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Wikidata weekly summary #350
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events
 * Next Wikidata workshop/meetup in Paris: February 15th
 * Next Wikidata meetup in Berlin: March 12th
 * The conference grant proposal for WikidataCon was submitted and could use endorsements.


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * „Eisberg voraus!“ – Sächsische Landeskunde mit SXRM, Wikisource und Wikidata by Jens Bemme (in German)
 * Linking the OLAC Video Game Vocabulary with Wikidata by Tracy Hoffmann and Peter Chan
 * Adam blogged about how to update an existing Wikibase docker instance


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Got some time? SpeedPatrolling, a tool to simplify patrolling of recent changes on Wikidata (documentation), has been announced and you can use it to help fight vandalism.
 * Got some time? Match some streets and the humans they are named after.
 * Got some time? Help link OpenStreetMap and Wikidata Items with the new OSM <-> Wikidata matcher.
 * Wikidata Query Service now has over 7 billion triples.


 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: affiliation string, RightsStatement status according to source website, trading name, Alexander–Briggs notation
 * External identifiers: DIZIE ID, football.odessa.ua person ID, sport-strana.ru article ID, Homosaurus ID, funk channel ID, GEOFON earthquake ID, Georgian National Filmography ID, infosport.ru person ID, ManualsLib brand ID, MusicBrainz event ID, LGD local body code, HAER ID, Hymnary hymnal ID, Hymnary instance ID, Hymnary tune ID, Global Species ID, Amsterdam code
 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: does not have quality (2), Den Digitale Byport-ID, expression of, calendar feed url, Total goals in career, Strepsiptera database species ID, Brentidae of the world species ID, Illustrated catalog of Tessaratomidae species ID, WBCHSE code
 * External identifiers: Douban Book ID, Douban Musician ID, Douban Author ID, Douban Music ID, Douban Drama ID, Douban Game ID, Douban Read Author ID, Douban Read eBook ID, Douban Site Name, Douban Username, Zhihu username, Bilibili user ID, QQ number, Bilibili video ID, Bilibili bangumi ID, Bilibili tag ID, Mtime movie ID, Mtime people ID, Dictionary of Anhui Writers ID, Fuzhou Architecture Heritage ID, Eventa Servo ID, Rocks Backpages author ID, Rocks Backpages artist ID, Rocks Backpages publication ID, Hulu movie ID, Hulu series ID, Democracy Club ID, ISA ID, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Schutzgebiete-ID, DALFAN ID, GameFAQs franchise ID, CABB player ID, castingvideos ID, Bildarchiv, Herder-Institut, IEEEXplore document ID, IEEEXplore author ID, Antarctica NZ Digital Asset Manager, Pacific Coast Architecture Database building ID, Twitter user ID, Australian Antarctic Data Center, Enciclopedia delle donne ID
 * Deleted properties: P1112 (Pokédex number)
 * Query examples:
 * Common topics of publications by people affiliated with a given organization
 * World __ days and other awareness days in calendar order (Source)
 * timeline of writing systems (source)
 * family tree of Donald Duck (source)
 * Common long words in titles of scholarly articles (source)
 * schools of magic by number of students (source)


 * Development
 * Making progress towards first showable version of basic Shape Expression support
 * Layout polishing for the mobile termbox (the box that shows labels, desctiptions and aliases) and continuing work on the "in more languages" and "all entered languages" sections in it
 * Added tracking for the number of Senses and Forms to our graph for tracking the number of Items, Properties and Lexemes
 * Worked more on making it easier to set up Quickstatements in other Wikibase instances
 * Preventing an entity to redirect to itself (T214919)
 * Working on making Federation (reusing Wikidata's Items and Properties to make statements) work for Wikimedia Commons to get the rollout of the next stage (support for depicts statements) unstuck
 * Fixed an issue with adding sitelinks from Commons (T213975)
 * Fixing Cognate support for yue Wiktionary (T214400)


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

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 21:33, 4 February 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-07
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * You can use the  CSS class to show page issues to mobile readers. When you use   there are classes you can use.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 February. It will be on all wikis from 14 February (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  18:45, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #351
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events
 * Past: Linking OpenStreetMap and Wikidata at FOSDEM


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Paper: Discovering Implicational Knowledge in Wikidata


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * There is now an experimental SPARQL service to query Wikidata history


 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: day of regular release, Euler characteristic, has lyrics, maintenance method, CBFC rating, does not have quality
 * External identifiers: Code of Natura 2000/FFH habitat, Douban Author ID, Douban Book ID, Douban Drama ID, Douban Game ID, Douban Music ID, Douban Musician ID, Douban Read Author ID, Douban Read eBook ID, Douban Site Name, Douban Username, Zhihu username, Bilibili bangumi ID, Bilibili tag ID, Bilibili username, Bilibili video ID, Eventa Servo ID, Mtime movie ID, QQ number, Swedish Organization Number, Rock's Backpages artist ID, Rock's Backpages author ID, Rock's Backpages publication ID, Mtime people ID, Democracy Club ID, Hulu movie ID, Hulu series ID, ISA ID, Fuzhou Architecture Heritage ID, DALFAN ID, Den Digitale Byport ID, GameFAQs franchise ID, NMSRCP reference number, Swiss Films ID, CABB player ID, castingvideos ID, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern protected area ID, IEEEXplore author ID, IEEEXplore document ID, Strepsiptera database species ID, Image Archive, Herder-Institut, WBCHSE code, Antarctica NZ Digital Asset Manager, Brentidae of the world species ID, Pacific Coast Architecture Database building ID, Illustrated catalog of Tessaratomidae species ID
 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: creator name string, Literate population, Illiterate population, designated survivor, stall speed, maintain, Insects (Insecta) of the World ID, solar eclipse type, student organization of
 * External identifiers: BibliotecaVirtualAndalucia authority ID, BIDICAM authority ID, BVPH authority ID, CCBAE ID, identifiant sur l'annuaire du service public, Joan Miró Online Image Bank ID, ISTC No., KSI player ID, Board Game Atlas ID, LSE article ID, JWF Wrestlers Database, Georgian National Filmography ID for Persons, Eliseu Visconti Project ID, Indian census area code (1991), AICTE Permanent ID, German School ID, DOGC ID, DoBIH Number
 * Query examples:
 * Counts of Indian films directed and written by the same person, sorted by film language (source)
 * Sovereign states that have more than one capital city (source)
 * Decreases in sex ratio for mandals of West Godavari district between 2001 and 2011 (source)
 * Counts of articles published in different Indian medical journals, sorted by year/journal (source)
 * Forms to Lexeme ratio per language (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#select%20distinct%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FtypeLabel%20%3FcountryLabel%20%3FsubjectLabel%20%3FnamesakeLabel%20%3Fnamesake%0Awhere%0A%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20%3Ftype%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20item%20is%20...%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Ftype%20wdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ20977775%20%7D%20union%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20an%20airport%20(defined%20broadly)%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Ftype%20wdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ55488%20%7D%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20or%20a%20rail%20station%20(ditto)%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP138%20%3Fnamesake%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20item%20is%20named%20after%20something%0A%20%20%3Fnamesake%20wdt%3AP31%20%3Fsubject%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20namesake%20is%20...%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Fsubject%20wdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ95074%20%7D%20union%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20a%20fictional%20character%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20(definition%20here%20excludes%20deities%20%26%20biblical%20figures)%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Fsubject%20wdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ7725634%20%7D%20union%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20or%20a%20literary%20work%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Fsubject%20wdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ7725310%20%7D%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20or%20a%20series%20of%20works%0A%20%20optional%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fcountry%20%7D%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20what%20country%20is%20the%20something%20in%3F%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%20order%20by%20%3FitemLabel Airports and railway stations named after fictional people or works of fiction] (source)
 * Species of hummingbirds, their genus, and image (source)


 * Development
 * Working on the "in more languages" and "all entered languages" parts of the termbox on mobile
 * Working on making undo, revert, edit summaries and more work for Shape Expressions
 * Fixed an error when detecting the same label and description in another Item (T194770, thanks Matěj)
 * Making Lemma input on Lexeme pages save your input when you press enter (T206140)
 * Making QuickStatements work more easily for other Docker-powered Wikibase instances (T205606)
 * Worked more on making Federation work for making Statements on Wikimedia Commons (T214557)
 * Working on stripping whitespaces at the beginning and end of Glosses when saving them (T212019)
 * Looking into adding more signals to ORES' vandalism detection model so we can detect bad edits more accurately (T194737)
 * Preventing a redirect of an Entity onto itself (T214775)
 * Fixed an issue with adding sitelinks from Wikimedia Commons (T213975)
 * Unified the separators between language and lexical category in different places (T201808)


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

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 20:32, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #352
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: NewDataB
 * New request for comments: semi-protection to prevent vandalism on most used Items, Allow for Wikidata items to be created that only link to a single Wikimedia Commons category (Wikidata notability discussion)


 * Events
 * February 19th: Wikidata meetup in London - Facebook event
 * February 21st to 24th: International Mother Language Day edit-a-thon
 * February 23rd: editathon about Parliament of Ghana in Accra - Registration
 * March 28th: GLAM & Wikidata day in Switzerland (registration running until March 18th)


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Let’s Tango: Computational Musicology Using Wikidata, MusicBrainz and the Wolfram Language, by Toni Schindler


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Got some time? Add QIDs to the tools on Edit items, Query data, Enhance user interface, Visualize data, Lexicographical data, For programmers and List of properties. If some tools don't have their own Items, feel free to create them.
 * Hardware issues at Toolforge and CloudVPS affect lots of tools and coincide with changes in the statement stats dynamics
 * WikibaseCirrusSearch will become a Mediawiki extension
 * You can still help Shani Evenstein with her research: Wikidata as a Learning Platform


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: drag coefficient, illiterate population, literate population, non-free artwork image URL, taxon author citation, total goals in career, stall speed
 * External identifiers: Enciclopedia delle donne ID, Joan Miró Online Image Bank ID, BIDICAM authority ID, Board Game Atlas ID, BVPH authority ID, CCBAE publication ID, ISTC No., KSI player ID, Biblioteca Virtual Andalucía authority ID, Georgian National Filmography ID for Persons, JWF Wrestlers Database person ID, Indian census area code (1991), Lithuanian Sport Encyclopedia (LSE) article ID, Eliseu Visconti Project ID, UN/CEFACT common code


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: ScaleNet ID, Lokalhistoriewiki article, Identifiant itch.io, approach angle, departure angle, ride height, type of front suspensions, type of rear suspensions, Football Money League rank, is model of, constraint clarification, has phenotype, observed in, replacement property, evidenční číslo domu, Stack Exchange site
 * External identifiers: WhoSampled artist, äriregister, ISO 639-3 Change Request ID, Queerly Represent Me identifier, V.League player ID, Martindale-Hubbell profile, Google Play Movies & TV id, Fondation Maeght ID, identifiant d'un jeu de données sur data.gouv.fr, BHL part ID, ETS Designated Institution code, Gateway to Research Project ID, Yandex.Music label ID, Yandex.Music genre ID


 * Query examples:
 * Bubble chart of Indian universities with the most people ever employed by them (source)
 * Graph of shared borders between certain West Bengal community development blocks (source)
 * Tree map of ambassadors to India (source)
 * Fictional swords (source)
 * Taxa named after women scientists (source)
 * Timeline of red pandas (source)


 * Development
 * Improve the tools dropdown on query.wikidata.org, which now links Tools categories and the Toolforge (T214577)
 * Implement the diff view for Schemas (T214396, T215514)
 * Implement undo for Schemas (T214914)
 * Prevent redirecting an entity to itself (T214775)
 * Make pressing enter when editing a lemma save the lemma (T206140)
 * Strip whitespace around sense glosses (T212019)
 * Create LilyPond datatype (T215284)
 * More work to get the new version of the termbox readable on mobile

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


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

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:36, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-08
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * When you thank someone on the mobile web you will now have two seconds to cancel the thank. This is in case you clicked on the thank button by accident.

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

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * There is a proposal to add a red link to mobile search results if there is no page with that name. This is how it works on desktop. You can leave feedback.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  23:13, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

Talk to us about talking
The Wikimedia Foundation is planning a global consultation about communication. The goal is to bring Wikimedians and wiki-minded people together to improve tools for communication.

We want all contributors to be able to talk to each other on the wikis, whatever their experience, their skills or their devices.

We are looking for input from as many different parts of the Wikimedia community as possible. It will come from multiple projects, in multiple languages, and with multiple perspectives.

We are currently planning the consultation. We need your help.

We need volunteers to help talk to their communities or user groups.

You can help by hosting a discussion at your wiki. Here's what to do:
 * 1) First, sign up your group here.
 * 2) Next, create a page (or a section on a Village pump, or an e-mail thread – whatever is natural for your group) to collect information from other people in your group.  This is not a vote or decision-making discussion: we are just collecting feedback.
 * 3) Then ask people what they think about communication processes.  We want to hear stories and other information about how people communicate with each other on and off wiki.  Please consider asking these five questions:
 * 4) When you want to discuss a topic with your community, what tools work for you, and what problems block you?
 * 5) What about talk pages works for newcomers, and what blocks them?
 * 6) What do others struggle with in your community about talk pages?
 * 7) What do you wish you could do on talk pages, but can't due to the technical limitations?
 * 8) What are the important aspects of a "wiki discussion"?
 * 9) Finally, please go to Talk pages consultation 2019 on Mediawiki.org and report what you learned from your group.  Please include links if the discussion is available to the public.

You can also help build the list of the many different ways people talk to each other.

Not all groups active on wikis or around wikis use the same way to discuss things: it can happen on wiki, on social networks, through external tools... Tell us how your group communicates.

You can read more about the overall process on mediawiki.org. If you have questions or ideas, you can leave feedback about the consultation process in the language you prefer.

Thank you! We're looking forward to talking with you. Trizek (WMF) 15:08, 21 February 2019 (UTC)