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Wikidata weekly summary #451
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Alphama (RfP scheduled to end after 24 January 2021 15:12 (UTC))
 * Other: Wikidata will be one of the communities involved in the Phase 2 of the Universal Code of Conduct consultation. Have your say at the consultation talk page or get in contact with the UCoC facilitator, User:Sannita (WMF).


 * Events
 * Upcoming: Wikidata+Wikibase office hour, Thursday, January 21st, at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time), on Telegram
 * Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #28 - YouTube, Facebook, 23 January
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #46, January 24


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogpost: Automatically maintained citations with Wikidata and Cite Q, by Mike Peel and Andy Mabbett.
 * Video: Wikidata editing #27: #Wikipedia20 - YouTube, Facebook
 * Video: Dealing with more than one date value in Wikidata (using preferential rank) - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * User:Lagewi/navigation.js userscript enables adding links to list subclasses and instances to Wikidata items.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New dashboard for lexicographical data statistics: Wikidata Datamodel Lexemes
 * The Wikidata Analytics dashboards are now available at a new URL: https://wikidata-analytics.wmcloud.org/ (announcement)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: date canceled, subdivision of this unit
 * External identifiers: dati.beniculturali.it agent ID, dati.beniculturali.it site ID, dati.beniculturali.it cultural heritage ID, Projecto Vercial author ID, National Historic People ID, Olympedia event ID, TheCocktailDB drink ID, TheCocktailDB ingredient ID, Fichier des personnes décédées ID, POSIX locale identifier, National Museum in Warsaw ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: shadows, Sacrament conferred by, logo image within scope, BAMID film rating, ABC News Topic, number of rooms to rent
 * External identifiers: Portal da Literatura author ID, Base de Dados de Autores Portugueses ID, Parabola package, JAANUS ID, Studio di Fonologia Musicale RAI person ID, BiblioLMC ID, Le Lettere di Theodor Mommsen agli Italiani ID, StrategyWiki page, Encyclopedia of Brno Object ID, Holocaust.cz ID, Australian Fungi ID, DeCS ID, Australian Lichen ID, KBR Catalogue ID, Enciclopedia del Museo del Prado ID, The Language Council of Norway Term ID, Red Cross FDRS ID, Xinjiang Data Project identifier, SISSCO ID, SEARCH on line catalogue ID, 45cat release ID, Aracne author ID


 * Query examples:
 * Red Cross and Red Crescent societies
 * The people of the government of Bangladesh on 13 January 2005 (Source)
 * Buildings in the Basque Country dedicated to San Roque (Source)
 * List of words for "beard" in Eighth Schedule languages (Source)
 * Map of train services starting at Howrah station (Source)
 * Map of big sculptures of New Zealand (Source)
 * Map of mosques in Bangladesh according to architectural style (Source)
 * UK deaths per month since 2005 split by sex/gender (Source)
 * Timeline of Indian cricket tours abroad (Source)
 * Timeline of inception of Mexican universities (Source)
 * Mangifera species and mango cultivars (Source)
 * Locations where The Antartic Circumpolar Voyage expedition passed (Source)
 * English Language forms missing an audio pronunciation -- you can contribute via LinguaLibre
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject Greek War of Independence, development of content relative to the (this year is the 200th anniversary, from its beginning in 1821)


 * Development
 * Continued working on the Query Builder. We continued to set up tracking for the number of queries that result in an error, timeout, etc. (T269224). We als made it possible to query for Item values (T268814). You can always try the current state on the test system.
 * Finished fixing an issue with whitespace being stripped while typing when editing Lexemes (T250550)
 * Worked on no error being shown when trying to save Lemma with invalid language code (T265783)
 * Working on using Special:MyLanguage feature for more links in the Wikidata Query Service interface to redirect people to documentation in their language (T267656)
 * Continued interviewing people to better understand how to best compare Wikidata's data against other databases in order to find mismatches that need the editors' attention

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) 15:07, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Cécile Nobrega
—valereee (talk) 12:02, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

Lovely to see that! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:15, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #452
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events
 * Past: Wikidata+Wikibase office hour happened on January 21st. See notes here (English).
 * Past: 2021 OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Beginner Teaching Workshop (in Chinese). Replay on YouTube 1, 2, 3, 4
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Wikibase, the Integrated Authority File (GND) pilot at the German National Library, and the WikiLibrary Manifesto, 26 January. Agenda
 * Upcoming: SPARQL queries and OpenRefine live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, Januray 26 at 18:00 CET
 * Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #29 - YouTube, Facebook, 30 January
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #47, 31 January
 * Upcoming: The Open Festival of Persistent Identifiers starts from 27 January 2021. See schedule here.


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blog: Adding New Literature Sources to the Wikidata Integrator, by Charles Tapley Hoyt
 * Blog: Using Wikidata for teaching computer programming using real-world cases (in Basque)
 * Bog: Wikidata: data for everyone (in Dutch)
 * Methodology paper: A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata: aligning resources on human coronaviruses
 * Video: Wikidata editing #28 - YouTube, Facebook
 * Video: Wikidata for research (webinar in French) - YouTube
 * Video: Let's make sparks with SPARQL tools(in French), by Nicolas Vigneron -YouTube
 * Video: Wrap up presentation of the SWAT4HCLS hackathon project
 * Creating subsets from Wikidata - YouTube
 * Linking the complex portal with other FAIR sources through - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * TAViewer is a web-based anatomy atlas viewer that cross-references Terminologia Anatomica terms with data from Wikipedia and Wikidata.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Change to how Cloud VPS and Toolforge contact Wikis to go live on 2021-02-08. If you are a Cloud VPS user or Toolforge developer, check your tools after that date to make sure they are properly running.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: character type, derived from organism type, applicable “stated in” value, number of aid beneficiaries
 * External identifiers: BABEL author ID, Base de Dados de Autores Portugueses ID, Povos Indígenas no Brasil ID, Parabola package, FL number, Hungarian Film Archive ID, IFPI Danmark work ID, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia ID, Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine ID, NZ Museums ID, StrategyWiki page, Australian Fungi ID, Discord invite ID, Red Cross FDRS ID, JAANUS ID, SEARCH on line catalogue ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: onscreen participant, catégorie d'établissement sanitaire et social, code Activité principale exercée, catégorie d'entreprise, Imagehash perceptual hash
 * External identifiers: SISSCO ID, 45cat release ID, Aracne author ID, Malpedia ID, Kulturdenkmal-ID Sachsen-Anhalt, Swiss Games Showcase ID, Baudenkmal-ID Niedersachsen, PeriodO ID, Pepys Encylopedia ID, Pantone color ID, Family Video Game Database ID, AAR ID, github topic, TeatralRo ID, Landshuth ID, Patrinum ID, ChemRxiv ID, TlF ID, PO ID, Jewish Museum Berlin object ID, CinefanRo person ID, CinefanRo film ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali archive producer IDs, BookBub Author ID, HERIS-ID


 * Query examples:
 * Czech religious buildings used also as a fire station
 * Common ingredients to prepare a sandwich (Source)
 * Location of GLAMs with open access policies (Source)
 * Mexican presidents who have an image of their signature on Wikidata (Source)
 * Timeline of Mexican writers who were born between 1800 and 1900 (Source)
 * TV-Series in Spain by Decade (Source)
 * Diplomats who are also art collectors (Source)

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
 * Continued working on the Query Builder: made it possible to limit the number of results in the result set, made it possible to include results from subclasses when querying for Item values, worked on negating queries and started on sharing of queries via URL. As always you can try the current state on the test system.
 * Making links in the Query Service redirect to the proper translations of their pages on-wiki by using Special:MyLanguage redirects (T267656)
 * Working on fixing an issue with displaying large numbers for quantity values (T268456)
 * Fixed a case where no error message was shown when trying to save a Lemma with an invalid language code (T265783)
 * Talked to a few more people about checking Wikidata's data against other databases to find potential errors
 * Continuing the Release Strategy project for Wikibase, with the following progress:
 * Created a “release pipeline” for Wikibase extension (T267627)
 * Created MediaWiki docker images based off release branches (T270133)
 * Defined format and contents of Wikibase suite components not maintained by Wikimedia Germany (T271194)
 * 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) 17:52, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

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Precious
You are recipient no. 2521 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:48, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #453
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events
 * Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #30 - YouTube, Facebook, 6 February
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #48, 7 February


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Paper: A Review of the Semantic Web Field
 * Paper: Towards a Systematic Approach to Sync FactualData across Wikipedia, Wikidata and ExternalData Sources
 * Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #29 - YouTube, Facebook
 * Video: Set preferences and common.js (in Italian) - YouTube
 * Video: Entity Linking and Neural Semantic Parsing - YouTube
 * Video: Persistent identifiers as the basis for multilingual and human-machine collaboration - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Labelcleaner is a script by Andrew Gray used to clean up Wikidata labels/aliases/descriptions for a given language on a set of items.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * OpenRefine has got a new user manual and your feedback is welcome;
 * A new tool, Ranker (documentation, announcement tweet and video), lets you edit the ranks of multiple statements at once.
 * The SPARQL endpoint for linguaLibre is now available (Source)
 * New Wikidata property GitHub topic (P9100) announced at the GITHUB community
 * Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a Wikidata Query Service(WDQS) Data Analyst Consultant. Apply today!
 * Clean-up tasks to experiment with bots or other tools


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: BAMID film rating
 * External identifiers: Akademická encyklopedie českých dějin ID, 45cat 7" release ID, ABC News topic ID, Aracne author ID, Econlib person ID, KBR Catalogue ID, Songlexikon ID, Swiss Games Showcase ID, MNBAQ ID, Art in the Christian Tradition ID, Australian Lichen ID, Pantone color ID, Kunstmuseum Basel ID, Malpedia ID, AAR ID, BiblioLMC ID, Cultural heritage ID in Lower Saxony, GitHub topic, Discord username


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: represented in sport by, photographer of, reissue, master's thesis, service status information URL, unusualness, Debian Package Tracker ID, Seismic classification
 * External identifiers: Dictionnaire des journalistes ID, EMS ID, FloGrappling ID, SOUNZ contributor ID, Wolfram language WordData word ID, Mathematica Italiana person ID, Musica Brasilis score ID, Finna ID, LexML ID, Swedish Literature Bank placeID, BVFE author ID, Union Catalog of Armenian Continuing Resources authority ID, playDB play ID, playDB artist ID, DicoPolHiS ID, Pandektis ID, NHS Organisation Data Service ID, Bayerischer Denkmal-Atlas Objekt-ID (Baudenkmal), Bayerischer Denkmal-Atlas Objekt-ID (Bodendenkmal), Whiskybase distillery ID


 * Query examples:
 * Basque lexemes and their attestations in a 1745 Spanish-Basque dictionary, with links to dictionary entries in Wikisource
 * Lexemes describing a color (Source)
 * Danish-Hebrew Lexeme pairs (Source)
 * Lexemes in Swedish with usage example that demonstrates both a form and a sense and a reference (Source)
 * Episodes of the TV series "The Mentalist"
 * Nationality of authors publishing papers relevant to the Australian fauna (Source)
 * Number of musicians on Wikidata by country (Source)
 * Map of ISO 3166-2 codes (Source)
 * Map films that have been filmed in Mexico (Source)
 * Map of Githubtopics on Wikidata (Source)
 * Eye color distribution of the people on Wikidata (Source)
 * Timeline with the start date of the Summer Olympics (Source)
 * Newest database reports: Czech given names


 * Development
 * Continuing development on the first version of the Query Builder. It's starting to be able to do the first really meaningful queries now. Latest addition was the ability to negate conditions. Up next is the ability to connect conditions with OR instead of only AND as well as querying for quantities and ranges. You can follow along on the test system.
 * Exploring possible solutions for how to compare Wikidata's data against other databases to find and highlight mismatches automatically.
 * Added lexicographical data codes for a few languages: rkt, ctg (T271589), and az-cyrl (T265906)
 * Finished working on the issue of TypeError on a diff of a Wikidata talk page T271402
 * Updated Wikidata unit conversion configuration (T267644)
 * Fixed two last places where links in the the Query Service UI were not using Special:MyLanguage yet to redirect to the documentation page in the user's language (T267656)
 * Pushing JSON dumps for Lexemes over the finish line (T264883)
 * Working on showing an error when trying to save lemmas with invalid language codes (T265783)
 * Wikibase Release Strategy
 * Investigated the release of Wikibase suite components not maintained by Wikimedia (T271193)
 * Continued process of adding additional components to the Wikibase release, including OAuth (T272580)

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) 18:06, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

Badge and barnstar for You!

 * Thank you! Dsp13 (talk) 21:15, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!
Thank you so much! I've just been looking at some of the biographies you've created recently - really fascinating and enjoyable to read. You're creating some really rich content. So thanks to you too :) Dsp13 (talk) 10:51, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #454
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events
 * Past: Parliament of Ghana Wikidata contest launch: from February 1 to February 28, 2020 - (YouTube replay)
 * Upcoming: Next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 11 February 2021 (Add to calendar). You're welcome to come and share out about your project or what you're working on around Wikibase.
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Mapping the Scottish Reformation, Tuesday, February 9th.
 * Upcoming: SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, February 9 at 18:00 CET
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #49, February 14
 * Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #31 Free Software Day - YouTube, Facebook, February 14
 * Upcoming: Bug triage hour about Lexemes, February 16


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blog post by 62mkv about importing Estonian Lexemes on Wikidata
 * Video: Wikidata editing #30 - YouTube, Facebook
 * Video: Global Open Initiative Foundation Open Refine and Quikstatement Workshop. By Ursula Oberst - YouTube
 * Video: Wikidata and Minority Languages (Art+Feminism 2021 in Ghana). By Dagbani Wikimedians User Group - (YouTube)
 * Video: Wikidata as a PID community. By Simon Cobb - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Item documentation has two new features. First, it now includes two predefined SPARQL queries. The first one give the number of statements about the item by property and the second the list of statement about the properties. Second, for items of class award, it includes predefined SPARQL queries from TP award. See Q1624297 for an example.
 * Ranker lets you edit the ranks of several statements at once.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Update on the state of WikidataCon 2021 for January
 * New development roadmap for Wikidata and Wikibase for 2021 has been published. In addition, you will find here the status updates on what was achieved for each of the 2020 goals.
 * Update on the development of the Easy Query Builder, your feedback is welcome
 * Call for feedback on Wikimedia Foundation Community Board seats has started on February 1. More information and ways to participate are available on this Meta-Wiki page.
 * New updates to Mix'n'match:
 * Import/update function for Mix’n’match catalogs (manual) (source)
 * Refreshed the Mix’n’match dataset for potential new human Wikidata items (source)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: number of vaccinations, Commons media contributed by
 * External identifiers: CineFanRo person ID, Enciclopedia del Museo del Prado ID, Encyclopedia of Brno object ID, Dictionnaire des journalistes ID, Oxford Classical Dictionary ID, Erudit article ID, Holocaust.cz person ID, Le Lettere di Theodor Mommsen agli Italiani ID, SISSCO ID, IFLA value vocabularies ID, Patrinum ID, Mathematica Italiana person ID, Jewish Museum Berlin object ID, Musica Brasilis score ID, BVFE author ID, Family Video Game Database ID, LexML Brazil ID, Pepys Encylopedia ID, National Museum Norway artwork ID, SportsLogos.net team ID, Catalan Vikidia ID, Russian Vikidia ID, Microsoft MVP profile ID, Debian Package Tracker ID, Data Collection of the Hungarian Peerage ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: IPHAE ID, FLOSS policy URL, Digest, subsidy, fingerprint
 * External identifiers: TlF Artist ID, Encyclopedia of Seventh-day Adventists ID, GTDB taxon, Joods Monument ID, HathiTrust Volume Identifier, Open Tree of Life ID, AllMusic IDs, Evighetsrunor, Tree of Life contributor ID, Astro Awani topic ID, Rate Your Music genre ID, De Lakenhal-artwork-ID, Encyclopédie berbère article ID, Can I use, identifiant inventaire Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, identifiant inventaire Centre-Val de Loire, identifiant inventaire Hauts-de-France, identifiant inventaire Normandie, identifiant inventaire Île-de-France, identifiant inventaire Pays de la Loire, identifiant inventaire Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur


 * Query examples:
 * directors of episodes of The Mentalist (source)
 * Articles from The Wētā entomology journal (Source)
 * Town halls of the municipalities that surround Nantes (Source)
 * Caves containing prehistoric art (Source)
 * Endemic birds in a place located in France (Source)
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject Brazilian Laws


 * Development
 * Made it possible to connect query conditions with OR (instead of only AND) in the Query Builder (T272694)
 * Making it possible to query only for statements with or without a reference in the Query Builder (T272699)
 * Continuing to work on adding a rate limit for creating Item IDs to prevent people from allocating a large number of unassigned Item IDs that are then lost (T272032)
 * Working on the problem of Lexeme merging failing if the source Lexeme has links to its own Senses (T273830)
 * Working on showing an error when trying to save a Lemma with invalid language code on a Lexeme (T265783)
 * Fixing an issue in the Property selector fallback where it is not falling back from language variant to major language (T272712)
 * Making it possible to add Interwiki links to/from Multilingual Wikisource (T138332)

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) 18:44, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

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Lionel Godfrey Pearson and William Winstanley Pearson
Hello. I think Lionel Godfrey Pearson and William Winstanley Pearson are brothers. Please see Talk:Lionel Pearson and see if you agree. I am asking because I am bsing this on ACAD information and was wondering if that information can be used in this way or not? If no-one else has mentioned this connection, it may be that this needs further corroboration before it can be mentioned. Carcharoth (talk) 14:33, 12 February 2021 (UTC)


 * I agree: Lionel's parents are given in a ref at Lionel Pearson, and they are the same as W. W.'s parents which are given in ACAD. Dsp13 (talk) 18:06, 12 February 2021 (UTC)


 * I'd never heard of William Winstanley Pearson! Interesting life: there's this paper on him, though it doesn't mention Lionel. Dsp13 (talk) 18:17, 12 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Have found confirmation (by searching on 'Willie' rather than 'William'). It is in a book titled Social Thinking of Rabindranath Tagore (1962) by Sasadhar Sinha. On page 190, snippet view on Google Books gives this: "Mrs. R. E. Richards, Willie Pearsons' sister, in a touching letter wrote, “Willie met Tagore for the first time at 28 Church Row ... brother Lionel G. Pearson. The two ... For Pearson the poet was the embodiment of all that he loved in India itself." So there is a sister as well (who became Richards). Any idea what her first name was? Sort of related, could you possibly help see if the William Crosfield that is the maternal grandfather of Lionel, Sidney, William (Willie) and 'R' (the sister, though the 'R' could be her husband's first name) is the MP at William Crosfield? Carcharoth (talk) 00:10, 13 February 2021 (UTC)


 * And from the paper you pointed me to: "Willie’s father, Samuel Pearson, was a Non-Conformist and Congregationalist minister who had served in Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester; a hundred years later, proceedings relating to a church with which he had been associated, described him : “…its best loved minister (Samuel Pearson, 1892–1907) was a passive resister, with a Liberal MP for a father-in-law, a pioneer pacifist for a son-in-law, a nearly associate of Gandhi for one son and a public school headmaster for another”. [...] The son-in-law referred to as “a pioneer pacifist” was Leyton Richards." So the husband of R. E. Richards was Leyton Richards and the grandfather was the MP William Crosfield! Carcharoth (talk) 00:19, 13 February 2021 (UTC)


 * And the wife of Leyton Richards was Edith Ryley Richards. Not sure why the 'R' and the 'E' got swapped. Not sure who the public school headmaster was. Not Lionel (an architect) nor Sidney (a physician). There is a Reverend Sidney Nelson Pearson who was headmaster of Prempeh College in Ghana from 1949-1953 (but the dates look wrong here), see here. Possibly some of those writing about these Pearson are getting them mixed up, but maybe not. Fascinating if they are all the same family. Carcharoth (talk) 00:29, 13 February 2021 (UTC) Final bit for now: Lionel is mentioned here. Carcharoth (talk) 00:37, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

Just finished reading the article by Anil Nauriya on Willie Pearson, and his tragic end. There is another sister named there, called Dorothy. That did lead me to an earlier article by Nauriya, here: William Winstanley Pearson: The Natal Experience. Carcharoth (talk) 10:04, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
 * I think there is a mention of Samuel and Bertha Pearson on a gravestone here. The William Crosfield mentioned there, born 1805 and died 1881, appears to be the father of Bertha Pearson, not the MP (who was born in 1838 and died in 1909). At this point, I think Nauriya might have erred in saying that Samuel Pearson (1842-1907) had a "a Liberal MP for a father-in-law". It looks to me as if William Crosfield is the brother of Bertha (i.e. the son of the elder William Crosfield) and hence the brother-in-law of Samuel Pearson and the uncle of Lionel, Sidney, Willie et al. What do you think? If you can access the ODNB, there is a 2016 article on WWP here. Apparently the MP married Fanny E. Job in 1865. Carcharoth (talk) 20:48, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Clearly some family connection between Wm Crosfield (1805-1881) – who looks like the younger brother of Joseph Crosfield, going into Joseph's soap business rather than their father George's sugar business – and William Crosfield (1838-1909), who was according to his Times obituary in George's sugar business. Not sure if the relationship was father/son though. (I'm tryng to stop myself getting drawn into this rabbit hole... well done to you though for doggedly pursuing it!) Dsp13 (talk) 19:28, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #455
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Other: Tool ideas/ImproveWikidata


 * Events
 * Past: Linked Open Storytelling - Winter School 2021 - Fellow-Programm Freies Wissen (in German) (reply on YouTube)
 * Upcoming: SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, February 16 at 18:00 CET
 * Upcoming: Bug triage hour about Lexemes, February 16
 * Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #32 - YouTube, Facebook, February 20
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #50, February 21


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blog post: The promise of Wikidata: How journalists can use the crowdsourced open knowledge base as a data source, by Monika Sengul-Jones
 * Blog post: Data donation to Wikidata, part 2: country/subject dossiers of the 20th Century Press Archives (by Joachim Neubert, ZBW Labs)
 * Blog post: Bibliography and Citations of Hausa Folklore by Anasskoko
 * Video: Querying Linked (Wiki)data with SPARQL ✨ (presentation by Lucas Werkmeister at rC3, 90 minutes)
 * Video: Wikidata editing #31 Free Software Day - YouTube, Facebook
 * Video: Knowledge Graphs for AI: Wikidata and beyond - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * UseAsRef script allows you to add references to statements using one external ID as source (see User:Bargioni/UseAsRef and this YouTube video for more information)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Abstract Wikipedia presents prototypes of two tools that could help people to visualize, exemplify, and better guide our understanding of the coverage of lexicographic data in Wikidata.
 * Public Domain Tool, developed by the Flemish Institute for Archives automates the process of determining whether their collection items could be in the public domain.
 * Sizes of country items (like "Portugal" (Q45)) were recently reduced by 30% to 50% by moving a few economics properties to "economy of"-items (sample: "economy of Portugal" (Q1649355)). The item "economy of Portugal" is currently larger than "Portugal". This can simplify uses of country items that previously timed-out. Infoboxes can still access the properties with the link through "economy of topic" (P8744).
 * Later this week, the development team will enable a rate limit for assigning new item IDs. Bots and users who successfully create items should notice no change, since the rate limit is equal to the existing limit on all edits. However, bots that often fail to create items may start to see different error messages than usual. This will hopefully reduce the problem of skipped item IDs.
 * Guidelines and compensation for UX research lead by Wikimedia Germany (announcement)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: service status information URL, first family name in Portuguese name, time played, coordinates of depicted place
 * External identifiers: CompositionToday composers showcase ID, Royal Museums Greenwich artwork ID, Saint Louis Art Museum artwork ID, AZLyrics.com song ID, Studio di Fonologia Musicale RAI person ID, WreckSite ID, SOUNZ contributor ID, Doktori.hu ID, Portal da Literatura ID, IPHAE ID, Play:Right ID, National Portrait Gallery (London) artwork ID, Xinjiang Data Project identifier, CITWF title ID, Union Catalog of Armenian Continuing Resources ID, Saxony-Anhalt cultural heritage object ID, FloGrappling ID, Can I use feature ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: National Gallery of Art Library Bibliographic ID, letterer, set during recurring event, number of references, sensors, Applying institution
 * External identifiers: Lexikon Literatur in Tirol, Danmarks Adresseregister named street ID, Baidu Baike ID (2), Kickstarter username, Protagonisti della storia delle scienze della mente ID, Curling.fi player ID, RILM ID, Swiss vote ID, svoyak.info player ID, Germanistenverzeichnis, Svenska Institutet i Rom ID, CinemaRx title ID, Sinemalar title ID, English Placenames MADS ID, Armenian Book ID, identifiant inventaire Occitanie, AaRC title ID, Biblioteca Iglesia Nacional Española en Roma ID, BFS ID, Dizionario biografico online degli anarchici italiani ID, JedeSchule.de ID, bashenc.online ID, Svoya Igra television player ID, Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory ID


 * Query examples:
 * Spanish Wikipedia articles about women astronauts (Source)
 * Websites related to works in the Women's & Gender History DH list (Source)
 * List of states with more than one official language (Source)
 * Location of the organizations in the Name Assigning Authority Number (NAAN) registry (Source)
 * List of locations named after the planned language Esperanto or its founder, L. L. Zamenhof
 * Use the MediaWiki API to get the content of a Wikipedia category into a query
 * Number of scholarly articles sharing their datasets (Source)
 * Most specific taxon that includes two given species (Source)


 * Development
 * Work on the Simple Query Builder continues. We finished connecting query conditions via OR (T272694). Next we will work on adding the UI for sharing the visual query via a link (T272887)
 * Improved the deployment process for the Query Service UI to make it easier to deploy
 * Fixed language code "dag" for Dagbani not working for Lemmas for Lexemes (T272242)
 * Fixing the bug where the Property selector is not falling back from language variant to major language for Property labels (T272712)
 * Adding a rate limit for creating Item IDs to avoid skipping so many due to misbehaving bots (T272032)
 * Fixed the case where no error was shown when trying to save a lemma with an invalid language code (T265783)
 * Fixed a but where merging two Lexemes fails if the source Lexeme has links to its own Senses (T273830)
 * Increasing the rate of edits that trigger a check by the constraint checker to 50%. This will increase the number of constraints violations that you can query in the Query Service. (T204031)
 * Making it possible to add interwiki links to/from Multilingual Wikisource (T138332)

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) 17:22, 15 February 2021 (UTC)