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Wikidata weekly summary #446
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Adopt Help:SitelinksToRedirects as policy


 * Events
 * Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, December 15 at 18:00 CET
 * Past: WikiConference North America/2020
 * Past: Localization and structuring of open data-Zhu Tinghong-Wikidata Community of Local Studies - MOPCON 2020 (replay), YouTube
 * Past: SMWCon 2020/Day 2 - "Wikidata Walkabout" by Yaron Koren (replay), YouTube
 * Past: Wikidata Lab XXVI: Structured citations module on Wikipedia (replay), YouTube


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Building the SWIB20 participants map - combining Wikidata with custom data points via a federated query (ZBW Labs).
 * Introducing the Mapping the Scottish Reformation Website - A new Wikidata-driven website to explore the Scottish Reformation.
 * Introduction to Querying Wikidata Knowledge Graph using SPARQL by John Samuel
 * Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #25 - climate change, YouTube
 * Video: How to take data from OpenRefine to Wikidata through QuickStatements, YouTube
 * Video: Editing Wikidata live - casual session by Jan Ainali, YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * is a visual tool for querying and exposing Wikidata easily.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The Coolest Tool Award 2020 featured some Wikidata tools: Lingua Libre won in the category “Diversity”; Listeria, Lexeme Forms and Entity Explosion got honorable mentions. Congratulations!
 * Complex constraint check for recency of value
 * The voting phase of the Community Wishlist Survey 2021 is open until December 21st. You can vote on as many wishes as you want. There's a separate category for Wikidata.
 * Template:Notebook Given name is a new template which gives for each given name a list of useful SPARQL queries. The template can be used on the talk page of given names. See Alexandre (Q16002466) for an example. Comments are Contributions are welcome.
 * The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 17 December 2020 (Add to calendar). We will have a few people share out about their project in the first half of the call and then continue our conversation from the last session about what will be a better platform for community discussions. Everyone is welcome to attend!


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: category for the view from the item, mailing list archive, word lookup, inappropriate property for this type, compatible with
 * External identifiers: Church of Jesus Christ missionary ID, Encyklopedie mostů v Čechách, na Moravě a ve Slezsku ID, Czech Gymnastics athlete ID, Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ID, CollEx-Persée ID, theses.cz ID, Google Play developer slug, AppGallery app ID, The Galileo Project ID, Artfacts ID, Biblioteca Marciana owner ID, Museo Galileo biography ID, National Galleries of Scotland ID, Museo Galileo authority ID, Bavarian State Painting Collections artwork ID, Delft municipal monument ID, Dizionario degli artisti ID, Order of Canada recipient ID, Students of Prague Universities ID, vets.cz ID, Chapels of southern Bohemia ID, GS1 GPC brick code


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: insufficiently precise value, OpenReview.net group ID, OpenReview.net submission ID, OpenReview.net profile ID, applies when property is used, River Code, Wikimedian in Residence, Commons compatible image available at URL (non-artwork), number of at bats, runs batted in, stolen bases, subdivision monétaire
 * External identifiers: PBA ID, Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries IDs, LFH staff ID, Cephalopod Ontology entity ID, Fungal gross anatomy entity ID, Plant Ontology entity ID, Hymenoptera Anatomy Ontology entity ID, DataTrek ID, DBLP publication ID, PeriodO period ID, KANTO, CITWF title ID, CITWF person ID, identifiant de la Cinémathèque québécoise pour une personne, Encyclopedia Titanica ID, DzygaMDB film, DzygaMDB person ID, XXXBios female performer ID, XXXBios transgender performer ID, AVN movie ID, Lichess Username, Evil Angel movie ID, Evil Angel video ID


 * Query examples:
 * All stumbling stones in the city of Hannover
 * (partial) list, timeline and gallery of successful ascents of Mount Everest (and few other summits)
 * Web & social media URLs for UK Civic Societies (Source)
 * Publication related to Research Institute of Text Analysis and Applications: no. of pages per author/year, authors network (Source)
 * Map of the ritual objects said to be used by accused witches in Scotland (colourcoded layer accessible on top right to see the list of objects) (Source)
 * Seats of the Parliament of England, and the first year we have a named person listed for them (Source)
 * Female race car drivers on Spanish Wikipedia (Source)
 * Places of Geological Interest in Alamedilla (Source)
 * Number of Nature articles that were published on a Sunday in a given year
 * Schema examples:
 * Schema for stumbling stones
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * Agriculture


 * Development
 * We spend the week doing some exploratory work for the next year. Among other things we looked into how to measure the number of constraint violations on an average Item and what we can learn from it.

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
 * 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 · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:42, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #447
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events
 * Past: OpenAlt 2020 Conference (replay)
 * Wikidata: how to get involved (in Czech)
 * Lexemes on Wikidata (in Czech)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Video: HGAPS Speaker Series by Thomas Shafee
 * Wikidata Overview: how you can use it to improve the overall knowledge base of the Internet
 * Wikidata Walkthrough: hands-on editing experience
 * Wikidata for Bat Collectors, YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Wikidata Live is a real-time visual dashboard for Wikidata edits; paper, interface (visualizes recent changes to Wikidata in quasi real time).


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Complex constraint about labels' language


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: National Library at Kolkata romanization, URL match pattern, URL match replacement value
 * External identifiers: ClassInd audiovisual work ID, Georgia Museum of Art ID, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien ID, tribunsdelaplebe.fr ID, PBA artwork ID, OpenReview.net profile ID, OpenReview.net group ID, OpenReview.net submission ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: applicable "stated in" value, WMF hosted image that could be moved to Commons, Category for the view of the item, OSM object, property related to this topic, personality traits, graph girth, ALA-LC romanization
 * External identifiers: SAPA, Manus Online author ID, Mapy.cz ID, CollectieGelderland-creator-ID, SVTplay identifier, identifiant Mediafilm, IFLA form of music ID, IFLA key of musical work ID, IFLA mode of musical work ID, RDA support type ID, SLAM artwork ID, Kunstmuseum Basel ID, NPG ID, jeuxvideo.com ID, Dizionario bio-bibliografico dei bibliotecari italiani del XX secolo ID, Google Podcasts show ID, Royal Museums Greenwich ID, PIAC ID, Castbox show ID, Stitcher show ID, Pocket Casts show ID, Podcast Addict show ID, Radio.com Podcasts show ID


 * Deleted properties: street address (P969)
 * Query examples:
 * Tex-Mex singers (Source)
 * Map of images from Wicipics project (photography campaign in Wales) (Source)
 * Vito Russo Test in Wikidata
 * Distinct dialects of Wikidata lexemes (Source)
 * Patronage of rapid-transit transportation (Source)
 * People who played Julius Caesar, and what "version" of him they played
 * Newest WikiProjects: Media Representation
 * Newest database reports: Reports on Italian given names


 * Development
 * Continuing to work on the query builder. It can now have more than one query conditions. One of the next steps is making it possible to query for Item values. You can follow along on the demo system.
 * Finished working on the problem of values of Statements that link to Forms and Senses not having language attributes associated with them in the HTML code (T267023)
 * Fixed language selectors covering other input fields when using keyboard navigation for Special:NewItem and Special:NewLexeme (T266638)
 * Fixed language fallback indicators sometimes still shown for variant fallbacks (T267502)
 * Working on whitespace stripped while typing when editing lexemes (T250550)

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
 * Help add human (Q5) to properties that currently don't have it.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * 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 untangle items that refer to different concepts.
 * Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:50, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * thank you! You're always a very encouraging editor, and it's much appreciated.Dsp13 (talk) 15:48, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #448
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Open request for CheckUser: 997kB
 * There's a discussion about what the best label for required qualifier constraint happens to be.


 * Events
 * Ongoing: rC3 (remote Chaos Communication Congress). Several Wikidata-related talks and meetups happening on December 27th, 28th and 29th: introduction to Wikidata, Wikidata for datajournalists, Wikidata meetups in German and English, and a Query Service workshop. (see Wikipaka schedule for more details)


 * Tool of the week
 * Template:TP administrative area is a new template designed for all items which are instance of administrative territorial entity. It defines useful queries for those items. For example, links to this page. Feedback and contributions are welcome.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Project Grants open call for proposals in 2021. Changes in the review process for Project Grants in 2021; the open call for community organizing proposals will be from January 11 to February 10 and the open call for software and research proposals will be from February 15 to March 16.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: small logo or icon, lunar coordinates
 * External identifiers: CINE21 person ID, Chinese Painting Database ID, Cinémathèque québécoise person ID, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Tasking Manager project ID, SAPA ID, Manus Online author ID, Lichess username, CITWF person ID, DBLP publication ID, DataTrek ID, KANTO ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: abstract, thesis committee chair, character type, Calificación de videojuegos, Regente, Nação (candomblé), Liderança, Bharati Braille, number of walks, number of hits, doubles hit, triples hit, Through point
 * External identifiers: TuneIn Podcasts show ID, RadioPublic show ID, Player.fm show ID, World Rowing ID, MNBAQ ID, Libsyn show ID, PodBean show ID, BG School ID, JAD ID, RDA value vocabularies ID, BHCL UUID, Podtail show ID, Provenio UUID, AbandonSocios ID, Mitre ATT&CK ID, Lexikon zum Literatur- und Kulturbetrieb im Österreich der Zwischenkriegszeit ID, International Encyclopedia of the First World War ID, SFLI ID, Game UI Database ID, DiVo person ID, e-GEDSH ID, Projecto Vercial author ID, Calaméo ID, Lumières Lausanne ID, Swiss Unihockey Player ID, IFF player ID, Internet Game Database numeric game ID, AV Production person ID, Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon ID, Studium Parisiense ID, I professori dell'Università di Pavia (1859-1961) ID, A*dS Encyclopedia, Viceversa Letteratura author ID, Ancient History Encyclopedia ID, The Podcast App show ID, viaggiareinpuglia.it ID, Encyclopedia of Saami Culture ID, DiCamillo Database Country House ID, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia ID, Biographical Archive of Psychiatry ID, Play:Right video game ID, Spletni biografski leksikon znanih Primorcev in Primork ID, TheCocktailDB ID, Muck Rack media outlet ID, Biographical Dictionary of the Czech Lands


 * Query examples:
 * Check Corona vaccine progress using Wikidata SPARQL to get metadata about the countries see notebook - SPARQL query

Due to the winter holidays, the development team is taking a break and no deployment is happening for Wikidata at the moment :)
 * Development

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.

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 18:34, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
 * 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!

A New Year With Women in Red!
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 03:02, 29 December 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging

DYK
I'm just letting you know that I nominated an article that you started for DYK - Template:Did you know nominations/Cécile Nobrega. SL93 (talk) 23:31, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
 * fantastic, thank you! Dsp13 (talk) 13:36, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #449
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Martin Urbanec (RfP scheduled to end after 7 January 2021 17:21 UTC)
 * Should we rename place of burial (P119) to place of mortal remains?


 * Events
 * Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, January 5 at 18:00 CET
 * Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #26 - YouTube, Facebook, 9 January
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #44, January 10
 * Past: Wikidata sessions at rC3 (remote Chaos Communication Congress) (replay)
 * Introduction to Wikidata
 * Wikidata for datajournalists
 * Past: Wikidata sessions at g0vsummit2020 (in Chinese) (replay)
 * Wikidata one year in Taiwan, what is our results and what is our future plan
 * Challenges of GLAM Taiwan


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Video: Applying linked data model for the Bogotá Digital Library (in Spanish) - YouTube
 * Video: Wikidata with Shani Evenstein Sigalov, Wikimedia Armenia - YouTube
 * Video: How to import scholarly articles to Wikidata using Zotero - YouTube
 * Video: How to import books to Wikidata using a spreadsheet and OpenRefine - YouTube
 * Video: How to import library materials to Wikidata using MarcEdit and OpenRefine - YouTube
 * Video: Introduction to Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
 * Video: Linking a new Wikipedia article to a Wikidata item - YouTube
 * Video: Schema and Wikidata - YouTube
 * Video: Using Twinkle on Wikidata - YouTube
 * Video: Managing Interlanguage links with Wikidata (in Urdu) - YouTube
 * Blog post: 52 Wikidata weeks 2020
 * Blog post: Scottish nautical wrecks in wikidata


 * Tool of the week
 * User:Bargioni/WikiBridge.js userscript enables you to add a tabbed section to Wikidata items showing some paragraphs from Wikipedias chosen by the Babel languages of the logged-in user. Demo video (in Italian)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata Lexeme Forms now lists languages on the index page using their autonyms (language name in that language). (Source)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: graph girth, category for the view of the item, ALA-LC romanization, liturgical rank
 * External identifiers: PIAC ID, CPV Supplementary, Dizionario bio-bibliografico dei bibliotecari italiani del XX secolo ID, ISDS ID, Mapy.cz ID, World Rowing ID (UUID format), 1914-1918-Online ID, JAD ID, Game UI Database ID, Lumières.Lausanne ID, Swiss Unihockey player ID, IFF player ID, Magyar életrajzi lexikon ID, Lexikon zum Literatur- und Kulturbetrieb im Österreich der Zwischenkriegszeit ID, Ancient History Encyclopedia ID, Literary Encyclopedia ID, Google Podcasts show ID, Stitcher show ID, Castbox show ID, Pocket Casts show ID, Podcast Addict show ID, TuneIn Podcasts show ID, RadioPublic show ID, Player.fm show ID, PodBean show ID, Podtail show ID, Encyclopedia of Saami Culture ID, The Podcast App show ID, Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries manuscript ID, Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries work ID, Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries person ID, Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries place ID, Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries organization ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: YouTube custom URL, Author last names, Author first names, Naval flag, supplements, closed WMF project sitelink, has part (string value), member, number of data sets
 * External identifiers: IFPI Danmark work ID, National Museum in Warsaw ID, Olympedia Affiliations ID, IFLA value vocabularies ID, Erudit article ID, Olympedia Event ID, dati.beniculturali.it ID, Barnivore product ID, Archivo Histórico de diputados de España ID, Port Letter, FFF player ID (new scheme), Hungarian Film Archive ID, GEPRIS-Historisch ID (Person), EuroBabeIndex ID, MFAT person ID, SportsLogos.net team ID, Alpine Linux package, Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine ID, Povos Indígenas no Brasil ID, NLS place type ID, BookDepository publisher ID, National Historic People id, NFL.com ID (new scheme)


 * Query examples:
 * Works identified (via dedicated property P3893) as entering the public domain on 1/1/2021, ordered by number of articles on Wikimedia sites (Source)
 * Painters in the collections of Paris Musées which enter the public domain on January 1 (Source)
 * Map of forts related to Dutch trading companies VOC and WIC found in the Atlas of Mutual Heritage (Source)
 * Map of forts in the Cologne fortress ring (Source)
 * First-level administrative divisions in Germany
 * Population of cities in Germany corresponds to the total number of vaccinations in Germany (Source)
 * Most popular theorems according to their number of articles on Wikipedia (Source)
 * Number of people who have died, or been diagnosed, of COVID-19, grouped by occupation (Source)
 * Deaths in 2020 - date of birth, date of death, cause of death and country of nationality (Source)
 * Summary of a UK parliamentary career seat-party-start pairs(Source)
 * Timeline of aircraft types around the world and the first time a type of aircraft made a flight (Source)
 * Indonesian legislation related to indigenous people (Source)
 * Which artist could be "D.K. 1964"? (source)
 * Line graph of colleges and universities in India by year of establishment (Source)
 * Graph of Indian films that are remakes of other Indian films (Source)
 * Graph of academic descendants of C. R. Rao and K. Ananda Rau (Source)
 * Map of gram panchayats in Kerala by literacy rate in 2001 (Source)
 * Maps of different places in West Bengal according to suffix (Source)
 * Tree map of Rabindranath's poems according to the month of writing (Source)
 * Count of locations of exhibitions on Wikidata (Source)
 * Wikidata lexeme forms by language (Source)
 * Newest database reports: 2021, Greek given names


 * Development
 * Due to the winter holidays, no deployment has happened for Wikidata in the last two weeks.

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
 * 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 · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:26, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for January 11
An automated process has detected that when you recently edited William Henry Fitzjohn, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Hagerstown.

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 06:14, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #450
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Closed request for adminship: Martin Urbanec (successful)
 * New request for comments: How should we develop and deploy documentation for items?


 * Events
 * Upcoming: Wikidata+Wikibase office hour, Thursday, January 21st, at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time), on Telegram
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Using QuickStatements for bulk uploading archived website data to Wikidata with Peter Chan, 12 January. Agenda
 * Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #27 on Wikipedia20 - YouTube, Facebook, 16 January
 * Past: SMWCon videos are published incl. quite a few Wikidata related ones
 * Past: Wiki Workshop 2021 is accepting submissions. The deadline for the submissions to be considered for proceedings is January 29. All other submissions should be received by March 1.
 * Past: Czech editaton finished (30.11.2020-31.12.2020). Purpose was connect NKCR AUT ID (P691) to Wikidata by hand in . Detailed info.


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogpost: The nobody who could overtake Wikipedia (in German)
 * Blogpost: Documenting Software Applications on Wikidata, by John Samuel
 * Article: Nitpicking online knowledge representations of governmental leadership: The case of Belgian prime minsters in Wikipedia and Wikidata
 * Paper: Familiar Wikidata: The Case for Building a Data Source We Can Trust - an introduction to the value of Wikidata for humanities research making the case for humanities researchers’ intervention in its development.
 * Video: How to use WikiBridge - a userscript that enables you to add a tabbed section to Wikidata items showing some paragraphs from Wikipedias chosen by the Babel languages of the logged-in user. Demo video


 * Tool of the week
 * QueryGraph is a web tool for creating queries in SPARQL from graphs.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikibase now has a dedicated Twitter account: Follow @WikibaseHQ for updates on everything Wikibase.
 * You can now create and curate catalog groups on Mix’n’match, and find the most common unmatched entries between them (Source)
 * Wikidata Walkabout browsing tool has had some important recent improvements in language support, interface, etc. See a list of all comedy films directed by a vegetarian (in Spanish)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: Bharati Braille, Consejo de Calificación Cinematográfica's video game rating, solution to, archaeological site of
 * External identifiers: AV Production person ID, Mediafilm ID, Radio.com Podcasts show ID, Libsyn show ID, Mitre ATT&CK ID, SFLI ID, e-GEDSH ID, Viceversa Letteratura author ID, Barnivore product ID, AVN movie ID, Archivo Histórico de diputados de España ID, BG School ID, Muck Rack media outlet ID, I professori dell'Università di Pavia (1859-1961) ID, BHCL UUID, Calaméo ID, Studium Parisiense ID, viaggiareinpuglia.it ID, DiVo person ID, DiCamillo Database Country House ID, Internet Game Database numeric game ID, GEPRIS-Historisch ID (Person), Alpine Linux package, A*dS Encyclopedia ID, Biographical Archive of Psychiatry ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: minutes played, two-pointers made, two-pointers attempted, three-pointers attempted, three-pointers made, free throws made, free throws attempted, field goals made, personal fouls, Short DOI, total rebounds, offensive rebounds, defensive rebounds, number of vaccinations, category for software under a license, assessment outcome, quality for this class, Template combines topics, CCCM Museum (Macau Museum) object ID, CCCM Museum Object ID, Medium, FL number, Notable ascent
 * External identifiers: CantoDict identifiers, Norwegian State Administration Database ID, POSIX locale identifier, Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal GTB ID, BABEL author ID, Songlexikon ID, FANZA AV actress ID, VAi Building ID, Biographies.net person ID, Literature.com book ID, National Museum Norway artwork ID, TikTok music ID, Oxford Classical Dictionary ID, Conservapedia Article, NZ Museums ID, Akademická encyklopedie českých dějin ID, WreckSite ID


 * Query examples:
 * Mathematicians born in prime number years featuring Albert Einstein, Pierre de Fermat, Georg Ohm, Carl Gauss, Évariste Galois, Augustin-Louis Cauchy, James Maxwell et al.
 * Timeline of coups d'état of the 21st century (including attempted ones) (Source)
 * Map of Karens / Johns per million according to Wikidata (Source)
 * Children of which were born with by a person, and their step child
 * Map of the shortest railway path (in terms of number of stations) between Dibrugarh and the Scottish Highlands (Source)
 * Map of place of birth of Olympique de Marseille football players (Source)
 * Map of Kolkata wards by number of schools (Source)
 * Map of beaches in Mexico (Source)
 * Graph of shared borders between Indian districts (Source)
 * Descendants of Upendrakishore Roy (Source)
 * Timeline of Indian High Commissioners to Britain (Source)
 * A tree map of items for artworks depicting Mughal emperors (Source)
 * Example of documented usage of different Bengali words (Source)
 * 'Llan' place names in the UK (Source)
 * Organizations with DZI donation seal approval according to donation amount (Source)
 * Newest database reports: Russian given names


 * Development
 * Continued working on the Query Builder. We focused on making it possible to query for Item values and being able to limit the number of Items in the result. We also looked into how to query for quantity values.
 * Changed P920’s data type from string to external identifier (T269205)
 * Finished working on the problem of Items that have the page prop wikibase:statements set to 0 but actually do have statements (T145712)
 * Continued work on the “Publishing” step of the Wikibase release pipeline by building and testing three components of the software suite: Wikibase ( T267893), Query Service frontend (T268025), and Query Service backend (T268022)

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
 * 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 · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:32, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

Some bubble tea for you!
Thanks very much - and I won't try to do anything with the Libyan school. You're doing some fantastic new pages. I find the information available about schools in Africa to be extraordinarily uneven.Dsp13 (talk) 20:53, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you! You too - it's really inspiring to see what you're working on too. Lajmmoore (talk) 10:35, 18 January 2021 (UTC)