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Wikidata weekly summary #402
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Nomen ad hoc


 * Events
 * Learn about the use of Wikidata, Wikipedia and sister projects in education, at the Wikimedia in Education UK Summit at Coventry University on 26 February
 * Hackday Niederrhein, Germany, on March 28-29, including a Wikidata workshop
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: further discussion of labels and aliases; start looking at Google Sheets, 11 February. Agenda
 * WikiCite meetup in Melbourne, Australia, on February 14th
 * Wikidata Wednesday in Vienna, Austria, on February 19th


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Wikidata and Beyond – Knowledge for everyone by everyone, keynote video from Denny Vrandečić at SWAT4HCLS 2019
 * Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2019 edition, by Jean-Frédéric
 * Discovering Implicational Knowledge in Wikidata, by Tom Hanika, Maximilian Marx and Gerd Stumme.


 * Tool of the week
 * Reasonator offers a visual formatted display of Wikidata information. It is useful for introducing Wikidata to new audiences and can help find missing or incorrect data by presenting a different view than the standard editing interface.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The Kensho Derived Wikimedia Dataset is a a cleaned English subset of Wikipedia/Wikidata with 2.3B tokens, 5.3M pages, 51M nodes, and 120M edges for use in natural language processing (NLP) research
 * Property talk pages now include a link to query for a few random items using the "SERVICE bd:sample" in SPARQL. Example: look for "random list" on d:Property talk:P279
 * "Status of Wikidata Query Service" update from WMF, on Wikidata mailing list
 * Facebook page of a volunteer working on Wikidata about the French local elections in Conflans
 * Swiss newspaper Le Temps built a new front-end to interact with a Wikibase backend developed by nonprofit PersonalData.IO to power its citizen-led investigation of personal data flows.
 * There are now 100,000 people with the name "John" in Wikidata. "Elizabeth" is now the most frequent female given name.
 * Knowledge Grapher is a new tool to create Wikidata knowledge graphs without needing any knowledge of Wikidata Query or SPARQL code. Developed by Fuzheado, it is currently in early testing mode and helps create graphs as described by MartinPoulter at his 2019 blog post Making Wikidata Visible. Feedback is appreciated.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Academia.edu publication ID, TI-99/4A Videogame House ID, National Aviation Hall of Fame ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: гражданский чин, uses dataset, CVR person ID, description, Wikimedia community discussion, The Great Biography
 * External identifiers: Visual AIDS Artist+ Registry ID, CYRI ID, Mendeley publication ID, CODEPAC-Bauru ID, Daughters of the American Revolution ancestor ID, PC Games Database.de game ID, Encyclopedia of Chicago, DANFS ID, Deutsche Biographie ID, Haz-Map ID, RAL ID, PC Games Database.de company ID, Kickstarter project ID, Adventure Games company ID, VcBA ID, Adventure Games series ID, Hrvatska enciklopedije ID, Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland: 1880-2000 ID, Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development ID, Trakt.tv uri, Open Food Facts label, Compendium heroicum ID, Gry Online game ID, Gram.pl game ID, startrekdb.se query, Legislative Assembly of Ontario MPP ID, Gry Online company ID


 * Deleted properties: lithography (P2157)
 * Query examples:
 * Timeline of same-sex marriage legalization in various countries (source)
 * Chart of the number of infections and deaths casued since the outbreak of novel coronavirus, as reported by the World Health Organisation
 * Adjacent constituencies of the UK Parliament - query federated with Ordnance Survey's SPARQL endpoint. (source)
 * List of this year’s Academy Awards winners


 * Development
 * Wikidata Bridge: more work on enabling error messages for various cases (datatype not supported, user can't edit on client or repo, etc.)
 * Including the property label in the title of the Data Bridge dialog (T233295)
 * Mismatched references: follow-up of the deployment in production, adding the "remove warning" button
 * Monitoring the number of times the feature reference warnings are being triggered and opened (T231731)
 * Fixing some issues connected to the train deployment
 * Fixing an issue with new edit summaries not being displayed on client wikis (T244129)
 * Fixing an issue with ittem having label conflict with itself (T243158)

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!

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:24, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-07
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * There is a new version of the Wikimedia Commons app for Android. It should fix the failed uploads problem.

Problems
 * There was a problem with the new MediaWiki version last week. It deleted some messages by accident. The new version was late because it was stopped to fix things.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-tools.svg The MediaWiki action API is used by various tools like bots and gadgets. Some error codes will change. Some parameter values that do not follow the standard will no longer work.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 February. It will be on all wikis from 13 February (calendar).

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Wikidata weekly summary #403
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Versionize property definitions ?
 * Closed request for comments: Non-free content


 * Events
 * Past: Warsaw, 13-14 February: Workshop to develop the data model for taxonomic and nomenclatural data in Wikidata
 * Upcoming: March 12, Amsterdam: Datasprint Amsterdam Time Machine/Golden Agents with the ECARTICO and ONSTAGE datasets, involving Wikidata.
 * Upcoming: FindingGLAMs Wikidata editing challenge, improve data about cultural heritage institutions, from February 17th to 23rd


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * "Wikidata is just a matter of facts", blog post on the Workshop to develop a data model for taxonomic and nomenclatural data in Wikidata
 * Vandalism Detection in Crowdsourced Knowledge Bases by Stefan Heindorf


 * Tool of the week
 * Looking for one of the 7000+ Wikidata properties? Try Propbrowse to search and browse all properties.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Cradle tool can now generate forms based on Schemas (example for human)
 * Loading time of pages on Wikidata and Commons has been improved. You can learn more about page load performance and developing with ResourceLoader.
 * Science Stories by Kat Thornton and Kenneth Seals-Nutt, an application that tells stories about underrepresented people in STEM using Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia, is the winner of the LODLAM 2020 Challenge!


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: gained territory from, gave up territory to
 * External identifiers: MOCAGH ID, Denkmalatlas Niedersachsen Objekt-ID, Encyclopedia of Chicago ID, Deutsche Biographie ID, AnimalBase ID, Canmore maritime-type ID, Canmore object-type ID, Clavis Clavium ID, CYRI ID, DANFS ship ID, Gamekult company ID, Gamekult franchise ID, Gamekult game ID, Gamekult platform ID, GBAtemp game ID, Mendeley publication ID, Museums in Austria Code, Médias 19 ID, SerialStation game ID, TheTVDB person ID, TrueAchievements series ID, Canmore monument-type ID, Bollywood Hungama person alphabetic ID, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina ID, Jurisdiction List number, Visual AIDS Artist+ Registry ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: energy consumption per transaction, yearly energy consumption, church patron saint, national identification number, Democracy Index, business model, intended subject, examination jury, depicted format, DoME artist ID, historic county, код персоны на elibrary.ru, applies if regular expression matches
 * External identifiers: Patamu Certificate ID, Colecovision Addict ID, Annuaire des Maîtres d'art, Biographisches Lexikon zur Geschichte Südosteuropas ID, GameReactor game ID, Fandango performer ID, Cell Ontology ID, ColecoVision.dk ID, BioLexSOE ID, EH.Net Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History ID, NHS Health A to Z ID, Corpus Corporum author ID, Colecovision Zone ID, Catalogue of Life ID, GreatSchools ID, Clavis Patrum Graecorum ID, Clavis Patrum Latinorum ID, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca ID, Podchaser podcast ID, Mirabile author ID, Mirabile saint ID, Kanopy ID, Czech War Graves Register


 * Query examples:
 * Place names of Bergamo: map with pronunciation audio files (source)
 * Number words whose number of letters equals their value: with Lexemes (source), with labels (source)
 * Graph of the extended Kardashian clan (source)
 * Scottish monuments with a commons sitelink, but no image (source)
 * Number of films with LGBT representation per country (source)


 * Development
 * Wikidata Bridge: more work on unsupported edit cases (unsupported datatypes T235753, ambiguous statements T240212, deprecated statements T238660, unknown value or no value statements T242747)
 * Including the property label in the title of the Data Bridge dialog (T233295)
 * Making the edit based on the user's fixed/updated choice (T238662)
 * Style fixes and font size adjustments (T239421, T243192)
 * Create Grafana boards to track the results of the tainted references feature
 * Increase factor for query service that is taken into account for maxlag (later reverted) (T244722)
 * Fix edit summaries not displayed on client wikis (T244129)
 * Fixed some issues causes by the wb_terms migration

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) 16:16, 17 February 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!

Tech News: 2020-08
 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
 * Pages on Wikidata and Commons now load faster. You can read more about page load performance.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 February. It will be on all wikis from 20 February (calendar).

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Wikidata weekly summary #404
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 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: DannyS712, Fralambert
 * Possible change of usage of "located in administrative territorial entity" (P131)


 * Events
 * Scholarships application process for Wikimania 2020 (Bangkok) is now open until March 17th. More information, FAQ, apply
 * Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference, one of the themes being how Wikidata can support minority languages, will take place on July 9-10 in Limerick, Ireland. Call for submissions open from February 27th to March 30th.
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: More discussion of pseudonyms and historical place names, 25 February. Agenda
 * Upcoming: Wikimedia Research office hour, February 26th
 * Upcoming: Wikidata x OSM meetup in Taiwan, March 9th


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Wikidata's Linked Data for Cultural Heritage Digital Resources: An Evaluation Based on the Europeana Data Model by Nuno Freire, Antoine Isaac
 * When Humans and Machines Collaborate - Cross-lingual Label Editing in Wikidata, by Lucie-Aimée Kaffee: video during Wikimedia Research Showcase (at 30:00), paper
 * Do you speak data? Wikidata as the Open Internet’s universal language, by Elisabeth Giesemann
 * “Wikidata is just a matter of facts”, by Andra Waagmeester
 * Does Biodiversity Informatics 💘 Wikidata?, by Quentin Groom & Deborah Paul


 * Tool of the week
 * Wiki Art Depiction Explorer is a web interface for adding depiction information for artworks in Wikidata by surfacing frequently used terms and providing suggestions. Read the full project description and documentation


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * QWiki, a mobile game asking geography questions based on Wikidata, now has a new version released as well as a website where one can learn how the game was made and how to contribute;
 * soweego is an artificial intelligence that links Wikidata to large external catalogs. The proposal for version 2 is out for your consideration. review of version 1 is open for discussion.
 * Wikimedia Developer Satisfaction Survey run by the WMF until March 6th (source)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: Wikimedia community discussion
 * External identifiers: Open Food Facts label, BioLexSOE ID, Roglo person ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: applies to name of object, Country of registry, Poeti d'Italia in lingua latina author ID, generational suffix
 * External identifiers: RealGM basketball coach ID, Irish playography person ID, Irish playography play ID, Mirabile title ID, Mirabile manuscript ID, Filmfront person ID, Filmfront film ID, Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon ID, Global Music Rights work ID, SESAC work number, The First Amendment Encyclopedia ID, Indiegogo project ID, Glassdoor company ID, block creators, targeted block time, staking ratio, SOCAN work number, NHLR ID, The Washington Post ID


 * Query examples:
 * Importing from ThePeerage (Nov. 2019) added 50% to the number of Johns on Wikidata (source)
 * SF movies and series with a significant character known to have been portrayed by an actor who was born in Liverpool (source)
 * countries in Europe whose ISO 2-letter abbreviation contains letters not in the native language name of their country (source)
 * places names in Wales with Welsh pronunciation audio (source)
 * Map of types of GLAMs in Wales (source)


 * Development
 * Provide better redirect for statement nodes (T203397)
 * Wikidata Bridge: style fixes and font size adjustments (T239421, T243192)
 * making the edit based on the user's fixed/updated choice (T238662)
 * research how to do reference rendering (T244987)
 * showing the loading bar while saving (T237433)
 * More work on wb_terms table and fixing various issues
 * Removing all of pre-entity source based federation code
 * Fixing various issues causing errors in production
 * Investigate on an issue with pasting exact Commons file title (T196165)
 * Update the APIs to specify an errorformat and a uselang parameter (T242769)

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!

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:30, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-09
 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
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 February. It will be on all wikis from 27 February (calendar).

Future changes
 * There will be a reply button after each post on a talk page if you want one. This will soon be a beta feature on the Arabic, French, Dutch and Hungarian Wikipedias. You will have to turn it on if you want to use it. It will come to more wikis later. You can test the reply button. It was briefly shown earlier than planned by mistake on the four first wikis last week.

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The Signpost: 1 March 2020
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Wikidata weekly summary #405
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Kostas20142


 * Events
 * March 7: Wikidata introductions and editathon during OpenDataDay in Hasselt, Belgium
 * July 2-4, Lisbon: WikiData Days 2020. Call for proposals is open until April 15.
 * Program submissions for the Celtic Knot Conference are open until March 30th. Submissions about languages on Wikidata, GLAM or supporting minority languages are very welcome.


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Tutorial on how to use machine learning with Wikidata.
 * Bob DuCharme's blog post: Populating a Schema.org dataset from Wikidata
 * About Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons:
 * Explainer video with a beginner-level introduction about Structured Data on Commons
 * Connecting the work of three generations of decorative artists, with structured data, by Sandra Fauconnier
 * Structured Data on Commons and GLAM: open questions and fresh challenges, by Sandra Fauconnier
 * OpenRefine: results of the 2020 user survey


 * Tool of the week
 * Wikidata graph builder is a front-end on top of the Query service, allowing to easily build graphs.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The Wikidata Languages Landscape dashboard provides insights into the ways languages are organized and used in Wikidata and across the Wikimedia projects that reuse Wikidata.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: business model, format of creative work, associated electoral district
 * External identifiers: Adelsvapen ID, Irish playography play ID, Irish playography person ID, Corpus Corporum author ID, Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon ID, Adventure Gamers company ID, Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland: 1880-2000 ID, NHLR ID, The Washington Post writer ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Type of bow used, staking lock-up period, validator bond lock-up period, URL match pattern, Pertainym, cognate, symbol of, transactions per month, compatible wallets, minimum amount to run a validator, minimum amount to participate in voting
 * External identifiers: Kooora player ID, Marvel Comics creators ID, DC Comics talent ID, EcuRed, IGCD fictional car ID, Chicago Landmarks ID, URL on Nintendo eShop, BC Register of Historic Places ID


 * Query examples:
 * Updated chart of the number of infections and deaths caused since the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2, as reported by the World Health Organisation
 * British Prime Ministers with children under the age of 5 when elected, or born during their time in office (source)
 * Timeline of countries of origin of the winner of the European Film Award for Best European Film
 * People with profiles on the Washington Post website


 * Development
 * Started working on Federated Properties for Wikibase
 * Bridge: more style adjustments
 * Research on reference rendering for the Bridge (T244987)
 * Disable WDQS jump to focus when used in an iframe (T245637)

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.

<div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:28, 2 March 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!

Tech News: 2020-10
<section begin="technews-2020-W10"/> 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
 * Readers who were not logged in briefly saw the interface in a language decided by their browser. It should normally be in the language of the wiki. This happened for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug.

Changes later this week
 * If you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to your email address. You need to know your email address or your username. You will now be able to choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This will be a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for.
 * When you asked for a new password you could see if the username didn't exist on Special:PasswordReset. Now the page will show the username you entered and tell you an email has been sent if the username exists. This is for better security.
 * On Special:WhatLinksHere you can see what other pages link to a page. You can see if the link is from a redirect. You can now see which section the redirect links to.
 * 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).

Future changes
 * The developers are working on a new interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. You can give feedback.
 * There is a vote on the creation of a new user group called abuse filter manager. The vote runs from March 1 to March 31 on Meta.
 * Octicons-tools.svg  was used for the mobile site. It was deprecated in 2017. It will stop working in April. Wikis should see if they use it. If they do they should fix it. You can read more and ask for help. This affects 183 wikis. There is a list.

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Wikidata weekly summary #406
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Discussions
 * Closed request for adminship: Fralambert, Kostas20142, welcome on board!
 * New request for comments: Restrictions on making items


 * Events
 * WikiGap Challenge, online editing challenge to improve the coverage of women on Wikipedia and Wikidata, from March 8th to April 8th


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Knowledge Graphs on the Web -- an Overview - Nicolas Heist, et al.
 * Some issues with this paper's reporting of Wikidata are identified in this Twitter thread
 * The List Revolution: Creating dynamic lists using linked data, by Alex Stinson


 * Tool of the week
 * wikibase-cli (Q87194660) now (>= v9.2.0) has a batch mode, and EditGroups support (auto-activated for batch edits targeting Wikidata): ready to make some mass edit, and open for feedback!


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The WikidataCon 2019 grant report has been published
 * EqualStreetNames.Brussels shows streets in Brussels named after men and women, visualized with data from OpenStreetMap and Wikidata


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: The Washington Post contributor ID, DoME artist ID, ArchiWebture ID, Museu de Memes ID, WeChangEd ID, GreatSchools ID, Czech War Graves Register, Marvel Comics creators ID, DC Comics talent ID, The First Amendment Encyclopedia ID, Indiegogo project ID, RealGM basketball coach ID, Global Music Rights work ID, SESAC work number, Directory of Maîtres d'art, Chicago Landmarks ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: SIUSA archive conservator ID, ToposText IDs, content partnership category, eligible award recipient, NetBSD package, OpenBSD port, Number of recoveries, footedness, HTML autocomplete attribute, SoloTutes, see talk page discussion at
 * External identifiers: BC Register of Historic Places ID, Encyclopédie sur le développement des jeunes enfants ID, RFI Musique ID, Moravian Lives, EL, Dictionnaire des femmes de l’ancienne France ID, Google Scholar case ID, TaDiRAH ID, Movie Review Query Engine ID, SkiMo Stats ID


 * Query examples:
 * Subjects and panelists of the BBC radio programme In Our Time (source)
 * People affected by COVID-19
 * Map of hillforts in the UK (source)
 * Images for language items (source)


 * Development
 * Querying the URL datatype with haswbstatement is now possible (T243693). It will take two to three months before URLs are indexed for all Wikidata items.
 * Wikidata Bridge: more style fixes, preparing a prototype to show how we will display references
 * Fixing various production errors
 * Monitoring the run of wb_terms migration
 * Fixing an issue with the Commons files search field (T196165)

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.

<div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:34, 9 March 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!

Tech News: 2020-11
<section begin="technews-2020-W11"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * There is a new search word called . You can use it to search for articles on a specific topic. It is available on the Arabic, Czech, English and Vietnamese Wikipedias. It will come to more Wikipedias soon.

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

Future changes
 * There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.
 * The Wikipedia Android app will do push notifications if users want them. This could help you see for example when someone wrote on your talk page or your edit was reverted. This will come later this year.

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Wikidata weekly summary #407
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Discussions
 * Closed request for comments: Wikidata:Wikidata to use data schemas to standardise data structure on a subject


 * Events
 * Note: Due to the ongoing COVID-19 situation, most meetups, including all those funded by Wikimedia Foundation grants, have been cancelled, or moved online, for the foreseeable future.
 * Past: Wikidata workshop at the central library of Göttingen. Slides: connecting Wikidata and other databases (in German)
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Paris, March 20th, will take place online starting at 20:00 on IRC (freenode:wikidata-fr)
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #5, March 22
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Wochenende in Ulm, June 12-14
 * Postponed:
 * Wikidata Days 2020 (July, Portugal) will be postponed (more information)
 * WikiCite Satellite Cologne 2020 (May, Germany) is postponed until "late 2020"
 * Cancelled:
 * Wikimedia Hackathon (9-11 May, Tirana) is cancelled due to COVID-19.


 * '''Press, articles, blog posts
 * People First: Wikimedia’s Response to COVID-19 - Update from Katherine Maher, Wikimedia Foundation CEO
 * Wikimedia Foundation’s Knowledge Infrastructure with Grant Ingersoll, CTO of Wikimedia Foundation
 * Improving Neural Named Entity Recognition with Gazetteers - "describes how to generate gazetteers from the Wikidata knowledge graph"
 * Introduction to Wikidata video by Jason Evans and Aaron Morris, available both in English and in Welsh
 * Video of the live Wikidata Querying, March 15th, by WikidataFacts


 * Tool of the week
 * TabulistBot, a tool to generate and update tabular data on Commons, based on Wikidata SPARQL queries. Sample: earthquakes.tab


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New help page: Suggesters and selectors
 * All identifiers are now sorted mostly alphabetically according to the RfC regarding the sorting of identifiers, which remains open if you have improvement proposals. Feel free to comment here!
 * Maximilian Klein applied for a project grant to merge and improve WHGI and Denelezh, tools that heavily rely on Wikidata to provide statistics about gender gap and biographical content in Wikimedia projects.
 * QuickStatements change (4 March). QuickStatements is now executing "run in background" batches with the same priority as direct batches run from the browser. Background batches may now run many times faster than they previously did (discussion), when the WDQS updater can handle this.
 * News and discussions about Structured Data on Commons SPARQL endpoint


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: historic county, corresponding HTML autocomplete attribute
 * External identifiers: Joconde Discovery ID, Joconde Genèse ID, Dictionnaire des femmes de l’ancienne France ID, Cell Ontology ID, Scilit work ID, NetBSD package, OpenBSD port, VR GameCritic ID, DAR ancestor ID, FandangoNow ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: descriptive solubility, Unicode character (item), Donations, endorsed by, countermeasure, Venue of the final, Tournament format, tilt
 * External identifiers: Social Blade YouTube channel ID, Dizionario di Filosofia ID, re:publica speaker ID, ACM Conference ID, HuijiWiki Wiki ID, ACM Journal ID, m3db.com film ID, m3db.com person ID, TripAdvisor ID 2


 * Query examples:
 * Timeline of films about pandemics
 * World map of hospitals (source)
 * English and Scottish health trusts & boards (source)
 * Videogames nominated at the Pégases award (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject COVID-19
 * Newest database reports: COVID-19 deaths


 * Development
 * Add monolingual codes nrf-gg (Guernésiais), nrf-je (Jèrriais), thanks to Mbch331! (T165648)
 * Article Placeholder: make the entity field required (T247478)
 * Remove legacy Wikibase service containers (T245865)
 * Fix an error UnresolvedEntityRedirectException when viewing certain Wikidata item pages (T243779)
 * Fix an issue with new edit summaries not always showing what expected (T246873)
 * Federated properties: enable search with remote properties (wbsearchentities) (T246349)
 * showing the updated Wikipedia article after changing a value via Bridge (T235208)
 * research how to do reference rendering (T244987)

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!

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Tech News: 2020-12
<section begin="technews-2020-W12"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg There is a new API module for changing the content model of existing pages. Use  to specify the new model. You can read the documentation on mediawiki.org.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 March. It will be on all wikis from 19 March (calendar).

Future changes
 * If you edit a page at the same time as someone else you can get an edit conflict. There is a new two-column interface to make it easier to solve this. It will soon be active by default on the German, Arabic, and Farsi Wikipedias. It will be on by default on more wikis within the next months. You will be able to opt out of the new interface.
 * You can see a proposed design for replying to comments in an easier way.

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