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Wikidata weekly summary #303
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Notability and Commons


 * Events
 * Upcoming: WikiIndaba in Tunis, 16-18 March. There will be several Wikidata-related sessions
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Paris, March 16th


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Structured Data on Commons is the most important development in Wikimedia's usability, by John Lubbock
 * Data on the history of Scottish witch trials added to Wikidata, by John Lubbock
 * German Wikidata Workshop on "Wikidata: Potential uses and application examples for digital cultural heritage" during the conference DHd 2018
 * Automatically Generating Wikipedia Info-boxes from Wikidata, by Tomás Sáez and Aidan Hogan
 * Linking ImageNet WordNet Synsets with Wikidata, by Finn Årup Nielsen
 * Towards a Question Answering System over the Semantic Web, by Dennis Diefenbach et al.
 * Practical Linked Data Access via SPARQL: The Case of Wikidata, by Markus Krötzsch et al.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * WDQS updater switched to Kafka
 * First version of Lexicographical Data will be released in April
 * Wikidata:Database reports/Constraint violations updated
 * "autopatrolled" entries to be removed from the logging table
 * You can have a look at the Europeana migration campaign and help with translations in your languages
 * Mix'n'Match new features: Creation Candidates and Top missing entries
 * WDCM Journal: gender equity in Wikidata usage


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: calculated from
 * External identifiers: Ready64 identifier, GameBase 64 identifier, Plus/4 World identifier, Rugby Football Union men's player ID, Snooker.org tournament ID, Rugby Football Union women's sevens player ID, Rugby Football Union men's sevens player ID, CueTracker tournament ID, Rugby Football Union women's player ID, PRotein Ontology ID, Invaluable.com artist ID, Ricorso author ID, AINM ID, Julien ID, Todotango.com artist ID, Todotango.com work ID, The Big Cartoon DataBase ID, Small Monuments of Plzeň Catalogue ID, SFMOMA artist ID, Japan Rugby Football Union men's player ID, Japan Rugby Football Union women's player ID, BFMTV.com director ID, Japan Rugby Football Union women's sevens player ID, Japan Rugby Football Union men's sevens player ID, Societe.com director ID, Dominicains ID, Premiers préfets ID


 * Query examples:
 * Some costume items ending in 'us'
 * Women on Wikidata without article in any Wikipedia, ordered by number of statements (source)
 * WikiProjects about women (source)
 * Software of the KDE community (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20films%20starring%20more%20than%20one%20future%20head%20of%20government%0ASELECT%20%3Ffilm%20%3FfilmLabel%20%3FfilmDescription%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3FheadOfGovernmentLabel%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%20%28GROUP_CONCAT%28DISTINCT%20CONCAT%28%3FheadOfGovernmentLabel%2C%20%22%2C%20%22%40en%2C%20%3Fdescription%29%3B%20separator%20%3D%20%22%3B%20%22%29%20AS%20%3FheadsOfGovernment%29%20%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Ffilm%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ11424%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP577%20%3FpublicationDate%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP161%20%3FheadOfGovernmentStatement.%0A%20%20%3FheadOfGovernmentStatement%20ps%3AP161%20%3FheadOfGovernment.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FheadOfGovernmentStatement%20pq%3AP453%20%3Fcharacter.%20%3Fcharacter%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FcharacterLabel.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FcharacterLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%20%7D%20%23%20label%20service%20doesn%E2%80%99t%20work%20for%20this%20one%20for%20some%20reason%20%E2%80%93%20perhaps%20the%20query%20optimizer%20is%20being%20stupid%20and%20moving%20the%20label%20service%20before%20this%20optional%20block%2C%20so%20that%20%3Fcharacter%20isn%E2%80%99t%20bound%20yet%20when%20the%20label%20service%20runs%0A%20%20%3FheadOfGovernment%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP39%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP39%20%3Fposition%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP580%20%3FstartTime%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%3Fposition%20wdt%3AP279%2B%20wd%3AQ2285706.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3FstartTime%20%3E%20%3FpublicationDate%29%20%23%20%2afuture%2a%20head%20of%20government%0A%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3FheadOfGovernment%20p%3AP39%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP39%20%3FotherPosition%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP580%20%3FotherStartTime%0A%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FotherPosition%20wdt%3AP279%2B%20wd%3AQ2285706.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3FotherStartTime%20%3C%20%3FpublicationDate%29%20%23%20not%20already%20a%20head%20of%20government%20%28some%20people%20held%20multiple%20%E2%80%9Chead%20of%20government%E2%80%9D%20offices%2C%20or%20the%20same%20one%20multiple%20times%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Ffilm%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FfilmLabel%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3Adescription%20%3FfilmDescription.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FheadOfGovernment%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FheadOfGovernmentLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fposition%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FpositionLabel.%0A%20%20%7D%20hint%3APrior%20hint%3ArunLast%20false.%0A%20%20BIND%28IF%28BOUND%28%3FcharacterLabel%29%2C%20CONCAT%28%3FcharacterLabel%2C%20%22%20%2F%20%22%40en%2C%20%3FpositionLabel%29%2C%20%3FpositionLabel%29%20AS%20%3Fdescription%29%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Ffilm%20%3FfilmLabel%20%3FfilmDescription%0AHAVING%28%3Fcount%20%3E%201%29%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29%20ASC%28MIN%28%3FpublicationDate%29%29 Films starring more than one future head of government] (source)
 * [http://histropedia.com/showcase/wikidata-viewer.html?q=%23Female%20computer%20scientists%0ASELECT%20?person%20?personLabel%20?birthDate%20?birthPrecision%20?deathDate%20?deathPrecision%20?image%20?educated_at%20?country_of_birth%20?award_received%20?rank%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%7B%0ASELECT%20?person%20?birthDate%20?birthPrecision%20?educationItem%20?birthCountryItem%20?awardsItem%20?rank%0A(SAMPLE(?deathDate)%20as%20?deathDate)%0A(SAMPLE(?deathPrecision)%20as%20?deathPrecision)%0A(SAMPLE(?image)%20as%20?image)%0AWHERE%20%7B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A?person%20wdt:P106/wdt:P279*%20wd:Q82594%20.%20%0A?person%20wdt:P31%20wd:Q5%20.%0A?person%20wdt:P21%20wd:Q6581072%20.%0A?person%20p:P569/psv:P569%20?birthDateNode%20.%0A?birthDateNode%20wikibase:timeValue%20?birthDate%20.%0A?birthDateNode%20wikibase:timePrecision%20?birthPrecision%20.%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B?person%20p:P570/psv:P570%20?deathDateNode%20.%0A?deathDateNode%20wikibase:timeValue%20?deathDate%20.%0A?deathDateNode%20wikibase:timePrecision%20?deathPrecision%20.%0A%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B?person%20wdt:P18%20?image%20%7D%20%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B?person%20wdt:P19%20?birthPlaceItem%20.%20?birthPlaceItem%20wdt:P17%20?birthCountryItem%20%7D%20%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B?person%20wdt:P69%20?educationItem%20%7D%20%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B?person%20wdt:P166%20?awardsItem%20%7D%20%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B?article%20schema:about%20?person%20%7D%0A?person%20wikibase:sitelinks%20?rank%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20?person%20?birthDate%20?birthPrecision%20?educationItem%20?birthCountryItem%20?awardsItem%20%20?rank%0A%7D%0ASERVICE%20wikibase:label%20%7B%0Abd:serviceParam%20wikibase:language%20%27en%27%20.%0A?person%20rdfs:label%20?personLabel%20.%0A?educationItem%20rdfs:label%20?educated_at%20.%0A?birthCountryItem%20rdfs:label%20?country_of_birth%20.%0A?awardsItem%20rdfs:label%20?award_received%20.%0A%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC%20(?rank)&md=true&g=person&l=person&t=personLabel&s=birthDate&sp=birthPrecision&e=deathDate&ep=deathPrecision&i=image&c=country_of_birth&f=educated_at,award_received&v=t Timeline of prominent Women Computer Scientists] (source)
 * Newest database reports: list of episodes of Borgen


 * Development
 * Significantly (on average to 1/4th) reduced the number of changes from Wikidata showing up on the watchlists and recent changes on Wikipedias and the other sister projects. This way changes that do not affect an article should no longer show up. We're still holding off roll-out to Commons, Cebuano, Waray-Waray and Armenian Wikipedia because of scalability concerns.
 * Working on optimizing one of the largest database tables (wb_terms) (T188279)
 * Fixing a bug on how Wikidata changes are shown on Wikipedia (T189320)
 * Continued addressing security review issues for Wikibase-Lexeme extension (T186726)

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


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

Final note from Léa: thanks to people who participated to the feedback page! Today's Weekly Summary is already improved thanks to your suggestions. Feel free to add more comments, and feel free to edit the newsletter yourself: all small contributions are welcome :)

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Tech News: 2018-11
 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
 * 3D models can now be uploaded to Commons.
 * Page Previews has been updated to use HTML for previews. This has fixed many issues. An A/B test was done on English and German Wikipedia to measure how it is used. Other changes were also made.
 * Some edits have to be checked against too many conditions before they can trigger an abuse filter. If that is the reason no filter is triggered the edit will be [ tagged] for review.
 * Auto-saving has been added to the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. Right now it is meant to help if your browser crashes or if you accidentally close a tab.

Problems
 * The abuse filter did not tag all edits that should have been tagged after last week's MediaWiki version had come to the wikis. It was fixed on 9 March (UTC).

Changes later this week
 * You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. This was originally planned to happen last week.
 * It is now possible to specify the block parameters for each filter in Special:AbuseFilter. The parameters include block duration and if the user should be blocked from editing their own talk page. The block duration is separate for anonymous and registered users.
 * Octicons-tools.svg A hundred Wikimedia wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 13 and 14 March. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 March. It will be on all wikis from 15 March (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 March at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Tech News: 2018-12
 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
 * On March 12 early morning UTC, the number of 503 error messages increased due to an issue on esams datacenter. It has been fixed.

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

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg There is no Editing team meeting this week.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * From April 4, the autopatrol status of edits will only be accessible in the Recent Changes database table, so only for 30 days.
 * In-Context Help and Onboarding is a new project, aiming to improve retention of new wiki editors. The goal is to give them short tutorials and other training experiences based on their activity. Collaboration team is expecting feedback and comments on the project talk page, especially from people working with newcomers.

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Wikidata weekly summary #304
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Open requests for adminship: Putnik, Okkn


 * Events
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Eindhoven, NL, March 24th


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Mind the (Language) Gap: Generation of Multilingual Wikipedia Summaries from Wikidata for ArticlePlaceholders by Lucie-Aimée Kaffee et al.
 * Semantic labeling for quantitative data using Wikidata, by Phuc Nguyen and Hideaki Takeda
 * OpenStreetMap Interview: Andy Mabbett, Wikidata and OSM - The OpenCage Geocoder blog
 * How we’re using machine learning to visually enrich Wikidata, by Miriam Redi on WMF's blog


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The property suggestions were updated last week, the last update was in December 2017. The most noticable effect is the higher ranking of "family name" (P734) on items about people. Input about the suggester is still welcome.
 * There is an early conversation about structured licensing and copyright on Wikimedia Commons.
 * George, le deuxième texte (fr), a website querying Wikidata to find French female authors, in order to bring more diversity in the literature school programs
 * New, configurable download page for Mix’n’match catalogs (example)
 * The Su Lab is looking for a postdoctoral researcher to work on Wikidata in the Gene Wiki team
 * Help:Conflation of 2 persons


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: download link, INCI name, safety classification and labelling, may prevent, classification of the best at metas volantes
 * External identifiers: Library of Congress Demographic Group Terms ID, TMDb movie ID, DDB ID, Irish Rugby Football Union men's sevens player ID, Irish Rugby Football Union women's sevens player ID, Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms ID, MR Author ID, BDH edition ID, AIDA freediver ID, equipement.paris.fr place ID, Generation MSX identifier, Sega8bit.com identifier, Abandonia identifier


 * New property proposals to review: Norwegian war sailor register ID, PRS Legislative Research MP ID, Thésaurus de la désignation des œuvres architecturales et des espaces aménagés ID, Thésaurus de la désignation des objets mobiliers ID, TMDB person id, TMDB TV series ID, Biographical Dictionary of Georgia ID, ruchess ID,  UK Provider Reference Number, Hungarian public body ID, medical evacuation to, hearing date, TMDB person id, TMDB TV series ID, RKDlibrary ID, IDA place ID, Kinoliste ID, Routard.com place ID, Scottish Rugby Union men's player ID, Scottish Rugby Union women's player ID, Scottish Rugby Union men's sevens player ID, Scottish Rugby Union women's sevens player ID, Women’s Elite Rugby ID
 * Query examples:
 * Megalithic sites in Spain (source)
 * Major periods of Japanese history and what they were named after (source)
 * Islandic names that are not ending in "son" or "dottir (source)
 * In what language does Q137 and Q12518 have the same label? (source)
 * Timeline of Earth's artificial satellites (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Indigenous peoples of North America
 * Newest database reports: Friends episodes list

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
 * Development
 * Looking into current Lua usage to see where we can improve the Lua functions we provide (T189506)
 * When there is a constraint violation in a reference, the reference is now automatically expanded to make it more visible (T177970)
 * Looked into issues around notifying the Wikipedias about changes happening on Wikidata (sometimes delayed due to too quick bot editing) (T189772)
 * Fixed some translation issues in the embeded part of the Query Service (T188990)
 * Fixed an issue with usernames being broken for Wikidata changes in watchlist and RC on Wikipedia (T189320)
 * Optimizing a heavily used database table (wb_terms) (T188279)
 * Polishing a lot of things for lexicographical data first deployment
 * Make it possible to remove a Form (T173332)


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

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:07, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

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Collaboration products newsletter: 2018-03
Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team, about Map improvements 2018, Notifications, Structured discussions and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?

The Collaboration team has announced the start of a new project: In-Context Help and Onboarding. The idea is to improve retention of new wiki editors by giving them short tutorials and other training experiences related to, and triggered by, their current activities on the wikis (that’s the “in context” part). The project follows from the conclusions of the New Editor Experiences research. The work is in its very early stages, but we’d like to hear from people with ideas on the subject—particularly if you have experience supporting or training new contributors.

Map improvements 2018 [ More information ]


 * Maps using Maplink and Mapframe functions now include an extra zoom level (level 19). This is part of the Kartographer Improvements, the number one request of the 2017 Community Wishlist survey.

Edit Review Improvements [ More information • Help pages ]
 * Number of edit to show in recent changes information text was incorrect in Special:Preferences. It has been rephrased.

Notifications [ More information • Help pages ]

Recent changes
 * You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. That new feature has been documented.
 * Preferences panel on Special:Notifications was overlapping other elements. This has been fixed.

Future changes
 * An important work is under progress to allow thanks of log entry. This is done by the Community Tech team.

Structured discussions [ More information • Help pages ]

Recent changes
 * Structured Discussions extension has been uninstalled from wikis not using it. However, it is still possible for a community to request a trial of Structured discussions.

Problems
 * It was not possible to opt-in and opt-out Structured discussions on wikis using it as a Beta feature. It is now fixed.

Future changes Collaboration team's newsletter prepared by the Global Collaboration team and posted by bot • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 12:25, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
 * The visual editor and 2017 wikitext editor interface is going to change for consistency. The toolbar, dialogs and menus will appear slightly bigger; some icons will look different. Content or functionality will not change. That change will apply to Structured Discussions as well.

Wikidata weekly summary #305
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Closed request for adminship: Putnik, Okkn. Welcome on board!
 * Closed request for comments: Former ATE


 * Events
 * Upcoming: 1st Workshop on Quality of Open Data, Berlin, July 18–20 (submission deadline May 27)
 * Upcoming: EuropeanaTech and Wikidata Workshop Day for GLAMs, Rotterdam (NL), Monday 14 May. A day of GLAM-related workshops around Wikidata and Structured Commons, for beginners and advanced users.


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * SPLASHes in Wikidata, by Egon Willighagen


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * report about items with identical birth and death dates updated
 * Relator, a tool to improve family relations in Wikidata
 * Descendants check: consistency across multiple generations
 * Due to Easter Monday, the next issue of the Weekly Summary will be sent on Tuesday, April 3rd. Until that day, feel free to add information in there


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: prerequisite, relevant qualification, derivative work, alternate names, test method
 * External identifiers: Biographical Dictionary of Swedish Women, SPLASH, Behind the voice Actors video games ID, Hungarian MP identifier, UK Provider Reference Number, Norwegian war sailor register ID, Wikitribune category, Scottish Rugby Union men's player ID, Scottish Rugby Union men's sevens player ID, Scottish Rugby Union women's player ID, IDA place ID, PRS Legislative Research MP ID, Thésaurus de la désignation des objets mobiliers ID, Thésaurus de la désignation des œuvres architecturales et des espaces aménagés ID, Kinoliste ID, Women’s Elite Rugby ID, TMDb TV series id, TMDb person id, Routard.com place ID, Scottish Rugby Union women's sevens player ID, RKDlibrary ID, Statistics Canada Geographic code, Biographical Dictionary of Georgia ID, DBA ID, Hungarian public body ID, ruchess ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: had part, METAR code, Zulassungszahlen, Analog or derivative of, GHS labelling elements, en opposition à, output method
 * External identifiers: Filmweb.pl film ID, Filmweb.pl person ID, Orthodox Encyclopedia Online ID, National Thesis Number, Deutsche Biographie Identifikator, Welsh Rugby Union IDs (women's XV and men's 7s)


 * Query examples:
 * Airports named after a person, color-coded by gender (source)
 * Movies that Wikidata knows about and that have a German title that implies that someone or something doesn't answer (source)
 * Software developed by people/organizations that have archival material at the ComputerHistory museum (source)
 * Most common eponyms of French departments (source)
 * Newest database reports: HOLBY CI+Y episode list, list of 2-part episodes

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
 * Development
 * New search code for Wikidata merged. You may notice the improvement in the search results output for Wikidata item. However, new code for search is not enabled, only new results format. The search code will be enabled next week.
 * Improving formatting of language and lexical category in diff for Lexemes (T189679)
 * Allow to remove a Form (T189675)
 * Translate the grammatical feature properly on Lexemes (T189143)
 * Investigate and fix a bug on Lexemes when undoing an edit (T187215)
 * Progress on refactoring the table wb_terms (T189777, T188993, T188279)
 * Fixing an error on the caching of the constraint checks (T189842)
 * Improving the performance of a table in the database (T180834)
 * Improving the way we're building dumps (T177550)
 * Investigate on improving Lua functions (T143970)


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

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 13:38, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-13
 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 later this week
 * Some of the interface icons and text sizes will change slightly, as part of the updates for improved accessibility and consistency. These icons are used in many features, including Notifications, Recent Changes, Beta Features, Visual Editor, 2017 Wikitext Editor, Code Editor, and others. While editor toolbars, dialogs, and menus will appear slightly bigger; elements on special pages will be slightly smaller. Functionality will not change.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The deprecated #toc and #toctitle CSS ids have been removed. If your wiki was still using these for fake Tables of Content (ToC) then these might lose their styling. They can be replaced with .toc and .toctitle classes where appropriate.
 * TemplateStyles will be deployed to the Wikivoyages on 28 March 2018.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 March. It will be on all wikis from 29 March (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 March at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
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Future changes
 * From 9 April, the sort order of categories will be distorted for a short time. We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a maintenance script to update existing database entries. This will last anywhere from a few hours to a few days, depending on wiki size. Read more details.
 * Changes are coming to search for Serbian projects. Cyrillic and Latin variants of a word and different grammatical forms of a word will be able to find each other. Read more on MediaWiki in Serbian or English.

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Tech News: 2018-14
<section begin="technews-2018-W14"/> 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
 * Template Wizard script available for testing. It will show up as a puzzle-piece icon in the 2010 WikiEditor. You can click on the icon to insert a template.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey is to be sent to participants around the world this week. If you are volunteer developer, and have contributed code to any pieces of MediaWiki, gadgets, or tools, please take 20 to 40 minutes to complete the survey.

Problems
 * MediaWiki deployment train has been rolled back to version 1.31.0-wmf.26 on week 13, due to a multiplication of lost connections during MySQL queries. Some of the recent changes may have not been applied. They will be deployed next week.
 * The Notifications badge icons were overlapping other links. This has been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 April. It will be on all wikis from 5 April (calendar).
 * Octicons-tools.svg User subpages ending in  will now be protected from other people editing them, like   and   pages already are. If you have a tool that stores static configuration, you can now use a subpage like   to do this without concerns.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Tidy will be replaced by RemexHtml on the next set of wikis. On April 4, we plan to turn off Tidy on all Wikiquotes (except frwikiquote) and Wikimedia chapters and user groups wikis. 23 wikis will have Tidy replaced this time.
 * Octicons-tools.svg AbuseFilter will transition to use OOUI starting April 4, and the rule editor will also be changed to a CodeEditor (ACE) similar to what is found on user JavaScript pages. The move to OOUI will continue over the next few weeks.
 * In Special:Preferences, the preference "" is now only visible for users who have opt-out the New Filters for the Watchlist.
 * You can see names of individual abuse filters in Special:AbuseLog. Now if the name of an abuse filter contains some wikisyntax like links, it will not change to a link when displayed.
 * You can now search through filter patterns at Special:AbuseFilter. You may specify either a plain string or a regular expression and the matching filters will show a snippet of their pattern with the match highlighted.

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Future changes
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Wikidata weekly summary #306
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 * Events
 * Talk by Morane Gruenpeter and Katherine Thornton, presented at LibrePlanet 2018 about software metadata in Software Heritage and Wikidata. Video of the talk. Slides for the talk.


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Making women more visible online—with Wikidata tools by Sandra Fauconnier on WMF's blog


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * if you're working with Lua modules, you can give input here about new functions
 * you can still fill this page if you encounter a problem with suggester ranking


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: National Governors Association biography URL, key press, number of clubs, analog or derivative of, in opposition to
 * External identifiers: Biographical Dictionary of Georgia ID, DBA ID, Hungarian public body ID, ruchess ID, World Para Snowboard athlete ID, METAR code, Orthodox Encyclopedia ID, Amphibians of India ID, National Thesis Number (France)


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: maximum operating temperature, minimum operating temperature, maximum non-operating temperature, minimum non-operating temperature, Специальное звание или классный чин, member of the crew of, service life, Gens, Code of Household Registration and Conscription Information System, Wikipedia glossary entry, assistant director, choral conductor, lighting designer, sound designer, projection designer, video designer, stage crew member, number of representations, talk show guest, adaptation or arrangement of, revival or touring version of
 * External identifiers: DNV GL Vessel register ID, Behind the voice Actors person ID, Identifier of object at prazdnedomy.cz, Digital Typhoon ID, Territographie ID, Chile Rugby player ID, Directory of Open Access Journals ID, Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID, Researchmap ID, OpenEdition Books ID, KIT Linked Open Numbers ID, Animated Knots ID


 * Sparsely used properties created >3 months:
 * Spider Ontology ID (P4537), has listed ingredient (P4543), sexually homologous with (P4545), Everyone Remembered ID (P4551), ICRC PoW ID (P4554), SNCZI-IPE dam ID (P4558), Art Museum of Estonia artwork ID (P4564), electoral district number (P4565), awarded for period (P4566), BPH journal ID (P4569)
 * Deleted properties: P1124 (teu), P3484 (name shares origin with), P4990 (Statistics Canada Geographic code)
 * Query examples:
 * Most common title of paintings in English
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3ATimeline%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Ft%20%3Fvalue%20%20%3FvalueLabel%20%3FrrLabel%20%20%3Frr%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fimage%29%20as%20%3Fimg%29%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20VALUES%20%3Fperson%20%7Bwd%3AQ76480%7D%0A%20%20%7B%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdeath%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20%3Fprop%20%3Ft%20FILTER%20%28datatype%28%3Ft%29%3Dxsd%3AdateTime%29%20FILTER%20%28%3Ft%20%3C%3D%20%3Fdeath%29%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fvalue%20wikibase%3AdirectClaim%20%3Fprop.%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20%3Fq%20%3Fstatement%20%20FILTER%20regex%20%28STR%28%3Fq%29%2C%22prop%2FP%22%29%20.%20%23exclude%20P%3AdescribedBy%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdeath%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%3Fstatement%20%3Fp%20%3Ft%20FILTER%20regex%20%28STR%28%3Fp%29%2C%20%22prop%2Fqualifier%2FP%22%29%20FILTER%20%28datatype%28%3Ft%29%3Dxsd%3AdateTime%29%20FILTER%20%28%3Ft%20%3C%3D%20%3Fdeath%29.%0A%20%20%20%3Fstatement%20%3Fr%20%3Fvalue%20FILTER%20regex%20%28STR%28%3Fr%29%2C%22prop%2Fstatement%2F%22%29%20.%0A%20%20%20BIND%28IRI%28CONCAT%28CONCAT%28SUBSTR%28STR%28%3Fr%29%2C1%2C29%29%2C%22direct%2F%22%29%2CSUBSTR%28STR%28%3Fr%29%2C40%29%29%29%20as%20%3Frprop%29%20%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20wikibase%3AdirectClaim%20%3Frprop%20.%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fvalue%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%20%7B%20%23%20author%20of%20%2F%20creator%20of%0A%20%20%20%3Fvalue%20wdt%3AP50%7Cwdt%3AP98%7Cwdt%3AP655%7Cwdt%3AP1773%7Cwdt%3AP170%7Cwdt%3AP178%7Cwdt%3AP57%7Cwdt%3AP161%20%3Fperson%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdeath%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fbirth%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fvalue%20wdt%3AP571%7Cwdt%3AP577%7Cwdt%3AP580%20%3Ft%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23FILTER%20%28%28%3Ft%20%3C%3D%20%3Fdeath%29%20%26%26%28%3Ft%20%3E%3D%20%3Fbirth%29%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fvalue%20wdt%3AP136%20wd%3AQ7553%20.%7D%0A%20%20%20%23FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fvalue%20wdt%3AP629%20%3Fx%20%7D%20%0A%20%20%20%23FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP800%20%3Fvalue%20%7D%20.%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fvalue%20wdt%3AP1433%20%3Frr%20.%7D%20%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fvalue%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%23%20%20UNION%20%23Notable%20Works%0A%23%20%20%7B%0A%23%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP800%20%3Frr%20%3B%0A%23%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdeath%20%3B%0A%23%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fbirth%20.%0A%23%20%20%20%3Frr%20%20wdt%3AP577%7Cwdt%3AP571%7Cwdt%3AP1191%20%3Ft%20FILTER%20%28%28%3Ft%20%3C%3D%20%3Fdeath%29%26%26%28%3Ft%20%3E%3D%20%3Fbirth%29%29.%0A%23%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Frr%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%7D%0A%23%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20UNION%20%23discoverer%20or%20inventor%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20wdt%3AP61%7Cwdt%3AP138%20%3Fperson%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdeath%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fbirth%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20wdt%3AP575%7Cwdt%3AP571%7Cwdt%3AP585%20%3Ft%20FILTER%20%28%28%3Ft%20%3C%3D%20%3Fdeath%29%26%26%28%3Ft%20%3E%3D%20%3Fbirth%29%29.%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Frr%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20UNION%20%23architect%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20wdt%3AP84%20%3Fperson%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdeath%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fbirth%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20wdt%3AP571%7Cwdt%3AP1619%20%3Ft%20FILTER%20%28%28%3Ft%20%3C%3D%20%3Fdeath%29%26%26%28%3Ft%20%3E%3D%20%3Fbirth%29%29.%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Frr%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%20%23composer%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20wdt%3AP86%7Cwdt%3AP138%20%3Fperson%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdeath%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fbirth%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20wdt%3AP571%7Cwdt%3AP1191%7Cwdt%3AP577%20%3Ft%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28%28%3Ft%20%3C%3D%20%3Fdeath%29%26%26%28%3Ft%20%3E%3D%20%3Fbirth%29%29.%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Frr%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%2C%20de%2C%20fr%2C%20de%2C%20ru%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Ft%20%3Fvalue%20%3Frr%20%3FrrLabel%20%3FvalueLabel%0AORDER%20BY%20%3Ft%0A%20 Timeline for German author Heinrich Mann] (source)
 * Density in kilograms per cubicmeter for books (source)
 * Books by weight (source)
 * Train stations in the UK (source)
 * Map of megaliths in Portugal and Spain (source)
 * Newest database reports: pilot and first episodes of television series


 * Development
 * Work on a script to generate MassMessage target lists (T190812)
 * Test validity of Wikidata IDs in Lua modules (T143970)
 * Rename Lua functions in old naming scheme (T190382)
 * More work on wb_terms table (T188992)
 * More work on logging autopatrol actions (T184485)
 * Include checksums in dumps (T190457)
 * Add mobile edits to Grafana (T191111)
 * Allowing to remove a Form from a Lexeme (T173332)
 * Fixing bugs on Lexemes (T189185)
 * Checking permissions for actions on Lexemes

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


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

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Wikidata weekly summary #307
<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
 * Role of Wikimedia in the era of Open Science, Barcelona, April 16th
 * Wikidata meetup in Berlin, April 20th. Please sign up if you want to attend (the meetup takes place in the venue of the Wikimedia Conference)
 * Wikidata workshop in Paris, April 20th
 * Wikidata for science workshop in Paris, April 23rd
 * Wikidata meetup in Zürich, April 25th


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Some improvements have been made on the search results
 * The administrative territorial entities of the Ottoman Empire are now largely complete. They include the elayets, vilayets and their sanjaks.
 * A new version of Denelezh, a tool to monitor the gender gap in Wikidata, has been released, including a new methodology to produce the data (explained at the top of the main page and in the documentation), and an overview of the gender gap by Wikimedia project.
 * Items now contain an average of 9 statements.
 * Item Q2937606, created 5 years ago, got its first statement
 * New tool: The property explorer sorts and displays properties per category (developed by Stevenliuyi based on a suggestion from Micru)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: Wikimedia project focus list, complies with, special rank, last update, test taken, test score, activity policy in this place, choral conductor, gens, lighting designer, number of representations, sound designer
 * External identifiers: DNV GL Vessel register ID, Behind the voice Actors person ID, Territographie ID, Prazdne Domy building ID, Welsh Rugby Union women's player ID, Welsh Rugby Union men's sevens player ID, Digital Typhoon typhoon ID, Digital Typhoon cyclone ID, Chile Rugby player ID, Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID, Code of Household Registration and Conscription Information System (Taiwan)


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: majority opinion, KMC Heritage Building Grade, accreditation, Number of spoilt votes, Number of blank votes, Number of abstentions, greater than (2), subdomain URL, International Classification for Standards, Wind speed, Wikimedia outline, list combines topics
 * External identifiers: Authorea Author ID, Lambiek Comiclopedia ID, FOGIS ID, Behind the voice Actors character ID, KIT Linked Open Numbers ID, Harvard designation, Yahoo Answers category, UMAC ID, Internet Adult Film Database film ID, Adult Film Database film ID


 * Sparsely used properties created >3 months:
 * Berlinische Galerie artist ID (P4580), Kulturelles Erbe Köln object ID (P4582), Argentinian Historic Heritage ID (P4587), National Inventory of Canadian Military Memorials ID (P4591), Mountain Project ID (P4592), arXiv author ID (P4594), post town (P4595), NIOSH Publication Number (P4596), monomer of (P4599), Lives of WWI ID (P4601)
 * Query examples:
 * Timeline of weather satellites (source)
 * Map with lighthouses all over the world (source)
 * Number of articles about humans by gender on Welsh Wikipedia (source)
 * List of French rivers with different names and SANDRE ids on Sophox (SPARQL endpoint querying OpenStreetMap and Wikidata) (source)


 * Development
 * Differences between range constraints now work only if both properties are present (T185480)
 * Work on a new constraint unit which defines which units are alowed for a given property (T164372)
 * Make the Special:ConstraintReport easier to understand (T188728)
 * Work on a Lua function which checks if an item is a subclass of or instance of another item (T179155)
 * Started deleting old autopatrolled from the loggin table (T190447, T184791)
 * More work on setting up permissions for Lexeme (T189480)
 * Fixing a bug about removing the last Lemma (T189185)
 * Disabling the possibility to move a Lexeme (T189481)

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


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

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Tech News: 2018-15
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 * Some pages have templates that describe problems with that article. There is now more information for mobile readers and what is wrong with the article and how they could help fix it.
 * You can now thank users for many more actions than edits to a page. This was one of the top ten requests in the Wishlist Survey last year.
 * The sort order of categories will have errors for a short time starting Monday 9 April (UTC). We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a script to update the database. This will take between a few hours and a few days depending on wiki size. You can read more details.
 * Tag filter titles will now work better on wikis where the tag filter title is in a language that is written in another direction than the language of that wiki. This could for example be an English title (written from left to right) on a Hebrew or an Arabic wiki (written from right to left).

Problems
 * The bookmark icon for saved filters on the recent changes page disappeared because of new icon changes. This has now been fixed.
 * For a week in March rollbacks got both the  and the   tag on the recent changes page and other pages where you see tags. This has now been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 April. It will be on all wikis from 12 April (calendar).
 * Patrolled edits now have three states instead of two. Recent changes filters are updated to show unpatrolled, autopatrolled and manually patrolled edits.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
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Future changes
 * The iOS and Android apps will get synced reading lists later in April.

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