikibase.getEntity to Wikibase extension
 * Worked on making the search box suggest items and properties while typing
 * Improved the behaviour of the entity selector (thingy that lets you select items and entities)
 * Improved debugging experience in JavaScript when dealing with prototypical inheritance
 * Worked on cleanup of local entity store
 * Generalized generation of localizable edit summaries
 * Discussions/Press
 * Wikidata development will continue in 2013
 * Wikidata Phase 2 in Full Swing
 * RFC about the Wikidata API
 * Lots of discussions about certain properties and how they should be used. Current state is at d:Wikidata:List of properties and new ones are being discussed at [d:Wikidata:Property proposal]]
 * RCF about amending the global bot policy for Wikidata
 * Proposed changes to Wikidata’s notability guidelines
 * Events
 * office hour including a report on the current status of Wikidata (log)
 * upcoming: Wikipedia Day NYC
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Deployment of phase 1 (language links) on all remaining Wikipedias and a small update on Wikidata are planned for March 6
 * Great page for editors to learn about what phase 1 means for them
 * Cool tool visualizing family relations based on data in Wikidata
 * “Restricting the World” (first in a series about some design decisions behind Wikidata)
 * List of most used properties
 * OmegaWiki is using Wikidata to get links to Wikipedia articles
 * Nyan Nyan Wikidata Nyan Nyan
 * We’ve hit Q5000000
 * Had a look at d:Wikidata:Tools lately?
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Hack on one of these
 * Help translate Wikidata/Deployment Questions
 * Help bring the content of en:Wikipedia:Wikidata to your Wikipedia

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The Signpost: 25 February 2013
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Wikidata weekly summary #47
<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="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; Global message delivery 00:03, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Development
 * Extended diff view to include references now
 * Fixed bug where incorrect statements revision was shown in diff view
 * Added first version of Linked Data interface (RDF/XML); will be accessible from Special:EntityData
 * Updated the demo system
 * More work towards using Solr for our search
 * More investigation and fixes of search issues
 * Fixed several bugs in the entity selector and improved its behavior
 * Worked on refactoring of how our widgets use the toolbar
 * Worked on implementation of missing data model components in JavaScript
 * A lot of bug fixing
 * Events
 * Wikipedia Day NYC
 * upcoming: Wikimedia metrics and activities meeting
 * upcoming: office hour (German)
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Rollout of phase 1 (language links) on all remaining Wikipedias is still planned for March 6
 * Next update on wikidata.org is also planned for March 6. This will have bugfixes and if all goes well string as a new available data type.
 * Proposal was made to the Hungarian, Hebrew and Italian Wikipedias to be the first batch to use phase 2 of Wikidata (infoboxes). Scheduled timeframe for this is end of March
 * d:Wikidata:Database reports has some useful reports like the list of most used properties
 * The interwiki shortcut :d was changed to always use www in the resulting link (to prevent editing issues on other URLs).
 * The list of available properties is growing and a whole bunch of new ones are being discussed
 * Reasonator gives you a nice adapted view of an item about a person
 * Items by cat helps you find missing items in a certain Wikipedia category
 * A few more additions to d:Wikidata:Tools that you should have a look at if you’re editing statements
 * We now have more than 2600 active users on Wikidata. Thanks for being awesome. <3
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Help bring the content of en:Wikipedia:Wikidata to the remaining Wikipedias that will get phase 1 on March 6
 * Hack on one of these

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Wikidata weekly summary #48
<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="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; Global message delivery 18:49, 8 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Development
 * More work on widget to add language links on the Wikipedias directly without having to go to Wikidata
 * Bug fixes for Wikipedias, including:
 * don't show edit link when noexternallanglinks magic word suppresses Wikidata links (45037)
 * use Q## links instead of linking to Special:ItemByTitle for “edit links” link (44536)
 * preference for showing Wikidata edits by default in watchlist (44973)
 * Catching up on writing tests for untested functionality
 * More work on the Lua support for accessing data from the repository (wikidata.org) on the Wikipedias
 * Updated Wikidata’s Vagrant development machine
 * Created initial QueryStore interface
 * Created initial setup code for the SQL QueryStore
 * Discussed and created initial schema for the SQL QueryStore
 * Simplified code for client settings, including which namespaces can have Wikidata links. The default is now all namespaces, without needing to explicitly specify them in the settings
 * Improved code for sorting interwiki links in the clients, with step towards allowing the communities to specify custom sort orders per Wikipedia
 * Improved handling of deleted properties
 * Further work on replacement for current search box
 * More work on improving error reporting and edit summaries in the API
 * Tim and Aaron killed the mystery bug that caused corrupt login tokens (41586)
 * Discussions/Press
 * Hacker News noticed we exist
 * RFC about opting out of global sysops or not (more RFCs d:Wikidata:Requests for comment)
 * Asked the Italian, Hebrew and Hungarian Wikipedias if they want to be the first to use phase 2 (will ask a few more to join the first batch later today)
 * Events
 * WMF Metrics and Activities meeting (recording is linked there)
 * office hour in German
 * upcoming: Bibliothek & Information
 * upcoming: Wikidata trifft Achäologie
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * We’re now live on all Wikipedias with phase 1 \o/
 * Deployed bugfixes and a new data type (string) to wikidata.org
 * How will Wikidata impact Wikipedia?
 * More useful database reports (more are being requested on the discussion page)
 * Quite a few new properties that make use of the new string data type now and more are being proposed
 * Lukas wants to work with us to improve usability
 * New user scripts at d:Wikidata:Tools
 * Did you know?
 * Is a specific bug report really important to you? If you have an account on bugs.wikimedia.org you can easily add yourself to the CC list of the bug and then receive updates about its status via email
 * Wikidata is also on Twitter, identi.ca, Facebook and Google+
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revert of my change
You recently reverted my deletion of the Biohydrology section of the article on Dysart Woods. I started to revise this section, but since the whole section is essentially a very poorly plagiarized version of the Abstract of my MS thesis I felt uncomfortable with the amount self citation involved and decided the specific details presented are not useful without more background information. I don't have time to write this material or figure out how to format it for wikipedia. If someone thinks this specific information is notable they should take the time to get it right.

Specifically: sentence 1 is factually incorrect sentence 2 is plagiarized, with words rearranged, but is unclear because the previous sentence claims there has been no mining. Does not mining cause changes in hydrology? sentence 3 is plagiarized and out of context sentence 4 is vague and adds nothing meaningful sentence 6 is incoherent, and incorrectly defines volumetric water content sentence 7 is plagiarized verbatim sentence 8 is incoherent

Wikidata weekly summary #258
<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
 * Past: FOSSnorth (Gothenburg), where Lydia gave a keynote about Wikidata
 * Past: Wikidata meetup in Berlin
 * Past: Datensummit in Berlin, organized by OKFN, where we introduced Wikidata and the query service
 * Combining Forces with the Wikipedia Universe - by Songkick, about their data donation
 * Introducing Wikimedian in Residence, Mr Andy Mabbett - by The History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Attention: Editing will be disabled for an hour on May 3rd, to allow a server switch
 * New filters for the Recent Changes will be deployed on May 9th. (more info)
 * new data type for tabular data to be deployed on May 15th
 * Try our new script that displays constraint violations on the item pages
 * Get involved in the movement strategy for Wikidata
 * Query the Mediawiki API with the Query Service? Give us your feedbacks
 * Documentation on using OpenRefine to match from a data set you have to items in Wikidata


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Canadian Coastguard Lighthouse ID, contributed to published work, Répertoire national des associations identifier, IPA number order, UNESCO Thesaurus ID, Athletics Australia athlete ID, GuideStar Israel organization ID, MobyGames developer ID, newspaper format, STW Thesaurus for Economics ID, Bollywood Hungama ID, last words, Reprezentacija ID, LoJ peak ID, Ishim ID, GINCO ID, VIVC grape variety ID, column, had as last meal, ADAGP artist ID, CONICET person ID, Medium username


 * Query examples:
 * 15415 people who died in 2016
 * Maps of statues of Jeanne d'Arc on a horse (source)
 * Families who’ve had the same occupation for five generations (source)
 * Couples of capitals more than 19,000 km away from each other (source)
 * A ten-persons “surname = given name” chain on Wikidata (source)
 * Newest database reports: list of newspapers by newspaper format


 * Development
 * Working on Lexeme support - specifically grammatical features of Forms of a Lexeme and statements on Forms
 * Finishing touches on a new notification type for Echo. This will notify the creator of an article when it has been connected to an item on Wikidata.
 * The new d:Special:AvailableBadges list all badges that can be used for sitelinks.
 * Discussed implementation plan for Multi Content Revisions which are a building block for structured data on Commons (T107595)
 * Worked on feedback for the constraints API and user script
 * Worked on database and access improvements to take load off a much-used database table

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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Wikidata weekly summary #259
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 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Updating References for External Data


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Registration is open for the Celtic Knot Conference 2017 (July 6th, Edinburgh)
 * Pre-hackathon of the Wikimedia Hackathon, May 12th-14th in Prague
 * Wikimedia Hackathon 2017, May 19th-21st in Vienna. On site or remotely, you can join the Wikidata documentation sprint


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Vote in the board election (see also Voter guides and rationales
 * Sitelinks for the new Doteli Wikipedia (dtywiki) can be added
 * You can now track the number of identifier properties for an item
 * We provide weekly a new type of database dumps: nt truthy dumps
 * Wikipedia article-draft-generator developed by Pharos for Met Museum project
 * Schema.org proposes to encourage the use of Wikidata as a common entity base for the target of the sameAs relation


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: light sector, Wikidata SPARQL query equivalent, Canadian Coastguard Lighthouse ID, contributed to published work


 * Query examples:
 * All places (with coordinates) that gave its name to something (source)
 * Paintings depicting monkeys (source)
 * Artworks with presumably depicted persons (source)
 * Newest database reports: list of oldest lighthouses


 * Development
 * Worked more on support for lexicographical data (specifically support for lexicographic category and statements on forms)
 * Dealt with issues after the deployment of automatic interwiki links for Wiktionary
 * Worked on constraint violation user script based on your feedback (improving messages to make it more understandable, layout, etc)
 * Add support for the following new language codes for monolingual text properties: brx, chn, cop, gez, quc, kjh, nr (will become available in a few days)

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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Wikidata weekly summary #260
<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
 * Development input: Client editing prototype


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: Pre-hackathon of the Wikimedia Hackathon, May 12th-14th in Prague (see a video of the Wikidata and SPARQL training)
 * Upcoming: Wikimedia Hackathon 2017, May 19th-21st in Vienna. On site or remotely, you can join the Wikidata documentation sprint
 * Upcoming: WikiCite, May 23rd-25th in Vienna
 * Next Wikidata meetup in Berlin: June 7th in WikiBÄR
 * You can still register for the Wikidata/election data hackathon in Ulm, Germany (June 23-25)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Discuss the movement strategy on Wikidata. The Cycle 2 started on May, 11.
 * WikidataCon: join the program committee and other teams!
 * TwoColConflict is now enabled on Wikidata
 * OSMgadget is a tool to help Wikipedia editors find objects in OpenStreetMap, and tag them with their Wikidata IDs
 * The OSM ↔ Wikidata matcher tool
 * Two language properties will be merged but the discussion still needs to go on
 * Tabular data files datatype is now enabled
 * The constraint table has been updated


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: NLL player ID, Italian Senate ID, ALPG golfer ID, Stereo Ve Mono artist ID, BioRxiv ID, narrower external class, Juwra.com ID, MLL player ID, Directorio Grierson ID, RANM member ID, Old Bailey Proceedings ID, Tumblr ID, Bmx-results.com rider ID, Israel Antiquities Authority ID, OlimpBase Chess Olympiad player ID, ESTC citation number, named by, Reactome pathway ID, NFF person profile ID, Chamber of Deputies of Italy ID, face value, Cinema ID, Digital Valencian Library author ID, copyright owner, Rallye-info.com driver or co-driver ID, V&A item ID, MotoGP racer ID, eWRC-results.com athlete ID, USATF athlete ID, Track and Field Statistics male athlete ID, Track and Field Statistics female athlete ID, Diamond League athlete ID


 * Query examples:
 * Paintings in the Louvre Museum, with heights and widths (source)
 * Chart of USA cities founded per year (source)
 * Country flags including a symbol of sun (source)
 * Birthplace of Spanish Queen Consorts (source)


 * Development
 * More work on Special:NewLexeme page (T164582)
 * Correctly compare time values on constraints (T164279)
 * Check wording of messages/constraint check results (T164354)
 * Creating grammatical features for Forms (T160525)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Help adding missing statements to properties
 * 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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Wikidata weekly summary #261
<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: MisterSynergy, Queryzo, ChristianKl


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Wahlsalon (event Codefor.de about election data): Kickoff on May 24th in Berlin
 * Upcoming: Open Science: the National Plan and you meeting for Dutch researchers: May 29th in Delft, The Netherlands
 * Current: WikiCite, May 23rd-25th in Vienna
 * Current: Met Open Access Artworks Challenge (May 15th-June 30th) help improving the data about the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art!
 * Past: Wikimedia Hackathon 2017, May 19th-21st in Vienna
 * Paper: Becoming Wikidatians: evolution of participation in a collaborative structured knowledge base (Alessandro Piscopo, Christopher Phethean, Elena Simperl)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The extension RevisionSlider is now available by default on Wikidata. Try it on a talk or project page!
 * Check out some updates about the WikidataCon
 * We reached Q30,000,000! Help us improve it and make a showcase item out of it.
 * An additional 10k article placeholders on Welsh Wikipedia will be made indexable in search engines


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Unifrance person ID, Unifrance company ID, IECIC 2015 ID, Songkick venue ID, BVMC work ID, secretary general, Nature preserve in North Rhine-Westphalia ID, PIM authority ID, PASE Domesday place, PASE Domesday person ID, channel number, signed form, CETS no., final event, programming paradigm, Bridgeman artist ID, BDCYL authority ID, Clochers de France ID, Global Trade Item Number, Unifrance film ID, Base biographique AUTOR ID, NNL work ID


 * Query examples:
 * Websites but without an official website
 * Plants with associated emoji (source)
 * Languages ordered by number of speakers (source)
 * HMDB identifiers with more than one item (source)
 * Painters with a lot of identifiers on Wikidata, but few Wikipedia articles (source)
 * Buildings with the greatest numbers of elevators (source)
 * Map of female writers on Wikidata by birthplace- generated by SPARQL query (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Counter-Vandalism, WikiProject Documentation


 * Development
 * Participating to the Wikimedia hackathon 2017, having a lot of interesting talks with users, designers, developers...
 * Helping improving the documentation for the property constraints, the beginner documentation about Wikidata, how to install Wikibase
 * Rewriting most constraint violation messages to include more useful information (T164354, help update translations)
 * Working on a tree view for the Query Service (T152676)
 * Setting up a constraints development/testing wiki
 * Moving PropertySuggester extension from github to gerrit (T104309)
 * Working on performance of change dispatching so database of wikidata goes read-only in lower rate (T162557)
 * Reducing number of duplicates rows in our database table for labels, descriptions and aliases to make it faster (T163551)

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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Wikidata weekly summary #262
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Discussions
 * Closed request for adminship: MisterSynergy, Queryzo, ChristianKl (all successful)
 * New request for comments: Allow the creation of links to redirects in Wikidata


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: WikiCite, May 23rd-25th in Vienna. Documentation will be available soon, in the meantime you can check on Twitter and the video streams to see what happened
 * Six degrees on Wikidata, by Andrew Gray
 * Some statistics on scholarly data in Wikidata, by Finn Årup Nielsen
 * Wikidata for librarians, by Dan Scott


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Eurowings app uses Wikidata
 * Are you searching for geolocations of Wikipedia articles on the OSM map? Alex-7 created a web app.
 * Breaking change: sitelink encoding changing in RDF export/WDQS


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Filmweb.pl ID, racon signal, Vitaskrá ID, SSB urban settlement number, Austrian Textbook ID, EKATTE place ID, members have occupation, National Library Board Singapore ID, SHARE Catalogue author ID, Sequence Ontology ID, supports programming language, subreddit, sports league level, TA98 Latin term, Misjonsarkiv person ID, Unifrance person ID, Unifrance company ID, IECIC 2015 ID, Songkick venue ID, BVMC work ID, secretary general, nature preserve in North Rhine-Westphalia ID, PIM authority ID, PASE Domesday place, PASE Domesday person ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of subreddits associated to a place on Earth (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23TEMPLATE%3D%7B%20%22template%22%3A%20%22potential%20reviewers%20for%20papers%20in%20%3Ffield%22%2C%20%22variables%22%3A%20%7B%20%22%3Ffield%22%3A%20%7B%20%22query%22%3A%20%22SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fid%20WHERE%20%7B%20%3Fid%20wdt%3AP2578%20%5B%5D.%20%7D%22%20%7D%20%7D%20%7D%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Freviewer%20%3FreviewerLabel%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fwebsite%29%20AS%20%3Fwebsite%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Forcid%29%20AS%20%3Forcid%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Ftwitter%29%20AS%20%3Ftwitter%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20BIND%28wd%3AQ21198%20AS%20%3Ffield%29.%0A%20%20%3FsubField%20wdt%3AP279%2a%20%3Ffield.%0A%20%20%3Freviewer%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5.%0A%20%20MINUS%20%7B%20%3Freviewer%20wdt%3AP570%20%5B%5D.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fwork%20wdt%3AP50%20%3Freviewer%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP577%20%3FworkDate.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3FworkDate%20%3E%20%28NOW%28%29%20-%20%22P5Y%22%5E%5Exsd%3Aduration%29%29.%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Fwork%20wdt%3AP921%20%3FsubField.%20%7D%20UNION%20%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Freviewer%20wdt%3AP101%20%3FsubField.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Freviewer%20wdt%3AP856%20%3Fwebsite.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Freviewer%20wdt%3AP496%20%3Forcid_.%20BIND%28IRI%28CONCAT%28%22https%3A%2F%2Forcid.org%2F%22%2C%20%3Forcid_%29%29%20AS%20%3Forcid%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Freviewer%20wdt%3AP2002%20%3Ftwitter_.%20BIND%28IRI%28CONCAT%28%22https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2F%22%2C%20%3Ftwitter_%29%29%20AS%20%3Ftwitter%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Freviewer%20%3FreviewerLabel%0AORDER%20BY%20RAND%28%29 Potential reviewers for papers in computer science] (source)
 * Paintings with 'portrait' in the name that lack P180 / depicts (source)
 * Publications and presentations about WikiCite (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Zika Corpus
 * Newest external tools: Wikidata to CSV
 * Newest database reports: Roger Moore filmography


 * Development
 * Attending WikiCite
 * Showing badges on other projects (T73887)
 * Improving label tracking (T151717)
 * Working more on statements on forms in order to support lexicographical data

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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Wikidata weekly summary #263
<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 bureaucrat: Lymantria


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, June 7th, 18:00, in the WikiBÄR local room
 * Upcoming: An introduction to Wikidata for GLAMs, Berlin, June 9th (more info in German)
 * Upcoming: Hackathon cartographie des logiciels libres in Paris on June 10th
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop during HackZurich, September 14th (registration opening on June 9th)
 * Wikidata, WikiCite, and the "bibliography of life" by Rod Page (Q7356570)
 * MySociety (Q10851773) are publishing a "five part series examining how to use Wikidata to answer the question: 'What is the gender breakdown of heads of government across the world?'".
 * Help us find the offices of heads of governments across the world!
 * Help us to show who fills the role of head of government on Wikidata
 * Linking back in the other direction
 * Check that the data is consistent
 * Wikicite 2017, and the 7 features Wikidata needs most


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Breaking change: "wb_entity_per_page" table will not be updated and replicated on ToolLabs anymore
 * Data donation: following WikiCite, our friends at DBLP (Q1224715) have begun to donate data, with >4,800 values in the first batch, including >1,300 DBLP ID (P2456) plus assorted aliases, and values for VIAF ID (P214), GND ID (P227), ORCID iD (P496), ACM Digital Library author ID (P864), zbMATH author ID (P1556), & Google Scholar ID (P1960).
 * Sitelinks of Wiktionary will be enabled on June 20th


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: reviewed by, Hungarian NGO ID, PLU Code, Latvian Protected Nature Territory ID, Google Scholar paper ID, DNCI musical work ID, Cullum number, Pinakothek artist ID, ADW taxon ID, DFB datacenter player ID, danskefilm TV series ID, danskefilm animated film ID, dimension, USL player ID, The Arabidopsis Information Resource Accession, Ustream username, SlideShare username, Vimeo username, Australian Statistical Geography 2011 ID, Giphy username, Semantic Scholar author ID, Semantic Scholar paper ID, GDP (PPP), RKY national built heritage environment ID, Early Aviators people ID, DBS ID, overrules, Bavarikon ID, shield image, official Facebook page, WFD Ecological status, Latvian Protected Nature Territory URL


 * Query examples:
 * Number of citizens with “blood type” statements per country (source)
 * Works with most citations (running time 20-45s) (source)
 * Female recipients of the Palme d'Or award (source)
 * Timeline of albums by Manu Chao and Mano Negra (source)
 * Female given names ending in "o" (source)
 * Newest external tools: Wikidata Diff (compares two items; proof-of-concept, doesn't yet include qualifiers, etc.), Wikidata Recent Changes livestream
 * Newest database reports: list of items with the property "has fruit type"


 * Development
 * Removing some config variables (T93773)
 * Fixing a conflict with Language Converter (T166429)
 * Showing badges in the sidebar (T73887)
 * Fixing a bug on Query Service (T166762)
 * Adjusting code reading from wb_terms (T162673)
 * Adding an accesskey to the undo button (T165078)
 * Fixing preferences settings for the new Echo notification (T166657)
 * Adding Rangi language (lag) to Wikidata (T161983)
 * Working on moving PropertySuggester extension from github to gerrit (T104309)
 * More work on usage tracking (T151717)
 * More work on Lexemes (T157974)
 * More work on statements (T165480)
 * More work on constraints (T167107)

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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The Signpost: 9 June 2017
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Wikidata weekly summary #264
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 * Discussions
 * Discussion: Convert UBERON ID to external-id


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Query Service workshop in Berlin, June 28th
 * Querying OSM + Wikidata from a single RDF database intro (YouTube video) by Yuri Astrakhan
 * The Role of Librarians in Wikidata and WikiCite, by Katie Mika
 * MySociety (Q10851773) have now completed publishing a "five part series examining how to use Wikidata to answer the question: 'What is the gender breakdown of heads of government across the world?'". Here is the full set:
 * Help us find the offices of heads of governments across the world!
 * Help us to show who fills the role of head of government on Wikidata
 * Linking back in the other direction
 * Check that the data is consistent
 * Conclusion: So, what is the gender breakdown of heads of government?


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The call for submissions for the WikidataCon program is now open! Submit your projects to share your experience with the community until July 31st
 * You can also apply for a scholarship for the WikidataCon
 * Breaking change: improving the schema of wb_terms table
 * Wikidata Diff, a tool to compare the basic properties (no qualifiers/ ranks, yet) of two Wikidata items
 * OSM ↔ Wikidata matcher, new tool for OpenStreetMap mappers, to match objects in OSM to Wikidata items, using the wikidata= tag in OSM
 * Announcement & guide


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: EspritBleu athlete ID, J.League manager ID, Sandbox-Geographic shape, SIMC place ID, Sandbox-Tabular data, therapeutic area, emulates, ESBL athlete ID, Rock.com.ar album ID, Rock.com.ar artist ID, Rock.com.ar biography ID, Danish List of Lights and Fog signals ID, South Australian Heritage Register Database ID, field of view, Shironet song ID, Shironet artist ID, Mastodon address, reviewed by, Hungarian NGO ID, PLU Code, Latvian Protected Nature Territory ID, Google Scholar paper ID, DNCI work ID, Cullum number, Pinakothek artist ID


 * Query examples:
 * Coordinates of parallels and meridians according to Wikidata (source)
 * Uses of the property "IPv6 routing prefix" (source)
 * Non-politician jobs that UK Prime Ministers had (source)
 * Newest external tools: matching things in OSM with Wikidata (more information)
 * Newest database reports: new people gallery


 * Development
 * Updating wording re associated Wikidata item following move (T158842)
 * More work on Forms (T163723)
 * Fixing rank icon (T85388)
 * Add monolingual code fkv (T167259)
 * Add monolingual code lag (T161983)
 * More work on property constraints (T167126)
 * Script for populating term_full_entity_id column in wb_terms table (T162533)
 * Full support for wikibase edits in enhanced changes format (T46874)
 * Adding Lua function to get Wikibase entity by site link (T74815)
 * New datatype for referencing Lexemes (T165578)

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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Wikidata weekly summary #265
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 * Discussions
 * New requests for comments:
 * How would you state the number of (rooms, restaurants, suites) in a hotel?
 * Findagrave removed as a source for information


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Hackathon about election data in Ulm, Germany, June 23-25th
 * Upcoming: Peer-to-peer Wikidata workshop 2017, June 24th, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic
 * Upcoming: Query Service workshop in Berlin, June 28th, 18:00, in WMDE's office
 * Upcoming: IRC office hour, June 28th, at 20:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2), on the channel
 * Wikidata as authority linking hub (PDF). Presentation by Joachim Neubert (ZBW) and Jakob Voß (GBV) at ELAG 2017 conference in Athens
 * Facto Post newsletter, first issue and comments on Wikidata at Project chat. Contains a number of blog links, particularly about WikiCite.


 * WikidataCon
 * Registration is now open! Check the information and fill the form to register.
 * Let's build the program by proposing a project until July 31st
 * Due the necessary time for people to get visas (about 3 months), we changed the deadline for the scholarship applications. You can apply for a scholarship before July 16th. We will then make sure that the applicants receive a response on July 25th.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * We have reached 500,000,000 edits.
 * You can now query the Mediawiki API from the Query Service (documentation)
 * Your feedback is still welcome on the prototype for editing Wikidata from Wikipedia
 * beaTunes 5’s new Album Info pane is powered by Wikidata


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Zemereshet song ID, Zemereshet artist ID, identifier shared with, CONI athlete ID, CIS Chinese Athletes Database ID, COSR athlete ID, MOB athlete ID, COA athlete ID, Team USA athlete ID, ČOV athlete ID, LTOK athlete ID, COB athlete ID, Irish National Monument ID, FINESS medical facility ID, Irish Sites and Monuments Record ID, NZOC athlete ID, Norwegian List of Lights ID, Team Canada athlete ID, Deutsche Olympiamannschaft athlete ID, Academia.edu institutional ID, Ukrainian regulations base ID


 * Query examples:
 * Gallery of monsters of the Japanese folklore
 * Lang by number of label (with quarry.wmflabs.org)
 * The 10 smallest countries with some kind of urban rail transit system (source)
 * Occupations with highest rate of deaths by homicide (source)
 * Software titles ranked by number of readable file formats (source)
 * Newest external tools: Causegraph, a tool to visualize and analyze cause/influence relationships using Wikidata


 * Development
 * Improvements to Wikidata Query Service UI
 * Continued work on importing property constraints from statements (T102759)
 * Started to add support for Senses of Lexeme entities (T160053)
 * More experimenting with the new front-end framework
 * Added RDF mapping for "tabular data" data type (T167951)

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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The Signpost: 23 June 2017
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Wikidata weekly summary #266
<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: Wikidata workshop in Rennes, June 26th
 * Upcoming: Query Service workshop in Berlin, June 28th, 18:00, in WMDE's office
 * Upcoming: IRC office hour, June 28th, at 20:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2), on the channel
 * Past: Hackathon about election data in Ulm, June 23-25 (some documentation in German)
 * Building communities of knowledge with Wikidata, by Benjamin Good of the 'Gene Wiki' project
 * ORCID Mania (in response to this call for a tool to automate the addition of ORCID iDs to Wikidata)
 * I use Wikidata for multilingual names, by MySociety's 'EveryPoliticianBot'
 * Resource discovery and Wikidata
 * Where the streets have known names - Academic paper on OSM & Wikidata
 * Extracting scientists from Wikipedia - Academic paper
 * ¿Sabes cómo usar la base de datos Wikidata? (es) by the Cervantes virtual library
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * What are your favorite tools using Wikidata?
 * Wiktionary sitelinks have been enabled on Wikidata
 * New Wikidata Game: Wikidata Guessr guess the locations of random Wikidata items
 * OpenRefine 2.7 has been released, including the Wikidata Reconcile service
 * Nice graphics about Wikidata and the Query Service (in German) by Bleeptrack
 * New data donation by Giphy. Some help needed to match the catalogue
 * Some help needed to map the UNESCO Atlas of World Languages in Danger and the Glottolog catalogue


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Irish National Inventory of Architectural Heritage ID, MyAnimeList manga ID, MyAnimeList anime ID, MyAnimeList character ID, MyAnimeList people ID, HFC NPS unit ID, image captured with, Biodiversity Heritage Library creator ID, number of houses, Theatres Trust Database ID, SKIP code, Pizmonet ID, WorldSBK.com racer identifier, Czech Monument Catalogue Number, FFN swimmer ID, Wikia wiki ID


 * Query examples:
 * BubbleChart of Metal band by country (source)
 * Viennese composers and their compositions by tonality (source)
 * Most prolific authors of scientific articles on Wikidata, who are still alive, without ORCID (source)
 * Average age of members of the Landtag of Thuringia (source)
 * Newest external tools: VizQuery


 * Development
 * Creating a separate section for constraint statements (example)
 * Adding client-side hooks for saving and removing statements (T167870)
 * More work on constraints checks (T168629)
 * Enabling Wikidata edits in the enhanced recent changes and watchlist on clients (T46874)
 * Updating constraint check user script and propose to make it a gadget (T167625)
 * Creating Special:PageData as a canonical entry point for machine readable page data (T163923)
 * Working on editable Glosses on Senses (non-persistent) (T165567)
 * Setting up federation on mediainfo test system (T163119)

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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Wikidata weekly summary #267
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 * Discussions
 * New request for comment: When multiple sources are cited for a fact, should IMDB be deleted as one of them when used


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: IRC office hour (read the full log here)
 * Past: Online Wikidata workshop in French (Wikipédia:Soirées Wiki en ligne)
 * Upcoming: Wikidata and SPARQL workshop and Celtic Knot Conference in Edinburgh
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop during the Africa Open Data Conference, in Accra, Ghana, July 17-21
 * A Wikidata workshop conducted in Bangalore
 * Blog report about the second Wikidata workshop in the Czech Republic (in Czech)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Join the Cycle 3 of the Wikimedia Movement Strategy discussions, and debate about the challenges identified by the research
 * Sitelinks for the new Kabiye Wikipedia (kbpwiki) can be added
 * We reached Q31000000
 * a dataset of 48,000 English questions have been mapped to Wikidata
 * New Mix’n’match catalog: Irish National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
 * COH Challenge: in July, add pictures from the Connected Open Heritage in Wikidata
 * We asked the followers of the Wikidata Twitter account if they know about SPARQL
 * The constraint check script has been turned into a gadget, and other news
 * Platypus has started to learn Spanish
 * WikidataCon: We reached 100 registrations, the event is complete for now. More tickets will be released in September. You can still register on the waitlist.
 * WikidataCon scholarships applications are open until July 16th
 * MySociety is hiring a community manager to work on EveryPolitician with Wikidata and SPARQL


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: parliamentary group, metrically compatible typeface, BVMC place id, MuseScore ID, RePEc institute ID, Principal Galaxies Catalogue ID, Australian Standard Geographic Classification 2006 ID, Australian Statistical Geography 2016 ID, checksum, Irish Grid Reference, Biodiversity Repository ID, Global Terrorism Database ID


 * Query examples:
 * Place of birth of the authors on Wikimammenn, the breton Wikisource
 * First names of current French members of Parliament (source)
 * Timeline of the births of current members of the French National Assembly (source)
 * Family tree of Harry Potter characters (source)
 * Map of mountains located in the Basque Country (source)
 * Items with higher number of child statements than number of children (source)
 * Pictures of Pharaos (source)
 * Map of departemental archives in France (source)
 * Newest gadgets: Units converter converts from 20 currencies to a selected currency. Converts metric units (mass, dimensions, area, temperature, speed) to/from United States units. The currency amounts are inflation adjusted if data is available.


 * Development
 * Worked more on support for lexicographical data and Wiktionary. The focus was on creating a necessary new datatype to link to Lexemes as well as making Glosses and statements on Glosses editable.
 * Getting ready to migrate the constraints definitions from templates on the property talk page to statements on the property.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

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 * Monthly Tasks
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 * 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!
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Wikidata weekly summary #268
<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: Africa Open Data Conference in Accra, including a Wikidata editathon on July 17th
 * Past: Celtic Knot Conference, Edinburgh, including several presentations related to Wikidata (tweets about Wikidata during the conference)
 * Past: WikiWomenCamp (including a Wikidata presentation by Harmonia Amanda)
 * A visual exploration of musical bands on Wikidata, by RAW Graphs team


 * WikidataCon
 * Last days of the scholarship process! If you need to be funded for the WikidataCon, please fill the form before July 16th
 * Which discussions, workshops, demos should be covered during the WikidataCon?


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * We have some real Meta data!
 * The StrepHit team has submitted an official uplift proposal for the primary sources tool
 * Migration of constraint definitions to property statements around July 12th
 * Sitelinks for the new Atikamekw Wikipedia (atjwiki) can be added
 * Citation management tool Zotero can now read data from Wikidata, and can write data from other sources to Wikidata via QuickStatements. See Wikidata:Zotero for details.
 * New step towards structured data for Commons is now available
 * One week after Q31000000 we have Q32000000


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: PalDat plant ID, openAIP ID, Ontario Heritage Act Register ID, NLS Geographic Names Place ID, NLS-FI Geographic Name ID, National Record of the Historic Environment ID, JewAge person ID, INSPIRE ID, ADK member ID, FRED time-series ID, danskfilmogtv person, danskefilm TV Christmas calendar, Crunchyroll ID, URN-NBN, Gedbas genealogy person ID, Framalibre ID, Finnish archaeological heritage ID, EGF rating, Carnegie Hall agent ID, assets under management, Atlas of Hillforts ID, dissertation submitted to


 * Query examples:
 * Scientific articles from PubMed that mention what version of STATA was used (source)
 * 1000 places in UK that have no label in Welsh (source)
 * Wikivoyage banners for French municipalities (source)
 * Paintings with musical instruments from Spain or related to Spain (source)
 * Images of things or persons in Wikidata with a Github account (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fperson%20%3FpersonLabel%20%0A%28SAMPLE%28%3Fbirth_date%29%20as%20%3Fbirth_date%29%20%0A%28SAMPLE%28%3Fdeath_date%20%29%20as%20%3Fdeath_date%20%29%20%0A%28SAMPLE%28%3Fbirth_place_label%20%29%20as%20%3Fbirth_place_label%20%29%20%0A%28SAMPLE%28%3Fbirth_place_coords%20%29%20as%20%3Fbirth_place_coords%20%29%20%0A%28SAMPLE%28%3Fimage%20%29%20as%20%3Fimage%20%29%20%0A%28SAMPLE%28%3Fcountry%20%29%20as%20%3Fcountry%29%20%0A%28COUNT%28%3Farticle%29%20as%20%3Frank%29%0AWHERE%20%0A%7B%09%20%0A%20%20%09%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP69%20wd%3AQ160302%20.%0A%09%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%20.%0A%20%20%09%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ6581072%20.%0A%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20%7D%0A%20%20%09OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20%7D%0A%09OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fbirth_date%20%7D%0A%20%20%09OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP27%20%3FcountryItem%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FcountryItem%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fcountry%20filter%20%28lang%28%3Fcountry%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%09OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP19%20%3Fbirth_place%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fbirth_place%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fbirth_place_coords%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fbirth_place%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fbirth_place_label%20filter%20%28%20lang%28%3Fbirth_place_label%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%20%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%09OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdeath_date%20%7D%20%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Farticle%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fperson%7D%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%0A%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7Bbd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%7D%0A%0A%20%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fperson%20%3FpersonLabel%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Frank%29 Map of birthplaces of women who were educated in Edinburgh university] (source)
 * Newest database reports: reports with items that only have a P641-statement (sport)


 * Development
 * Search results will not only show labels but also descriptions with language fallbacks (362215). Thanks to Matěj Suchánek!
 * Fixed link to the file description page in the Image Header gadget (T169558)
 * Forms of the Lexeme are multi-variant (T165575)
 * Preparing a demonstration of referencing Forms and Sense of a Lexeme in statements (T169716)
 * Property constraint definitions will be migrated to statements (T169647, Project chat)
 * Implemented “Format” constraint (T102752, help page)

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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The Signpost: 15 July 2017
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Wikidata weekly summary #269
<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
 * Past: talk about Wikidata at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing by Lydia
 * Past: Wikidata hackathon during Africa Open Data Conference in Accra
 * Upcoming: Café OpenStreetMap e Wikidata, July 22nd, in São Paulo, Brazil
 * Report of the workshop about election data (in German)
 * Integrating Wikidata and other linked data sources – Federated SPARQL queries, on The SuLab


 * WikidataCon
 * The scholarship process is now closed. Recipients will be informed around July 25th.
 * You can still suggest ideas for the program, or submit a project until July 31st. The program of the conference is made by the attendees, only what you bring will be in there :)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * We now have a page describing our use of RDF
 * We now have Q33000000
 * The database reports about items without statements are updated again. English Wikipedia is up at 4.8% (from 4.6%). Dutch Wikipedia remains low at 0.8%.
 * Check out some improvements to the Query Service, and a new prototype for the Query Helper
 * New Wikidata maps with a comparison between October 2016 and July 2017
 * Help improving Wikidata documentation during the Wikimania hackathon


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: NPSN Indonesian school ID, EmbassyPages.com ID, ESEC person ID, Titan ID, Who's Who in France biography ID, French National Assembly ID


 * Query examples:
 * Graph of operating systems (source)
 * Couples of Members of Parliament in UK (source)
 * People who have the same person listed as both their parent and their child (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0A%0APREFIX%20lgdo%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Flinkedgeodata.org%2Fontology%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20geo%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.opengis.net%2Font%2Fgeosparql%23%3E%0APREFIX%20geom%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fgeovocab.org%2Fgeometry%23%3E%0APREFIX%20bif%3A%20%3Cbif%3A%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20%3FrailwayThing%20%3Fgeometry%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Flabel%29%20AS%20%3Flabel%29%20%3Flayer%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Flinkedgeodata.org%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3FrailwayThing%20a%20lgdo%3ARailwayThing%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20geom%3Ageometry%20%5B%20geo%3AasWKT%20%3Fgeometry%20%5D.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28bif%3Ast_intersects%28%3Fgeometry%2C%20bif%3Ast_point%2813.383333%2C%2052.516667%29%2C%200.1%29%29%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FrailwayThing%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Flabel.%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FrailwayThing%20a%20lgdo%3ASubway.%20BIND%28%22subway%22%40en%20AS%20%3Fsubway%29%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FrailwayThing%20a%20lgdo%3ARail.%20BIND%28%22rail%22%40en%20AS%20%3Frail%29%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FrailwayThing%20a%20lgdo%3ALightRail.%20BIND%28%22light%20rail%22%40en%20AS%20%3Flightrail%29%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FrailwayThing%20a%20lgdo%3ATramway.%20BIND%28%22tramway%22%40en%20AS%20%3Ftramway%29%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FrailwayThing%20a%20lgdo%3APlatform.%20BIND%28%22platform%22%40en%20AS%20%3Fplatform%29%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FrailwayThing%20a%20lgdo%3AAbandonedRailway.%20BIND%28%22abandoned%20railway%22%40en%20AS%20%3Fabandoned%29%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FrailwayThing%20a%20lgdo%3AHistoricThing.%20BIND%28%22historic%22%40en%20AS%20%3Fhistoric%29%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND%28COALESCE%28%3Fsubway%2C%20%3Flightrail%2C%20%3Frail%2C%20%3Ftramway%2C%20%3Fplatform%2C%20%3Fabandoned%2C%20%3Fhistoric%2C%20%22other%22%40en%29%20AS%20%3Flayer%29%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3FrailwayThing%20%3Fgeometry%20%3Flayer Map of “railway things” in Berlin, as classified by LinkedGeoData.org] (source)
 * Map of discovery locations of the objects stored in the Musée Saint-Raymond (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fstation%20%3FstationLabel%20%3Fpicture%20%28SAMPLE%28%3FpictureCategory%29%20AS%20%3FpictureCategory%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20hint%3AQuery%20hint%3Aoptimizer%20%22None%22.%0A%0A%20%20%23%20get%20metro%20stations%20in%20germany%0A%20%20%3Fstation%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ928830%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP17%20wd%3AQ183%20.%0A%0A%20%20%23%20and%20pictures%20of%20them%0A%20%20%3Fstation%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fpicture%20.%0A%0A%20%20%23%20build%20commons%20urls%0A%20%20BIND%28STRAFTER%28str%28%3Fpicture%29%2C%20%22Special%3AFilePath%2F%22%29%20AS%20%3Ffilename%29%0A%20%20BIND%28wikibase%3AdecodeUri%28CONCAT%28%22File%3A%22%2C%20%3Ffilename%29%29%20AS%20%3Ffile%29%0A%0A%20%20%23%20and%20ask%20commons%20for%20the%20categories%20the%20pictures%20are%20in%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Amwapi%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Aapi%20%22Categories%22.%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Aendpoint%20%22commons.wikipedia.org%22.%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20mwapi%3Atitles%20%3Ffile.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FpictureCategory%20wikibase%3AapiOutput%20mwapi%3Acategory.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20%23%20and%20only%20get%20those%20with%20a%20Public%20Domain%20category%0A%20%20FILTER%28STRSTARTS%28%3FpictureCategory%2C%20%22Category%3APD-%22%29%29%0A%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22de%2C%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fstation%20%3FstationLabel%20%3Fpicture%0ALIMIT%20100 metro stations in Germany with public domain images on Commons] (source)
 * UK Members of Parliament who are born out of the UK (source)


 * Development
 * Preparing Lexemes demo for Wikimania
 * Fixing links to non-entity namespaces (T169221) (thanks to Matěj Suchánek!)
 * Tracking labels of quantity units in parser and Lua functions (T170167) (thanks to Matěj Suchánek!)
 * Fixing checking of constraints on deprecated statements (T170391)
 * Improving the Query Service UI (T170279)
 * Improving wbsearchentities (T103875)
 * Removing links from printable version (T87108)
 * Adding customizable fallback to Special:GoToLinkedPage (T166473)

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July 2017
Thank you for your contributions. Please mark your edits, such as your recent edits to Boston, as "minor" only if they are minor edits. In accordance with Help:Minor edit, a minor edit is one that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. Minor edits consist of things such as typographical corrections, formatting changes or rearrangement of text without modification of content. Additionally, the reversion of clear-cut vandalism and test edits may be labeled "minor". ''Please refrain from marking all your current edits as minor, when many of them appear to be extensive and complex. Thank you.'' Hertz1888 (talk) 01:22, 20 July 2017 (UTC)

Please refrain from making test edits in Wikipedia pages, such as those you made to Kolkata, even if you intend to fix them later. Your edits have been reverted. If you would like to experiment again, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Dl2000 (talk) 22:09, 20 July 2017 (UTC)

Please stop making test edits to Wikipedia, as you did to Doppler. It is considered vandalism, which, under Wikipedia policy, can lead to being blocked from editing. If you would like to experiment again, please use the sandbox. Dl2000 (talk) 22:32, 20 July 2017 (UTC)

Removal of maintenance templates
Hi Ciphers, did you have particular reasons for removing maintenance templates such as Use dmy dates, Use British English, and Pp-pc1 from pages? I've restored several of them since they generally shouldn't be removed without good reason, and the reasons weren't clear to me from the edits. If you object to their presence in those articles, please remove them again. A rationale in the edit summary would also be helpful to other editors. Cheers.—Laoris (talk) 21:17, 21 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Besides the above, I have concerns about some of the changes you've made on many pages you have edited:
 * The first time the article title is used in the lead sentence, it doesn't need to be capitalized if it's not a proper noun. WP:LEADSENTENCE gives some examples of this.
 * Metadata templates such as taxonbar and Authority control should appear after the last section and navboxes, and before the categories, as indicated in their template documentation and as outlined at MOS:ORDER.
 * The DEFAULTSORT template should appear directly before the list of categories, not after, per its template documentation and as outlined at MOS:ORDER.
 * Interwiki linking templates such as Commons category or Wiktionary should appear at the top of the last section in the article, not after navboxes. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout § Links to sister projects.
 * Categories whose name matches the article title are known as eponymous categories and when used in their eponymous article, should be sorted with a space so that the article appears at the beginning of the category. For instance, at the Verona article, the Verona category should be used as.
 * The Manual of Style indicates the accepted placement for many of these templates, and each template typically has documentation indicating its correct use. Consistent use and placement of these templates help other readers and editors find them more easily.—Laoris (talk) 22:32, 21 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi Ciphers, I just wanted to again encourage you to use the Wikipedia style guidelines as you edit, especially those mentioned above. While I am pleased to see that you are taking time to contribute to Wikipedia, and although it is not required to know and follow every guideline, since you are making significant contributions I think it would be even more beneficial to follow the guidelines above to help promote consistency and intuitiveness.  Thanks for your time! —Laoris (talk) 17:01, 26 July 2017 (UTC)

UK Dialing Codes
This is just a quick note to say that UK dialling codes do not have dashes in them. I have taken the dash out of Guildford without reverting your whole edit. --DanielRigal (talk) 08:58, 22 July 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #270
<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: Wikidata SPARQL workshop, July 25th in Rennes (France)
 * Upcoming: Ladies that FOSS, July 26th in Berlin
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Montreal, August 14th (in French). We're looking for trainers!
 * Using Wikidata as an open, community-maintained database of biomedical knowledge, by Andrew Su


 * WikidataCon
 * You can submit projects for the program until July 31st. See the list of ideas, existing submissions, and submit!
 * Special tickets for scholarship recipients will be released on July 25th. The last 50 tickets will be released on September 1st.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * wbEntity config variable will be deprecated
 * Scores in ORES will be more accurate
 * A new version of the Query Helper will be deployed
 * Sitelinks for the new Dinka Wikipedia (dinwiki) have been added
 * On Wikidata:Usability and usefulness you can see an overview of the work done by the UX people in the Wikidata team on usability
 * There's a brand new newsletter about Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons. You can subscribe to receive next updates.
 * Ma Commune Wikipédia is a website developed by Wikimedia France to give information about the state of the Wikipedia articles for every French municipality and encourage people to edit the Wikimedia projects. It uses Wikidata to identify the communes.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Patrimonioculturale-ER ID, linguistic typology, annual energy output, USHMM person ID, Cinema Treasures ID


 * Query examples:
 * Properties with most “statement disputed by” qualifiers (source)
 * Last meals of people (source)
 * Colors on national flags (source)
 * images of all winners of Free Software Foundation's Free Software Awards (source)
 * lib.reviews now allows searching Wikidata directly to choose subjects to review. (more info)


 * Development
 * The  JavaScript variable will not miss elements any more but contain empty arrays instead (365604). Please check if this affects your scripts, and have a look at the   hook as a possible replacement.
 * Fire-fighting dispatch backlog: T171263.
 * Slowly making progress on wb_terms migration to full entity IDs: T114903.
 * Constraint statements have been enabled (announcement).
 * Distinguish between non-mandatory and mandatory constraints: T164254.
 * Work on supporting unit conversion for more units: T168582

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Gender dysphoria
Thanks for your to Gender dysphoria. It was mostly pretty good and I liked the direction you were going, but I reverted it because of a couple of miscues here and there (e.g., not "a transgender", and something else). But since this is the lead of a controversial article, you have to tread very carefully. Either go to the Talk page and discuss, or else just try your same change again, but instead of all at once in one edit, break it up into five or more very small edits, each one doing just one, very specific thing: change or add one infobox param; change or add another infobox param; add the part about "as a result of a mismatch", and so on; just going a few words at a time, or a single thought at a time, and for each one add a complete explanation in the edit summary. If you have to write two sentences of Edit summary about why the six words "as a result of the mismatch" is better, than do it (I agree with you, it is better, but you're going to have to show you've put some thought into this, and why it's better.) If you break up your edit this way, then if someone comes along and has a quarrel with a couple of words or a param here or there, they can just revert or change that one, instead of the whole thing. In general, I like your changes, and I hope you will try again. Mathglot (talk) 01:17, 27 July 2017 (UTC)


 * But see also User:Flyer22 Reborn's comments in the edit summary . Mathglot (talk) 09:49, 27 July 2017 (UTC)

Danger of over-linking
Hi, thank you for your 'thanks' for my recent edits to some of your recent work. I hope you won't mind if I mention that I had my attention drawn to a few of those edits vie Recent Change review, and, in the main, I can see you've made some really useful contributions to a wide range of articles. Thank you, though it might help if you gave some more edit summaries when you're done. May I urge you also to show a little more restraint at times when adding wikilinks to some articles, please? I realise you're trying to add clarity, and that really is most welcome, and in most cases youi've done just that. I'm sure you'd agree that it's also a good idea not to link to the very obvious words if, in so doing, it fills the article up with too many blue links. You might find WP:MOSLINK of relevance here, especially the section on overlinking. By way of example, part of your recent edits to Gravity might be said to fall into this category though, to be fair, they only added to an already over-linked page. So, none of this is cause for reverting the edits you made, and I only draw your attention to it in order to help you contribute even more effectively in your future editing. If you're interested, there's a nice bit of script one can add to one's side toolbar which highlights duplicate links within an article. You can find it at User:Ucucha/duplinks. Please accept this feedback in the positive spirit in which it is intended. Regards from the UK, Nick Moyes (talk) 21:48, 30 July 2017 (UTC)


 * Thank you for the note Nick Moyes. Understood, and will do. Thanks again. --Ciphers (talk) 06:45, 31 July 2017 (UTC)
 * You're still overlinking. And you're changing correct English to incorrect. If a word or phrase is unfamiliar or new to you, don't assume it's incorrect or that it should be linked. Magic9Ball (talk) 18:59, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #271
<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: Wikimania is coming! Check out all the things related to Wikidata
 * Upcoming: Wikidata hackathon during Repository Fringe 2017, in Edinburgh, August 4th
 * Data Partnerships with Wikidata: beaTunes (version in German)
 * Wikidata visualizes SMILES strings with John Mayfield's CDK Depict
 * Freedom versus Standardization: Structured Data Generation in a Peer Production Community


 * WikidataCon
 * Today is the very last day to submit projects in the program! (deadline: July 31th)
 * You can also subscribe to the existing submissions to show your interest and support your favorites


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * wbsearchentities with ElasticSearch test
 * Quantities with units are now supported in the new QuickStatements.
 * Property talk pages now include queries for items with the property and most sitelinks, statements or identifiers.
 * We now have Q34000000
 * Wikidata Constraint Violations tool visualizes changes in constraint violations for last few weeks. Some of constraints produce millions of violations (marked as red).


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: maximum age, WIGOS station ID


 * Query examples:
 * Which White House chief of staff had the shortest tenure? (source)
 * Total number of sister city statements per country (source)
 * Pictures of tube stations in London (source)
 * Works created with the software Maya (source)
 * Do I cite works from Nobel Prize winners? (source)
 * ...or do Nobel prize winners cite me? (source)
 * Timeline of Humanitarian personality of the year (source)
 * New feature/gadget requests: Gadget for changing property


 * Development
 * Added Special:NewItem to Special:SpecialPages (T169456) Thanks to Matěj Suchánek
 * Making possible to check constraints on qualifiers and references (T168532)
 * Working on showing non-mandatory and mandatory constraints differently (T164254)
 * Improving Special:PagesWithProp for Wikidata use cases (T66950)
 * Doing last polishing on the Lexeme entity type and cleaning up the demo data for the demo at Wikimania
 * Improving the dispatching of changes to Wikipedia and co to cope with the increased demand that lead to delays in Wikidata changes showing up in Wikipedia watchlist and recent changes

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The Signpost: 5 August 2017
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MOS:SURNAME
Among other problems, your recent edits dont' follow WP policies about people's names. We don't refer to them by their first names, unless it's necessary to distinguish them in that sentence from other people with the same last name. Neil Armstrong is "Armstrong", not "Neil". Harry Elmore Hurd is "Hurd", not "Harry". Magic9Ball (talk) 20:59, 6 August 2017 (UTC)


 * We don't? :) You know .. I've spend a long time on those edits, so I'd appreciate if you could fix them for me instead of reverting them. Thank you. --Ciphers (talk) 21:04, 6 August 2017 (UTC)
 * No, we don't. It's WP-EN policy.
 * It's unfortunate that you've spent (not "spend") time making those changes to Apollo 11, but the effect of them was to reduce the quality of the article. Using first names instead of last names was inappropriate. MDY format on an article about the US space program is correct. The "nbsp" character between numerals and units prevents them from being broken up, which can confuse the reader. Your phrase "the lunar orbit" would refer to the orbit of the Moon around Earth; simply "lunar orbit" refers to any orbit around the Moon. The word "broadcasted" might seem logical, but it's incorrect; it should be "broadcast". Why? Because that's how English says it. These are subtle distinctions, and they may not make sense to someone who didn't grow up speaking the language, but they make a difference in the readability of the article. Your user page states that you have "near-native" fluency in English, but I think you're over-estimating yourself a little there. Regardless, someone with "near-native" fluency should not try to correct editors who speak and write the language natively. Jason A. Quest (talk) 21:41, 6 August 2017 (UTC)
 * A few of your changes were slight improvements; I'll remake them. -Jason A. Quest (talk) 21:51, 6 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Thank you, Jason. I appreciate that .. really. --Ciphers (talk) 22:31, 6 August 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #272
<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: Wikimania hackathon and documentation sprint, August 9-10, Montreal
 * Upcoming: Wikimania, August 10-13, Montreal. Check out all the things related to Wikidata
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in French, August 14, Montreal


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * w:en:Category:Articles with infoboxes completely from Wikidata has now more than 1000 articles
 * Wikidata passed 6 average statements per item


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: offset, File format magic numbers, game mechanics, weather history, conjugate base, conjugate acid, Atheneum museum ID, Atheneum person ID, Atheneum artwork ID, Finnish List of Lights ID, RIWAQ Registry of Historic Buildings in Palestine ID, Gatehouse Gazetteer place ID, energy storage capacity, National Assembly of Nigeria ID, Treasury of Lives ID, muzzle velocity, WIGOS station ID


 * Query examples:
 * Timeline of the programming languages created in the past 10 years (source)
 * Countries where no european language has official or national status (source)
 * Gallery of Star Trek characters (source)
 * Timeline of female medieval writers (source)
 * Newest script: moveClaim.js allows moving claims across items. Try it and give feedback to Matěj Suchánek
 * Newest external tools: d3-sparql allows you to query a SPARQL endpoint and get the data in a d3js-useful format


 * Development
 * Released version 2.0.0 of the DataValues base component.
 * Released the DataValues Interfaces component in version 0.2.3.
 * Released the ValueView component in version 0.20.0
 * Fixed a problem with suggestions of P279 (T169060)
 * Preparing everything for Wikimania and the hackathon

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English fluency
You read and write English well enough to make worthwhile contributions to the English WP, and I encourage you to keep doing it. But you are not fluent, and you should not be trying to change the wording of people who are. For example, "in the meanwhile" is a phrase that doesn't work in English: it's either "in the mean time" or "meanwhile". "Consensual" is the adjective form of "consent", not of "consensus"; they are different words with different meanings. A "licence" is awarded to a "licensee". These are mistakes that someone who speaks English natively wouldn't make... but you are. And worse: these are things that were correct before you changed them. You are wasting your time – and others' time – by introducing these changes. Stick to fixing the things you know better than other editors of the English WP. English grammar is not one of them. Thank you. Magic9Ball (talk) 15:28, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

Hello Ciphers. Please stop vandalism on Wolf Warriors 2
Hello admin,

Please stop this random IP from vandalizing the page.

171.36.18.44

Thank you,

--2606:A000:86CC:4100:3512:9D00:6858:2D0D (talk) 12:22, 12 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Hi, unfortunately I'm not currently an admin on English Wikipedia. For further assistance please visit this page. Thank you. --Ciphers (talk) 02:21, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

Dinner table
Hi there, I have just seen your recent addition of an article about dinner tables. It seems a similar article for Dining table previously existed and was merged into Table (furniture). I believe the same may analogously be valid for this new article. Similarly, Kitchen table seems to redirect to Kitchen, so it may be an idea to redirect to Dining room if the main focus is the cultural significance of dinner rituals as opposed to the funiture. Regards pseudonym Jake Brockman talk 12:40, 14 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Hi, Jake. You're actually right. The original purpose was to focus on the metaphorical aspect of the dinner table (i.e. buffet), rather than the physical table itself, so perhaps we should move the page to "Dinning Table" instead? any other suggesstions? Best, --Ciphers (talk) 02:27, 15 August 2017 (UTC)
 * I think that the cultural aspect is covered in the article Dinner, though that one could use some work to highlight different regional aspects and go a bit deeper. This is a bit western-hemisphere-heavy right now. I really struggle with an article about "dinner table" or "dining table" as it will inevitably overlap with Dining room, Dinner and Table (furniture) - without adding anything unique that cannot also be logically found in any of the others. pseudonym Jake Brockman talk 07:32, 16 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Jake. I appreciate the detailed feedback, and I understand your honest angle of the subject. With that being said, it is indeed hard to constantly generate new contents for creating new articles given the high complexity of our modern world which occasionally results in combining multiple -or otherwise distinct- things into a fewer number of abstract concepts or things, the fact that sometimes overshadow some of the details and might result in clouding our judgment to what or what not should be included in the final copy of the article. Please feel free to move, merge or otherwise split the Dinner table's content into however you see fit, or otherwise like. Please feel free to reach out in case you have any further questions. Thank you. --Ciphers (talk) 22:07, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #273
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 * Discussions
 * Restrict merging rights to autoconfirmed users
 * Change "Nearby" link to list items nearby the item?
 * New request for comments: P31 or P279 for geo-objects


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Wikifying Westminster: Wikidata workshop around UK political data, August 19th, London
 * Past: Wikimania, Wikimedia hackathon. A lot of things happened during these events, reports and news should be published in the next days.
 * Exploring the world with Wikidata and OpenStreetMap, by Mapbox
 * Enriching catalogue pages in Evergreen with Wikidata by Dan Scott
 * Why data partners should link their vocabulary to Wikidata: a new case study on Europeana blog


 * Wikimania
 * You can try the demo system for lexicographical data
 * Talk: Structured Commons: what changes are coming? by Sandra Fauconnier
 * Talk: New Frontier: Using Wikidata on Commons by Jarekt
 * List of wishes during the "Wikidata pink pony session"
 * Talk: the (Wiki)data (R)evolution, by Lydia Pintscher
 * Talk: Wikidata and performing arts by Beat Estermann during Wikimania
 * Talk: How to use Wikidata in infoboxes (panel)
 * New template: A fully automated template system was presented: Oh!WTFs
 * Talk: WikiCite: Citations needed for the sum of all human knowledge
 * Notes about the Wikispecies & Wikidata session
 * Documents to organize a Wikidata translathon: level 1, level 2, level 3 (by Kvardek_du) and the translathon tool (by Envel)
 * Talk: Sum of all paintings is just the start, by Multichill


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Share your feedback on the draft strategic direction, a basis on which strategic plans will be built.
 * Wikidata reached Q36000000. The number of items has been increased by 20% in less than three months


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: YCBA agent ID, IEDB Epitope ID, Dagens Næringsliv topic ID, Georgian National Register of Monuments ID, CODECS ID, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum ID, magnification, AUR package, Michelin Voyages ID, Michelin Restaurants ID, WeRelate person ID, autores.ar id, MEG ID, Czech Registration ID, separator, National Forest Foundation ID


 * Query examples:
 * Most-depicted musical instruments (source)
 * People who died in 2017 without a French label (source)
 * Moar goats (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Goats, WikiProject Torture
 * Newest external tools: WD edits stats counting edits mades on a certain dataset between two dates

Most of the team was at Wikimania, talking to people, getting meaningful input from the editors, giving talks, hacking around :)
 * Development

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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Wikidata weekly summary #274
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 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Open Source Ladies, meetup for women who want to start coding for Mediawiki and other open source projects, August 22nd, Berlin
 * Data Partnerships in Wikidata: Project Durchblick with Humboldt University by Jens Ohlig (in German)
 * What do Wikidata and Wikipedia have in common? An analysis of their use of external references by Alessandro Piscoppo et al.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New documentation page: How to use Wikidata data on Wikimedia projects (feel free to help improving it)
 * The growth of items continues: we have Q37000000 and even Q37500000; Scientific article (Q13442814) becomes the most used Wikidata item (source)
 * More than 80K locations in Belgium added to Mix'n'Match


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: World Heritage Tentative List ID, eParks unit ID


 * Query examples:
 * Surnames, similar to Muller, according to Cologne phonetics, Caverphone and Soundex algorithms
 * Shortest streets in Moscow
 * A timeline of theologians with a connection to Berlin (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3ATimeline%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Ft%20%3FppLabel%20%3FvalueLabel%20%3FrrLabel%20%20%3Fimage%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20%7Bwd%3AQ9711%20%3Fprop%20%3Ft%20FILTER%20%28datatype%28%3Ft%29%3Dxsd%3AdateTime%29%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fvalue%20wikibase%3AdirectClaim%20%3Fprop.%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20wd%3AQ9711%20%3Fq%20%3Fstatement%20%20FILTER%20regex%20%28STR%28%3Fq%29%2C%22prop%2FP%22%29%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fstatement%20%3Fp%20%3Ft%20FILTER%20regex%20%28STR%28%3Fp%29%2C%20%22prop%2Fqualifier%2FP%22%29%20FILTER%20%28datatype%28%3Ft%29%3Dxsd%3AdateTime%29%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fstatement%20%3Fr%20%3Fvalue%20FILTER%20regex%20%28STR%28%3Fr%29%2C%22prop%2Fstatement%2F%22%29%20.%0A%20%20%20BIND%28IRI%28CONCAT%28CONCAT%28SUBSTR%28STR%28%3Fr%29%2C1%2C29%29%2C%22direct%2F%22%29%2CSUBSTR%28STR%28%3Fr%29%2C40%29%29%29%20as%20%3Frprop%29%20%20%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20wikibase%3AdirectClaim%20%3Frprop%20.%20%20%0A%20%20%20BIND%28IRI%28CONCAT%28CONCAT%28SUBSTR%28STR%28%3Fp%29%2C1%2C29%29%2C%22direct%2F%22%29%2CSUBSTR%28STR%28%3Fp%29%2C40%29%29%29%20as%20%3Fpprop%29%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fpp%20%20wikibase%3AdirectClaim%20%3Fpprop%20.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fvalue%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20wd%3AQ9711%20wdt%3AP800%20%3Fvalue%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fvalue%20%3Fprop%20%3Ft%20FILTER%20%28datatype%28%3Ft%29%3Dxsd%3AdateTime%29%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20wikibase%3AdirectClaim%20wdt%3AP800%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fpp%20wikibase%3AdirectClaim%20%3Fprop.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fvalue%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3Ft Timeline of the life of Honoré de Balzac] (source)
 * Twin cities of places in South Africa (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 51st UK parliament (1992) was the first one with more women than Johns] (source)
 * All places that are named "earth" in at least one language (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Parliaments


 * Development
 * Working on making constraints work on qualifiers and references (T168532)
 * Working on making it easier to see when input in property or value fields is not recognized/wrong (T170531)
 * Added new language codes (eya, fuf, ood, pjt, yap, zun) for use in monolingual text values
 * Fixed an issue with badges not being shown next to interwiki links on Wikipedia and co (T172592)
 * Worked on showing labels when linking to a redirect (T96553)
 * Worked on making change dispatching to Wikipedia and co work better so changes made on Wikidata show up there in a reasonable time. There were issues because of significantly increased edit activity on Wikidata.

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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English fluency, again
Two other editors have noticed (as have I) and discussed above, that your level of English fluency is not as high as you think. The userbox you set, en-4, "near-native", is obviously incorrect and I have taken the liberty of reducing it to a level I feel is appropriate. Please take a look at WP:Babel/Levels, which defines the levels of language proficiency intended in the userboxes. The purpose of these is to enhance collaboration among Wikipedia editors by informing them of your capabilities. I do not speak Japanese and thus have no idea what your fluency in it is, but I would also be surprised if it is "near native", and I would ask you to consider if ja-3 would be more appropriate. JustinTime55 (talk) 19:33, 24 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Justin, I understand what you're trying to say, but please do not alter my userpage without asking for my consent first. I guess you wouldn't like anyone doing the same to yours, now do you? --Ciphers (talk) 17:24, 25 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Regardless of whether or not I would like it, the fact is, our user pages do not belong to us. Please read WP:UP: I felt I was within rights to edit your page to address a significant concern: your userbox misleads the Wikipedia community by overstating your English fluency as near-native. These userboxes are used to generate lists used to direct editors to people with a given skill level. I will not edit war, but I ask you to consider changing it yourself. JustinTime55 (talk) 20:27, 25 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Ciphers, maybe you can use this as a learning experience: How do you think another editor feels when you "correct" their perfectly good English with your mistakes? Your self-evaluation is incorrect; please change it, and more importantly, leave the English (and Japanese?) corrections to people who are truly fluent. Magic9Ball (talk) 21:26, 25 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Justin, Ball; who said anything that I should care about what either of you has to think or say? More importantly, how can I tell that either of you is actually a native speaker, not to mention having any ability to assess other's language skills? I am a scientific researcher, and I'm here to enrich Wikipedia with my skills and knowledge, not to nitpick other people's grammar or syntax. Do either of you know anything about Quantum physics or high-dimensional geometry?
 * The bottom line is, if you see something I've edited that you think is wrong you've got three options, fix it, revert it, or leave it. I prefer the third. Otherwise, I'm more than happy to file a complaint against any user comes to my user page or talk page to harass, or intimidate me. You are free to reference, cite or otherwise recite all the policies you like, but I think I made my point clear here. --Ciphers (talk) 23:37, 25 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Ciphers, speaking as another native English speaker, and one with unusually good proofreading skills, I must say that I concur with the other editors. After reverting your recent edit to Cryptography, which consisted mostly of incorrect English changes (along with a serious language-neutral error), I took a look at your list of recent edits.  Examining the diffs of two of your edits at random, on Acne and 1912 Detroit Tigers season, I found that in both cases you had changed correct English to severely incorrect English, and I have now reverted these changes.


 * Unfortunately I don't have time to go through the rest of your voluminous edits, but from what I've seen so far, and bolstered by the other editors' comments, I expect a large percentage of them involve changing correct English to incorrect English. You claim you're here to enrich Wikipedia with your scientific research skills and knowledge, not to attempt to fix other people's grammar or syntax, yet all of your edits I've looked at so far consist mostly or entirely of the latter.  Some of your English errors have been so bizarre that I must concur that you are objectively not "near-fluent" in English, especially when it comes to copyediting.


 * Personally, I'm not overly concerned about what you claim your language skills are on your user page, but I am concerned about you spending lots of time making articles worse with your faulty English proofreading skills, and in turn wasting the time of other editors that need to clean up your mess. I would urge you to try to stick to factual changes, rather than laboring under the incorrect assumption that you have the ability to copyedit English like a native speaker.  I would also note that your attitude in your last comment is inappropriate.  Wikipedia only works when people cooperate, so rejecting the observations of native English speakers, accusing them of misrepresenting themselves, and saying you don't care about what they have to say or what Wikipedia's policies are is not a good way forward.


 * You have a userbox on your page saying "This user tries to do the right thing. If they make a mistake, please let them know." I would suggest you try to actually adopt said attitude rather than forcing things to escalate needlessly.  --Dan Harkless (talk) 09:47, 27 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Thank you, Dan. I guess your argument makes more sense to me than the above two. I'll try to be more cautious in my edits moving forward. Thanks again for the note. --Ciphers (talk) 03:50, 28 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Thank you for taking my observations and suggestions in a positive spirit, and I wish you luck in your further editing efforts. --Dan Harkless (talk) 19:50, 28 August 2017 (UTC)