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Wikidata weekly summary #340
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Referencing websites: how do we store the website title?, Many surname items had been un merged because of failure to communicate.


 * Events
 * Past: women editathon in Mexico City, November 24th
 * Past: Wikidata "Train the trainers" workshop in Berlin, November 23th-25th
 * Running: WikiCite 2018, November 27th-29th, Berkeley, California, USA. Some livestream will be provided on Youtube
 * Upcoming: Wikidata "Train the trainers" workshop in Vienna, November 30th-December 2nd
 * Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, with a focus on Open Refine, January 15th


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Wikidata-related videos during GLAMwiki conference:
 * Wikidata — What's new - Jens Ohlig
 * A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners - Asaf Bartov
 * SPARQL workshop - Maarten Dammers
 * Engaging GLAM institutions with Wikidata - Sharing Experiences and Techniques - Andrew Lih
 * Sum of all Paintings and Open Data - Maarten Dammers
 * Wikidata’s role in metadata creation and reuse workflows in libraries - Michelle Futornick
 * Open your structured GLAM data with Wikibase — install your own instance of the technology behind Wikidata - Jens Ohlig
 * Impact and potential of structured data on Wikimedia projects for the GLAM sector - Sandra Fauconnier
 * Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons - Introduction and panel of Wikimedia pilots
 * Introduction to Wikidata in 7min by Asaf Bartov
 * Introduction to Wikidata by Lydia Pintscher in 20min, during Shani Evenstein's university course about Wikidata


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata Senses (documentation), new tool by User:Vesihiisi to add senses to lexemes
 * The Swedish National Heritage Board has started working on a project, related to Structured Data on Commons, that focuses on ways to feed back improved (crowdsourced) metadata to cultural institutions who contribute media files to Wikimedia Commons.
 * Please alert your GLAM partners to a new survey about crowdsourcing, metadata and Wikimedia Commons, which informs the research for this project!
 * Scribe, a project to support under-resourced Wikipedias based on Wikidata's content, has been proposed for a grant
 * Tool to convert Wikibase JSON to RDF without storing it in a repository
 * Call for paper for the data quality workshop in Berlin on January 18th. Open until December 3rd


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: running mate, research site, quotes work
 * External identifiers: World Poker Tour player ID, GLAMOS glacier ID, Academy Awards Database nominee ID, ANICA ID, National Portrait Gallery (United States) object ID, r-hockey.ru person ID, Sotheby's Museum Network ID, MNAV artist ID, Google News publication ID, ALCA author ID, Atlas of Florida Plants ID, BoardGeekGame game publisher ID, Invasive Plant Atlas of the United States ID, Luding game publisher ID, NAS ID, Depósito Legal ID, Corpus typographique français ID, British Executions ID, Bantu Lexical Reconstructions ID, Welsh Book Trade Info ID, System16 identifier, Académie d'Arles member ID, Sega Saturn game ID, Bitraga author ID, TWAS Fellow ID, Bitraga work ID, Cal-IPC ID, EUNIS ID, Dimensions Author ID, Dimensions Publication ID, Dimensions Source ID, Disney A to Z ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: language use, has variant, has version, rationale text, HABS ID, Wikia Article URL, CNPJ
 * External identifiers: AJOL ID, Microsoft Academic Source ID, GameFAQs company ID, BDFA player ID, Sabinet ID, NSW State Archives and Records Authority Agency ID, Guida al fumetto italiano ID, Bygdeband location, OeBL 1815-1950 ID, Badtaste ID, Badgames ID, defined term ID, Wikia Article ID, Female mexican soccer players ID, Geolex ID, OBV editions, BBC News topic id, member of the Portuguese parliament ID


 * Query examples:
 * Place and century of discovery of the archaeological objects of St Raymond museum (France) (source)
 * Location of city halls in Spain (source)
 * Timeline of famous pirates (source)
 * Authors who are the most cited in Nature Chemistry (source)
 * Scholarly articles published about Wikidata (adapted from here)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23The%20world's%20tallest%20200%20mountains%2C%20and%20if%2Fwhen%20they%20were%20first%20climbed.%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fmountain%20%3FmountainLabel%20(sample(%3Fheight)%20as%20%3Fheight)%20(year(%3Fdate)%20as%20%3Fyear)%20(sample(%3Flocation)%20as%20%3Flocation)%20%3Flayer%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20%3Fmountain%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ8502%20.%20%23%20Everything%20that's%20a%20mountain%0A%20%20%3Fmountain%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Flocation%20.%20%23%20and%20has%20a%20coordinate%0A%20%20%3Fmountain%20p%3AP2044%20%3Fheightstatement%20.%20%23%20and%20has%20a%20height-statement%0A%20%20%3Fheightstatement%20psv%3AP2044%20%3FPSVStatement.%20%23%20normalised%20height%20statement%0A%20%20%3FPSVStatement%20wikibase%3AquantityNormalized%20%3Fanother_statement%20.%0A%20%20%3Fanother_statement%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3Fheight.%23%20height%20-%20phew!%0A%20%20FILTER(%3Fheight%20%3E%206000)%20%23%20only%20the%20tallest%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fmountain%20p%3AP793%20%3Fevent%20.%20%23%20and%20within%20that%20%22significant%20event%22%20statement%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fevent%20ps%3AP793%20wd%3AQ1194369%20.%20%23%20continued...%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fevent%20pq%3AP585%20%3Fdate%20.%20%23it%20has%20a%20%22point%20in%20time%22%20qualifier%20statement.%0A%20%20%20%20bind%20(%22Climbed%22%20as%20%3Flayer)%20%23%20this%20seems%20to%20be%20what%20we%20need%20to%20get%20colour%20labels%20-%0A%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%20%23%20ie%20if%20it%20falls%20in%20the%20optional%20group%20of%20%22was%20first%20summited%22%0A%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%20%23%20then%20bind%20to%20a%20new%20layer%2C%20otherwise%20no%20special%20layer%0A%20%20%7D%20%0ASERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0Agroup%20by%20%3Fmountain%20%3FmountainLabel%20%3Fdate%20%3Flayer%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%20(%3Fheight)%0ALIMIT%20200 The world's 200 tallest mountains, and whether Wikidata knows they've been climbed] (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Kākāpō, WikiProject Scholia
 * Newest database reports: Fugger


 * Development
 * Fix an error when entering an incomplete filename (T199420)
 * Fix the unreadable references for unpriviledged users (T186006)
 * Create new page properties for number of Forms and Senses of a Lexeme (T199611)
 * Adapt the API to efficiently format large numbers of entity IDs (T207484)
 * Switch "save" to "publish" in the Lexeme interface (T203354)
 * Fix a bug showing outdated link formats in the history of Lexemes (T208423)
 * Add Special:MergeLexemes to Special:SpecialPages (T204397)
 * Add Wikipedia link in the other projects sidebar of Wikisource (T180303, thanks to Tpt)
 * Work on displaying the language of the gloss with the language name, both in reading and editing mode (T203457, T209931)
 * More work on improving the interface of the termbox on mobile

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


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

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 11:39, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

Nominations now open for "Military historian of the year" and "Military history newcomer of the year" awards
Nominations for our annual Military historian of the year and Military history newcomer of the year awards are open until 23:59 (GMT) on 15 December 2018. Why don't you nominate the editors who you believe have made a real difference to the project in 2018? MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:26, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

December 2018 GOCE newsletter
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:05, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #341
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: How to handle heat treating as a qualifier for material properties ?
 * New development input: Identify problems with adding new languages into Wikidata


 * Events
 * Upcoming: "Researcher meets Curator", with a subquestion: "What are the consequences of collecting born digital sources, working with digital network analysis and engaging with linked open data initiatives such as Wikidata", in Maastricht on 22 March 2019. Call for papers
 * Upcoming: Advanced Wikidata Training in India, December 15-16
 * Past: "Wikibase: configure, customize, and collaborate" workshop at SWIB 18 in Bonn, Germany on November 26, 2018. Workshop materials
 * Past: EveryPolitician event to identify political data sources for Wikidata in Madrid, Spain, on December 1, 2018.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Author Disambiguator (github source), new tool by d:User:ArthurPSmith (based on SourceMD) for linking author items to their works.
 * OpenRefine 3.1 was released
 * New API module to format multiple entity IDs
 * You can now access the number of Forms and Senses of Lexemes through API and special page


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: reference has role, tautomer of, eponymous category, language style, ratified by, funding scheme
 * External identifiers: GameFAQs company ID, AJOL journal ID, LEGO set ID, BDFA player ID, Sabinet journal ID, NSW State Archives and Records Authority Agency ID, Bygdeband location ID, Austrian Biographical Encylopedia ID, Badtaste ID, Badgames ID, Mexican female soccer players ID, member of the Portuguese parliament ID, BBC News topic ID, OBV editions ID, Geolex ID, CNPJ, Defined Term ID, Guida al Fumetto Italiano ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: gained independence from, nachgewiesen mittels, measured by (KPI), OpenTrials ID, administrated by the administrative territorial entity, level of description, stored as lexeme, taxon author citation, Astronomical coordinates, catchphrase, real estate developer, Danske Taler speaker
 * External identifiers: TrENSmissions person ID, LIGA profile, SEINet ID, BIBSYS work ID, Jewish Museum Berlin person ID, UK Parliament Identifier, HAER ID, Vesti.kz person ID, Genius album ID, Genius song ID, TASS reference, DIR3 ID, NooSFere story ID, L'Encyclopédie philosophique ID, RegiowikiAT ID, Discord Store game SKU, kohanimeregister, ARLLFB member ID, ARB person ID, Biographie nationale de Belgique ID, protected area authority ID, Flora of Wisconsin ID, identifiant Monument aux morts


 * Query examples:
 * Timeline of early Western movies (source)
 * Species represented in the exhibition "Espèces en voies d'illumination" in the natural history museum of Paris (source)
 * Properties most used to describe cats in Wikidata (source)
 * List of UK embassies (source)
 * Map of places of residence for accused witches in Scotland with a layer for occupations (source)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
 * Development
 * Add Lexeme to Wikibase's ontology.owl (T195368)
 * Prepare to drop change_tag.ct_tag column (T194163)
 * Create Federated Wikibase instance on Beta Commons (T204748)
 * More work on preparing a new termbox for the mobile version of Wikidata


 * 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) 13:35, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #342
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Scholarly articles that are book reviews


 * Events
 * Past: SWAT4HCLS in Antwerp Belgium December 3:
 * Wikibase tutorial
 * "Wikidata as an intuitive resource towards semantic data modeling in data FAIRification" short paper
 * "WikiCite, Wikidata, and Scholia: Linking Publications to Topics" (demo /food/ aspect)
 * Past: Workshop "Wikidata - what is that and why it's relevant in the field of geospatial information technologies?"? at Latvia's Geospatial Information Technology (GIT) conference (slides)
 * Past: Introduction to Wikidata for Wikipedians in Stokholm, Sweden, December 4th
 * Upcoming: Introduction to Wikidata for Wikipedians in Göteborg, Sweden, December 10th


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * "Detailed depictions with IIIF, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons" by Martin Poulter, Bodleian Digital Library blog
 * Report of the GNDCon in the Kurier (in German)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * iD, the default OSM editor at openstreetmap.org has recently had an update which pulls data from Wikidata.
 * WikidataCon 2019, the conference for open data enthusiasts, will take place on 25-26 October 2019 in Berlin
 * Miniature map will be displayed for coordinate properties
 * New passwords requirements will apply on all wikis to new accounts and privileged accounts starting on December 13th
 * New grant request by MySociety: Wikidata post-election updating toolkit


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: award rationale, heat treating, copyright status, level of description
 * External identifiers: SEINet ID, LIGA profile, BIBSYS work ID, UK Parliament identifier, Jewish Museum Berlin person ID, Vesti.kz person ID, Genius album ID, Genius song ID, TASS reference, OpenTrials ID, NooSFere story ID, DIR3 ID, L'Encyclopédie philosophique ID, TrENSmissions person ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: creator, WordLift ID, Specific age inside fictional universe, type of rear suspensions, type of front suspensions, ride height, approach angle, departure angle, Drag coefficient, related category, SinemaTürk person ID, SinemaTürk film ID, Nombre annuel de passagers
 * External identifiers: BDEL ID, ZVR, NARA record group number, MMLO, IEC database ID commemorative monument of Catalonia, Meteorological Service of Canada climate ID, PomBase systematic ID, Volksbund ID, iTunes music movie ID, Paris Musées ID, Beachsoccer.ru player ID, BSRussia player ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of fountains in Zürich (source)
 * Timeline of famous bryologists (source)
 * Percentage of people member of the Swedish church per Church parish (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3FcountryLabel%20(GROUP_CONCAT(%3FgenreLabel%3B%20SEPARATOR%3D%22%2C%20%22)%20AS%20%3Fgenres)%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20for%20every%20country%2C%20find%20the%20maximum%20number%20of%20performers%20for%20some%20genre%0A%20%20%7B%20SELECT%20%3Fcountry%20(MAX(%3FgenrePerformers)%20AS%20%3FmaxPerformers)%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20for%20every%20country%20and%20genre%2C%20find%20the%20maximum%20number%20of%20performers%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fcountry%20(MAX(COUNT(DISTINCT%20%3Fperformer))%20AS%20%3FgenrePerformers)%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fgenre%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ188451%20%3B%20%20%23%20is-a%20musical%20genre%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5Ewdt%3AP136%20%3Fperformer%20%3B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20genre%20of%20performer%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%7B%20%3Fperformer%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ215380%20%7D%20UNION%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20performer%20is-a%20band%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Fperformer%20((wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*)%7Cwdt%3AP106)%20wd%3AQ639669%20%7D%7D%20%20%23%20%E2%80%A6%20or%20a%20musician%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fperformer%20(wdt%3AP27%7Cwdt%3AP495)%2Fwdt%3AP131*%20%3Fcountry%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20performer%20originating%20in%2Fcitizen%20of%20country%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcountry%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ3624078%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%20%23%20country%20is%20a%20sovereign%20state%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fcountry%20%3Fgenre%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fcountry%20%7D%0A%20%20%23%20for%20every%20country%20and%20genre%2C%20find%20the%20number%20of%20performers%0A%20%20%7B%20SELECT%20%3Fcountry%20%3Fgenre%20%3FgenreLabel%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20(COUNT(DISTINCT%20%3Fperformer)%20AS%20%3Fperformers)%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fgenre%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ188451%20%3B%20%20%23%20is-a%20musical%20genre%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5Ewdt%3AP136%20%3Fperformer%20%3B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20genre%20of%20performer%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FgenreLabel%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20also%20fetch%20the%20label%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER(LANG(%3FgenreLabel)%20%3D%20%22en%22)%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%7B%20%3Fperformer%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ215380%20%7D%20UNION%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20performer%20is-a%20band%0A%20%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Fperformer%20((wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*)%7Cwdt%3AP106)%20wd%3AQ639669%20%7D%7D%20%20%23%20%E2%80%A6%20or%20a%20musician%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fperformer%20(wdt%3AP27%7Cwdt%3AP495)%20%3Fcountry%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20performer%20originating%20in%2Fcitizen%20of%20country%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fcountry%20%3Fgenre%20%3FgenreLabel%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20FILTER(%3Fperformers%20%3D%20%3FmaxPerformers)%20%20%23%20keep%20only%20those%20combinations%20of%20country%20and%20genre%0A%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%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20where%20the%20number%20of%20performers%20is%20maximal%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3FcountryLabel%20ORDER%20BY%20%3FcountryLabel Musical genres with the most bands and musicians on Wikidata, per sovereign country of origin/citizenship] (source)


 * Development
 * We are now showing the language name instead of the language code of a Gloss (T203457, T209931)
 * We added a Page property for easier programmatic access to the number of Senses and Forms of a Lexeme (T199611)
 * The code samples in the query service have been improved (T207749, thanks abian!)
 * We're working on tracking how often the different Lua functions that Wikibase provides are used in the Wikimedia project to see how that changes over time (T191416)
 * We worked on and fixed a security incident related to blocking (T210953)
 * We are continuing to bring the termbox (showing labels, descriptions, aliases) to mobile viewers

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


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

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:05, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: November 2018
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Voting now open for "Military historian of the year" and "Military history newcomer of the year" awards
Voting for our annual Military historian of the year and Military history newcomer of the year awards is open until 23:59 (GMT) on 30 December 2018. Why don't you vote for the editors who you believe have made a real difference to Wikipedia's coverage of military history in 2018? MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:17, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #343
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Split identifier into KEGG Drug Identifier, KEGG Compound Identifier, etc?
 * Closed request for comments: Clarifying rights and responsibilities of Property Creators


 * Events
 * Past: 26 November 2018: Adding your own stuff to Wikidata. Workshop at SWIB18, Bonn, Germany
 * Past: 04 December 2018: Chancen und Risiken einer komplementären Nutzung von GND und Wikidata. Präsentation auf der GNDCon in Frankfurt Main, Germany
 * Past: 11–12 December 2018 in Namburu, India: Wiki Advanced Training 2018 (with special focus on Wikidata) by Asaf Bartov
 * Upcoming: 35th Chaos Communication Congress, December 27-30, Leipzig. There will be Wikidata staff and volunteers and Wikidata-related sessions


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * 6 "inside-out" activities librarians are doing &mdash; numbers 4 and 5 involve Wikidata
 * From the "Annalen der Pharmacie" to the "European Journal of Organic Chemistry" about using Wikidata for capturing (some of) the history of chemistry
 * Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons, by Sandra Fauconnier, in EuropeanaTech 10 Insight Issue 10: Innovation Agenda
 * Many faces of Wikibase: Lingua Libre makes languages audible, by Jens Ohlig (also available in German)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Call for contribution for the WikiWorkshop, forum bringing together researchers exploring all aspects of the Wikimedia projects, held in May 2019 in San Francisco, is now open until January 31st
 * Research questionnaire about Wikidata as a learning platform by Shani Evenstein as part of her PhD research.
 * Interactive map of the Sibthorp & Bauer Expedition, produced by the Bodleian Libraries, powered by Wikidata
 * Scholia's "missing" pages (example) now link to the new Author Disambiguator tool, and a Listeria list is available to help prioritize co-author disambiguation for authors with sitelinks.
 * Draft of behavior norms policy, feel free to leave comments
 * Wikimedia hackathon in Prague: apply for a scholarship until January 4th
 * Discuss if you can edit your own item, and vote here on the proposed policy.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: real estate developer, collection creator, digital representation of, specific age inside fictional universe, catchphrase, subject lexeme, right ascension, declination, epoch, galactic longitude, galactic latitude
 * External identifiers: ARLLFB member ID, Flora of Wisconsin ID, RegiowikiAT identifier, Discord Store game SKU, Bavarian protected area ID, BDEL ID, Danske Taler speaker ID, Place Names Register ID (Estonia), Biographie nationale de Belgique ID, ARB person ID, Monument aux morts ID, IEC commemorative monument of Catalonia ID, MMLO, Meteorological Service of Canada climate site ID, Volksbund ID, PomBase systematic ID, Paris Musées work ID, LEGO design ID, LEGO element ID, iTunes music movie ID, BSRussia player ID, Beachsoccer.ru person ID, SinemaTürk person ID, SinemaTürk film ID, Wikia article ID, MinDat mineral ID, Harvard Index of Botanists ID, MinDat Locality ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Garzanti Linguistica, Buried in this place, specific rotation, Data interval, Minimum wage, Danmarks svampeatlas ID, friend of, copyright representative, rights statement, co-director, Berliner Schutzgebiets-ID, preparation instructions
 * External identifiers: SVT Open archive, Hymnary.org page, Anbytarforum, Multiplayer ID, Amazon Music artist ID, Parliament of South Africa ID, Objectif Gard topic ID, Epic Games Store ID, Hymnary author ID, IPPDH ID, French Academy of Sciences member ID, OTRS ticket number 2, MNopedia ID, NCpedia ID, ICCD IDs, Weeds in Ontario ID, AllMusic performance ID, bbcmicro.co.uk identifier, YSA ID


 * Query examples:
 * (UK) Ambassador by country list - Listeria report which writes 240 by-country reports on UK Ambassadors - h/t NavinoEvans for the approach
 * Presidents of the United States ranked by the number of species named after them (source)
 * Communes of France whose name starts with "Saint" (source)
 * Italian toponyms with suffixes of Celtic origin (-ago, -ate, -asco) (source)
 * List of ABBA songs in A major (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Policies
 * Newest database reports: Nicolas Cage filmography
 * expanded list of Christmas films


 * Development
 * Test that the issue with blocked users will not happen anymore (T211120)
 * Finish up on showing Language and Language codes when editing glosses (T209931)
 * Work towards having QualityContraints on Beta (T209957)
 * Work on tracking usage of Wikibase Lua Functions (T191416)
 * Some more work on string length limits (T154660)
 * Work on some Wikidata toolkit improvements (T209399)
 * Fix some errors happening in production (T208924)
 * More under-the-hood work for the termbox on mobile

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


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

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 11:28, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #344
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Closed request for comments: Changes in email property, Datatype of P667, How to capture negative results in Wikidata?


 * Events
 * Current: Chaos Communication Congress (35C3) where several Wikidata people are present and related sessions happening
 * Next Wikidata IRC office hour: January 8th, 18:00 (UTC+1) on the channel wikimedia-office


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Wikidata architecture overview by Addshore
 * Créer une carte avec Wikidata, OpenRefine et uMap (in French) by Jean-Baptiste Pressac


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Structured data on Commons: Multilingual captions beta testing
 * Lingua Libre now adds audio pronunciation on Forms
 * Check out the roadmap for the development of Wikidata and Wikibase for 2019


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: API endpoint, demonym of, specific rotation, concentration, copyright representative, Berlin protected area ID, advertises
 * External identifiers: Garzanti Linguistica ID, Multiplayer ID, Danmarks svampeatlas ID, Boobpedia article, Amazon Music artist ID, Objectif Gard topic ID, Epic Games Store ID, ZVR-Number, IPPDH ID, French Academy of Sciences member ID, MNopedia ID, NCpedia ID, Weeds in Ontario ID, ICCD ID - S form, ICCD ID - CF form, ICCD ID - CG form, ODNR Division of Wildlife ID, Penthouse ID, bbcmicro.co.uk identifier, YSA ID, ARTIC exhibition ID, ARTIC artist ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: maintenance method, second family name in Scandinavian names, organizational unit, story by, Code of Natura 2000 FFH habitats, century fl., adjective of, holonym 2, meronym 2, has contraction 2, yield, colorist, distinguishing property, Wikispecies template for this work, affiliation string
 * External identifiers: bgm.tv person identifier, bgm.tv character identifier, PC-9801DB ID, ACB.com coach ID, The Armory Show at 100 ID, researchportal.helsinki.fi profile URL, Scoresway tennis person ID, Dictionnaire de spiritualité ID, Muséosphère ID, Historical RNA ID, TheFinalBall coach ID, TheFinalBall referee ID, WorldFootball.net referee ID, teams.by player ID, pressball.by player ID, AMFR player ID, premierliga.ru staff ID, premierliga.ru referee ID, CFU player ID, AIC player ID, RusTeam player ID, Critique d'art ID, Centre Pompidou ID, Agence photo RMN ID, INE ID (Portugal), Agence photo RMN package ID, Wikiapiary entry, England Football Online player profile, England Football Online manager profile, DVR Number, Politika topic, Goodreads character ID


 * Deleted properties: P4570 (Wikidata project)
 * Query examples:
 * Catchphrases in Wikidata (source)
 * Timeline of Indian mathematicians (source)
 * Painting part of the Bavarian State Painting Collections (source)
 * Types of pasta in Wikidata with pictures (source)


 * Development
 * Writing a maintenance script to make configuring WikibaseQualityConstraints easier (T209958)
 * Working on new ID generator using different SQL to attempt to stop lock errors when creating lots of items (T194299)
 * Making more parts of the Query Service UI more configurable such as the copyright page, title, and started work on the favicon / logos (T194175)
 * Adding tracking for Wikibase Lua functions so we can see how they are used on various different projects (T191416)
 * Working on fixing alignment issues with glosses (T207401)

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


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

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 13:04, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #345
<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: Do we want automatic inverse property creation and if so, how should they happen?


 * Events
 * Video of Lydia's keynote at GNDCon


 * Press/Blogs
 * Introduction to Wikidata as a platform and data source
 * Europeana Innovation Agenda
 * The Hand-editor’s Tale
 * mySociety 2018 report including their work on Wikidata
 * Using WikiData API to get the sense of words
 * The Evolution of Power and Standard Wikidata Editors: Comparing Editing Behavior over Time to Predict Lifespan and Volume of Edits


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * In Pywikibot, you can now add a new statement with qualifiers and/or references in a single edit (T112577, T170432)
 * A couple of gran proposals under review need your input and endorsement
 * There are now over 2 million Wikidata infoboxes on Commons!
 * Happy New Year! (L40653)


 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: bgm.tv character identifier, ACB.com coach ID, bgm.tv person identifier, PC-9801DB ID, Hymnary author ID, The Armory Show at 100 ID, Dictionnaire de spiritualité ID, Swedish Anbytarforum, researchportal.helsinki.fi profile ID, Wikimedia OTRS ticket number, AllMusic performance ID, Wikibase Registry ID, Scoresway tennis person ID, Historical RNA ID, Muséosphère work ID, pressball.by player ID, premierliga.ru staff ID, premierliga.ru referee ID, WorldFootball.net referee ID, TheFinalBall referee ID, TheFinalBall coach ID, RusTeam player ID, CFU player ID, AIC player ID, AMFR player ID, teams.by player ID, vehicle identification number, Centre Pompidou ID, INE ID (Portugal)
 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: agglomerative, urban population, rural population, Linear reference, located in urban area
 * External identifiers: SHARE-VDE author ID, Panorama de l'art ID, PCGamingWiki ID, MDWS place ID, JKT48 member ID, Uppsala General Catalogue ID
 * Query examples:
 * Graph of student-master relationship of Christian Thielemann #Neujahrskonzert (source)
 * Cricket teams in the world by number of players and their gender (source)
 * Buildings designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer (source)
 * Species have been named after Donald Trump (source)
 * Catchphrases (source)


 * Development
 * Not much happened this week because we took some time off over the holidays. Getting back to full speed again in the next days.


 * 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; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 22:42, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

Precious anniversary
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:11, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #346
<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
 * Closed request for comments: Referencing websites: how do we store the website title?


 * Events
 * Past: 35th Chaos Communication Congress in Leipzig, December 27-30. Several talks about Wikidata can be watched in replay:
 * Introduction to Wikidata and the Query Service by Lucas Werkmeister and Amir Sarabadani
 * AI in Wikipedia by Amir Sarabadani
 * How to become a Mediawiki hacker by Andre Klapper
 * Live-coding: building a Wikidata tool by Lucas Werkmeister
 * Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, at 18:00 (UTC+1, Berlin time) on the channel #wikimedia-office
 * Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in WikiBär, Berlin, January 15th (in German)
 * Upcoming: Academic workshop on data quality management in Wikidata, Berlin, January 18th (registration needed)


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Citation.js: a format-independent, modular bibliography tool for the browser and command line, by Lars G. Willighagen (preprint)
 * Toward an abstract Wikipedia, by Denny Vrandečić
 * Wikidata and the sum of all video games, by Jean-Fred
 * Building a Wikidata Tool – Behind the Scenes by Lucas Werkmeister (follow-up from the "Building a Wikidata tool" live-coding session, see above)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * >1000 sitelinks to the new Shan Wikipedia (shnwiki) have been added since November
 * Swiss foundation MY-D has published a call for projects for Wikidata showcase applications
 * Reminder: you can give your input on issues when requesting a new language for Wikidata


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: title of broader work, colorist, data interval
 * External identifiers: Critique d'art ID, DVR Number, Goodreads character ID, Politika topic, SHARE-VDE author ID, England Football Online manager profile, England Football Online player profile, Panorama de l'art ID, Agence photo RMN package ID, MDWS place ID, JKT48 member ID, PCGamingWiki ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: IFPNI species ID, corporate purpose, Lace bugs database ID, Катэгорыя членаў, The White-files species ID, at distance, representative image, Wikia Article URL 2
 * External identifiers: Dictionnaire des Wallons ID, Hymnary text ID, Doctrine ID, Genius artist numeric ID, Archives of Maryland Biographical Series ID, OSGS-Number, OLAC video game genre vocabulary, De Agostini ID, Baltisches Biographisches Lexikon Digital ID (new scheme), MNAM ID, IHOI ID, Conférence du stage secretary ID, Genius album numeric ID, Musée Picasso ID, Genius song numeric ID, Crew united Titel, Crew united Name


 * Query examples:
 * Articles about obituaries (source)
 * Map of Slovenian cultural monuments coloured by type (source)
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French settlements with more than one word in the name] (source)
 * People after which a state is named (source)
 * "official name" statements including a slash punctuation mark (source)
 * Streets in the Netherlands named after a woman described in Els Kloek's book (source)
 * Map of parts of the wall of Philip II Augustus in Paris (source)


 * Development
 * Working on getting final pieces in place to regularly run constraint check jobs so all constraint violations get fed into the query service (T204031)
 * Fixed alignment issues with Glosses on Lexeme pages (T207401)
 * Working on getting the layout right for the termbox in the mobile view so that in the future you can also see labels, descriptions and aliases in different languages on mobile (T207150)
 * Getting ready to start working on basic Shape Expression support

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


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

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Wikidata weekly summary #347
<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
 * Past: IRC office hour, January 8th
 * Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in WikiBär, Berlin, January 15th (in German)
 * Upcoming: Academic workshop on data quality management in Wikidata, Berlin, January 18th (registration needed)
 * Upcoming: Wikidata hackathon in Ulm, Germany, on February 22-24. The organization team is looking for people who can give introduction to Wikidata, QuickStatements or gadgets (in German).


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Connecting PCGamingWiki and Wikidata by Connor Shea
 * VOSviewer supports large number of new data sources (including Wikidata)
 * Interview of Denny Vrandečić on the podcast Between the Brackets, about Wikidata and plenty of other things


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Structured data for Commons: multilingual captions are deployed on Commons on January 10th (documentation)
 * The Wikidata Query Service has been encountering some data corruption issues that impact the results you can see when running a query. Some may still be running. You can check the current ticket for more updates.
 * New dashboard for percentage of pages on a Wikimedia project make use of data from Wikidata (doesn't include sitelinks, doesn't include Commons file and category pages for now)
 * Science Stories, a project highlighting women in sciences, uses Wikidata


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: urban population, rural population, corporate purpose, closest approach
 * External identifiers: Uppsala General Catalogue ID, IFPNI species ID, Dictionnaire des Wallons ID, The White-files species ID, Hymnary text ID, Lace bugs database ID, Doctrine ID, Genius artist numeric ID, OLAC video game genre vocabulary, OSGS-Number, MNAM artwork ID, IHOI work ID, Conférence du stage secretary ID, Musée Picasso artwork ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: official color, euler characteristic, REDIZO, number of articles, property for implied values, BNP Catalog ID, Psyl'list species ID, charter URL, works in collection, precedes word-initial, WordLift ID
 * External identifiers: Litchfield Ledger ID, NicoNicoPedia, Bahamut Gamer's Community ACG Database, Bunkacho Media Art Database (Development Version): Animation Database, Bunkacho Media Art Database (Development Version): Comic Database, Interpol WOA ID, MAMVP ID, VectorBase Taxonomy ID, Köztaurusz azonosító, TV Spielfilm, Norwegian silvertax 1816 contributor ID, Krugosvet article, infosport.ru person ID, Viperson ID, iTunes TV season ID, sportufo.ru person ID, RBU person ID, biathlon.com.ua person ID, skiresort.info ID, AiF dossier, JORFSearch organization ID, ELNET ID, U-DISE code, AISHE code, EIIN number


 * Query examples:
 * Schools of magic by numbers of students (source)
 * Members of the Association for Computing Machinery who also gave TED talks (source)
 * Languages where some lexemes have more than one grammatical gender entered in Wikidata (source)
 * Timeline of early French aviation pioneers (source)
 * Map of schools where virtual twins were educated (source)
 * Most cited Magnuses in Wikidata (source)


 * Development
 * Solving an issue that blocked deployments over the past weeks (T212427)
 * Improved the visual appearance of glosses (T207401)
 * Fixing problems with reverting Sense addition (T211438)
 * Improving our Javascript to be more standard (T210744)
 * Working on performing more constraint type checks in PHP before falling back to SPARQL (T209504)
 * Making the query service logo and favicon configurable in one's own Wikibase (T212210)
 * More work on displaying the termbox on mobile (T207150)

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


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

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