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Wikidata weekly summary #401
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Mike Peel


 * Events
 * Past: | Wikidata in Social Science Classroom - Workshop, Dubai, January 21st
 * Upcoming: Wikibase Community User Group online meeting (date to be decided, you can vote here)
 * Upcoming: OSM TW x Wikidata Taiwan meetup, February 10th, Taipei


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * A newbie's guide to querying Wikidata, by Mark Needham


 * Tool of the week
 * VizQuery allows you to use the Wikidata Query Service without having to know SPARQL. Simply use a couple of autocomplete input boxes and you can do most basic queries.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Bruno and Denny present how to use Lexical Masks in ShEx to validate lexemes, including a first set of example schemata. They also invite everyone to work on more languages, and will keep adding more ShEx schema over time.
 * 2020 report on Property constraints by user:Abián
 * Wikimedia Hackathon in Tirana: scholarship requests and registration for people needing visa support are open until February 9th.
 * Mismatched reference: first version to be deployed this week
 * OpenRefine 3.3 was released


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: category for maps, number of reviews/ratings, merged into, 8-bits.info ID
 * External identifiers: CoBiS author ID, marterl.at ID, NPDRIM record ID, Analysis & Policy Observatory node ID, Analysis & Policy Observatory term ID, PCBdB game ID, Diccionari del cinema a Catalunya ID, EFIS film festival ID, EFIS person ID, Eurogamer ID, FlashScore.com team ID, GameStar ID, Soccerdonna team ID, The Video Games Museum game ID, Voetbal International player ID, Games Database game ID, ft.dk politician identifier, Historical Marker Database ID, Joconde Inscription ID, Joconde time period ID, Media Art Database ID, Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology ID, EFIS filmfirm ID, EFIS film ID, Ciência ID, Swedish School Registry ID, Whaling History ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: hierarchy switch, Wikipedia infobox field, ontological level of Wikidata item, status of mortal remains, TheTVDB person ID, fails compliance with
 * External identifiers: Gamekult company ID, Gamekult franchise ID, CNGB project ID, Gamekult platform ID, Adelsvapen ID, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina ID, Clavis Clavium ID, FEMA number, SerialStation game ID, GBAtemp game ID, AnimalBase ID, RPGamer ID, Denkmalatlas Niedersachsen Objekt-ID, DR music artist ID, Jurisdiction List Number, Médias 19 ID, ArchiWebture ID, MOCAGH ID


 * Query examples:
 * Number of cases coronavirus reported per country
 * Release date of albums from before 1980 by artists of the EDM genre (source)
 * Books related to LGBTI+ topics (source)
 * Map of medical facilities in Kalimpong district, India, color-coded by type (source)


 * Development
 * Enable the first version of tainted/mismatched references on wikidata.org
 * Work on adding a button to hide the notification (T234789)
 * Show the icon after canceling editing if the icon was shown before (T234790)
 * More work on Wikidata Bridge (restrict editing based on user rights or data types)
 * More work on 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) 16:00, 3 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!

Growth team updates #12
Welcome to the twelfth newsletter from the Growth team!

The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.

General news

 * A training for mentors has been published. The training was first tried with the Czech community, and went well.
 * Growth team features have been deployed to Hungarian, Ukrainian, and Armenian Wikipedias. If your community is enthusiastic about welcoming newcomers, we encourage you to contact us so that we can verify together whether your wiki is eligible. Then you can go through the checklist to start the process of configuring the features.

Productive edits from newcomer tasks
We deployed the basic workflow for newcomer tasks to our target wikis on November 20, and the early results are exciting.




 * About 1.5% of newcomers who visit their homepage complete the workflow and save a suggested edit. So far, this has amounted to over 450 edits, on all wikis, coming from both desktop and mobile users.
 * When we look at the edits that newcomers make, we see that they are largely positive! We are pleased to see that this feature does not appear to encourage vandals.
 * 75% of the edits are productive and unreverted.
 * 95% of the edits appear to be in good faith.
 * Most of the edits include copyedits and adding links, with some newcomers also adding content and references. Copyedits are suggested most strongly.
 * Click here to learn more specifics about the results so far.

Topic matching deployed
The results from our user tests showed us that newcomers are likely to do more suggested edits if they can choose articles related to a topic that they're interested in, such as "science", "music", or "sports".


 * On January 21, we deployed topic matching on our pilot wikis. Newcomers are now using it. We expect it to cause more newcomers to try suggested edits, and to keep making more of them.
 * In the coming weeks, we will be making improvements to the accuracy of the algorithm used to topic matching, which is part of the ORES project.

Next steps for newcomer tasks
Because we are seeing positive results from newcomer tasks, the Growth team plans to concentrate our efforts on improving the workflow and encouraging more newcomers to use it.


 * Guidance: next, we will be using the help panel to provide guidance to newcomers as they do suggested edits, and to prompt them to do another edit after completing their first one. In user tests for this feature, demo videos were one of the favorite features, and we will think about how these might be added.
 * Starting the workflow: only about 20% of newcomer who visit their homepage begin the newcomer tasks workflow. We are going to be trying out different layouts of the homepage to encourage more newcomers to try newcomer tasks.
 * Additional task types: we are researching methods to recommend more specific tasks to newcomers, such as specific links to add, or images that could be added to articles from Commons.

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Sabrina's British Accent in Filmation
I saw the cartoon, and while nobody says she was an immigrant, she for some reason has an English accent, so the cartoon is reliable for proof on the accent. Watch the cartoon and you'll totally see what I mean. [User talk:Iamcool34234| Iamcool34234 (talk) ]] 11:16, 6 February 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Iamcool34234 (talk • contribs)
 * The statement of I reverted was "In this version, she and her aunts are English immigrants due to their British accents," and your claim Iamcool34234 of her being an English immigrant was presented without credible evidence. --- FULBERT (talk) 17:39, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

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!

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This Month in GLAM: January 2020
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New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020
Hello ,

The first NPP source guide discussion is now underway. It covers a wide range of sources in Ghana with the goal of providing more guidance to reviewers about sources they might see when reviewing pages. Hopefully, new page reviewers will join others interested in reliable sources and those with expertise in these sources to make the discussion a success.
 * Source Guide Discussion

New to NPP? Looking to try something a little different? Consider patrolling some redirects. Redirects are relatively easy to review, can be found easily through the New Pages Feed. You can find more information about how to patrol redirects at WP:RPATROL.
 * Redirects


 * Discussions and Resources
 * There is an ongoing discussion around changing notifications for new editors who attempt to write articles.
 * A recent discussion of whether Michelin starred restraunts are notable was archived without closure.
 * A resource page with links pertinent for reviewers was created this month.
 * A proposal to increase the scope of G5 was withdrawn.

Geographic regions, areas and places generally do not need general notability guideline type sourcing. When evaluating whether an article meets this notability guideline please also consider whether it might actually be a form of WP:SPAM for a development project (e.g. PR for a large luxury residential development) and not actually covered by the guideline.
 * Refresher

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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!

Thank you
I appreciate your having looked over my most recent article, the American Banjo Museum and for   assessing its importance for the various Wikiprojects. You pointed it out as the work of a fan, and I would have to say, "You’re right." It was enthusiasm for the place who got me to write the article, and I doubt my ability to be impartial enough to take a razor to it today. Looking at it, I’m thinking too much info about the museum's origins. That is as far as I'm getting right now. Can you make any suggestions as to how to modify it? Thank you, Jacqke (talk) 22:10, 22 February 2020 (UTC)
 * , Thanks for your work on this article. In that comment, what I intended to focus on included the removal or revision of some language that seemed more conversational rather than encyclopedic in tone. For example, the article states "The tour starts off with a walking tour through a still-life scene inspired by the painting The Banjo Lesson by Henry Ossawa Tanner, in which an elderly African-American man teaches a young boy to play the banjo. . . . The tour covers the Minstrel Era, when the banjo began to be appropriated by Anglo-American culture. The museum tries to show the transition from a folk instrument of slaves to an instrument considered "American" today..." All this is accurate, though it seems a little more conversational, as if you were telling me about this museum, than objective and the facts alone. Minor point, though I believe this will strengthen this article overall by shortening some of the claims that are made and focusing on what is actually there, rather than how an individual experiences it. Thanks for asking about this, which is something I wish more people who write articles and want to engage in conversation to help to make them even stronger would consider doing. FULBERT (talk) 16:20, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
 * I will work on revisions this week.  Thanks again, Jacqke (talk) 11:01, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

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)

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 * :( I guess for someone who is already an annual champion, it would be a bit too easy to get a weekly champion?  xinbenlv  Talk, Remember to "ping" me 00:45, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

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