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Wikidata weekly summary #276
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Chandigarh, India - September 9-10
 * Doctoral Advisor or Medical Condition: Towards Entity-specific Rankings of Knowledge Base Properties, by Simon Razniewski et al.
 * ctj rdf: Part One, showing linking text minded data to Wikidata with SPARQL.
 * Creating parliament charts with Wikidata by Knut
 * The great Wikipedia bot-pocalypse by Aaron Halfaker on WMF's blog
 * When Westminster Was Wikified, by Luca Martinelli


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New admin: congrats to علاء
 * Open Library, the biggest resource of freely-licensed books, now links to Wikidata (through Reasonator) and to VIAF (example here; see "Wikidata" in the right-hand column).
 * With 200 attendees, the WikidataCon is now complete. Thanks all for your enthusiasm \o/ If you registered on the waitlist or submitted a talk, check your mailbox for more information.
 * The WikidataCon program will be released this week, and we will call for volunteers soon


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: THL Simplified Phonetic Transcription, Tibetan pinyin, Wylie transliteration, Australian Women's Register ID, iconographic symbol, slope, angle from vertical


 * Query examples:
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0A%23%20Carte%20des%20pays%20selon%20la%20ville%20de%20naissance%20du%20cr%C3%A9ateur%20de%20la%20peinture%20ayant%20le%20plus%20de%20liens%20Wikimedia%20%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fq%20%3FqLabel%20%3Fnb%20%3Fpays%20%3FpaysLabel%20%3Floc%20%3Fimage%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%09%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%09SELECT%20%28MAX%28%3Fnb%29%20AS%20%3Fnb%29%20%3Fpays%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fq%20%28wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%29%20wd%3AQ3305213%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fq%20wdt%3AP170%20%3Fcrea.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcrea%20wdt%3AP19%20%3Fvillenaissance%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fvillenaissance%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fpays.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fq%20wikibase%3Asitelinks%20%3Fnb%0A%09%09%7D%0A%09%09GROUP%20BY%20%3Fpays%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20HAVING%20%28%3Fnb%3E1%29%0A%09%09ORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fnb%29%0A%09%7D%0A%09%3Fq%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ3305213%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fq%20wdt%3AP170%20%3Fcrea.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fcrea%20wdt%3AP19%20%3Fvillenaissance%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fvillenaissance%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fpays.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%7B%3Fq%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fq%20wikibase%3Asitelinks%20%3Fnb%20.%0A%09%3Fpays%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Floc%20.%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20%23BabelRainbow%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22fr%2Cen%2Car%2Cbe%2Cbg%2Cbn%2Cca%2Ccs%2Cda%2Cde%2Cel%2Ces%2Cet%2Cfa%2Cfi%2Che%2Chi%2Chu%2Chy%2Cid%2Cit%2Cja%2Cjv%2Cko%2Cnb%2Cnl%2Ceo%2Cpa%2Cpl%2Cpt%2Cro%2Cru%2Csh%2Csk%2Csr%2Csv%2Csw%2Cte%2Cth%2Ctr%2Cuk%2Cyue%2Cvec%2Cvi%2Czh%22.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%7D The most famous painting from each country] (source)
 * Ranking universities according to PageRank (source)
 * Actors who were casted in two different films with the same name (source)
 * Newest external tool: official map for Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 displays cultural heritage monuments worldwide, using Wikidata
 * Newest database reports: Mireille Darc filmography, given names by soundex


 * Development
 * Looked into all the things necessary to make it possible to store forms and senses on Lexeme pages.
 * Worked more on caching constraints checks results which is needed to enable constraints checks for all logged-in users (T173696)
 * Making progress on checking constraints also on qualifiers and references (T168532)
 * Removed 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)
 * Fixed an issue that links to an item were not showing the label when it pointed to a redirect (T96553)
 * Unrecognized input in entity selectors will be highlighted in red (T170531)
 * Added language code fr-ca for monolingual text input (T151186)
 * Added an additional normalization for page titles when linking pages on Wiktionary via Cognate (T172987)
 * The API will not only output the hashes for qualifier snaks, but also for main snaks as well as references snaks (T174692). Note that hashes (other than IDs) are not meant to be stable identifiers, and should not be stored for a longer time.
 * Snak hashes will also appear as part of CSS classes in entity pages (T171725)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:05, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
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 * 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.
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Tech News: 2017-36
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Tech News
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Recent changes
 * The RevisionSlider user interface has changed. You can now select revisions by clicking on the bars. You can move the blue knob past the yellow one and the yellow one will move along, and the other way around.

Problems
 * Some users have problems loading very large watchlists. It is working better than earlier but the problem has not been solved. The developers are working on fixing it. Until it has been fixed you can turn on "" in your preferences and see if it helps.

Changes later this week
 * New filters for edit review is a beta feature to improve recent changes pages. It will work on watchlists from 5 September.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 September. It will be on all wikis from 7 September (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 5 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can see a presentation about and discuss the new Technical Committee on 5 September at 17:30 (UTC). There will be a presentation on YouTube and a discussion in  on Freenode. You can use the web chat.

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The Signpost: 6 September 2017
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Wikidata weekly summary #277
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * RDFIO: extending Semantic MediaWiki for interoperable biomedical data management - Paper demonstrating interoperatility between WikiData and Semantic MediaWiki, among other things.
 * Données structurées, la puissance de Wikidata au service de Wikimedia Commons - French-language article by Rama about Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons.
 * Europeana is interested in linking its new Entity Collection to Wikidata, and will talk about this at the WikidataCon.
 * Upcoming (21.9.2017): "Wikidata as a linking hub for knowledge organization systems? Integrating an authority mapping into Wikidata and learning lessons for KOS mapping". Presentation by Joachim Neubert at the 17th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop, TPDL 2017 Conference, Thessaloniki (Greece)
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Zurich, one day dedicated to Wikidata and the Query Service in Zurich, Switzerland, September 14th
 * Upcoming: Monthly Wikidata meetup in Paris, France, September 15th
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Kolkata, India, September 16th and 17th
 * Past: Wikidata workshop in Chandigarh, India


 * WikidataCon
 * The program of the WikidataCon is now published on-wiki. You will find there a lot of different formats, topics and speakers, during the two days of the conference.
 * The official visuals have also be released! Check out the conference logo and the volunteers visual, both designed by Bleeptrack under CC-BY-SA.
 * The event is now complete, no more tickets available. The last tickets have been attributed to the first persons who registered on the waitlist. If some more seats get free because another attendee cancels participation, the next person on the waitlist will be informed.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Q39000000 was created
 * Wikidata passed 7 average statements per item
 * The ArticlePlaceholder is now deployed on Albanian Wikipedia


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: danskfilmogtv title ID, Billboard artist ID, Italian National Earthquake Center ID, Flemish organization for Immovable Heritage person ID, Foursquare username, The Times of India Topic ID, ROARMAP ID, WFD Chemical status, PagesJaunes ID, Christie's creator id, Google Play Music album ID, Google Play Music artist ID, Graphic character set global ID, cytogenetic location, category for employees of the organization, CNPS taxon ID, Familypedia person ID, LNH player ID, Alljudo athlete ID, Rivers.gov river ID


 * Query examples:
 * Places of education of the UK members of Parliament (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23Churches%2C%20with%20another%20church%20really%20close%20by%0A%0ASELECT%20%3Fchurch%20%3FchurchLabel%20%3Fchurchloc%20%3Fdist%20%3Fother%20%3FotherLabel%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20%3Fchurch%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ16970%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%20%20%23%20this%20thing%20is%20a%20church%0A%20%20%3Fchurch%20wdt%3AP17%20wd%3AQ145%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%20%20%20%20%23%20and%20it%27s%20in%20the%20UK%0A%20%20%3Fchurch%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fchurchloc%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%23%20and%20it%20has%20a%20location%0A%20%20%3Fother%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ16970%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%20%20%20%23%20another%20thing%20is%20also%20a%20church%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Aaround%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fother%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fotherloc%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Acenter%20%3Fchurchloc%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Aradius%20%220.025%22%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20and%20is%20pretty%20much%20exactly%20on%20the%20same%20spot%20%28%C2%B125m%29%0A%20%20%7D%20%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28STR%28%3Fchurch%29%20%3E%20STR%28%3Fother%29%29%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20filter%20so%20each%20pair%20only%20shows%20up%20once%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND%28geof%3Adistance%28%3Fchurchloc%2C%20%3Fotherloc%29%20as%20%3Fdist%29%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3Fdist Pairs of churches in the UK that are within 25 metres of each other] (source)
 * National parks in India (source)
 * Persons buried more than 13000 km away from their death place (warning: some errors needing correction)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject India
 * Newest user scripts: Overpass (adds a map showing features tagged, in OpenStreetMap, with the ID of the current Wikidata item, if any)


 * Development
 * The new Echo notification is now deployed on all wikis
 * Looked into further possible improvements for change dispatching
 * Worked on persistently storing edits in more parts of a Lexeme
 * Worked on getting expanded URIs for identifiers into the RDF exports (T121274)
 * Continued work on caching constraints results so we can roll it out for more users (T173696)
 * Fixing a bug that highlights input in value fields as not recognized when it shouldn't be (T175525)
 * Released version 2.1.0 of the [//github.com/wmde/WikibaseSerializationJavaScript Serialization JavaScript component] (T174011)
 * Released version 2.0.0 of the [//github.com/DataValues/DataValues DataValues base component] (T168681)
 * Released version 0.9.0 of the [//github.com/wmde/DataValuesJavaScript DataValues JavaScript component] (T172916)
 * Released version 0.8.6 of the [//github.com/DataValues/Time DataValues Time component] (T151088)

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) 14:49, 11 September 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-37
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * You can get a notification when a page you created is connected to a Wikidata item. You can choose to get these notifications in your preferences. Some wikis already had this option. It is now available on all wikis.
 * The Newsletter extension is now on mediawiki.org. The newsletter extension is for newsletters where you can subscribe by getting a notification when a new issue has been published. It will come to more wikis later.
 * The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. There is now a new high-priority category: . This usually affects templates with horizontal lists. You can read more about using Linter and the Tidy whitespace bug.

Problems
 * Tech News 2017/36 reported about new filters for edit review coming to watchlists. This was planned to happen last week. It will happen next week instead.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 September. It will be on all wikis from 14 September (calendar).
 * Octicons-tools.svg OOjs UI will be updated. This could affect some icons. You can read more about the changes.

Meetings
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * You can't use OCG to create PDFs after 1 October. This is because of technical problems. You can use Electron instead. Most PDFs are already created with Electron. Electron will get missing features before 1 October. You can create books but they will not have all planned features until November or December. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
 * New filters for edit review are available now on recent changes as a beta feature. Some of those filters and other features will be deployed as default features in the coming weeks. Users will be able to opt out in their preferences.

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This Month in GLAM: August 2017
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Tech News: 2017-38
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * You can now see contributions from an IP range at Special:Contributions. Before you could only see contributions from single IP addresses. Some older contributions from IP ranges could be missing at first because it will take some time to add them.
 * Flow has been re-scoped to become Structured Discussions and the development has restarted. Phabricator projects and repositories have been renamed.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 September. It will be on all wikis from 21 September (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 September at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * We are replacing Tidy on Wikimedia wikis. Editors need to fix pages that could break. You can read the simplified instructions for editors. Some wikis have already switched. If your wiki would like to switch to the new format now, you can file a task.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  15:31, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #278
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Wahldaten Workshop 2017 – 30 September 2017 in Vienna, Austria
 * Upcoming: Wikimedia Research Showcase
 * Past: Wikidata workshop in Zurich (the slides of the speakers are linked on the page)
 * Past: GLAMhack Wikidata workshop in Lausanne (see the slides of the Query Service introduction)
 * Past: Wikidata workshop in Kolkata, India
 * Bridging real and fictional worlds in Wikidata, by Martin Poulter
 * Weekend at the Museum (of Brittany), by Envel Le Hir
 * Wiki Loves Monuments und Wikidata, by SW
 * The French Connection at the Wikimania 2017 Hackathon, by Envel Le Hir


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata ontology explorer: creates a tree of a class or property, shows common properties and statements
 * Join the mysterious group of Wikidata:Flashmob who improve labels, or summon them on an item
 * A breaking change to the wbcheckconstraints API output format was announced
 * Q40000000 was created
 * Improvements coming soon to Recent Changes
 * Several new catalogs in Mix'n'Match incl. Encyclopædia Britannica, National Gallery artists and ArtCyclopedia


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: United Nations Treaty Series Registration Number, Sefaria ID, ICD-10-CM, Encyclopedia of Australian Science ID, Indonesian Small Islands Directory ID, Cyworld ID, IPA Braille, category contains, Enciclopedia Italiana ID, United Nations Treaty Series Volume Number, National Criminal Justice ID, order of battle, Tyrolean Art Cadastre inventory ID, shelf life, UK Electoral Commission ID, LNB Pro A player ID, nLab ID, highest observed lifespan, Unicode hex codepoint, PACTOLS thesaurus ID, Bashkir encyclopedia (Russian version) ID, Bashkir encyclopedia (Bashkir version) ID


 * Query examples:
 * Algorithms and the problems they solve (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20map%20of%20Swiss%20items%20with%20article%20in%20exactly%20one%20of%20German-%2C%20French-%2C%20Italian-%2C%20and%20Romansh-language%20Wikipedias%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Ftitle%29%20AS%20%3FitemLabel%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Flocation%29%20AS%20%3Flocation%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Flanguage%29%20AS%20%3Flayer%29%20WITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%2a%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ39%20p%3AP1332%2Fpsv%3AP1332%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLatitude%20%3Fn%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP1333%2Fpsv%3AP1333%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLatitude%20%3Fs%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP1334%2Fpsv%3AP1334%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLongitude%20%3Fe%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP1335%2Fpsv%3AP1335%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLongitude%20%3Fw.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25switzerlandBoundingBox%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20VALUES%20%3Fwiki%20%7B%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fde.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Ffr.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fit.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Frm.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP17%20wd%3AQ39%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Flocation.%0A%20%20%3Farticle%20a%20schema%3AArticle%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fitem%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Fwiki%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3AinLanguage%20%3Flanguage%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3Aname%20%3Ftitle.%0A%20%20%23%20filter%20out%20some%20stray%20results%20that%20have%20country%20Switzerland%20but%20coordinates%20outside%20it%20%28e.%E2%80%AFg.%20rivers%29%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25switzerlandBoundingBox.%0A%20%20BIND%28geof%3Alatitude%28%3Flocation%29%20AS%20%3Flat%29%0A%20%20BIND%28geof%3Alongitude%28%3Flocation%29%20AS%20%3Flon%29%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3Fs%20%3C%3D%20%3Flat%20%26%26%20%3Flat%20%3C%3D%20%3Fn%20%26%26%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fw%20%3C%3D%20%3Flon%20%26%26%20%3Flon%20%3C%3D%20%3Fe%29%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%0AHAVING%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fwiki%29%20%3D%201%29 Swiss items with article in exactly one of German-, French-, Italian-, and Romansh-language Wikipedias] (source)
 * Popular gender-neutral given names (source)
 * Computer network protocols and their ports (source)
 * Software developers by number of software titles (source)
 * Spacecraft and what they were named after (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject property constraints


 * Development
 * Worked more on the constraints gadget in order to make it also qork for references and qualifiers
 * Made progress on persistently storing edits for the new Lexeme entity type (next to items and properties)
 * Worked on the RDF mapping for full URIs of external identifiers (T121274)

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!

<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) 15:36, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer Newsletter
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 * The new page backlog is currently at 14304 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 day.
 * Currently there are 532 pages in the backlog that were created by non-autoconfirmed users before WP:ACTRIAL. The NPP project is undertaking a drive to clear these pages from the backlog before they hit the 90 day Google index point. Please consider reviewing a few today!
 * The Wikimedia Foundation is currently working on creating a new filter for page curation that will allow new page patrollers to filter by extended confirmed status. For more information see: 
 * On 14 September 2017 the English Wikipedia began the autoconfirmed article creation trial. For a six month period, creation of articles in the mainspace of the English Wikipedia will be restricted to users with autoconfirmed status. New users who attempt article creation will now be redirected to a newly designed landing page.
 * Before clicking on a reference or external link while reviewing a page, please be careful that the site looks trustworthy. If you have a question about the safety of clicking on a link, it is better not to click on it.
 * 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.

The Signpost: 25 September 2017
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Tech News: 2017-39
<section begin="technews-2017-W39"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * Wikitext syntax highlighting is a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. This beta feature is based on CodeMirror. You can now search through the entire article with +  or  +  when you edit. Before it just searched through a part of the article. The developers are also fixing a couple of other bugs.
 * Administrators on wikis that use Structured Discussions as a beta feature or by default can now create and move Structured Discussions boards. Structured Discussions was previously called Flow.

Changes later this week
 * You now get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device or IP address that have logged in to your account before you will be notified after five failed attempts. For security reasons you will soon get an email by default when someone tries to log in to your account and when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address. This can be turned off in your preferences.
 * Users with extremely old browsers (for example Netscape 2–4, released from 1995–1997) which do not support Unicode will no longer be able to edit. They should try to install a new browser.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 September. It will be on all wikis from 28 September. (calendar).

Meetings Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.


 * The Wikimedia Foundation Readers department has proposed changing the mobile website. You can read more on mediawiki.org. This would be a big change.
 * You can't use OCG to create PDFs after 1 October. This is because of technical problems. You can still create PDFs. Tech News 2017/37 said the function to create PDFs from books would still work. It is now clear it will not work for the next few months. The developers are working on fixing this. You can read more on mediawiki.org.

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Wikidata weekly summary #279
<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;">


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: Wikimedia Research Showcase - A Glimpse into Babel: An Analysis of Multilinguality in Wikidata
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop about the Austrian election data, September 30th, Vienna
 * Upcoming: The next IRC office hour will take place on November 14th, 19:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2) on the channel #wikimedia-office
 * Weekend at the Museum (of Brittany)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata's 5th birthday is about 1 month away. Time to think about birthday presents? ;-)
 * Siri shows more information based on Wikidata in iOS 11
 * 2 funding proposals are looking for comments and support: soweego and CrossWikiFact
 * Quick graph of the relation of the number of labels in a given language on Wikidata and the number of first language speakers of that language


 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: candidate number, maximal rate of climb, refine date, regular expression syntax, vocalized name, webcam page URL, Heritage Building in Finland ID, PatientLikeMe symptom ID, PatientLikeMe treatment ID, PatientLikeMe condition ID, Figshare author ID
 * Query examples: standards bodies by number of standards they are connected to (source)


 * Development
 * Rolled out more fine-grained usage tracking on Greek Wikipedia. This will lead to less irrelevant changes showing up in watchlist and recent changes on those projects. We're testing this on Greek Wikipedia to see if the solution we have scales before rolling it out further. (T151717)
 * Adding an API module to copy a statement from one item to another (T55619)
 * Working more on checking constraints also on qualifiers and references (T168532)
 * Added support for the Creator namespace to the constraints check for Commons links (T176062)
 * Fixed an error message on Special:GoToLinkedPage (T176327)
 * Finishing touches on including full URIs for external IDs in the RDF export (T121274)

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!

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Global Collaboration products newsletter: 2017-09
Latest news from the Wikimedia Global Collaboration team, about Notifications, Structured Discussions, Edit Review Improvements and Content translation. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?
 * This newsletter is the first for the Global Collaboration team!
 * Global Collaboration team formed in July by merging the Language and Collaboration teams of the Wikimedia Foundation. The team is part of the Contributors department.
 * The newsletter now includes updates about Content translation. The Global Collaboration team now have an extended report (in English), with more information and data about the different projects we take care of.
 * Due to vacations and Wikimania, no newsletter has been written in August.
 * Octicons-star.svg Major changes, with possibly an important impact on the wikis, are now marked with the star icon in the newsletter. Let us know if you like it.

Edit Review Improvements [ More information • Help pages ]

Recent changes
 * Octicons-star.svg Filters for Recent Changes will be deployed by default on all wikis.
 * Some features for Recent Changes remain on Beta. See the list.
 * The initial deployment was scheduled for September 26. It has been postponed after October 3 for performance issues.
 * The filters for Watchlists, as a Beta feature, have been deployed as a Beta feature on Sept. 19.
 * "User registration" and "experience level" groups have been unified. It is now possible to select only actions from logged-out users or from logged-in users.

Content translation [ More information • Help pages ]

Recent changes
 * Delete action on the list of translations is now more reachable. Now it's possible to open it on click, and easier as well, because active area is bigger.
 * Content Translation language selector is restyled to be more compact.

Future changes
 * The translation editor of Content Translation will be replaced by the visual editor. Work is ongoing.

Notifications [ More information • Help pages ]

Recent changes
 * For users who don't use JavaScript, a button has been added to Special:Notifications to mark all their notifications as read.
 * It is now possible to restrict who can send you notifications.

Structured Discussions [ More information • Help pages ]

Recent changes
 * Octicons-star.svg Flow has been re-scoped to become Structured Discussions and the development has restarted. Phabricator projects and repositories have been renamed.
 * Administrators on wikis that use Structured Discussions as a beta feature or by default can now create and move Structured Discussions boards.
 * Translation icon cropped.svg Structured Discussions' help pages have been updated. Translations may require updates as well.

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This Month in Education: September 2017
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Administrators' newsletter – October 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2017). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Boing! said Zebedee • Ansh666 • Ad Orientem
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Tonywalton • AmiDaniel • Silence • BanyanTree • Magioladitis • Vanamonde93 • Mr.Z-man • Jdavidb • Jakec • Ram-Man • Yelyos • Kurt Shaped Box

Guideline and policy news
 * Following a successful proposal to create it, a new user right called "edit filter helper" is now assignable and revocable by administrators. The right allows non-administrators to view the details of private edit filters, but not to edit them.
 * Following a discussion about mass-application of ECP and how the need for logging and other details of an evolving consensus may have been missed by some administrators, a rough guide to extended confirmed protection has been written. This information page describes how the extended-confirmed aspects of the protection policy are currently being applied by administrators.

Technical news
 * You can now search for IP ranges at Special:Contributions. Some log pages and Special:DeletedContributions are not yet supported. Wildcards (e.g. 192.168.0.*) are also not supported, but the popular contribsrange gadget will continue to work.

Arbitration
 * Community consultation on the 2017 candidates for CheckUser and Oversight has concluded. The Arbitration Committee will appoint successful candidates by October 11.
 * A request for comment is open regarding the structure, rules, and procedures of the December 2017 Arbitration Committee election, and how to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.

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Wikidata weekly summary #280
<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;">


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Using Wikidata data, fixing wrong Wikipedia and Wikidata tags, by Mateusz Konieczny
 * One Knowledge Graph to Rule Them All? Analyzing the Differences Between DBpedia, YAGO, Wikidata & co
 * Modeling the Domain of Digital Preservation in Wikidata
 * Wikidata as a linking hub for knowledge organization systems? Integrating an authority mapping into Wikidata and learning lessons for KOS mappings (Paper and presentation), by Joachim Neubert, NKOS Workshop 2017 at TPDL
 * Knowledge exploration in public linked data ontologies


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The ArticlePlaceholder has been enabled on Bengali Wikipedia (example)
 * There is a new page with information around Wikidata:Wikidata in Wikimedia projects. You can help expand and improve it.
 * New Wikidata Game to help you evaluate merge candidates based on projectmerge.
 * A reading tip from Spinster (not mentioning Wikidata, but interesting general background knowledge): Indigenous peoples and responsible data: an introductory reading list from responsibledata.io
 * Where's Wally (aka Waldo)? Right here on Wikidata, of course!
 * Wikidata passed 8 average statements per item
 * Statement 300.000.000 was created
 * 20 million edits were done in September 2017


 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: TSE number, defined daily dose, Vincoli in Rete ID, The Black Book ID, Tagesschau election ID, LfD-HB object ID, cultural heritage monument in Serbia ID, Bavarian monument authority ID
 * Query examples: What exists in the "... as a service" genre? (source)


 * Development
 * Added a css class to values that link to redirects so they can more easily be identified by editors who want that for maintenance work (T70567) Thanks Matej!
 * Continued work on persistent editing of forms as part of the work to support lexicographical data (T173742, T173744)
 * Finishing touches on adding full URIs for external identifiers to our RDF export so we're good citizens of the semantic web (T121274)
 * Added a new  Lua function in addition to the existing , that returns all statements regardless of their rank (T176124)
 * Looking into an issue where unwanted email notifications are being sent (T174794)
 * Released version 2.1.1 of the base DataValues component


 * 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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Tech News: 2017-40
<section begin="technews-2017-W40"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * You can now use preload features in the visual editor. This means you can create links to create new pages and some text will already be in the edit window when someone clicks on it.

Changes later this week
 * If you have turned on "" you will now get the 2017 wikitext editor. Before this you had to turn it on manually even though it is a beta feature.
 * Special:Block and Special:Unblock will get the OOUI look.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The jQuery library will be upgraded to version 3 on all Wiktionary wikis from 2 October. It will be on all non-Wikipedia wikis from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * A new feature called Reading Lists are coming to the Wikipedia mobile apps. First it will be in the Android version. Reading Lists are a private user preference where you can see lists of articles on multiple devices. You can give feedback on this feature.
 * The search function has used fallback languages for language analysis. This means a language could be analysed with the grammar of a completely unrelated language to find related words. This will be removed from most wikis the week starting with 9 October. You can read more and give feedback.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2017-W40"/> 23:25, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: September 2017
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Tech News: 2017-41
<section begin="technews-2017-W41"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * The number of active users listed by  and on Special:Statistics will now only include Wikidata edits as activity on Wikidata and not on other wikis too.
 * Previously you could create wiki links starting with two colons. Now you need to use one colon. :File:X.jpg now has to be File:X.jpg . There is now a new Linter category. You can see a list on Special:Linterrors/multi-colon-escape. The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. You can read more about using Linter.

Problems
 * You will not be able to edit or upload files to Commons for around 30 minutes on 11 October. This will start at 06:00 UTC. This is because of work to let Commons show 3D models.

Changes later this week
 * The font in the edit window is monospace by default. Today you can change preferences to another font family or use "the browser default" instead of monospace. Switching to the browser default has only changed the font on Macs. The option to use browser default will be removed this week.
 * If you want to print a page or make a PDF of a page you can do so in the side menu. The way the pages look when you do this will change. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 October. It will be on all wikis from 12 October (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2017-W41"/> 14:21, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #281
<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;">


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October (sold out)
 * We will have two exciting keynotes. The first keynote speaker is Fabian M. Suchanek, professor at Télécom Paris Tech University, working on the knowledge base YAGO. The second keynote speaker is Michael Kreil, datajournalist working on the project Data Sciences and Stories.
 * Please volunteer for some tasks at the conference if you are attending.
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop at XLDB, October 12th, Clermont-Ferrand, France
 * Rebuild the map of famous artwork with Wikidata by Poulpy (in French)
 * Research libraries and Wikimedia: A shared commitment to diversity, open knowledge, and community participation


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * There is now a good start for documentation for QuickStatements. Feel free to help improve it!
 * New Mix’n’match mode to show just the entries with multiple matches (example)


 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Lega Pallavolo Serie A player ID, KNAU ID, PfaF id, YouTube Playlist ID, Wheelchair ITF player ID, VBL player ID, MIL-STD-2525 Symbol Identification Code, stellar rotational velocity, readership, PROSPERO ID, PM20 folder ID, possessed by spirit, panorama view, official app, LFH player ID, UK National Fruit Collection ID, Riigikogu ID, Nominis saint ID, Theses.fr person ID, Nominis given name ID, LUMIERE director ID, LUMIERE film ID, LNV player ID, International Standard Text Code, hydrological order number, FCI rider ID, Daum movie ID, Cinémathèque québécoise work identifier, Japanese Database of National important cultural properties, Tunisian geographic code, New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission ID, DPLA subject ID, rating, Daum TV series ID, half maximal effective concentration, half maximal inhibitory concentration (IC50), Landtag of Liechtenstein ID, Bavarian geotope ID, Reddit user name, LinkedIn company ID, THW Kiel player ID, Footoféminin.fr player ID, FFVoile sailor ID, NPB player ID, Lega Pallavolo Serie A Femminile player ID, Gallica ID, National Museums of Japan e-museum ID, Spanish "Boletín Oficial del Estado" ID, Banglapedia (English version) ID, Banglapedia (Bengali version) ID, number of constituencies, All-Russian Mathematical Portal ID
 * Query examples:
 * Women who won the Nobel Prize in Physics (source)
 * For each award, percentage of women who received it (source)
 * Intelligent personal assistants described in Wikidata (source)
 * Units of measurement named after German people (source)
 * Buildings constructed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Delhi Metro
 * Newest database reports: television series by camera setup


 * Development
 * Breaking change: "wb_entity_per_page" table will not be updated and replicated on ToolLabs anymore
 * A  Lua function will be added (T173262)
 * The  Lua function will accept a second parameter with the global identifier of a wiki (e.g. "enwiki") to link to (T142903)
 * Had to temporarily turn off showing Wikidata's changes on Commons and Russian Wikipedia because of database issues. We're working on turning it back on.
 * Continued work on persistently storing edits to Forms on Lexemes
 * Finishing work on checking constraints on qualifiers and references with the constraint checks gadget
 * Fixed a bug where notification emails for Wikidata changes were sent when they shouldn't have been (T174794)
 * Full URIs for external identifiers will soon be in the RDF export (T121274)


 * 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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Tech News: 2017-42
<section begin="technews-2017-W42"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * When you edit a template with the visual editor it follows the template's  configuration on how to save it. You can now change the format in more powerful ways if your wiki wants it.
 * The TwoColConflict extension is a new way to solve edit conflicts. It makes it easier to copy and paste the relevant text to the text field. It has been a beta feature for the last five months. You can now try out the new interface on a page where you will actually get simulated edit conflicts. You can give feedback to the developers.

Problems
 * There is a problem with recent changes pages and your watchlist that show a large number of pages. Until it is fixed, Wikidata edits will not be shown on recent changes or in your watchlist on Commons or Russian Wikipedia. If necessary, Wikidata edits will be removed from all wikis.
 * Notifications are not working for some actions. For example some users don't get a notification when they are mentioned. The developers are working on fixing this.
 * Users on some wikis could not change their preferences. This has now been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * Editors and readers who still use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP will not be able to use Wikipedia from 17 October. Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP can't connect securely to the wikis. When we allow them to do so it means that we get less security for everyone else. If you use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP you can install Firefox 52 ESR instead. Around 0.1% of the traffic to the Wikimedia wikis comes from Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 October. It will be on all wikis from 19 October (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 17 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2017-W42"/> 15:31, 16 October 2017 (UTC)