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Wikidata weekly summary #203
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.  Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 08:57, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press SparQL - Wikidata - École de Bibliothécaires Documentalistes - 2016-04-04.pdf
 * Upcoming: WWW 2016
 * Upcoming: WikiCite 2016
 * Past: Wikimedia hackathon.
 * Some of the things that were worked on (but are not finished yet):
 * Easier referencing like it is done in VisualEditor
 * Data imports including National Library of Israel
 * Getting the ArticlePlaceholder ready for deployment on the first small Wikipedias
 * Updated maps of the geocoordinates in Wikidata (Adam will publish a blog post with them soon)
 * Improvements for Librarybase
 * Automated language links for Wiktionary
 * Cleanup of existing data import tools
 * partial group photo
 * Objetos culturales y metadatos: hacia la liberación de datos en Wikidata
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Lucie published her thesis about supporting small Wikipedias through article placeholders based on Wikidata [[File:Generating Article Placeholders from Wikidata for Wikipedia - Increasing Access to Free and Open Knowledge.pdf|thumb|Lucie's thesis: Generating Article Placeholders from Wikidata for Wikipedia - Increasing Access to Free and Open Knowledge]]
 * This article from Russian Wikipedia is generated only with Lua Module and Listeria, based on its Wikidata item.
 * If you're into Wikidata, GLAM and Facebook there is now a Facebook group for you.
 * There are 4 new games to help with the migration of the Persondata template on English Wikipedia.
 * There was a huge increase in the number of qualifiers over the last 2 weeks. It went from 2.6 to 3.7 Million due to additions of qualifiers for evidence codes on human and mouse proteins.
 * Interested in seeing Wikidata training sessions at Wikimania? Add yourself to interested attendees for the sessions.
 * PetScan now has item creator functionality.
 * The catalog of the National Library of Israel has been added to Mix'n'match
 * Great examples on French and Russian Wikipedia for infobox based on Wikidata: fr:Andrew Tanenbaum, ru:Таненбаум, Эндрю and references based on Wikidata: fr:Trappeur, ru:Доказательство с нулевым разглашением
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: dataset distribution, file format, protocol, URL, CricketArchive player ID, ESPNcricinfo player ID, FIG gymnast identifier, type locality, ISU figure skater identifier, New York Times Semantic Concept: Descriptor, New York Times Semantic Concept: Location, New York Times Semantic Concept: Organization, New York Times Semantic Concept: Person, BARTOC ID, Box Office Mojo person ID, NDL JPNO, Opensecrets Identifier, Basketball-Reference.com NBA player ID, Kijkwijzer rating, Bekker Number, is verso of, is recto of, author of afterword, author of foreword, Russiancinema.ru film ID, relative position within image, rating certificate ID, reply to
 * Newest WikiProjects: Historical Place
 * Query examples: phrases, Redewendungen, most commons eponyms
 * Development
 * 4 years ago we started coding on Wikidata. What a ride it has been and continues to be. <3 to everyone who is a part of it.
 * We are going to make a change to the RDF format for geocoordinates.
 * Here is a preview of geospatial search on the query service.
 * The query service now has bubble charts as a visualization option (example)
 * Busy at the Wikimedia hackathon.
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Wikidata weekly summary #204
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.  Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 10:58, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Discussion
 * Splitting a property to limit formatter URLs to one per property: Authority_control#DE-ISIL
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: digikult.se
 * Upcoming: IRC office hour
 * Upcoming: FOSSCOMM
 * A week of looking at women
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Document with lots of useful links around Wikidata for workshops etc
 * Nice list of species with sounds linked on Wikidata
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: typeface/font, disjoint union of, union of, Biographical Directory of Federal Judges id, UNZ journal identifier, UNZ author identifier, Persée journal ID, Persée author ID, Projeto Excelências ID, ISSF ID, Badminton World Federation ID, CageMatch worker ID, United World Wrestling ID, UIPM ID, GOG application ID, Deezer track ID, Deezer album ID, Deezer artist ID, Encyclopaedia Metallum release ID, embed URL, Hungarian-style transcription, lowest-observed-adverse-effect level, no-observed-adverse-effect level, collage image, elected in, sectional view, median lethal concentration, minimal lethal concentration, Cycling Quotient identifier (cyclist, woman), Cycling Quotient identifier (women races), Karate Records ID, EIDR identifier, British Film Institute identifier
 * Query examples: women with most sitelinks and no image born in 1921 or later, what is depicted in artwork, most eponymous mathematicians
 * Showcase items: Iron Man (film)
 * Development
 * Lucie successfully defended her thesis about the ArticlePlaceholder. Congrats!
 * Worked more on the first version of the user interface for structured data for multimedia files
 * Worked on simplifying input of queries for people who do not know SPARQL
 * Improved localizability of the sitelink and reference counters
 * Allow input and output of localized dates with precision smaller than years (T95532 and T127820)
 * More string properties have been converted to external id ones, so that we have over 850 external id properties now
 * Experimenting with Citoid support for Wikidata to make it easier to add complete references in the way Visual Editor does it
 * Improved performance of sticky property labels (T103485)
 * Released [//github.com/wmde/DataValuesJavascript DataValues JavaScript 0.8.1]
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

A barnstar for you!

 * Thanks to you! Is it so hard for some people to use the talk page? clpo13(talk) 05:39, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Apparently, yes. Clubjustin (talk) 05:51, 17 April 2016 (UTC)

Thanks!

 * Any time. clpo13(talk) 04:39, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors April 2016 Newsletter
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Return to Last Version
Not the airport logo, transit, etc. Revert vandal (Calvin Wisanto).--120.169.255.184 (talk) 23:23, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Read WP:NOTVANDALISM. It's a content dispute, which means you should be discussing on the talk page, not edit warring. clpo13(talk) 23:24, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
 * You should move the disruptive warning to his talk page, not mine.--120.169.255.184 (talk) 23:42, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
 * You're both being disruptive. I've requested the page be protected so this dispute can be hashed out. clpo13(talk) 23:44, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

Wth out reason you reverted my edit ?
(Made in usa1000 (talk) 17:50, 9 April 2016 (UTC))
 * It was an inappropriate speedy deletion tag. The article clearly isn't an attack page. clpo13(talk) 17:51, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
 * FYI: Sockpuppet_investigations/Nsmutte. --bonadea contributions talk 18:12, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I figured it might have been something like that. clpo13(talk) 18:16, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

Greek genocide
I see you reported me to the administrator page. I can't frankly understand your attitude. I did not breach the "3R" rule, and finally only put a POV tag on the Greek genocide article. The comment by one of the users is preposterous: I did not delete sourced material, but only rephrased it in a less controversial and more NPOV form. I believe you've been overzealous and oversaw how the two users who reverted my bona fide edits are engaging in simultaneous attacks against other users who are in disagreement with that POV. 87.9.140.146 (talk) 23:40, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
 * You may not have breached WP:3RR, but you were edit warring. Edit warring is disruptive even if you think you're right. You should have gone to the article talk page after being reverted the first time (see WP:BRD). clpo13(talk) 23:41, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I would like to make you aware that the first revert (18:55, 9 April 2016‎ Alexikoua) was based on false reasons because I never amused myself with a "disruption of sourced content". In fact, I did not even remove sourced content, but only rephrased it in a more balanced and nuanced way. The second revert (19:18, 9 April 2016‎ Dr.K.) started talking of "edit-warring", but in fact that user is engaging in her/his own edit wars with other users who do not share her/his same point of view.
 * In any case, I stated my arguments on the talk page and I shall leave it at that. It is a pity that Wikipedia becomes a platform for nationalist propaganda or an outlet to vent resentment against other parties rather than trying to be what it was supposed to be — a balanced encyclopedia that reflects the state of the art of the scholarly debate through a balanced language. 87.9.140.146 (talk) 00:39, 10 April 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 April 2016
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Impostor
Hi,

I thought you ought to know that the barnstar you received was left by an impostor, not by me. Adam9007 (talk) 15:27, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I figured as much when I saw it was removed and he was blocked. clpo13(talk) 15:29, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I thought I'd tell you anyway just in case you see the similarities in usernames and mistake me for him in in future. Adam9007 (talk) 15:38, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the note. Two zeroes good, three zeroes bad. clpo13(talk) 15:40, 10 April 2016 (UTC)

Notability books
As per What Every Science Student Should Know, I do not see how this can meet wp:NBOOKS. The only reviews are from Oakland Press, from Oakland County, Michigan (seems to be the home of one of the students); Yonhap News Agency, of South Korea; and the Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science, which is a student paper. The AMA Wire article is not about the book but is about the students themselves. What do you see as meeting GNG? LaMona (talk) 00:18, 11 April 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Sabah
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Tech News: 2016-16
 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 filter Special:Log in more detail. You can filter different imports and new users.
 * You can use Telnet to read Wikimedia wikis.
 * MediaWiki wikis can handle bigger file uploads. The new limit is 4 GB.

Changes this week
 * Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 19 April and 21 April. This will start at 14:00 UTC and last for 15 to 30 minutes.
 * There is no new Mediawiki version this week. This is because of the data center test.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on April 19 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is shadow namespaces. The meeting will be on 20 April at 21:30 (UTC). See how to join.

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Unusual
An old friend of yours, I guess? - GABHello! 18:07, 16 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Probably Sockpuppet investigations/Nsmutte based on similar behavior. clpo13(talk) 18:09, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

Reinstating speedy deletion templates
"Once removed, speedy deletion templates should not be replaced"

Where did you find this policy? Are you sure you're not confusing it with prod? — Smjg (talk) 17:25, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Huh, I could have sworn that was policy or at least consensus, but I can't find anything on it. clpo13(talk) 17:37, 17 April 2016 (UTC)

Gamaliel and others arbitration case opened
You recently offered a statement in a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Arbitration/Requests/Case/Gamaliel and others. The scope of this case is Gamaliel's recent actions (both administrative and otherwise), especially related to the Signpost April Fools Joke. The case will also examine the conduct of other editors who are directly involved in disputes with Gamaliel. The case is strictly intended to examine user conduct and alleged policy violations and will not examine broader topic areas. The clerks have been instructed to remove evidence which does not meet these requirements. The drafters will add additional parties as required during the case. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Arbitration/Requests/Case/Gamaliel and others/Evidence.

Please add your evidence by May 2, 2016, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Arbitration/Requests/Case/Gamaliel and others/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. ''This notification is being sent to those listed on the case notification list. If you do not wish to recieve further notifications, you are welcome to opt-out on that page.'' For the Arbitration Committee, Kevin ( aka L235 ·&#32; t ·&#32; c) via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:39, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #205
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.  Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 15:19, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Discussion
 * Closed request for comments: Reforming the property creation process, Improve bot policy for data import and data modification
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: office hour on IRC (log)
 * Past: ISB2016 (slides)
 * Past: WWW2016 - Freebase to Wikidata migration (slides)
 * Past: CUNY Wikidata intro (slides)
 * National Library of Wales: Our Wikidata Visiting Scholar
 * New TSRI Project Helps Researchers Build a Biomedical Knowledgebase
 * Yle <3 Wikidata - using Wikidata for concept tagging
 * Other noteworthy stuff
 * ArticlePlaceholder is going live on the first small Wikipedias on May 11th and could use your help
 * Wikimedia Commons will get the arbitrary access feature on April 26th
 * The Europeana Art History Challenge has started
 * Magnus made a handy user-script for duplicating items, for when a new item has similar property values to an existing one. See for instance, this set of edits for a second version of an artwork.
 * Listeria now has a status page
 * PetScan has now the option "Has no statements" to find items without statements for a category at Wikipedia (sample: en:Category:United States geography stubs) or an entire language version (sample: "sowiki").
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: production statistics, DNZB, PASE name, this zoological name is coordinate with, Australian Geological Provinces Database Identifier, Tate artist identifier, ResearchGate institute ID
 * Newest WikiProjects: d:Wikidata:WikiProject Museums
 * Query examples: items named after their shape, recent events, assemblies by number of seats, characters portrayed by most actors
 * Development
 * Query results for the query service are now cached by default for 60 seconds (T126730)
 * Finishing touches on easier input of geocoordinates and dates (sneak peek)
 * Finishing touches on easier manipulation of SPARQL queries (sneak peel - should go live later today)
 * Significantly reduced the write access to the database to make sure we're not frying the poor servers unnecessarily
 * Getting ArticlePlaceholder ready for first deployment
 * More work on first prototype for structured data support for Wikimedia Commons
 * Cleaned up icons for selecting rank and value type
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

wasserman schultz
In regard to my edit on wasserman Schultz. I had reverted an edit done by another editor that REMOVED the material under the 2012 race, while leaving the 2012 heading. That was an edit that was unconstructive and I will leave it to you to sort it out and correct it. Is that okay? The article in question has races going back to 2006 including all upto the 2014. The editor wished to insert information on the 2016 race and apparently did not know how to add a new section. , which is what they should have done. I will leave her article alone and will leave it as is as I merely wanted someone to fix it after my first revert was reversed to avoid an edit war. Thank you for your attention to her article and the the desire to correct it. Have a blessed day. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:CE98:1510:4CEF:D74C:D98C:4A0E (talk) 15:54, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

Mistake in my technical requests
I screwed up. I should not have stated that most sources don't use the comma for Conrad Hilton, Jr. and W. S. Stuckey, Jr., even if that's true of most 21st century books. The point of WP:JR is that we have our own style, without comma, except for subjects that can be shown to uniformly use the comma (and we haven't found an example of one of those yet). If I put those back with a more correct rationale, will you still think it's not uncontroversial? Dicklyon (talk) 00:24, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
 * After reading through the extensive discussions at WT:MOSBIO, I think I made a misjudgment in contesting those moves, especially since the sources I found were less than ideal for indicating comma usage. You can move them as you wish and I won't object. clpo13(talk) 18:58, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your consideration and response. Dicklyon (talk) 19:37, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation
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Hullaballoo Wolfowitz
No make sense for such edits. User:Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (who marked these articles for speedy delection) is very known for trolling and conflicts. In category there are 1,013 articles and most of this articles have the same arguments who marked (by Hullaballoo Wolfowitz) articles but User:Hullaballoo Wolfowitz inserted delete-tags to several articles created by one user, which is in conflict. Better would be a warning for Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (intensification of the conflict, Wikipedia:Harassment against user, which is in conflict) and later maybe administrator's mediation beetwen Hullaballoo Wolfowitz and one user. Subtropical -man  talk   (en-2)   18:11, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
 * All I noticed is that the building doesn't appear notable, something Hullaballoo Wolfowitz likely noticed as well. If you have a problem with HW's behavior, I'd advise you to take it to WP:ANI. clpo13(talk) 18:25, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
 * User:Hullaballoo Wolfowitz inserted delete-tags only to several articles created by one user, which is in conflict. In Category:Skyscrapers between 100 and 149 meters there are 1,013 articles and most of this articles have the same arguments to leave but for Hullaballoo Wolfowitz only articles created by one user, which is in conflict are to delete? Even Stevie Wonder noticed trolling and destructive behavior by user Wolfowitz. Second case: most of 1,013 articles of Category:Skyscrapers between 100 and 149 meters are also non notable and to remove? When you create AfD's pages for other articles of Category:Skyscrapers between 100 and 149 meters??? ;)  Subtropical -man   talk  (en-2)  18:39, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
 * WP:GEOFEAT says: Buildings, including private residences and commercial developments may be notable as a result of their historic, social, economic, or architectural importance, but they require significant coverage by reliable, third-party sources to establish notability. I'm not going to go through every article in that category to see if there's significant coverage on each and every one, but this one clearly lacks it. clpo13(talk) 18:47, 23 April 2016 (UTC)

Whisperback
18:51, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 April 2016
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Wikidata weekly summary #206
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;"> <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 20:42, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Writing a bachelor's thesis at Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
 * Europeana Art History Challenge begins
 * TED is partnering with the Wikimedia community to add “ideas worth spreading” to Wikimedia projects
 * Wikidata meets world literature
 * Centralizing content and distributing labor: a community model for curating the very long tail of microbial genomes (conference poster)
 * Past: Wikimedia Conference
 * Other noteworthy stuff
 * SQUID: a new class and property browser for Wikidata (background info)
 * Wikidata Graph Builder now can visualize graphs with different node sizes. See for instance, types of artists with number of people, occupied with each subclass item
 * List of items that have English, German, and French sitselinks, but no statements
 * List of articles on English Wikipedia with a video where the corresponding item has no video
 * Listeria bot (the one generating lists on Wikipedia based on Wikidata data) will now begin auto-replacing simple WDQ queries with SPARQL ones
 * Magnus is looking for a designer to help with a logo for PetScan
 * Arbitrary access for Wikimedia Commons is coming as planned on the 26th
 * Wikidata surpassed English Wikipedia in items/articles using files from Wikimedia Commons
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Danish listed buildings case ID, Models.com client ID, Race time, IAT diver ID, IAT weightlifter ID, IAT triathlete ID, FIS snowboarder ID, FIS Nordic combined skier ID, FIS ski jumper ID, FIS freestyle skier ID, FIS cross-country skier ID, FIS alpine skier ID, D-U-N-S, source of income, budget, BNE journal ID, JudoInside.com ID, ISO 4063 process number, blue-style.com ID, Wrestlingdata person id, Danish protected area ID, Skyscraper Center building complex ID, Research Papers in Economics Series handle, NUTTAB Food Identifier, AUSNUT Food Identifier, CNC film rating, EIRIN film rating, exploitation visa number, production date, Dictionary of Canadian Biography ID, New Zealand Organisms Register ID, Roller Coaster Database ID, Photographers' Identities Catalog ID, PRONOM software identifier, PRONOM file format identifier, Filmiroda rating
 * Newest WikiProjects: Olympics
 * Query examples: songs with longest melody (source), subjects with most art dedicated to them (source), versions of The Scream (source)
 * Development
 * There will be some maintenance on the query service in a few hours
 * Redesigned the rank selector as well as snak type selector icons (T129033, 283968)
 * The snak type selector icon also has a tooltip now (283945)
 * The term table header row as well as language column will now be marked as  instead of   (283395)
 * Fixed an issue with newline characters in quantity values (T110728)
 * Fixed the month-precision time parser ignoring the minus in "January -150" (T132441)
 * Continued working on diffing and patching support for new entity types (T132442)
 * Continued working on support for creating entities of new types as part of the work for Wikimedia Commons support (T132964)
 * Rolled out a little query explanation field to query.wikidata.org to help you better understand a query if you don't understand SPARQL well
 * Fixed a bug where the map wouldn't show in the visualization of a query result (T132669)
 * Fixed issues with the duplicate references gadget (T131920)
 * Added basic support for more languages to the query service (T132756)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Tech News: 2016-17
<section begin="technews-2016-W17"/> 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
 * Wikimedia tested a new data center last week. This meant that the wikis could be read but not edited for 45 minutes on April 19 and for 20 minutes on April 21.
 * When the data center was tested, new edits were not shown in the recent changes log for 20 minutes. They are in the logs now. You can read more about how to find the edits.
 * Unread notifications were sometimes counted incorrectly. This has now been fixed.

Changes this week
 * Wikimedia Commons will have better access to Wikidata. They can use data from any page on Wikidata on any page on Commons. This will happen on April 26.
 * It will be easier to choose if you want to watch files you have uploaded with the upload wizard.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 26. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 27. It will be on all wikis from April 28 (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on April 26 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The "" button when you edit will be called "Publish" instead. This is to help new editors understand what it does. It already works like this on some wikis.

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Wikidata weekly summary #207
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;"> <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 15:03, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Wikidata, a stable source for disambiguation items?
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Find, Prioritize, and Recommend: An article recommendation system to fill knowledge gaps across Wikipedia
 * Upcoming: CSVconf
 * Upcoming: Open Tech Summit
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Commons now has arbitrary access
 * Work on ORES to make vandalism fighting easier is progressing well. "Damaging" and "goodfaith" models for Wikidata are now online.
 * Wikimind
 * New coverage maps have been created (see thumbnails)
 * We have new images you can use to indicate your website/app/service is using data from Wikidata. (2 of the files have a problem still. We're working on a fix and will reupload.) Wikidata stamp.png
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Loop ID, sound power, 3DMet ID, locality or place, Index Hepaticarum ID, clearance, ASF KID Cave Tag Number, power consumed, net tonnage, connects with, Czech neighbourhood ID code, longest span, aerodrome reference point, Mercalli intensity scale
 * Category reports on without claims by site now link to PetScan's fast "has no statements"-option. A report for your preferred Wikipedia can be added.
 * Query examples: software with most versions (source), oldest software (source), map of U1 stations in Berlin (source)
 * Development
 * Created the first MediaInfo entity through the API (screenshot, a bit more background)
 * Substantially reduced server load for item and property displaying (T132662)
 * There are currently some issues with the order of latitude/longitude inn coordinates in the query service map visualization. It will be fixed tonight.
 * Removed unsupported  and   parameters from the   JavaScript module. This may break user JavaScript calling   (T119856).
 * Worked on new flyers for institutions that want to cooperate with Wikidata and developers wanting to use our data (will be published on Commons once they're done)
 * Moved forward with internationalization of the query service interface (not on translatewiki.net yet but being worked on)
 * Worked on making it possible to extend SPARQL queries in simplified natural language version. It will also no longer add query prefixes when editing the query. Those are not live yet.
 * Fixed a bug where admins got a blank page when trying to view deleted revisions (T132645)
 * Investigating issues with bad suggestions for properties when adding new statements (T132839)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Tech News: 2016-18
<section begin="technews-2016-W18"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Recent changes
 * The visual editor now works when you use Internet Explorer 9.

Problems
 * There was a security problem with the MobileFrontend extension. It showed information that had been oversighted. This has now been fixed.

Changes this week
 * You can now see which notifications are available on a wiki on Special:DisplayNotificationsConfiguration.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 4. It will be on all wikis from May 5 (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "PSR-6 Cache interface in Mediawiki core". The meeting will be on May 4 at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Pages could be added to new users' watchlists by default when they edit them. New users could also by default get email notifications when pages they watch are edited. This is discussed on Meta.

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"Dick-scrubbing" anon
That editor got a warning for refactoring other users' comments from you then did it again. I will support you if you now report them since is a serious infraction. Ogress 18:39, 7 May 2016 (UTC)

Eric Barron/Penn State Sexual Abuse Controversy
Well, I won't belabor the point. But I fancy that the exclusion from President Barron's page from any mention of this matter cannot be sustained in the long run. No doubt various people, with a closer association to Penn State than I have, will try nonetheless. I should be surprised if their efforts were ultimately successful — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.15.18.142 (talk) 23:42, 8 May 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #208
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;"> <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 15:21, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: OpenTechSummit Mining the knowledge of the world with Wikidata.pdf
 * Past: CSVConf
 * Past: Subscribe7 (slides)
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Our Main Page now has a section for popular items to show you what is trending on Wikidata based on several people editing an item over the last few days
 * More constraint templates now generate SPARQL links
 * Europeana Art History Challenge is still going on until the end of the month
 * Freebase has been shut down
 * Wikiversity now has access to the data on Wikidata as well
 * The 24,000,000th item was created: Q24000000
 * The ArticlePlaceholder will go live on the first Wikipedias on Wednesday (Esperanto, Haitian Creole, Neapolitan Wikipedia)
 * Quora: Why isn't Wikimedia Commons using structured data via Wikidata?
 * Newest trend on Twitter: annotating books with Wikidata statements ;-)
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: flower color, Megogo ID, via, Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature ID, Belgian Football ID, by-product of, by-product, cardinality of this set, Yandex.Music album ID, Sherdog ID, appears in the heritage monument list, HowLongToBeat identifier, ESR station code, P-number, mouthpiece, MathWorld identifier, PGA Tour ID, LPGA Tour ID, Australasian Pollen and Spore Atlas Code, wavelength, molar volume, vibration, goratings ID, International Sailing Federation ID, Wikidata time precision, fleet or registration number, FIVB beach volleyball player ID, Beach Volleyball Database ID, BVMC person ID
 * Query examples: most frequent occupations without a label in a given language, map of places of birth of economists (source), map of all the paintings for which we know a location with the count per location (source), [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Finds%20authors%20who%20have%20published%20scientific%20articles%20together%2C%0A%23%20but%20whose%20Erd%C5%91s%20numbers%20are%20more%20than%20one%20apart.%0A%23%20These%20would%20appear%20to%20violate%20the%20definition%20of%20the%20Erd%C5%91s%20number.%0A%0ASELECT%0A%23%20Q%23s%0A%3Fpaper%0A%3Fauthor1%0A%3Fauthor2%0A%23%20title%20%28either%20from%20title%20statement%20or%20label%29%0A%28IF%28BOUND%28%3Ftitle%29%2C%20%3Ftitle%2C%20%3FpaperLabel%29%20AS%20%3Ftitle%29%0A%23%20author%20labels%20%28should%20be%20names%29%20and%20their%20Erd%C5%91s%20numbers%0A%3Fauthor1Label%0A%3Ferd%C5%91s1%0A%3Fauthor2Label%0A%3Ferd%C5%91s2%0A%23%20distance%20between%20Erd%C5%91s%20numbers%0A%3Fdistance%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20%23%20paper%2C%20instance%20of%20or%20subclass%20of%20scientific%20article%3B%20also%20has%20two%20authors%0A%20%20%3Fpaper%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ13442814%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP50%20%3Fauthor1%2C%20%3Fauthor2.%0A%20%20%23%20if%20it%20has%20a%20title%2C%20we%E2%80%99ll%20grab%20that%20as%20well%2C%20but%20it%E2%80%99s%20also%20okay%20if%20there%E2%80%99s%20no%20title%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fpaper%20wdt%3AP1476%20%3Ftitle.%20%7D%0A%20%20%23%20grab%20Erd%C5%91s%20numbers%20of%20the%20two%20authors%0A%20%20%3Fauthor1%20wdt%3AP2021%20%3Ferd%C5%91s1.%0A%20%20%3Fauthor2%20wdt%3AP2021%20%3Ferd%C5%91s2.%0A%20%20%23%20introduce%20a%20new%20variable%20for%20the%20difference%20of%20the%20Erd%C5%91s%20numbers%0A%20%20BIND%28%3Ferd%C5%91s2%20-%20%3Ferd%C5%91s1%20AS%20%3Fdistance%29.%0A%20%20%23%20select%20those%20cases%20where%20the%20distance%20is%20%3E%201%0A%20%20%23%20%28note%3A%20by%20*not*%20taking%20the%20absolute%20value%20of%20the%20distance%2C%20we%20avoid%20getting%20duplicated%20cases%20because%20the%20author%20variables%20might%20be%20swapped%29%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3Fdistance%20%3E%201%29.%0A%20%20%23%20get%20*Label%20variables%20automagically%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0A%23%20sort%20by%20distance%20first%20%28descending%29%2C%20then%20by%20first%20author%2C%20then%20by%20second%20author%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fdistance%29%20%3Fauthor1Label%20%3Fauthor2Label scientists who have worked together but whose Erdős numbers don’t reflect that] (source), members of the French National Assembly born out of France (source), mathematical proofs (source), items that depict most things (source)
 * Development
 * Finished remaining blockers for deploying the ArticlePlaceholder on the first Wikipedias
 * More work on initial Commons prototype
 * Further work on textual representation of SPARQL queries to allow you to read/edit more of an existing query without having to touch SPARQL
 * Show label instead of URI for globes in coordinate diffs - thanks Ricordisamoa! (T110193)
 * Improve recent changes entries formatting on Wikipedia and co (T52893)
 * No longer showing a restore link for inaccessible revdel'ed entity revisions - thanks Matěj! (T55496)
 * Investigated and worked around issues with the suggestions for new statements - needs more work (T132839)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Tech News: 2016-19
<section begin="technews-2016-W19"/> 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
 * Wikiversities now have better access to Wikidata. They can use data from any page on Wikidata on any page on Wikiversity. This happened on May 3.
 * You can use Wikipedia GapFinder to find missing articles between languages.
 * Users are invited to try Cross-wiki Notifications on all wikis. This is the last test session before the release by default, scheduled for May 12th at 23:00 UTC.
 * You can use keyboard shortcuts to open the visual editor (meta+V) or the wikitext editor (meta+E) (on certain wikis, even if you have chosen a favorite editor).
 * Uploading files bigger than 100 megabytes on Wikimedia Commons required to opt-in in your preferences. This is not necessary anymore.
 * The UploadsLink extension is now available on Wikimedia Commons.
 * Deleting a translation unit page didn't remove the corresponding content from the translation page. This is now solved.
 * Translation suggestions based on Apertium are now available on Mediawiki.org.

Problems
 * MediaWiki 1.27.0-wmf.23 has been rolled back from Wikimedia wikis, due to a performance issue.

Changes this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 11. It will be on all wikis from May 12 (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on May 10 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are Overhaul Interwiki map, unify with Sites and WikiMap. The meeting will be on May 11 at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * 2017 European hackathon will happen on May 19 - 21, in Vienna (Austria).

Future changes
 * Today, in categories, a page titled "11" comes before "2". We plan to reorder that: "2" will come before "11". Please tell the developers if the change will cause problems.

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Please comment on Talk:Cayman Islands
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The Signpost: 17 May 2016
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Wikidata weekly summary #209
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;"> <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:22, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * A few proposals for missing properties for Wikivoyage listings have been made
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Panama Papers and Wikidata made quite a splash online
 * Occupations of persons from Panama Papers
 * Panama Papers bubble chart shows politicians are most mentioned in document leak database
 * EveryPolitician: I use Wikidata for multilingual names
 * Random item: Q14829494
 * Lots of papers relevant to Wikidata or about Wikidata haven been published at ICWSM
 * Wikidata through the Eyes of DBpedia
 * Wikidata Map May 2016 (Belarus & Uganda)
 * Geospatial search for Wikidata Query Service
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * We made a huge step for small Wikipedias and small languages online by rolling out the ArticlePlaceholder on the first 4 Wikipedias
 * Geospatial search is now up and running on the query service. You can now search for items within a geographic area.
 * The Wikidata Graph Builder has a refreshed interface with even more controls
 * Sitelinks for the new Jumiekan Patwa Wikipidia (in Jamaican Patois) are being added
 * Mapbox's Geocoder now uses Wikidata
 * PetScan now has query examples
 * d:Wikidata:Wikidata for authority control collects examples of usage of Wikidata for authority control
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: professional name (Japan), month number, highest income threshold, lowest income threshold, individual tax rate, ARKive ID, Joint Electronics Type Designation Automated System designation, totem, Online World of Wrestling ID, Internet Wrestling Database ID, corporate officer
 * Query examples: longest rivers (source), [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fed%20%3FedLabel%20%3FauteurLabel%20(year(%3FdateCreation)%20as%20%3FAnneeCreation)%20%3FlieuLabel%20%3Fcoord%20%3Flien%20where%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP136%20wd%3AQ1164267%20.%20%20%20%20%23%20genre%20%3Ar%C3%A9cit%20de%20voyage%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ571%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20nature%20%3A%20livre%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP50%20%3Fauteur%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20%5Boption%5D%20auteur%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP571%20%3FdateCreation.%20%23%20%5Boption%5D%20date%20de%20cr%C3%A9ation%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20%20wdt%3AP840%20%3Flieu%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20lieu%20de%20l%27action%0A%20%20MINUS%20%7B%3Fitem%20%20wdt%3AP840%20wd%3AQ933%7D%20%23%20(bug%20du%20P%C3%B4le%20Sud)%0A%20%20%3Flieu%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoord%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20coordonn%C3%A9es%20g%C3%A9ographiques%20du%20lieu%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP953%20%3Flien%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20URL%2C%20texte%20int%C3%A9gral%20disponible%20sur%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP364%20wd%3AQ150%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20langue%20originale%20%3A%20fran%C3%A7ais%0A%20%20%7DUNION%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fed%20wdt%3AP629%20%3Fitem%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20%C3%A9dition%20du%20livre%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fed%20wdt%3AP953%20%3Flien%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20URL%2C%20texte%20int%C3%A9gral%20disponible%20sur%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fed%20wdt%3AP407%20wd%3AQ150%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20langue%20de%20l%27%C5%93uvre%20%3A%20fran%C3%A7ais%0A%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23BabelRainbow%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22fr%2Car%2Cbe%2Cbg%2Cbn%2Cca%2Ccs%2Cda%2Cde%2Cel%2Cen%2Ces%2Cet%2Cfa%2Cfi%2Che%2Chi%2Chu%2Chy%2Cid%2Cit%2Cja%2Cjv%2Cko%2Cnb%2Cnl%2Ceo%2Cpa%2Cpl%2Cpt%2Cro%2Cru%2Csh%2Csk%2Csr%2Csv%2Csw%2Cte%2Cth%2Ctr%2Cuk%2Cyue%2Cvec%2Cvi%2Czh%22%20%0A%20%20%7D%20%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20%3FdateCreation map of places mentioned in travel stories with text in French accessible online] (source), things located where the equator meets the prime meridian (source), people who acted with Brad Pitt (source), Italian mountains higher than 4000mt (source), who died by burning (source), [https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20p%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20psv%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fstatement%2Fvalue%2F%3E%0A%0A%20%20%20%23%20Query%20to%20find%20all%20musicians%20who%20have%20already%20died%20%0A%20%20%20%23%20calculate%20their%20age%20(full%20years)%20at%20death%0A%20%20%20%23%20count%20how%20many%20of%20them%20died%20at%20each%20age%0A%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fage%20%20(COUNT%20(DISTINCT%20%3Fa)%20AS%20%3Fcount)%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fa%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%20.%20%23instance%20of%20human%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fa%20wdt%3AP106%2Fwdt%3AP279%20wd%3AQ639669%20.%20%23occupation%20a%20subclass%20of%20musician%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fa%20p%3AP569%2Fpsv%3AP569%20%3Fbirth_date_node%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fa%20p%3AP570%2Fpsv%3AP570%20%3Fdeath_date_node%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fbirth_date_node%20wikibase%3AtimeValue%20%3Fbirth_date%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fdeath_date_node%20wikibase%3AtimeValue%20%3Fdeath_date%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER(%3Fage%20%3E%2010%20%26%26%20%3Fage%20%3C%20100)%20.%20%23ignore%20outlyers%2C%20several%20of%20which%20are%20probably%20errors%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND(%20year(%3Fdeath_date)%20-%20year(%3Fbirth_date)%20-%20if(month(%3Fdeath_date)%3Cmonth(%3Fbirth_date)%20%7C%7C%20(month(%3Fdeath_date)%3Dmonth(%3Fbirth_date)%20%26%26%20day(%3Fdeath_date)%3Cday(%3Fbirth_date))%2C1%2C0)%20as%20%3Fage%20)%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20calculate%20the%20age%2C%20precisely%20to%20the%20day%20(times%20and%20timezones%20ignored)%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%20%0A%09GROUP%20BY%20%3Fage%0A%20%20%20%20ORDER%20BY%20%3Fage age at date of death for musicians] (source), universities of main programming language authors (source), hashtags (source), Pokemon! (source)
 * Showcase items: Iron Man 2 (Q205028)
 * Development
 * Deployed the ArticlePlaceholder on the first 4 Wikipedias and worked on issues that were found
 * Incident report of issues with the query service
 * Worked on language fallback in the main header (screenshot, T98014)
 * More work on Commons prototype
 * Worked on timeline as another visualization for the query service (T135222)
 * Fixed missing message for translation for Wikibase repo - thanks Matěj! (T124766)
 * We are now generating translatable automatic comments for undo and restore operations - thanks Matěj! (T41134)
 * Fixed issue with autocompletion on the query service (T133317)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Tech News: 2016-20
<section begin="technews-2016-W20"/> 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
 * Some image thumbnails now load faster on mobile. They also take up less bandwidth.

Problems
 * Last week's MediaWiki version was late on some wikis.

Changes this week
 * Special:Notifications will have "mark as read" buttons for each day. The non-JavaScript version will get it this week. A JavaScript version will come later.
 * Wikis can now locally decide what wikitext they want the signature button to produce.
 * A one-time welcome message for users will now be shown in the wikitext editor. This will include existing users.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 18. It will be on all wikis from May 19 (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are "Requirements for change propagation". The meeting will be on May 18 at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Using self-closing tags like  and   to mean   and   will not work in the future. Templates and pages that use these tags should be fixed. When Phabricator ticket T134423 is fixed these tags will parse as   and   instead. This is normal in HTML5.

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quixotic potato
would you be willing to reinstate my collapse in the reference desk thread (as it was a totally proper collapse, as anyone would agree)?? Quixotic Potato reverted it in bad faith a few times already...the collapse itself isn't that big of a deal but I don't like the idea of him getting away with acting against policy and arrogantly thinking he can just get away wit it...that way he'll get the message without having to make a big case about it via ANI...68.48.241.158 (talk) 17:23, 15 May 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-21
<section begin="technews-2016-W21"/> 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 now see a warning message on pages that try to use but it doesn't work because it doesn't match the page's actual title.

Problems
 * Commons had problems with server lag. This meant that it took longer time for files to turn up in categories.

Changes this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 May. It will be on all wikis from 26 May (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on May 24 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg All HTTP access to Wikimedia sites and APIs will stop working. Some bots still use HTTP. They will need to use HTTPS instead. This will happen on June 12.

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Wikidata weekly summary #210
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;"> <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 14:50, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussions about missing properties for Wikivoyage listings are progressing as enhancements are suggested
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Gotta catch 'em all if they are prime
 * Paper: Are Superstar Artworks also Digital Superstars? Online Popularity of Worldfamous Artworks
 * Upcoming: Wikicite (session proposals)
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * In about 2 weeks we will get the ArticlePlaceholder to more Wikipedias. Let us know if yours wants to be in.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: produced by, Wi-Fi, Google+, wheelchair accessibility, RAN ID, incidence, Benezit ID, place of marriage, age of onset, NSC number, gait
 * Query examples: given names with most variations (source with links to graphs), papers about Wikidata (source), memes (source), cathedrals in Paris (source), highest mountains in the universe (source), [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20All%20Law%20%26%20Order%20episodes%20on%20Wikidata.%0A%23%20According%20to%20enwp%2C%20%E2%80%9C%5Ba%5D%20total%20of%20456%20original%20episodes%E2%80%A6%20aired%20before%20cancellation%E2%80%9D%20%28https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FList_of_Law_%2526_Order_episodes%29.%0A%23%20As%20of%20this%20writing%2C%20the%20query%20returns%20440%20results%2C%20so%20some%20episodes%20are%20missing%20%28either%20without%20item%20or%20lacking%20the%20necessary%20statements%20to%20match%20this%20query%29.%0A%0ASELECT%20%28SAMPLE%28%3FseasonNumber%29%20AS%20%3FseasonNumber%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3FepisodeNumber%29%20AS%20%3FepisodeNumber%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Ftitle%29%20AS%20%3Ftitle%29%20%28MIN%28%3FpubDate%29%20AS%20%3FpubDate%29%20%3Fepisode%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20%23%20All%20episodes%20should%20be%20instance%20of%20episode%20with%20series%20Law%20%26%20Order.%0A%20%20%3Fepisode%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ1983062%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP179%20wd%3AQ321423.%0A%20%20%23%20Many%20of%20them%20also%20have%20the%20season%20as%20series%2C%20so%20we%20can%20get%20episode%20and%20season%20number%20from%20qualifiers%20there.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fepisode%20p%3AP179%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP179%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20the%20season%20also%20has%20series%20Law%20%26%20Order%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP179%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP179%20wd%3AQ321423%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP1545%20%3FseasonNumber%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP1545%20%3FepisodeNumber%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fepisode%20wdt%3AP1476%20%3Ftitle.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fepisode%20wdt%3AP577%20%3FpubDate.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fepisode%20%23%20make%20sure%20we%20return%20each%20episode%20only%20once%20%E2%80%93%20a%20few%20have%20multiple%20publication%20dates%2C%20for%20example%0AORDER%20BY%20IF%28BOUND%28%3FseasonNumber%29%2Cxsd%3Ainteger%28%3FseasonNumber%29%2C1000%29%20xsd%3Ainteger%28%3FepisodeNumber%29%20%3Ftitle Law & Order episodes] (source), things/people with most children (source)
 * Development
 * Performance improvements in query service map display.
 * Fixed a focus issue in the suggester (T135008)
 * Further groundwork on Commons support
 * Fixed first issues that popped up after ArticlePlaceholder deployment based on feedback
 * Investigated and prepared fix for issue where files on Commons couldn't be deleted (T135485)
 * Finished work on language fallback in main part of header (T98014)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Sophia
Can you find me a linguist who believe that the word sophia has ... Kametik origin --94.71.10.40 (talk) 19:26, 21 May 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 May 2016
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Thank you
I was about to do the same thing, but you were quicker. Thanks, The Quixotic Potato (talk) 00:20, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it was spiraling out of control. I don't think anything would be gained from discussing it further. clpo13(talk) 00:21, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for closing on my punchline! It reads hilariously. X Engleham (talk) 00:25, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:The Grange, Broadhembury
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:The Grange, Broadhembury. Legobot (talk) 04:24, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

2016 Summer Olympics
I'm still unable to make any edits on the 2016 Summer Olympics page unless an admin unlocks edit protection for me to edit out the Concerns and Controversies section and add a sub-section to it. And until the page protection has expired, I can do absolutely nothing about it as I don't have admin privileges to make any edits. VGN34D (talk) 23:57, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
 * In the future, when you use edit semi-protected, please state exactly what changes you want made so someone can make those changes for you. The template isn't for requesting additional user rights or removal of the protection level. clpo13(talk) 03:36, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

America vs the United States of America
Check the origin of the word "America" in the Oxford English Dictionary.

The United States is not all of "America." Think!

America is all of North, Central, and South America combined.

The United States of America is geo-politically located within the geographical boundaries of North America.

Remember... Wikipedia is not specific to the United States. Other people around the world have access to the content and should not have to decipher United State slang when the United States is specifically referred to, rather than the entirety of America.

Personaly speaking, I am not a citizen of the United States and am tired of seeing and hearing your media outlets refer to the United States of America as explicitly America. Your citizens are not the only Americans. Everyone born upon the landmasses known as North, Central, and South America are all Americans.

Think! This is website is supposed to be unbiased.

Feel free to check your college level geography books for verification of what America truly is. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:C4F2:7190:AE16:2DFF:FE56:40A9 (talk) 08:43, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Right, well, let's see what America links to. Also, your edits changed the content of quotations (see MOS:PMC) and made for some awkward wording. If you have a problem with "America" meaning "United States of America" in standard English usage, take it up at WT:MOS or maybe the Village Pump. clpo13(talk) 08:47, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Also see Americas. This is an old debate and one that's already been resolved as far as Wikipedia is concerned. clpo13(talk) 08:49, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-22
<section begin="technews-2016-W22"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg There is now a standard way to get the target of a redirect page from a Lua module.

Problems
 * A new way to handle rollback was introduced. It broke some tools and scripts and was reverted. This will be re-planned after review.
 * CentralNotice didn't work in some older browsers. This has now been fixed.

Changes this week
 * When you edit a file or category page with the visual editor the rest of the page will be shown in its normal place.
 * The Translate extension will get an edit summary field.
 * A change to the  feature could break some user scripts. Contact Bawolff if the "click to insert special characters" links in the edit window break on your wiki.
 * Elasticsearch will be upgraded on Wikimedia wikis this week. This should not affect you, but if you have problems with the search function this is probably the reason.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 June. It will be on all wikis from 2 June (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 31 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Wikidata weekly summary #211
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;"> <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 18:24, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Standards for property proposal discussions, Semi-automatic Addition of References to Wikidata Statements
 * Import of Wiki Loves Monuments database
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: WikiCite (including links to documentation etherpads)
 * interview with Open Science Radio
 * Past: Gulaschprogrammiernacht (video)
 * Ben Whishaw, Broadway, La Rada et WWikidata
 * Meet TED’s Wikipedians-in-Residence
 * Orte, die mit 'ow' oder 'itz' enden
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff [[File:Facilitating the use of Wikidata in Wikimedia projects with a user-centered design approach.pdf|thumb]]
 * Charlie published her thesis about editing Wikidata directly from Wikipedia and co
 * Learning pattern about using data of Wikipedia and Wikidata in Google spreadsheet
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Library of the National Congress of Argentina ID, Minitel, SureChEMBL ID, type of unit for this property, property usage tracking category, PubChem BioAssay ID (AID), time in space, tourist office, miRBase mature miRNA ID, miRBase pre-miRNA ID, record or record progression, has role, Molenecho's ID, Hollandsche Molen ID, Band number, OpenCritic ID, Nederlandse Molendatabase ID, Catalogus Professorum Academiae Rheno-Traiectinae ID, Leidse Hoogleraren ID, cites, X-SAMPA Code, KLOV ID, WWE.com superstar ID, EU Surface Water Body Code, VAT-rate, disease burden, electrical plug type, emergency phone number, payment types accepted, iTunes artist ID
 * Query examples: Fictional universes with most fictional planets (source), main subject of West Wing episodes (source), places with free wifi (source), citation network of paper about Zika (source), taxons and what they are named after (source), billionaires (source), animals that were executed (source), chemical elements and their isotopes by number of neutrons (min/max) (source), popes with children (source), birthplaces of astronauts (source)
 * Development
 * Worked on fix for issue with language fallback in main part of header (T135714)
 * More work on support for Commons - main focus right now is on making it possible to actually store a new entity without jumping through hoops
 * Fixing a bug in Internet Explorer with prevents editing (T136543)
 * Worked on more blockers for next deployment of the ArticlePlaceholder (T135624)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

2016 Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Search Community Survey
The Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation has appointed a committee to lead the search for the foundation’s next Executive Director. One of our first tasks is to write the job description of the executive director position, and we are asking for input from the Wikimedia community. Please take a few minutes and complete this survey to help us better understand community and staff expectations for the Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director.
 * Survey, (hosted by Qualtrics)

Thank you, The Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Search Steering Committee via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:49, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Potato chip
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Potato chip. Legobot (talk) 04:25, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

Arbitration/Requests/Case/Gamaliel and others closed
An arbitration case regarding Gamaliel and others has now closed and the final decision is viewable at the link above. The following remedies have been enacted: For the Arbitration Committee, Kevin ( aka L235 ·&#32; t ·&#32; c) via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:38, 4 June 2016 (UTC)
 * 1) Gamaliel is admonished for multiple breaches of Wikipedia policies and guidelines including for disrupting Wikipedia to make a point, removing a speedy deletion notice from a page he created, casting aspersions, and perpetuating what other editors believed to be a BLP violation.
 * 2) DHeyward and Gamaliel are indefinitely prohibited from interacting with or discussing each other anywhere on Wikipedia, subject to the usual exemptions.
 * 3) is admonished for engaging in incivility and personal attacks on other editors. He is reminded that all editors are expected to engage respectfully and civilly with each other and to avoid making personal attacks.
 * 4) For conduct which was below the standard expected of an administrator — namely making an incivil and inflammatory close summary on ANI, in which he perpetuated the perceived BLP violation and failed to adequately summarise the discussion — JzG is admonished.
 * 5) Arkon is reminded that edit warring, even if exempt, is rarely an alternative to discussing the dispute with involved editors, as suggested at WP:CLOSECHALLENGE.
 * 6) The community is encouraged to hold an RfC to supplement the existing WP:BLPTALK policy by developing further guidance on managing disputes about material involving living persons when that material appears outside of article space and is not directly related to article-content decisions.
 * Discuss this at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard

The Signpost: 05 June 2016
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Wikidata weekly summary #212
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;"> <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 14:28, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Upcoming: OpenData.ch
 * Upcoming: HackHPI
 * Upcoming: ELAG
 * Documentation of the outcomes of WikiCite
 * Wikidata showing chemical properties with references
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * SQID now also shows references for statements and received a whole bunch of other nice features
 * wikidata-cli now has a wdsparql command to work with SPARQL from the command line
 * It seems we already have almost 0.4% of the current population of Finland on Wikidata.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: exact match, reserve number (Canada), Shakeosphere person ID, mains voltage, HKMDb film ID, relegated, promoted, NIOSHTIC-2 ID
 * Query examples: body of water with the most watercourses ending in it (source), French communes with names ending in ac (source), birthplaces of Europeana280 artists (source), popular eye colors (source)
 * Development
 * Fixed the bug where the language selector in Special:NewItem doesn't recognize certain languages (T115792)
 * Fixed issues that prevented editing in Internet Explorer (T136543)
 * Added new visualization to the query service to visualize graphs like family trees. It is now deployed yet but will come soon.
 * Worked on new visualization for the query service to visualize results with data on different dimensions
 * Improved build and deploy process for the query service. The site should load faster now.
 * Improved the formatting of dates and more in the query service.
 * More fixes to get ArticlePlaceholder ready for the second round of wikis
 * Worked on a fix for the issue where sometimes an old label is shown in the main header of an item (T135714)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Tech News: 2016-23
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Recent changes
 * MathML/SVG is now the default  rendering mode on Wikimedia projects.

Changes this week
 * The history page can tell you if a page on your watchlist was updated since you last visited it. This now works the same way in Vector as in other skins. The change broke local designs on some wikis. This will be fixed this week.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 June. It will be on all wikis from 9 June (calendar).

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Hey
Hey about Christina Grimmie. I wrote 10 June because it is so on her Twitter Page :) Ichwillhelfen (talk) 16:09, 12 June 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-24
<section begin="technews-2016-W24"/> 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
 * Wikimedia wikis now use AuthManager. If you have new problems related to logging in or being logged in, report them.
 * Visiting Special:Notifications doesn't automatically mark notifications as read anymore. You can go between read, unread or all notifications on Special:Notifications. Notifications on Special:Notifications are grouped by day. You can mark every daily group as read individually. Notifications are displayed by groups of 50 on Special:Notifications and you can find former notifications by using navigation arrows.

Changes this week
 * You can filter user contributions to hide minor edits.
 * It will be easier to edit galleries with the visual editor.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 June. It will be on all wikis from 16 June (calendar).

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2016-W24"/> 18:41, 13 June 2016 (UTC)