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Wikidata weekly summary #319
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events
 * Celtic Knot Conference, dedicated to Wikimedia projects and minority languages, July 5-6, in Aberystwyth (Wales). A lot of Wikidata workshops will take place during this event.


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * 4800 Welsh portraits added to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata, blog post at the National Library of Wales by Jason Evans, National Wikimedian of Wales
 * LIPID MAPS identifiers and endocannabinoids on Wikidata, blog post by Egon Willighagen


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Change for maxlag impacts bots and semi-automated tools
 * The five-thousandth lexeme, about a interjection "jau" in Nynorsk language, has been created
 * The Commons template Wikidata infobox has now passed 1.3 million uses on Commons categories, with plenty more still to come. A new help page gives advice on how to add, extend or improve uses of it, and how to fix data problems.
 * You can discuss the right properties to describe files on Commons, to help moving on with Structured data on Commons
 * Help improving the fight against vandalism with ORES
 * Sixth birthday of Wikidata: it's time to think about what you'd like to organize in your area! There will be a phone call for organizers, and the deadline to request swag is September 7th.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: JMA Seismic Intensity Scale, permanent resident of, auxiliary verb, homograph lexeme
 * External identifiers: École normale alumnus ID, Académie des sciences d'outre-mer member ID, BIU Santé person ID, Medicina author ID, Étonnants voyageurs participant ID, Akadem person ID, GAMECIP platform ID, National Academy of Sciences member ID, EGROKN ID, Behind The Voice Actors franchise ID, archINFORM project ID, Behind The Voice Actors film ID, IGN video game ID, Behind The Voice Actors tv show ID, Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer ID, Classiques des sciences sociales author ID, Norwegian Polar Institute place name ID, Poetry Archive poet ID, cipM poet ID, Poets & Writers author ID, Canadian Encyclopedia article ID, Online Books Page publication ID, Tierstimmenarchiv ID, TDKIV term ID, GeoNLP ID, CNAP artist ID, RYM artist ID, Rendez-vous de l'histoire ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: JMA Magnitude, Coached by, Harmonized System Code, reverse lemma, reference properties, LilyPond notation, valency, section number, propdef, antonym, Central Index Key (CIK), note
 * External identifiers: Flanders Music Centre ID, Île en île ID, Fantastic Fiction ID, mhk object ID, CeBeDem ID, Ricochet ID, Common procurement vocabulary, pixiv ID, NYRB ID, The Paris Review ID, GS1 GPC brick code, Pasteur Institute ID, The Trading Card Database person ID, Legaseriea.it team ID, Deutsche Biographie person ID, Setlist FM artist ID, Setlist FM venue ID, Poetry International Web ID, EuroVoc ID, Språkrådets termwiki ID, Elysee.fr president ID, Reseñas Biográficas (Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile), abuse filter ID, Herder Encyclopedia author ID, Collège de France professor ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of the birth places of people who have had taxa named after them (source)
 * Space observatories and their namesakes (source)
 * Timeline of computer games (source)
 * List of companies owned by Disney (source)
 * Same gender spouses (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Patents
 * Newest user-scripts: d:User:Husky/ifff-viewer-link.js (shows selected parts of images, according to P2677 qualifiers - for example Q17335769.)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
 * Development
 * Working on prefilling spelling variant of new form representation (T195708)
 * Start breaking down stories in order to implement Senses
 * Finding a better solution for dewiki's Modul:Wikidata isParent (T179155)
 * Adding support for linking to a particular statement (T169224)
 * Implement property scope constraint (T197473)
 * Track maxlag for wikidata on grafana dashboard (T196868)


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

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:29, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

Hi JarrahTree
Thank you!

This Month in GLAM: June 2018
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Wikidata weekly summary #320
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Help:Modelling


 * Events
 * Past: Celtic Knot Conference, including a Wikidata track, 5-6 July, Aberystwyth (Wales)
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Lab: Structured narratives in Wikipedia, São Paulo, August 9th


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Ewan McAndrew publishes case study for teaching data science with Wikidata: see the case study on Commons
 * "Wikidata and GLAM catalogues: a round-up" by Martin Poulter


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Structured Data on Commons: There is a workshop on Commons to identify properties that files will need for statements. You are invited to participate.
 * Querying Wikidata with SPARQL for Absolute Beginners, a new video tutorial by Asaf Bartov
 * Items now contain an average of 10 statements.
 * For the first time Wikidata has less than 2 million empty items.
 * Input for Creation of separate user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS is being sought.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: Romanization of Belarusian (2007 system), has decorative pattern, floor number, Han character in this lexeme, Japanese pitch accent type, position of accent nucleus, position of devoiced vowel, number of viewers/listeners, signum, research measurement, model year, reference value, lower limit, upper limit
 * External identifiers: mhk object ID, Fantastic Fiction author ID, Île en île author ID, Flanders Music Centre person ID, CeBeDem composer ID, Ricochet author ID, The Paris Review interviewee ID, Whonamedit? doctor ID, Common procurement vocabulary, Pasteur Institute person ID, NYRB contributor ID, GS1 Global Product Classification brick code, The Trading Card Database person ID, Lega Serie A team ID, IPTC Newscode, Poetry International Web poet ID, Setlist FM artist ID, Setlist FM venue ID, Gfycat user ID, pixiv ID, EuroVoc ID, Elysee.fr president ID, Herder Encyclopedia author ID, Biographical Articles of the Library of Congress of Chile, Collège de France professor ID, Language Council of Norways termwiki ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: confers, Narrative role, CJKV variant character, synonym, derived from form, station category, Number of twitter follower, mentioned in work, model year code, peninsula of location, position of nasal sonant, number of people depicted, artist-info artist ID, artist-info curator ID, artist-info location ID, Mormon Literature and Creative Arts Database, The Reptile Database
 * External identifiers: Logicielsmoto identifier, House of Representatives Morocco ID, BIA PSY ID, My Heritage Surname ID, identifiant Inventaire des sanctuaires français, USNPL ID, Guide to Pharmacology Target ID, Historia de la Medicina ID, TasteAtlas ID, GlyphWiki ID, AE member ID, Conseil constitutionnel ID, French Academy in Rome ID, RHE doctor ID, Scottish Poetry Library ID, RHE professor ID, SBN books ID, Australian Poetry Library ID, A Church Near You church ID


 * Deleted properties: GHS hazard statement (P728) + GHS precautionary statements (P940), spectral line (P2224)
 * Query examples:
 * Map of places in the UK starting with "Llan" (source)
 * Number and percentage of articles about female scientists for all Wikipedias (compared to all articles about scientists) (source)
 * Statements disputed by their subject (source)
 * Emulators and what they emulate (source)
 * Map of items near me that have a label in English but not in Welsh (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Categories
 * Newest tools: TopicMatcher, by MagnusManske, looks for items related to topics


 * Development
 * Making progress towards being able to query for constraint violations in the query service
 * Included the dispatch lag in the maxlag parameter to give better feedback to tools and bots if they can edit at the moment (T194950)
 * Added support for linking to a particular statement (not just a statement group) (T169224)
 * Set up L as an alias for the Lexeme namespace (T195493)
 * Worked on making lexical category, language and grammatical feature show up on WhatLinksHere (T195302)
 * Worked on Persistent IDs for Senses (T198033)
 * Improve placeholder text for Lexeme language and lexical category field on Special:NewLexeme (T195439)
 * Show description on the item selector on Special:NewLexeme (T165597)
 * Add "mis" language code to the list of language code options on Special:NewLexeme (T194771)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


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

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 08:36, 10 July 2018 (UTC)

sigh
= Dashboard ==

How do I find the dashboard. (WikiHow?)

(I’m sure you know this:) I found the list of my edits: under the “contributions” tab. I didn’t have to search for it when I was just an IP address.

Any advice on how to get info from knowledgeable people? I’ve got a few Qs on Talk pages (for articles) that are over a month old: I thought they’d be answered in less than 2 days. MBG02 (talk) 03:57, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #322
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Lakokat


 * Events
 * Call for proposals and scholarship applications are now open for WikiConference North America
 * Past: Wikimania and Hackathon 2018, in Cape Town, South Africa, 18-22 July. See also the page listing the Wikidata-related events. The slides are usually listed from the talk's page on Wikimania wiki.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * You can help teaching ORES how to better detect vandalism
 * HarvestTemplates is now compatible with EditGroups: you can easily revert any run that goes wrong (even if it is not your own).


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: Harmonized System Code, section number, CJKV variant character, ultimate tensile strength, Young's modulus, position of nasal sonant, LilyPond notation, hardness, accreditation
 * External identifiers: A Church Near You church ID, Australian Poetry Library poet ID, French Academy in Rome resident ID, GlyphWiki ID, Historia de la Medicina person ID, Mormon Literature and Creative Arts Database Artist ID, Scottish Poetry Library poet ID, The Reptile Database ID, Legabasket.it player ID, Les Voix de la poésie poet ID, RPO poet ID, SBN books ID, artist-info curator ID, artist-info artist ID, artist-info location ID, BD Gest' author ID, EDIT16 catalogue author ID, EDIT16 catalogue printer ID, GameSpot ID, Mormon Literature and Creative Arts Database Works ID, Médicos históricos doctor ID, Doroszewski Online ID, Base de datos de premiados person ID, Boijmans work ID, IPHAN ID, Brenda Tissue Ontology ID, LRB contributor ID, Poetry Society of America poet ID, RISM work ID, WorldCat Registry ID, Poetry In Voice poet ID, artist-info exhibition ID, archINFORM person or group ID, MAPS poet ID, DEFA film database ID, identifier for an item of Enciclopèdia de l'Esport Català, Znicenekostely ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Moisture absorption, date of release, Ideographic description sequences, Cangjie input, four-corner method, Hangul, Eumhun, Jyutping, Pe̍h-ōe-jī, Pha̍k-fa-sṳ, Bàng-uâ-cê, Kienning Colloquial Romanized, Guangdong Hakka Romanization, Sichuanese Pinyin, Peng'im, Unusually granulated item, Wine color, IANA service name, Toughness, upregulated by, Elongation at break, relative date properties, Prison History ID, CONDEPHAAT ID, copyright status, city that hosted Wikimania, Vietnamese pronunciation, Work hardening strain, Heat treating, EDb company ID, Water absorption, Schematic, passive voice, Normalized Unicode character, Enciclovida ID, Relative humidity, Poisson's ratio, Microstructure, key strength, Weakness
 * External identifiers: identifiant de l'Inventaire de la Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, 東京文化財研究所物故者識別拡張子, IDs from alternativa teatral, Virtual Laboratory ID, Academia Brasileira de Letras ID, Swedish Parish place names register, oric.org identifier, Kopaliński Online ID, Altmetric ID, Open Media Database person ID, Python Package Index project, CPAN project, RubyGems gem, CRAN project, L'île ID, National Road DataBase ID, Literature Ireland ID, Auteurs en Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes ID, Eulalie ID, Livre et lecture en Bretagne ID, RedTube ID, CICLIC ID, Interbibly ID, Le Monde ID, Courrier international ID, Courrier international source ID, Tebeosfera ID, Baidu ScholarID, College de France professor ID (1909-1939), Paris Faculty of Science professor ID, Paris Faculty of Arts professor ID (1809-1909), Paris Faculty of Arts professor ID (1909-1939), KLEKs building ID, Nobel Prize in Literature ID, Pacific Coast Architecture Database ID


 * Query examples:
 * Fictional characters married to their siblings (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23Translations%20of%20the%20Disease%20Ontology%20term%20DOID%3A399%20%28Tuberculosis%29%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fdisease%20%3FdiseaseLabel%20%3Fdoid%20%28GROUP_CONCAT%28%3Flanguage%29%20as%20%3FsaTranslations%20%29%20%28COUNT%28%3Flanguage%29%20as%20%3Fcounts%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%0A%20%20%23%20VALUES%20%3Fdisease%20%7Bwd%3AQ79793%7D%20%23change%20this%20for%20another%20disease%0A%20%20VALUES%20%3Fcountry%20%7Bwd%3AQ258%7D%20%23change%20this%20to%20get%20the%20offical%20language%20of%20another%20country%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Get%20the%20official%20language%20of%20South%20Africa%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fcountry%20wdt%3AP37%20%3FwdLanguage%20.%0A%20%20%09%3FwdLanguage%20wdt%3AP424%20%3FlanguageCode%3B%0A%09%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Flanguage%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%09FILTER%20%28LANG%28%3Flanguage%29%3D%3FlanguageCode%29%0A%20%20%20FILTER%20EXISTS%20%7B%3FwdLanguage%20wdt%3AP31%3F%2Fwdt%3AP279%2B%20wd%3AQ17376908%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%20%23%20get%20the%20item%20that%20has%20a%20Disease%20Ontology%20ID%0A%20%20%20%3Fdisease%09%20wdt%3AP699%20%3Fdoid%3B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FEnglish%20.%0A%20%20%09FILTER%20%28LANG%28%3FEnglish%29%3D%22en%22%29%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%20%23%20To%20extract%20non%20existing%20translation%20you%20need%20to%20make%20the%20language%20optional%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fdisease%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Flabel%20.%0A%09BIND%28LANG%28%3Flabel%29%20as%20%3FlanguageCode%29%20%0A%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%20%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fdisease%20%3FdiseaseLabel%20%3Fdoid%20%3FsaTranslations%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fcounts%29 Translations of disease names in South-African languages] (source)
 * All Wikidata properties (which are not identifiers) without a label in Afrikaans (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23Liste%20des%20personnes%20%28connues%20de%20Wikidata%29%20n%C3%A9es%20ou%20mortes%20dans%20le%20Canton%20de%20Vaud%20%28Suisse%29%20avec%20leurs%20occupations%20et%20l%27institution%20o%C3%B9%20sont%20d%C3%A9pos%C3%A9es%20leurs%20archives%0ASELECT%20%3Fhumain%20%3FhumainLabel%20%3FlieuNaissanceLabel%20%3FlieuMortLabel%20%3Focc%20%3Farchive_at%0AWITH%20%7B%20SELECT%20%3Fhumain%20%28group_concat%28distinct%20%3FoccupLabel%3Bseparator%3D%22%2C%20%22%29%20as%20%3Focc%29%20%28group_concat%28distinct%20%3FarchiveLabel%3Bseparator%3D%22%2C%20%22%29%20as%20%3Farchive_at%29%20WHERE%20%0A%7B%0A%20%20%3Fhumain%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fhumain%20wdt%3AP106%20%3Foccup.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Foccup%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FoccupLabel.%20filter%28lang%28%3FoccupLabel%29%3D%22fr%22%29%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fhumain%20wdt%3AP485%20%3Farchive.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farchive%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FarchiveLabel.%20filter%28lang%28%3FarchiveLabel%29%3D%22fr%22%29%7D%0A%20%20%7B%3Fhumain%20wdt%3AP19%20%3FlieuNaissance.%0A%20%20%3FlieuNaissance%20wdt%3AP131%20wd%3AQ12771.%7D%0A%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%7B%3Fhumain%20wdt%3AP20%20%3FlieuMort.%0A%20%20%3FlieuMort%20wdt%3AP131%20wd%3AQ12771.%7D%0A%20%20%7D%20group%20by%20%3Fhumain%20%20%7D%20as%20%25i%0AWHERE%20%7Binclude%20%25i%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fhumain%20wdt%3AP19%20%3FlieuNaissance.%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fhumain%20wdt%3AP20%20%3FlieuMort.%7D%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cfr%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20%3FhumainLabel List of people born or dead in Canton de Vaud (Switzerland), with archives where their documents are stored] (source)
 * Timeline of serial killers (source)
 * Map of disasters, color-coded by disaster type (source)


 * Development
 * More work on showing Lexemes and Forms in Special:WhatLinksHere (T195302)
 * Fix wrong translations of Form related strings (T191614)
 * Fix error message for non empty item (T194371)
 * More work on storing Senses (T198032)
 * More work on easy Wikibase Docker instance config generation (T198841)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


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

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 09:09, 25 July 2018 (UTC)

Dump months tag
As much as I am proud of that article and wish it could stay tag-free, I can't help but admit you had a point with this.

The thoughts did occur to me while I was researching the article originally that a) other countries' movie release calendars might have different annual rhythms for reasons specific to those countries and their cultures, and b) the North American calendar might thus have effects on other countries' release calendars.

I tried to look for some information on those questions, but not really hard, and anyway there was a lot of research to do just to get the article to the level it's at now (My hope is to eventually nominate it for FA, and if approved to have it run on the first Friday in January). Do you know of anywhere I might find something I could put in the article? Or start to look? Daniel Case (talk) 22:54, 26 July 2018 (UTC)
 * While I do think changing the wording in the intro would probably be the best solution, believe it or not I did find one source so far, an LA Times article, that discusses the Chinese release calendar and how it is affected by holidays there. The bit about how Avatar did surprisingly well during China's New Year period at the beginning of the year seems like something we could include. Daniel Case (talk) 05:08, 27 July 2018 (UTC)
 * So how does it look now? Daniel Case (talk) 20:48, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

Portals WikiProject update #014, 27 July 2018
Development of design continues, full speed ahead...

Excerpt slideshows are here!
Can you say "paradigm shift"?

Now, in addition to picture slideshows, we have slideshows that can display excerpts. Portals are not just for topic tasting anymore. Now they can be made useful for surveying Wikipedia's coverage of entire subjects. This gives a deeper meaning to their name. Hmmm. "Portals"... Doorways to knowledge.

Portal:Lithuania was redesigned using excerpt slideshows. Check it out.

For those of you who cannot wait to test out these new toys...

We have not one, but three excerpt slideshow components to pick from:

Transclude excerpts as random slideshow


 * For this one, you specify the page names where the excerpts are to be extracted from.

Transclude list item excerpts as random slideshow


 * This one accepts source pages from where the page names are gathered from list items. Then an excerpt from one of those pages is displayed. The selection of what is included in the slide show can be limited to a specific number from the collection (of the page names gathered), and that selection is renewed from scratch each time the page is purged.


 * For example, if you specify Template:World Heritage Sites in Spain as a source page, the slideshow will cycle through those sites. Now you don't have to type them in one-by-one. This greatly reduces portal creation time.

Transclude linked excerpts as random slideshow


 * Same as above, but gathers links instead of just linked list items.

Panoramic banners
Portal image banner displays a panoramic picture the width of the page, and adjusts its size, so it stays that way even if the user changes page view size. And it accepts multiple file names, so that the picture displayed randomizes between them each time the page is visited/purged.

Give resizing the page a try:

Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania.

You can now balance section boxes
Before:

After:

Notice how the box bottoms line up. That readjusts even if you click the slideshow buttons.

The template used for this is Flex columns.

By the way, when you include more than one box in a column, any left over whitespace in that column is divided between them.

Box-header colour
You may have noticed the new Box-header colour template used above. It lets you pick the color locally (right on the same page). Before, this was handled on a subpage somewhere.

Testing, testing
Now that we have lots of toys to play with for making cool portals...

Don't forget, that the majority of views of Wikipedia these days are from mobile devices. We need to make certain that portals display well on those. So, remember to check your work on portals in mobile view mode...

To see a portal in mobile view mode, insert a ".m" into a portal's url, after "en", like this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Reptile

If you discover problems in a portal you can't fix, report them on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Design.

Until next time...
Have fun. &mdash; The Transhumanist  00:24, 27 July 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018
Hello, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

Overall the June backlog drive was a success, reducing the last 3,000 or so to below 500. However, as expected, 90% of the patrolling was done by less than 10% of reviewers. Since the drive closed, the backlog has begun to rise sharply again and is back up to nearly 1,400 already. Please help reduce this total and keep it from raising further by reviewing some articles each day.
 * June backlog drive


 * New technology, new rules
 * New features are shortly going to be added to the Special:NewPagesFeed which include a list of drafts for review, OTRS flags for COPYVIO, and more granular filter preferences. More details can be found at this page.
 * Probationary permissions: Now that PERM has been configured to allow expiry dates to all minor user rights, new NPR flag holders may sometimes be limited in the first instance to 6 months during which their work will be assessed for both quality and quantity of their reviews. This will allow admins to accord the right in borderline cases rather than make a flat out rejection.
 * Current reviewers who have had the flag for longer than 6 months but have not used the permissions since they were granted will have the flag removed, but may still request to have it granted again in the future, subject to the same probationary period, if they wish to become an active reviewer.


 * Editathons
 * Editathons will continue through August. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the 'move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.

Go here to remove your name if you wish to opt-out of future mailings. —  Insertcleverphrasehere (or here)  00:00, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
 * The Signpost
 * The next issue of the monthly magazine will be out soon. The newspaper is an excellent way to stay up to date with news and new developments between our newsletters. If you have special messages to be published, or if you would like to submit an article (one about NPR perhaps?), don't hesitate to contact the editorial team here.

Wikidata weekly summary #323
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Closed request for comments: Help:Modelling


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Ce que révèlent les noms des rues de Paris (fr): a study about the names of the streets of Paris, using data from OSM and Wikidata


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * EditGroups can now revert batches which created items. These items are deleted in the revert batch. This feature is only available to administrators but other users can easily request revert from the tool.
 * populationWDvsOSM: a new script that compares the population in OSM place nodes and boundary relations with Wikidata
 * user:Lakokat is back to adminship, congratulations!
 * Terminator, a tool by Magnus Manske that finds Wikidata items that lack a label, description, or article in a specific language, has now a version 2 (blog post)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: four-corner method, Cangjie input, toughness, Unicode block, fanqie, horizontal depth, valency, yield strength, Hangul of a Chinese character
 * External identifiers: Virtual Laboratory person ID, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regional Inventory identifier, CONDEPHAAT ID, Academia Brasileira de Letras ID, Belgian Heritage in Brazil ID, Altmetric ID, Central Index Key, L'île author ID, Kopaliński Online ID, Open Media Database person ID, Prison History ID, Swedish place name register SOFI


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: toponym, Bpk-Identifikator, number of arrests, Multi-channel network, Coefficient of friction, expiration date, number of persons depicted, located in the ecclesiastical territorial entity, surface roughness, environment, force, atomic mass, fatigue limit, Pitting resistance equivalent number, casting director, touringclub.it destinazione, organizational unit id
 * External identifiers: INEPAC ID, La Vie des idées ID, IDIH ID, CNRS ID, Institut culturel de Bretagne ID, CSDE Lynching Database ID, Tebeosfera character ID, QS World University URL, MUSE journal ID, Times Higher Education World University ID, iNaturalist observation ID, Indian census area code (2011), archINFORM ID (Orte), code Transport Canada, Lyrically artist ID, Flight Report Airline ID, NooSFere author ID, NooSFere book ID, PRELIB ID


 * Query examples:
 * Ancient Greek pottery items stored in Museum St-Raymond, France (source)
 * Timeline of early aviators who died in an accident (source)
 * Timeline of direct-to-video sequels of theatrical movies (source)
 * Music albums from Argentina (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: iNaturalist
 * Newest database reports: list of lexemes, number of lexemes by languages and lexical categories


 * Development
 * Corrected several translation errors on Lexeme page (confusing Form word) (T191614)
 * Working on merging of Lexemes (T198105)
 * Working on adding a better HTML title to Lexeme pages (T195386)
 * Further work on supporting Senses on Lexemes - specifically persistent IDs for Senses and preventing the deletion of the last Gloss of a Sense (T198032, T198199)
 * Adjusted colors of the Query Service UI to be more in line with Wikimedia style guide (T192235, Thanks abian!)
 * Fixed validation of input length on Special:NewItem (T145932)
 * Fixed issue with embedded view of query results (T200409)
 * Fixed change dispatching issues (T200420)
 * Investigated issue where some parts of the interface were shown in a different language than they should be (T199983)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


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

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Wikidata weekly summary #324
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Bovlb
 * Closed request for comments: Association Football Matches


 * Events
 * Past: State of the Map, the OpenStreetMap equivalent of Wikimania, was held in Milan from 28-30 July. There were two meetups on interactions between Wikimedia and OSM, and Wikidata was mentioned in several sessions, including:
 * OpenStreetMap and Wikimedia:A Quick overview
 * Maps based on Wikidata queries
 * Wikimedia in disaster management and humanitarian aid: an overview
 * Incoming: Wikidata workshop in Harvard University, MA, USA, on August 8th


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Machine-Generated Knowledge Bases - harvesting tuples from news and scholarly corpora and releasing them as open data
 * Wired story on the above


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikibase quality constraints are now loaded into the Query Service and can be queried. Queries on property talk pages have been adapted.
 * Wikidata Toolkit 0.9 has been released
 * A list of Wikidata-related activities for coursework has been started at d:Wikidata:Wikidata curricula/Activities
 * We know have more than 10,000 Lexemes in Wikidata
 * A challenge about months of the year is running, you can create Lexemes with the ones in your language


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: derived from form, schematic, passive voice, registration district, expressed in, coefficient of friction, number of arrests, invasive to, microstructure, normalized Unicode character, number of works accessible online, Poisson's ratio, moisture absorption, number of platform faces, relative humidity
 * External identifiers: Auteurs en Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes ID, Eulalie ID, RedTube ID, Paris Faculty of Science professor ID, Literature Ireland ID, Livre et lecture en Bretagne ID, Paris Faculty of Letters professor ID (1909-1939), Paris Faculty of Letters professor ID (1809-1908), College de France professor ID (1909-1939), CICLIC author ID, INEPAC ID, La Vie des idées ID, Courrier international topic ID, CNRS ID, IDIH ID, Courrier international source ID, KLEKs ID, Interbibly author ID, Le Monde ID, MUSE journal ID, Institut culturel de Bretagne ID, Tebeosfera ID, CSDE Lynching Database ID, CRAN project, RubyGems gem, National Research Institute for Cultural Properties dead artist ID, Python Package Index project, Tebeosfera character ID, NooSFere author ID, NooSFere book ID, archINFORM ID (locations), CAGE code, EDb company ID, Indian census area code (2011), flight-report.com Airline identifier, Norwegian National Road DataBase ID, NATO Stock Number, QS World University ID, SMS Power identifier, Times Higher Education World University ID, Libris-URI, oric.org identifier, Artcyclopedia artist ID, Places of Worship Inventory ID, P5599


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: value is inherited from, Guss, Countries with high prevalence, chieseitaliane ID, legal status, Match Score, topic's subcategory, Covered by, Alexander–Briggs notation
 * External identifiers: U-Multirank University ID, Trove newspaper ID, Belvedere object ID, Aosdána ID, Chercheurs d'Asie ID, Evene ID, OpenMath ID, GLAMOS ID, Swimsuit ID, archINFORM ID (Schlagwörter), CMI ID, Featured Biographies ID, CNT ID, Comédie-Française ID, DOLF ID, Marvel character ID, FFF character ID, FFF author ID, National Cartoonists Society ID, Number World ID, legabasket.it coach ID, Black Ferns ID, WSO Online ID, IEEE standard, ITU-T Recommendation, ITU-R Recommendation, LOA ID, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade ID, Global Invasive Species Database ID, iTunes music video ID


 * Query examples:
 * minerals named after women (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20which%20genres%20are%20more%20likely%20to%20be%20in%20major%20key%2C%20which%20in%20minor%20key%2C%20which%20are%20about%20equally%20distributed%3F%0A%23%20note%3A%20some%20tonalities%20are%20neither%20major%20nor%20minor%2C%20e.%E2%80%AFg.%20Q211745%20atonality%0ASELECT%20%3Fgenre%20%3FgenreLabel%20%3Ftotal%20%3Fmajor%20%3Fminor%20%28%3Fmajor%20%2F%20%3Ftotal%20AS%20%3FmajorRatio%29%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Ftonality%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%5B%5D%20wdt%3AP826%20%3Ftonality.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25tonalities%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Ftonality%20%3FisMajor%20%3FisMinor%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25tonalities.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Ftonality%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FtonalityLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FtonalityLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20TODO%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fwiki%2FWikidata_talk%3AWikiProject_Music%23Items_for_major_and_minor_keys%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28STRENDS%28%3FtonalityLabel%2C%20%22%20major%22%29%20AS%20%3FisMajor%29%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28STRENDS%28%3FtonalityLabel%2C%20%22%20minor%22%29%20AS%20%3FisMinor%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25tonalitiesWithMode%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fgenre%20%3Ftonality%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fcomposition%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fcomposition%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ207628%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP136%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20%3Fgenre%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP826%20%3Ftonality.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fgenre%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ188451.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fgenre%20%3Ftonality%0A%7D%20AS%20%25genresAndTonalities%20WITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fgenre%20%28SUM%28%3Fcount%29%20AS%20%3Ftotal%29%20%28SUM%28IF%28%3FisMajor%2C%20%3Fcount%2C%200%29%29%20AS%20%3Fmajor%29%20%28SUM%28IF%28%3FisMinor%2C%20%3Fcount%2C%200%29%29%20AS%20%3Fminor%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25genresAndTonalities.%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25tonalitiesWithMode.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fgenre%0A%7D%20AS%20%25results%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25results.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Ftotal%29%20DESC%28%3Fmajor%29 Frequency of major and minor key tonalities per genre] (source)
 * Timeline of Writing Systems (source)
 * Nonprofit organizations and the software they develop (source)
 * Map of newspapers in Oregon (source)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
 * Development
 * Allow to show incoming links on the graph explorer dialog on WDQS (T197778)
 * Fulltext search for Lexemes and Forms (only in Lexeme namespace) has been merged (T196188)
 * We are now collecting click data when completion search on Wikidata is used (T196186) which would serve us to improve search relevancy
 * Fix a lot of issues with our test system (T200693)
 * Disallow merging of items that link to each other in references and qualifiers (T119614)
 * More work on merging Lexemes (T200884)
 * Provide useful HTML title for Lexemes (T195386)
 * Improve the validation and error message when a label, description or alias is too long (T145932, T200780)
 * Expose constraint violations to WDQS (T192567)
 * Add the possibility to download result of a query from the embed mode (T176797)
 * Get persistent editing of Senses done (T196270) (you can try it now on the beta system)
 * Work on edit summary of Senses (T196290)
 * Work on diffs of Senses (T196289)

<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; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:33, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

Tell me
Num1. I’m still wondering what you meant by “go into your dashboard”.

Num2. I’m staggered by the vandalism: I’m sure what I’ve seen is only a drop in the ocean; but gosh! I’m waiting to see if a pagewatcher is going to revert something - but my Q for you is; He (weirdly) added 1 letter (to make a typo) in a Talk item, by a person who has no other entries (on Wiki) and probably hasn’t logged on for over a year. What happens?

Do you want me to read a treatise on editing rules/ policy? MBG02 (talk) 07:20, 8 August 2018 (UTC)