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Ichthus June 2019


The Top 6 Articles By

The sad news was the 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings. The Top 6 most popular articles about People in WikiProject Christianity were:   Did You Know? Nominated by ... that the first attempt to build the Holy Trinity Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra resulted in the demolition of the nearly completed structure?
 * 1) Louis XIV of France – a monarch of the House of Bourbon who reigned as King of France. He did say, "Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful."
 * 2) Mary, Queen of Scots – arrested for Reigning While Catholic (RWC), Mary was found guilty of plotting to assassinate Elizabeth I of England in 1586, and was beheaded the following year.
 * 3) Elizabeth I of England – The Virgin Queen, Elizabeth was the last of the five monarchs of the House of Tudor who ushered in the Elizabethan Era, reversed re-establishment of Roman Catholicism by her half-sister.
 * 4) Henry VIII of England – King of England, He was an accomplished musician, author, and poet; his known piece of music is "Pastime with Good Company". He is often reputed to have written "Greensleeves" but probably did not. He had six marriages.
 * 5) Martin Luther King Jr. – " There are three urgent and indeed great problems that we face not only in the United States of America but all over the world today. That is the problem of racism, the problem of poverty and the problem of war."
 * 6) Billy Ray Cyrus – Having released 12 studio albums and 44 singles since 1992, he is best known for his number one single "Achy Breaky Heart", which became the first single ever to achieve triple Platinum status in Australia.

Featured article Nominated by Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral is a Gothic Revival three-spire cathedral in the city of Cork, Ireland. It belongs to the Church of Ireland and was completed in 1879. The cathedral is located on the south side of the River Lee, on ground that has been a place of worship since the 7th century, and is dedicated to Finbarr of Cork, patron saint of the city. It was once in the Diocese of Cork; it is now one of the three cathedrals in the Church of Ireland Diocese of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, in the ecclesiastical province of Dublin. Christian use of the site dates back to a 7th-century AD monastery, which according to legend was founded by Finbarr of Cork. The entrances contain the figures of over a dozen biblical figures, capped by a tympanum showing a Resurrection scene. (more...) Help wanted We're looking for writers to contribute to Ichthus. Do you have a project that you'd like to highlight? An issue that you'd like to bring to light? Post your inquiries or submission here.  WikiProject Christianity

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Wikidata weekly summary #369
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Unifying GO activities and enzyme articles


 * Events
 * Upcoming: ld4-Wikidata Affinity Group call on June 18th
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Paris, France, on June 21st
 * Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Wellington, New Zealand, on June 22nd


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * EventKG - the Hub of Event Knowledge on the Web - and Biographical Timeline Generation - Simon Gottschalk, Elena Demidova (in ArXiv)
 * Assessing The Factual Accuracy of Generated Text Ben Goodrich, et al. (in ArXiv)
 * Enriching Bibliographic Data by Combining String Matching and the Wikidata Knowledge Graph to Improve the Measurement of International Research Collaboration Xuan Nguyen, et al. (in ArXiv)
 * Treasured Manuscript collection gets the Wikidata Treatment, on the National Library of Wales' blog
 * On the road to joint embedding with Wikidata lexemes? by Finn Årup Nielsen
 * Wikipedia and Wikidata user contributions as part of Wikipedia for Peace at Europride Vienna 2019


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata-Toolkit 0.10.0 was released
 * New Grafana board: number of edits per namespace


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: title in HTML, title in LaTeX, student organization of, emergency services, average speed
 * External identifiers: Pro Football Reference coach ID, Keybase username, Elhuyar Dictionary ID, TV Tropes identifier, ITF tournament ID, Campendium ID, Malaysia company number, abART person ID, abART document ID, abART exhibition ID, abART group ID, abART institution ID, DR.dk topic ID, ABA League ID, Biographical Dictionary Of Iowa ID, CCDC Number, Coco Game List ID, Dimensions grant ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: text of verse, literary motif, scribe.amanuensis or copyist.illuminator, distribution format, phosphorylates, RogerEbert.com film ID, literacy rate, Retrosheets ID
 * External identifiers: 7digital United Kingdom artist ID, Metacritic person ID, Nacionālā enciklopēdija, IMVDb artist ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts artist ID, Charts in France artist ID, VG-lista artist ID, Beatport artist ID, Djshop artist ID, Gaana.com artist ID, Juno Download artist ID, Moov artist ID, Murfie artist ID, Napster artist ID, Qobuz artist ID, YouTube Music channel ID, Bebo profile ID, Steam profile ID, Pandora artist ID, SNBP ID, Fundamental.org Baptist Church ID, EMIS codes for Pakistani provinces, RIAA artist ID, Gambay ID, Facebook Gaming game ID, Cameo ID, Amburger database ID, BVLarramendi, Equipboard artist ID


 * Query examples:
 * Table of counts of distinct MPs, legislative terms and per constituency P39s for UK parliamentary constituencies, with links to per constituency reports (source)
 * Reverse taxon names of 100 mosquitoes (source)
 * Five-letter words beginning with "f", from wikidata's lexeme collection (source)
 * Péniches in Lyon
 * Lexemes ordered according to compound parts (source)
 * Airports named after a person, color-coded by gender (source)
 * Timeline of the Chief Mousers of 10 Downing Street, with photographs when available
 * Newest WikiProjects: European Colonialism


 * Development
 * Grafana now tracks the number of edits per namespace (T218901) and the EntitySchemas on the entity by type board (T216835)
 * Fixed a bug Special:MobileDiff for an EntitySchema Revision (T224545)
 * Make possible to edit items via wbeditentity when they have same label and description, if the edit is about making them different (T222621)
 * Fix a bug on ArticlePlaceholder hook on SpecialSearch (T207235)
 * Add CC0 License overlay popup on termbox editing (T221835)
 * More maintainance on the WDCM dashboards T214586 (T217997)
 * Maintain the WDCM Biases Dashboard to make it fully client-side dependent

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) 15:06, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-25
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on 19 June at 05:00 (UTC). This is to fix a hardware problem.

Changes later this week
 * MIDI files can soon be played without the Score extension. You can then add them with . Later   and   will stop working. Instead you will need to add the MIDI file below the music score.
 * A new video player will soon replace the old one. You will be able to enable it as a beta feature in your preferences. It will later be enabled for everyone if there are no big problems.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June (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 19 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg Some gadgets and user scripts still use the old  and   values. These values are always true. They will soon be removed. This might break the gadgets and scripts. You should fix your gadgets to not use these values.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  20:37, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #370
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Closed request for comments: semi-protection to prevent vandalism on most used Items


 * Events
 * Upcoming: 1st Iberoamerican Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web Conference keynote on Wikidata by José E. Labra Villa Clara, Cuba 24-28 June
 * Upcoming: Wikidata meeting for researchers in Sfax University, Tunisia, 25-27 June 2019
 * Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in London, June 29th
 * Upcoming: July 3rd: UGent Wikidata and Wikibase Workshop 2019


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Demonstrating Spindra: A Geographic Knowledge Graph Management System, Yuhan Sun, et al (in 2019 IEEE 35th International Conference on Data Engineering)
 * Comparing DBpedia, Wikidata, and YAGO for Web Information Retrieval, Sini Govinda Pillai, et al.
 * WikiDataSets: Standardized sub-graphs from WikiData, Armand Boschin, in ArXiv
 * Ordia: A Web application for Wikidata lexemes, Finn Årup Nielsen
 * Combining embedding methods for a word intrusion task Finn Årup Nielsen, et al
 * Query expansion using Wikidata attributes’ values Sarah Dahir, Abderrahim et al., in ICCWCS'19
 * Automatic Question Generation based on MOOC Video Subtitles and Knowledge Graph Lin Ma, Yuchun Ma, in ICIET 2019
 * Wikidata as a linked-data hub for Biodiversity data, Andra Waagmeester, et al.
 * Using Crowd-curation to Improve Taxon Annotations on the Wikimedia Infrastructure, Andra Waagmeester, et al.
 * ''Using Shape Expressions (ShEx) to Share RDF Data Models and to Guide Curation with Rigorous Validation, et al. Best in-use paper award ESWC
 * From “an” Identifier to “the” Identifier, Theo van Veen
 * Developing workflows for local authority file conversion from MARC to Wikidata


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Structured Data on Commons: qualifiers for depicts support have been enabled on June 20th
 * Result format change for Query Service JSON query output
 * Filename scheme for Wikidata RDF entity dumps will change
 * The development of Wikidata Bridge (editing Wikidata's data from Wikipedia) started
 * CheckShex userscript adds an in-page way of checking if an item fits an Entityschema


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: has written for, motif represents, solar irradiance, effective temperature
 * External identifiers: JIS standard, Réunionnais du monde ID, Corporate Number (South Korea), dbSNP ID, digilibIT author ID, Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic ID, eBiodiversity ID, eurobasket.com coach ID, euroleague.net coach ID, Gamepedia Wiki ID, Hoopla artist ID, Hoopla publisher ID, Latvian National Encyclopedia Online ID, ECI Lok Sabha constituency code, IntraText author ID, Musixmatch artist ID, MAHG ID, Amburger database ID, ATP tennis tournament edition ID, Rugby League Project ID (general), RIAA artist ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: extracted from, Instagram hashtag, Historical Archives of the European Union ID, number of pins, number of pin positions, Representative in legislature, subscribers
 * External identifiers: nchdb asset id, Biblioteca Nacional Aruba ID, Bangladesh administrative division code (2017-), Goodreads series ID, Heritage Gazetteer of Cyprus, Retrosheet ID, The DJ List artist ID, BBC artist ID, The Independent topic ID, NME artist ID, Metro topic ID, MangaSeek person ID, Soccerway coach ID, Nederlandse Top 40 artist ID, Dutch Charts artist ID, hitparade.ch artist ID, Aviation Safety Network Wikibase ID, Find & Connect ID, SA Flora ID, ATRF ID, geograph, ArtBrokerage artist ID, Indian gallantry awardee ID, Scandipop topic ID, iTunes movie collection ID, SLNSW unpublished item ID, LB.ua dossier, FPBR person ID, RBF amateur boxer ID, RBF professional boxer ID, Roskomnadzor media license number, 2014 Commonwealth Games athlete ID, Music certifictions ID, El portal de Música artist ID


 * Query examples:
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#SELECT%20%3Ftotal%20%3Fcount%20%3Fdepicts_class%20%3Fdepicts_classLabel%20%3Fprop%20%3FpropLabel%20%3Fsamp%20%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3Fdepicts_stmt%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP180%20%3Fdepicts_stmt%20.%0A%20%20%7D%20%23%20LIMIT%20100000%0A%7D%20AS%20%25stmts%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fprop%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%28%3Fdepicts_stmt%29%29%20AS%20%3Ftotal%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25stmts%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fdepicts_stmt%20%3Fqual%20%5B%5D%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fprop%20wikibase%3Aqualifier%20%3Fqual%20.%0A%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fprop%0A%7D%20AS%20%25totals%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fdepicts_class%20%3Fprop%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%28%3Fdepicts_stmt%29%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fitem%29%20AS%20%3Fsamp%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25stmts%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fdepicts_stmt%20ps%3AP180%20%3Fdepicts_val%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fdepicts_val%20wdt%3AP31%3F%20%3Fdepicts_class%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fdepicts_stmt%20%3Fqual%20%5B%5D%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fprop%20wikibase%3Aqualifier%20%3Fqual%20.%0A%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fdepicts_class%20%3Fprop%0A%20%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29%20%0A%20%20LIMIT%205000%0A%7D%20AS%20%25data%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fdepicts_class%20%3Fprop%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%28%3Fdepicts_class1%29%29%20AS%20%3Frank%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25data%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%28%3Fdepicts_class%20AS%20%3Fdepicts_class1%29%20%3Fprop%20%28%3Fcount%20AS%20%3Fcount1%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25data%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28%3Fcount1%20%3E%3D%20%3Fcount%29%20.%0A%20%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fdepicts_class%20%3Fprop%0A%7D%20AS%20%25ranks%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25data%20.%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25ranks%20.%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25totals%20.%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28%3Frank%20%3C%2011%29%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Ftotal%29%20%3Fprop%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29%0A Most commonly used qualifiers on depicts (P180) statements on Wikidata, with top 10 classes or items that each one is used on] (source)
 * Most commonly used properties connecting military people to military organisations (source)
 * Bubblechart of most frequent WMF import sources
 * French male first names ending with "ée" (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Australia
 * Newest database reports: Property completion by country leaderboard


 * Development
 * Beginning of wb_terms migration (T221764)
 * Fixed a bug with phan on Wikibase (T226083)
 * Enable bugfix for wbeditentity setting aliases to empty array (T223303)
 * Fix an issue with pipe character on some special pages (T223270)
 * Fix an issue with removed constraint still displayed on Lexeme (T223372)
 * Make edits to EntitySchema pages autopatrolled (T224495)
 * Work on creating better edit summaries for wbeditentity API endpoint (T224010)
 * Deploy the work environment for new mobile termbox
 * Start setting up the technical environment for Wikidata bridge

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) 15:21, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-26
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * The new version of MediaWiki for last week was not fully released due to issues. It was removed from most wikis on Tuesday and from test wikis on Thursday.
 * Most wikis were slow and then briefly read-only last week due to one of the database servers having a problem. It is now replaced.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 June. It will be on all wikis from 27 June (calendar).

Meetings
 * You can watch or join the next Wikimedia Language showcase. It will be about the usage of Machine Translation in Wikimedia projects. The showcase will be on 26 June at 13:00 (UTC). A recording will be kept for later viewing
 * 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 26 June at 15:00 (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.  17:29, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter July-August 2019


Hello ,

More new features are being added to the feed, including the important red alert for previously deleted pages. This will only work if it is selected in your filters. Best is to 'select all'. Do take a moment to check out all the new features if you have not already done so. If anything is not working as it should, please let us know at NPR. There is now also a live queue of AfC submissions in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to review AfCs, but bear in mind that NPP is an official process and policy and is more important. Articles are still not always being checked thoroughly enough. If you are not sure what to do, leave the article for a more experienced reviewer. Please be on the alert for any incongruities in patrolling and help your colleagues where possible; report patrollers and autopatrolled article creators who are ostensibly undeclared paid editors. The displayed ORES alerts offer a greater 'at-a-glance' overview, but the new challenges in detecting unwanted new content and sub-standard reviewing do not necessarily make patrolling any easier, nevertheless the work may have a renewed interest factor of a different kind. A vibrant community of reviewers is always ready to help at NPR. The backlog is still far too high at between 7,000 and 8,000. Of around 700 user rights holders, 80% of the reviewing is being done by just TWO users. In the light of more and more subtle advertising and undeclared paid editing, New Page Reviewing is becoming more critical than ever. NPR is triage, it is not a clean up clinic. This move feature is not limited to bios so  you may have to slightly re-edit the text in the template before you save the move. Anything that is not fit for mainspace but which might have some promise can be draftified - particularly very poor English and machine and other low quality translations. Remember to use the message feature if you are just tagging an article for maintenance rather than deletion. Otherwise articles are likely to remain perma-tagged. Many creators are SPA and have no intention of returning to Wikipedia. Use the feature too for leaving a friendly note note for  the author of a first article you found well made or interesting. Many have told us they find such comments particularly welcoming and encouraging. Admins are now taking advantage of the new time-limited user rights feature. If you have recently been accorded NPR, do check your user rights to see if this affects you. Depending on your user account preferences, you may receive automated notifications of your rights changes. Requests for permissions are not mini-RfAs. Helpful comments are welcome if absolutely necessary, but the bot does a lot of the work and the final decision is reserved for admins who do thorough research anyway. School and academic holidays will begin soon in various places around the Western world. Be on the lookout for the usual increase in hoax, attack, and other junk pages.
 * WMF at work on NPP Improvements
 * QUALITY of REVIEWING
 * Backlog
 * Move to draft
 * Notifying users
 * PERM
 * Other news

Our next newsletter might be announcing details of a possible election for co-ordinators of NPR. If you think you have what it takes to micro manage NPR, take a look at New Page Review Coordinators - it's a job that requires a lot of time and dedication.

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Wikidata weekly summary #371
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events
 * Upcoming: July 3rd: UGent Wikidata and Wikibase Workshop 2019
 * Upcoming: OSM TW x Wikidata TW Meetup, June 3rd, Taipei, Taiwan - Facebook event
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XVII in São Paulo, Brazil, July 11th
 * Upcoming: Inventaire & OpenData Week 2019 in Wurzen, Germany, July 18th-25th
 * State of the Map 2019: early bird tickets are available until July 7th. The program will include a Wikidata workshop


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Placing EveryPolitician on hold by MySociety ("it's clear that Wikidata should be the natural global home for this type of data")
 * Celebrity Profiling by Matti Wiegmann et al.,
 * Published in ArXiv:
 * DocRED: A Large-Scale Document-Level Relation Extraction Dataset by Yuan Yao et al.
 * ConTrOn: Continuously Trained Ontology based on Technical Data Sheets and Wikidata by Kobkaew Opasjumruskit et al.
 * Wikidata as opportunity for special collections: the 20th Century Press Archives use case. Presentation at LIBER 2019 (LOD working group of the Association of European Research Libraries), by Joachim Neubert


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The Wikibase community Telegram group has been recreated, here's the invitation link


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: LilyPond notation, target muscle, historical region, writing language, match interval, microarchitecture, literacy rate, era name, seconded by, moved by
 * External identifiers: MELPA package ID, Nchdb asset ID, National Film Board of Canada director identifier, Fundamental.org Baptist Church ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts artist ID, Beatport artist ID, Bangladesh administrative division code (2017-), Djshop artist ID, NeoGeoSoft ID, New York City Neighborhood Tabulation area ID, NicoNicoPedia, NooSFere edition ID, ArtBrokerage artist ID, ATRF ID, Bebo profile ID, National Library of Aruba ID, BVLarramendi ID, Cameo ID, Charts in France artist ID, CIN ID, Dutch Charts artist ID, Equipboard artist ID, Facebook Gaming game ID, Gaana.com artist ID, Gambay ID, Heritage Gazetteer of Cyprus, Historical Archives of the European Union ID, hitparade.ch artist ID, Indian gallantry awardee ID, Juno Download artist ID, MangaSeek person ID, Metro topic ID, Moov artist ID, Murfie artist ID, Musicalics composer ID, Nederlandse Top 40 artist ID, NME artist ID, PCE Daisakusen ID, CUT code, Pro Football Hall of Fame ID, Repology project name, Rogerebert.com film ID, SA Flora ID, Syriac Biographical Dictionary ID, The DJ List artist ID, Who's Who of American Comic Books ID, SNBP ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: double major, Poster, Throwing handedness, Batting handedness, Institut-ID in der Unternehmensdatenbank der BaFin, Wolfram Language unit code, National Transportation Safety Board report, enemy of, PHI Latin Texts author ID, default description for instances
 * External identifiers: ACNP journal ID, Personnel de l'administration préfectorale ID, Bursa Malaysia stock code, etrain.info station ID, Rupa Publications author ID, Pro Kabaddi League player ID, OYO Hotel ID, Anime Characters Database, IMFDB work ID, Australian Faunal Directory publication ID, Ident.Nr., Sverigetopplistan artist ID, Musiikkituottajat artist ID, Radio Courtoisie show ID, Biyografya ID


 * Query examples:
 * Nouns without grammatical gender in a chosen language (source)
 * Current UK Members of Parliament ranked by number of Wikimedia sitelinks (source)
 * Architectural drawings depicting cathedrals in France (source)
 * Music bands named after Tolkien's universe, by genre (source)
 * Newest database reports: education by country

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.
 * Development
 * More work on preparing the technical setup for Wikidata Bridge development
 * Implement Feature Flag for Wikidata Bridge (T225935)
 * Discuss the best way to connect template parameter to corresponding Wikidata property (T224832)
 * Improve the documentation for Wikibase sites setup (T218282)
 * Prepare the last steps for reading from new term store implementation (T225603) according to the migration plan (T221765)
 * Fixed a bug and reduced significantly the amount of addUsagesForPage jobs in our jobs queue (T205045)
 * Removed feature flag for the bugfix for wbeditentity setting aliases to empty array (T223305)
 * Decreased EntityUsageTable addUsage batch size to 100 (T225500)
 * Configured query service lag for Wikidata maxlag (T222193)
 * Helped fixing an issue with moving files on Commons (T226672)


 * 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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Administrators' newsletter – July 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2019). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg 28bytes • Ad Orientem • Ansh666 • Beeblebrox • Boing! said Zebedee • BU Rob13 • Dennis Brown • Deor • DoRD • 1 • Flyguy649 • 2 • Gadfium • GB fan • Jonathunder • Kusma • Lectonar • Moink • MSGJ • Nick • Od Mishehu • Rama • Spartaz • Syrthiss • TheDJ • WJBscribe
 * 1 's access was removed, then restored, then removed again.
 * 2 's access was removed, then restored, then removed again.

Bureaucrat changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg 28bytes • WJBscribe • Wizardman

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg MSGJ • TheDJ

CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Beeblebrox • BU Rob13 • DoRD

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Beeblebrox • BU Rob13 • DoRD • GB fan

Guideline and policy news
 * A request for comment seeking to alleviate pressures on the request an account (ACC) process proposes either raising the account creation limit for extended confirmed editors or granting the account creator permission on request to new ACC tool users.
 * In a related matter, the account throttle has been restored to six creations per day as the mitigation activity completed.
 * The scope of CSD criterion G8 has been tightened such that the only redirects that it now applies to are those which target non-existent pages.
 * The scope of CSD criterion G14 has been expanded slightly to include orphan "Foo (disambiguation)" redirects that target pages that are not disambiguation pages or pages that perform a disambiguation-like function (such as set index articles or lists).
 * A request for comment seeks to determine whether Office actions should be a policy page or an information page.

Technical news
 * The Wikimedia Foundation's Community health initiative plans to design and build a new user reporting system to make it easier for people experiencing harassment and other forms of abuse to provide accurate information to the appropriate channel for action to be taken. Community feedback is invited.

Miscellaneous
 * In February 2019, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) changed its office actions policy to include temporary and project-specific bans. The WMF exercised this new ability for the first time on the English Wikipedia on 10 June 2019 to temporarily ban and desysop . This action has resulted in significant community discussion, a request for arbitration (permalink), and, either directly or indirectly, the resignations of numerous administrators and functionaries. The WMF Board of Trustees is aware of the situation, and discussions continue on a statement and a way forward. The Arbitration Committee has sent an open letter to the WMF Board.

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