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Wikidata weekly summary #282
Wikidata weekly summary #282

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.  Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 21:39, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Association Football Matches
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Upcoming: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October (sold out)
 * If you organize a local event for the Wikidata birthday, feel free to add it on the events page and the birthday page
 * A blog post describing Textes d'affiches, a tool using Wikidata to show movies and the works they are adapted from, developed during a hackathon at the national French library (by Shonagon, in French)
 * Slides of the presentation "Wikidata Query Service: The State of the Engine" by Stas Malyshev
 * Slides of the presentation "Wikidata and structured data initiatives at Wikimedia. Current trends and priorities" by Dario Taborelli
 * Wikidata as a linking hub for knowledge organization systems? Integrating an authority mapping into Wikidata and learning lessons for KOS mappings by Joachim Neubert
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * If you are interested in Structured Data on Commons, and helping out as a Wikidata contributor, please consider joining the new Structured Commons community focus group!
 * Participate to the Global Legislative Openness Week with MySociety and organize a Wikidata workshop in your country, from 20th to 30th November 2017
 * Inventaire now has a News section where you can follow ongoing discussions and developments of the project
 * wikidata-cli added bot support and new commands (wd search, wd aliases, wd add-alias, wd remove-alias, wd set-alias)
 * wikidata-edit added bot edits support and new functions (alias.add, alias.remove, alias.set)
 * HarvestTemplates has a new collaboration platform
 * You can now use reCh to patrol items from your PagePile
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Women's Sports Foundation ID, Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame ID, North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame ID, New Mexico Sports Hall of Fame ID, National Trust Collections ID, Infopatrimônio ID, KBO pitcher ID, KBO hitter ID, Cairn author ID, Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame ID, Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame ID, Kansas Sports Hall of Fame ID, Hawai‘i Sports Hall of Fame ID, Georgia Sports Hall of Fame ID, DSMHOF athlete ID, ASHOF athlete ID, ExecutedToday ID, Monumentos de São Paulo ID, gravsted.dk ID, Dutch lost building register ID, Musikverket person ID, Megalithic Portal ID, PROSITE documentation ID, Search formatter URL, nominated by, BillionGraves cemetery ID, Cravo Albin artist ID, salinity, Lotsawa House Indian author ID, Lotsawa House Tibetan author ID, Florida Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, T4T35 megalith ID, excavation director, QEdu ID, WBPLN author ID, Store norske leksikon ID, synodic period, PubsHistory pub ID, Organization ID on Radio Radicale, LOINC ID, digitised page from Lloyd's Register of Ships from 1930 to 1945, Lloyd's Register Ship ID, IDESCAT territorial code in Catalonia, Heritage Conservation District of Ontario ID, GenBank Assembly accession, Deutsche Synchronkartei actor-ID, Department of Education and Skills roll number, contains, Wikimedia template, Brueckenweb id, BHL bibliography ID, BFI-Filmography person ID, APA phoneme code, combination classification, young rider classification, best sprinter classification, best combative classification, mountains classification, Elite Prospects staff ID, Scottish Sports HoF athlete ID, GARD rare disease ID, kinship equivalent in SPARQL at Wikidata, SwimSwam ID, SpeedskatingResults.com speed skater ID, musée de Bretagne identifiant collections ID, camera setup, FOIH taxon ID, FOIH decree types ID, FOIH event types ID, FOIH value types ID, FOIH heritage types ID, FOIH periods ID, FOIH styles and cultures ID, FOIH materials ID
 * Query examples:
 * Flags with more than 5 stars (source)
 * Timeline of programming languages (source)
 * Female scientists sorted by number of citations of their work (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Women
 * Newest database reports: Jean Rochefort Filmography
 * Development
 * Continued working on persistently storing edits on Lexeme pages (specifically Forms)
 * Dealt with issues caused by too many edits being injected into recent changes on Commons and Russian Wikipedia
 * Constraint checks will also be done on qualifiers and references (T176863)
 * Fixed a regression with the focus not automatically being set after a property was selected (T177485)
 * Full URIs for external identifiers will soon be in the RDF export (T121274)
 * The secondary  table got removed now (T140890)
 * The secondary  table does have a   column now (T167114)
 * Released version 4.0.0 of the [//github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModelJavaScript Wikibase DataModel JavaScript library] as a pure NPM package with no MediaWiki dependency (T177476)
 * Released version 3.0.0 of the [//github.com/wmde/WikibaseSerializationJavaScript Wikibase Serialization JavaScript library] as a pure NPM package with no MediaWiki dependency (T177613)
 * Released version 0.10.0 of the [//github.com/wmde/DataValuesJavaScript DataValues JavaScript library] as a pure NPM package with no MediaWiki dependency (T177232)
 * 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!

Books and Bytes - Issue 24
 The Wikipedia Library Books & Bytes

Issue 24, August-September 2017

 Arabic, Kiswahili and Yoruba versions of Books & Bytes are now available in meta! Read the full newsletter Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:53, 21 October 2017 (UTC)
 * User Group update
 * Global branches update
 * Star Coordinator Award - last quarter's star coordinator: User:Csisc
 * Wikimania Birds of a Feather session roundup
 * Spotlight: Wiki Loves Archives
 * Bytes in brief

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) 17:47, 21 October 2017 (UTC)
 * The new page backlog is currently at 12,878 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.
 * We have successfully cleared the backlog of pages created by non-confirmed accounts before ACTRIAL. Thank you to everyone who participated in that drive.
 * Primefac has created a script that will assist in requesting revision deletion for copyright violations that are often found in new pages. For more information see User:Primefac/revdel.
 * The Article Wizard has been updated and simplified to match the layout style of the new user landing page. If you have not yet seen it, take a look.
 * 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: 23 October 2017
 * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:36, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-43
 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 Changes later this week
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can use  when you create an abuse filter. This can be used to look for multiple words or phrases within a string. It will find words where some characters have been replaced. You can read more in the documentation.
 * When you search in some languages the search function could use specific other languages if the first language didn't work. This is called a fallback language. This didn't work properly and created bad searches. The search index is being fixed to work better.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 October. It will be on all wikis from 26 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 24 October 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 25 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * There is a Structured Commons community focus group for Commons and Wikidata contributors who want to give input on structured data on Wikimedia Commons. You can sign up to join it.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  18:18, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #283
Wikidata weekly summary #282

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.  Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 08:53, 24 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: Zugang Gestalten (slides by multichill)
 * Past: Coding Da Vinci (slides by Jonas)
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Birthday Tokyo, 27 October from 12:00 to 14:00 in Roppongi Hills
 * Upcoming: WikiArabia 2017, Cairo, Egypt, 23-25 October
 * Upcoming: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October (sold out)
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Birthday Seoul, 29 October from 15:00 to 18:00
 * Upcoming: Biographical Data in a Digital World 2017 6-7 November 2017 (in cooperation with Wikimedia Austria)
 * COOL-WD: A Completeness Tool for Wikidata (tool website)
 * Provenance Information in a Collaborative Knowledge Graph: an Evaluation of Wikidata External References
 * Question Answering Benchmarks for Wikidata
 * Using Word Embeddings for Search in Linked Data with Ontodia (tool website)
 * Unlocking the human potential of Wikidata
 * Textes d’Affiches, des films à lire sur Gallica
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * If you have a present or organize an event for the Wikidata's fifth birthday, feel free to add link and pictures here
 * New version of the Alexa skill for Wikidata by metaphacts
 * Nice short gif tutorial for writing a Wikidata query
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Ontario Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Quora username, Women's Basketball Hall of Fame ID, Baseball Almanac ID, sports.ru player ID, Opera Vivra singer ID, Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame ID, NLBPA ID, MusicBrainz recording ID, caliber, Women's Collegiate Tennis Hall of Fame ID, Museus.br ID, Memória Globo, Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural ID, Canada's Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, International Paralympic Committee athlete ID, Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum athlete ID, BrainInfo ID (hierarchical), NeuroNames ID (plain mode), Anvisa drug ID, BC Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, TheSports.org athlete ID, mapping relation type, Science Museum people ID, Mappy place ID, update method, Virginia Sports Hall of Fame ID, Missouri Sports Hall of Fame ID, DAMIT asteroid ID, Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, LFB player ID, Soccerdonna player ID, Sandrart.net artwork ID, youth wing
 * Query examples:
 * Average age of members of the 19th German Bundestag (source)
 * Mountains in CH by height (topographic prominence) (source)
 * Mountains in CH by height (elevation above sea level) (source)
 * Monuments in Berlin for which Berlin cultural heritage ID and geolocation are known in Wikidata (source)
 * Initial characters of names of free software (source)
 * Initial characters of names of nonfree software (source)
 * First World Heritage site per country (source)
 * Newest database reports: list of kinship types
 * Development
 * Query Service throttling has been tweaked, to block a type of abusive client
 * Adding diff support for Lexeme-related edits
 * More work on checking constraints on qualifiers and references (T168532)
 * Now caching constraints results to make it ready for rollout for more users
 * Continued work on more fine-grained usage tracking so we better know which parts of an item is used on an article on Wikipedia and the other sister projects
 * Improved the way Wikidata changes are shown in watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and Co so they are more in-line with the other changes (T48329, T50684) Thanks Matej!
 * Released the [//github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModel Wikibase DataModel] component in version 7.2.0 (T177486)
 * 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!

Wikidata weekly summary #284
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Defining account creators


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: WikiArabia 2017, Cairo, Egypt, 23-25 October
 * Past: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October. You can find the slides, notes and video recordings for most of the sessions
 * Past: Wikidata's fifth birthday in Tokyo, Seoul, Munich
 * Upcoming: Using Wikidata to create a multi-lingual multi-dialectal dictionary for Arabic dialects in the 14th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2017), Yasmine Hammamet, Tunisia, 30 October-3 November.
 * Upcoming : Wikidata and Wiki Loves Monuments editathon in Berlin, 24-26 November (in German). We're looking for trainers to explain the basic use of QuickStatements, Open Refine and Mix'n'Match. If you want to join, please contact MB-one


 * Wikidata's birthday
 * The fifth anniversary of Wikidata was celebrated, as every year, with a lot of presents, events and stories. You can find an overview on the birthday page.
 * Birthday presents
 * Search index now contains statements with and  . These can be used to influence search rankings and in the future also for matching.
 * inventaire.io CC0 Wikidata-ready NDJSON and TTL dumps are now accessible at dumps.inventaire.io
 * You can now move claims to new items with moveClaim.js. You can do so by typing "new".
 * Prefix search on Wikidata (wbsearchentities API) now is using ElasticSearch as backend. This should improve search quality and also is more flexible and tunable.
 * Wikidata becomes a proper citizen of the linked open data web
 * graves.wiki – visualization of grave locations stored in Wikidata
 * Wikidata Concepts Monitor (WDCM) - Wikidata semantic topics and usage statistics
 * Happy Birthday to You, Dear Wikidata – recording and improvisation (Lucas Werkmeister)
 * You can now create items from the command-line
 * Crochet your own cute structured data bee to express your appreciation for structured data in the Wikimedia movement! And ask her/him/it to join the.
 * Wikidata Query Service UI: Geoshapes from Commons are now displayed in the Map view: [https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23defaultView%3AMap%0A%23%20constituencies%20for%20the%20election%20to%20the%20German%20Bundestag%202017%2C%20with%20winning%20candidate%20and%20party%0ASELECT%20%3Fdistrict%20%3FdistrictLabel%20%3FdistrictNumber%20%3Fmdb%20%3FmdbLabel%20%3Fparty%20%3FpartyLabelCONF%20%28%3FpartyLabel%20AS%20%3Flayer%29%20%3FvotesPercentage%20%3Frgb%20%3Fshape%20%3FsanityCheckMdb%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20find%20districts%20with%20shape%0A%20%20%3Fdistrict%20wdt%3AP3896%20%3Fshape%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20successful%20candidate%20for%2019th%20German%20Bundestag%20with%20party%20and%20%25%20votes%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP991%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP991%20%3Fmdb%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP2937%20wd%3AQ30579723%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP1268%20%3Fparty%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pqv%3AP1111%20%5B%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3FvotesPercentage%3B%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ11229%20%5D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20district%20number%20in%202017%20Bundestag%20constituencies%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP528%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP528%20%3FdistrictNumberString%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP972%20wd%3AQ26971257%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%23%20turn%20string%20district%20number%20into%20integer%0A%20%20BIND%28xsd%3Ainteger%28%3FdistrictNumberString%29%20AS%20%3FdistrictNumber%29%0A%20%20%23%20sanity%20check%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fmdb%20p%3AP39%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP39%20wd%3AQ1939555%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP2937%20wd%3AQ30579723%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP768%20%3Fdistrict%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP4100%20%3Fparty%0A%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28true%20AS%20%3FsanityCheckMdb%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%23%20find%20original%20color%20of%20party%0A%20%20%3Fparty%20wdt%3AP462%3F%2Fwdt%3AP465%20%3FrgbOriginal.%0A%20%20%23%20fade%20color%20depending%20on%20%25%20votes%2C%20knowing%20that%20the%20original%20colors%20are%20only%20composed%20of%20FF%2C%2080%2C%2000%3A%20shift%2080%20to%20A0%20or%20C0%2C%20and%2000%20to%2040%20or%2080%0A%20%20%23%20%28using%20separate%20calls%20to%20replace%20R%2C%20G%2C%20and%20B%20components%20so%20that%20the%20replacements%20are%20aligned%20to%20them%29%0A%20%20BIND%28IF%28%3FvotesPercentage%20%3E%3D%20%28100%2F2%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FrgbOriginal%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3FvotesPercentage%20%3E%3D%20%28100%2F3%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28%3FrgbOriginal%2C%20%2280%28..%29%28..%29%22%2C%20%22A0%241%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%2980%28..%29%22%2C%20%22%241A0%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%29%28..%2980%22%2C%20%22%241%242A0%22%29%2C%20%2200%28..%29%28..%29%22%2C%20%2240%241%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%2900%28..%29%22%2C%20%22%24140%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%29%28..%2900%22%2C%20%22%241%24240%22%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28%3FrgbOriginal%2C%20%2280%28..%29%28..%29%22%2C%20%22C0%241%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%2980%28..%29%22%2C%20%22%241C0%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%29%28..%2980%22%2C%20%22%241%242C0%22%29%2C%20%2200%28..%29%28..%29%22%2C%20%2280%241%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%2900%28..%29%22%2C%20%22%24180%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%29%28..%2900%22%2C%20%22%241%24280%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%29%20AS%20%3Frgb%29%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fdistrict%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FdistrictLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fparty%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FpartyLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fmdb%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FmdbLabel.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FdistrictNumber Constituencies for the election to the German Bundestag 2017, with winning candidate and party]
 * Wikidata Query Service UI: The query service now shows you code examples for how to use your query in many programming languages (example query)
 * [//www.johl.io/dungeonofknowledge/ Dungeon of Knowledge] ([//github.com/johl/dungeonofknowledge source]), a roguelike game where you explore a dungeon full of bits of Wikidata wisdom
 * Simple WD an experiment of a simple frontend API on top of Wikidata using JSON-LD and schema.org.
 * mapview widget/user script on Wikidata
 * Images fragments for an item depicted on several artworks
 * Histropedia Query Timeline tool - Demo of cool new features launched today for WikidataCon
 * Q42395533 - the first item about a notable item!
 * SQID now suggests statements that we are missing (example page, log in to see suggestions) -- more on WikiProject_Reasoning soon
 * From labs VM to Wikibase Query Service in 2 minutes (using Docker images and docker-compose)
 * Stories and reflections
 * Wishes for the year to come, by Tpt
 * Happy Birthday Wikidata! by the Gene Wiki Team
 * Some random thoughts on the occasion of Wikidata's fifth birthday, by PKM
 * Wishes and a personal story, by Spinster
 * Happy Birthday, Wikidata by RolandUnger from Wikivoyage
 * Happy Birthday, Wikidata by Katherine Maher
 * Two years of Wikidata experience from ArthurPSmith
 * Happy Birthday wishes from Wikimedia Deutschland
 * Message from the development team


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Biblioteca Nacional de México ID, MNCARS artist ID, BFI Film and TV ID, FPB rating, The Coptic Library ID, snap package, LesBiographies.com ID, Indian Foundation for Butterflies ID, AKL Online Artist ID, Google Doodle, New York City Parks Monument ID, Pro14 player ID, implementation of, GACS ID, Y-DNA Haplogroup, mtDNA haplogroup, mandates, Portuguese lighthouse ID, U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame athlete ID, Sportbox.ru ID, VNDB ID, Videolectures ID, New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame ID, rfpl.org player ID, Panthéon des sports du Québec ID, Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee ID, New Brunswick Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Ontario Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Quora username, Women's Basketball Hall of Fame ID


 * Query examples:
 * Organic acids with images (source)
 * People who are their father's father (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0A%23%20constituencies%20for%20the%20election%20to%20the%20German%20Bundestag%202017%2C%20with%20winning%20candidate%20and%20party%0ASELECT%20%3Fdistrict%20%3FdistrictLabel%20%3FdistrictNumber%20%3Fmdb%20%3FmdbLabel%20%3Fparty%20%3FpartyLabelCONF%20%28%3FpartyLabel%20AS%20%3Flayer%29%20%3FvotesPercentage%20%3Frgb%20%3Fshape%20%3FsanityCheckMdb%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20find%20districts%20with%20shape%0A%20%20%3Fdistrict%20wdt%3AP3896%20%3Fshape%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20successful%20candidate%20for%2019th%20German%20Bundestag%20with%20party%20and%20%25%20votes%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP991%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP991%20%3Fmdb%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP2937%20wd%3AQ30579723%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP1268%20%3Fparty%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pqv%3AP1111%20%5B%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3FvotesPercentage%3B%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ11229%20%5D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20district%20number%20in%202017%20Bundestag%20constituencies%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP528%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP528%20%3FdistrictNumberString%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP972%20wd%3AQ26971257%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%23%20turn%20string%20district%20number%20into%20integer%0A%20%20BIND%28xsd%3Ainteger%28%3FdistrictNumberString%29%20AS%20%3FdistrictNumber%29%0A%20%20%23%20sanity%20check%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fmdb%20p%3AP39%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP39%20wd%3AQ1939555%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP2937%20wd%3AQ30579723%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP768%20%3Fdistrict%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP4100%20%3Fparty%0A%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28true%20AS%20%3FsanityCheckMdb%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%23%20find%20original%20color%20of%20party%0A%20%20%3Fparty%20wdt%3AP462%3F%2Fwdt%3AP465%20%3FrgbOriginal.%0A%20%20%23%20fade%20color%20depending%20on%20%25%20votes%2C%20knowing%20that%20the%20original%20colors%20are%20only%20composed%20of%20FF%2C%2080%2C%2000%3A%20shift%2080%20to%20A0%20or%20C0%2C%20and%2000%20to%2040%20or%2080%0A%20%20%23%20%28using%20separate%20calls%20to%20replace%20R%2C%20G%2C%20and%20B%20components%20so%20that%20the%20replacements%20are%20aligned%20to%20them%29%0A%20%20BIND%28IF%28%3FvotesPercentage%20%3E%3D%20%28100%2F2%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FrgbOriginal%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3FvotesPercentage%20%3E%3D%20%28100%2F3%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28%3FrgbOriginal%2C%20%2280%28..%29%28..%29%22%2C%20%22A0%241%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%2980%28..%29%22%2C%20%22%241A0%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%29%28..%2980%22%2C%20%22%241%242A0%22%29%2C%20%2200%28..%29%28..%29%22%2C%20%2240%241%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%2900%28..%29%22%2C%20%22%24140%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%29%28..%2900%22%2C%20%22%241%24240%22%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28%3FrgbOriginal%2C%20%2280%28..%29%28..%29%22%2C%20%22C0%241%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%2980%28..%29%22%2C%20%22%241C0%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%29%28..%2980%22%2C%20%22%241%242C0%22%29%2C%20%2200%28..%29%28..%29%22%2C%20%2280%241%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%2900%28..%29%22%2C%20%22%24180%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%29%28..%2900%22%2C%20%22%241%24280%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%29%20AS%20%3Frgb%29%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fdistrict%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FdistrictLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fparty%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FpartyLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fmdb%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FmdbLabel.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FdistrictNumber 2017 German federal election results by district with geoshapes and color depending on the % of votes] (source)
 * Cities with most first performances of works (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 Count of women Vs. guys names “John” in the UK parliament] (source)
 * Percentage of popes who died in Rome (source)
 * First sites registered at Unesco for each country (source)


 * Development
 * Continued working on persistent storage of edits on Lexeme pages
 * Fixed an encoding problem in the SVG download of query results in the query service (T178564)
 * Fixed a problem with change dispatching changes to Wikipedia and co, that sometimes lead to single wikis falling way behind. (T179060)
 * Added full URIs for external identifiers to the RDF export
 * You can leave feedback on how improved fulltext search result page should look like

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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Tech News: 2017-44
 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 block users from emailing you through the Wikimedia wikis.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 November. It will be on all wikis from 2 November (calendar).

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2017). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Longhair • Megalibrarygirl • TonyBallioni • Vanamonde93
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Allen3 • Eluchil404 • Arthur Rubin • Bencherlite

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 * The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team is creating an "Interaction Timeline" tool that intends to assist administrators in resolving user conduct disputes. Feedback on the concept may be posted on the talk page.
 * A new function is now available to edit filter managers that will make it easier to look for multiple strings containing spoofed text.

Arbitration
 * Eligible editors will be invited to submit candidate statements for the 2017 Arbitration Committee Elections starting on November 12 until November 21. Voting will begin on November 27 and last until December 10.
 * Following a request for comment,, and  will serve as the Electoral Commission for the 2017 ArbCom Elections.

Obituaries
 * The Wikipedia community has recently learned that (William Allen Peckham) passed away on December 30, 2016, the same day as . Allen began editing in 2005 and became an administrator that same year.

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This Month in Education: October 2017
<span style="font-weight:bold; color:#006699; font-size:60px; font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">This Month in Education <span style="font-weight:bold; color:#006699; font-size:20px; font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; display:block; width:900px;"> Volume 6 | Issue 9 | October 2017

<span style="font-weight:regular; text-align:center; font-size:14px; font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; display:block; width:1000px;">This monthly newsletter showcases the Wikipedia Education Program. It focuses on sharing: your ideas, stories, success and challenges. You can see past editions here. You can also volunteer to help publish the newsletter. Join the team! Finally, don't forget to subscribe!

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<div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · For the team: Romaine 02:05, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #285
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Obaid Raza


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Wikidata, a rapidly growing global hub, turns five on WMF's blog by Andrew Lih and Robert Fernandez
 * Locating IMDB IDs of movies in the Internet Archive using Wikidata, by Petter Reinholdtsen
 * Mix-n-Match: Large Catalogs, by Magnus Manske


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * If you want to review what happened during the WikidataCon, here is the list of all the sessions, with slides, notes and videos, when available
 * Release of wikidata-edit v2.0.0: brings qualifiers and references support, and a few breaking changes. See changelogs
 * Release of wikidata-cli v5.0.0: brings qualifiers and references support, multi-entity summary|label|description|description requests, a new `edit-item` command, and a few breaking changes. See changelogs


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Barbarian R.C. id, Barbarian F.C. id, Isidore ID, Team GB athlete ID, HOC athlete ID, COAM architect ID, Camera Decision ID, Google Play developer ID, INDUCKS miniseries ID, INDUCKS issue ID, INDUCKS story ID, INDUCKS publisher ID, INDUCKS creator ID, INDUCKS publication ID, INDUCKS character ID, Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Accused witch ID, Humble Store ID, Australian Baseball League player ID, European Fencing Confederation athlete ID, IBHOF boxer ID, Melon artist ID, Czech Jockey Club horse ID, Rush Parliamentary Archive ID, British Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association ID, IGHOF athlete ID, Mountain Bike Hall of Fame inductee ID, Twitch game ID, Unified Astronomy Thesaurus ID, Ecole des chartes thesis abstract ID, Rugby League Project player ID, Canadian Ski Hall of Fame inductee ID, Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame inductee ID, World Golf Hall of Fame player ID, Kaitai Struct format gallery ID, Diccionario biográfico español ID, Dutch Cemetery in Chinsurah ID, Discography of American Historical Recordings ID, Internet Off-Broadway Database ID, Coinage of the Roman Republic Online ID, Argentine Chamber of Deputies ID, Argentine Senate member ID, Thibaudeau classification, Scoresway handball person ID, HAL author ID, Shirat Nashim person ID, cash back, Minimum Spend Bonus, reward program, grace period, reward, Card Network, mean age, hydraulic head


 * Query examples:
 * endemic moths of New Zealand with images in Wikidata (source)
 * Images of people commemorated by plaques in Jena, Germany (source)
 * Paintings located in Le Louvre without pictures on Wikidata, with the location in the museum (source)
 * Persons who will have their work in public domain in 2018 in Denmark, with their occupations (source)
 * Political parties by ideology in a tree view (source)
 * Organic acids with pictures (source)
 * Levels of education in France, from kindergarten to high school, with their US equivalents (source)
 * Horses drawn on hills in the UK (source)
 * Frequency of “retrieved” dates in Wikidata references (source)
 * Newest database reports: completeness of family relation properties

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
 * Development
 * query service UI improvements (Ided10bb8c8, I3c6ec22a15, Ieb6e561563, I9a526fc8b4, Ib4ea273ab1
 * proposed changes to HTML around statements – feedback welcome!
 * Finished diff support for lexeme T178757
 * Refactoring PropertySuggester-python for better maintainability and performance (T179664)
 * JavaScript libraries used by Wikibase have been integrated as submodules into Wikibase's git repository (T177087)
 * Git repository of the Wikibase JavaScript API has been moved. Check your settings! (T178226)


 * 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.
 * The Cebuano and Swedish wikis have a lot of bot-created content which is unconnected to other wiki articles. A good way to tackle that problem is by checking constraint violations for property GeoNames ID.
 * Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2017-45
<section begin="technews-2017-W45"/> 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 will no longer see the patrol log on Special:Log unless you specifically select it.

Changes later this week
 * The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 6 November. You can post proposals from 19:00 UTC and until November 19.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 November. It will be on all wikis from 9 November (calendar).

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 8 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * URLs that link to sections on Wikimedia wikis with non-Latin scripts have looked like this:  instead of  . This will soon be fixed. Old links will still work.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2017-W45"/> 18:45, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: October 2017
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Wikidata weekly summary #286
<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: IRC office hour, November 14th, 19:00 (UTC+2) in the channel #wikimedia-office
 * Review of the WikidataCon by Sean McBirnie (Histropedia)
 * Blogpost on workflow co-documentation with community members during the WikidataCon, by Jan Dittrich
 * Completeness and the Age of Abundance of free tools, in Basque language, by Theklan
 * Report about the first WikidataCon in Hungarian language, by Texaner
 * Report of the WikidataCon 2017 in German, by MB-one
 * Visualising Wikidata on Interactive Timelines using HistropediaJS by Sean McBirnie
 * Wikidata: A growing community behind open data by John Samuel
 * Report about the 2017 WikidataCon in Polish, by Yarl
 * Report about WikidataCon 2017 for WMAM community in Armenian, by Kareyac
 * WikidataCon - my résumé by Ahoerstemeier


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata training material and sample SPARQL queries by Geertivp
 * A new version of Unicode CLDR was released, including data about languages from Wikidata
 * research article where Wikidata is used to unify metabolite identifiers: WikiPathways


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: vertical depth, describes a project that uses, National Monuments of Namibia Site Reference, CycleBase cyclist ID, California Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Formal Public Identifier, IAFD male performer ID, IWRP athlete ID, Wimbledon player ID, Snooker.org ID, albedo, family relationship degree, World Snooker athlete ID, Microsoft Store artist ID, NACE code, Xenopus Anatomical Ontology ID


 * Query examples:
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3ATimeline%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Ft%20%3Fvalue%20%20%3FvalueLabel%20%3FrrLabel%20%20%3Frr%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fimage%29%20as%20%3Fimg%29%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20VALUES%20%3Fperson%20%7Bwd%3AQ1512%7D%0A%20%20%7B%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdeath%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20%3Fprop%20%3Ft%20FILTER%20%28datatype%28%3Ft%29%3Dxsd%3AdateTime%29%20FILTER%20%28%3Ft%20%3C%3D%20%3Fdeath%29%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fvalue%20wikibase%3AdirectClaim%20%3Fprop.%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20%3Fq%20%3Fstatement%20%20FILTER%20regex%20%28STR%28%3Fq%29%2C%22prop%2FP%22%29%20.%20%23exclude%20P%3AdescribedBy%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdeath%20.%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%20FILTER%20%28%3Ft%20%3C%3D%20%3Fdeath%29.%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%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20wikibase%3AdirectClaim%20%3Frprop%20.%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fvalue%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%20%7B%20%23%20author%20of%20%2F%20creator%20of%0A%20%20%20%3Fvalue%20wdt%3AP50%7Cwdt%3AP98%7Cwdt%3AP655%7Cwdt%3AP1773%7Cwdt%3AP170%20%3Fperson%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdeath%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fbirth%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fvalue%20wdt%3AP571%7Cwdt%3AP577%20%3Ft%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28%28%3Ft%20%3C%3D%20%3Fdeath%29%26%26%28%3Ft%20%3E%3D%20%3Fbirth%29%29%20%0A%20%20%20%23FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fvalue%20wdt%3AP629%20%3Fx%20%7D%20%0A%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP800%20%3Fvalue%20%7D%20.%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fvalue%20wdt%3AP1433%20%3Frr%20.%7D%20%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fvalue%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%20%23Notable%20Works%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP800%20%3Frr%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdeath%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fbirth%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20%20wdt%3AP577%7Cwdt%3AP571%7Cwdt%3AP1191%20%3Ft%20FILTER%20%28%28%3Ft%20%3C%3D%20%3Fdeath%29%26%26%28%3Ft%20%3E%3D%20%3Fbirth%29%29.%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Frr%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20UNION%20%23discoverer%20or%20inventor%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20wdt%3AP61%20%3Fperson%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdeath%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fbirth%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20wdt%3AP575%7Cwdt%3AP571%7Cwdt%3AP585%20%3Ft%20FILTER%20%28%28%3Ft%20%3C%3D%20%3Fdeath%29%26%26%28%3Ft%20%3E%3D%20%3Fbirth%29%29.%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Frr%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20UNION%20%23architect%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20wdt%3AP84%20%3Fperson%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdeath%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fbirth%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20wdt%3AP571%7Cwdt%3AP1619%20%3Ft%20FILTER%20%28%28%3Ft%20%3C%3D%20%3Fdeath%29%26%26%28%3Ft%20%3E%3D%20%3Fbirth%29%29.%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Frr%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%20%23composer%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20wdt%3AP86%20%3Fperson%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdeath%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fbirth%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20wdt%3AP571%7Cwdt%3AP1191%7Cwdt%3AP577%20%3Ft%20FILTER%20%28%28%3Ft%20%3C%3D%20%3Fdeath%29%26%26%28%3Ft%20%3E%3D%20%3Fbirth%29%29.%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Frr%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%2C%20fr%2C%20de%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Ft%20%3Fvalue%20%3Frr%20%3FrrLabel%20%3FvalueLabel%0AORDER%20BY%20%3Ft%0A%20 Timeline of the works of Robert Louis Stevenson] (source)
 * Canals within 800 kilometres of Glasgow (source)
 * File systems by developer, date, and OS (source)
 * Map of metro stations of Bilbao (source)
 * Highest point of each department of France (source)
 * Newest database reports: properties count by datatype, Mayflower voyage participants, film archives

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
 * Development
 * Fixed a series of smaller regressions after switching to Cirrus based search backend (T179045, T179061, T179130)
 * Latitudes, longitudes, as well as coordinate precisions have accidentally been exported to RDF as xsd:decimal, and are going to be exported as xsd:double soon (T179228)
 * Continue on refactoring PropertySuggester-python for better maintainability and performance (T179664)
 * Make AffectedPagesFinder take DESCRIPTION_USAGE into account (T176417)
 * Add  area where gadgets and user scripts can safely add indicators instead of directly appending to the value (T95403, d:WD:PC)
 * Accessing  will trigger a deprecation warning, gadgets and user script should use the   hook instead (T169771)
 * Work on caching constraint check results (T179849) and indicating that they are cached (T179844)
 * Work on JSON-LD support in the Purtle library used for exports (379669)


 * 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: 2017-46
<section begin="technews-2017-W46"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week
 * The diff you see when you compare two different versions of a page has changed on MediaWiki.org and the test wiki. This is to make it easier to find a text change in a moved paragraph. It will hopefully soon come to more wikis. You can report bugs in Phabricator.
 * A new user group on Commons will be able to upload MP3 files. The plan is to have this user group from 17 November.
 * Wikis using Flagged Revisions will get the New filters for Edit Review by default on the recent changes pages. It will be possible to opt-out in user preferences.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 November. It will be on all wikis from 16 November (calendar).

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 15 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Support for uploading and viewing 3D models is coming soon to Wikimedia Commons. The feature will support the .STL file format. You can see an example on the test wiki.

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Tech News: 2017-47
<section begin="technews-2017-W47"/> 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
 * If you use the Chrome web browser on Android you can see a download icon on the mobile website. You can download a formatted PDF. It will work in other mobile browsers in the future.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The abuse filter now has a function called . You can use it to store matches from regular expressions – one of each capturing group. You can read more in Phabricator.

Problems
 * Last week's MediaWiki version didn't come to all Wikipedias because of a database crash. It will be on all wikis on 20 November.

Changes later this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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 21 November at 19:30 (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 22 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Language converter syntax will no longer work inside external links. Wikitext like  must be replaced. You will have to write   instead. This only affects languages with Language Converter enabled. Examples of such languages are Chinese and Serbian. This will happen next week.

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Wikidata weekly summary #287
Wikidata weekly summary #287 Global message delivery/Targets/Wikidata

<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Discussions
 * Monolingual language code creation process


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: IRC office hour (log)
 * Past: Wikidata Lab II, a workshop to teach users how to create lists using Wikidata in São Paulo (images from the event)
 * Upcoming: IRC office hour about Structured Data on Commons, November 21, 18:00 UTC in the channel #wikimedia-office
 * Upcoming: WLM-Wikidata-Editathon 2017 in Berlin, November 24-26
 * Upcoming: Wiki4MediaFreedom edit-a-thon - II edition (with Wikidata track) in Sofia, November 27
 * Upcoming: Wikidata-Hackathon at WikiMUC in Munich, November 30
 * WikidataCon 2017
 * Fünf Jahre Wikidata at Chaosradio
 * "Turning a historical book into a data set"
 * "Creating Wikipedia articles from research data"


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New tool by Magnus: Wikidata SPARQL Recent Changes - get diffs for all items matching a SPARQL query, for a date range
 * New tool by Magnus: WD edit stats - get edit stats for all items matching a SPARQL query
 * Wikidata coverage for 'place' in OpenStreetMap (as of October 2017)
 * OpenRefine 2.8 was released. Adding columns from Wikidata and importing Wikitables is now possible. Let's write tutorials for it.
 * Mix'n'match now shows for a catalog which user originally imported it and if it is updated regularly (example)
 * A breaking change to the wbcheckconstraints API output format was announced


 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: CGF athlete ID, OKS athlete ID, Gymn Forum athlete ID, sexually homologous with, Tennis Temple player ID, has listed ingredient, World of O athlete ID, HOO athlete ID, IBTrACS cyclone ID, Collective Biographies of Women ID, Snooker Database player ID, Spider Ontology ID, EThOS thesis ID, EUTA theatre ID, EUTA person ID, Czech Street ID, Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Trial ID, ChinesePosters artist ID, Bangladesh administrative division code, Douban movie ID, REGINE water system number, UK Parliament thesaurus ID, ABA bird ID, MuIS ID, Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Person ID, Vermont Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Alaska Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Radio Radicale person ID, SUNCAT ID, payload mass, Melon album ID, ctext work ID, Mémoire du cyclisme cyclist ID, Prisma ID, Africultures person ID, Africultures movie ID, Scottish Cemetery Kolkata ID
 * Query examples:
 * List of subclasses of Matrices
 * Works of art in which the artists depicts their spouse (source)
 * locations Van Gogh depicted in his paintings (source)
 * Gender split of past Google Doodles (source)
 * Newest database reports: expeditions


 * Development
 * Fixed Commons media suggester not loading all preview thumbnails (T160528)
 * RDF exports can handle entity references to foreign Wikibase repositories now, needed for Structured Data on Commons (T161592)
 * Worked on making statements on Forms editable and persistent (T163724)
 * Worked on fine-grained usage tracking in Wikibase' Lua library (T172914)
 * Worked on caching constraint check results (T179849) and indicating when constraint check results are cached (T179844)
 * Wikibase code base does not use Composer class autoloading any more (T180067) as another step towards getting rid of our own build process and being more in line with the rest of Wikimedia


 * 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: 2017-11
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?
 * The Global collaboration report for October is now available.
 * All wikis now have the Filters for edit review as the default system on Recent Changes page.

Edit Review Improvements [ More information • Help pages ]

Most recent changes
 * Comments_font_awesome.svg Filters for Watchlists are still on Beta. Please try them and give feedback before we release it for all users!
 * Shortcuts to filter Namespaces and Tags are now more visible.
 * Discovery of the search bar has been improved.
 * If the Recent Changes page or the Watchlist fails to load or is time-outed, a message is now displayed.
 * The bookmark icon for creating a "Saved filter" is now grayed when it is not possible to save. Before it was not visible. Bookmarking is unavailable when, for example, the current filter set is already saved.

Future changes
 * Live updates on Recent changes will be moved out of beta and into the standard feature set by the end of the year.
 * Extension:Translate filters for RecentChanges are going to be integrated to the new filters.
 * Automatic edit summaries will be filtered as tags.

Content translation [ More information • Help pages ]

Recent changes
 * List items (suggested items and in-progress/published translations) layout restyled to prevent overflows on small screen sizes.
 * Search results for new translation dialog are now embedded, instead of being displayed in floating menu. Search results remain displayed when tabbed out and can be closed using ESC key.
 * Missing pages are no longer shown when there is no match for search query. Message informing that there are no results is displayed instead.
 * Embedded search results enabled to provide users with more translation opportunities. Articles user recently edited (in currently selected source language wiki) are surfaced when there is no input in search bar, with additional info if article is missing in user's currently selected target language.
 * Long suggestion descriptions are limited to three lines, and the rest is truncated, which is indicated by ellipsis.
 * Chart data representing user translation statistics in now showing all the months since user's first published translation. Months that went without translation are now displayed in chart as well.
 * A loading indicator is shown while suggestions are loading.
 * Button to discard dialog is now shown through the whole process of selecting article to translate.

Notifications [ More information • Help pages ]

Recent changes
 * Edit-user-talk notifications are now expandable.

Structured Discussions [ More information • Help pages ]

Future changes
 * Some work is ongoing to store Structured Discussions contents from HTML to wikitext. That change will allow some specific templates and magic words to work properly on Structured Discussions.
 * Some tests are conducted in order to prepare the rewriting of Structured Discussions' interface. That rewriting will have no visible impact on users but it will ease future changes.

Other projects
 * Compact Language Links has been deployed on German Wikipedia.

Collaboration team's newsletter prepared by the Global Collaboration team and posted by bot • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 15:35, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 November 2017
<div class="hlist" style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:39, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #288
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: start time / end time vs. publication date of 1st / last episode
 * Proposal to add some order and structure to the various bibliographic corpora we currently have in Wikidata (mailing list post)


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: IRC office hour about Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons. You can read the log on meta.
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Prague, December 1st
 * Well structured political data for the whole world: impossible utopia, or Wikidata at its best?
 * Spatial-based Topic Modelling using Wikidata Knowledge Base (in Wikidata as Q43662744)
 * Cleaning BNF identifier in Wikidata by Envlh (in French)
 * Monitoring changes to Wikidata pages of your interest by Egon Willighagen


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Sandra is co-ordinating an inventory of crucial volunteer tools for Wikimedia Commons, GLAM, and structured data in general. You can provide input and prioritize your favorite tools in this Google spreadsheet.
 * Q43649390 is an item about our concept of "QID"s
 * OpenRefine 2.8 was released. Adding columns from Wikidata and importing Wikitables is now possible.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: type foundry, Accademia della Crusca ID, first appearance, USGHOF athlete ID, Kulturelles Erbe Köln object ID, Städel Museum artist ID, Berlinische Galerie artist ID, Tidal video ID, Tidal track ID, Tidal album ID, Tidal artist ID, HTML entity, Norwegian historical register of persons ID, Merchant Category Code, SS KL Auschwitz Garrison ID, West Australian Football League player ID, Wikidata project, BPH journal ID, SNCZI-IPE reservoir ID, BTO five-letter code, awarded for period, electoral district number, Art Museum of Estonia artwork ID, Art Museum of Estonia artist ID, Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame ID, Basketball-Reference.com WNBA ID, National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame ID, IJF ID, SNCZI-IPE dam ID, Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame ID, FAI ID, Canada Games ID, ICRC PoW ID, RA Collections ID, mountain range, Everyone Remembered ID, CNRS research group ID, ARLIMA ID


 * Query examples:
 * People who were Time Person of the Year in two consecutive years (source)
 * Fictional characters “said to be the same as” other fictional characters from the same fictional universe (source)
 * Map of places of birth of deceased sociologists (source)
 * Map of libraries in India (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3Ftrain_station%20%3Fcoordinate_location%20%3Flayer%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22eu%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Ftrain_station%20%28wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%29%20wd%3AQ719456.%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Ftrain_station%20wdt%3AP361%20wd%3AQ10862037.%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Ftrain_station%20wdt%3AP361%20wd%3AQ123955.%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Ftrain_station%20wdt%3AP361%20wd%3AQ149274.%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Ftrain_station%20wdt%3AP361%20wd%3AQ2946410.%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Ftrain_station%20wdt%3AP81%20wd%3AQ43283383.%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Ftrain_station%20wdt%3AP361%20wd%3AQ3239365.%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Ftrain_station%20wdt%3AP81%20wd%3AQ43283518.%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Ftrain_station%20wdt%3AP81%20wd%3AQ43325427.%20%7D%0A%20%20MINUS%20%7B%20%3Ftrain_station%20%28wdt%3AP131%2Fwdt%3AP131%29%20wd%3AQ55180.%20%7D%0A%20%20MINUS%20%7B%20%3Ftrain_station%20%28wdt%3AP131%2Fwdt%3AP131%29%20wd%3AQ55271.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Ftrain_station%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoordinate_location.%0A%20%20%3Ftrain_station%20wdt%3AP81%20%3Fconnecting_line.%0A%20%20MINUS%20%7B%20%3Fconnecting_line%20wdt%3AP81%20wd%3AQ5852245.%20%7D%0A%20%20MINUS%20%7B%20%3Fconnecting_line%20wdt%3AP81%20wd%3AQ801991.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fconnecting_line%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Flayer.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%28LANG%28%3Flayer%29%29%20%3D%20%22eu%22%29%0A%7D Train and subway stations in Basque Country] (source)
 * Newest database reports: Decameron editions and translations


 * Development
 * Result views in the Wikidata Query Service UI can now be configured with options (T155973, Special:Diff/580233265/596922582)
 * Worked more on introducing the concept of sub.entities in the APIs in order to make edits to Forms persistent
 * Worked on edit summaries for edits to Forms

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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Tech News: 2017-48
<section begin="technews-2017-W48"/> 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 test the new advanced search function beta feature on mediawiki.org. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. It will come to German and Arabic Wikipedia this week. It will come to more wikis later.
 * You can now upload large files with the Internet Archive upload tool. Previously you could not upload files larger than 100 MB.
 * You can now use the Timeless skin on all wikis. You can choose skins in Special:Preferences#Appearance.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 November. It will be on all wikis from 30 November (calendar).

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This Month in Education: November 2017
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Wikidata weekly summary #289
<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: Using the Digital to Engage Archival Radio Collections: Part II (Wikidata Workshop), Washington, D.C., November 2, 2017 with Andrew Lih and Alex Stinson
 * Past: Wikidata Clinic (slides) in Washington, D.C., December 1, 2017, with Andrew Lih and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
 * Past: Wikikonference in Prague with a Wikidata workshop in Czech and a introduction of Wikidata and its community
 * Wikipedia Weekly audio podcast coverage of Wikidata:
 * Episode 126 - Introduction to Wikidata, with Andrew Lih and Rob Fernandez
 * Episode 127 - WikidataCon 2017 roundtable discussion, with Andrew Lih, Liam Wyatt, Stacy Allison-Cassin, Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, Rob Fernandez
 * Wikidata as authority linking hub: Connecting RePEc and GND researcher identifiers by Joachim Neubert
 * Importing data into Wikidata - Current challenges and ideas future development by Navino Evans
 * The Wikidata map in November 2017 and what changed during the last four months, by Addshore


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * You can now vote for your favorite proposals on the Community Wishlist Survey. The voting phase is open until December 10th.
 * If you run any functionality on Wikimedia sites that uses queries to the Wikidata Query Service, please add it here (more information)
 * The 600,000,000th edit has been made.
 * The first content made specifically for Wikimedia projects in space has been added to Wikidata (see Close encounters of the Wikipedia kind)
 * The Aaron Swartz Fellowship at OSA, Budapest, Hungary, is open for applications (deadline Dec. 31). The second focus area of the fellowship may be of interest to Wikidata folks.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: set designer, Swedish Musical Heritage composer ID, National Film Board of Canada movie ID, South Dakota Sports Hall of Fame ID, World Rugby Hall of Fame ID, Microsoft Store album ID, date of burial or cremation, Lives of WWI ID, polymer of, monomer of, FAPESP researcher ID, FAPESP institution ID, NIOSH Publication Number, post town, arXiv author ID, CPE athlete ID, Mountain Project ID, National Inventory of Canadian Military Memorials ID, Atomic Heritage Foundation ID, Dreadnought Project page, IWGA athlete ID, Argentinian Historic Heritage ID


 * Query examples:
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3ATimeline%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Ft%20%3Fvalue%20%20%3FvalueLabel%20%3FrrLabel%20%20%3Frr%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fimage%29%20as%20%3Fimg%29%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20VALUES%20%3Fperson%20%7Bwd%3AQ1512%7D%0A%20%20%7B%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdeath%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20%3Fprop%20%3Ft%20FILTER%20%28datatype%28%3Ft%29%3Dxsd%3AdateTime%29%20FILTER%20%28%3Ft%20%3C%3D%20%3Fdeath%29%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fvalue%20wikibase%3AdirectClaim%20%3Fprop.%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20%3Fq%20%3Fstatement%20%20FILTER%20regex%20%28STR%28%3Fq%29%2C%22prop%2FP%22%29%20.%20%23exclude%20P%3AdescribedBy%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdeath%20.%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%20FILTER%20%28%3Ft%20%3C%3D%20%3Fdeath%29.%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%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20wikibase%3AdirectClaim%20%3Frprop%20.%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fvalue%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%20%7B%20%23%20author%20of%20%2F%20creator%20of%0A%20%20%20%3Fvalue%20wdt%3AP50%7Cwdt%3AP98%7Cwdt%3AP655%7Cwdt%3AP1773%7Cwdt%3AP170%20%3Fperson%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdeath%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fvalue%20wdt%3AP571%7Cwdt%3AP577%20%3Ft%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28%3Ft%20%3C%3D%20%3Fdeath%29%20%0A%20%20%20%23FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fvalue%20wdt%3AP629%20%3Fx%20%7D%20%0A%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP800%20%3Fvalue%20%7D%20.%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fvalue%20wdt%3AP1433%20%3Frr%20.%7D%20%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fvalue%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%20%23Notable%20Works%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP800%20%3Frr%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdeath%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fbirth%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20%20wdt%3AP577%7Cwdt%3AP571%7Cwdt%3AP1191%20%3Ft%20FILTER%20%28%28%3Ft%20%3C%3D%20%3Fdeath%29%26%26%28%3Ft%20%3E%3D%20%3Fbirth%29%29.%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Frr%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20UNION%20%23discoverer%20or%20inventor%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20wdt%3AP61%20%3Fperson%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdeath%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fbirth%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20wdt%3AP575%7Cwdt%3AP571%7Cwdt%3AP585%20%3Ft%20FILTER%20%28%28%3Ft%20%3C%3D%20%3Fdeath%29%26%26%28%3Ft%20%3E%3D%20%3Fbirth%29%29.%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Frr%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20UNION%20%23architect%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20wdt%3AP84%20%3Fperson%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdeath%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fbirth%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20wdt%3AP571%7Cwdt%3AP1619%20%3Ft%20FILTER%20%28%28%3Ft%20%3C%3D%20%3Fdeath%29%26%26%28%3Ft%20%3E%3D%20%3Fbirth%29%29.%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Frr%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%20%23composer%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20wdt%3AP86%20%3Fperson%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdeath%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fbirth%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20wdt%3AP571%7Cwdt%3AP1191%7Cwdt%3AP577%20%3Ft%20FILTER%20%28%28%3Ft%20%3C%3D%20%3Fdeath%29%26%26%28%3Ft%20%3E%3D%20%3Fbirth%29%29.%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Frr%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%2C%20fr%2C%20de%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Ft%20%3Fvalue%20%3Frr%20%3FrrLabel%20%3FvalueLabel%0AORDER%20BY%20%3Ft%0A%20 Timeline for the writer Robert Louis Stephenson] (source)
 * Movies with Bud Spencer and Terence Hill (source)
 * Photographers born before the inception of the earliest photograph (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Stolpersteine, Jasmerah
 * Newest database reports: Q5 with identical P18


 * Development
 * Wikidata will get dedicated database resources, and go read-only for 30 minutes on 9th January 2018 (T181645)
 * There were no RDF dumps last week due to problems generating them, investigation is still going on (T181385)
 * Improved the threshold for ORES on Wikidata (T180450)
 * Working on fixing a regression after a change in MediaWiki core that makes edit links show up on diff pages (T181807)
 * More work on persistent editing of statements on Forms of a Lexeme (specifically T180467)
 * Improved size of the diff that we sent to Wikipedia and co for changes happening on Wikidata. This is one more needed step towards only showing meaningful edits in the watchlists and recent changes there. (T113468)

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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Tech News: 2017-49
<section begin="technews-2017-W49"/> 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
 * It is now possible to upload MP3 files to Commons. Only users with MP3 file upload rights can upload MP3 files.
 * You can now use live updates for recent changes if you use the new filters. This feature updates the filtered recent changes every three seconds when you activate it.
 * There is an experimental onion service for Wikimedia projects.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 December. It will be on all wikis from 7 December (calendar).
 * Very old versions of the Opera Web browser are no longer supported. This means that technical development will not be tested to make sure it works with those Opera versions. Use Opera 15 or above or another browser if you have problems.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Almost 170 wikis with no high-priority errors in Linter categories will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. A few larger wikis such as German and Italian Wikipedia will also make this switch. It will happen on 5 December. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018.

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 December at 19:30 (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 6 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey will decide what the Community Tech team will work on next year. You can vote for wishes on the survey page until 10 December. You can see what has happened to last year's wishes on the 2016 results page.
 * The Community Liaisons team at the Wikimedia Foundation is looking for active tech ambassadors. This is to make sure the Wikimedia communities get all the information they need about new features and can be involved in the technical development.

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This Month in GLAM: November 2017
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Administrators' newsletter – December 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2017). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Joe Roe
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg JzG
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Ericorbit • Perceval • Thingg • Tristanb • Violetriga

Guideline and policy news
 * Following a request for comment, a new section has been added to the username policy which disallows usernames containing emoji, emoticons or otherwise "decorative" usernames, and usernames that use any non-language symbols. Administrators should discuss issues related to these types of usernames before blocking.

Technical news
 * Wikimedians are now invited to vote on the proposals in the 2017 Community Wishlist Survey on Meta Wiki until 10 December 2017. In particular, there is a section of the survey regarding new tools for administrators and for anti-harassment.
 * A new function is available to edit filter managers which can be used to store matches from regular expressions.

Arbitration
 * Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is open until Sunday 23:59, 10 December 2017 (UTC). There are 12 candidates running for 8 vacant seats.

Miscellaneous
 * Over the last few months, several users have reported backlogs that require administrator attention at WP:ANI, with the most common backlogs showing up on WP:SPI, WP:AIV and WP:RFPP. It is requested that all administrators take some time during this month to help clear backlogs wherever possible. It should be noted that AIV reports are not always valid; however, they still need to be cleared, which may include needing to remind users on what qualifies as vandalism.
 * The Wikimedia Foundation Community health initiative is conducting a survey for English Wikipedia contributors on their experience and satisfaction level with Administrator’s Noticeboard/Incidents. This survey will be integral to gathering information about how this noticeboard works (i.e. which problems it deals with well and which problems it struggles with). If you would like to take this survey, please sign up on this page, and a link for the survey will be emailed to you via Special:EmailUser.

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Wikidata weekly summary #290
<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
 * Incoming: Wikidata workshop in Rennes, France, December 12th
 * Incoming:Next Structured Commons IRC office hour will be on Tuesday, February 13, 2018, at 18:00 UTC.
 * Past: Tech-talk about knowledge technologies, featuring Wikidata, DBpedia, and Histropedia at Jakarta Digital Valley, Jakarta, Indonesia on Dec 8, 2017. Slides are available at Slideshare link.
 * My vision of a possible strategy. How could we change Wikidata’s core infrastructure to be able to scale better in the future? by ChristianKl.
 * Using WikiData as a multi-lingual multi-dialectal dictionary for Arabic dialects - conference paper
 * WikiCite 2017 report by Dario Taborelli and the organization team


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Structured Data on Commons: Participate in this survey to help the team understand which tools and functionalities are most important to the Commons and Wikidata communities
 * QuickStatements now has a CSV-like import function (under "import commands")
 * wikidata-cli now support dynamic SPARQL requests using JS files
 * New wikidata-sdk function: wdk.getSitelinkUrl, a function to easily build URLs from Wikidata API sitelinks data
 * Musik Lovers (de) is a project created during Coding da Vinci 2017 and reuses data from Wikidata about composers played in the Koncerthaus of Berlin


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: premiere type, name of the character role, Bechdel Test Movie List ID, Iowa Sports Hall of Fame ID, DORIS ID, Online Books Page author ID, ICTV virus genome composition, EK number, identity of object in context, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston object ID, squadron embarked, South Australian Football Hall of Fame inductee ID, trophy awarded, Württembergische Kirchengeschichte person ID, Merkelstiftung person ID, National Library of Brazil ID, AUSNUT 2011–13 Food Group ID, DVV player ID, UniProt journal ID, WAFL FootyFacts ID, watershed, Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ID, LKL player ID, LACMA ID, Art Institute of Chicago artwork ID, Queensland Australian Football Hall of Fame inductee ID


 * Query examples:
 * Place of birth of author with pages on the French Wikisource (source)
 * Number of movies passing or failing the Bechdel test by year (source)
 * 100 of the earliest 1000 works created by women on Wikidata with an image on Commons (source)
 * Chemical entities, whom discovered them, and when (source)
 * Sister-city and twin-city relationships of the largest cities (source)
 * Cast age at date of film publication (source)
 * Male saints that are the most used to name French cities after them (source)


 * Development
 * Add anchors to Special:ListDatatypes (T181371)
 * Data Types library has been integrated to Wikibase (T180454)
 * Investigate on the slow problems encountered on Wikidata (T182322)

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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