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Wikidata weekly summary #157
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 17:49, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Mbch331
 * New request for comments: Notability policy overhaul
 * Closed requests for comments: Conflict of Interest (no consensus), Speedy vs Regular deletion (stale)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * A study has been published about how Wikidata can help significantly improve the quality of medical content on Wikipedia. This is why we do Wikidata! \o/
 * MusicBrainz is migrating to Wikidata for Wikipedia links
 * Past: Open Data for Academics - some media available on Wikimedia Commons.
 * Upcoming: OuiShare Labs Camp in Paris
 * Upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Lyon
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The Wikidata Visualization Challenge has started. You can enter your submission until June 1 (23:59 CEST).
 * Denny has published a proposed breakdown of tasks for Wiktionary support incl mockups. Please read and comment.
 * The Wikidata Menu Challenge has started and goes on to May 27. Add labels, images and pronunciation audio to a list of around 290 items to help show off the power of Wikidata at a food festival.
 * Dynamic lists on Wikipedia based on Wikidata data
 * The Frick Collection and the Brooklyn Museum both have their paintings on Wikidata now.
 * The most distant known galaxy EGS-zs8-1 (Q19860435) has been discovered and added to Wikidata.
 * Reasonator has been restyled, to work better on mobile devices. It also has an enhanced display on first names (exsample: Paul)
 * Woah! Volcanos! (Help match the Smithonian's volcano identifiers with Wikidata) ;-)
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Smithsonian volcano identifier, cathedral, hair color, Declarator.org ID, Web Gallery of Art identifier, list of characters, measured by, income classification (Philippines), Vox-ATypI classification, after a work by, spacecraft
 * Development
 * Access to data from arbitrary items is coming to the first wikis on Monday \o/ It'll be Dutch Wikipedia and French Wikisource.
 * Sneak peek at the current state of development for showing constraint violations on statements
 * Hovercards also show the target's label and ID now. (Try them by turning them on in the beta features section of your preferences.)
 * Continued working on RDF export
 * More work on making it possible to add a reference right away when adding a statement (and allowing the full statement incl references to be edited at the same time)
 * Did more work to make usage tracking possible on multilingual wikis (namely Commons)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

This Month in GLAM: April 2015
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Bot
Hey, would you be able to code a bot for me? I'll explain more if you up for it. I know coding is hard but I don't think what I'm requesting is crazy. It has to do with maintaining a page for the GA Cup. Please let me know if you can help out. :) -- Dom497 ( talk ) 23:31, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

June 10: WikiWednesday Salon / Wikimedia NYC Annual Meeting
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Wikidata weekly summary #158
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 14:16, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Successful request for adminship: Mbch331
 * Closed request for comments: Opting out of Global sysops 2
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Using Wikidata to Improve the Medical Content on Wikipedia
 * Past: Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing) spoke about authority control in Wikidata (and sister projects) at the World Digital Library's Arab Peninsula Regional Group Symposium, organised in conjunction with the Qatar National Library, in Doha on 13 May. His slides, with an Arabic translation, will be online soon.
 * Past: Wikidata editing workshop at the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin
 * Past: Wikidata workshop for archivists of Catalan City of Justice
 * Upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Lyon
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Elections for the board of the Wikimedia Foundation are ongoing. Wikidata should be well represented among the voters. Go and vote!
 * Wikidata won another award by Land der Ideen! \o/ Thank you everyone who is making Wikidata awesome!
 * Dutch Wikipedia and French Wikisource now have the arbitrary access feature. Persian Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and Hebrew Wikipedia are following today. Italian Wikipedia and all remaining Wikisource projects are following on June 1st.
 * New manual for adding inventory numbers to paintings on Wikidata
 * English Wikipedia is running a bot to add authority control templates to many articles that are filled completely from Wikidata. Italian Wikipedia is doing so as well.
 * Wikidata won an Open Data award last year. Nominations for this year are open now. Who should win this year?
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources entry, vice-county
 * Development
 * Prepared for deployment of arbitrary access on more wikis
 * Graph extension will be enabled on Wikidata later today
 * Improvements to calendar handling
 * More work on RDF export for query service
 * Continued work on usage tracking and arbitrary access for multilingual wikis
 * Addshore investigated and started fixing abuse filter issues
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

Consensus
Hello. I don't see a clear consensus here. Might you reconsider your close? --Epeefleche (talk) 17:14, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #159
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 21:29, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * State of the Map US (OpenStreetMap's conference) in New York on 6-8 June
 * Wikimedia Hackathon 2015 in Lyon from 23-25 May. Some of the activities and outcomes:
 * Wikidata descriptions can be soon be edited in the Wikipedia iOS app.
 * A early preview of the official SPARQL endpoint for Wikidata has been created to query Wikidata. Remember that it is not stable and still beta. A short introduction to SPARQL can be found in Lucie's slides.
 * If you are not familiar with SPARQL yet, a tool has been created by Tpt and Bene* to generate SPARQL queries from natural language questions.
 * To do SPARQL queries from the command line, a command line tool was crafted by Marius.
 * The special page to query for badges is within reach.
 * A feedback session on the architecture of Wikibase was held.
 * We got a cool presentation by Maxime about inventaire.io.
 * We figured out the next steps to make Wikidata more mobile friendly.
 * Pilot on the Hungarian Wikipedia to show diagrams based on Wikidata in their articles on Spanish villages
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New command line tool for mapping SKOS to Wikidata (video)
 * The Wikidata Visualization Challenge is ending soon. Please submit your entries. The Wikidata Menu Challenge is also ending soon.
 * The number of videos about Wikidata is growing and there is now a category on Wikimedia Commons for these.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: lowest note, highest note, source website, Fauna Europaea ID, Danish urban area code, OpenPlaques plaque identifier, signatory, BNC identifier, different from
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Elections
 * Development
 * Got early preview of the primary SPARQL endpoint for Wikidata live
 * The Graph extension is now live on Wikidata
 * Arbitrary access is rolled out on fawiki, hewiki and enwikivoyage now
 * Busy with the hackathon (see above)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

Gantiadi move decision
Hi! Why have you moved the Gantiadi article even though there was no consensus? You haven't commented on the validity of the opposing arguments, that both names are equally (rarely) used and that nothing changed since the previous move request. Alæxis¿question? 11:28, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #160
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 13:24, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * upcoming: State of the Map US
 * Visualizing history with automated event maps
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Final hours to make your vote count in the WMF board election
 * Now we have Q20000000 and P1900
 * Wikidata stats have been updated
 * Over 100 timeline of famous painters by Histropedia
 * WD-FIST can now take a manual item list and limit its search to JPEGs
 * Traveling this summer? Find items needing pictures around you with WikiShootMe
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: altered regulation leads to, posttranslational modification association with, gene substitution association with, gene inversion association with, gene insertion association with, gene duplication association with, deletion association with, increased expression in, decreased expression in, side effect, Commonwealth War Graves Commission person identifier, Australian Dictionary of Biography identifier, office held by head of state, FundRef registry name, Volcanic explosivity index, Spotify artist ID, BALaT person/organisation id, EAGLE id, Librivox author ID
 * Development
 * Recovering from hackathon
 * Prepared rollout of usage tracking and arbitrary access to more wikis
 * Testing of the query service
 * Fixed styling issues with entity selector
 * Worked more on Capiunto to make it easier to create good infoboxes
 * Worked on making broken values editable to fix them (this for example happens when a property is deleted but some values are left over)
 * Made entity id an optional parameter in mw.wikibase.label and mw.wikibase.description lua methods. (default to use connected item)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

Asia/Oceania
Is there any discusssion anywhere in what you are doing to projects and their 'fit' into other projects? The issue of what fits into asia and oceania and the boundary has been a contentious one in the past, so if you didnt know or appreciate that, was curious as to why australia is not in oceania etc User:JarrahTree 23:48, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
 * JarrahTree: Not specifically regarding the categorization of Asia and Oceania projects. I tried to steer away from Oceania-related stuff, since it's loaded with ambiguity, but I may have forgotten to do so in some instances. In sorting Asia projects, I believe I only sorted things as Asia-related projects if there was no ambiguity. I am happy to have things sorted as both Asia and Oceania, or only one of the two, or neither, depending on what makes the most sense. My goal overall is to not have projects in parent categories when there are more specific sub-categories to sort them in. Harej (talk) 00:36, 2 June 2015 (UTC)


 * The way you emphasized I believe automatically made me think of jim carey. The thing about when asia and oceania were created as container 'projects' was that they were umbrella projects to be a central point under which any hair brained ideas could be 'contained' (projects for specific components - southeast asia for asia,  by taking australia out of oceania you have sort of created a 'sense' problem - as the planet has umbrella projects of the 'continents' even when they werent, and now we have australia out of its umbrella project ....  I am not happy with any playing on the oceania and asia border - as too often people take that ambiguity and run with it..  So here we are...  I would strongly suggest re-inserting australia back into oceania.  I would suggest we keep talking about the rest.  if that is ok with you. User:JarrahTree 00:46, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
 * JarrahTree, I believe you are referring to this edit. I didn't remove it from the Oceania category because I (or others) don't consider Australia to be Oceania, but because it's already in the more precise Category:Australia-related WikiProjects, which in turn is in Category:Oceania WikiProjects. As all Australia projects are Oceania projects (or at least could be considered as such), it didn't make sense to redundantly categorize it. Does that clarify my edits? Harej (talk) 00:53, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
 * my sincerest apology - yup - my bad and ooops! thanks for taking the time to explain - must have a longer on or off wiki chat about projects some time - after 10 years of seeing people either dissavow of them (the radiator cleaners - they build up 100,000 k +  edit histories playing with categories, and not once in their edit histories do they touch talk pages and projects - whereas the oil dip=stick checkers (project and talk page attention to detail) are few and far between - so few seem to understand to check both the water, and the oil... User:JarrahTree 01:00, 2 June 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #161
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 15:15, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * RfC on usage of Wikidata on German-language Wikipedia
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: Pigsonthewing and aude were at State of the Map US to talk about Wikidata/OpenStreetMap cooperation and more
 * Past: Lucie and Marius gave an intro to Wikidata at Gulaschprogrammiernacht in Karlsruhe (slides)
 * Upcoming: Office hour on IRC on 19th
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The English-language Wikipedia has decided to deprecate Persondata in favour of Wikidata.
 * New tool by Magnus to make it easier to add references
 * The results are in for the Wikimedia Foundation's board election. One name should sound familiar to you ;-)
 * Addshore created new maps of the geocoordinates on Wikidata. More coming.
 * Sylvain made an overview of the overlap in topics that the biggest Wikipedias have.
 * Wikidata has passed German Wikipedia in number of items with images (743850 dewp articles vs. 804885 items) - now only second to English-language Wikipedia.
 * Catalan Wikipedia is moving Taxon IDs to Wikidata.
 * Zolo did a comparison of English/French/German/Chinese and Cebuano Wikipedias in terms of main types of articles. Biographies were compared by period, nationality and occupation.
 * Connectivity statistics were updated.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: DMS V, Clinvar Accession Number, Vaccine Ontology ID, VIOLIN ID, vaccine for, participating team, first line, URI pattern for RDF resource, Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground identifier, Ministry of Education of Chile school ID
 * Newest gadgets: Mark as patrolled by User:Petr Matas
 * Development
 * Italian Wikipedia and all remaining Wikisource projects now have arbitrary access. The rollout will continue. The schedule for the next projects is at d:Wikidata:Arbitrary access.
 * The Content Translation tool now automatically connects translated articles to Wikidata. (Thanks Content Translation developers!) Previously translated but unconnected articles have been connected by a bot. (Thanks Amir!)
 * Code review of the extensions written by a team of students to improve the constraint reports and make it possible to automatically check our data against other databases. A first version will go live soon pending further codereview and fixes.
 * Two new methods have been added to the lua library provided by Wikibase:  and.
 * Further work on making unserializable values editable in the UI (This can happen for example if a property is deleted.)
 * Made the Wikidata JSON dumps available on Labs in the standard dumps location there (/public/dumps).
 * Worked on automatically creating a redirect when merging items via the API.
 * Rewrote the script that generates a map image based on geocoordinates in Wikidata. (Result see above.)
 * Released Wikibase DataModel 3.0
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

This Month in GLAM: May 2015
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Wikidata weekly summary #162
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 12:08, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Should we have a Wikidata User Group?
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: Thanks to everyone who participated in the Menu Challenge which made Wikidata shine at A Taste of Stockholm. The live results are still up at https://wikimedia-sverige.github.io/tastydata.
 * Upcoming: Donostia-San Sebastián Wikidata Editathon
 * Upcoming: Ateliers Wikidata in Paris
 * News about Wikidata FIST
 * Review of the big interwiki link migration
 * Timeline of Christopher Lee films
 * Wikidata map - 19 months on
 * A challenge was raised to calculate the degrees of separation to Kevin Bacon. Already one routine has been produced, the next step is to use live data so that we can work on reducing the number of intermediary steps.
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * ViziData has been improved significantly
 * Wikidata Visualization Challenge winners announced: first prize to ViziData.
 * New paper: Peer-production system or collaborative ontology development effort: what is Wikidata?
 * Jura1 posted some data around property usage on items about people
 * Tpt is interning at Google now to free up more content from Freebase for us. He's adding more data to the Primary Sources Tool.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: street key, relief location map, location map, McCune-Reischauer romanization, conifers.org ID, Dyntaxa ID, Project Gutenberg ID, UN/LOCODE, Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire ID, DBCS ID, Animator.ru ID, MobyGames ID, stated as, PGCH ID
 * Development
 * Deployed arbitrary access on all Wikivoyage and Wikiquote projects and announced the next ones. See d:Wikidata:Arbitrary access for more.
 * More fine tuning on entity usage tracking (relevant for arbitrary access)
 * Fixed bug that sometimes allowed multiple properties to have the same label in a given language (T102148)
 * More work on automatically creating redirects when merging items
 * More code review of the Wikidata Quality extensions (improved constraint reports and checks against 3rd party databases). Starting to look good for a first deployment.
 * The sitelinks heading hierarchy changed and includes a “Site links” heading now that is only shown on mobile. This is a DOM change needed to make Wikidata work better on mobile.
 * Started working on having PHPCS coverage for the major Wikibase.git code base to find small code issues more easily
 * Prepared Wikibase.git for the DataModel 3.0 switch
 * Released Wikibase DataModel Serialization 1.4
 * Released Wikibase Internal Serialization 1.4
 * New releases of several DataValue components, including DataValues Number 0.5, DataValues JavaScript 0.7 and ValueView 0.14.5
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 4
Newsletter • May/June 2015

Hello friends! We have been hard at work these past two months. For this report:

The directory is live!

For the first time, we are happy to bring you an exhaustive, comprehensive WikiProject Directory. This directory endeavors to list every single WikiProject on the English Wikipedia, including those that don't participate in article assessment. In constructing the broadest possible definition, we have come up with a list of approximately 2,600 WikiProjects. The directory tracks activity statistics on the WikiProject's pages, and, for where it's available, statistics on the number of articles tracked by the WikiProject and the number of editors active on those articles. Complementing the directory are description pages for each project, listing usernames of people active on the WikiProject pages and the articles in the WikiProject's scope. This will help Wikipedians interested in a subject find each other, whether to seek feedback on an article or to revive an old project. (There is an opt-out option.) We have also come up with listings of related WikiProjects, listing the ten most relevant WikiProjects based on what articles they have in common. We would like to promote WikiProjects as interconnected systems, rather than isolated silos.

A tremendous amount of work went into preparing this directory. WikiProjects do not consistently categorize their pages, meaning we had to develop our own index to match WikiProjects with the articles in their scope. We also had to make some adjustments to how WikiProjects were categorized; indeed, I personally have racked up a few hundred edits re-categorizing WikiProjects. There remains more work to be done to make the WikiProject directory truly useful. In the meantime, take a look and feel free to leave feedback at the WikiProject X talk page.

Stuff in the works!

What have we been working on?


 * A new design template—This has been in the works for a while, of course. But our goal is to design something that is useful and cleanly presented on all browsers and at all screen resolutions while working within the confines of what MediaWiki has to offer. Additionally, we are working on designs for the sub-components featured on the main project page.
 * A new WikiProject talk page banner in Lua—Work has begun on implementing the WikiProject banner in Lua. The goal is to create a banner template that can be usable by any WikiProject in lieu of having its own template. Work has slowed down for now to focus on higher priority items, but we are interested in your thoughts on how we could go about creating a more useful project banner. We have a draft module on Test Wikipedia, with a demonstration.
 * New discussion reports—We have over 4.8 million articles on the English Wikipedia, and almost as many talk pages as well. But what happens when someone posts on a talk page? What if no one is watching that talk page? We are currently testing out a system for an automatically-updating new discussions list, like RFC for WikiProjects. We currently have five test pages up for the WikiProjects on cannabis, cognitive science, evolutionary biology, and Ghana.
 * SuggestBot for WikiProjects—We have asked the maintainer of SuggestBot to make some minor adjustments to SuggestBot that will allow it to post regular reports to those WikiProjects that ask for them. Stay tuned!
 * Semi-automated article assessment—Using the new revision scoring service and another system currently under development, WikiProjects will be getting a new tool to facilitate the article assessment process by providing article quality/importance predictions for articles yet to be assessed. Aside from helping WikiProjects get through their backlogs, the goal is to help WikiProjects with collecting metrics and triaging their work. Semi-automation of this process will help achieve consistent results and keep the process running smoothly, as automation does on other parts of Wikipedia.

Want us to work on any other tools? Interested in volunteering? Leave a note on our talk page.

The WikiProject watchers report is back!

The database report which lists WikiProjects according to the number of watchers (i.e., people that have the project on their watchlist), is back! The report stopped being updated a year ago, following the deactivation of the Toolserver, but a replacement report has been generated.

Until next time, Harej (talk) 22:20, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

WP:MCB/S
Hi, Since you seem to know what your doing with CSS, I was wondering if you could have a quick look at the MCB WikiProject statistics page (WP:MCB/S). I'm struggling to get it to render sensibly on mobiles. If you've any advice I'd be interested to know how to get it to render better. T.Shafee(Evo&#65120;Evo)talk 09:54, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #163
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 11:35, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * German language Wikipedia closed its RfC on usage of Wikidata data. As a result Wikidata data can be used on the project as long as it happens through a template and it has a non-Wikimedia reference.
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: Office hour on IRC. We talked about cool things that happened around Wikidata over the past 3 months got an update on upcoming developments and Freebase and more. You can read the log.
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * en:South Pole Telescope is a nice example of an infobox completely filled from Wikidata.
 * Q20150617 was created on 2015-06-17
 * More data from Freebase have been added the Primary Sources Tool. There is also a page to help the mapping of Freebase properties.
 * Nice new manual for MixnMatch
 * The new nature.com/ontologies links to external ontologies and datasets; among them Wikidata.
 * National Gallery of Art and the J. Paul Getty Museum now have entries for all their paintings on Wikidata thanks to wiki project Sum of all Paintings
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: takeoff and landing capability, Discogs label ID, Discogs master ID, Discogs artist ID, Encyclopaedia Metallum band id, investor, second surname in Spanish name, CulturaItalia ID, BerlPap identifier, Mapillary id, National Library of Ireland authority
 * Newest WikiProjects: Cross Items Interwikis
 * Development
 * Made a small API breaking change to wbeditentity and wbgetclaims modules. Details can be seen in the commit message of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/217885/
 * Worked more on unit support
 * Fixed an issue where you'd sometimes select the wrong value when entering a statement unintentionally (T98471)
 * Switched the whole code base to make use of DataModel 3.0
 * The concept of “claims” no longer exists in Wikibase, as all places in the software work with statements. We are making this more and more explicit in the code.
 * The autoloading mechanism of the extension changed, see T100813
 * More work on getting the Wikibase Quality extensions ready for deployment. They'll improve constraint checking and provide checks against 3rd party databases.
 * Special:UnconnectedPages had to be reworked (thanks Amir!) because of huge performance issues. Because of this it loses some functionality (being able to specify where the list starts and limiting the list to pages that have local interwiki links). We're working on bringing functionality back without the performance penalty.
 * Bene* created a SPARQL abstraction layer for PHP called Asparagus: https://github.com/Benestar/asparagus
 * Enabled arbitrary access on arwiki, cawiki, eswiki, huwiki, kowiki, rowiki, ukwiki, viwiki, and usage tracking on dewiki, ruwiki, cswiki and all s3 wikis. (ruwiki and cswiki get arbitrary access on June 23)
 * Finishing work on improved handling “invalid” values and statements with deleted properties.
 * Small breaking DOM change: Wikibase no longer adds its own h1 tag but uses MediaWiki's default .firstHeading element. (T93534)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

Co-op Pilot Results & Mentoring
Hey there! The Co-op has been on a hiatus for a bit, but we are planning on opening up shop again soon. When you're able, please read over and respond to this update on our talk page. We have favorable results from our final report regarding the pilot, and we are interested in seeing who is available to mentor when we reopen our space and begin to send out invites again. Thanks, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:16, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
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Thank you for WikiProject directory
Thank you for your work with the WikiProject directory! I find the statistics very useful for comparisons.

However, the bot dropped WP:GLAM/Pritzker from the list when it ran last. I re-added GLAM/Pritzker to the list under Cultural partnership projects. Can you add us to the right place in the bot so this doesn't happen again? Thanks in advance! TeriEmbrey (talk) 15:34, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
 * TeriEmbrey, WikiProject listings on a directory are based on the categories they belong to. I've added the project to the Cultural Partnership WikiProjects category, ensuring that it will be in that directory section in future updates. Harej (talk) 16:02, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

Many thanks! TeriEmbrey (talk) 16:13, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

Bots
You are receiving this message because a technical change may affect a bot, gadget, or user script you have been using. The breaking change involves API calls. This change has been planned for two years. The WMF will start making this change on 30 June 2015. A partial list of affected bots can be seen here: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-June/081931.html  This includes all bots that are using pywikibot compat. Some of these bots have already been fixed. However, if you write user scripts or operate a bot that uses the API, then you should check your code, to make sure that it will not break.

What, exactly, is breaking? The "default continuation mode" for action=query requests to api.php will be changing to be easier for new coders to use correctly. To find out whether your script or bot may be affected, then search the source code (including any frameworks or libraries) for the string "query-continue". If that is not present, then the script or bot is not affected. In a few cases, the code will be present but not used. In that case, the script or bot will continue working.

This change will be part of 1.26wmf12. It will be deployed to test wikis (including mediawiki.org) on 30 June, to non-Wikipedias (such as Wiktionary) on 1 July, and to all Wikipedias on 2 July 2015.

If your bot or script is receiving the warning about this upcoming change (as seen at https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=allpages ), it's time to fix your code!


 * The simple solution is to simply include the "rawcontinue" parameter with your request to continue receiving the raw continuation data (example <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=allpages&rawcontinue=1>). No other code changes should be necessary.
 * Or you could update your code to use the simplified continuation documented at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Query#Continuing_queries (example <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=allpages&continue=>), which is much easier for clients to implement correctly.

Either of the above solutions may be tested immediately, you'll know it works because you stop seeing the warning.

Do you need help with your own bot or script? Ask questions in e-mail on the mediawiki-api or wikitech-l mailing lists. Volunteers at m:Tech or w:en:WP:Village pump (technical) or w:en:Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard may also be able to help you.

Are you using someone else's gadgets or user scripts? Most scripts are not affected. To find out if a script you use needs to be updated, then post a note at the discussion page for the gadget or the talk page of the user who originally made the script. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 19:04, 17 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Whatamidoing (WMF), a question: is there a specific bot or script of mine that triggered this message, or is this a blanket warning to bot operators in general? Harej (talk) 22:27, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, it's for you in particular (and this account), but unfortunately, nobody knows which script(s) caused the warnings in the logs. If you use NAVPOPS a lot (hundreds of times a day), then that alone could have caused it.  Mr. Stradivarius has posted a search string at VPT that finds all the scripts that still contain the problem; you could use that to see whether any of yours are still at risk.  Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 07:27, 26 June 2015 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #164
<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="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; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 18:15, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: Ateliers Wikidata
 * Upcoming: Wikimania. There will be several talks and workshops related to Wikidata. Say hi at the "Ask Us Anything" session for Wikidata if you're there.
 * Reductionism
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Which geographic areas do different Wikipedias cover? How does it compare to Wikidata? Markus has a beautiful answer
 * Wikiproject Molecular Biology and AskPlatypus are shortlisted for the OpenData Award \o/ This is the award Wikidata won last year.
 * Paper on vandalism on Wikidata. Lydia is in touch with them to figure out how to best use the insights for us.
 * Reasonator got some updates: it is now using external ID formatter URLs, has monolingual string support and better social network links
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: number of children, MovieMeter movie identifier, MovieMeter director ID, Foursquare venue ID, BoxRec ID, Biblioteca Nacional de Chile catalogue number, sortkey, properties for this type, patron, Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, Google Scholar ID, Dutch Senate person ID, Trismegistos ID, Wikisource index page
 * Newest External tools: Wikidata Compare
 * Showcase items: none. Yours next week?
 * Development
 * Jonas joined the team and Adam is back \o/
 * Deployed arbitrary access to ruwiki and cswiki
 * Machine readable versions (in various formats) of Wikibase entities will be advertised in their page heads as alternate link. (T96298)
 * Fixed property label on item pages not scrolling anymore (T94588)
 * More work on getting the Wikibase Quality extensions ready for release. The part doing constraint violation checks should go to test.wikidata.org next week. The part doing checks against 3rd party databases will still take a bit longer but is also shaping up nicely.
 * Made it possible to create items even when another user is mass-creating items (T103796)
 * Bene* worked more on making Wikidata work nicely on mobile
 * Fixed weird issue with cursor jumping around in sitelink input field (T103489)
 * Fixed an issue where it was not possible to edit a statement after you removed its only reference (T103603)
 * Lydia will be traveling for much of July. Expect her to be a bit less responsive during that time.
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Top Gear
I cannot message you but why did you stop editing to top gear 2002 series it had so problems on and my edits were undone Williamg209 (talk) 14:11, 29 June 2015‎ (UTC)
 * Hello Williamg209, I originally locked the Top Gear (2002 series) article because of excessive speculation over Jeremy Clarkson. Your edits were undone by Andromedabluesphere440, as seen here: . Generally speaking, an assertion that someone has left the show should be backed up by a source saying so. Harej (talk) 18:53, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #165
<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="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; John F. Lewis 21:16, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion about Atheism and the religion property.
 * Discussion about the Verifiability of data as a policy.
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Upcoming: Wikimania. There will be several talks and workshops related to Wikidata. Say hi at the "Ask Us Anything" session for Wikidata if you're there.
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * A new database report lists people categorized as dead in Wikipedia, but lacking Property:P570 (date of death). It's updated several times during the day. There are about 20 to 30 new entries each day. There is currently some backlog from the Arabic, Marathi, and Thai Wikipedias. Items updated first in Wikidata wont appear in the report. They are listed directly in Wikidata's recent deaths report.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: RSL editions, Open Hub ID, number of children, MovieMeter movie identifier, MovieMeter director ID
 * Development
 * Adam wrote a blog post on the improvement of the data after one year and GeneaWiki
 * After the next deployment, Special:ItemDisambiguation will match aliases and be case insensitive.
 * Improved details of matches in the entity suggester (wbsearchentities api module)
 * Deployed the WikibaseQuality and WikibaseQualityConstraints extensions to test.wikidata.org
 * Fixed the layout of long qualifier names
 * JSON dumps are now automatically copied to labs
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item