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Wikidata weekly summary #223
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.  Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:29, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2
 * Closed request for comments:
 * Category commons P373 and "Other sites"
 * Adopt Help:Classification as an official help page
 * Review of "change datatype to monolingual" actions for some properties
 * Refining "part of"
 * Are colors instance-of or subclass-of color
 * Wikidata:Notability overhaul
 * RfP voting eligibility
 * Standards for property proposal discussions
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * August 17-19 : VIVO conference, see also the keynote about collaboratively created, linked open knowledge.
 * August 20-21 : the Wikiconvention in Paris. Check the notes taken during the Wikidata workshop
 * Why you should be paying attention to Wikidata and GLAM, on the Wikimedia Foundation blog
 * All your locations are belong to us on Magnus' blog
 * Paper: An Empirical Evaluation of Property Recommender Systems for Wikidata and Collaborative Knowledge Bases
 * Paper: Managing and Consuming Completeness Information for Wikidata Using COOL-WD
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Job offer : PHP software developer for Wikidata, Wikimedia Deutschland
 * Wikidata has now a stable interface policy to guarantee the stability of the tools
 * Enabling Wikidata data access in user language
 * COOL-WD now includes a gadget to show completeness information in Wikidata
 * Mix'n'Match can list entries of some external databases, and allows users to match them against Wikidata items. A new catalogue for ContentMine has been added!
 * WikiShootMe has a lot of new updates: OAuth-based image upload button, uploads to Commons and adds to Wikidata item with one click, right-click on the map to add a missing item, build-in Wikidata search, free images search (example for Central Cambridge)
 * Extracting Wikidata annotations to create DBpedia mappings project during Google Summer of Code
 * Did you know? Popular surnames Wikidata query.png
 * Newest properties: develops from, recovered by, film crew member, mount, flight number, Flags of the World ID, ID of Catalogue of Life in Taiwan, fiscal/tax revenue, speed limit, qualifies for event, freedom of panorama
 * Query examples:
 * A famous Italian song, Tanti Auguri by Raffaella Carrà, states "Com'è bello far l'amore da Trieste in giù" (literally, in English: "How great it is to make love from Trieste to below"). This is a query to find out where you shouldn't make love.
 * Common occupations of heads of state (source).
 * Murderers by region in France (source).
 * Authors with a known location and an ORCID (source).
 * Popular surnames among humans (source).
 * Movies that won all the Oscars they were nominated for (source).
 * Colors with multiple RGB statements (source)
 * Filmography of Jean Gabin (source)
 * Cities as big as Antwerp (source)
 * Cities connected by the Trans-Mongolian and Trans-Siberian Railway (source)
 * Histropedia timeline of Europeana280 artworks (source)
 * Newest gadgets: Sort the statements on items, prefill "access date" with current date
 * New templates:, , , . Please add labels in your own languages, and consider making a similar template for your country or region. Also, add P17-statements to property entities.
 * Newest database reports: list of riders and their horse
 * Development
 * Continuing to work on the concepts for the automatic list generation
 * Enable allow data access in user language will come on Wikidata soon
 * Menus are now internationalised on the query service
 * Clarified error message when adding a URL without a protocol
 * Created a gadget to try out global sort order in items
 * Fixed a bug where the input field for a value was not loaded
 * Worked on the interface stability policy
 * Made possible to create mediainfo entity by adding a statement
 * Worked on showing from which items a given Wikipedia article uses data
 * 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!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Wikidata weekly summary #224
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * We need your input about how you edit lists on Wikipedia


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: First Wikidata workshop in the Czech Republic, 3rd September, University of Pardubice
 * Past: Wikidata workshop by Asaf Bartov during the CEE WikiConv in Dilijan, Armenia
 * Past: Wikidata presentation during Django Girls in Berlin
 * GSoC at Wikimedia (Part 1 of 3), by Alangi Derick
 * Modeling books in Wikidata by Aubrey and Chiara Storti
 * Paper: Vandalism Detection in Wikidata, by Stefan Heindorf, Martin Potthast, Benno Stein and Gregor Engels


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Planet to Earth: this tool uses data from Wikidata to visualise the links between places on an astronomical body named after a place on planet Earth.
 * WikiDataScape is a Cytoscape app for interactive browsing of Wikidata.
 * The property "KML file" was created last week (see list below) and has already a full list of values, sample LUA module and property documentation page available (Property talk:P3096)
 * enabling data access in user language will be deployed on Wikidata on August 29


 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Tela Botanica ID (Metropolitan France), Gare & Connexions ID, has tense, Plantarium ID, FloraBase ID, Flora of Australia ID, Internet Bird Collection species ID, ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier, ISBN identifier group, KML file, practiced by
 * Query examples:
 * RADA alumni with a good or featured article on Wikipedia (source)
 * Historians with links to French Wikipedia or Wikisource, but missing VIAF ID (source)
 * Unicorn taxa, including the Indian rhinoceros (source)
 * Mithras shrines, as a map (source)
 * 2.300 Wikidata archaeological sites without coordinates (source)
 * All items on Wikidata whom we know we don't know their sex or gender: (source)
 * Drug-disease interactions (source)
 * Nicknames of serial killers (source)
 * Dynamic data map of all U-bahn lines in Berlin with colors (source)
 * [http://histropedia.com/showcase/wikidata-viewer.html?query=%23Internet%20Services%20By%20Type%0A%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20?webService%20?webServiceLabel%20%0A%0A(SAMPLE%20(?inception)%20as%20?inception)%0A(SAMPLE%20(?image)%20as%20?image)%0A(SAMPLE%20(?type)%20as%20?type)%0A(SAMPLE%20(?precision)%20as%20?precision)%0A(COUNT%20(DISTINCT%20?article)%20as%20?rank)%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A?webService%20wdt:P31/wdt:P279*%20wd:Q1668024.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%09%09%23Subclass%20of%20service%20on%20internet%0A%0A?webService%20p:P571%20?inceptionStatement%20.%09%09%09%09%09%09%09%23That%20has%20inception%20date%0A?inceptionStatement%20psv:P571%20?inceptionStatementNode%20.%09%09%09%09%0A%20%20%20%20?inceptionStatementNode%20wikibase:timeValue%20?inception%20.%09%09%09%23Get%20inception%20date%0A%20%20%09?inceptionStatementNode%20wikibase:timePrecision%20?precision%20.%09%09%23Get%20date%20precision%0A%0A?webService%20wdt:P31%20?typeItem%20.%09%09%09%09%09%09%09%09%09%09%23Get%20the%20service%20type%0A?typeItem%20rdfs:label%20?type%20filter%20(lang(?type)%20%3D%20%22en%22).%09%09%09%09%23and%20the%20label%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B?webService%20wdt:P18%20?image%7D%09%09%09%09%09%09%09%09%23Get%20image%20if%20available%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B?webService%20wdt:P154%20?image%7D%09%09%09%09%09%09%09%09%23Get%20logo%20image%20if%20avilable%0A%0A%0A?article%20schema:about%20?webService%20.%09%09%09%09%09%09%09%09%09%23Count%20article%20links%20for%20rank%0ASERVICE%20wikibase:label%20%7Bbd:serviceParam%20wikibase:language%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20?webService%20?webServiceLabel%0A%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%20(?rank)&url=webService&title=webServiceLabel&from=inception&fromPrecision=precision&imageUrl=image&colourCodeBy=type&threshold=1&view=timeline Timeline of internet services by type to celebrate 25 yrs of the web] (source)
 * Network of color (source)
 * Dynamic data map of all country by year of joining the United Nations (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Theatre
 * Newest gadgets:
 * Newest external tools: Wikidata Class Browser (includes subclass counts and instance counts)
 * Newest database reports:
 * New feature/gadget requests:
 * Showcase items:


 * Development
 * Fixed a but where the text field doesn't always load when trying to add a statement (T115267)
 * We're now also creating mediainfo entities when a statement is added to a non-existent media info entity (T140760)
 * Fixed a but where the suggester would show information twice (T143645)
 * The ArticlePlaceholder now also shows the links to other projects in the In Other Projects sidebar (T141771)
 * Worked more in figuring out how to show usage tracking data (T103091)
 * Made progress on Citoid support for Wikidata to make it easier to add useful and complete references (T141856)
 * Worked on restore "purge without confirm" user right (T143435)


 * 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!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

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Tech News: 2016-35
 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 mobile sites now don't load images if the user doesn't see them. This is to save mobile data and make the pages load faster.
 * When you edit a table with the visual editor, pressing  in the last cell of a row will take you to the first cell in the next row. Pressing   and   in the first cell of a row will take you to the last cell in the previous row.

Changes this week
 * The name of the " " button will change. The button will say "  " when you create a new page. It will say "  " when you change an existing page.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 August. It will be on all wikis from 1 September (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 30 August 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 "RfC: image and oldimage tables". The meeting will be on 31 August at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Books & Bytes - Issue 18
 The Wikipedia Library Books & Bytes

Issue 18, June–July 2016 by, Ocaasi, Samwalton9, UY Scuti, and Sadads

 Read the full newsletter The Interior via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:25, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
 * New donations - Edinburgh University Press, American Psychological Association, Nomos (a German-language database), and more!
 * Spotlight: GLAM and Wikidata
 * TWL attends and presents at International Federation of Library Associations conference, meets with Association of Research Libraries
 * OCLC wins grant to train librarians on Wikimedia contribution

Wikidata weekly summary #225
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Remember that we would love to have your input about data quality on Wikidata and list generation on Wikipedia!
 * What would you like to organize for Wikidata's 4rth birthday?


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * “Ben Whishaw, Broadway, the RADA and Wikidata” (data integration in the era of semantic web) by Harmonia Amanda
 * Hands-on research about Wikidata: My time as a PhD student at Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. by Alessandro Piscopo
 * 3 tutorial videos about Wikidata: an intro to Wikidata, how to edit Wikidata and Wikidata Sparql Query Tutorial by Ewan McAndrew, Navino Evans and Sean McBirnie
 * Past: First Wikidata workshop in the Czech Republic, Pardubice – imported much open data related to the Czech Republic
 * Past: Lydia and Jens from the Wikidata team were at the QTcon to talk about Wikidata and applications (see the slides)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The events page is now up to date. You want to join or organise a meetup with other Wikidata editors? Keep an eye on this page!
 * 30K entries from Kindred Britain added in Mix’n’Match
 * Welsh Wikipedia includes Wikidata-based article placeholders, like this one
 * Wiki Loves Monuments started! You can help by improving the items about heritage buildings or use Wikishootme to find unpictured monuments
 * English Wikipedia now has a WikiProject Wikidata to coordinate integration with Wikidata. Why not start one for your local Wikipedia? Add it to Q20855878 if you do.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: parent peak, elCinema person ID, elCinema film ID, TripAdvisor ID, NSZL name authority ID, last line, Redalyc journal ID, NSW Flora ID, cine.gr film ID, CiNetMag film ID, Latindex ID, ALCUIN ID, EDRPOU code, Polish scientist ID, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ID, OpenDomesday person ID, Epguides ID, TOID, Code for China Reservoir Name, OpenDomesday settlement ID, DSSTOX substance identifier, ISzDb dub ID, ISzDb company ID, ISzDb person ID, does not have part, DistroWatch ID, FEI ID, ISzDb film ID, Peakbagger ID, Yelp ID, LdiF ID, Guardian topic ID


 * Query examples:
 * People convicted of regicide and their victims (source)
 * The most common birthday among US citizens (source)
 * Things named after Polish people (source)
 * Drama schools by number of students (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Average%20gestation%20period%20of%20genera%2C%20color-coded%20by%20order%0A%23defaultView%3ABubbleChart%0ASELECT%20%3Fgenus%20%28AVG%28%3Fperiod%29%20AS%20%3Fperiod%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Flabel%29%20AS%20%3FgenusLabel%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Frgb%29%20AS%20%3Frgb%29%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28%22en%22%20AS%20%3Flanguage%29.%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20find%20species%20with%20gestation%20period%20and%20convert%20to%20seconds%20%28SI%20base%20unit%29%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fspecies%20p%3AP3063%2Fpsv%3AP3063%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3FbasePeriod%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP2370%2Fpsv%3AP2370%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3FunitPeriod%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ11574%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%0A%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20convert%20back%20to%20days%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28%28%3FbasePeriod%20%2a%20%3FunitPeriod%29%2F%2860%2a60%2a24%29%20AS%20%3Fperiod%29.%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20find%20genus%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fspecies%20wdt%3AP171%2a%20%3Fgenus.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fgenus%20wdt%3AP105%20wd%3AQ34740.%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20find%20a%20good%20label%20%E2%80%93%20trivial%20name%2C%20else%20label%2C%20else%20%E2%80%9C%3Cno%20name%3E%E2%80%9D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fgenus%20wdt%3AP1843%20%3FtrivialName.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FtrivialName%29%20%3D%20%3Flanguage%29.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fgenus%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FgenusLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FgenusLabel%29%20%3D%20%3Flanguage%29.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28IF%28BOUND%28%3FtrivialName%29%2C%3FtrivialName%2CIF%28BOUND%28%3FgenusLabel%29%2C%3FgenusLabel%2C%22%3Cno%20name%3E%22%29%29%20AS%20%3Flabel%29.%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20find%20order%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fgenus%20wdt%3AP171%2a%20%3Forder.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Forder%20wdt%3AP105%20wd%3AQ36602.%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20choose%20%E2%80%9Crandom%20but%20deterministic%E2%80%9D%20color%20per%20order%3B%20you%20can%20play%20around%20with%20%22-%22%20%28can%20be%20any%20string%29%20to%20find%20a%20pleasing%20resulting%20color%20distribution%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28UCASE%28SUBSTR%28SHA256%28CONCAT%28%22-%22%2C%20STR%28%3Forder%29%29%29%2C%200%2C%206%29%29%20AS%20%3Frgb%29.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20add%20scale%0A%20%20%20%20VALUES%20%28%3Fgenus%20%3Fperiod%20%3Flabel%29%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%28wd%3AQ23387%207%20%22week%22%40en%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%28wd%3AQ5151%2030.436875%20%22month%22%40en%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%28wd%3AQ1643308%2091.310625%20%223%20months%22%40en%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%28wd%3AQ2269240%20182.62125%20%226%20months%22%40en%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%28wd%3AQ577%20365.2425%20%22year%22%40en%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28%22CCCCCC%22%20AS%20%3Frgb%29.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fgenus Average gestation period of genera] (source)
 * Sir Christopher Lee's filmography (with film directors) (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Armenia, Czech Republic


 * Development
 * RDF exports now contain page properties, this allows to query by number of statements or sitelinks (T129046)
 * Working on unit conversion for RDF exports (T117031)
 * Enabling Wikidata data access in user language deployed (T122670)
 * Information about usage of entities in other projects will be visible and reusable (T103091)
 * Pasting full entity URLs into suggesters will be possible (T117763)
 * Added meta descriptions to allow for better snippets in external search engines (T88475)
 * We replaced the old parser limit report (an HTML comment) with the new format (T143423)
 * Ongoing refactoring of the frontend JavaScript, this may break user scripts accessing private properties (T142694)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * 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!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:19, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-36
 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
 * Word-level diffs now work in longer paragraphs.
 * Interactive maps now have a frame by default. This is to make them look like other multimedia objects. This affects all Wikivoyages, the Catalan, Hebrew, Macedonian Wikipedias and Meta.
 * Octicons-tools.svg When you preview the MediaWiki:Captcha-ip-whitelist page it will show a validation output of the listed IP addresses instead of the list of addresses only. This can help you to identify if your whitelist rules will work or not.

Changes this week
 * You will be able to use  on all Wikipedias. It creates a link to a full screen map.
 * Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully send out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 September. It will be on all wikis from 8 September (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 6 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg The CheckUser extension could work differently in the future. There is a Request for Comments to figure out how.

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Tech News: 2016-37
<section begin="technews-2016-W37"/> 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 Wikimedia Commons app for Android can now show nearby places that need photos.
 * and  can now use geodata from Open Street Map if Open Street Map has defined a region and given it an ID in Wikidata. You can use this to draw on the map and add information.

Changes this week
 * The RevisionSlider will be available as a beta feature on all wikis from 13 September. This will make it easier to navigate between diffs in the page history.
 * Octicons-tools.svg A new user right will allow most users to change the content model of pages.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 September. It will be on all wikis from 15 September (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 13 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * When you search on the Wikimedia wikis in the future you could see results from sister projects in your language. You can read more and discuss how this could work.

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Wikidata weekly summary #226
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 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Keynote by Lydia Pintscher at DBpedia conference, September 15th, Leipzig.
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop for beginners, September 16, Paris
 * Upcoming: Semantic MediaWiki Conference, September 28-30, Frankfurt
 * Upcoming: Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing) & Liam Wyatt (User:Wittylama) speaking about GLAM-Wiki (including Wikidata) in Warsaw, 19 October. Details tbc.
 * Upcoming: Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing) speaking & running workshop about Wikidata at SFK 16 ("Software Freedom Kosova Conference") in Pristina, 21-23 October.
 * Research on WikiProject Knowledge Organization Systems presented at 15th NKOS workshop at TPDL: Classification of Knowledge Organization Systems with Wikidata: Presentation and Paper.
 * Being a Volunteer Developer for Wikimedia projects: An Interview with Tpt
 * Sunday Query: The 200 Oldest Living French Actresses, query tutorial by Harmonia Amanda
 * How to prototype Wikidata entities (in French) by Poulpy


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * We have new graphic material to present Wikidata. Feel free to use these files in your slides/talks/documents :)
 * #SundayQuery on Twitter: every Sunday, you can ask for help or advice about SPARQL queries, how to build or fix it, some SPARQL-ninjas will be there to answer you!
 * Researcher? You can participate in the WSDM Cup 2017 challenge and improve Wikidata vandalism detection
 * How to build a query by Pigsonthewing
 * Wikipedia gets Map links and Geoshapes service using Wikidata


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Scottish Charity number, Rock Hall of Fame ID, has grammatical mood, Minnesota legislator ID, UGent Memorialis id, enclosure, event distance, Australian Classification, Runeberg book ID, Runeberg author ID, Crossref funder ID, Findsmiley ID, iNaturalist taxon ID, birthday, molecule conformation, repeals, United States Reports ID, CiNetMag person ID, YouTheater ID, elFilm person ID, elFilm film ID, EDb person ID, EDb film ID, SourehCinema person ID, SourehCinema film ID, OFDb ID


 * Query examples:
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Posthumous%20marriages%0ASELECT%20%3FaliveSpouse%20%3FaliveSpouseLabel%20%3FdeadSpouse%20%3FdeadSpouseLabel%20%3Fdeath%20%3Fmarriage%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20%23%20%3FaliveSpouse%20has%20spouse%20%3FdeadSpouse%2C%20with%20qualifier%20start%20time%3A%20%3Fmarriage%0A%20%20%3FaliveSpouse%20p%3AP26%20%5B%20ps%3AP26%20%3FdeadSpouse%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pqv%3AP580%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AtimeValue%20%3Fmarriage%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AtimePrecision%20%3FmarriagePrecision%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%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%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%23%20%3FdeadSpouse%20has%20date%20of%20death%20%3Fdeath%0A%20%20%3FdeadSpouse%20p%3AP570%2Fpsv%3AP570%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AtimeValue%20%3Fdeath%3B%0A%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AtimePrecision%20%3FdeathPrecision%0A%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%23%20%3Fdeath%20prior%20to%20%3Fmarriage%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3Fdeath%20%3C%20%3Fmarriage%29.%0A%20%20%23%20Optional%3A%20remove%20results%20with%20missing%20precision%20%E2%80%93%0A%20%20%23%20only%20include%20matches%20over%20a%20year%20apart%2C%20or%20where%20both%20statements%20are%20precise%20to%20the%20day%0A%20%20%23FILTER%28YEAR%28%3Fmarriage%29%20-%20YEAR%28%3Fdeath%29%20%3E%201%20%7C%7C%20%0A%20%20%23%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FmarriagePrecision%20%3D%2011%20%26%26%20%3FdeathPrecision%20%3D%2011%29.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fmarriage%20-%20%3Fdeath%29 Posthumous marriages] (source)
 * Communes of France with more than one railway station (source)
 * Languages and their grammatical cases they have in common (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20cocktail%20recipes%20on%20Wikidata%0ASELECT%20%3Fcocktail%20%3FcocktailLabel%20%28GROUP_CONCAT%28%3Fingredient%3B%20separator%3D%22%2C%20%22%29%20AS%20%3Fingredients%29%20%23%20concatenate%20all%20ingredients%20together%2C%20separated%20by%20comma%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20%23%20find%20a%20cocktail%0A%20%20%3Fcocktail%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ134768%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20get%20its%20material%20statement%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP186%20%3FmaterialStat.%0A%20%20%23%20get%20the%20statement%20value%20from%20the%20statement%0A%20%20%3FmaterialStat%20ps%3AP186%20%3Fmaterial.%0A%20%20%23%20get%20the%20material%E2%80%99s%20English%20label%0A%20%20%3Fmaterial%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FmaterialLabel.%0A%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FmaterialLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%0A%20%20%23%20assign%20label%20to%20solo%20ingredient%20variable%0A%20%20BIND%28%3FmaterialLabel%20AS%20%3FingredientSolo%29.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20for%20some%20reason%2C%20we%20have%20to%20get%20the%20material%20and%20materialLabel%20again%20%E2%80%93%20copy%2Bpasted%20from%20above%0A%20%20%20%20%3FmaterialStat%20ps%3AP186%20%3Fmaterial.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fmaterial%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FmaterialLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FmaterialLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20get%20the%20quantity%20value%20from%20the%20statement%20%28if%20present%29%0A%20%20%20%20%3FmaterialStat%20pqv%3AP1114%20%3FquantityValue.%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20get%20the%20actual%20quantity%20from%20the%20quantity%20value%0A%20%20%20%20%3FquantityValue%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3Fquantity.%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20assign%20quantity%20and%20material%20to%20ingredient%20with%20quantity%20variable%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28CONCAT%28STR%28%3Fquantity%29%2C%20%22%20%22%2C%20%3FmaterialLabel%29%20AS%20%3FingredientWithQuantity%29.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20same%20here%20for%20material%20and%20quantity%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FmaterialStat%20ps%3AP186%20%3Fmaterial.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fmaterial%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FmaterialLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FmaterialLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FmaterialStat%20pqv%3AP1114%20%3FquantityValue.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FquantityValue%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3Fquantity.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20get%20the%20unit%20from%20the%20quantity%20value%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FquantityValue%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20%3Funit.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20throw%20out%20the%20unit%20%E2%80%9C1%E2%80%9D%20%28no%20unit%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Funit%20%21%3D%20wd%3AQ199%29.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20get%20the%20unit%E2%80%99s%20English%20label%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Funit%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FunitLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FunitLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20assign%20quantity%2C%20unit%2C%20and%20material%20to%20ingredient%20with%20unit%20variable%20%20%28note%3A%20we%E2%80%99re%20not%20bothering%20with%20pluralization%20here%2C%20so%20it%20may%20sound%20a%20bit%20weird%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28CONCAT%28STR%28%3Fquantity%29%2C%20%22%20%22%2C%20%3FunitLabel%2C%20%22%20%22%2C%20%3FmaterialLabel%29%20AS%20%3FingredientWithUnit%29.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%23%20assign%20ingredient%20with%20unit%2C%20else%20ingredient%20with%20quantity%2C%20else%20just%20solo%20ingredient%20to%20ingredient%20variable%0A%20%20BIND%28COALESCE%28%3FingredientWithUnit%2C%20%3FingredientWithQuantity%2C%20%3FingredientSolo%29%20AS%20%3Fingredient%29.%0A%20%20%23%20get%20the%20cocktail%E2%80%99s%20English%20label%0A%20%20%3Fcocktail%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FcocktailLabel.%0A%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FcocktailLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%0A%7D%0A%23%20group%20by%20cocktail%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fcocktail%20%3FcocktailLabel%0A%23%20show%20most%20%E2%80%9Ccomplicated%E2%80%9D%20cocktails%20first%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28COUNT%28%3Fingredient%29%29 Cocktails recipes] (source)
 * People who died in the last seven days (source)
 * Places of birth of 20th century saints (source)
 * New templates:, . Please add labels in your own languages, and consider making a similar template for your country or region.


 * Development
 * Lowered relevance threshold for ArticlePlaceholder search results from 3 to 2 sitelinks (T144188)
 * Added 'otk' as an available language for monolingual text values (T137809)
 * Working on making it possible to paste partial URLs into the site selector (T144310)
 * A Grafana board now tracks general usage and error metrics of the Query Service UI
 * Made progress on showing editors on all Wikimedia projects which articles on their project use data from a given Wikidata item. We will also show in the page information (action=info) which items a given article uses. Also worked on showing which projects use a given item in the page information. (T103091)
 * Added meta information to the html header of item pages (T88475)
 * Made progress on making ArticlePlaceholders indexable for search engines (T144590)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * 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!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

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Wikidata weekly summary #227
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 * Discussions
 * We're starting working on lexicographical data! Please read the proposal and give us your feedback :)
 * New request for comments: Merging male and female labels


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: State of the map, September 23 - 25, Brussels
 * Next Wikidata office hour: Tuesday September 27th, from 18:00 to 19:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2), in #wikimedia-office
 * Video of a SPARQL workshop (& materials) organized by Wikimedia Foundation's Discovery and Research teams
 * Slides of Lydia's keynote about Wikidata at the DBpedia conference 2016
 * Slides of Andreas Thalhammer about Unified PageRank for DBpedia and Wikidata
 * #SundayQuery: ask for help on queries every Sunday on Twitter! This week, a tutorial about surnames by Harmonia Amanda, and how to use SPARQL and Python to fix typographical errors by Ash Crow


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The Project Grants program is accepting proposals from September 12 to October 11 to fund new tools, research, offline outreach, online organizing and other experiments that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers.
 * The RevisionSlider is now available as a beta feature, try it to have a visual overview of your diffs.
 * You can also activate ORES the review tool to watch damaging edits more easily!
 * There's an infographic on the quality process in Wikidata you can use and edit.
 * You can also use and translate this new datamodel representation.
 * How to fix taxon common names with Pywikibot, tutorial by TweetsFactsAndQueries and Tobias1984.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Visual Novel Database ID, territory overlaps, Zaragoza monument ID, Patrimonio Web JCyL ID, uses property, Statoids ID, art director, offers view on, World Bridge Federation ID, Olympic.org ID, Cultural Heritage Armenia ID, Harasire ID, Sporthorse data ID, Allbreedpedigree ID, Webpedigrees ID, Horsetelex ID


 * Query examples:
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23Embassies%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%0A%09%28SAMPLE%28%3Fcountry_label%29%20as%20%3Fcountry%29%20%20%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fcity_label%29%20as%20%3Fcity%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Faddress%29%20as%20%3Faddress%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fcoordinates%29%20as%20%3Fcoordinates%29%0A%09%28SAMPLE%28%3Foperator_label%29%20as%20%3Foperator%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fphone%29%20as%20%3Fphone%29%20%20%20%20%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Femail%29%20as%20%3Femail%29%20%20%20%20%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fwebsite%29%20as%20%3Fwebsite%29%0A%09%28SAMPLE%28%3Ffacebook%29%20as%20%3Ffacebook%29%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Ftwitter%29%20as%20%3Ftwitter%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fimage%29%20as%20%3Fimage%29%20%20%20%20%20%3Fwikidata%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%09%3Fwikidata%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ3917681.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fwikidata%20wdt%3AP131%2a%2Fwdt%3AP17%20%3FcountryId.%20%3FcountryId%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fcountry_label.%20filter%20%28lang%28%3Fcountry_label%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fwikidata%20wdt%3AP131%20%3FcityId.%20%3FcityId%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fcity_label.%20filter%20%28lang%28%3Fcity_label%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fwikidata%20wdt%3AP969%20%3Faddress.%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fwikidata%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoordinates.%7D%0A%20%20%09OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fwikidata%20wdt%3AP137%20%3FoperatorId.%20%3FoperatorId%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Foperator_label.%20filter%20%28lang%28%3Foperator_label%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fwikidata%20wdt%3AP1329%20%3Fphone.%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fwikidata%20wdt%3AP968%20%3Femail.%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fwikidata%20wdt%3AP856%20%3Fwebsite.%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fwikidata%20wdt%3AP2013%20%3Ffacebook.%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fwikidata%20wdt%3AP2002%20%3Ftwitter.%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fwikidata%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage.%7D%0A%09SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7Bbd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%2Cru%2Cde%2Cfr%2Ces%22%7D%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fwikidata%20%3FwikidataLabel%20ORDER%20BY%20ASC%28%3Fcountry%29%20ASC%28%3Fcity%29%20ASC%28%3Foperator%29 Embassies] (source)
 * World map of water towers (source)
 * "Battles of the Middle Ages" without place or date (source)
 * Asteroids named after characters from works by Lewis Caroll (source)
 * Map of Austrian cultural heritage (source)
 * Statues in Paris depicting historical female figures (source)
 * Newest database reports: list of embassies


 * Development
 * We're working on entity usage on Wikimedia projects, check our different features
 * The Wikidata team attended and participated to a lot of conference these past days (WikiCon, ViewSource, DPpedia, SoCraTes, Write the doc) that's why we don't have many tasks to share with you this week :)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * 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!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

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Tech News: 2016-38
<section begin="technews-2016-W38"/> 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
 * Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back because of bugs. Creating new accounts did not work between 15 September 19:10 UTC and 16 September 12:50 UTC.

Changes this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will hopefully be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 September. It will be on all wikis from 22 September (calendar). This is the version that was meant to go out last week.

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 20 September 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 multi-content revisions. The meeting will be on 21 September at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Wikidata will start working on adding support for Wiktionary. The Wikidata development team is now taking one last look at the development plan.

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2016-W38"/> 22:08, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-40
<section begin="technews-2016-W40"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 October. It will be on all wikis from 6 October (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 4 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg Tidy will be replaced. Instead the HTML 5 parsing algorithm will be used to clean up bad HTML in wikitext. This would cause problems on a number of wikis. They need to be fixed first.


 * will not work on Wikivoyage after 24 October. You should use  instead. If you need help to fix this before 24 October you should ask for it as soon as possible.

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2016-W40"/> 21:30, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #229
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Expanding Wikidata’s Parenthood Information by 178%, or How To Mine Relation Cardinalities, by Paramita Mirza, Simon Razniewski and Werner Nutt (Q27038095)
 * Extracting Scientists from Wikipedia, by Gustaf Harari Ekenstierna and Victor Shu-Ming Lam (Q27037451)
 * Comparison of Wikidata and DBpedia projects as spatial data sources (cs), by Jan Macura (Q27042632)
 * Wikidata challenge to take on language obstacles in medical analysis on Warriors Planet
 * The Wikidata scholarly profile page on Finn Årup Nielsen's blog
 * Wikidata as a digital preservation knowledgebase on Open Preservation Foundation


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * We need you for Wikidata's birthday! Organize an event or tell us your story about Wikidata
 * Item Q27000000 was created, about Stakihnúkur, a hill in Iceland
 * Log of our last office hour discussion
 * The first WikiCite newsletter has been published
 * You can help a research project to understand the use of the SPARQL query service


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: OKPD2 code of the good or service, OKP ID of the good or service, OKP Code, OKVED 2 code of the economic activity, OKPD code of the good or service, OKVED 1.1 code of the economic activity, SIC code, Catholic Encyclopedia ID, NBN System Key, trunk prefix, KU Leuven person ID, PhilPapers publication, PhilPapers topic, Library of Congress Cultural Heritage Organizations, PhilPapers profile, PhilPapers author, Mediaarts-DB ID, SCAR Composite Gazetteer, South Dakota legislator ID, Schläfli symbol, Cultural Heritage Kosovo ID, HAS member ID, Corporate Number (Japan), NAICS code, List of lights id, Nationalencyklopedin Online ID, NYT topic ID, KvK company ID, Encyclopædia Universalis Online ID, Auñamendi ID, Dictionary of Swedish National Biography, ClassInd rating, SIRET number, Onisep occupation ID, Indian census area code, ISAN


 * Query examples:
 * Most populous commune of France whose name begins by a certain letter (source)
 * Works mentioning #Wikidata properties (source)
 * Places where people born in Brittany died (source)
 * trees grown from seeds that went around the Moon (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Virtual Twins
 * Newest external tools: Free Software Directory plugin with a bot
 * Newest database reports: list of articles with "uses property" (P3176)


 * Development
 * Worked more on making it possible to use Wikidata items and properties to make statements about multimedia files on Commons in the future
 * Adding a list of items used in an article to the edit page on Wikipedia and co (T144921)
 * More work on automated language links for Wiktionary (T145412)
 * Improve the way to count and display the number of items on the main page (T144687)
 * Solved a bug on the gadget DuplicateReferences (T146318)
 * Clicking on the desired property while adding a new Statement didn't focus the value input. That has been fixed (T144037).
 * Made it possible to use the  and   protocols in URL data types (T146692)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * 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!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help merge items of people with the same name and dates.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

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The Signpost: 29 September 2016
<div class="hlist" style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:21, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #228
<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 · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 21:32, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: WikiCon 2016
 * Past: OASPA conference (slides)
 * Past: State of the Map
 * Past: National Institute of Health: frontiers in data science lecture series (slides)
 * Upcoming: SMWCon
 * Upcoming: office hour on IRC
 * Blog post about Wikidata and data about Czech trees
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The query examples have been migrated from mediawiki.org to wikidata.org at d:Wikidata:SPARQL examples
 * HPI is doing a linked data engineering course online
 * TXT Werk is doing automatic entity recognition in text with the help of Wikidata. Previously only German was supported. English is now supported as well.
 * Andy has mapped most of the W3C's ontology for vCard to Wikidata properties.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Heritage Lighthouse of Canada ID, Heritage Railway Station of Canada ID, New General Catalogue ID, Vine user ID, data.gouv.fr ID, patient of, Ciné-Ressources person ID, Ciné-Ressources movie ID, UAI code, Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities ID, Northern Ireland charity number, charity number (Isle of Man), JewishGen Locality ID, Federal Heritage Buildings ID, USGS earthquake id, league points system, INA video ID, GS1 Manufacturer code, Last.FM music ID, IMIS person ID, innervates, innervated by, Nobel prize ID, Marburger Professorenkatalog ID, TAXREF ID, VKontakte username, Czech National Bibliography book ID, WSJ topic ID, FANTOIR code, OpenCitations bibliographic resource ID
 * Query examples: taxonomy of squirrels (source), good or featured articles about people on Wikipedia but with no picture on Wikidata (source), Nordic Cross flags (source)
 * Development
 * mnc (for Manchu) will soon be available as a language code for monolingual text values (T137808)
 * Worked on foreign EntityIds in order to be able to use Wikidata's items and properties on Commons in the future (T145516, T146030, T146274)
 * More work on usage tracking UI (T145965, T143148, T145189, T144923)
 * RFC discussion about Multi-Content-Revisions - another big blocker for structured data on Commons (E273)
 * Ran a bot to mark dates that need a check of their calendar model (T105100)
 * Getting unit conversion into the query service soon. We'll start with units for length and then expand based on feedback. (T117032)
 * Working on extension to automatically link pages between languages on Wiktionary (T145412)
 * Added the value that is responsible for an error in the error message so it can be found and fixed more easily (T144303)
 * Working on fix for issue with extremely large or small date values in RDF (T146356)
 * Expanding references again in diffs (T129836)
 * Unbroke CopyReferences gadget. More work is needed. (T142203)
 * Fixed issue with 2 search suggestion boxes showing up instead of 1 (T119492)
 * Worked on improving the query service documentation (T133052)
 * 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!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Tech News: 2016-39
<section begin="technews-2016-W39"/> 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
 * If your wiki wants numerical sorting in categories you can request it after a community decision. See how to request it.
 * When you edit text and mention a new username they are notified if you add your signature. Before this only happened under certain conditions.
 * Users are notified if they are mentioned in a section where you add your own signature even if you edit more than one section. Before, users were not notified if you edited more than one section in one edit.

Problems
 * The MediaWiki version that was supposed to come to the wikis two weeks ago was put on hold again because of new problems. The MediaWiki version after it is now on all wikis.

Changes this week
 * There will be no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings
 * You can join the next office hour with the Wikidata team. The meeting will be on September 27 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg Abandoned tools on Tool Labs could be taken over by other developers. There is a new discussion on Meta about this. It will be discussed until 12 October and then voted on.

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Tech News: 2016-41
<section begin="technews-2016-W41"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * You can show Special:RecentChanges on a page by using . You can now use tag filters by using.
 * The notification badge is coloured if you have notifications. When you check the notification the badge will now turn grey on all wikis instead of just the local one.
 * Colours used in the Wikimedia wikis' main interface changed slightly. This is to make them easier to see for readers and editors with reduced eyesight.

Changes this week
 * Hidden HTML comments will be more visible when you edit with the visual editor.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 October. It will be on all wikis from 13 October (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 11 October 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 is CREDITS files. The meeting will be on 12 October at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Language converter syntax will soon no longer work inside external links. Wikitext like  must be replaced. You will have to write   instead. This only affects languages with Language Converter enabled. Examples of such languages are Chinese and Serbian.

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Wikidata weekly summary #230
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 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * During the British wildlife edit-a-thon 2016, attendees added bird sounds from Europeana Sounds to Wikidata and over 60 Wikipedias
 * Past: WikiConference in San Diego, USA
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop by Wikimedia Nederland, October 20, Utrecht
 * Wikidata & Wikipedia edit-athon about Ramon Llull by Amical Wikimedia (ca)
 * A Natural Language Query Engine without Machine Learning, on A Young Programmer's blog
 * The Wikimedia Foundation will now directly fund basic expenses for Wikidata software development, on WMF blog
 * People buried on cemetery and if they have a picture of the grave or not by Magnus Sälgö
 * Sunday Query : où meurent les Bretons ? (fr) by Ash_Crow
 * Charts and data about Brexit & US Elections, by Hector Perez


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Proposition for upgrading the default copyright license for Wikimedia projects to CC-by-SA 4.0 (does not affect the structured data part of Wikidata, which uses CC0).
 * 3 Wikidata-related projects will be funded by WMF grants : Librarybase, Lua module and WikiFactMine
 * Query service analysis: What kind of things are people doing with WDQS? and Who are our WDQS users and where are they from?
 * chemical compounds in Wikipedia and Wikidata, talk by Sebastian Burgstaller
 * PetScan tool past half a million queries since April (source)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: KANTL member ID, Angel List ID, storyboard artist, content deliverer, Actorenregister ID, Zeri image ID, compulsory education (maximum age), compulsory education (minimum age), Fotografen.nl ID, PORT organization URL, Flickr user ID, LocFDD ID, MySpace ID, radix, base, has anatomical branch, anatomical branch of, points awarded, intangible cultural heritage status, LiveJournal ID, Queensland place ID, Cave E-Cadastre ID, Property proposal discussion, optimum viable temperature, maximum viable temperature, minimum viable temperature


 * Query examples:
 * Chemistry Nobel prizes through time (source)
 * Former countries without continent (P30) (source)
 * Rivers without any mouth specified (source)
 * Interesting items near you (source)
 * Newest external tools: new Wikidata game, Alias Candidates (by MagnusManske)
 * Newest database reports: List of embassies has now summaries by host country and by country represented


 * Development
 * The property talk namespace now has subpages enabled (T146271)
 * More work on automated sitelinks for Wiktionary (T987)
 * More work on federation for Commons in order to be able to use Wikidata's items and properties there (T76007)
 * Adding entity usage information in action=edit on Wikipedia and co (T144921)
 * Working on making it possible to get formatted values back on the client. With this we will for example link the value to a Wikipedia article where possible. (T142940)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * 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!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

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The Signpost: 14 October 2016
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This Month in GLAM: September 2016
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Tech News: 2016-42
<section begin="technews-2016-W42"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * There is a new newsletter from the Collaboration team at the Wikimedia Foundation. It will have more details about for example Flow and notifications. You can read the first issue.

Problems
 * Some users got a warning about Wikipedia's security certificate last week. This was because of a problem GlobalSign had. This has now been fixed. Only a small number of users got the warning.
 * Editors couldn't edit semi-protected pages in the Wikipedia app for Android. This has now been fixed in the beta version.

Changes this week
 * There will be no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes
 * The Editing Department are working on a new wikitext editor. It will have tools that are in the visual editor but not in the wikitext editor today. You can read more about this. This is an early plan and things can change. The old wikitext editor will still exist.

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Wikidata weekly summary #231
<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 · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 21:56, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Upcoming: Connected Data London meetup with Navino Evans
 * Upcoming: Andy Mabbett & Liam Wyatt speaking about GLAM-Wiki (including Wikidata) at Muzeum Cyfrowe in Warsaw, 19 October.
 * Upcoming: Andy Mabbett speaking about Wikidata & running a GLAM-Wiki workshop at SFK 16 ("Software Freedom Kosova Conference") in Pristina, 21-23 October.
 * Past: CCBWIKI
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * World Spider Catalog has been added to Mix'n'match
 * Mix’n’match can now limit auto-matches to instances of a specific item and its subclasses
 * Sitelinks for the new Livvi-Karelian Wikipedia (olowiki) can be added
 * There is now a "userbox" for Wikidatans wishing to mark Wikidata's fourth birthday on their user pages
 * myMuseum was created at the hack4heritage hackathon and won a prize
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: DRÚSOP ID, code, encoding, BALaT image ID, DocCheck Flexikon De ID, DocCheck Flexikon En ID, biography at the Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Cellosaurus ID, World Spider Catalog ID, Squash Info ID, MSC ID, Yahoo! Japan Talent Database ID, Bandcamp artist ID, French National Assembly Lobbyist ID, BanQ author ID, statistical leader, Sandbox-Monolingual text II
 * Query examples:
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20First%20Nobel%20Prize%20winner%20born%20after%20Alfred%20Nobel%E2%80%99s%20death%0A%23%20Nobel%20Prize%20data%20seems%20to%20be%20a%20bit%20messy%20right%20now%2C%20so%20we%20cover%20three%20different%20ways%20to%20represent%20%E2%80%9Cawardee%20got%20prize%20on%20date%20X%E2%80%9D%20%E2%80%93%20hopefully%20that%E2%80%99s%20enough%E2%80%A6%0ASELECT%20%3Fawardee%20%3FawardeeLabel%20%3FawardeeBorn%20%3Fawarded%20%3FprizeLabel%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20wd%3AQ23810%20wdt%3AP570%20%3FnobelDied.%0A%20%20%3Fawardee%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP569%20%3FawardeeBorn.%0A%20%20%3Fprize%20wdt%3AP279%20wd%3AQ7191.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3FawardeeBorn%20%3E%20%3FnobelDied%29.%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20awardee%20has%20award%20received%3A%20nobel%20prize%20with%20point%20in%20time%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fawardee%20p%3AP166%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP166%2Fwdt%3AP31%3F%20%3Fprize%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP585%20%3Fawarded%0A%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20nobel%20prize%20has%20winner%3A%20awardee%20with%20point%20in%20time%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fprize%20p%3AP1346%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP1346%20%3Fawardee%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP585%20%3Fawarded%0A%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20awardee%20has%20award%20received%3A%20%3Cyear%3E%20nobel%20prize%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fawardee%20wdt%3AP166%20%3FyearPrize.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FyearPrize%20wdt%3AP31%20%3Fprize%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP585%20%3Fawarded.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3Fawarded%0ALIMIT%201 first Nobel Prize winner who was born after Alfred Nobel’s death] (source)
 * streets in Paris named after doctors (source)
 * international land tripoints (source)
 * national flags depicting stars or constellations (source)
 * national flags with inscriptions (source)
 * people who died the furthest away from where they were born (source)
 * closest pairs of capitals (of UN member states, <500km) (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20People%20who%20received%20military%20decorations%20from%20two%20different%20countries%0ASELECT%0A%3Fperson%20%3FpersonLabel%0A%28SAMPLE%28CONCAT%28%3Faward1Label%2C%20%22%20%28%22%2C%20%3Fcountry1Label%2C%20%22%29%22%29%29%20AS%20%3FfirstAward%29%0A%28SAMPLE%28CONCAT%28%3Faward2Label%2C%20%22%20%28%22%2C%20%3Fcountry2Label%2C%20%22%29%22%29%29%20AS%20%3FsecondAward%29%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP166%20%3Faward1%2C%20%3Faward2.%0A%20%20wd%3AQ1788716%20%5E%28wdt%3AP31%7Cwdt%3AP279%29%2a%20%3Faward1%2C%20%3Faward2.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3Faward1%20%21%3D%20%3Faward2%29.%0A%20%20%3Faward1%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fcountry1.%0A%20%20%3Faward2%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fcountry2.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3Fcountry1%20%21%3D%20%3Fcountry2%29.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%28%3Fcountry1%20%21%3D%20wd%3AQ159%20%7C%7C%20%3Fcountry2%20%21%3D%20wd%3AQ15180%29%20%26%26%20%28%3Fcountry1%20%21%3D%20wd%3AQ15180%20%7C%7C%20%3Fcountry2%20%21%3D%20wd%3AQ159%29%29.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FpersonLabel.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FpersonLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Faward1%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Faward1Label.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3Faward1Label%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Faward2%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Faward2Label.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3Faward2Label%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fcountry1%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fcountry1Label.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3Fcountry1Label%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fcountry2%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fcountry2Label.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3Fcountry2Label%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fperson%20%3FpersonLabel%0ALIMIT%2050 people who received military decorations from two different countries] (source)
 * volcanoes and earthquakes (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fratio%20%28COUNT%28%3Fitem%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ3305213%20.%0A%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP2048%2Fpsv%3AP2048%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3FbaseHeight%3B%0A%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP2370%2Fpsv%3AP2370%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3FunitHeight%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ11573%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%0A%20%20%20%20%5D%0A%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20BIND%28%3FbaseHeight%20%2a%20%3FunitHeight%20AS%20%3Fheight%29.%0A%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP2049%2Fpsv%3AP2049%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3FbaseWidth%3B%0A%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP2370%2Fpsv%3AP2370%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3FunitWidth%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ11573%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%0A%20%20%20%20%5D%0A%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20BIND%28%3FbaseWidth%20%2a%20%3FunitWidth%20AS%20%3Fwidth%29.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20BIND%28%3Fheight%20%2F%20%3Fwidth%20AS%20%3Fr%29%20.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20BIND%28IF%28%3Fr%3C0.5%2C%22%3C%200.5%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fr%3C0.6%2C%220.5%20-%200.6%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fr%3C0.7%2C%220.6%20-%200.7%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fr%3C0.8%2C%220.7%20-%200.8%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fr%3C0.9%2C%220.8%20-%200.9%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fr%3C1.0%2C%220.9%20-%201.0%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fr%3C1.1%2C%221.0%20-%201.1%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fr%3C1.2%2C%221.1%20-%201.2%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fr%3C1.3%2C%221.2%20-%201.3%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fr%3C1.4%2C%221.3%20-%201.4%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fr%3C1.5%2C%221.4%20-%201.5%22%2C%20%22%3E%201.5%22%29%29%29%29%29%29%29%29%29%29%29%20AS%20%3Fratio%29%20.%0A%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fratio%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29%0A height/width ratios of paintings] (source)
 * birthplaces of Members of the European Parliament (source)
 * birthplaces of US Senators (source)
 * New template: d:Template:Poland properties. Please add labels in your own languages, and consider making a similar template for your country or region.
 * Development
 * Worked further on automatic linking of pages between Wiktionary language editions
 * Worked further on making it possible to use Wikidata's items and properties to describe files on Commons
 * Reviewed error messages and made them easier to understand
 * Added tooltips in some places in the UI to make them more understandable (e.g. ranks, special values)
 * Made the loading animation clearer in embedded query results (T148042)
 * Making it possible to paste the full URL of an image on Commons into image properties (T147917)
 * Worked on a small birthday present
 * Fixed run button not being reenabled after some queries (T147114)
 * More work on better parser function and Lua functions that return formatted values (T142940)
 * Undoing the last edit to an item will now show a undo summary, not a restore one (T147631) Thanks Matěj!
 * Lule Sami and Pite Sami are now supported languages in Wikidata (T146707)
 * Brainstormed about how to make it easier to write queries without knowing SPARQL
 * Fixed a bug with spaces in language codes in queries (T147729)
 * 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!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

If you're wanting a change from dramaz....
Apus is sitting at GAN looking lonely. Given that Andromeda and Antlia are FAs, may as well try alphabetical, though Aquarius (constellation) is a bit of a biggie, still mad a good start on it...Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 02:12, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Looks like I'll be in limited contact the next two weeks -- another voyage to somewhere internet is both spotty and expensive. Courcelles (talk) 02:20, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

AE Parity
Please apply 2016 US Election AE to all the presidential candidates talk pages, for fairness. Currently it protects only some of them. -- Elvey (t•c) 21:00, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
 * There's absolutely no reason you can't do this yourself. Courcelles (talk) 21:45, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
 * You're sure? I didn't read it or WP:AC/DS that way, which I why I asked you. Template says "An administrator has applied the restriction above to this article" but I'm not an admin.  Applied to Talk:Gary Johnson; we'll see what happens.  -- Elvey (t•c) 23:43, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

Saturday October 22: WikiArte Latin American Edit-a-thon @ MoMA
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Wikidata weekly summary #232
<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;"> Wikidata celebrates its 4th anniversary on October 29th. Around this date, a lot of events will happen online and offline.
 * Wikidata's birthday is coming!

Birthday events

Editors all around the world organize meetups to celebrate the birthday. You can join one of them or create an event in your own town!
 * San Francisco (USA), October 26th
 * Torino (Italy), October 26th
 * Tokyo (Japan), October 28th
 * Paris (France), October 29th
 * Utrecht (NL), October 29th
 * Berlin (Germany), November 4th
 * Rennes (France), November 5th

Online

A lot of surprises, stories and presents will be shared between October 29th and November 4th. Check the project chat or the mailing-list every day to see what happens!

You can also participate by posting a story (more info here), a tweet with #WikidataBirthday, let a message or a present on the birthday page.

If you're participating to Wikidata's birthday, you can add this template to your user page.


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Wikidata workshops in Paris : every month, Wikimédia France and editors organize a workshop about Wikidata and related tools. Check out the schedule
 * Upcoming: Ladies that FOSS October 29th in Berlin, organized by Lucie and Julia from the Wikidata team


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * WikiCite 2016 report


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Third-party formatter URL, Open Media Database film ID, broadcast by, musical conductor, Student register of the University of Helsinki 1640–1852 ID, Belgian Senate person ID, Flemish Parliament person ID, DRÚSOP ID


 * Query examples:
 * places of birth of living US senators (compare with last week's)
 * Wikidata map of filming locations (source)
 * Streets in Paris named after a physician (source)
 * Moons of trans-Neptunian objects (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Chess


 * Development
 * Fixed a rounding error in the geo coordinate formatter (see [//github.com/DataValues/Geo/pull/78 GitHub]). Thanks, 0x686578!
 * Improvements to technical error messages, e.g. "illegal value" when editing a Commons media statement (T141880).
 * Continued working on a new parser function to get rich, formatted statements.
 * Continued working on making entity usage information visible to users.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * 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!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

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Tech News: 2016-43
<section begin="technews-2016-W43"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * The abuse filters had a problem and caught too many edits. This has now been fixed.

Changes this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from October 26. It will be on all wikis from October 27 (calendar).
 * The "Search" text in the search box will show the name of the project. For example, on Wikipedia it will say "Search Wikipedia".
 * About a dozen wikis now have numerical sorting in categories. If your wiki wants numerical sorting in categories you can ask for it.
 * Some wikis that want numerical sorting in categories can also ask to use UCA to sort categories. The biggest difference is that characters with diacritics will be sorted together. For example, for most languages Ä will be sorted with A instead of at the end of the alphabet. This is not true for languages that have Ä as a character in their alphabet. Wikis that already use UCA are listed on Meta. Languages that can use UCA are listed on MediaWiki.org. You can test it.

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Wikidata weekly summary #233
<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;"> The birthday week started and already a lot of events happened, presents have been shared, stories have been told! Here's what you may have missed:
 * Wikidata's birthday: presents, stories and events
 * a word from the development team by Lydia
 * a new version of the map showing all the Wikidata items with geolocalisation, by Addshore, who explains how he generated it in a blog post
 * The 4th birthday logo by Incabell
 * A new release of the Wikipedia and Wikidata Tools for Google Spreadsheets add-on has made working with Wikidata a lot easier for Google Sheets users, by Tomayac
 * A guide to SPARQL and the Wikidata Query Service, by TweetsFactsAndQueries
 * Four new types of charts for the Query Service: line chart, bar chart, scatter chart and area chart (read more and try examples in the documentation) by Jonas
 * , a new parser function is currently in development with better features that you can try on beta by the Wikidata dev team and volunteers
 * Search field added in Scholia, a tool to create scholarship profiles, by fnielsen
 * 10 cool queries for Wikidata that will blow your mind. Number 7 will shock you, by Jens and Cornelius
 * 4 years of Wikidata by Stryn
 * A lot of people celebrating and posting pictures on Twitter or on Commons!

The birthday party is not finished yet, every day until November 4th you will discover new presents and stories. Follow the project chat or the mailing-list or #Wikidatabirthday to get the news!


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Wikidata birthday in Kanpur (India), November 3rd
 * Wikidata birthday in Berlin (Germany), November 4th
 * Wikidata birthday in Rennes (France), November 5th
 * OKlab Berlin hacknights, October 31st and November 7th
 * Pidapalooza, Reykjavik, November 9-10
 * Past: Ladies that FOSS (livetweet report)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: SummitPost ID, lib.reviews ID, Galiciana Author ID, ICAA rating, KINENOTE person ID, NGS pumping station ID, third-party formatter URL, Open Media Database film ID, broadcast by


 * Query examples:
 * Deities and their families
 * [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%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20p%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20v%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fstatement%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20q%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fqualifier%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20rdfs%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2F01%2Frdf-schema%23%3E%0APREFIX%20ps%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fstatement%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20psv%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fstatement%2Fvalue%2F%3E%0A%0A%20%20%20%23%20%20Query%20to%20find%20the%20most-frequently%20represented%0A%20%20%20%23%20%20variants%20of%20the%20male%20given%20name%20%3Ftgt_name%0A%20%20%20%23%20%20when%20%3Ftgt_name%20%3D%20Q2958359%0A%20%20%20%23%20%20Query%20generated%20by%20%5B%5BTemplate%3ANameVariantStatsM%5D%5D%0A%0ASELECT%20%3Fname%20%3FnameLabel%20%3Fcount%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20hint%3AQuery%20hint%3Aoptimizer%20%22None%22%20.%20%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fname%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fa%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fname%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%3Fname%20wdt%3AP460%2A%20wd%3AQ15235674%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%20wd%3AQ15235674%20wdt%3AP460%2A%20%3Fname%7D%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fname%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ12308941%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%20LIMIT%20100%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fa%20wdt%3AP735%20%3Fname%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fa%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fname%0A%20%20%7D%20.%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%0A%23%20HAVING%20%28%3Fcount%20%3E%201%29%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29%20%3FitemLabel%0A Most frequently variants of given names] (source)
 * Cheese made with cow milk (source)
 * Abandoned villages in the Czech Republic (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Informatics: File Formats
 * Newest database reports: Liam Neeson filmography


 * Development
 * We proposed a meaningful initial order for the statementSort gadget (T147062)
 * Commons media file properties now support pasting full Wikimedia Commons URLs (T147917)
 * Added distinct hover tooltips to rank and snak type selectors, as well as some of the "add" buttons (T139356)
 * Our concept base URI will be exposed as part of the [#action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=general ] API (T143910). Thanks, user Lokal Profil!
 * Progress on the  API module to query entity usage information (T145880)
 * Progress on the new parser function for rich, formatted statements (T142940)
 * Released [//github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModel/releases/tag/6.2.0 Wikibase DataModel 6.2.0]
 * Released [//phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/GDVV/browse/master/RELEASE-NOTES.md ValueView 0.18.0]

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * 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!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

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Tech News: 2016-44
<section begin="technews-2016-W44"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * Now you can include Commons video films with subtitles in your wiki language. Before you could see translated videos on file page at Commons only.
 * Search now has an updated preference tab to configure the search completion suggester.
 * The visual editor is now available on all wikis using only one language script.

Changes this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 1st. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 2nd. It will be on all wikis from November 3rd (calendar).
 * Now you can use autocomplete for page names in "" field when editing templates.
 * Special:NewPages can now be filtered by page size.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg New MediaWiki deployments will be now based on MediaWiki 1.29.

Miscellaneous
 * The Wikimedia Foundation's Technical Collaboration Guideline is available for community review. Any feedback welcome, in any language.

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Books and Bytes - Issue 19
<div style = "color: #936c29; font-size: 4em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif"> The Wikipedia Library <span style="font-size: 2em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif">Books & Bytes

Issue 19, September–October 2016 by Nikkimaria, Sadads and UY Scuti <div style = "margin-top: 1.5em; border: 3px solid #ae8c55; border-radius: .5em; padding: 1em 1.5em; font-size: .9em"> Read the full newsletter 19:07, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
 * New and expanded donations - Foreign Affairs, Open Edition, and many more
 * New Library Card Platform and Conference news
 * Spotlight: Fixing one million broken links

WikiCup 2016 November newsletter: Final results
The final round of the 2016 WikiCup is over. Congratulations to the 2016 WikiCup top three finalists:
 * First Place -
 * Second Place -
 * Third Place -

In addition to recognizing the achievements of the top finishers and everyone who worked hard to make it to the final round, we also want to recognize those participants who were most productive in each of the WikiCup scoring categories:
 * Featured Article – Cas Liber (actually a three-way tie with themselves for two FAs in each of R2, R3, and R5).
 * Good Article – MPJ-DK had 14 GAs promoted in R3.
 * Featured List – produced 2 FLs in R2
 * Featured Pictures – Adam Cuerden restored 18 images to FP status in R4.
 * Featured Portal – produced the only FPO of the Cup in R2.
 * Featured Topic – and Calvin were each responsible for one FT in R3 and R2, respectively.
 * Good Topic – MPJ-DK created a GT with 9 GAs in R5.
 * Did You Know – MPJ-DK put 53 DYKs on the main page in R4.
 * In The News – and, each with 5 ITN, both in R4.
 * Good Article Review – MPJ-DK completed 61 GARs in R2.

Over the course of the 2016 WikiCup the following content was added to Wikipedia (only reporting on fixed value categories): 17 Featured Articles, 183 Good Articles, 8 Featured Lists, 87 Featured Pictures, 40 In The News, and 321 Good Article Reviews. Thank you to all the competitors for your hard work and what you have done to improve Wikipedia.--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:52, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

We will open up a discussion for comments on process and scoring in a few days. The 2017 WikiCup is just around the corner! Many thanks from all the judges. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. ,, and

WikiProject Good Articles's 2016-2017 GA Cup
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Wikidata weekly summary #234
<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;">

Thanks to everyone who celebrated the birthday by organizing or attending to an event, letting a message on Wikidata or on the social networks, writing a story or creating a present!
 * Fourth birthday: thank you!

Here's the list of the birthday presents from the community and development team:
 * d:Template:User Wikidata birthday 2016 (Pigsonthewing)
 * A new version of the map showing all the Wikidata items with geolocalisation (Addshore)
 * Wikidata's 4th birthday logo (Incabell)
 * A new release of the Wikipedia and Wikidata Tools for Google Spreadsheets add-on has made working with Wikidata a lot easier for Google Sheets users. (Tomayac)
 * A guide to SPARQL and the Wikidata Query Service (TweetsFactsAndQueries)
 * Four new types of charts for the Query Service: line chart, bar chart, scatter chart and area chart! Read more and try examples in the documentation (Jonas)
 * , a new parser function is currently in development with better features: try it here! (Thiemo, Wikidata dev team and volunteers)
 * Search field added in Scholia, a tool to create scholarship profiles (fnielsen)
 * Technical documentation about Wikibase for PHP and JS scripts (Ladsgroup and Jonas)
 * new feature for the graph view in the Query Service: it can now browse the properties of items. see in the video (Jonas)
 * graph builder tool for the query service to create and export graphs (demo video) (Jonas, [[d:user:Smalyshev (WMF)|Smalyshev)
 * d:Module:PropertyPath and d:Template:Show Path Items (TomT0m)
 * Everything is connected, a knowledge game based on Wikidata and Commons (list of levels) (Denny)


 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Editing descriptions from Wikipedia Android app


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Histropedia: “The power of data visualisation combined with free knowledge” on WMF's blog
 * Presenting the Wikidata Human Gender Indicators by Max Klein
 * How the world’s first Wikidata Visiting Scholar created linked open data for five thousand works of art on WMF's blog


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Music in Canada at 150 Wikipedia Project, a multifaceted campaign to increase the amount and quality of content about Canadian music in Wikipedia and Wikidata
 * 400,000,000th edit was made.
 * The average amount of statements per item became higher than five and is still growing.
 * Wikidata entities usage on Wikimedia projects


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: DRÚSOP ID, code, encoding, BALaT image ID, DocCheck Flexikon De ID, DocCheck Flexikon En ID, biography at the Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Cellosaurus ID, World Spider Catalog ID, Squash Info ID, MSC ID, Yahoo! Japan Talent Database ID, Bandcamp artist ID, French National Assembly Lobbyist ID, BanQ author ID, statistical leader, Sandbox-Monolingual text II


 * Query examples:
 * Continents on Wikidata (All eleven of them) (source)
 * Sluices on the river "Vilaine" in Brittany (source)
 * Countries with most cities named after saints (source)
 * Disney characters who share name with their actors (source)
 * 204 items that cite themselves (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20statements%20with%20two%20references%20where%20one%20source%20cites%20the%20other%0ASELECT%20%3Fsubject%20%3FsubjectLabel%20%3FpropertyLabel%20%3FobjectLabel%20%3Fsource1Label%20%3Fsource2Label%0AWITH%20%7B%20%23%20subquery%20that%20actually%20finds%20the%20statements%20and%20sources%20%28written%20as%20named%20subquery%20to%20ensure%20it%E2%80%99s%20only%20run%20once%2C%20independently%20of%20the%20rest%20of%20the%20query%3B%20see%20https%3A%2F%2Fwiki.blazegraph.com%2Fwiki%2Findex.php%2FNamedSubquery%29%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fstatement%20%3Fsource1%20%3Fsource2%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fstatement%20prov%3AwasDerivedFrom%2Fpr%3AP248%20%3Fsource1%2C%20%3Fsource2.%20%23%20statement%20has%20two%20%E2%80%9Cstated%20in%E2%80%9D%20references%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fsource1%20wdt%3AP2860%20%3Fsource2.%20%23%20first%20source%20cites%20the%20second%20one%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Fsource1%20%21%3D%20%3Fsource2%29.%20%23%20apparently%20some%20items%20cite%20themselves%3F%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25results%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25results.%0A%20%20%23%20auxiliary%20query%20to%20find%20the%20subject%2C%20property%20and%20object%20of%20the%20statement%2C%20as%20well%20as%20labels%0A%20%20%3Fsubject%20%3Fp%20%3Fstatement.%0A%20%20%3Fstatement%20%3Fps%20%3Fobject.%0A%20%20%3Fproperty%20a%20wikibase%3AProperty%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3Aclaim%20%3Fp%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AstatementProperty%20%3Fps.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D Statements with two references where one source cites the other] (source)


 * Development
 * Stable interface policy update
 * More work on federation in order to be able to use Wikidata's items and properties to describe media files on Wikimedia Commons in the future (T149580)
 * Worked on first version of Lexeme entity type (T148139)
 * Worked more on linking values in Lua and the property parser function instead of just returning the label (T142940) You can test it here: https://de.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Statements
 * Improved map layer colors in the query service (T148022)
 * Improved size of map markers in the query service (T148496)
 * Upcoming: quantity changes
 * Worked more on automated sitelinks for Wiktionary (T987) Test system is coming in the next days.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * 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!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

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Tech News: 2016-45
<section begin="technews-2016-W45"/> 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
 * Victoria Coleman is the new Chief technology officer for the Wikimedia Foundation.
 * First release candidate for MediaWiki 1.28 is now available.
 * Octicons-tools.svg for MediaWiki branches and extensions switched from targeting a specific branch to using.
 * Section numbers in Table of Contents boxes will use grey to improve readability.

Changes this week
 * The 2016 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 7 November.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 8th. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 9th. It will be on all wikis from November 10th (calendar).
 * Special:ActiveUsers will allow users groups selection.

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 8 November 2016 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are Image Thumbnail API and allow SVG files uploaded on MediaWiki to have XHTML namespaces. The meeting will be on 9 November at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * RevisionSlider will be enabled by default on all beta wikis, on testwiki, testwiki2, mediawikiwiki and de.wikipedia.org.
 * Upcoming holidays will impact deployments. The schedule has been published.

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This Month in GLAM: October 2016
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Saturday November 12: Women in Science Edit-a-thon @ NY Academy of Sciences (plus Sunday Indigenous People's Justice event)
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Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins
Hello,

Please note that TOTP based two-factor authentication is now available for all administrators. In light of the recent compromised accounts, you are encouraged to add this additional layer of security to your account. It may be enabled on your preferences page in the "User profile" tab under the "Basic information" section. For basic instructions on how to enable two-factor authentication, please see the developing help page for additional information. Important: Be sure to record the two-factor authentication key and the single use keys. If you lose your two factor authentication and do not have the keys, it's possible that your account will not be recoverable. Furthermore, you are encouraged to utilize a unique password and two-factor authentication for the email account associated with your Wikimedia account. This measure will assist in safeguarding your account from malicious password resets. Comments, questions, and concerns may be directed to the thread on the administrators' noticeboard. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:33, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #235
<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;"> This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-11-12.


 * Discussions
 * Current request for comments: Editing descriptions from Wikipedia Android app


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Wikidata and the Chain of Death, by Karl Beecher
 * Scaling multilingual name tags with Wikidata OpenStreetMap contributor blog post
 * Wikidata and Persistent Identifiers was presented at PIDapalooza November 9th.
 * Wikidata in OpenStreetMap
 * Wikidata and the Semantic Web of Food


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * A new Wikidata PageRank dataset has been published. The dataset was computed in August 2016 and provides PageRank scores for 10,364,840 Wikidata entities.
 * Due to a possible hack, please consider resetting your passwords.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: generation time, hazard on site,	ACM Digital Library event ID,	ACM Digital Library citation ID,	HGVS nomenclature,	Supermodels.nl ID,	CIViC variant ID,	wurvoc.org measure ID,	Réserves Naturelles de France ID,	World Waterfall Database ID,	Ylioppilasmatrikkeli 1853–1899 ID,	ID petit-patrimoine.com,	opponent during disputation,	Vlindernet ID,	male form of label,	board member,	Patrimonio Inmueble de Andalucía ID,	BDI ID,	ICCF ID,	chesstempo ID,	365chess player ID,	plan image,	muscle action,	SummitPost ID,	lib.reviews ID,	Galiciana Author ID,	ICAA rating,	KINENOTE person ID,	NGS pumping station ID,	third-party formatter URL,	Open Media Database film ID,	broadcast by,	musical conductor,	Student register of the University of Helsinki 1640–1852 ID,	Belgian Senate person ID,	Flemish Parliament person ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of educational institutes from all over the world (source)
 * Current US Supreme Court justices by their date of birth (source)
 * Death dates of people with Wikidata items (source)
 * French towns that a street in Paris is name after(source)
 * Statements with “reason for deprecation” rank that aren’t deprecated(source)


 * Development
 * More work on federation (T76007)
 * Worked on first basic version of Lexeme entity type for Wiktionary support (T148139)
 * Test system for automated language links for Wiktionary (T987)
 * Analysed feedback prototype for editing on Wikipedia in order to refine it
 * Worked on mapping Commons workflows and needs
 * Analysed queries used with Listeria
 * More work on making ArticlePlaceholder pages indexeable by search engines (T117693)
 * More work on enabling translations from existing articles in other languages on ArticlePlaceholder pages (T124036)
 * Link to local articles in ArticlePlaceholders (T113955)
 * Fix for bug that prevented editing (T150401)
 * Experimented with improvements for property suggestions (T132839)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * 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!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

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Tech News: 2016-46
<section begin="technews-2016-W46"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * When you edit with the visual editor you can use  +   +   to add a reference. The meta key is often the control key or command key.

Changes this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 16. It will be on all wikis from November 17 (calendar).
 * In Special:Preferences you can choose which language menus and buttons will be in. If there is no translation for that language, MediaWiki has a list of fallback languages. A fallback language is a language many will understand better than English. MediaWiki will now use English when there is no Ukrainian translation.

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 15 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Magic links might not work in the future.

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A new user right for New Page Patrollers
Hi.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins) .MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:47, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #236
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: How to make new languages enabled on Wikidata


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Problematizing and Addressing the Article as Concept Assumption in Wikipedia (Q27827559)
 * schema.org, Wikidata, Knowledge Graph: strands of the modern semantic web by Dan Scott


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Parlement & Politiek ID (P1749) has been completed in Mix'n'match. Over 5000 politicians from the Netherlands (and also Belgium) now have a link to this resource
 * Two policies about abandoned tools on Tool Labs are currently voted on
 * The Community Wishlist Survey is now closed and the vote phase will start on November 28. Here's the category for Wikidata
 * Data import hub and Data import guide: feel free to give feedbacks on these documents!


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: musipedia tune ID, Adult Film Database person ID, WHO international non-proprietary names ID, designed to carry, National Library of Greece ID, PermID, HKMDb person ID, RxNorm CUI, Vote Smart ID, legislation.gov.uk ID, significant person, Kvikmyndir person ID, Kvikmyndir film ID, World Surf League ID, Encyclopedia of Surfing ID


 * Query examples:
 * Occupations of women, with French female-form labels (source, database report)
 * Documents with most signatories (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Wikidata%20map%20of%20James%20Bond%20filming%20locations%0A%23%20SPARQL%20by%20Jura1%2C%202016-11-05%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%09%3Ffilm%20%28CONCAT%28str%28%3FactorLabel%29%2C%20%22%20%2Fin%2F%20%22%2C%20str%28%3FfilmLabel%29%2C%20%22%20--%20the%20%22%2C%20str%28%3FfilmDescription%29%29%20as%20%3Flayer%29%20%0A%09%09%3Fenwiki_article%09%3Fcoor%09%0A%09%09%3Ffilminglocation%09%3FfilminglocationLabel%0A%7B%09SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Ffilm%09%3FfilmLabel%20%3FfilmDescription%20%09%3Fenwiki_article%09%3Fcoor%09%3Ffilminglocation%09%3FfilminglocationLabel%20%3FactorLabel%20%3FpropertyLabel%20%0A%09%7B%0A%20%20%09%3Fstatement%20pq%3AP453%20wd%3AQ2009573%20.%0A%20%20%09%3Ffilm%20p%3AP161%20%3Fstatement%20.%20%3Fstatement%20ps%3AP161%20%3Factor%20.%0A%20%20%09%3Ffilm%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2A%20wd%3AQ11424%20.%0A%20%20%09%3Ffilm%20wdt%3AP915%20%3Ffilminglocation%20.%0A%20%20%09%3Ffilminglocation%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoor%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Ffilminglocation%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Ffilminglocation%20%7D%20%20%0A%09OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fenwiki_article%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Ffilm%20%3B%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20%7D%0A%09SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Ffilm%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FfilmLabel%20.%20%3Ffilm%20schema%3Adescription%20%3FfilmDescription%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Ffilminglocation%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FfilminglocationLabel%20.%20%3Factor%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FactorLabel%20%20%7D%0A%09%7D%0A%7D Filming locations of James Bond films] (source)
 * United States National Historic Landmarks not actually located in the United States (source)
 * Items with VIAF, but no P31/279 (source)
 * Newest database reports: List of Italian language films without articles in Italian Wikipedia


 * Development
 * Unit conversion has been rolled out for the first dimension for a short while now.
 * Undo diffs now utilize language fallbacks for property and item labels (315291). Thanks to Matěj Suchánek!
 * Reworked database schema for Cognate (the extension that will do automatic interwiki links for Wiktionary). It is still waiting for security review before it can be deployed.
 * Worked more on basic version of Lexeme entity type
 * Fixed a bug where the links on action=info where wrong (T149598)
 * Getting close to finishing the groundwork for Federation so that in the future you'll be able to use Wikidata's items and properties to describe files on Commons.
 * Added Innu-aimun as a language for monolingual text values (T151129)
 * Worked on linking to Wikipedia articles in the statements on an ArticlePlaceholder (T113955)
 * ArticlePlaceholder got a button to translate articles via the ContentTranslation extension (T124036)
 * Prepared a bot to fix quantity values after the recent changes to precisions (T142087)
 * Did user interviews for use cases and workflows on Commons
 * Analyzed more Listeria queries in order to figure out steps forward for easier query writing

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

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 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help write the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Tech News: 2016-47
<section begin="technews-2016-W47"/>

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
 * Administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers can now use two-factor authentication. This makes their Wikimedia accounts more secure. This can be turned on in Special:Preferences. There are discussions on how to best turn it on for everyone.
 * You can now search for file properties. For example you can search for media type, how big a file is or what resolution it has.
 * The latest Collaboration team products newsletter has been published. It has more details about their work than Tech News has.

Problems
 * A hacker group is hacking Wikimedia accounts. They can probably do this because users have the same passwords on Wikimedia wikis as on other sites. Please have a password you use only on the Wikimedia wikis and nowhere else. This is especially important for administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers. These users can also turn on two-factor authentication.

Changes this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
 * RevisionSlider will be a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia. This will happen on 22 November. It will come to other wikis later.

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 22 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * It will be possible to do cross-wiki search. The developers who work on this are looking for communities that want to test this.
 * Hovercards will leave the beta stage. The Wikimedia Foundation Reading Web team wants communities to set Hovercards as a default option for readers who are not logged in. Communities that are interested can say so on the Hovercards talk page.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2016-W47"/> 15:33, 21 November 2016 (UTC)