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Archived link for December Bay Area WikiSalon
Hi, y'all. In case you missed it and want to watch the archive reel; the topic was The Wikipedia Teahouse and the presenter was well respected Wikimedian Jim Heaphy [[User:Cullen328]]


 * [//www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeJim1n2uiY Archive link] (also includes intro, announcements, and a lightning talk)


 * Details about Bay Area WikiSalon for December here

The full title of Jim's presentation was: Welcoming and Helping New Editors: A Month at the Wikipedia Teahouse: an overview of the Teahouse and an analysis of over 300 Teahouse conversations during the month of August, 2016

Jim gave a longer version of this presentation in October at [//wikiconference.org/wiki/2016/Main_Page WikiConference North America 2016] in San Diego, California.

Cheers! Co-organizer - and co-organizer  | (Subscribe/Unsubscribe to this talk page notice here)

PS: Mark your calendars now for Sunday, January 15 at 2 p.m. which will be Wikipedia's 16th Birthday party hosted by Bay Area WikiSalon! Details to follow soon. If you want to help plan it, get in touch with us ASAP! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:43, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #241
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) 13:30, 26 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Upcoming: 33C3
 * Scaling OpenStreetMap with Wikidata knowledge
 * Scraping data from Wikipedia using Wikidata
 * Using cbimport to import Wikibase data to JSON documents
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Linked data fragment enabled on the Query Service
 * Quora topic IDs have been added to Mix'n'match
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Belvedere artist ID, Calflora ID, basic unit of settlement code (Czech/Slovak), Google Play Store ID, Quora topic ID, end period, start period
 * Query examples:
 * List of heads of state by Erdős number (source)
 * Airports named after people (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23%20Query%20Find%20in%20WikiData%20people%20with%20Place%20of%20Burial%20Q252312%20Norra%20Begravningsplatsen%0A%23%20that%20has%20no%20picture%20of%20the%20grave%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%0Aselect%20distinct%20%3FgroupLabel%20%28%3FgroupLabel%20as%20%3Flayer%29%20%3Farticle%20%3Fperson%20%3FpersonLabel%20%20%3FpersonDescription%20%20%3Fgraveplot%20%3Fcoord%20%3Fpic%20%3FpicGrave%20%3FWikiTree%20%3FFindAGrave%7B%0A%7B%0A%09%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP119%20wd%3AQ252312%3B%20%23Place%20of%20burial%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP119%20%5B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP965%20%3Fgraveplot%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP625%20%3Fcoord%5D.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP535%20%3FFindAGraveID%20.%7D%20%09%09%23%20If%20we%20have%20a%20FindAGrave%20ID%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fpic%20.%7D%20%09%09%09%09%09%23%20If%20we%20have%20an%20illustration%0A%20%20%20minus%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP1442%20%3FpicGrave%20.%7D%20%09%09%09%23%20If%20we%20have%20a%20picture%20of%20the%20grave%0A%20%20%20BIND%20%28URI%28CONCAT%28%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.findagrave.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Ffg.cgi%3Fpage%3Dgr%26df%3Dall%26GRid%3D%22%2C%3FFindAGraveID%29%29%20AS%20%3FFindAGrave%29%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fperson%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3AinLanguage%20%22sv%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fsv.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fperson%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3AinLanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP21%20%3Fgroup%20.%7D%20%09%09%09%23%20Gender%20in%20Layer%0A%0A%7D%20%20%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%2C%22sv%22%7D%0A%20%7D%0AOrder%20by%20%3FpersonLabel Graves with no grave pictures of people buried in Norra Begravningsplatsen] ([https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Query%20Find%20in%20WikiData%20people%20with%20Place%20of%20Burial%20Q252312%20Norra%20Begravningsplatsen%0A%23%20that%20has%20no%20picture%20of%20the%20grave%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%0Aselect%20distinct%20%3FgroupLabel%20%28%3FgroupLabel%20as%20%3Flayer%29%20%3Farticle%20%3Fperson%20%3FpersonLabel%20%20%3FpersonDescription%20%20%3Fgraveplot%20%3Fcoord%20%3Fpic%20%3FpicGrave%20%3FWikiTree%20%3FFindAGrave%7B%0A%7B%0A%09%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP119%20wd%3AQ252312%3B%20%23Place%20of%20burial%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP119%20%5B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP965%20%3Fgraveplot%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP625%20%3Fcoord%5D.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP535%20%3FFindAGraveID%20.%7D%20%09%09%23%20If%20we%20have%20a%20FindAGrave%20ID%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fpic%20.%7D%20%09%09%09%09%09%23%20If%20we%20have%20an%20illustration%0A%20%20%20minus%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP1442%20%3FpicGrave%20.%7D%20%09%09%09%23%20If%20we%20have%20a%20picture%20of%20the%20grave%0A%20%20%20BIND%20%28URI%28CONCAT%28%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.findagrave.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Ffg.cgi%3Fpage%3Dgr%26df%3Dall%26GRid%3D%22%2C%3FFindAGraveID%29%29%20AS%20%3FFindAGrave%29%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fperson%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3AinLanguage%20%22sv%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fsv.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fperson%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3AinLanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP21%20%3Fgroup%20.%7D%20%09%09%09%23%20Gender%20in%20Layer%0A%0A%7D%20%20%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%2C%22sv%22%7D%0A%20%7D%0AOrder%20by%20%3FpersonLabel source])
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23%20Query%20Find%20in%20WikiData%20people%20with%20Place%20of%20Burial%20Q252312%20Norra%20Begravningsplatsen%0A%23%20that%20has%20picture%20of%20the%20grave%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%0Aselect%20distinct%20%3FgroupLabel%20%28%3FgroupLabel%20as%20%3Flayer%29%20%3Farticle%20%3Fperson%20%3FpersonLabel%20%20%3FpersonDescription%20%20%3Fgraveplot%20%3Fcoord%20%3Fpic%20%3FpicGrave%20%3FWikiTree%20%3FFindAGrave%7B%0A%7B%0A%09%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP119%20wd%3AQ252312%3B%20%23Place%20of%20burial%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP119%20%5B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP965%20%3Fgraveplot%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP625%20%3Fcoord%5D.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP535%20%3FFindAGraveID%20.%7D%20%09%09%23%20If%20we%20have%20a%20FindAGrave%20ID%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fpic%20.%7D%20%09%09%09%09%09%23%20If%20we%20have%20an%20illustration%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP1442%20%3FpicGrave%20.%7D%20%09%09%09%23%20If%20we%20have%20a%20picture%20of%20the%20grave%0A%20%20%20BIND%20%28URI%28CONCAT%28%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.findagrave.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Ffg.cgi%3Fpage%3Dgr%26df%3Dall%26GRid%3D%22%2C%3FFindAGraveID%29%29%20AS%20%3FFindAGrave%29%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fperson%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3AinLanguage%20%22sv%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fsv.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fperson%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3AinLanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP21%20%3Fgroup%20.%7D%20%09%09%09%23%20Gender%20in%20Layer%0A%0A%7D%20%20%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%2C%22sv%22%7D%0A%20%7D%0AOrder%20by%20%3FpersonLabel Graves with grave pictures of people buried in Norra Begravningsplatsen] ([https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Query%20Find%20in%20WikiData%20people%20with%20Place%20of%20Burial%20Q252312%20Norra%20Begravningsplatsen%0A%23%20that%20has%20picture%20of%20the%20grave%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%0Aselect%20distinct%20%3FgroupLabel%20%28%3FgroupLabel%20as%20%3Flayer%29%20%3Farticle%20%3Fperson%20%3FpersonLabel%20%20%3FpersonDescription%20%20%3Fgraveplot%20%3Fcoord%20%3Fpic%20%3FpicGrave%20%3FWikiTree%20%3FFindAGrave%7B%0A%7B%0A%09%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP119%20wd%3AQ252312%3B%20%23Place%20of%20burial%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP119%20%5B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP965%20%3Fgraveplot%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP625%20%3Fcoord%5D.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP535%20%3FFindAGraveID%20.%7D%20%09%09%23%20If%20we%20have%20a%20FindAGrave%20ID%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fpic%20.%7D%20%09%09%09%09%09%23%20If%20we%20have%20an%20illustration%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP1442%20%3FpicGrave%20.%7D%20%09%09%09%23%20If%20we%20have%20a%20picture%20of%20the%20grave%0A%20%20%20BIND%20%28URI%28CONCAT%28%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.findagrave.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Ffg.cgi%3Fpage%3Dgr%26df%3Dall%26GRid%3D%22%2C%3FFindAGraveID%29%29%20AS%20%3FFindAGrave%29%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fperson%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3AinLanguage%20%22sv%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fsv.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fperson%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3AinLanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP21%20%3Fgroup%20.%7D%20%09%09%09%23%20Gender%20in%20Layer%0A%0A%7D%20%20%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%2C%22sv%22%7D%0A%20%7D%0AOrder%20by%20%3FpersonLabel source])
 * Solidays occurring today (source)
 * Streets in Paris named after current countries (source)
 * Streets in Paris named after battles (source)
 * Wikipedia articles (in any language) of paintings by painter (source)
 * Sovereign state flags with no red, white, or blue (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AScatterChart%0ASELECT%20%28MIN%28%3Fage%29%20AS%20%3FminAge%29%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fcomposition%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%20%3Fcomposer%20%3FcomposerLabel%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%7B%20%23%20find%20only%20compositions%20with%20a%20single%20composer%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fcomposition%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcomposition%20wdt%3AP86%20%3Fcomposer.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fcomposition%0A%20%20%20%20HAVING%28COUNT%28%3Fcomposer%29%20%3D%201%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fcomposition%20wdt%3AP86%20%3Fcomposer%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP571%2Fpsv%3AP571%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AtimeValue%20%3Fdate%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AtimePrecision%20%3FdatePrecision%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3FdatePrecision%20%3E%3D%209%29.%20%23%20filter%20out%20sub-year%20precision%0A%20%20%3Fcomposer%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP569%2Fpsv%3AP569%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AtimeValue%20%3Fborn%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AtimePrecision%20%3FbornPrecision%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3FbornPrecision%20%3E%3D%209%29.%0A%20%20BIND%28FLOOR%28%28%3Fdate%20-%20%3Fborn%29%2F365.2425%29%20AS%20%3Fage%29.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fcomposer%20%3FcomposerLabel%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FminAge Graph of number of compositions over age at first composition] (source)
 * Development
 * Worked more on the first entity type (Lexeme) for Wiktionary support
 * Worked more on federation in order to allow using Wikidata items and properties to describe images on Commons in the future
 * Fixed a bug with getLabelWithLang returning the wrong language (T152241)
 * Fixed an issue where some coordinate values displayed 60 seconds instead of rounding to 1 minute (T153429)
 * Adjusted language for simple English sitelinks (T152915)
 * 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!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Wikidata weekly summary #242
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Open requests for adminship: יונה בנדלאק, Pyb


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Next IRC office hour on January 5th
 * Past: we were at 33c3
 * Scaling OpenStreetMap with Wikidata knowledge
 * 2016 – A busy year for Gene Wiki and WikiData


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata and the celebrity deaths of 2016 on Buzzfeed
 * Welsh Wikipedia has some 16,000 lists regularly maintained from Wikidata


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: INSEE arrondissement code, INSEE countries and foreign territories code


 * Query examples:
 * [http://www.histropedia.com/showcase/wikidata-viewer.html?query=SELECT%20?person%20?personLabel%20%0A(SAMPLE(?birth_date)%20AS%20?birth_date)%20%0A(SAMPLE(?birth_date_precision)%20AS%20?birth_date_precision)%20%0A(SAMPLE(?death_date)%20AS%20?death_date)%20%0A(SAMPLE(?death_date_precision)%20AS%20?death_date_precision)%20%0A(SAMPLE(?image)%20AS%20?image)%20%0A(SAMPLE(?country_of_birth)%20AS%20?country_of_birth)%20%0A?Spotify%0A?awardLabel%0A?genreLabel%0A%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20?person%20wdt:P1902%20?SpotifyID%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B?person%20wdt:P166%20?award%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B?person%20wdt:P136%20?genre%7D%0A%0A%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20?person%20wdt:P18%20?image.%20%7D%20%20%0A%20BIND%20(URI(CONCAT(%22https://open.spotify.com/artist/%22,?SpotifyID))%20AS%20?Spotify)%0A%20%0A%20%20?person%20p:P569/psv:P569%20?birth_date_node%20.%20%0A%20%20?birth_date_node%20wikibase:timeValue%20?birth_date%20.%20%23this%20is%20now%20the%20actual%20birth%20date%0A%20%20?birth_date_node%20wikibase:timePrecision%20?birth_date_precision%20.%0A%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%0A%20%20%20%20?person%20p:P570/psv:P570%20?death_date_node.%20%0A%20%20%20%20?death_date_node%20wikibase:timeValue%20?death_date%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20?death_date_node%20wikibase:timePrecision%20?death_date_precision%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20?person%20wdt:P19/wdt:P17%20?countryItem.%20%0A%20%20%20%20?countryItem%20rdfs:label%20?country_of_birth.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER((LANG(?country_of_birth))%20%3D%20%22en%22)%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase:label%20%7B%20bd:serviceParam%20wikibase:language%20%22en%22,%22sv%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20?person%20?personLabel%20?Spotify%20?awardLabel%20?genreLabel%0A%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC(?rank)&url=Spotify&title=personLabel&from=birth_date&fromPrecision=birth_date_precision&to=death_date&toPrecision=death_date_precision&imageUrl=image&colourCodeBy=genreLabel&filterBy=country_of_birth,awardLabel%20&view=timeline Filtered timeline of Spotify artists]
 * Paintings of the Eiffel Tower by Robert Delaunay (source)
 * Ratio of “famous” (≥25 sitelinks) people’s deaths since 2000 (source)
 * Things with coordinates on globes other than Earth (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: US Virgin Islands
 * Newest external tools: "Descriptioner" - Tool to add descriptions batchwise
 * Newest database reports: Popular items without claims, Portuguese-language films without articles in Portuguese

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
 * Development
 * When a  property couldn't be resolved, a tracking category will be added (T50799)
 * Rewrote Special:NewItem and all other Special:New… pages to use OOUI error handling (T150205)
 * Getting ready the basic Lexeme prototype (T146662)
 * Continued work on federation basics (T149580)
 * Release version 1.0.0 of the [//github.com/wmde/DataTypes DataTypes] component
 * Enjoying the holidays and getting ready for this year's challenges. Hope you do to :)


 * 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!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

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You are invited to a birthday bash to Celebrate Wikipedia's 16th Birthday!
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Wikipedia Day 16 SF is a fun Birthday bash and edit-a-thon on Sunday, January 15, 2017, hosted by Bay Area WikiSalon at the Wikimedia Foundation's Chip Deubner Lounge in the South of Market Street business district.



For details and to RSVP, please see: Wikipedia:Meetup/SF/Wikipedia Day 2017

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Bay Area WikiSalon usually meets the last Wednesday evening of every month as an inclusive and safe place to collaborate, mingle, munch and learn about new projects and ideas. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:52, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #242
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Current: Wikimedia Dev summit in San Francisco (January 9-11th) If you are there, come and meet our developers and volunteers!
 * Upcoming: WikiIndaba, January 20-22th, Accra, Ghana
 * Wikidata used to connect people giving interviews for the oral history project at the computer history museum


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Video: how institutions can donate data to Wikidata, explained in a cartoon
 * Category:Articles with infoboxes completely from Wikidata on English Wikipedia
 * Mix'n'match encountered some problems with labels and descriptions, some of them are now fixed, cf post from Magnus
 * Wikidata-powered citation lists with citation.js
 * How to use objects from OpenStreetMap in Wikidata
 * Video: Navigating a cemetery using Spotify and Wikidata (by Magnus Sälgö)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: eBird taxon ID, Victorian Heritage Database ID, Debian package, FIFA country code, time signature, angular resolution, vehicle normally used, people or cargo transported, AELG ID, VGMDb artist ID, ERIH PLUS ID, biological variant of, parent cell line, Publons Publication ID, Social Networks Archival Context ID, Electronic Enlightenment ID, INCAA film rating, as.com athlete ID, ArbetSam ID, Natura 2000 site ID, Polish cultural heritage register number


 * Query examples:
 * Birth place of Academy Award winners
 * Neujahrskonzert with conductor by country and age (source)
 * 9 species named after the President of the USA (source)
 * Newest external tools: R wrapper for WDQS API (by Mikhail Popov), Wikidata authority file mapping tool (by Jakob Voß)
 * Newest database reports: list of episodes of Desperate Housewives (in English and German)


 * Development
 * [//tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2017/wikimedia-office.2017-01-05-18.00.log.html Log of our last IRC office hour]
 * This week, most of the developers are at the Dev Summit hacking stuff and doing great things!
 * Continued working on "federation" – support for multiple Wikibase repositories (T76007)
 * New dimensions for unit conversion in the query service (T150881)
 * Fixed a timing issue that can happen when using the property suggester (T115267)
 * Still investigating an issue in which the "save" button stays disabled, as reported in December
 * We may remove the sliding animation when using the date, geo, monolingual, and quantity experts (330145). The preview popup may now cover parts of the page. Please try it at [//wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org/ wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org] and tell us what you think on our contact page.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * 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.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Add statements to items without
 * Help with one of the bot requests
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.

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Reminder invitation to the Wikipedia Day 16 birthday bash & edit-a-thon
Please join us in downtown San Francisco!



Wikipedia Day 16 SF is a fun Birthday bash and edit-a-thon on Sunday, January 15, 2017, hosted by Bay Area WikiSalon at the Wikimedia Foundation's Chip Deubner Lounge in the South of Market Street business district and everybody is invited!



See you Sunday! , and

PS: We still need more volunteers to help make this a fun and worthwhile event. Please add what you can offer and your name to the Project page or Talk about it. It is a wiki, so please make direct edits to the Project page. The event is already growing due to volunteers that have stepped up so far.


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Wikidata weekly summary #243
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Badge for templates that work with Wikidata?


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Wikimedia Foundation receives $3 million grant from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to work on structured data for Commons
 * EPA CompTox Dashboard IDs in Wikidata
 * Data donation: 128K of Social Networks Archival Context IDs, matched to Wikipedia articles, and imported using P3430. Thanks, University of Virginia!
 * Past: Wikipedia Day 2017, NYC


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Discussion about the use of values from Wikidata in the English Wikipedia


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: legal status (medicine), basic reproduction number, muscle insertion, muscle origin, pregnancy category, minimal incubation period in humans, maximal incubation period in humans, normal respiratory rate, bite force quotient, name shares origin with, VGMDb album ID, Europeana Fashion creator ID, Parks & Gardens UK Record ID, base Mémoire reference, Aftonbladet topic ID, Songkick Artist ID, Nihon Tarento Meikan ID, PSA Worldtour ID, SANU member ID, Ubuntu 16.10 package, VICNAMES Place ID, wikiskripta id, Woodland Trust wood ID, WTA tennis tournament ID, National Inventors Hall of Fame ID, Inventario Sculture - Polo Museale Fiorentino, Israeli CBS municipal ID, maximum frequency of audible sound, medicine marketing authorisation, Fedora package, FAMA work ID, designated as terrorist by, colonel-in-chief, Euring number, CNC authorization number, case fatality rate, ATP tennis tournament ID, CircleID, Arch package, IPI base code, inferred from, nighttime view, season of, NSW Heritage database ID, stepparent, mirrors data from, FIDAL ID, Cinema of Israel ID


 * Query examples:
 * People without gender, but with photo (~2500 items)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%0A%20%20%28SAMPLE%28COALESCE%28%3Fen_label%2C%20%3Fitem_label%29%29%20as%20%3Fname%29%0A%20%20%23%28SAMPLE%28COALESCE%28%3Fplace_en_label%2C%20%3Fplace_label%29%29%20as%20%3Fplace%29%0A%20%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fcountry_label%29%20as%20%3Fcountry%29%0A%20%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Ftype_label%29%20as%20%3Ftype%29%0A%20%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fmaterial_label%29%20as%20%3Fmaterial%29%0A%20%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fimage%29%20as%20%3Fpicture%29%0A%20%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fcolor_label%29%20as%20%3Fcolor%29%0A%20%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fproduction%29%20as%20%3Fproduction_tons%29%0A%20%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Farea%29%20as%20%3Farea_hectares%29%0A%20%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Finception%29%20as%20%3Finception%29%0A%20%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fitem%29%20as%20%3Fwikidata%29%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Ftype%20wdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ10943.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP31%2Fps%3AP31%20%3Ftype.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fcountry.%7D%20UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP495%20%3Fcountry.%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fcountry%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fcountry_label.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3Fcountry_label%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fitem%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fen_label.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3Fen_label%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%7D%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fitem%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fitem_label%7D%0A%20%20%23OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1071%20%3Fplace.%7D%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fplace%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fplace_en_label.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3Fplace_en_label%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%7D%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fplace%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fplace_label%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Ftype%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Ftype_label%20.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3Ftype_label%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage.%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1092%20%3Fproduction.%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP2046%20%3Farea.%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP571%20%3Finception.%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP462%20%3Fcolor.%20%3Fcolor%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fcolor_label%20.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3Fcolor_label%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP186%20%3Fmaterial.%20%3Fmaterial%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fmaterial_label%20.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3Fmaterial_label%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%7D%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%20ORDER%20BY%20ASC%28%3Flabel%29 Gallery of cheese varieties and origin]
 * Taxa with more female than male individuals (source)
 * Scatter chart of river watershed area (in km²) over length (in km), now using normalized unit support (source)
 * Newest database reports: lighthouses at night


 * Development
 * Attended the Wikimedia Developer Summit to talk about a lot of things (including editing Wikidata from Wikipedia directly, back-end work for structured data support for Commons - specifically Multi Content Revisions, ideas for improvements to the query service)
 * Final touches to get ArticlePlaceholder pages ready for search engine indexing
 * Continued working on "federation" – support for multiple Wikibase repositories (T76007)
 * Clickable prototype for client editing is finally in the works!

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * 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!
 * Help fixing the most important constraint violations
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:46, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #244
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New administrator: Pyb is now admin on Wikidata!


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Wikidata: the new hub for cultural heritage
 * Past: WikiIndaba, Ghana
 * Upcoming: FOSDEM, Brussels, February 4-5th


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Coordinates on Russian Wikipedia now link to maps generated with the Kartographer extension. The map includes the location outline, if that object exists in OpenStreetMap (OSM) with a corresponding Wikidata ID (ways and relations only, not nodes). Example: Зальцбург (click coordinates in the upper right corner, or in the infobox on the side). If you create a Wikidata item about a specific administrative area, building, or other physical individual object which appears on maps, then please add the Wikidata ID to the relevant object in OSM, using key:wikidata= (here's how to contribute to OSM).
 * QuickStatements V2 can now run your commands in the background, no need to keep the browser tab open anymore
 * List of churches generated from Wikidata on Cymraeg Wikipedia


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: ZNIEFF Code, teams classification by time, cycling teams classification by points, FilmPolski.pl ID, points classification, legal status (medicine), basic reproduction number, muscle insertion, muscle origin


 * Query examples:
 * Tide mills in France (source)
 * Wind mills in Paris (source)
 * Mathematical formulae containing HTML escapes (source)
 * Fire stations in Paris (source)


 * Development
 * Created a new Special:EntityPage, needed for federation (T153499)
 * Sitelink "name" and "badges" in diffs are now translated (T111016)
 * Worked on finalizing mockups for editing Wikidata from Wikipedia and co. Now working on the click-dummy for it so we can try it with you.
 * Last touches for automated sitelinks for Wiktionary.
 * A ton of refactoring needed for Wiktionary support.
 * More research on improving our input widgets (for example URL and date).

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * 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!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

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Wikidata weekly summary #245
<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;">
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Economists in Wikidata: Opportunities of Authority Linking
 * FOSDEM, February 4-5th in Brussels Come and talk about Wikidata with us! See also the talk about UX and users' needs for Wikidata
 * Web Search and Data Mining Conference, February 6-10th, Cambridge


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Data donation: BBC Things ID (P1617) for news topics, kindly supplied by the BBC. All now uploaded, via Mix'n'Match
 * The StrepHit grant tool was renewed, so the Primary Sources tool can be improved in the future
 * The Bodleian Libraries (Oxford University) are looking for a Wikimedia data assistant to work on Wikidata


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: FIBA player ID, MLB ID, NFL.com ID, fussballdaten.de ID, FootballDatabase.eu ID, euroleague.net ID, JapanTour ID, Australian Government Organisations Register ID, draftexpress.com ID, databaseFootball.com ID, AZBilliards ID, par, median income, Luding game ID, eurobasket.com ID, wisdenindia.com ID, acb.com ID, Simple Modular Architecture Research Tool ID, Rfam ID, NHL.com ID, EuroTour ID, databaseOlympics.com ID, Pfam ID, Smithsonian trinomial, Geographical Names Board of New South Wales ID, National Park Foundation ID, NPCA ID, U.S. National Geodetic Survey ID, peakware ID, means of locomotion, VGMDb label ID, Dagens Nyheter topic ID, Bivouac Mountain Encyclopedia ID, Luding designer ID, BoardGameGeek designer ID, Florentine Inventario Palatina art ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali building ID, Ameblo username, Catholic rite, Ringgold identifier, Gentoo package


 * Query examples:
 * Most articles about films in each Wikipedia
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20psv%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fstatement%2Fvalue%2F%3E%20SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%28GROUP_CONCAT%28DISTINCT%20%3FcounLabel%3B%20SEPARATOR%3D%22%2C%20%22%29%20AS%20%3Fcountry%29%20%28GROUP_CONCAT%28DISTINCT%20%3FhqLabel%3B%20SEPARATOR%3D%22%2C%20%22%29%20AS%20%3Fheadquarters%29%20%3Frevenue%20%3Frevenue_USD%20%3FunitLabel%20%3Fdate%20%20%0AWHERE%20{%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ4830453.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP2139%20%3Fstatement.%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20{%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP159%20%3Fhq.%20}%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20{%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fcoun.%20}%0A%20%20%3Fstatement%20wikibase%3Arank%20%3Frank.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20{%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP2139%20%3Fstatement1.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fstatement1%20wikibase%3Arank%20wikibase%3APreferredRank.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Frank%20!%3D%20wikibase%3APreferredRank%29%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Fstatement1%20!%3D%20%3Fstatement%29%0A%20%20}%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20{%20%3Fstatement%20pq%3AP585%20%3Fdate.%20}%0A%20%20{%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fstatement%20psv%3AP2139%20_%3Ab9.%0A%20%20%20%20_%3Ab9%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3Frevenue.%0A%20%20%20%20_%3Ab9%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ4917.%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28wd%3AQ4917%20AS%20%3Funit%29%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28%3Frevenue%20AS%20%3Frevenue_USD%29%0A%20%20}%0A%20%20UNION%0A%20%20{%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fstatement%20psv%3AP2139%20_%3Ab10.%0A%20%20%20%20_%3Ab10%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3Frevenue.%0A%20%20%20%20_%3Ab10%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20%3Funit.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Funit%20p%3AP2284%20%3Funit_statement.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Funit_statement%20wikibase%3Arank%20%3Funit_rank.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Funit_statement%20psv%3AP2284%20_%3Ab11.%0A%20%20%20%20_%3Ab11%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ4917.%0A%20%20%20%20_%3Ab11%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3Fusd.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20{%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Funit%20p%3AP2284%20%3Funit_statement1.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Funit_statement1%20%28psv%3AP2284%2Fwikibase%3AquantityUnit%29%20wd%3AQ4917.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Funit_statement1%20wikibase%3Arank%20wikibase%3APreferredRank.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Funit_rank%20!%3D%20wikibase%3APreferredRank%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Funit_statement1%20!%3D%20%3Funit_statement%29%0A%20%20%20%20}%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28%3Frevenue%20*%20%3Fusd%20AS%20%3Frevenue_USD%29%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Funit%20!%3D%20wd%3AQ4917%29%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Funit_rank%20!%3D%20wikibase%3ADeprecatedRank%29%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28!BOUND%28%3Funit_statement1%29%29%0A%20%20}%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20{%0A%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FitemLabel%20.%0A%20%20%3Fcoun%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FcounLabel%20.%0A%20%20%3Fhq%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FhqLabel%20.%0A%20%20%3Funit%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FunitLabel%20.%0A%20%20}%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3Frank%20!%3D%20wikibase%3ADeprecatedRank%29%0A%20%20FILTER%28!BOUND%28%3Fstatement1%29%29%0A}%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Frevenue%20%3Frevenue_USD%20%3FunitLabel%20%3Fdate%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Frevenue_USD%29%0ALIMIT%2015 Largest companies by revenue in USD]
 * Characters whose actors died recently (source)
 * Stock-listed US companies with founders who (or whose parents) were born outside the US (source)
 * Wizards from Harry Potter and their houses/groups (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Companies
 * Newest database reports: film festivals this month


 * Development
 * RDF exports will contain sitelink page names as strings in addition to the URLs (T148923)
 * Switching the remaining special pages for labels, descriptions and aliases to the OOUI design (T48248)
 * Finalizing the security review of the Cognate extension for Wiktionary (T149082)
 * We plan to provide  Open Graph tags for sharing Item pages in social networks (T51859)
 * Introducing a new test framework for special pages (T69122)
 * Refactoring the wbeditentity API to work with the new Lexeme entity type (T154288)
 * Added [//phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/EWBA/browse/master/docs/change-op-serializations.wiki docs/change-op-serializations.wiki] documenting how to use the wbeditentity API
 * Added a [//phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/EWBA/browse/master/CREDITS CREDITS] file to the Wikibase code base, listing all authors

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * 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!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

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The Signpost: 6 February 2017
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Wikidata weekly summary #246
<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;">
 * Discussions
 * We need your input about quality criteria for building a tool to evaluate item quality


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: FOSDEM
 * Upcoming: WSDM Cup 2017
 * Upcoming: WikiCite 2017, Vienna, May 23-25, 2017
 * Upcoming: A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners, by Asaf Bartov, February 9th, 19:00 UTC (livestream on Youtube)
 * Scaling the matching of Wikidata to OpenStreetMap with wikimama
 * Software product management as an internship in the Wikidata development team
 * Being a Volunteer Developer for Wikimedia projects: An Interview with Greta Doçi


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Inspire Campaign on outside knowledge networks launched
 * What would you like to talk about during Wikimania Montreal?
 * Join the Wikimania program committee!
 * OpenStreetMap uses several -related tags in its database. See also the related documentation
 * Dutch is now the most used language for descriptions on Wikidata (56,7%), leaving English (55,8%) and German (34,7%) behind.
 * An OpenRefine service for Wikidata is waiting for testing: https://tools.wmflabs.org/openrefine-wikidata/
 * WMDE looking for a data analyst to work mostly on Wikidata
 * WMF looking for a project manager to work on structured data for Commons


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Saros cycle of eclipse, World Checklist of Selected Plant Families ID, Relations Ontology ID, GCD series ID, WNBA player ID, Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures ID, CricketArchive playing ground ID, UltraSignup runner ID, ITRA runner ID, Surfline ID, SunshineTour ID, Pro Football Hall of Fame ID, SIPCA code, Sina Weibo id, autologous cell line, Croatian Football Federation player ID, TLG author ID, data size, Fangraphs ID, European Handball Federation ID, ESPNcricinfo playing ground ID, ESPN MLB player ID, European Case Law Identifier, Cultureel Woordenboek identifier, OWGR ID, Legends of Hockey ID, Just Sports Stats ID, J.League Data Site ID, Global Poker Index ID, NGA Lighthouse ID, Admiralty number, pro-football-reference ID, College Football Data Warehouse ID, maximum size or capacity, USCF ID, World Curling Federation ID, World Curling Tour ID, World Guide to Covered Bridges ID, World Series of Poker ID, Zhihu topic ID


 * Query examples:
 * Places of worship south of 48°S(source)
 * Fictional items named after real items(source)


 * Development
 * You can now download query results as SVG images
 * When posting a link to an item to social networks and on messenger apps that show previews the previews will now be nicer and show an image. (T51859)
 * We published the results of our research around Commons usage: How do heavy Commons users work? ...and what does that mean for structured data on Commons?
 * Setting up test system for federation (being able to use Wikidata's items and properties on Commons)
 * Setting up test system for lexemes
 * Setting up test system for improved change dispatching (sending notifications about edits on Wikidata to Wikipedia and co)
 * Doing more groundwork for lexemes
 * Working on better integration with Elastic
 * More work on Federation
 * Getting ready to deploy automated sitelinks for Wiktionary
 * Fixing a number of keyboard navigation issues based on your feedback
 * Working on the new datatype for geoshapes (T57549)
 * Looking into linking more complicated external identifiers properly (T151329)
 * Improved the link to the help portal on the query service (T154993)

See all open tickets related to Wikidata.


 * 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!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
 * The Cebuano and Swedish wikis have a lot of bot-created content which is unconnected to other wiki articles. A good way to tackle that problem is by checking constraint violations for property GeoNames ID.

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Wikidata weekly summary #247
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 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: P171 (property "parent taxon"), changing the label of property "has role"


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Probing Parliament(s) with Wikidata, by Martin Poulter
 * Jan Dittrich and Charlie Kritschmar gave a talk at FOSDEM on finding user needs and gave some examples from their work.
 * A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners by Asaf Bartov: video and slides
 * Validating Wikidata tags on OpenStreetMap
 * Reminder: the deadline for Wikimania's scholarship is February 20 (and you can discuss about your ideas for Wikidata here)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The satisfaction survey concerning Flow has been published (and Wikidata is the community which prefers Flow the most)
 * Module Wikidata on Wikidata received an update to improve its performance. If your wiki has forked this one, consider updating it and report any problems (already reported one).
 * Experimental c:Template:Category contains for categories on Commons, including a per-category Wikidata query. See introductory discussion on Commons Village Pump. Presented together with current statistics on Commons category <-> Wikidata links
 * ContentMine looking for a Wikimedian in Residence to work on Wikidata and WikiFactMine in Cambridge
 * It is now possible to edit the Wikidata description from the Wikipedia app in some languages in beta


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: base salary, Visions of Britain place ID, Visions of Britain unit ID, DigDag ID, Sweden Nature Reserve ID, Le Monde diplomatique subject ID, Borden Code, fare zone, Recreation.gov area ID, EU VAT number, Booking.com hotel ID, BOLD Systems taxon ID, 90minut player ID, ITU triathlete ID, Minneapolis Institute of Art Constituent ID, candidacy in election, MarineTraffic Lighthouse ID, protected heritage site in Brussels ID, Archives nationales producer record, Hockey-reference player ID, F-Droid package, Danish ancient monument ID, BLF article ID, Araneae Spider ID, AFI Catalog of Feature Films ID


 * Query examples:
 * Collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK
 * Office-holders convicted of crimes (source)
 * |wdt%3AP39%29%2F%28wdt%3AP31|wdt%3AP279%29*%20wd%3AQ116%3B%20%23%20occupation%20or%20position%20held%3A%20some%20kind%20of%20monarch%0A%20wdt%3AP1399%20wd%3AQ1475448.%20%23%20convicted%20of%3A%20regicide%0A%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D Monarchs convicted of regicide (source)
 * Timeline of antipopes (source)
 * Battles etc of the U.S. Civil War, that have maps (source) -- but the results are a bit patchy.
 * Grade I listed buildings in Bedfordshire (source: Commons "category contains" template)
 * Newest external tools: new reconciliation for OpenRefine


 * Development
 * Doing a trial run of allowing search engines to index a number of ArticlePlaceholder pages on Welsh Wikipedia. If there are no major issues we will enable this for all placeholders.
 * Improving Federation-related after initial tests,
 * Getting ready to deploy automated sitelinks for Wiktionary
 * Further work on the new datatype for geoshapes (T57549)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * 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!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

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Bay Area WikiSalon invitation for February 22
Please join us in downtown San Francisco!



The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts gather at Bay Area WikiSalon to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

We allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. Free Wi-Fi is available so bring your editing devices. We will have beverages (including beer and wine) plus light snacks. Please note: You should RSVP here, and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name. This also helps us figure out how much food and drink to bring in. For further details, see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, February 2017

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