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Wikidata weekly summary #266
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Rennes, June 26th
 * Upcoming: Query Service workshop in Berlin, June 28th, 18:00, in WMDE's office
 * Upcoming: IRC office hour, June 28th, at 20:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2), on the channel
 * Past: Hackathon about election data in Ulm, June 23-25 (some documentation in German)
 * Building communities of knowledge with Wikidata, by Benjamin Good of the 'Gene Wiki' project
 * ORCID Mania (in response to this call for a tool to automate the addition of ORCID iDs to Wikidata)
 * I use Wikidata for multilingual names, by MySociety's 'EveryPoliticianBot'
 * Resource discovery and Wikidata
 * Where the streets have known names - Academic paper on OSM & Wikidata
 * Extracting scientists from Wikipedia - Academic paper
 * ¿Sabes cómo usar la base de datos Wikidata? (es) by the Cervantes virtual library
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * What are your favorite tools using Wikidata?
 * Wiktionary sitelinks have been enabled on Wikidata
 * New Wikidata Game: Wikidata Guessr guess the locations of random Wikidata items
 * OpenRefine 2.7 has been released, including the Wikidata Reconcile service
 * Nice graphics about Wikidata and the Query Service (in German) by Bleeptrack
 * New data donation by Giphy. Some help needed to match the catalogue
 * Some help needed to map the UNESCO Atlas of World Languages in Danger and the Glottolog catalogue


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Irish National Inventory of Architectural Heritage ID, MyAnimeList manga ID, MyAnimeList anime ID, MyAnimeList character ID, MyAnimeList people ID, HFC NPS unit ID, image captured with, Biodiversity Heritage Library creator ID, number of houses, Theatres Trust Database ID, SKIP code, Pizmonet ID, WorldSBK.com racer identifier, Czech Monument Catalogue Number, FFN swimmer ID, Wikia wiki ID


 * Query examples:
 * BubbleChart of Metal band by country (source)
 * Viennese composers and their compositions by tonality (source)
 * Most prolific authors of scientific articles on Wikidata, who are still alive, without ORCID (source)
 * Average age of members of the Landtag of Thuringia (source)
 * Newest external tools: VizQuery


 * Development
 * Creating a separate section for constraint statements (example)
 * Adding client-side hooks for saving and removing statements (T167870)
 * More work on constraints checks (T168629)
 * Enabling Wikidata edits in the enhanced recent changes and watchlist on clients (T46874)
 * Updating constraint check user script and propose to make it a gadget (T167625)
 * Creating Special:PageData as a canonical entry point for machine readable page data (T163923)
 * Working on editable Glosses on Senses (non-persistent) (T165567)
 * Setting up federation on mediainfo test system (T163119)

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
 * 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) 15:00, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #267
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * New request for comment: When multiple sources are cited for a fact, should IMDB be deleted as one of them when used


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: IRC office hour (read the full log here)
 * Past: Online Wikidata workshop in French (Wikipédia:Soirées Wiki en ligne)
 * Upcoming: Wikidata and SPARQL workshop and Celtic Knot Conference in Edinburgh
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop during the Africa Open Data Conference, in Accra, Ghana, July 17-21
 * A Wikidata workshop conducted in Bangalore
 * Blog report about the second Wikidata workshop in the Czech Republic (in Czech)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Join the Cycle 3 of the Wikimedia Movement Strategy discussions, and debate about the challenges identified by the research
 * Sitelinks for the new Kabiye Wikipedia (kbpwiki) can be added
 * We reached Q31000000
 * a dataset of 48,000 English questions have been mapped to Wikidata
 * New Mix’n’match catalog: Irish National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
 * COH Challenge: in July, add pictures from the Connected Open Heritage in Wikidata
 * We asked the followers of the Wikidata Twitter account if they know about SPARQL
 * The constraint check script has been turned into a gadget, and other news
 * Platypus has started to learn Spanish
 * WikidataCon: We reached 100 registrations, the event is complete for now. More tickets will be released in September. You can still register on the waitlist.
 * WikidataCon scholarships applications are open until July 16th
 * MySociety is hiring a community manager to work on EveryPolitician with Wikidata and SPARQL


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: parliamentary group, metrically compatible typeface, BVMC place id, MuseScore ID, RePEc institute ID, Principal Galaxies Catalogue ID, Australian Standard Geographic Classification 2006 ID, Australian Statistical Geography 2016 ID, checksum, Irish Grid Reference, Biodiversity Repository ID, Global Terrorism Database ID


 * Query examples:
 * Place of birth of the authors on Wikimammenn, the breton Wikisource
 * First names of current French members of Parliament (source)
 * Timeline of the births of current members of the French National Assembly (source)
 * Family tree of Harry Potter characters (source)
 * Map of mountains located in the Basque Country (source)
 * Items with higher number of child statements than number of children (source)
 * Pictures of Pharaos (source)
 * Map of departemental archives in France (source)
 * Newest gadgets: Units converter converts from 20 currencies to a selected currency. Converts metric units (mass, dimensions, area, temperature, speed) to/from United States units. The currency amounts are inflation adjusted if data is available.


 * Development
 * Worked more on support for lexicographical data and Wiktionary. The focus was on creating a necessary new datatype to link to Lexemes as well as making Glosses and statements on Glosses editable.
 * Getting ready to migrate the constraints definitions from templates on the property talk page to statements on the property.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 10:26, 3 July 2017 (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!

Wikidata weekly summary #268
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Africa Open Data Conference in Accra, including a Wikidata editathon on July 17th
 * Past: Celtic Knot Conference, Edinburgh, including several presentations related to Wikidata ([ https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%23CelticKnot%20Wikidata&src=typd tweets about Wikidata during the conference])
 * Past: WikiWomenCamp (including a Wikidata presentation by Harmonia Amanda)
 * A visual exploration of musical bands on Wikidata, by RAW Graphs team


 * WikidataCon
 * Last days of the scholarship process! If you need to be funded for the WikidataCon, please fill the form before July 16th
 * Which discussions, workshops, demos should be covered during the WikidataCon?


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * We have some real Meta data!
 * The StrepHit team has submitted an official uplift proposal for the primary sources tool
 * Migration of constraint definitions to property statements around July 12th
 * Sitelinks for the new Atikamekw Wikipedia (atjwiki) can be added
 * Citation management tool Zotero can now read data from Wikidata, and can write data from other sources to Wikidata via QuickStatements. See Wikidata:Zotero for details.
 * New step towards structured data for Commons is now available
 * One week after Q31000000 we have Q32000000


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: PalDat plant ID, openAIP ID, Ontario Heritage Act Register ID, NLS Geographic Names Place ID, NLS-FI Geographic Name ID, National Record of the Historic Environment ID, JewAge person ID, INSPIRE ID, ADK member ID, FRED time-series ID, danskfilmogtv person, danskefilm TV Christmas calendar, Crunchyroll ID, URN-NBN, Gedbas genealogy person ID, Framalibre ID, Finnish archaeological heritage ID, EGF rating, Carnegie Hall agent ID, assets under management, Atlas of Hillforts ID, dissertation submitted to


 * Query examples:
 * Scientific articles from PubMed that mention what version of STATA was used (source)
 * 1000 places in UK that have no label in Welsh (source)
 * Wikivoyage banners for French municipalities (source)
 * Paintings with musical instruments from Spain or related to Spain (source)
 * Images of things or persons in Wikidata with a Github account (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fperson%20%3FpersonLabel%20%0A%28SAMPLE%28%3Fbirth_date%29%20as%20%3Fbirth_date%29%20%0A%28SAMPLE%28%3Fdeath_date%20%29%20as%20%3Fdeath_date%20%29%20%0A%28SAMPLE%28%3Fbirth_place_label%20%29%20as%20%3Fbirth_place_label%20%29%20%0A%28SAMPLE%28%3Fbirth_place_coords%20%29%20as%20%3Fbirth_place_coords%20%29%20%0A%28SAMPLE%28%3Fimage%20%29%20as%20%3Fimage%20%29%20%0A%28SAMPLE%28%3Fcountry%20%29%20as%20%3Fcountry%29%20%0A%28COUNT%28%3Farticle%29%20as%20%3Frank%29%0AWHERE%20%0A%7B%09%20%0A%20%20%09%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP69%20wd%3AQ160302%20.%0A%09%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%20.%0A%20%20%09%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ6581072%20.%0A%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20%7D%0A%20%20%09OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20%7D%0A%09OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fbirth_date%20%7D%0A%20%20%09OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP27%20%3FcountryItem%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FcountryItem%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fcountry%20filter%20%28lang%28%3Fcountry%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%09OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP19%20%3Fbirth_place%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fbirth_place%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fbirth_place_coords%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fbirth_place%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fbirth_place_label%20filter%20%28%20lang%28%3Fbirth_place_label%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%20%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%09OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdeath_date%20%7D%20%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Farticle%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fperson%7D%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%0A%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7Bbd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%7D%0A%0A%20%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fperson%20%3FpersonLabel%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Frank%29 Map of birthplaces of women who were educated in Edinburgh university] (source)
 * Newest database reports: reports with items that only have a P641-statement (sport)


 * Development
 * Search results will not only show labels but also descriptions with language fallbacks (362215). Thanks to Matěj Suchánek!
 * Fixed link to the file description page in the Image Header gadget (T169558)
 * Forms of the Lexeme are multi-variant (T165575)
 * Preparing a demonstration of referencing Forms and Sense of a Lexeme in statements (T169716)
 * Property constraint definitions will be migrated to statements (T169647, Project chat)
 * Implemented “Format” constraint (T102752, help page)

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
 * 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) 14:16, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #269
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: talk about Wikidata at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing by Lydia
 * Past: Wikidata hackathon during Africa Open Data Conference in Accra
 * Upcoming: Café OpenStreetMap e Wikidata, July 22nd, in São Paulo, Brazil
 * Report of the workshop about election data (in German)
 * Integrating Wikidata and other linked data sources – Federated SPARQL queries, on The SuLab


 * WikidataCon
 * The scholarship process is now closed. Recipients will be informed around July 25th.
 * You can still suggest ideas for the program, or submit a project until July 31st. The program of the conference is made by the attendees, only what you bring will be in there :)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * We now have a page describing our use of RDF
 * We now have Q33000000
 * The database reports about items without statements are updated again. English Wikipedia is up at 4.8% (from 4.6%). Dutch Wikipedia remains low at 0.8%.
 * Check out some improvements to the Query Service, and a new prototype for the Query Helper
 * New Wikidata maps with a comparison between October 2016 and July 2017
 * Help improving Wikidata documentation during the Wikimania hackathon


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: NPSN Indonesian school ID, EmbassyPages.com ID, ESEC person ID, Titan ID, Who's Who in France biography ID, French National Assembly ID


 * Query examples:
 * Graph of operating systems (source)
 * Couples of Members of Parliament in UK (source)
 * People who have the same person listed as both their parent and their child (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0A%0APREFIX%20lgdo%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Flinkedgeodata.org%2Fontology%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20geo%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.opengis.net%2Font%2Fgeosparql%23%3E%0APREFIX%20geom%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fgeovocab.org%2Fgeometry%23%3E%0APREFIX%20bif%3A%20%3Cbif%3A%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20%3FrailwayThing%20%3Fgeometry%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Flabel%29%20AS%20%3Flabel%29%20%3Flayer%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Flinkedgeodata.org%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3FrailwayThing%20a%20lgdo%3ARailwayThing%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20geom%3Ageometry%20%5B%20geo%3AasWKT%20%3Fgeometry%20%5D.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28bif%3Ast_intersects%28%3Fgeometry%2C%20bif%3Ast_point%2813.383333%2C%2052.516667%29%2C%200.1%29%29%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FrailwayThing%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Flabel.%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FrailwayThing%20a%20lgdo%3ASubway.%20BIND%28%22subway%22%40en%20AS%20%3Fsubway%29%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FrailwayThing%20a%20lgdo%3ARail.%20BIND%28%22rail%22%40en%20AS%20%3Frail%29%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FrailwayThing%20a%20lgdo%3ALightRail.%20BIND%28%22light%20rail%22%40en%20AS%20%3Flightrail%29%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FrailwayThing%20a%20lgdo%3ATramway.%20BIND%28%22tramway%22%40en%20AS%20%3Ftramway%29%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FrailwayThing%20a%20lgdo%3APlatform.%20BIND%28%22platform%22%40en%20AS%20%3Fplatform%29%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FrailwayThing%20a%20lgdo%3AAbandonedRailway.%20BIND%28%22abandoned%20railway%22%40en%20AS%20%3Fabandoned%29%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FrailwayThing%20a%20lgdo%3AHistoricThing.%20BIND%28%22historic%22%40en%20AS%20%3Fhistoric%29%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND%28COALESCE%28%3Fsubway%2C%20%3Flightrail%2C%20%3Frail%2C%20%3Ftramway%2C%20%3Fplatform%2C%20%3Fabandoned%2C%20%3Fhistoric%2C%20%22other%22%40en%29%20AS%20%3Flayer%29%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3FrailwayThing%20%3Fgeometry%20%3Flayer Map of “railway things” in Berlin, as classified by LinkedGeoData.org] (source)
 * Map of discovery locations of the objects stored in the Musée Saint-Raymond (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fstation%20%3FstationLabel%20%3Fpicture%20%28SAMPLE%28%3FpictureCategory%29%20AS%20%3FpictureCategory%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20hint%3AQuery%20hint%3Aoptimizer%20%22None%22.%0A%0A%20%20%23%20get%20metro%20stations%20in%20germany%0A%20%20%3Fstation%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ928830%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP17%20wd%3AQ183%20.%0A%0A%20%20%23%20and%20pictures%20of%20them%0A%20%20%3Fstation%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fpicture%20.%0A%0A%20%20%23%20build%20commons%20urls%0A%20%20BIND%28STRAFTER%28str%28%3Fpicture%29%2C%20%22Special%3AFilePath%2F%22%29%20AS%20%3Ffilename%29%0A%20%20BIND%28wikibase%3AdecodeUri%28CONCAT%28%22File%3A%22%2C%20%3Ffilename%29%29%20AS%20%3Ffile%29%0A%0A%20%20%23%20and%20ask%20commons%20for%20the%20categories%20the%20pictures%20are%20in%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Amwapi%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Aapi%20%22Categories%22.%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Aendpoint%20%22commons.wikipedia.org%22.%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20mwapi%3Atitles%20%3Ffile.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FpictureCategory%20wikibase%3AapiOutput%20mwapi%3Acategory.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20%23%20and%20only%20get%20those%20with%20a%20Public%20Domain%20category%0A%20%20FILTER%28STRSTARTS%28%3FpictureCategory%2C%20%22Category%3APD-%22%29%29%0A%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22de%2C%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fstation%20%3FstationLabel%20%3Fpicture%0ALIMIT%20100 metro stations in Germany with public domain images on Commons] (source)
 * UK Members of Parliament who are born out of the UK (source)


 * Development
 * Preparing Lexemes demo for Wikimania
 * Fixing links to non-entity namespaces (T169221) (thanks to Matěj Suchánek!)
 * Tracking labels of quantity units in parser and Lua functions (T170167) (thanks to Matěj Suchánek!)
 * Fixing checking of constraints on deprecated statements (T170391)
 * Improving the Query Service UI (T170279)
 * Improving wbsearchentities (T103875)
 * Removing links from printable version (T87108)
 * Adding customizable fallback to Special:GoToLinkedPage (T166473)

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
 * 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) 13:33, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Electronic music
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Electronic music as a participant of WP:WikiProject Electronic music. - The   Magnificentist  13:42, 20 July 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #270
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Wikidata SPARQL workshop, July 25th in Rennes (France)
 * Upcoming: Ladies that FOSS, July 26th in Berlin
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Montreal, August 14th (in French). We're looking for trainers!
 * Using Wikidata as an open, community-maintained database of biomedical knowledge, by Andrew Su


 * WikidataCon
 * You can submit projects for the program until July 31st. See the list of ideas, existing submissions, and submit!
 * Special tickets for scholarship recipients will be released on July 25th. The last 50 tickets will be released on September 1st.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * wbEntity config variable will be deprecated
 * Scores in ORES will be more accurate
 * A new version of the Query Helper will be deployed
 * Sitelinks for the new Dinka Wikipedia (dinwiki) have been added
 * On Wikidata:Usability and usefulness you can see an overview of the work done by the UX people in the Wikidata team on usability
 * There's a brand new newsletter about Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons. You can subscribe to receive next updates.
 * Ma Commune Wikipédia is a website developed by Wikimedia France to give information about the state of the Wikipedia articles for every French municipality and encourage people to edit the Wikimedia projects. It uses Wikidata to identify the communes.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Patrimonioculturale-ER ID, linguistic typology, annual energy output, USHMM person ID, Cinema Treasures ID


 * Query examples:
 * Properties with most “statement disputed by” qualifiers (source)
 * Last meals of people (source)
 * Colors on national flags (source)
 * images of all winners of Free Software Foundation's Free Software Awards (source)
 * lib.reviews now allows searching Wikidata directly to choose subjects to review. (more info)


 * Development
 * The  JavaScript variable will not miss elements any more but contain empty arrays instead (365604). Please check if this affects your scripts, and have a look at the   hook as a possible replacement.
 * Fire-fighting dispatch backlog: T171263.
 * Slowly making progress on wb_terms migration to full entity IDs: T114903.
 * Constraint statements have been enabled (announcement).
 * Distinguish between non-mandatory and mandatory constraints: T164254.
 * Work on supporting unit conversion for more units: T168582

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
 * 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) 15:21, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #271
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 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Wikimania is coming! Check out all the things related to Wikidata
 * Upcoming: Wikidata hackathon during Repository Fringe 2017, in Edinburgh, August 4th
 * Data Partnerships with Wikidata: beaTunes (version in German)
 * Wikidata visualizes SMILES strings with John Mayfield's CDK Depict
 * Freedom versus Standardization: Structured Data Generation in a Peer Production Community


 * WikidataCon
 * Today is the very last day to submit projects in the program! (deadline: July 31th)
 * You can also subscribe to the existing submissions to show your interest and support your favorites


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * wbsearchentities with ElasticSearch test
 * Quantities with units are now supported in the new QuickStatements.
 * Property talk pages now include queries for items with the property and most sitelinks, statements or identifiers.
 * We now have Q34000000
 * Wikidata Constraint Violations tool visualizes changes in constraint violations for last few weeks. Some of constraints produce millions of violations (marked as red).


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: maximum age, WIGOS station ID


 * Query examples:
 * Which White House chief of staff had the shortest tenure? (source)
 * Total number of sister city statements per country (source)
 * Pictures of tube stations in London (source)
 * Works created with the software Maya (source)
 * Do I cite works from Nobel Prize winners? (source)
 * ...or do Nobel prize winners cite me? (source)
 * Timeline of Humanitarian personality of the year (source)
 * New feature/gadget requests: Gadget for changing property


 * Development
 * Added Special:NewItem to Special:SpecialPages (T169456) Thanks to Matěj Suchánek
 * Making possible to check constraints on qualifiers and references (T168532)
 * Working on showing non-mandatory and mandatory constraints differently (T164254)
 * Improving Special:PagesWithProp for Wikidata use cases (T66950)
 * Doing last polishing on the Lexeme entity type and cleaning up the demo data for the demo at Wikimania
 * Improving the dispatching of changes to Wikipedia and co to cope with the increased demand that lead to delays in Wikidata changes showing up in Wikipedia watchlist and recent changes

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
 * 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 #272
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 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Wikimania hackathon and documentation sprint, August 9-10, Montreal
 * Upcoming: Wikimania, August 10-13, Montreal. Check out all the things related to Wikidata
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in French, August 14, Montreal


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * w:en:Category:Articles with infoboxes completely from Wikidata has now more than 1000 articles
 * Wikidata passed 6 average statements per item


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: offset, File format magic numbers, game mechanics, weather history, conjugate base, conjugate acid, Atheneum museum ID, Atheneum person ID, Atheneum artwork ID, Finnish List of Lights ID, RIWAQ Registry of Historic Buildings in Palestine ID, Gatehouse Gazetteer place ID, energy storage capacity, National Assembly of Nigeria ID, Treasury of Lives ID, muzzle velocity, WIGOS station ID


 * Query examples:
 * Timeline of the programming languages created in the past 10 years (source)
 * Countries where no european language has official or national status (source)
 * Gallery of Star Trek characters (source)
 * Timeline of female medieval writers (source)
 * Newest script: moveClaim.js allows moving claims across items. Try it and give feedback to Matěj Suchánek
 * Newest external tools: d3-sparql allows you to query a SPARQL endpoint and get the data in a d3js-useful format


 * Development
 * Released version 2.0.0 of the DataValues base component.
 * Released the DataValues Interfaces component in version 0.2.3.
 * Released the ValueView component in version 0.20.0
 * Fixed a problem with suggestions of P279 (T169060)
 * Preparing everything for Wikimania and the hackathon

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
 * 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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