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Wikidata weekly summary #272
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Wikimania hackathon and documentation sprint, August 9-10, Montreal
 * Upcoming: Wikimania, August 10-13, Montreal. Check out all the things related to Wikidata
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in French, August 14, Montreal


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


 * Did you know?


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


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


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

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


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

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:34, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #273
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Restrict merging rights to autoconfirmed users
 * Change "Nearby" link to list items nearby the item?
 * New request for comments: P31 or P279 for geo-objects


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Wikifying Westminster: Wikidata workshop around UK political data, August 19th, London
 * Past: Wikimania, Wikimedia hackathon. A lot of things happened during these events, reports and news should be published in the next days.
 * Exploring the world with Wikidata and OpenStreetMap, by Mapbox
 * Enriching catalogue pages in Evergreen with Wikidata by Dan Scott
 * Why data partners should link their vocabulary to Wikidata: a new case study on Europeana blog


 * Wikimania
 * You can try the demo system for lexicographical data
 * Talk: Structured Commons: what changes are coming? by Sandra Fauconnier
 * Talk: New Frontier: Using Wikidata on Commons by Jarekt
 * List of wishes during the "Wikidata pink pony session"
 * Talk: the (Wiki)data (R)evolution, by Lydia Pintscher
 * Talk: Wikidata and performing arts by Beat Estermann during Wikimania
 * Talk: How to use Wikidata in infoboxes (panel)
 * New template: A fully automated template system was presented: Oh!WTFs
 * Talk: WikiCite: Citations needed for the sum of all human knowledge
 * Notes about the Wikispecies & Wikidata session
 * Documents to organize a Wikidata translathon: level 1, level 2, level 3 (by Kvardek_du) and the translathon tool (by Envel)
 * Talk: Sum of all paintings is just the start, by Multichill


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Share your feedback on the draft strategic direction, a basis on which strategic plans will be built.
 * Wikidata reached Q36000000. The number of items has been increased by 20% in less than three months


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: YCBA agent ID, IEDB Epitope ID, Dagens Næringsliv topic ID, Georgian National Register of Monuments ID, CODECS ID, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum ID, magnification, AUR package, Michelin Voyages ID, Michelin Restaurants ID, WeRelate person ID, autores.ar id, MEG ID, Czech Registration ID, separator, National Forest Foundation ID


 * Query examples:
 * Most-depicted musical instruments (source)
 * People who died in 2017 without a French label (source)
 * Moar goats (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Goats, WikiProject Torture
 * Newest external tools: WD edits stats counting edits mades on a certain dataset between two dates

Most of the team was at Wikimania, talking to people, getting meaningful input from the editors, giving talks, hacking around :)
 * Development

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


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

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:07, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #274
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Open Source Ladies, meetup for women who want to start coding for Mediawiki and other open source projects, August 22nd, Berlin
 * Data Partnerships in Wikidata: Project Durchblick with Humboldt University by Jens Ohlig (in German)
 * What do Wikidata and Wikipedia have in common? An analysis of their use of external references by Alessandro Piscoppo et al.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New documentation page: How to use Wikidata data on Wikimedia projects (feel free to help improving it)
 * The growth of items continues: we have Q37000000 and even Q37500000; Scientific article (Q13442814) becomes the most used Wikidata item (source)
 * More than 80K locations in Belgium added to Mix'n'Match


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: World Heritage Tentative List ID, eParks unit ID


 * Query examples:
 * Surnames, similar to Muller, according to Cologne phonetics, Caverphone and Soundex algorithms
 * Shortest streets in Moscow
 * A timeline of theologians with a connection to Berlin (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3ATimeline%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Ft%20%3FppLabel%20%3FvalueLabel%20%3FrrLabel%20%20%3Fimage%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20%7Bwd%3AQ9711%20%3Fprop%20%3Ft%20FILTER%20%28datatype%28%3Ft%29%3Dxsd%3AdateTime%29%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fvalue%20wikibase%3AdirectClaim%20%3Fprop.%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20wd%3AQ9711%20%3Fq%20%3Fstatement%20%20FILTER%20regex%20%28STR%28%3Fq%29%2C%22prop%2FP%22%29%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fstatement%20%3Fp%20%3Ft%20FILTER%20regex%20%28STR%28%3Fp%29%2C%20%22prop%2Fqualifier%2FP%22%29%20FILTER%20%28datatype%28%3Ft%29%3Dxsd%3AdateTime%29%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fstatement%20%3Fr%20%3Fvalue%20FILTER%20regex%20%28STR%28%3Fr%29%2C%22prop%2Fstatement%2F%22%29%20.%0A%20%20%20BIND%28IRI%28CONCAT%28CONCAT%28SUBSTR%28STR%28%3Fr%29%2C1%2C29%29%2C%22direct%2F%22%29%2CSUBSTR%28STR%28%3Fr%29%2C40%29%29%29%20as%20%3Frprop%29%20%20%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20wikibase%3AdirectClaim%20%3Frprop%20.%20%20%0A%20%20%20BIND%28IRI%28CONCAT%28CONCAT%28SUBSTR%28STR%28%3Fp%29%2C1%2C29%29%2C%22direct%2F%22%29%2CSUBSTR%28STR%28%3Fp%29%2C40%29%29%29%20as%20%3Fpprop%29%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fpp%20%20wikibase%3AdirectClaim%20%3Fpprop%20.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fvalue%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20wd%3AQ9711%20wdt%3AP800%20%3Fvalue%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fvalue%20%3Fprop%20%3Ft%20FILTER%20%28datatype%28%3Ft%29%3Dxsd%3AdateTime%29%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20wikibase%3AdirectClaim%20wdt%3AP800%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fpp%20wikibase%3AdirectClaim%20%3Fprop.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fvalue%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3Ft Timeline of the life of Honoré de Balzac] (source)
 * Twin cities of places in South Africa (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20UK%20parliaments%20with%20count%20of%20Johns%20and%20count%20of%20women%0A%23defaultView%3ALineChart%0ASELECT%20%3Fdate%20%3Fcount%20%3Flabel%20WITH%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20all%20MPs%20with%20their%20associated%20parliament%0A%20%20SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fmp%20%3Fparliament%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fmp%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5.%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20new%20data%20model%3A%20position%20held%20%E2%80%93%20Member%20of%20the%20nth%20Parliament%20of%20the%20United%20Kingdom%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fmp%20p%3AP39%2Fps%3AP39%20%3Fposition.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fposition%20wdt%3AP279%20wd%3AQ16707842%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP279%2Fpq%3AP2937%7Cwdt%3AP2937%20%3Fparliament.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20old%20data%20model%3A%20member%20of%20%E2%80%93%20nth%20Parliament%20of%20the%20United%20Kingdom%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fmp%20p%3AP463%2Fps%3AP463%20%3Fparliament.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fparliament%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ21094819.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25MPsWithParliament%20WITH%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20count%20of%20Johns%20in%20each%20parliament%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fparliament%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fmp%29%20AS%20%3Fjohns%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25MPsWithParliament.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fmp%20wdt%3AP735%20wd%3AQ4925477.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fparliament%0A%7D%20AS%20%25johns%20WITH%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20count%20of%20women%20in%20each%20parliament%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fparliament%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fmp%29%20AS%20%3Fwomen%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25MPsWithParliament.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fmp%20wdt%3AP21%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ6581072.%20%23%20%28P279%2a%3A%20include%20transgender%20females%20%E2%80%93%20non%20yet%2C%20but%20will%20probably%20happen%20in%20the%20future%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fparliament%0A%7D%20AS%20%25women%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20get%20%3Fjohns%20and%20%3Fwomen%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25johns.%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25women.%0A%20%20%23%20fan%20out%20single%20result%0A%20%20%23%20%3Fparliament%20%3Fjohns%20%3Fwomen%0A%20%20%23%20into%20two%20results%0A%20%20%23%20%3Fparliament%20%22Johns%22%20%3Fjohns%0A%20%20%23%20%3Fparliament%20%22women%22%20%3Fwomen%0A%20%20%23%20so%20the%20line%20chart%20works%0A%20%20VALUES%20%3Flabel%20%7B%20%22Johns%22%40en%20%22women%22%40en%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND%28IF%28%3Flabel%20%3D%20%22Johns%22%40en%2C%20%3Fjohns%2C%20%3Fwomen%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%0A%20%20%23%20get%20parliament%20date%20for%20the%20chart%0A%20%20%3Fparliament%20wdt%3AP571%7Cwdt%3AP580%20%3Fdate.%0A%20%20%23%20add%20labels%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3Fdate 51st UK parliament (1992) was the first one with more women than Johns] (source)
 * All places that are named "earth" in at least one language (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Parliaments


 * Development
 * Working on making constraints work on qualifiers and references (T168532)
 * Working on making it easier to see when input in property or value fields is not recognized/wrong (T170531)
 * Added new language codes (eya, fuf, ood, pjt, yap, zun) for use in monolingual text values
 * Fixed an issue with badges not being shown next to interwiki links on Wikipedia and co (T172592)
 * Worked on showing labels when linking to a redirect (T96553)
 * Worked on making change dispatching to Wikipedia and co work better so changes made on Wikidata show up there in a reasonable time. There were issues because of significantly increased edit activity on Wikidata.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


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

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:57, 21 August 2017 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer Newsletter
Hello, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Backlog update: Technology update: General project update: If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, go here. TonyBallioni (talk) 20:33, 24 August 2017 (UTC)
 * The new page backlog is currently at 16,991 pages. We have worked hard to decrease from over 22,000, but more hard work is needed! Please consider reviewing even just a few pages a a day.
 * has created a NPP browser in WMF Labs that allows you to search new unreviewed pages using keywords and categories.
 * The Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech team is working with the community to implement the autoconfirmed article creation trial. The trial is currently set to start on 7 September 2017, pending final approval of the technical features.
 * Please remember to focus on the quality of review: correct tagging of articles and not tagbombing are important. Searching for potential copyright violations is also important, and it can be aided by Earwig's Copyvio Detector, which can be added to your toolbar for ease of use with this user script.
 * To keep up with the latest conversation on New Pages Patrol or to ask questions, you can go to Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers and add it to your watchlist.

Wikidata weekly summary #275
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: علاء
 * New request for comments: How to capture negative results in Wikidata?
 * Comment about approach on items about pages in cebwiki created by Lsjbot
 * Comment about whether to have a "Wikimedia username" property


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: WikiArabia, in Cairo, Egypt, on 23-25 October. They're looking for a volunteer to give a Wikidata workshop. Please contact them if you're interested!
 * A Glimpse into Babel: An Analysis of Multilinguality in Wikidata, by Lucie-Aimée Kaffee et al. (Q37859976)
 * The Gene Wiki: Using Wikipedia and Wikidata to organize biomedical knowledge August Wikimedia Research Showcase (second half), presented by Andrew Su, about how GeneWiki is using Wikidata. Video on YouTube
 * Citation.js: Endpoint on RunKit shows a demo REST API to convert Wikidata entries into BibTeX, Bib.TXT, citations, and CSL-JSON.
 * Video of 3 Wikimania 2017 sessions: Wikidata Revolution, Performing arts in Wikidata, and Sum of all paintings. Others videos can be found on Andrew's channel.


 * WikidataCon
 * The organization team is still looking for sponsors to support the event and provide even more awesome stuff to the attendees. If your company can support the WikidataCon, please get in touch with Lydia.
 * Seeing the enthusiasm of the community for the WikidataCon, we raised our attendees limit from 150 to 200 persons. The last tickets will be released on September 1st. People who registered on the waitlist will be notified when a ticket is available.
 * The program committee is currently reviewing and organizing the submissions. We will contact the speakers soon, and publish the program in the beginning of September (around 6th).
 * We're looking for a keynote speaker who could bring an external point of view on ontologies. If you know interesting people, feel free to help


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Q38000000 was created
 * Language fallback indicators hidden on variant fallback languages


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: National Natural Landmarks site ID, GujLit Book ID, GujLit Person ID, tabular population, Beazley Archive Pottery Database ID, Finnish National Gallery person ID, effective firing range, Patreon person ID, Wikimedia username, Instagram location ID, America's Byways road ID


 * Query examples:
 * number of persons per QID (using P735=Q4925477) (source)
 * QID milestones by date
 * Timeline for biochemist and Nobel Laureate Hans Adolf Krebs (source)
 * Canadian actors who twice played a US president (source)
 * Duration of Steven Spielberg's films (source)
 * Newest external tools: Metaphacts, a feature to search in Wikidata via Alexa


 * Development
 * Worked on fixing the technical glitch in the UI (T173543)
 * Did polishing on the Constraint Checks gadget (for example T173738)
 * Worked on caching constraints checks results which is needed to enable constraints checks for all logged-in users (T173696)
 * Made progress on checking constraints also on qualifiers and references (T168532)
 * Worked more on making it easier to see when input in a property or value input field is not recognized (T170531)
 * Fighting with load issues in the job queue (T173710)
 * Looking into not showing language fallback hints for dialects to make the UI less cluttered for them and make it less necessary to enter labels and descriptions for them (T174318)
 * Wrapping up our experiments with the new front-end technologies

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:35, 28 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!