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Wikidata weekly summary #188
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) 14:30, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikidata: knowledge from different points of view (Signpost op-ed on knowledge diversity and our thinking on data quality)
 * The Wikimedia Foundation Scholarships Program is now accepting applications for Wikimania 2016 (deadline: 09 January 2016 23:59 UTC)
 * Wikidata: A platform for data integration and dissemination for the life sciences and beyond received the prize for best paper at SWAT4LS. Congrats!
 * Past: 50 hours of Wikidata and Wikipedia editing at Museo Soumaya
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Over 16.000 people have contributed to Wikidata over the last month.
 * Wikidata Analyst, a tool to help comprehensively analyze the quality of Wikidata (announcement)
 * Overview of the current state of Sum of all Paintings and how you can help by Multichill
 * query.wikidata.org now more prominently shows example queries in case you missed them before, lets you filter and gives you a preview for them. Additionally you can click a little magnifying glass next to an item ID in a query result and explore it further.
 * WikiJourney now has a first release on the Play Store
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: JMDb film identifier, British Council artist ID, MLSSoccer.com ID, YouTube channel ID, image of function, MGI gene symbol, NCBI Locus tag, teaching method, OKPO ID, Ballotpedia ID, organisation directed from the office, office held by head of the organisation, Elonet actor ID, diameter, French diocesan architects ID, statement describes, CTHS person ID, Chemins de mémoire ID, Academic Tree ID, French Sculpture Census ID, deprecated in version, issued by
 * Query example: Which "Lincoln" was "Lincoln" named for?, [https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%20%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20rdfs%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2F01%2Frdf-schema%23%3E%0APREFIX%20p%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20pq%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fqualifier%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20v%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fstatement%2F%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fhigh%20%3Fhighl%20%3Fhigh_elevation%20%3Flow%20%3Flowl%20%3Flow_elevation%20%3Fspan%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ160016%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP610%20%3Fhigh%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP610%20%3Fhigh_statement%20.%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Fhigh%20wdt%3AP2044%20%3Fhigh_elevation%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%20%3Fhigh_statement%20pq%3AP2044%20%3Fhigh_elevation%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fhigh%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fhighl%20filter%20(lang(%3Fhighl)%20%3D%20%22en%22)%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1589%20%3Flow%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP1589%20%3Flow_statement%20.%0A%20%20%3Flow_statement%20pq%3AP2044%20%3Flow_elevation%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Flow%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Flowl%20filter%20(lang(%3Flowl)%20%3D%20%22en%22)%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND(%20%3Fhigh_elevation%20-%20%3Flow_elevation%20as%20%3Fspan%20)%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC(%3Fspan)%20DESC(%3Flow_elevation)%20DESC(%3Fhigh_elevation)%20%3Fhigh%20%3FitemLabel places by elevation span], people who died in 1945 (for upcoming 2016 public domain day)
 * Newest Database reports: List of films without article in Wikipedia of the same language
 * Development
 * Working on sorting of statement groups for the ArticlePlaceholder extension
 * Further work on a separate section for identifiers
 * Worked on properly linking identifiers in the exports
 * Removed a number of lines and boxes in the statement section to make it less busy
 * Made it possible to create a redirect over a deleted item without having to undelete it first
 * Further work on improving ranking on Special:Search
 * Making it possible to show and edit more languages for labels/descriptions/aliases than the ones defined in your babel boxes
 * Getting ready for the holidays :)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * 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(s), for the new properties listed above.

Additions to Women in Red
Thanks, Harej, for your additions. Just one small point: in line with Wikipedia conventions, the item on external links should be headed "External links" (not "External Links"). I cannot edit it without causing problems.--Ipigott (talk) 10:29, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Got it. For future reference, you can rename a page and then update it within the main WikiProject page, as that page contains a list of the subpages. Harej (talk) 13:27, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I did exactly that but then the module caused a red link. Anyway, thanks for fixing the problem.--Ipigott (talk) 18:44, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

Another problem: I can't get our new navbox (e.g. at the foot of the main page) to link correctly to Press. It hits the right section for a couple of seconds and then goes to the project.--Ipigott (talk) 11:07, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
 * The press thing is interesting. Clicking it should bring it to the right section but it doesn't. In the meantime I have it linked directly to that subpage. Harej (talk) 13:27, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, it seems to be fine now. Thanks.--Ipigott (talk) 18:44, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

Logo
WP:Women in Red is using  as our logo. Can your team alter it to make it unique for WiR, e.g. perhaps change the color to red? Also, I like the simple logo used by Medicine and that it includes the Wikipedia globe; can we add the Wikipedia globe into the WiR logo? I've created a Women in Red Commons cat and placed this svg into it, but this should be temporary and we should have a unique logo in 2016. Thx. --Rosiestep (talk) 15:26, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
 * We can work on this. Harej (talk) 15:42, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

Events
I've made 2 updates but the page isn't refreshing. --Rosiestep (talk) 16:42, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Rosiestep, they appear for me now. Do they now appear for you as well? Harej (talk) 16:23, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
 * They do; thanks. --Rosiestep (talk) 03:09, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

Naming convention
We have discussed the navigation difficulties with (a) WikiProject Women/Women in Red. In hindsight, we should have left WiR at (b) WikiProject Women in Red. We also talked about (c) Women in Red; short and sweet, and makes me thing of WikiWomen's History Month. From 60,000', and looking to the future (as the goal is to translate this brand into other language Wikipedias), what would be a best practice? What direction are forward-thinking en-wiki projects going with their naming conventions? If I edited on the es-wiki or de-wiki, and I wanted to replicate WiR, which of these en-wiki names would make the most sense? --Rosiestep (talk) 14:58, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Rosiestep, all three are valid names. I personally prefer plain "Women in Red" but it is not more or less "correct" than the other two. For the other languages, the best name will depend on what the conventions are for naming WikiProjects (or WikiProject-like things) on those language editions; each edition tends to do things slightly differently. (In French, for example, WikiProjects are called "portals," similar to our own portals but they also function as WikiProjects!) Harej (talk) 18:00, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Aside from discussing this move to plain "Women in Red" (my preference, too) on the project talkpage, what else should I mention to the team on the talkpage, e.g. logistics, and so on? --Rosiestep (talk) 01:42, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #189
Wikidata weekly summary #186

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) 21:59, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Successful request for adminship: Eurodyne
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * World Health Summit yearbook for 2015
 * You can apply for a scholarship to attend Wikimania 2016 (deadline: January 9th)
 * Talk submissions for Wikimania 2016 are open. We'd love to see many Wikidata-related submissions. If you need help with your submission contact Lydia.
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Google has launched the Knowledge Graph Search API, replacing the deprecated Freebase API
 * Meta now has access to the data on Wikidata as well
 * Want to get an overview of the classes and properties on Wikidata? The Miga class and property browser was updated.
 * WikiBrowser - semantically browse Wikipedia with the help of Wikidata
 * WikiFamou.us lets you compare topics by popularity across languages with the help of Wikidata
 * Chronas is a history project linking Wikipedia and Wikidata with a chronological and cartographical view
 * Visiting some place for the holidays? Check out the items nearby.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Fashion Model Directory magazine ID, Fashion Model Directory designer ID, Artsy gene, WikiPathways ID, NII Article ID, set in period, short-term exposure limit, maximum peak exposure limit, ceiling exposure limit, time-weighted average exposure limit, Total assets, total expenditure, Six Degrees of Francis Bacon ID
 * Query example: [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Works%20created%20by%20females%20died%20in%201945%0APREFIX%20bd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bigdata.com%2Frdf%23%3E%0APREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%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%0Aselect%20distinct%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FcreaLabel%20%3FworkLabel%20(year(%3Fdate)as%20%3Fyear)%0Awhere%20%7B%0A%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP170%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20P170%2Fcreator%0A%20UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP50%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%20%20%23%20P50%2Fauthor%0A%20%23UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP86%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%20%23%20P86%2Fcomposer%0A%20%23UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP87%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%20%23%20P87%2Flibrettist%0A%20%23UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP110%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%23%20P110%2Fillustrator%0A%20%23UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP655%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%23%20P655%2Ftranslator%0A%20%23UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP676%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%23%20P676%2Flyrics%20by%0A%20%0A%20%3Fcrea%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ6581072%20.%20%23%20P21%2Fsex%20or%20gender%20-%20Q6581072%2Ffemale%0A%20%3Fcrea%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Ftime0%20.%0A%20FILTER%20(%20%3Ftime0%20%3E%3D%20%221945-01-01T00%3A00%3A00Z%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%20%26%26%20%3Ftime0%20%3C%3D%20%221945-12-31T00%3A00%3A00Z%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%20)%20%23%20P570%2Fdate%20of%20death%20in%201945%0A%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP571%20%3Fdate%7D%20UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP577%20%3Fdate%20%7D%7D%20%23%20P571%2Finception%20-%20P571%2Fpublication%20date%0A%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20%3Fwork%0A%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%2Car%2Cbe%2Cbg%2Cbn%2Cca%2Ccs%2Cda%2Cde%2Cel%2Ces%2Cet%2Cfa%2Cfi%2Cfr%2Che%2Chi%2Chu%2Chy%2Cid%2Cit%2Cja%2Cjv%2Cko%2Cnb%2Cnl%2Ceo%2Cpa%2Cpl%2Cpt%2Cro%2Cru%2Csh%2Csk%2Csr%2Csv%2Csw%2Cte%2Cth%2Ctr%2Cuk%2Cyue%2Cvec%2Cvi%2Czh%22%20%23BabelRainbow%0A%20%7D%0A%7DORDER%20BY%20%3FcreaLabel%20%0A works created by females who died in 1945]
 * Development
 * <3 Thanks for being awesome. Enjoy the holidays :)
 * We will take the "in other projects"-sidebar out of beta features in January (T103102)
 * Making ranking information like label and statement counts available to the CirrusSearch index in order to improve ranking in search results (T110648)
 * Continued work on the identifier data type for identifiers like VIAF and ISBN so we can easily put them into a separate section in the items and properly link them in the exports (T95682, T121274)
 * Continued work on making external identifiers clickable links without the help of the authority control gadget (T95684)
 * Fixed a mistake in the set reference API documentation (259171)
 * More work on cleaning up the statement section (T121390)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * 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(s), for the new properties listed above.

Yo Ho Ho


Doc James (talk · contribs · email) is wishing you Seasons Greetings! Whether you celebrate your hemisphere's Solstice or Christmas, Diwali, Hogmanay, Hanukkah, Lenaia, Festivus or even the Saturnalia, this is a special time of year for almost everyone!

Spread the holiday cheer by adding to your friends' talk pages.

Thanks for all you have done this year :-) Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 22:53, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Merry Christmas and happy new year


Merry Christmas and happy new year. (: --Pine✉


 * Thank you, Pine. Harej (talk) 22:23, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #190
Wikidata weekly summary #186

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) 14:07, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Ongoing: 32C3
 * Upcoming: Wikimedia Developer Summit
 * Upcoming: StrepHit IEG project kick-off seminar
 * Upcoming: Office hour on IRC
 * Upcoming: FOSDEM (Lucie will give a talk about the ArticlePlaceholder extension)
 * Registration and scholarship applications for the Wikimedia Hackathon in Israel are open
 * Don't forget your talk submissions for Wikimania 2016. Lydia can help if needed.
 * Getting CAS registry numbers out of WikiData
 * The quality of SMILES strings in Wikidata
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Paper: Wikidata: A platform for data integration and dissemination for the life sciences and beyond
 * The Wikidata for Research proposal has now been published in a journal
 * [//tools.wmflabs.org/pltools/addlingue/ New tool to turn string claims to monolingual claims]
 * Johl built a card game about German politicians using Wikidata
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: number of awards, Prosopographia Attica, Structurae person ID, stage classification, sports disciplines competed in, personal best, substrate of
 * Development
 * Some small bugfixes and tweaks.
 * Enjoying the holidays and editing on Wikidata. Hope you are too :)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * 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(s), for the new properties listed above.

Wikidata weekly summary #191
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;"> <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) 21:50, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Successful request for adminship: Innocent bystander
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * The Reference Wars
 * Teaching machines to make your life easier – quality work on Wikidata
 * Wikidata references from Microdata
 * Building applications around Wikidata (a beer example)
 * From Freebase to Wikidata: the great migration has been accepted for the industry track of WWW2016
 * Gene Wiki and Wikidata: an overview of 2015
 * Past: 32C3 in Hamburg
 * Past: Wikimedia Developer Summit
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning
 * The deadline for submissions for Wikimania has been extended to 17th. Get your talk proposals in!
 * IUCN statuses have been removed from taxoboxes in Czech Wikipedia in order to display sourced Wikidata data. Check it out with Comodo dragon, lion, Siamese fighting fish or any of almost 3,000 articles.
 * Migrating identifier properties to new identifier datatype
 * Listeria lists can now show arbitrary SPARQL results
 * Mix'n'match has new catalogs like UNESCO's Atlas of languages in danger
 * Initial plans for MetaPipe, a collaborate metadata tool
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: BugGuide ID, elibrary.ru organisation ID, member of the deme, ComLaw ID, Persons of Ancient Athens, IBU biathlete identifier, Mackolik.com footballer ID, Australian National Shipwreck Database Shipwreck ID number, dblp identifier, Species Profile and Threats Database ID, KNAW past member identifier, nominee, GeoNames feature code, MAME ROM, Encyclopædia Britannica contributor identifier, Turkish Football Federation manager ID, Turkish Football Federation player ID, transfermarkt manager id, transfermarkt footballer id, metasubclass of, homoglyph, stage reached, conversion to standard unit, literal translation, transliteration, language, narrator, number of seasons, voltage, PORT person ID, Panarctic Flora ID, gender of a scientific name of a genus, J. Paul Getty Museum artist id, Thyssen-Bornemisza artist id, takeoff roll, expected completeness, RePEc Short-ID, grid global research id, Xeno-canto species ID, service ribbon image, Berlin cultural heritage ID, FIE identifier
 * Newest WikiProjects: Broadcasting
 * New feature/gadget requests: disambiguator tool, tool to move statements from one item to another
 * Development
 * Attending the Wikimedia Developer Summit
 * Are you a student looking for a thesis topic with impact? There might be some around Wikidata for you. Get in touch with Lydia if interested.
 * More work on moving identifiers to their own section and having a separate datatype for them
 * Fixed the problem where you could add links to non-existing files on Commons (T87263)
 * We're adding a "latest" link for the JSON dumps (T72247)
 * Fixed a bug in the monolingual text datatype when changing the language (T95419)
 * More work on making it possible to show all languages for a given item without the label lister gadget
 * Security review for the ArticlePlaceholder is done \o/
 * References in the ArticlePlaceholder are now shown more similar to how they are shown in a regular article (at the bottom)
 * SPARQL queries display directly when link to query.wikidata.org is opened
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * 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(s), for the new properties listed above.

This Month in GLAM: December 2015
<div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">About This Month in GLAM · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 17:57, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #192
<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;"> <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) 11:21, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikipedia turned 15. Happy birthday, big sister!
 * Fifteen years ago, Wikipedia was a very different place: Magnus Manske
 * Wikipedia just turned 15 years old. Will it survive 15 more?
 * Slides for talk by Lucie and Adam at the birthday party in NYC
 * Doing research on Wikidata? Consider submitting to OpenSym.
 * Past: ODI summit (video of talk "Making every human gene accessible and linkable" by Andra Waagmeester)
 * Past: StrepHit IEG kick-off (video, slides)
 * Upcoming: ORCID outreach meeting
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Module:Cycling race generates a list of stages and winners for cycling races
 * Great use of the Listeria bot to create an artwork gallery
 * Wikidata-lang - library to get language code from a Wikidata item for a language
 * Live-stream of Wikidata edits by Magnus
 * Wikipedia tools for Google Spreadsheet now has a Wikidata function
 * Yair rand wrote a user script to experiment with how changes are shown in recent changes and watchlist
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Theatricalia person ID, Theatricalia theatre ID, Global Geoparks Network ID, judicial sentence, allcinema film identifier
 * Development
 * Students worked on new datatype to capture mathematical expressions (T67397)
 * Updated property suggester data to give you more up-to-date suggestions when adding new statements
 * Pages in the module namespace now also get interwiki links (T123234)
 * Reduced number of resource loader modules to improve performance (T123233)
 * Started experimenting with showing an image in the header area (T119493)
 * Fixed a bug where the query text would be moved off the screen on the query service website (T120196)
 * Worked on the remaining blocker for taking the in other projects sidebar out of beta. We need to link to the Commons category and not gallery for articles without frying the servers (T94989)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * 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(s), for the new properties listed above.

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 6
Newsletter • January 2016

Hello there! Happy to be writing this newsletter once more. This month:

What comes next

Some good news: the Wikimedia Foundation has renewed WikiProject X. This means we can continue focusing on making WikiProjects better.

During our first round of work, we created a prototype WikiProject based on two ideas: (1) WikiProjects should clearly present things for people to do, and (2) The content of WikiProjects should be automated as much as possible. We launched pilots, and for the most part it works. But this approach will not work for the long term. While it makes certain aspects of running a WikiProject easier, it makes the maintenance aspects harder.

We are working on a major overhaul that will address these issues. New features will include:
 * Creating WikiProjects by simply filling out a form, choosing which reports you want to generate for your project. This will work with existing bots in addition to the Reports Bot reports. (Of course, you can also have sections curated by humans.)
 * One-click button to join a WikiProject, with optional notifications.
 * Be able to define your WikiProject's scope within the WikiProject itself by listing relevant pages and categories, eliminating the need to tag every talk page with a banner. (You will still be allowed to do that, of course. It just won't be required.)

The end goal is a collaboration tool that can be used by WikiProjects but also by any edit-a-thon or group of people that want to coordinate on improving articles. Though implemented as an extension, the underlying content will be wikitext, meaning that you can continue to use categories, templates, and other features as you normally would.

This will take a lot of work, and we are just getting started. What would you like to see? I invite you to discuss on our talk page.

Until next time,

Harej (talk) 02:53, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Nigeria Writing Contest
Hello Harej, and happy Wikipedia @ 15. This is to notify you of Wiki Loves Nigeria Writing Contest organized by the Wikimedia User Group Nigeria to commiserate the 15th anniversary of Wikipedia. The contest will start on 28 January 2016 and end on 29 February 2016. Please help to suggest articles on notable Nigeria-related topic here and if you like to be part of the jury, add your name here. Thanks for your participation. Warm regards Wikic¤l¤gyt@lk to M£ 07:55, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #193
<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;"> <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) 17:10, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: office hour on IRC with review of the past quarter, outlook on the next and discussion (log)
 * Right now: Magnus Manske Day! Thank you for all you are doing to make Wikidata truly shine! We owe you a ton.
 * Upcoming: FOSDEM
 * Upcoming: Series of Wikidata/ GLAM talks in Australia and Indonesia by Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing). Also social meetups.
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Magnus has a script that lets you drag statements from Wikipedia articles
 * Changes in how authentication in MediaWiki is handled are being rolled out (and more coming). Ordinary users and gadgets / user scripts should not be affected but bots may need to be adjusted. pywikibot already supports  OAuth authentication, though bot operators need to set that up for their bot.
 * Littar won second prize in Danish Library Center app competition
 * Wikidata Graph Builder
 * Help with matching up Wikipedia articles and Wikidata items. Here for example women on dewiki.
 * You can give input on WMF's strategy
 * Looking for small Wikipedias to try the ArticlePlaceholder
 * Mix'n'match got new catalogs (for example UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Reserves and FAST)
 * Wikimedia Sverige got a $300.000 grant for the Connected Open Heritage project on Wikidata
 * French Wikipedia now has modified fr:Modèle:Bibliographie to use Wikidata
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 * Newest properties: Ramsar Sites Information Service ID, SEED number, victory, female form of label, UNESCO Biosphere Reserve url, Scope.dk person ID, Scope.dk film ID, category for recipients of this award, Australian Wetlands Database Australian Ramsar site number, costume designer, Jamendo artist ID, Jamendo album ID, spin-off, MSK Gent work PID, National Discography of Italian Song ID, Movie Walker film ID, KINENOTE film ID, Corrigendum / Erratum, INSEE canton code, carries, Norwegian municipality number, Genealogical Gazetteer (GOV) ID, classification of, results, level below, level above, Biographical Dictionary of Women, Latvian National Address Register identifier, Latvian toponymic names database identifier, Latvian cultural heritage register identifier, OM institution ID, MTMT author ID, Radzima.org ID, page at OSTIS Belarus Wiki, page at hram.by, page at Belarus Globe website, page at website of Belarus Geocenter, Fashion Model Directory brand ID, Fashion Model Directory photographer ID, NCES School ID, NCES District ID, SABR ID, Eliteprospects.com player ID, IHO Hydrographic Dictionary (S-32), SPDX identifier, Railways Archive event ID, TBRC Resource ID, HNI person/institution ID, NAVA ID, CDLI ID, Asset of Local Relevance ID, ACMA Register of Radiocommunications Licences Client Identifier, Models.com ID, Talouselämän vaikuttajat ID
 * Query example: List of countries by age of the head of government
 * Newest database reports: Missing properties by number of sitelinks/P26 (spouse: item or novalue)
 * Development
 * Investigated and fixed a critical bug in HHVM (T124276)
 * Investigated language support in MediaWiki and Wikibase to allow more languages in monolingual text and disallow some non-sense for label/descriptions/aliases (T78006)
 * Fixed missing license info and broken links for Wikibase libraries on Special:Version
 * Working on improving scoring of search results on Wikidata, on Special:Search
 * Preparing to take the "in other projects" sidebar out of beta features, with the Wikimedia Commons link going to the Commons category (T103102, T94989)
 * Amir and Aaron are turning ORES into an extension to make it easier for you to spot bad edits \o/
 * Final touches on putting identifiers into their own section (T117421)
 * Switching the in other languages box to be expanded by default for new people (T92387)
 * More experimenting with adding an image to the header area (T119493)
 * Monthly Tasks
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 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Thank you
Dear Harej Sorry for taking so long to get to you. Sometimes I get overwhelmed with studying Chinese all day, working all night, to say nothing of all this business about working out. But thank you so much for inviting to join the project on Hampshire. I am very honored and much appreciated your kind invitation. Thank you for your kindness and please have a wonderful day! --A.S. Brown (talk) 21:43, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you, A.S. Brown! Let me know what you think of the WikiProject and if there is anything I can do to help. Harej (talk) 01:35, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much for your kind offer. I have a book that I think would be of some issue to the project, but I owned way too many books, a veritable private library if you will (my landlord hates me for that) and I can't seem to find it. I believe that this project is a great effort on the part of all, and I am must pleased to join in. I am something of a hopeless Anglophile, but it is nice to write something other war for a change. Looking forward to getting started, if just find that damned book :). Please have a great day!--A.S. Brown (talk) 11:55, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Women in Red
James, can you please let me know when your team will move WikiProject Women/Women in Red to WikiProject Women in Red, or tell me that you don't have time for it? No worries if you're busy with other things, but please let me know either way. Thank you. (cc ) --Rosiestep (talk) 17:09, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Rosiestep, sorry if you had pinged me earlier and I somehow didn't get it. I will get back to you on this soon. Thankfully this rename should go more smoothly since (a) I removed a lot of hardcoded references to the WikiProject name and (b) we know everything that needs to get done. I also would like to talk to you at some point about our planned extension to the software that will make everything run so much more smoothly. Harej (talk) 01:38, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi James, thanks for your response; that all seems fine. I'm available via Skype most evenings or perhaps on the weekend. --Rosiestep (talk) 03:02, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
 * And I'm glad to hear we're finally once more going to have a WikiProject in its own right. James, is there any chance of making the change before our next editathon begins on 1 February? It would help to avoid further confusion.-- Ipigott (talk) 16:21, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
 * It can certainly be done before February 1. I will post to Women in Red's talk page once I'm doing it. Harej (talk) 21:58, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

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''Be able to define your WikiProject's scope within the WikiProject itself by listing relevant pages and categories, eliminating the need to tag every talk page with a banner. (You will still be allowed to do that, of course. It just won't be required.)'' you got a link, or something or this particular part of things. '' ?? JarrahTree 10:41, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
 * JarrahTree, I don't really have anything to link to at this point, since it's an idea we're working on. Once we have something more concrete to show off I would be happy to link to it. Do you have any thoughts or feedback on the idea? Harej (talk) 00:47, 26 January 2016 (UTC)


 * idea we're working on is a bit nebulous. I have a very large mount of thoughts on the matter, where is the best place to dump? JarrahTree 10:36, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
 * I imagine it does sound nebulous; we're just starting work on this. Wikipedia talk:WikiProject X would be a good place so that others may chime in as well. Harej (talk) 21:52, 26 January 2016 (UTC)


 * OK, there are quite a few 'components' to the whole of project tagging (as I call it at least), will think about it first. JarrahTree 09:07, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

Invitation to an online editathon on Black Women's History
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RSS feeds
Hi Harej! I thought you might know how to do this (if it's possible). Can we embed this RSS feed for the NY Times Obituary somewhere on a Wiki page? and I were wondering if it was possible. :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 19:23, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Megalibrarygirl, not as far as I know. Aside from the lack of technical functionality on Wikipedia to do so, I don't think Wikipedians would appreciate a copyrighted RSS stream on-wiki. Harej (talk) 02:27, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
 * We were thinking that we could use it to generate redlists or improve references. But I understand about the copyright issue... would it be a problem if it was on a WikiProject page for support of writing articles? Megalibrarygirl (talk) 19:13, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

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Barnstar

 * Thank you, Rosiestep. I am happy to do whatever I can to help this exciting and highly productive project. Harej (talk) 20:04, 30 January 2016 (UTC)