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Wikidata weekly summary #251
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Ladies that FOSS, March 15th, 18:00, Berlin. Meetup dedicated to women who want to start coding for Wikidata, Mediawiki or other open source software
 * Wikidata workshop in Manchester, March 17th, 10:00, at the Manchester Central Library (information)
 * Wikidata workshop in Paris, March 17th, 20:30. More questions about SPARQL and the Query Service (information and registration)
 * Would you like to attend to a Wikidata meetup in Berlin? You can choose the next date!
 * Wizards, Muggles and Wikidata: The Room of Requirements for structured knowledge by Jens Ohlig, John Cummings and Navino Evans
 * Wikidata for winners (in Economics) by Martin Poulter
 * Des Successions à Wikidata : vers un réseau social des philosophes antiques ? (fr) by Pierre-Carl Langlais


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Do you want to help watching the recent changes? Have a look at this useful collection of links by YMS
 * Watch the gender gap on Wikipedia and Wikidata with this tool by Envlh
 * Play Stadt, Fluss, Land with Wikidata! (by Knut)
 * Deadline for submitting a presentation for Wikimania 2017 is March 30th: discuss about ideas or ask for help
 * WMF is hiring a program manager, a product manager and a community liaison to work on the structured data project on Commons


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: pole position, MIMO instrument ID, openMLOL author ID, IPv4 range, Iditarod musher ID, SAHRA heritage site ID, DOCOMOMO Ibérico ID, average space complexity, best-case space complexity, worst-case space complexity, average performance, best-case performance, worst-case performance, Shoftim BeIsrael judge ID, KMDb documentary ID, Google Maps CID, Israel Football Association player ID, SSRN author ID, Wildflowers of Israel ID, World Rugby Sevens Series ID, number of subscribers, ITU/ISO/IEC object identifier


 * Query examples:
 * List of female bioinformaticians/computational biologists (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20most%20gender-imbalanced%20occupations%20in%20%3Fcountry%20citizens%0ASELECT%20%3FoccupationLabel%20%3Fwomen%20%3Fmen%20WITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Foccupation%20%28SUM%28%3Fwoman%29%20AS%20%3Fwomen%29%20%28SUM%28%3Fman%29%20AS%20%3Fmen%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28wd%3AQ30%20AS%20%3Fcountry%29.%20%23%20substitute%20country%20of%20your%20choice%20here%20%28remove%20the%20Q30%2C%20hit%20Ctrl%2BSpace%20and%20start%20typing%20the%20country%20name%2C%20select%20the%20right%20one%20from%20the%20suggestions%20with%20the%20arrow%20keys%20and%20insert%20it%20with%20Enter%29%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP27%20%3Fcountry%3B%20%23%20remove%20this%20to%20search%20world-wide%20%E2%80%93%20results%20in%20query%20timeout%20unless%20you%20reduce%20the%20dataset%20in%20some%20other%20fashion%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP106%2Fps%3AP106%20%3Foccupation.%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ6581097.%20BIND%281%20AS%20%3Fman%29.%20%7D%20UNION%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ2449503.%20BIND%281%20AS%20%3Fman%29.%20%7D%20UNION%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ6581072.%20BIND%281%20AS%20%3Fwoman%29.%20%7D%20UNION%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ1052281.%20BIND%281%20AS%20%3Fwoman%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20TODO%20consider%20how%20to%20count%20P21%3A%20Q48270%20%28genderqueer%29%20and%20Q1097630%20%28intersex%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Foccupation%0A%7D%20AS%20%25results%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25results.%20%23%20subquery%20as%20optimization%3A%20don%E2%80%99t%20make%20the%20label%20service%20fetch%20labels%20for%20every%20%3Fperson%20in%20the%20subquery%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%0A%20%20%23%20divide%20%3Fvariable%2B1%20instead%20of%20%3Fvariable%20to%20avoid%20division%20by%20zero%0A%20%20%23%20%28unfortunately%2C%20we%20can%E2%80%99t%20use%20ABS%28LOG%28x%2Fy%29%29%20instead%20of%20the%20IF%28%29%20because%20SPARQL%20has%20no%20LOG%20function%29%0A%20%20DESC%28IF%28%3Fwomen%20%3E%20%3Fmen%2C%20%28%3Fwomen%2B1%29%2F%28%3Fmen%2B1%29%2C%20%28%3Fmen%2B1%29%2F%28%3Fwomen%2B1%29%29%29%0A%20%20%23%20if%20the%20ratio%20is%20the%20same%2C%20show%20results%20with%20more%20people%20in%20total%20first%0A%20%20DESC%28%3Fwomen%2B%3Fmen%29 Most gender-imbalanced occupations in US citizens] (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20awards%20received%20by%20more%20women%20than%20men%0ASELECT%20%3Faward%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Flabel%29%20AS%20%3FawardLabel%29%20%3Fwomen%20%3Fmen%20WITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Faward%20%28SUM%28%3Fwoman%29%20AS%20%3Fwomen%29%20%28SUM%28%3Fman%29%20AS%20%3Fmen%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP166%2Fps%3AP166%20%3Faward.%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ6581097.%20BIND%281%20AS%20%3Fman%29.%20%7D%20UNION%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ2449503.%20BIND%281%20AS%20%3Fman%29.%20%7D%20UNION%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ6581072.%20BIND%281%20AS%20%3Fwoman%29.%20%7D%20UNION%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ1052281.%20BIND%281%20AS%20%3Fwoman%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Faward%0A%20%20HAVING%28%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20more%20women%20than%20men%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwomen%20%3E%20%3Fmen%20%26%26%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20but%20exclude%20women-only%20awards%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fmen%20%3E%200%0A%20%20%29%0A%7D%20AS%20%25results%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25results.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Faward%20wdt%3AP1448%20%3FofficialName.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Faward%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FenLabel.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FenLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Faward%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FanyLabel.%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND%28COALESCE%28%3FofficialName%2C%20%3FenLabel%2C%20%3FanyLabel%29%20AS%20%3Flabel%29.%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Faward%20%3Fwomen%20%3Fmen%0AORDER%20BY%20STR%28%3FawardLabel%29 Awards received by more women than men] (source)
 * Transgender characters played by trangender actors/actresses (source)
 * The most famous astronomical objects in Solar System according to Wikipedia sitelinks (source)
 * Natural arches around the globe (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Board Games
 * Newest external tools: official first release of WikidataIntegrator


 * Development
 * Converted undo/restore interface to use OOUI. You can test it here (T134643).
 * Fixed an other rounding issue on geo coordinates (T158772).
 * Added thumbnail images to the Wikimedia Commons suggester (T160319).
 * Continued working on introducing Lexeme entity type.
 * Finishing federation prototype.
 * We are going to change all snak, reference, and qualifier hashes with the planned DataModel 7.0 release. If you are a tool developer, make sure you do not persist hashes, and never use them to request edits to entities. Statement IDs are safe (T157965).
 * Removed unnecessary CSS on ooui special pages (T159702)
 * Allowed example queries to be searched for SPARQL commands (T154768)
 * Converted Wikibase interface for undoing/restoring a revision to OOUI (T134643)
 * Converted image header user script to gadget (T159929)
 * Started writing spec for technical data model for Wiktionary support (T150785)
 * Worked on providing API for constraint check (T102757)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
 * 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) 15:27, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

Weekly Summary #252
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin on March 31st
 * Upcoming: Datensummit in Berlin, April 29th. We're looking for Wikidata editors to help :)
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop in Rennes, March 22nd
 * A successful Wikidatathon about women's history in Puri, India
 * Wikidata as information source to support the Dutch elections
 * Quora: Adding Locations via Wikidata
 * Quora: Identifying Topics about People
 * How to quickly generate word analogy datasets with Wikidata by Finn Arup Nielsen


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Deadline for submitting a presentation for Wikimania 2017 is March 30th: discuss about ideas or ask for help
 * SWAT4LS 2016 poster Linking Wikidata to the Semantic Web
 * Mix’n’match interface update


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: FFA ID, European Athletics ID, All-Athletics.com ID


 * Query examples:
 * Gallery of authors of scientific articles that have been published on this day of the year (source)
 * Scholarly articles that have Wikipedia articles about them (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0A%23%20Faux%20Vermeer%20%0A%23%20Genre%2Fp136%20%3A%20faux%2FQ1400612%20%0A%23%20Cr%C3%A9ateur%2Fp170%20avec%20qualificateur%20d%27apr%C3%A8s%2FP1777%20Vermeer%2Fwd%3AQ41264%0ASELECT%20distinct%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fdate%20%28GROUP_CONCAT%28distinct%20%3FcreaLb%3B%20separator%3D%22%20-%20%22%29%20as%20%3Fcreateur%29%20%3Fimg%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP136%20wd%3AQ1400612%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP170%20%3Fcrea%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimg%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP170%20%5B%20pq%3AP1777%20wd%3AQ41264%20%5D%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP571%20%3Fdeclarationdate%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20MINUS%20%7B%3Fdeclarationdate%20pq%3AP1319%20%3Fpasavant%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20MINUS%20%7B%3Fdeclarationdate%20pq%3AP1480%20wd%3AQ5727902%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fdeclarationdate%20ps%3AP571%20%3Fdateunique%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%20%28year%28%3Fdateunique%29%20AS%20%3Fdate%29%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20MINUS%20%7B%3Fdeclarationdate%20pq%3AP1319%20%3Fpasavant%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fdeclarationdate%20pq%3AP1480%20wd%3AQ5727902.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fdeclarationdate%20ps%3AP571%20%3Fdateunique%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%20%28CONCAT%28%22c.%22%2CSTR%28year%28%3Fdateunique%29%29%29%20AS%20%3Fdate%29%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fdeclarationdate%20pq%3AP1319%20%3Fpasavant%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fdeclarationdate%20pq%3AP1326%20%3Fpasapres.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%20%28CONCAT%28STR%28year%28%3Fpasavant%29%29%2C%22-%22%2CSTR%28year%28%3Fpasapres%29%29%29%20AS%20%3Fdate%29%7D%0A%20%20%3Fcrea%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FcreaLb%20.%20filter%20%28lang%28%3FcreaLb%29%20%3D%20%22fr%22%29%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7Bbd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22fr%22%7D%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fdate%20%3Fimg%20 False Vermeer works] (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AGraph%0APREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20gas%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bigdata.com%2Frdf%2Fgas%23%3E%0A%0Aselect%20%3Fauthor%20%3FauthorLabel%20%3Fwork%20%3FworkLabel%20where%20%7B%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20select%20%3Fwork%20%3Fauthor%20where%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20service%20gas%3Aservice%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20gas%3Aprogram%20gas%3AgasClass%20%22com.bigdata.rdf.graph.analytics.BFS%22%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20gas%3Ain%20wd%3AQ173746%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20gas%3Atarget%20wd%3AQ25975509%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20gas%3AtraversalDirection%20%22Undirected%22%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20gas%3Aout%20%3Fwork%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20gas%3Aout1%20%3Fdepth%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20gas%3Aout2%20%3Fpredecessor%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20gas%3AlinkType%20wdt%3AP50%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20gas%3AmaxIterations%2012%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20gas%3AmaxVisited%202000%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fwork%20wdt%3AP50%20%3Fauthor%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20union%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bind%28wd%3AQ25975509%20as%20%3Fwork%29%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwork%20wdt%3AP50%20%3Fauthor%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20 From Natalie Portman to Paul Erdös graph] (source)


 * Development
 * Fixing a bug on the save button (T159244)
 * Fixing a bug with the link to the Query Service on an ember query (T156013)
 * More work on Federation (T157442, T158169)
 * Fixing a bug on geoformats (T158772)
 * Fixing a bug on the treemap view (T160320) Thanks EdouardHue for the patch!
 * More groundwork on Lexemes (T157791)
 * Show thumbnails in commons suggester (T160319)
 * Fixing a bug on coordinate (T153429)
 * Applying WikimediaUI color palette to Wikibase (T151194)
 * Writing spec for technical data model for Wiktionary support (T150785)
 * Working on providing API for constraint check (T102757)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
 * 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) 16:28, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #253
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.  This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-03-27.


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, Friday, March 31st at 19:30 in Neukölln
 * Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, April 5th, 16:00 UTC, on
 * A tool to estimate gender gap on Wikidata and Wikipedia (source)
 * (fr) Odonymie rennaise : que nous apprend Wikidata sur les noms des voies de Rennes ? (source)
 * Wikidata's excellent sample SPARQL queries by Bob DuCharme
 * 10 steps to integrate CIViCdb with other public data in Wikidata


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * RFC: Wikidata → OSM lookup table
 * Participate to the definition of the Wikimedia movement's strategy
 * The deadline for Wikimania talks submission has been extended to April 10th (check what we're planning around Wikidata)
 * Conceptual documentation for the Lexemes and examples (feel free to help translating)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: FI WarSampo army unit ID, KMRB film rating, FI WarSampo person ID, film script, volcano observatory, BoF person ID, Bivouac.com pass ID, Elle.fr person ID, Evidence & Conclusion Ontology ID, Parks.it ID, YerelNET district ID, The Numbers movie ID, S2A3 Biographical Database ID, Mapa place ID, Tax-exempt heritage asset ID, TV Guide show ID, original film format, Launchpad.net project ID, INEGI municipality ID, Safsal coach ID, Safsal player ID, Star Wars Databank ID, autonomous system number, Bureau of Meteorology station ID, Flora of Israel plant ID, Dictionary of Sydney ID, IPv6 routing prefix, rate of fire, Art Renewal Center ID, AnimeCons.com ID, Telegram username, BNA author ID, danskefilm silent film ID, danskefilm person ID, danskefilm film ID, CiteSeerX ID, Christie's work ID, Artnet artist ID, has active ingredient, active ingredient in, negative allosteric modulator of, positive allosteric modulator of, antisense inhibitor of, inhibitor of, disrupting agent for, blocker of, antagonist of, agonist of, activator of, PeakFinder ID, It's Rugby ID, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain Book ID


 * Query examples:
 * Time zones that are more than 12 hours away from UTC (source)
 * Countries which have the same name as their capital in their official language (source)
 * Roman amphitheatres on Wikidata (source)
 * Sluices on canals in Bretagne (France) (source)
 * Newest database reports: film scripts
 * Showcase items: Wressle Castle (Q8037764)


 * Development
 * Fixing a bug that prevented users to edit descriptions in some non-latin alphabets (T161263)
 * Worked on Special:NewLexeme which will be used to create new Lexemes for supporting lexicographical data (T157973)
 * Aligned some more colors with Wikimedia color palete (T151194)
 * Added more autocompletion for the Wikidata Query Service (T150950)
 * Started working on support for Forms of words in the UI for supporting lexicographical data (T160520)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
 * 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) 14:39, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #254
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Grenoble (France), April 4th (more info)
 * Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, April 5th, 16:00 UTC, on
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in London (UK), April 8th (more info)
 * Bunhill Fields: Wikimedia, gamification and richer media content
 * Biocuration 2017
 * Talk: Repurpos.us: A fully open and expandable drug repurposing portal by Sebastian Burgstaller-Muehlbacher, PhD
 * Poster: Best practices for data provenance in Wikidata by Gregory S. Stupp et al.
 * Poster: Using Shape Expressions (ShEx) to model, validate and curate Wikidata by Andra Waagmeester et al.
 * Five years ago, the development of Wikidata started


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Attention: Editing will be disabled during parts of April 19 and May 3, to allow a server switch
 * New filters for the Recent Changes will be deployed on April 11. (more info)
 * Data donation: Songkick have donated a datafile with 155K of their Songkick artist ID (P3478). ~45K are already matched, and the rest are in Mix'n'Match, awaiting your kind attention.
 * Query Service: you can now create a template to explain what your query is doing
 * new data type for geographical shapes will be enabled on April 24th
 * Several CC0 databases are now federated with the Query Service endpoint


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: located in present-day administrative territorial entity, Human Phenotype Ontology ID, slope rating, Tab4u artist ID, Tab4u song ID, United States Public Law, Pinterest username, Mendeley person ID, RTC film rating, diaspora, Europeana Fashion Vocabulary ID, object has role, CueTracker player ID, Publons author ID, wears, JSTOR topic ID, Welsh Rugby Union player ID, United States Statutes at Large citation, VTJ-PRT building ID, Ethnologue language status, rules for classification, Bangla Movie Database ID, Flanders Arts Institute venue ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of the megaliths of the World, coloured by type (showing some nice paterns, source)
 * French people without a gender (source)
 * Eldest members of noble families (source)
 * Map of places with population “zero” (0) (source)


 * External Tools News
 * wikidata-cli
 * new command: wd summary
 * improved support for custom Wikibase instances
 * wikidata-edit:
 * new function: remove claim
 * improved support for custom Wikibase instances
 * wikidata-sdk:
 * new function: simplify.entity
 * major documentation restructuration
 * wikidata-filter:
 * new filter criteria: sitelinks. Example of a query that times out on the SPARQL endpoint but that is now possible with wikidata-filter: Get all entities with a Chinese and a French Wikipedia article, keeping only id, labels, and sitelinks matching those languages
 * Monumental: brand new app for displaying heritage data


 * Development
 * A warm welcome to our new intern, Lucas Werkmeister! You may now him for his work on queries as WikidataFacts. He will work in the team for the next months.
 * Attending to Wikimedia Conference, talking with Wikidata and Wiktionary users
 * Improving performance on Special:Entities pages (T161631)
 * Tracking the number of identifier properties on an item in page_props (T114617)
 * More work on Senses (T161523) and Forms (T160524)
 * Improving the autocompletions of Query Service (T150950)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


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

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Wikidata weekly summary #255
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Zolo
 * New request for comments: Proposed client side disambiguation page


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * The Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) helps unlock millions of connections between scholarly research, on WMF blog, by Dario Taborelli
 * Le canal de Nantes à Brest sur Wikidata (fr) by Édouard Hue
 * Comprende!, a quiz interface on top of MediaWiki/WikiBase by Magnus Manske
 * Next Wikidata meetup in Berlin: April 26th, 18:00 in WMDE's office


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Deadline for submitting a talk, workshop or roundtable for Wikimania is today, April 10th, at midnight (UTC)!
 * There's now also a #100wikidays challenge on Wikidata, aptly named #100wikidatadays! It is a personal challenge in which a person very significantly improves (at least) one Wikidata items per day, for 100 days in a row. There was already a version of the challenge on various Wikipedias, on Commons and on Wikisource - now on Wikidata as well. Participate and make Wikidata shine!
 * New filters for Recent Changes: the beta deployment is rescheduled on May 9th
 * Grant application to extend the work of John Commings at UNESCO
 * New MapRoulette challenges: Add missing Wikidata ids to cities and capitals on OpenStreetMap
 * You can be a candidate for the Wikimedia Foundation's board of trustees
 * Log of the last IRC office hour with Wikidata development team
 * Help us translating this short message in your language


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: TV Guide person ID, Deutsche Synchronkartei film ID, DLV athlete ID


 * Query examples:
 * Notable integers
 * Longest streets of Moscow
 * Top 20 of heaviest humans in Wikidata (source)
 * Timeline of Paris marathons (source)
 * Countries not involved in any world war (source)
 * People whose place of birth is named after them (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Figure skating
 * Newest external tools: Sistercities, an overview of sister cities of German cities on Wikipedia and Wikidata
 * Newest database reports: list of duos


 * Development
 * Preparing for making more ArticlePlaceholder indexable by search engines on Welsh Wikipedia (T162244)
 * Preparing the deployments of Cognate and geoshape data type
 * Lexemes: starting adding sections for forms and senses

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
 * 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) 12:26, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #256
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= Events/Press/Blogs =
 * Wikidata workshop in Paris, Friday, April 21st, about external tools
 * "Wikidata pour la science" training day in Paris, April 24th
 * Heritage in Flanders and Crowd-Sourced Projects - featuring Wikidata, Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap
 * The ACS Spring disclosures of 2017 #1 - about news drug compounds entering Wikidata

= Other Noteworthy Stuff =
 * Attention: Editing will be disabled during parts of April 19 and May 3, to allow a server switch
 * Wikidata description editing in the Wikipedia Android app to be deployed on several Wikipedias
 * More federated endpoints have been added (DBpedia, INSEE, UK Office for National Statistics...)
 * All UNESCO sites in Wikishootme
 * You can now cheat Stadt Fluss Land game with a query ;)
 * To be deployed on Monday, April 24th: new datatype for geoshapes and Cognate on Wiktionaries

= Did you know? =


 * Newest properties: type of reference, suicide rate, Italian Navy Lighthouses and Beacons ID, MyDramaList name ID, iTunes app ID, Wormbase Gene ID, Environment Ontology ID, route diagram, cinenacional.com person ID, Quebec municipalities geographical code, LombardiaBeniCulturali artwork ID, Soundtrack Collector ID, Rat Genome Database ID, FlyBase Gene ID, cinenacional.com movie ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali toponym ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali institution ID, Irish Rugby Football Union ID, Open Library subject ID, DBC author ID


 * Query examples:
 * The 500 most important paintings, according to Wikidata sitelinks (source)
 * The most important works in German by Wiki* articles (source)
 * Cities in France starting with the letter W (source)
 * Newest external tools: Wikinity displays a map of items near any given place
 * Newest database reports: list of anthology films

= Development =
 * More work on support for Forms and Lexemes (T160052)
 * Adding monolingual language code UMU (T160531)
 * Fixing a bug about Commons gallery and category (T161826)
 * Improving header image gadget (T160530)
 * Provide a special page to list all available badges (T114473)
 * Show supported data formats in Special:EntityData (T162870)
 * Track the number of identifier properties on an item (T114617)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #257
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * The Wikidata data model and your SPARQL queries by Bob DuCharme
 * Wikidata meetup in Berlin, Wednesday, April 26th in WMDE's office
 * Datensummit by OKFN, April 29th, in Berlin


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Editing will be disabled during parts of May 3rd, to allow a server switch
 * Deployed on Monday, April 24th: new datatype for geoshapes and Cognate on Wiktionaries


 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: PictoRight ID-Droit de suite, observing time available, MetaboLights Compound ID, Swiss Federal Archives ID, Boijmans artist ID, KVAB member ID, number of perpetrators, History of Modern Biomedicine ID, Tilastopaja male athlete ID, Red Bull athlete ID, Tilastopaja female athlete ID, National Track & Field Hall of Fame athlete ID, Caverphone, Cologne phonetics, Soundex, HappyCow restaurant ID, category for alumni of educational institution, Justia Patents company ID, Justia Patents inventor ID, daily patronage, patronage, tributary orientation, ZFIN gene ID, IAFD female-born performer ID, MyDramaList title ID, Israel Chess Federation player ID, LAWA waterbody ID
 * Query examples:
 * Place of birth of the candidates to French presidency since 1958 (source)
 * Oldest given names on Wikidata (source)
 * Cocktails and their ingredients (source)
 * Cities in UK named after a patron saint (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Wikiproject Terrorism
 * New template: d:Template:Film festivals


 * Development
 * Changing Special:NewProperty to not have a datatype selected by default (T138295)
 * Restoration of deleted items broken on Wikidata (T163144)
 * Making notifications when page is being connected to Wikidata ready to deploy (T110604)
 * Writing basic documentation for WikibaseMediaInfo extension (T159710)
 * Hiding header image gadget when sitelinks are floated below the statement section (T160530)
 * Making the "add" button display the "add Form" form (T162342)
 * Getting the datatype to link to tabular data sets on Commons ready to deploy (T160048)
 * Showing supported data formats in Special:EntityData (T162870)
 * Setting meta name="description" on article placeholders (T157466)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
 * 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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