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Wikidata weekly summary #413
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Udder balm
 * CheckUser nomination: علاء


 * Events
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #11, May 3
 * Upcoming: Live editing of Wikidata, May 2 18:00 (UTC) YouTube, Facebook


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Wiki Workshop 2020: Report
 * Editing food items and querying glaciers: YouTube and Facebook
 * Interactions between VIAF and Wikidata (in Italian) YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * zotkat's exporter for Zotero (a software to manage bibliographic data) allows you to export bibliographies to the QuickStatements format. It is helpful to easily create bibliographical entries, especially as Zotero can read metadata about works from dozens of other websites, and can thus be used as intermediary.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata now includes more than seven million people (it has doubled since July 2017), also: project chat discussion
 * Nobelprize.org has now redesigned its website so that Wikipedia can link to it easier using the Wikidata Property Nobel Laureate API ID (P8024) (more information)
 * The use of Listeria to generate basic charts (pie, area, line, bar) with d:Template:Graph:Chart, see d:Template:Wikidata list
 * Mohammed Sadat joined the Wikidata team as community communications manager for Wikidata and Wikibase


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: tournament format, dialect of computer language, located in the statistical territorial entity
 * External identifiers: ModelSEED compound ID, UM-BBD compound ID, DLL Catalog author ID, DLL Catalog work ID, CPAN author ID, Fandango performer ID, Club Identifier Netherlands Handball Association, Forest Stewardship Council License Code, IDU theatre company ID, Internetowy Polski Słownik Biograficzny ID, Texas Historic Sites Atlas ID, Swedish Glaciers ID, Soccerdonna coach ID, Encyclopedia of České Budějovice ID, Il Sole 24 Ore ID, Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis ID, Moravian Lives ID, motorsportstats.com driver ID, motorsportstats.com series ID, motorsportstats.com venue ID, SAR ancestor ID, Ternopil Encyclopedia ID, Psocodea Species File ID, SkiMo Stats ID, National-Football-Teams.com club ID, re:publica speaker ID, Provenio ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: nerve origin, 法令番号, interpretation, DoME exhibition ID
 * External identifiers: dbchgk, COVIDWHO ID, History Colorado ID, Maryland's National Register Properties ID, Epistemonikos ID, National Library of Israel J9U ID, Lexikon der Filmbegriffe ID, Dart thesis, DPE school code


 * Query examples:
 * Pairs of lakes named after a couple
 * The longest river that feeds into another river (Source)
 * Longest rivers that do not feed into a sea or ocean (Source)
 * Map showing things in Wikidata that are located on or next to the River Thames (Source)
 * Defining formulas of physical and other quantities (Source)
 * TreeMap visualising the 12 times table (Source)
 * Map of the "Leipzig University Villages" (Source)
 * There are now more than 7 million people on Wikidata (Source)
 * Recently published works on COVID-19 (Source)
 * Welsh hospitals, health centres, doctors surgeries and temporary Covid19 hospitals (Source)
 * Newest database reports: measures of gobbledygook


 * Development
 * More work on error screens for the Bridge
 * Use updated data for the Bridge (T240223)
 * Display statements made with federated properties on item pages (T246606)
 * Automated references: normalizing data that the extractor gets out of HTML pages (T249004)
 * Create a distributed game so people can vet references easily (T248997)
 * Cleanup rows from wb_items_per_site (T249613)
 * Don't suggest initial uppercase in mobile termbox (T241978)
 * Have the focus on field when adding new element on Sense (T203461)

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.

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:28, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

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Issue 38, January – April 2020
 The Wikipedia Library Books & Bytes

Issue 38, January – April 2020 
 * New partnership
 * Global roundup

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Jersey Beat
Hi, I did start a discussion today on the talkpage. Also, please revert your edit as undeclared paid editing tags should not be removed. The creator of the article is blocked as a suspected paid editor for promotional purposes as determined by a senior admin and that is not up for discussion as outing of editors real identity is not permitted, regards Atlantic306 (talk) 18:02, 30 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Thanks for starting a discussion on the talk page and explaining the page creator's block. I have reverted my edit. MarkZusab (talk) 18:11, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi, if you believe the article should be in mainspace it really needs a complete rewrite and source search to get over the UPE problems if you're interested, regards Atlantic306 (talk)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 15
 News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (April 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 15th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
 * Cscr-featured.svg SD0001's find-archived-section, now a gadget, is this month's featured script


 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Enterprisey:
 * link-deleted-revs (On error pages for deleted revisions, show a link to the Special:Undelete page)
 * undelete-backlink (On Special:Undelete pages for diffs and revisions, link back to the main Undelete page with the list of revisions)
 * Epicgenius's sortcategories (sorts categories in an article alphabetically)
 * Awesome Aasim:
 * addmylinks (adds a customizable area for links and/or text to the sidebar)
 * editrequest (tool that allows for processing and answering edit requests)
 * DemonDays64's Dumb quotes (replaces smart curly single and double quotes with "dumb" quotes)
 * Guywan's FileMoverHelper (move files and replace their uses in one action)


 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Enterprisey's reply-link has been updated to fail less, especially around template transclusions.
 * Twinkle released new features, including a new option to disable individual modules, support for stub template nomination at CfD, and integration with the PageTriage extension used to patrol new pages. (See full list of changes)

Open tasks
 * The  resource loader module was deprecated and is no longer needed; its functionality is now available by default. See mw:ResourceLoader/Migration guide (users) for more. Any dependency on it should be removed.

Pending requests
 * A script to reload feeds automatically
 * A script to mark templates in the TFD holding cell as ready for deletion
 * ...and many more, all available at User scripts/Requests



Miscellaneous
 * User scripts/Most imported scripts now also shows the number of active users for each script. It will now be updated by a bot periodically.
 * Twinkle's Morebits library added a new  class to replace the moment library. It can handle custom formatting and natural language for dates, as well as section header regexes. If you were using   or   with   objects, those have been deprecated and should be updated.
 * User:SD0001/find-archived-section was made a gadget. You can enable it from your gadget preferences, in the Browsing section.

Hope everyone stays safe. --DannyS712 (talk) 20:27, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2020). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Gnangarra • Kaisershatner • Malcolmxl5

CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Callanecc

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg HJ Mitchell

Guideline and policy news
 * Discretionary sanctions have been authorized for all pages and edits related to COVID-19, to be logged at WP:GS/COVID19.
 * Following a recent discussion on Meta-Wiki, the edit filter maintainer global group has been created.
 * A request for comment has been proposed to create a new main page editor usergroup.
 * A request for comment has been proposed to make the bureaucrat activity requirements more strict.

Technical news
 * The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. You can review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page.
 * created a script that will show a link to the proper Special:Undelete page when viewing a since-deleted revision, see User:Enterprisey/link-deleted-revs.

Miscellaneous
 * A request for comment closed with consensus to create a Village Pump-style page for communication with the Wikimedia Foundation.

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Wikidata weekly summary #414
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: A meta item namespace (Mxxx) for structured data about Wikidata


 * Events
 * Competition for the International Museum Day is about improving data about museums in Austria, France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland on Wikidata, from 3 May 2020 to 18 May 2020, more information on Museum Day 2020/Wikidata Competition
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Alex Jung on Wikidata and Wikipedia Infoboxes, 05 May. Agenda
 * Upcoming: live SPARQL queries in French by Vigneron, Tuesday May 5 at 20:00 CEST (UTC+2)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing: YouTube
 * Art+Feminism Office Hours: Introduction to Editing Wikidata: YouTube
 * Webinar on why and how to contribute to Wikipedia and Wikidata? (in French): YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * ProWD explores completeness for entities and classes.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * MachtSinn, a tool that allows you to easily add Senses to Lexemes, has lately been improved significantly
 * 33,000 values of British Museum person or institution ID (d:Property:P1711) now have a useful target again. After their being mostly inoperative for several years, the new British Museum website now has information pages matching these values, with links to related objects. (Example). To work around bug T112081, a script by Andrew Gray is going through the items making null edits to update the relevant URLs.
 * Outdated copy of wb_terms has been dropped on April 29th


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: COVIDWHO ID, Sicilian Regional Assembly ID, Sicilian Regional Assembly numeric ID, Accademia delle Scienze di Torino ID, Republic of Korea Parliamentarian Society ID, NKAA ID, MémorialGenWeb monument ID, History Colorado ID, SciProfiles ID, Bibliotheca Augustana author ID, CONI honoured ID, DGHS facility code, Diels-Kranz ID, DPVweb ID, Maryland's National Register Properties ID, Encyclopaedia Metallum label ID, WhatDoTheyKnow organisation ID, FactGrid item ID, Heritage Gateway ID, RPPS ID, Priset of Archidiecezja Gdańska ID, Sejm-Wielki.pl profile ID, Extratime.ie player ID, Slovak Registration ID, Infames Romani ID, Itch.io developer profile, Oregon Historic Sites Database ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Ex-libris, tabular case data, Geneanet URL(s), transitivity, Compatible with
 * External identifiers: DPE school code, identifiant Prix de Lausanne, CDAPNC author ID, identificativo Giunta regionale della Sicilia, Goodreads work ID, Wikilengua, BeWeb cultural institution ID, Anagrafe Istituti Culturali Ecclesiastici ID, Group Properties wiki ID, House Divided ID, Southwest Harbor Public Library item, Gitabitan.net ID, The Conversation author ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of countries receiving the Nobel peace prize (Source)
 * Map of geolocated Argentine libraries (Source)
 * Recipes that include garlic (Source)
 * Images of postcards from the catalog of the Regional bibliography of Saxony (Source)
 * French municipalities which have the property "archived by" (P485) for the departmental archives of Bouches-du-Rhône (Source)
 * Municipalities with less than 5,000 inhabitants in the Basque Country (Source)
 * People born in Wales who became head of government in Wales or overseas (Source)
 * Average stardate of Star Trek episodes (Source)
 * Municipalities in mainland France with more than 50,000 inhabitants (Source)
 * Graph showing direct ancestral lines linking Boris Johnson and George I, and Jesus and Abraham (Source)
 * Photos by Carlton Watkins with their collection (Source)
 * Works from Louvre Museum whose inventory number begins with an S (Source)
 * Works from the Islamic arts department of Louvre Museum (Source)
 * Map of artists with place of their birth on Wikidata (Source)
 * Location and image of the cathedrals of Paris (Source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23With%20pictures%0A%0A%23died%20in%20Treblinka%20Q152010%20%28none%29%0A%23died%20in%20Sobibor%20Q152658%20%28none%29%0A%23died%20in%20Auschwitz-Birkenau%20Q7341%0A%23died%20in%20Theresienstadt%20%0A%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fpic%20%3Fdatedied%20%3FplacediedLabel%20%3Fplacedied%20%3Fchild%20%3FchildLabel%20%3Fownedby%20%3FownedbyLabel%20%3Fdepicts%20%3FdepictsLabel%20%3Fdepictedby%20%3FdepictedbyLabel%20%3FcountryLabel%20%3Fownerof%20%3FownerofLabel%20%3Fspouse%20%3Femployer%20%3FemployerLabel%20%3FspouseLabel%20%3Fmother%20%3FmotherLabel%20%3Ffather%20%3FfatherLabel%20%3Fsibling%20%3FsiblingLabel%20%3Finvestby%20%3FinvestbyLabel%20%3Fsigperson%20%3FsigpersonLabel%20%3Fparty%20%3FpartyLabel%20%3Fpartner%20%3FpartnerLabel%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP106%20wd%3AQ1792450.%7D%20UNION%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ1007870.%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP106%20wd%3AQ173950.%7D%20UNION%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP921%20wd%3AQ328376.%7D%20UNION%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP106%20wd%3AQ10732476.%7D%20UNION%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP106%20wd%3AQ446966.%7D%20UNION%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP106%20wd%3AQ22132694.%7D%20UNION%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP106%20wd%3AQ674426.%7D%0A%0A%0ASERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP20%20wd%3AQ7341.%7D%20UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP20%20wd%3AQ160175.%7D%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fpic.%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP127%20%3Fownedby.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdatedied.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP20%20%3Fplacedied.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP180%20%3Fdepicts.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP921%20%3Fplunder.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1830%20%3Fownerof.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP108%20%3Femployer.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fbirth.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP40%20%3Fchild.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP214%20%3FVIAF_ID.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP19%20%3Fplace_birth.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP244%20%3FLibrary_of_Congress_authority_ID.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP227%20%3FGND_ID.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP245%20%3FULAN_ID.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP26%20%3Fspouse.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP27%20%3Fcountry.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP3342%20%3Fsigperson.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP102%20%3Fparty.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1327%20%3Fpartner.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1840%20%3Finvestby.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP25%20%3Fmother.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP22%20%3Ffather.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP3373%20%3Fsibling.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1299%20%3Fdepictedby.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP39%20%3Fposition.%20%7D%0A%23%20FILTER%20%28YEAR%28%3Fbirth%29%20%3D%201860%20%26amp%3B%26amp%3B%20YEAR%28%3Fbirth%29%20%26lt%3B%3D%201990%29%0AFILTER%20%28YEAR%28%3Fdatedied%29%20%3E%3D%201933%20%29%0A%7D%0ALIMIT%2020000 Jewish art collectors and dealers who were murdered in Nazi concentration camps] (Source)
 * Newest database reports: Notable descedents of Mayflower passengers


 * Development
 * Add monolingual language codes rm-rumgr, rm-surmiran, rm-sursilv, rm-sutsilv, rm-vallader, rm-puter (T222426)
 * More work on the test system for federated properties
 * More work on displaying statements with federated properties (T246606)
 * Bridge: more work on generic error screens (T241126)
 * Bridge: warn the user that they are about to edit anonymously (T246676)
 * Work on a Wikidata distributed game for automated finding of references
 * Automated finding references: build a scraper, simple value matching, item analyzer
 * Have the focus on field when adding new element on Sense (T203461)
 * Add more properties to the PageImages list (T249811)
 * Use strict types everywhere in Wikibase (T251382)

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.

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:33, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

Tech News: 2020-19
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * Some wikis will be on read-only for a few minutes on 5 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.
 * Some wikis will be on read-only for a few minutes on 7 May. This will also affect CentralAuth. This can for example affect global renames, password changes, changing or confirming your email address and logging in to new wikis. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.

Changes later this week
 * You can get a notification when someone links to a page you created. You can soon turn these notifications off for individual pages.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 May. It will be on all wikis from 7 May (calendar).

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Your draft article, Draft:Bertille de Baudinière


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BLP living parameters
Hi! I've noticed that you've been creating pages like Jean Pierre Celestin Habiyaremye and Jean Pierre Hindura that are biographies of living people. Please remember to tag them as such on the talk page by using the "living=yes" parameter on the WikiProject Biography template. Thanks! 20:12, 6 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the comment, I will make sure to do that in the future. MarkZusab (talk) 21:59, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

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Larry Monroe
Thanks for clearing up the Larry Monroe ambiguity. Would you take a look at my comment on Talk:Monroe. I would like your thoughts on this. BuffaloBob (talk) 12:36, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

Michael Longcor Deletion
Hello Mark,

I see I used the wrong tag.

Thank you for your objectivity!

GK Gamle Kvitrafn (talk) 03:40, 8 May 2020 (UTC)


 * The reason that the article is ineligible for PROD is because it has been previously discussed at AfD. See WP:PROD. MarkZusab (talk) 21:19, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #415
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events
 * Past: Remote Wikimedia Hackathon, May 9-10 (see the showcase replay and the description of projects). Several Wikidata-related sessions took place:
 * Working on Wikidata Lexeme Forms tool by Lucas Werkmeister: Part 1, Part 2
 * Wikidata: Figure skating workflow, starting from scratch (installing and configuring everything on a new computer) by Harmonia Amanda: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
 * Past: Wikidata local school gathering was organised by Wikidata Taiwan. Link to Event page and dashboard
 * Upcoming: Live SPARQL queries session in French about Lexemes by Vigneron, May 12th at 20:00 CEST
 * Upcoming: Live Wikidata editing about video games by JeanFred, May 13th at 19:30 CEST


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Webinar introducing Wikidata and adding  tags into OpenStreetMap objects for OpenStreetMap contributors in the Philippines (in English and Tagalog): YouTube
 * Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Mark Graham from the Internet Archive
 * Part 1 - Meet the Archive: YouTube
 * Part 2 - The IA & Wikimedia: YouTube
 * Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Lydia Pintscher from Wikimedia Deutschland
 * Part 1 - Wikidata - current state: YouTube
 * Part 2 - Wikibase & Lexemes: YouTube
 * Part 3 - Shape Expressions & Schemas: YouTube
 * How to create external identifiers on Wikidata (in Italian): YouTube
 * Open Data and Wikidata training (in Mandarin Chinese): YouTube
 * Bandaid: using Wikidata to generate band names


 * Tool of the week
 * WikidataExtract extracts schemas (shape expressions) from Wikidata entities


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata:WikiProject Authority control/VIAF linking to multiple items has been created: most of the items listed probably need merging - have a look!
 * New tool: universal almanac based on Wikidata by Alexander Doria
 * A proposal for a new Wikiproject Wikilambda that allows creating multilingual content in Wikidata that can be used in all Wikipedias. Signatures of support are needed and discussion and questions are welcomed!
 * V1 of Wikidata Bridge is almost ready to be tested on Catalan Wikipedia


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: general property-based URL formatter, hardiness of plant, hardiness zone, ex-libris, voting system, supported metadata, tabular case data, Gazette of India notification
 * External identifiers: motorsportstats.com team ID, Canadiana NCF ID, Indian Railways train number, SNCF Station Identifier, South African Company Registration Number, DART-Europe thesis ID, DoME exhibition ID, DPE school code, Epistemonikos ID, Lexikon der Filmbegriffe ID, National Library of Israel J9U ID, UK Modern House Index architect ID, UK Modern House Index building ID, Joconde technique ID, PragerU presenter ID, regional government of Sicily ID, Anagrafe Istituti Culturali Ecclesiastici ID, BeWeb cultural institution ID, ACUM work ID, Reta Vortaro ID, Mozilla Developer Network article


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: social media followers, Gobbledygook, forearm length, number of stepchildren, number of adopted children, CV, axe, banned in
 * External identifiers: NMMA built heritage ID, NMMA antiquities ID, Super Mario Wiki ID, Philadelphia Museum of Art person ID, Archaeology in Greece Online place ID, iDAI.gazetteer ID, iDAI.chronontology ID, identifiant SILL d'un logiciel, Lower Austrian Castle ID, Naturdenkmal-ID Landkreis Oberspreewald-Lausitz, Bookogs credit ID, Bookogs work ID, Bookogs book ID, GMC membership number, Bibliography of the History of Slovakia ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali author ID, Augustins de l'Assomption ID, ASUT ID, Niden INE


 * Query examples:
 * Films claimed to pass the Bechdel test with less than 2 female cast members in Wikidata
 * African-American librarians in Wikidata that don't have Wikipedia articles (Source)
 * Magicians with known precise birth date (Source)
 * Sheffield Shield cricket players and the number of states they have played in (Source)
 * Number of Twitter followers of scientists at Dutch universities (Source)
 * Former United Kingdom Parliament MP's still living (by first election) (Source)
 * Number of paintings in National Gallery with artist and gender (Source)
 * Nearby table tennis tables to public spaces for the Wiki Explorer Android application (Source)
 * Map of Ramsar sites in France (Source)
 * Highest software version numbers recorded on Wikidata (Source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Speed skating, Witches


 * Development
 * Display statements with federated properties (T246606)
 * Federated properties: fix a bug that caused some properties to not appear in search results (T252024)
 * Wikidata Bridge: more work on error messages
 * Prevent Wikibase schema updaters to modify database directly (T249598)
 * Write a technical RFC about site-wide edit rate limiting (T247459)
 * Fix an issue on Wikibase: property names are missing when rendering (T247196)
 * More work on automated references

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Tech News: 2020-20
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Recent changes
 * Everyone can now import photos from Flickr to Commons with the UploadWizard. Before this only autopatrollers on Commons could import photos from Flickr.

Problems
 * Commons will be on read-only for a few minutes on 12 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.
 * Several wikis including Wikidata will be on read-only for a few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 May. It will be on all wikis from 14 May (calendar).

Future changes
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Greetings
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COVID-19 pandemic in Lesotho
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Wikidata weekly summary #416
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 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Date in Wikidata not properly translated in Wikipedia table, Disallow merging into newer entity


 * Events
 * Upcoming: WikidataLab XXXIII: Wiki-Education and Data Literacy with Shani Evenstein - May 21st 1pm - 7pm (UTC). Organized by Wiki Movement Brazil User Group, the training will be held in English this time! Join us remotely!
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: João Alexandre Peschanski on Wikidata + Education projects he has worked on in Brazil, 19 May. Agenda
 * Upcoming: Indian scientists datathon by WikiProject India. May 22nd to 24th, IST.
 * Past: Live SPARQL queries session in French about Lexemes by Vigneron, May 12th at 20:00 CEST
 * Past: Live Wikidata editing about video games by JeanFred (replay), May 13th at 19:30 CEST


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * WhatDoTheyKnow in Wikidata (blog post)
 * How to use the Wikidata Query Service (in Italian): YouTube
 * Introduction to Wikidata and data modeling: YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * WikidataTrust.jsP updates the interface with the contributors to each statement, label, description and sitelink. It is similar to the “blame” tool on text-based wikis.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Update about the Wikidata 8th birthday events regarding the COVID19 situation
 * The Wikimedia movement strategy recommendations have been published
 * Read-only time for Wikidata on Tuesday 19th May at 05:00 AM UTC for 15 minutes due to upgrade and restart of services. Services targeting Wikidata may not work during the meantime.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: tilt, curriculum vitae
 * External identifiers: The Conversation author ID, SILL ID of a software, LombardiaBeniCulturali artwork author ID, Bookogs work ID, Gitabitan.net ID, Arlington Cemetery person ID, CDAPNC author ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: selma'o, originated from individual of taxon, media franchise, préposition, Edible parts, local time, langue fille, langue mère, langue sœur, banned in
 * External identifiers: LiederNet author ID, LiederNet composer ID, LiederNet text ID, LiederNet song cycle ID, Colon Classification, Wyoming SHPO ID, norsk fangeregister person ID, K-Scholar ID, Wiener Wohnen ID, MDAH's HRI ID, National Register Database, Louisiana ID, RI National Register Search ID, MACRIS ID, Mod DB mod ID, GameBanana video game ID, NexusMods video game ID, BaGLAMa GID, Arkansas Register of Historic Places ID, Mediaqueer.ca Artist ID, Mediaqueer.ca Movie ID, SNES central game ID, CTHS author ID, correspondent of, Liszt Academy Lexikon person ID, 500 Queer Scientists profile, WorldFootball.net stadium ID, Worlds Without End author ID, Goodreads work ID, FlashScore.com player ID, National Football Teams.com match ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali architecture author ID, Origin game ID, Ubisoft Store game ID, LGBT Danmark dictionary ID, Book Marks ID


 * Deleted properties: P727
 * Query examples:
 * Recommended units of measurement listed in the SI Brochure (9th, concise edition) (Source)
 * Border with which all the municipalities of the Basque Country share (Source)
 * Map of hospitals (blue) and health centers (green) of Argentina (Source)
 * Best snipers of the world by number of victims of killer (Source)
 * Plans and photographs of the restoration works of cathedrals in the 19th century contained in the French National Archives) (Source)
 * Map of railways stations in France (Source)
 * List of African countries with their current leaders and their ages (Source)
 * Point in time of Advisor and Student relationships for professions mathematician and computer scientist (Source)
 * Drawings with an image that depicts a ship (Source)
 * Map of National parks in Sweden (Source)
 * US States with an A (Source)


 * Development
 * In the query service, variable names with non-“Latin” characters (e. g.,  ) can now be used more easily. (T227952)
 * Wikidata Bridge: more work on error messages and warnings (T246676, T247250, T244361)
 * Federated properties: display statements made with deleted properties (T250785)
 * More work on fixing error messages on Wikidata's edit interface (T247690)
 * Form grammatical features: connect labels and inputs (T198703)

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Tech News: 2020-21
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Recent changes
 * If you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to your email address. You need to know your email address or your username. You can choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This is a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for. This is now available on all Wikimedia wikis.

Problems
 * There is a bug that creates problems for iPhone users with iOS 13 and Safari. If you use an iPhone to read or edit Wikipedia and see bugs on the mobile site you can report them.
 * Several wikis including Wikidata will be on read-only for a few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.

Changes later this week
 * The Wikipedia app for Android can let users add depicts on Commons. The beta version used computer-aided tagging. This was removed to get more specific depicts.
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes
 * Graphs will be rendered in the reader's browser. This will use Javascript. Graphs will hopefully work better for everyone who uses Javascript. It will not work for users who don't use Javascript. This will not affect diagrams in image files.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Some CSS for the skins has been simplified. This affects ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,   and  . They will have to remove  . You will have to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. This is so we can use HTML5.
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TheWikiWizard - May 2020
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Tech News: 2020-22
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Wikidata weekly summary #417
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This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2020-05-25.


 * Discussions
 * Open requests for Oversight: Kostas20142, Esteban16


 * Events
 * Past: WikidataLab XXXIII: Wiki-Education and Data Literacy with Shani Evenstein on May 21st. The training in English was organized by Wiki Movement Brazil User Group. (replay)
 * Past: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #6 (YouTube)
 * Past: Art+Feminism virtual Wikidata editathon by Global Open Initiative on May 19. (Video) Part 1, Part 2
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Wochenende, event dedicated to the German-speaking Wikidata community, will take place fully remote on June 12-14. If you're interested, don't forget to register. We're looking for speakers to give introductions to Wikidata & tools.
 * Upcoming #vBIB20 (Q94495218) the first fully remote German library conference: May 26-28. Metadata about all presentations are already stored in Wikidata: Query. Some sessions and presentations are related to Wikidata or other Wikiprojects:
 * WikiLunch (Q94759294)
 * Die GND wikifizieren – Eine neue Plattform für die wachsende GND-Community (Q95245582)
 * Normdaten-Mapping mit Cocoda (Q95245533)
 * Die Datenlaube: Neues Wissen und Daten aus alten Texten – Mit Wikisource, Wikidata und mit Commons (Q95150422)
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #14, May 31


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * The Missing Path: Diagnosing Incompleteness in Linked Data ("We describe our iterative design process and evaluation with Wikidata contributors")
 * EURECOM at the SemStats 2019 Challenge ("we study the coverage of [the official database of French enterprises] in Wikidata")
 * Enriching Knowledge Bases with Interesting Negative Statements ("we argue for the importance of negative information on knowledge bases, and present two methods to mine it")
 * Video: Editing Wikidata: File Candidates tool and World heritage of Visby - Youtube, Facebook


 * Tool of the week
 * If you're looking for even more tools, the Tools Directory indexes over 130 Wikidata tools.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New tool: Structured Search, a tool allowing you to search through Wikimedia Commons using structured data, is now live. This tool by Hay Kranen was demoed at Wikimedia Hackathon 2020.
 * New tool: script by Tohaomg to easily rearrange the order of values for statements in Wikidata (to be added to your common.js page)
 * New documentation page: Wikidata:How to create Wikidata Tours
 * Teaching notes for introducing people to Wikidataː d:User:Einebillion/Teaching notes
 * The Wikidata development team created a distributed Wikidata game called Reference hunt!. With this game, you get a suggestion of an Item and a reference based on structured data from an external website. Try it and leave us feedback.
 * Gabriel, an intern at the Google Summer of Code is developing a tool to assist users in verifying (structured) data of media on commons. If you want to help, feel free to fill out this questionnaire.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: molecular model, is metaclass for, lighting, type of age limit, nominal share capital, content partnership category, field of training
 * External identifiers: iDAI.chronontology ID, iDAI.gazetteer ID, Archaeology in Greece Online place ID, ASUT ID, NMMA antiquities ID, NMMA built heritage ID, DB chgk, K-Scholar ID, Wyoming SHPO ID, Lower Austrian Castle ID, Co-Optimus ID, Bookogs credit ID, Wiener Wohnen ID, Arkansas Register of Historic Places ID, Augustins de l'Assomption ID, LiederNet author ID, LiederNet composer ID, LiederNet song cycle ID, LiederNet text ID, Bibliography of the History of Slovakia ID, MACRIS ID, National Register Database, Louisiana ID, Niden INE, 500 Queer Scientists profile, Mediaqueer.ca Artist ID, Mediaqueer.ca Movie ID, Natural Atlas ID, Colon Classification, MDAH's HRI ID, RI National Register Search ID, CTHS author ID, name-suggestion-index identifier, PC Games Database.de company ID, SNES central game ID, Super Mario Wiki ID, Wikilengua article


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: US Fault ID, estimated value, funder, principal investigator, contributed to Wikimedia Commons by, Theater poster, transitive over, approval of subject, living people protection class
 * External identifiers: Monasteries in the Netherlands until 1800 ID, Library classifications' IDs for topics, Absolute Games game ID, Absolute Games person ID, Absolute Games developer and publisher IDs, ModelHub ID, npm package, AusStage person ID, AusStage venue ID, AusStage organization ID, AusStage work ID, Montreux Jazz Festival song ID, Montreux Jazz Festival person ID, motorsportstats.com event ID, Veldkruus, AustLit ID, AFL player ID, Bioweb Ecuador ID, FilmPolski press collection ID, NTB ID, Odeon ID, Montreux Jazz Festival concert ID, Canadian Football League player ID, cadastral municipality number in Austria, Britannica Kids, Latin texts IDs, Medusa NRHP ID, Noovie person ID, Artsdatabanken ID, ICTV taxnode ID, LongTake person ID, ESRB video game ID, OnlyFans ID


 * Query examples:
 * Famous mathematicians related to famous actors (Source)
 * West Highlands of Scotland rail line connections (Source)
 * Universities ranked by PageRank on English Wikipedia (Source)
 * Interactive, zoomable tree map of second level administrative regions of the world (Source)
 * Number of alphabets which use this letter (Source)
 * Metabolites and the species where they are found in (Source)
 * Items in the United Kingdom with coordinate location (P625) on or near 1 degree 50 west (Source)
 * Map of Tunisian museums (Source)
 * Map of pairs of homonymous French municipalities linked by a colored line according to the distance (Source)
 * Women botanists or botanical collectors with a birth date prior to 1900 (Source)
 * vBIB20 lectures in Wikidata (Source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Schools


 * Development
 * Federated properties: Linking to the source wiki immediately after saving a statement (T251776)
 * Properly display federated properties on a local item's Revision History page (T249836)
 * Documentation for federated properties (T252991, T252861)
 * Last steps of getting the distributed game "Reference hunt" ready
 * Wikidata Bridge: more work on error messages
 * Track errors people encounter when using the Bridge (T252683)

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 * Monthly Tasks
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 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * 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 #418
<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: Dan Koehl 2


 * Events
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #15, June 7
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Discussion of our Wikidata priorities and needs as we plan for the group's future, 02 June. Agenda


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * The WikiCite annual report 2019-20 has been published. Describing the "satellite event grants" program that was run (and details of the nine successful proposals); the changes that resulted from the COVID-19 shutdown of all in-person events; and a summary of WikiCite-related news from across the movement. For more details see Meta:WikiCite/Administration. For more information, contact LWyatt (WMF)
 * Defying Wikidata: Validation of Terminological Relations in the Web of Data
 * KORE 50DYWC: An Evaluation Data Set for Entity Linking Based on DBpedia, YAGO, Wikidata, and Crunchbase
 * SchemaTree: Maximum-Likelihood Property Recommendation for Wikidata
 * Editorial: Special Issue on Quality Assessment of Knowledge Graphs Dedicated to the Memory of Amrapali Zaveri
 * European Semantic Web Conference 2020
 * Processing SPARQL Aggregate Queries with Web Preemption
 * SAShA: Semantic-Aware Shilling Attacks on Recommender Systems Exploiting Knowledge Graphs
 * QAnswer KG: Designing a Portable Question Answering System over RDF Data
 * Past video: Querying Wikidata with a glimpse of SPARQL - Thorsten Butz - PSCONFEU 2020. YouTube
 * Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network Live Wikidata editing scheduled for 1st June at 7:00 PM UTC: YouTube, Facebook
 * Upcoming video (in Spanish): Wikidata Online Workshop: "Connecting Authority Resources with the Knowledge Graph" scheduled for 2nd June at 3:00 PM UTC: YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * wdumps allows you to create a limited RDF dump from Wikidata, for those times when your SPARQL queries keep timing out. It is not particularly user-friendly, and it typically takes several hours to get a complete dump, but it is the best way to for example get a list of all English names of humans in Wikidata, or a list of every scientific article with its title and DOI.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The former WikiProject iNaturalist was renamed WikiProject Biodiversity to allow discussions beyond iNaturalist.
 * Special:FewestRevisions to be disabled, if you are currently using it, please leave a comment
 * Winners of the Wikidata competition during Museum Day 2020: VIGNERON, Alexmar983, Braveheart, Pasleim, Benoît Prieur, Uli.ch, Nono314, Sukkoria and Airon90. Congratulations!
 * As part of a thesis project, the search engine "Lister" has been developed to make it easier for the general public to access data on the Semantic Web in general, and WikiData specifically. It's in a usability test-phase right now, and if you'd like to try it out and help improve it, you can do so at this link. The test should at most 15 minutes.
 * Follow the discussion about restricting editing of properties to autoconfirmed users.
 * New domain  to be adopted by our Toolforge community. New domain/scheme for Toolforge-hosted webservices will change from   to     with the aim to introduce permanent redirects for the legacy URLs on 2020-06-15.
 * Wikidata development team is currently running a survey until June 9th to understand better how people access and reuse Wikidata’s data from the code of their applications and tools (for example through APIs), and how we can improve the tools to make your workflows easier. If you would like to participate, please use this link (Google Forms, estimated fill-in time 5min).


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: curricula, attribution text, based on tabular data
 * External identifiers: FlashScore.com player ID, Aberdeen Built Ships ID, Origin video game ID, npm package, FEMA number, Mod DB mod ID, Ubisoft Store game ID, Norwegian prisoner register person ID, ID natural monuments in Landkreis Oberspreewald-Lausitz, LombardiaBeniCulturali architecture author ID, BaGLAMa GID, GMC membership number


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: parish church, ISCO-08 occupation code, official product site, tag, heraldic attitude, Non volatile storage capacity
 * External identifiers: Australian Classification ID, EU-Football.info stadium ID, Semantic Scholar corpus ID, Olympedia ID, Emmys person ID, Archivio Storico Ricordi person ID, New York Times contributor ID, Cinema Context, Helsinki persistent building ID Ratu, Xfinity Stream ID, Juno Download album ID 2, sobory.ru, HBO Max ID, Yle Topic ID, Den Store Danske ID, Dansk litteraturs historie ID, Geneanet genealogist ID, IGRS video game ID, Wiki-Brest ID, Wiki-Narbonne ID, Wiki-Niort ID, Wiki Pas-de-Calais ID, Wiki-Rennes ID, Wikimanche ID, Wiki-Anjou ID, Picardia ID, Grandterrier.net ID, BoardGameGeek family ID, Proleksis enciklopedija ID, VIAF partner ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of German states with links to iNaturalist observations
 * Cities/towns named after people (Source)
 * Network of researchers who are vBIB20 co-presenters and are linked with a Wikidata item (Source)
 * Timeline of legalized same-sex marriages by country (Source)
 * BubbleChart of the 7,397 different keywords in DieDatenlaube (Source)
 * Weight of royal crowns (Source)
 * Recorded COVID-19 cases in difference Indian states (Source)
 * Twitter accounts of current UK MP's (Source)
 * Number of female employees at different organizations that Wikidata knows about (Source)
 * Location of libraries that have a GitHub repository (Source)
 * Location of 19th century infectious diseases published in Die Gartenlaube (Source)
 * People with an entry in the Biographical Lexicon of the Austrian Empire and biographical articles in Die Datenlaube (Source)
 * Fictional spaceship captains from the Star Trek multiverse (Source)
 * Timeline of Selenographers, for the birthday of German astronomer Johann Heinrich von Mädler and his famous map of the Moon (Source)
 * Points of interest 2 km within St. Jakobus church, Pesterwitz (Source)
 * Images of religious art whose main theme is Pentecost (Source)
 * World map of authors with both an ORCID and Twitter account ID's (Source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fcountry%20%3FcountryLabel%20%3FdaysInUN%20%28SUM%28%3FdaysInOffice%29%20AS%20%3FdaysKnown%29%20%28%28100%2a%20%3FdaysKnown%20%2F%20%3FdaysInUN%29%20AS%20%3FfilledPercent%29%20WHERE%20%7B%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Current%20UN%20Member%20States%0A%20%20%3Fcountry%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ3624078%20%3B%20p%3AP463%20%3Fms%20.%0A%20%20%3Fms%20ps%3AP463%20wd%3AQ1065%20%3B%20pq%3AP580%20%3Fjoined%20.%0A%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Fms%20pq%3AP582%20%5B%5D%20%7D%20%0A%20%20BIND%28FLOOR%28NOW%28%29-%3Fjoined%29%20AS%20%3FdaysInUN%29%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20what%20office%28s%29%20%3D%20head%20of%20government%2C%20and%20when%3F%0A%20%20%3Fcountry%20p%3AP1313%20%3Fos%20.%0A%20%20%3Fos%20ps%3AP1313%20%3Foffice%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fos%20pq%3AP580%20%3FofficeStart%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fos%20pq%3AP582%20%3FofficeEnd%20%7D%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28%20%21BOUND%28%3FofficeEnd%29%20%7C%7C%20%28%3FofficeEnd%20%3E%20%3Fjoined%29%20%29%0A%0A%20%20%23%20Who%20has%20held%20office%20in%20that%20period%3F%20%20%0A%20%20BIND%28IF%28BOUND%28%3FofficeStart%29%2C%20IF%28%3FofficeStart%20%3C%20%3Fjoined%2C%20%3Fjoined%2C%20%3FofficeStart%29%2C%20%3Fjoined%29%20AS%20%3FeffectiveStart%29%0A%20%20BIND%28IF%28BOUND%28%3FofficeEnd%29%2C%20%3FofficeEnd%2C%20NOW%28%29%29%20AS%20%3FeffectiveEnd%29%0A%0A%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%20%3B%20p%3AP39%20%3Fps%20.%0A%20%20%3Fps%20ps%3AP39%20%3Foffice%20%3B%20pq%3AP580%20%3FheldStart%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP582%20%3FheldEnd%20%7D%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28%20%21BOUND%28%3FheldEnd%29%20%7C%7C%20%28%3FheldEnd%20%3E%20%3FeffectiveStart%29%20%29%0A%20%20BIND%28IF%28BOUND%28%3FheldEnd%29%2C%20%3FheldEnd%2C%20NOW%28%29%29%20AS%20%3FheldPeriodEnd%29%0A%20%20BIND%28IF%28%3FheldStart%20%3C%20%3FeffectiveStart%2C%20%3FeffectiveStart%2C%20%3FheldStart%29%20AS%20%3FheldPeriodStart%29%0A%20%20BIND%28FLOOR%28%3FheldPeriodEnd%20-%20%3FheldPeriodStart%29%20AS%20%3FdaysInOffice%29%0A%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fcountry%20%3FcountryLabel%20%3FdaysInUN%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3FfilledPercent%29%20%3FcountryLabel Ratio of (days country has been in the UN) with (sum of periods of office for Heads of Government during that time)] (Source)
 * Map of 2020 Art+Feminism editathons (Source)


 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Public art


 * Development
 * More documentation for federated properties
 * Properly display federated properties on a local item's Revision History page (T249836)
 * More improvements on the Wikidata Bridge
 * Add Wikidata support for awawiki (T252870)
 * Fix various bugs on Wikibase
 * Work on improving the unclear error messages (T247690)
 * Create reports for the reference hunt game

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Tech News: 2020-23
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Recent changes
 * There is a new beta version of the Wikimedia Commons app for Android. It has a new zoom function when you look at images. It can also suggest places when you upload geotagged photos.

Problems
 * There was a problem with the Commons database on 27 May. Commons could not be edited for eight minutes. Because of this problem the database was moved. This caused another short read-only time on 29 May.
 * The Vector skin had a problem where you couldn't add links to the article in other languages. You couldn't see the section if there were no links to other languages already. It also removed content translation links and links to language settings. This has now been fixed.

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Lancasterian School
I have come across this school several times. can you please separate it out into a draft so we can work it up?

Also Barbara Leonard will need to be disambiguated once we get to Draft:Barbara Leonard which I think I may have started but I see you are much further along so move your Draft to the right name (actress)? and let's do it up (I will delete mine). Thanks.

Drives me nuts that everyone is working in their own little corner. I need HELP. At the same time I can understand why after working with.me anyone would retreat to the furthest corner. FloridaArmy (talk) 00:10, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #419
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 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Handling of stored IDs after they've been deleted or redirected in the external database


 * Events
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Wochenende, June 12-14: online Wikidata workshop and hackathon in German. Don't forget to register to get access to attendees information.
 * Upcoming: Video: Live Wikidata editing #9: Youtube, Facebook
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #16, June 14
 * Upcoming: Webinar on Wikidata and cultural heritage collections, by Science Museum Group UK, June 19th


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Wikidata based Location Entity Linking
 * WikiBank: Using Wikidata to Improve Multilingual Frame-Semantic Parsing
 * Wikimedia Public (Research) Resources
 * RDF Reasoning on Large Ontologies: A Study on Cultural Heritage and Wikidata
 * What is an Open Knowledge Base anyway? (lists Wikidata as key example).
 * KGTK: A Toolkit for Large Knowledge Graph Manipulation and Analysis ("we present KGTK, a data science-centric toolkit... We illustrate KGTK with real-world scenarios... such as Wikidata")
 * Video: Live Wikidata editing #8 - Wikidojo edition: YouTube, Facebook
 * Wikidata Online Workshop (in Spanish): "Connecting Authority Resources with the Knowledge Graph" - YouTube
 * Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Andrew Lih
 * Part 1 - Meet Andrew! - YouTube
 * Part 2 - Wikidata at the Met - YouTube
 * Part 3 - Wikidata Tools used at the Met project - YouTube
 * Part 4 - Spreadsheets & QuickStatements for mass-upload - YouTube
 * Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Jane Darnell
 * Part 1 - Meet Jane! - YouTube
 * Part 2 - WWikidataProject Some of All Paintings - YouTube
 * Part 3 - Listeria Lists - YouTube
 * Part 4 - Modeling, provenance and new properties - YouTube
 * Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Dr. Martin Poulter
 * Part 1 - Meet Martin! - YouTube
 * Part 2 - The residency at the Bodleian Libraries - YouTube
 * Part 3 - The Astrolabe Explorer & other datasets - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * QuickStatements lets you edit thousands of Wikidata items at a time. Add labels and descriptions, or statements with sources and qualifiers, add sitelinks, create or merge items, or remove statements that were created in error. Batches can be discussed and, if necessary, reverted in full through the EditGroups tool.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Simple Query Builder: wrap-up of the feedback loop and next steps
 * New page Subsetting under WikiProject Schemas for documenting how to define, construct, manage and maintain subsets of Wikidata.
 * MyCroft, the open digital personal assistant now has a Wikidata skill to answer questions about current and historic facts & information about a person.
 * Do you know a Wikidata/Wikibase community member who has accomplished something new or has been inspiring in the last year? If so, please take a few minutes and nominate someone in the 2020 Community Spotlight survey.
 * Wikidata Lexeme Forms now supports Bengali nouns.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: curriculum topics, attribution text, based on tabular data, living people protection class, position in biological sequence, region within image, ISCO-08 occupation code, parish church, has grouping, has sorting, has column
 * External identifiers: FlashScore.com player ID, Aberdeen Built Ships ID, Origin video game ID, npm package, FEMA number, Mod DB mod ID, Ubisoft Store game ID, Norwegian prisoner register person ID, ID natural monuments in Landkreis Oberspreewald-Lausitz, LombardiaBeniCulturali architecture author ID, BaGLAMa GID, GMC registration number, AFL player ID, serial identifier on SerialZone, Absolute Games game ID, Modelhub ID, Liszt Academy Lexikon person ID, Medusa NRHP ID, motorsportstats.com event ID, LGBT Danmark online dictionary ID, Olympedia athlete ID, Worlds Without End author ID, Archivio Storico Ricordi person ID, AusStage organization ID, AusStage person ID, AusStage venue ID, AusStage work ID, AustLit ID, Cinema Context ID, New York Times contributor ID, HBO Max ID, Semantic Scholar corpus ID, Montreux Jazz Festival concert ID, Montreux Jazz Festival person ID, Montreux Jazz Festival song ID, ESRB video game ID, NexusMods video game ID, LongTake person ID, Yle Topic ID, digilibLT work ID, PHI Latin Texts work ID, Musisque Deoque work ID, Den Store Danske ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: official product site, tag, heraldic attitude, Non volatile storage capacity, introduced in version (2), height of center of mass, strike tone, number of migrations, depicted without, offset from vertical, for type elements, Nomor Pokok Wajib Pajak, number of branches
 * External identifiers: Australian Classification ID, EU-Football.info stadium ID, Emmys person ID, Helsinki persistent building ID Ratu, Xfinity Stream ID, Juno Download album ID 2, sobory.ru, Dansk litteraturs historie ID, Geneanet genealogist ID, IGRS video game ID, Wiki-Brest ID, Wiki-Narbonne ID, Wiki-Niort ID, Wiki Pas-de-Calais ID, Wiki-Rennes ID, Wikimanche ID, Wiki-Anjou ID, Picardia ID, Grandterrier.net ID, BoardGameGeek family ID, Proleksis enciklopedija ID, VIAF partner ID, NVE Elvenett elvID, Scholars Strategy Network ID, Opera Online work ID, Opera Online composer ID, ICP artist ID, Singapore Infopedia ID, Legacy.com person ID, AnyDecentMusic album ID, Uffizi artwork ID, Ancestry.com ID, Dlive game ID, Spotify songwriter ID, MuseScore artist ID, MNBAQ artist ID, kino-teatr.ru film ID, Cimetières de France ID, vglist video game ID, Gramophone composer ID, Political Graveyard politician ID, CAOI person ID


 * Query examples:
 * User:PAC2/Prenoms a notebook interface (Q28405706) to explore data about a given name (Q202444) : the idea is to ask simple questions and find answers
 * Similarly the talk page of "Ada" with queries
 * Postcards of exterior and interior views of theatres on CARTHALIA (Source)
 * List of cities (or map) of Russia where no one famous was born and died (Source)
 * Turkish scientists by citation count (Source)
 * ESWC2020 papers with links to video lectures (Source)
 * Women who have been Captain Regent of San Marino (Source)
 * Species of birds (Source)
 * List of open science fellows (Source)
 * Spouses of the German Bundestag (Source)
 * MWAPI searches in wikidata about people descibed as slave traders by citizenship (Source)


 * Development
 * Wikidata Bridge: Made a number of technical improvements to wrap up the work in the first version.
 * Reference Hunt: Making final technical improvements and are now running the process to find references on the whole of Wikidata (as opposed to the initial small subset for testing). Once that's done we'll release them as a dump.
 * Easier access to data for programmers: Researching and interviewing ways to improve the APIs in preparation for working on them.
 * Query builder: Working on defining the first version and creating mockups based on the feedback we received.
 * Use modern TypeScript syntax (3.2 -> 3.9) (T253211)
 * More technical documentation for Federated Properties (T252991) & preparing for the next steps
 * Convert some properties to external identifiers (T253722)

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.

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Tech News: 2020-24
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Recent changes
 * Some articles have tables that can be sorted in different ways. For example a list of countries can be sorted alphabetically but you can click on the size column to sort them by size. If you clicked on the column a second time it would sort the countries from the bottom to the top instead. A third click will now take you back to the original sorting.
 * Self-closed tags now work as in the HTML5 specifications. This means you should stop using some of them.  is an example of a self-closed tag that won't work.   can be self-closed. Pages with tags that should not be self-closed have been listed in a tracking category since 2016. They will be listed in Special:LintErrors/self-closed-tag. This doesn't affect   or.
 * There is a banner called . It is for example used by the Wikivoyages, Wikimedia Russia and the Catalan, Basque, Galician and Turkish Wikipedias. It will now been seen by mobile visitors too. Before this it was only seen on desktop. The wikis should update instructions on   so that editors know to test and style for mobile too.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can now edit MassMessage descriptions through the API. This is useful for tools and gadgets.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 June. It will be on all wikis from 11 June (calendar).

Future changes
 * A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. It will not work after 13 July. Wikis should use TemplateStyles instead. 118 wikis need to fix this. You can read more and see if your wiki is affected.

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This Month in Education: May 2020
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Books & Bytes – Issue 39, May – June 2020
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 * Library Card Platform
 * New partnerships
 * ProQuest
 * Springer Nature
 * BioOne
 * CEEOL
 * IWA Publishing
 * ICE Publishing
 * Bytes in brief

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Wikidata weekly summary #420
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 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Stanglavine


 * Events
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #17, June 21
 * Upcoming: live SPARQL queries in French by Vigneron, Tuesday June 16 at 20:00 CEST (UTC+2)
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Program for Cooperative Cataloging's upcoming Wikidata pilot, June 16. Agenda
 * Past: remote Wikidata Wochenende (list of projects - in German)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * KulturNav – a hub for museum vocabularies connected to Wikidata
 * Library data as linked open data
 * Lord of the Wiki Ring: Importing Wikidata into Neo4j and analyzing family trees
 * Video: Live Wikidata editing #9 - YouTube
 * How authors and publications are linked in Wikidata Scholia (in Swedish) - YouTube
 * ISE2020 - Excursus: How to query Wikidata Knowledge Graph using SPARQL - YouTube
 * Wikidata Live editing (replay)
 * Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Navino Evans
 * Part 1 - Meet Nav, co-founder of Histropedia - YouTube
 * Part 2 - A guided tour of Histropedia with Nav! - YouTube
 * Part 3 - The future of Histropedia - YouTube
 * Part 3 - Wikidata, entrepreneurship & innovation - YouTube
 * Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Dr. Daniel Mietchen
 * Part 1 - Meet Daniel! - YouTube
 * Part 2 - COVID & health topics on Wikidata - YouTube
 * Part 3 - Using Scholia to explore Wikidata - YouTube
 * Part 4 - Data Completeness in Wikidata - YouTube
 * Part 5 - Open & FAIR science and Wikidata - YouTube
 * Part 6 - Why Wikidata is important for students - YouTube
 * Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting João Alexandre Peschanski
 * Part 1 - Meet João! - YouTube
 * Part 2 - On choosing to work with Wikidata in Academia - YouTube
 * Part 3 - Auto-generating knowledge via Wikidata - YouTube
 * Part 4 - Metadata Curation and reconciliation on Wikidata - YouTube
 * Part 5 - Visualization of new data artifacts via Wikidata - YouTube
 * Part 6 - Data Archaeology via Wikidata - YouTube
 * Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Ewan McAndrew
 * Part 1 - Meet Ewan, WiR at the Uni' of Edinburgh - YouTube
 * Part 2 - the Witch Hunts projects & Wikidata - YouTube
 * Part 3 - Why Wikidata is important for education - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Mix'n'match lets you match lists of external identifiers to Wikidata items, or create new items if necessary. Thousands of catalogs already exist, in dozens of different topic areas, and it's easy to import new ones.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New: Overview of GLAM metadata standards and (if relevant) how they are mapped and crosswalked on Wikimedia projects. Feel free to add more to the list!
 * Wikidata Lexeme Forms can now group forms înto sections, and (on wide screens) distribute sections across two columns!
 * New Wikidata Lexeme Forms feature: the warning about duplicate lexemes now links to edit mode, where you can fix any forms that the existing lexeme might be missing.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: funder, intended subject of deprecated statement, Democracy Index, principal investigator, file page offset, strike tone
 * External identifiers: Noovie person ID, NTB ID, sobory.ru ID, Philadelphia Museum of Art person ID, WorldFootball.net stadium ID, National Football Teams.com match ID, EU-Football.info stadium ID, Canadian Football League player ID, cadastral municipality number in Austria, Monasteries in the Netherlands until 1800 ID, Indonesian intangible cultural heritage, Australian Classification ID, Dansk litteraturs historie ID, DLive game ID, MuseScore artist ID, Uffizi artwork ID, MNBAQ artist ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: FIBA Hall of Fame, SIUSA archival fonds ID, qualifier for this property, SIUSA archive producer IDs, Library and bibliographic classification, gloss quote, Vmusic.bg artist ID, black-and-white photograph, Gujin Tushu Jicheng link, version control system, provisions, sleeping capacity, floor area
 * External identifiers: Dansk Biografisk Leksikon ID, IDU person ID, SPOnG game ID, Bundesinventar der historischen Verkehrswege der Schweiz (IVS), Unique Property Reference Number, Legacy.com newspaper ID, GCatholic person ID, Econlib ID, Opera Online opera house ID, Opera Online performer ID, finalesrugby.fr ID, Opera Online conductor ID, PMSA ID, Deku Deals ID, duden id, Thesaurus Sozialwissenschaften, KKBox track ID, Rate Your Music album ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts album ID, locality number in Austria, UNBIS Thesaurus ID, Qobuz album ID 2, AZLyrics.com song ID, Singapore Infopedia ID


 * Query examples:
 * Rose cultivars
 * List of present-day countries and capital(s) (Source)
 * Aliases of all sovereign states in Wikidata (Source)
 * Monuments named after/commemorating/depicting slave traders (Source)
 * Statues and monuments of slaveholders or traders (Source)
 * Members of the Ku Klux Klan whose English description doesn’t mention that (Source)
 * Bases named after Union soldiers (Source)
 * Married couples who also sat in the Bundestag (Source)
 * List of virtual conferences and their environment (Source)
 * Network of the Erich Fried Prize winners (Source)
 * Notable Russian people with possible (but unproved) descent from Genghis Khan (see the query for explanation)
 * Researchers or academics with Native American ancestry
 * Count of items by ethnic group (Source)
 * Metro map of Stockholm Country showing line colors and layers (Source)
 * Countries that have no world heritage sites (Source)
 * Number of statues of women, per country (Source)
 * 1st level subdivisions of Europe (and colonies) with less than 30 inhabitants per km² (Source)


 * Development
 * Collecting a lot of feedback and doing research around how to improve our APIs to start making it easier to access Wikidata's data for programmers
 * Finalized the initial feature list for the query builder and working on designs and prototypes for testing
 * Doing user research on the Merge gadget to prepare for making it part of the proper code-base so that other Wikibase instances also benefit from easier merging
 * Federated Properties: continued working on the first version of Federation that will make it possible to use Wikidata's Properties in another Wikibase installation
 * Start of a new project (Wikibase Decoupling & Extension Registration) in order to clean up our codebase a bit and make it easier to extend with new features in the future
 * More work on the design system to have a set of unified components for Wikidata that will make it easier to develop new features in the future because we don't have to rewrite components that are used in a lot of places
 * Some MediaWiki skin changes meant broken edit links on Wikipedia and co. Fixed now. (T252800)

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.

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 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

Editing news 2020 #2 – Quick updates
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This edition of the Editing newsletter includes information the Talk pages project, an effort to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. The central project page is on MediaWiki.org.


 * Reply tool : This is available as a Beta Feature at the four partner wikis (Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian Wikipedias). The Beta Feature will get new features soon.  The new features include writing comments in a new visual editing mode and pinging other users by typing  . You can test the new features on the Beta Cluster.  Some other wikis will have a chance to try the Beta Feature in the coming months.
 * New requirements for user signatures : Soon, users will not be able to save invalid custom signatures in Special:Preferences. This will reduce signature spoofing, prevent page corruption, and make new talk page tools more reliable.  Most editors will not be affected.
 * New discussion tool : The Editing team is beginning work on a simpler process for starting new discussions.   You can see the initial design on the project page.
 * Research on the use of talk pages : The Editing team worked with the Wikimedia research team to study how talk pages help editors improve articles.  We learned that new editors who use talk pages make more edits to the main namespace than new editors who don't use talk pages.

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Tech News: 2020-25
<section begin="technews-2020-W25"/> 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
 * Octicons-tools.svg Toolforge hosts several tools created by the Wikimedia community like edit counters or enhanced editors. It is changing the domain from tools.wmflabs.org to toolforge.org. The routing scheme is moving from tools.wmflabs.org/toolname to toolname.toolforge.org. You can read the details. Tools that use OAuth will have to be updated to keep working. You can ask for help.

Problems
 * There is a Wikidata item link in the sidebar on many pages. This disappeared for a couple of days for users who have the Monobook skin. This was because of a bug. It has now been fixed.
 * Editing, logging in and logging out didn't work properly for a short period of time last week. It was soon fixed.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 June. It will be on all wikis from 18 June (calendar).

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg Pywikibot is a Python library to automate work on wikis. It will not support Python 2 after the new version in July. Support for Python 3.4 and MediaWiki below 1.19 will also be dropped. You should migrate to Python 3. You can ask for help.
 * The selectors  and   will no longer work in the Vector skin. This can affect gadgets and user scripts.    should be replaced by  .   should be replaced by.

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Editing news 2020 #2
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This issue of the Editing newsletter includes information the Talk pages project, an effort to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily.


 * Reply tool : This is available as a Beta Feature at the four partner wikis (Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian Wikipedias). The Beta Feature is called "".  The Beta Feature will get new features soon.  The new features include writing comments in a new visual editing mode and pinging other users by typing  . You can test the new features on the Beta Cluster now.  Some other wikis will have a chance to try the Beta Feature in the coming months.
 * New requirements for user signatures : Soon, users will not be able to save invalid custom signatures in Special:Preferences. This will reduce signature spoofing, prevent page corruption, and make new talk page tools more reliable.  Most editors will not be affected.
 * New discussion tool : The Editing team is beginning work on a simpler process for starting new discussions.   You can see the initial design on the project page.
 * Research on the use of talk pages : The Editing team worked with the Wikimedia research team to study how talk pages help editors improve articles.  We learned that new editors who use talk pages make more edits to the main namespace than new editors who don't use talk pages.

– Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 20:29, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

TheWikiWizard/Issues/Summer 2020
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New Page Reviewer newsletter June 2020
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NPP Sorting can be a great way to find pages needing new page patrolling that match your strengths and interests. Using ORES, it divides articles into topics such as Literature or Chemistry and on Geography. Take a look and see if you can find time to patrol a couple pages a day. With over 10,000 pages in the queue, the highest it's been since ACPERM, your help could really make a difference. In late February, Google added 5 new languages to Google Translate: Kinyarwanda, Odia (Oriya), Tatar, Turkmen and Uyghur. This expands our ability to find and evaluate sources in those languages.
 * Your help can make a difference
 * Google Adds New Languages to Google Translate
 * Discussions and Resources
 * A discussion on handling new article creation by paid editors is ongoing at the Village Pump.
 * Also at the Village Pump is a discussion about limiting participation at Articles for Deletion discussion.
 * A proposed new speedy deletion criteria for certain kinds of redirects ended with no consensus.
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Making a url letter to upper class
I think I have done a small mistake here. How can this url be made with upper class letter. I have started another page with the upper class letter. But I feel it is not that tidy to make up duplicates.

Is a way we can make the draft "Mohamed_wisham" in "Mohamed_Wisham"

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Give me your advice on this.

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Wikidata weekly summary #421
<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: Stanglavine


 * Events
 * Upcoming: Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language conference (remote, July 9-10): program & concept are published, registration is open
 * Upcoming: live OpenRefine introduction et demonstration, by Vigneron, on Twitch and in French, Tuesday June 16 at 20:00 CEST (UTC+2)
 * Past: Wikidata queries workshop, June 21st, in the frame of the Small wiki toolkits–Indic workshop series


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * When Deno meets Wikidata (blog post)
 * Writing Wikidata Queries (Workshop Notes)
 * Wikidata course at TAU: Hosting Denny Vrandečić. The future of Wikidata, Abstract Wikipedia WikiLambda - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * The currentDate gadget automatically adds the current date when using retrieved in a reference.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * On Commons, c:Template:Wikidata Infobox now has over 3 million uses; see c:Category:Uses of Wikidata Infobox.
 * New page about the Bibliography of Wikidata – needs help on expanding the list.
 * Upcoming domain name migration on the Wikimedia Toolforge implies that OpenRefine users need to update their Wikidata reconciliation service to the new endpoint which will be available by default in the upcoming release of OpenRefine (3.4). T254172
 * Wikirecords - proposal for a Wikibase-based sister-project


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: funder, intended subject of deprecated statement, Democracy Index, principal investigator, file page offset, strike tone, applies to name of value, entry receptor, estimated value, media franchise, Dewey Decimal Classification (works), Library of Congress Classification (edition), Universal Decimal Classification (works), Regensburg Classification (works), study type
 * External identifiers: Noovie person ID, NTB ID, sobory.ru ID, Philadelphia Museum of Art person ID, WorldFootball.net stadium ID, National Football Teams.com match ID, EU-Football.info stadium ID, Canadian Football League player ID, cadastral municipality number in Austria, Monasteries in the Netherlands until 1800 ID, Indonesian intangible cultural heritage, Australian Classification ID, Dansk litteraturs historie ID, DLive game ID, MuseScore artist ID, Uffizi artwork ID, MNBAQ artist ID, Cimetières de France ID, Dansk Biografisk Leksikon ID, SIUSA archival fonds ID, Odeon ID, WikiTrek ID, Nomor Pokok Wajib Pajak, Spotify songwriter ID, NVE Elvenett elvID, Proleksis enciklopedija ID, Singapore Infopedia ID, vglist video game ID, Veldkruus ID, BitterDB compound ID, Helsinki persistent building ID Ratu, SIUSA archive producer family ID, SIUSA archive producer organization ID, Museum of Family History ID, Deku Deals ID, Thesaurus Sozialwissenschaften ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: FIBA Hall of Fame, qualifier for this property, Library and bibliographic classification, gloss quote, Vmusic.bg artist ID, black-and-white photograph, Gujin Tushu Jicheng link, version control system, provisions, sleeping capacity, floor area, Dowker-Thistlethwaite notation, Encyclopedia Tatarica (tt) Online ID, twin town sign, floor material, Encyclopedia Tatarica (ru) Online ID, intended background color, is exception to constraint, prohibits, permits, Kunya, jour équivalent dans le calendrier correspondant, context of death, inverse agonist of, seatwidth, external error, set in environment
 * External identifiers: IDU person ID, SPOnG game ID, Bundesinventar der historischen Verkehrswege der Schweiz (IVS), Unique Property Reference Number, Legacy.com newspaper ID, GCatholic person ID, Econlib ID, Opera Online opera house ID, Opera Online performer ID, finalesrugby.fr ID, Opera Online conductor ID, PMSA ID, duden id, KKBox track ID, Rate Your Music album ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts album ID, locality number in Austria, UNBIS Thesaurus ID, Qobuz album ID 2, AZLyrics.com song ID, GCatholic diocese ID, BBFC ID, Criminological Thesaurus ID, FIPRESCI person ID, Web of Science ID, Crossref journal ID, KBpedia ID, QUDT quantity kind ID, Utenlandske krigsgraver i Norge ID, BWFpara.tournamentsoftware.com player ID, Directorio de Afrocubanas, Maitron des fusillés ID, TheFreeDictionary medical term ID, Spanish Olympic Committee athlete ID, Naturvårdsverket Amenity ID, Supreme Court of Sweden case number


 * Query examples:
 * Apologies for both of the problematic queries ("MWAPI searches in wikidata about people described as slave traders by citizenship" in Weekly Summary #419 and "Monuments named after/commemorating/depicting slave traders” in Weekly Summary #420). The "MWAPI searches in wikidata about people described as slave traders by citizenship” in #419 lists any people with the word "slave" in a label, description or alias, among them several people who are not slave traders. The "Monuments named after/commemorating/depicting slave traders” in #420 incorrectly linked this query for enslaved people instead of this query for slavetraders.
 * Ages of US presidents/vice-presidents: today, when leaving office, at death
 * The subway network of Stockholm
 * Former footballers who have ever been an MP in the UK parliament (Source)
 * Latin American Women Writers with a GND ID (Source)
 * Roads that are named after film directors (Source)
 * Wikidata Queries around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and pandemic
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Sweden, WikiProject Ennegreciendo/Noircir Wikimedia


 * Development
 * Continue working on the infrastructure review, in order to address the most pressing infrastructure issues
 * Make the Wikibase.git code base PSR-4 compatible (T172368)
 * Work on an overview of existing types of coupling in Wikibase between Repo and Client (T254902)
 * More work on consistency of UX components
 * Handle failed requests to the federation source wiki when saving statements (T254889)
 * Catch federated properties exceptions in getParserOutput and display error page (T255010)
 * Improve the permissions for Blazegraph in wdqs docker image (T237248)
 * Create entitySources config for WMF production wikis (T254315)
 * Participate in fixing several incidents (T255855, T255410)

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.

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 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * 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!

Tech News: 2020-26
<section begin="technews-2020-W26"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * There are some new tools to make it easier for newcomers to start editing. They are available on some wikis. These wikis had a problem with the visual editor for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug in the new tools. It was soon fixed.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Some user scripts and gadgets stopped working because of a change to CSS selectors.  should be replaced with   to fix this.

Changes later this week
 * The developers are working on a new interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. This will be released on 24 June. You can give feedback.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 June. It will be on all wikis from 25 June (calendar).

Future changes
 * A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. It will not work after 13 July. Wikis should use TemplateStyles instead. 91 wikis still need to fix this. You can read more and see if your wiki is affected.

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Proposed deletion of Banking on Bitcoin


The article Banking on Bitcoin has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "No evidence of notability per WP:NFILM or WP:GNG. Single RS talking about the film, after the non-RSes were cleaned out. WP:BEFORE shows nothing more."

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. David Gerard (talk) 13:00, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

Nomination of Banking on Bitcoin for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Banking on Bitcoin is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Banking on Bitcoin until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. David Gerard (talk) 12:55, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

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BIPS article deletion discussion
Hi Mark, I see you listed yourself as member of the cryptocurrency wikiproject. Would you care to weigh in at Articles_for_deletion/Bitcoin_Improvement_Proposal? --187.178.163.96 (talk) 21:17, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #422
<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: Disallow merging into newer entity


 * Events
 * Past: Wikidata Wochenende 2020 (in German)
 * Introduction to Wikidata (video)
 * Introduction to SPARQL (video)
 * Past: Cultural heritage webinar, Science Museum group. (presentations and videos)
 * Past: Wikidata Query Service exercise (in Chinese) (video)
 * Past: Wikidata in Toronto webinar with Alex Jung (video)
 * Past: Writing Wikidata queries workshop, part of the Small Wikis Toolkit series (video recording)
 * Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikibase office hour, Query Service special, July 21st at 16:00 UTC (18:00 CEST)
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Merrilee Proffitt, Chris Cyr, and Rob Fernandez on a project to surface library holdings to indicate possible notability for persons, June 30th. Agenda
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #19, July 5
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Parliament of Ghana contest, July 1st


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Lexemes in Wikidata: 2020 status, by Finn Årup Nielsen
 * Upcoming video: Live Wikidata editing #10 - with guest: YouTube, Facebook


 * Tool of the week
 * The Sourcerer edit game suggests some sources that could fit to a claim and helps people adding references easily.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikibase Live sessions is coming back with the first call about Data Modeling in the context of Libraries happening on Thursday, July 2nd at 1600 UTC.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: funder, intended subject of deprecated statement, Democracy Index, principal investigator, file page offset, strike tone, applies to name of value, entry receptor, estimated value, media franchise, Dewey Decimal Classification (works and editions), Library of Congress Classification (works and editions), Universal Decimal Classification (works and editions), Regensburg Classification (works and editions), study type, number of branches, references work, tradition or theory, Dowker-Thistlethwaite notation, qualifier for this property, gloss quote, use with property value, use with qualifier, prompt when missing, offset from vertical
 * External identifiers: Noovie person ID, NTB ID, sobory.ru ID, Philadelphia Museum of Art person ID, WorldFootball.net stadium ID, National Football Teams.com match ID, EU-Football.info stadium ID, Canadian Football League player ID, cadastral municipality number in Austria, Monasteries in the Netherlands until 1800 ID, Indonesian intangible cultural heritage, Australian Classification ID, Dansk litteraturs historie ID, DLive game ID, MuseScore artist ID, Uffizi artwork ID, MNBAQ artist ID, Cimetières de France ID, Dansk Biografisk Leksikon ID, SIUSA archival fonds ID, Odeon ID, WikiTrek ID, Nomor Pokok Wajib Pajak, Spotify songwriter ID, NVE Elvenett elvID, Proleksis enciklopedija ID, Singapore Infopedia ID, vglist video game ID, Veldkruus ID, BitterDB compound ID, Helsinki persistent building ID Ratu, SIUSA archive producer family ID, SIUSA archive producer organization ID, Museum of Family History ID, Deku Deals ID, Thesaurus Sozialwissenschaften ID, GCatholic person ID, Legacy.com person ID, Econlib ID, UNBIS Thesaurus ID, Web of Science ID, Encyclopedia Tatarica (tt) Online ID, Criminological Thesaurus ID, Crossref journal ID, Duden ID, Encyclopedia Tatarica (ru) Online ID, Directory of Afrocubanas ID, Emmys person ID, finalesrugby.fr ID, Goodreads work ID, locality number in Austria, IDU person ID, Gramophone composer ID, Foreign war churchyards in Norway ID, Riksdagen person guid, GCatholic diocese ID, PMSA ID, BBK (library and bibliographic classification), Rate Your Music release ID, QUDT quantity kind ID, Unique Property Reference Number


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: FIBA Hall of Fame, Vmusic.bg artist ID, black-and-white photograph, Gujin Tushu Jicheng link, version control system, provisions, sleeping capacity, floor area, twin town sign, floor material, intended background color, is exception to constraint, prohibits, permits, Kunya, jour équivalent dans le calendrier correspondant, context of death, inverse agonist of, seatwidth, external error, set in environment, property constraint for Commons, Dowker-Thistlethwaite name, Localised title, DOI formatter, Open Data portal, subscribed by, Knot Atlas identifier, theorised by, Knotilus identifier, KnotInfo identifier, sorting weight, character designer, image set, taxon synonym string
 * External identifiers: SPOnG game ID, Bundesinventar der historischen Verkehrswege der Schweiz (IVS), Legacy.com newspaper ID, Opera Online opera house ID, Opera Online performer ID, Opera Online conductor ID, KKBox track ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts album ID, Qobuz album ID 2, AZLyrics.com song ID, BBFC ID, FIPRESCI person ID, KBpedia ID, BWFpara.tournamentsoftware.com player ID, Maitron des fusillés ID, TheFreeDictionary medical term ID, Spanish Olympic Committee athlete ID, Naturvårdsverket Amenity ID, Supreme Court of Sweden case number, Econlib person ID, NUKAT (non-VIAF) ID, Reposcope ID, People's Representative Council of Indonesia ID, PPN ID, Oxford Bibliographies ID, Grove Art Online ID, Maniadb artist ID, Maniadb album ID, Swiss Timber Bridges, PO ID, Wikipedia Library partner ID, InciWeb, HLTV ID, Les roses cultivées à l'Haÿ en 1902 ID, Swedish Riksdag document, Church of Jesus Christ missionary ID, Church of Jesus Christ pioneer ID, Nauvoo community project ID, Dignity Memorial person ID, Oberwolfach mathematician ID, Unique Street Reference Number, TlF ID, identifiant lobbywatch.ch d'un parlementaire, identifiant Manioc livre, Bibliothèque Digital des Caraïbes, identifiant Manioc périodique, AlloCiné theater ID


 * Query examples:
 * Timeline of U.S. Presidents
 * List of MPs currently in the Sveriges riksdag (Source)
 * Map showing people buried in Père Lachaise by place of birth (Source)
 * Existing named trees in the world (Source)
 * Artworks depicting things related to a fairy tale (Source)
 * Newest database reports: no statements/enwiki


 * Development
 * It is now possible to search for EntitySchema pages using a shortcut “E:”, similar to “P:” for Properties and “L:” for Lexemes. For example: E:E10 or E:kakapo. T245529
 * Continued working on the first version of Federation, which will allow other Wikibase installations to use Wikidata's Properties - getting closer to a first testable version
 * More work on consistency of user interface components
 * Finalizing the click-dummy for the first version of the Query Builder so we can start testing it with some editors soon and get feedback.
 * Continuing to investigate how to improve our APIs and other ways to improve access to the data in Wikidata for programmers
 * Discussed the future of the Wikidata Query Service and ideas for next steps we can take to make it scale better. Guillaume will join the next office hour to talk about it.
 * More work on clearer separation of Wikibase repository and Wikibase client code in order to improve maintainability

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.

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 * Monthly Tasks
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Tech News: 2020-27
<section begin="technews-2020-W27"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * Everyone was logged out. This was because a few users saw the wikis as if they were logged in to someone else's account. The problem should be fixed now.
 * Some readers didn't see new edits to pages. If the page had been recently changed they saw an older version of the page instead. This only affected readers who were logged out. It lasted for ten days. It has been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 July. It will be on all wikis from 1 July (calendar).

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Modern and Monobook skins use the ID  for the go button. This is   for Vector. To have the same ID for all skins it will change to   in Monobook and Modern too. This will affect gadgets and user scripts. It will happen on 23 July. They should be updated to use  . You can read more and see a list of affected scripts.

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 16
<div style="border-style:solid; border-color:#606060; background-color:#f8f8f8; border-width:2px; text-align:left; padding:7px; border-radius: 1em; box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.5em rgba(0,0,0,0.75);" class="plainlinks"> News and updates associated with user scripts from the past two months (May and June 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 16th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
 * Cscr-featured.svg Ed6767's redwarn is this month's featured script


 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Enterprisey: abusefilter-diff-check* abusefilter-hide-search* live-reload* quick-vand-block*
 * abusefilter-mass-test* simple-notifs* User:Enterprisey/rc-thanks
 * DannyS712's RemindMe* Majavah's Aligner
 * BrandonXLF: ShowUserGender* ReferenceExpander
 * Awesome Aasim: oneclickdelete* noeditredlinks.js* editrequest
 * TheTVExpert: searchForSection* scriptDocumentationTabs
 * Alex 21: script-categoriessort.js* script-imageres.js
 * Ed6767's redwarn


 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Twinkle released new features, including a rollback links on history pages and Special:Recentchanges,
 * the ability to rollback-in-place on Recent changes and Contributions, a new option autoselect warning
 * level, and an XfD log. (Enable in your prefences; See full list of changes)
 * Headbomb's unreliable source detector script now allows users to add their own custom rules. See the documentation at User:Headbomb/unreliable.

Open tasks
 * Recent changes to the vector skin may have broken some scripts and gadgets. Uses of the  selector
 * should be replaced with . Additionally,   should be replaced with , and
 * should be replaced with . See T255718 and T254797 for more.

Pending requests
 * A script to simplify the process of nominating articles for good article reassessment (request)
 * A script to help create navboxes (request)
 * ...and many more, all available at User scripts/Requests



If anyone else would like to contribute to future issues, please comment at Wikipedia talk:Scripts++. --DannyS712 (talk) 20:13, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2020).

Administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg John • TheCoffee • Tim!
 * Pictogram voting rename.png →
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Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg TonyBallioni

Guideline and policy news
 * A request for comment is in progress to remove the T2 (template that misrepresents established policy) speedy deletion criterion.

Technical news
 * Protection templates on mainspace pages are now automatically added by User:MusikBot II (BRFA).

Arbitration
 * Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold an RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. The RfC has been posted at Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC and is open to comments from the community.
 * The Medicine case was closed, with a remedy authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for all discussions about pharmaceutical drug prices and pricing and for edits adding, changing, or removing pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing from articles.

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Editing news 2020 #3


Seven years ago this week, the Editing team made the visual editor available by default to all logged-in editors using the desktop site at the English Wikipedia. Here's what happened since its introduction:


 * The 50 millionth edit using the visual editor on desktop was made this year. More than 10 million edits have been made here at the English Wikipedia.
 * More than 2 million new articles have been created in the visual editor. More than 600,000 of these new articles were created during 2019.
 * Almost 5 million edits on the mobile site have been made with the visual editor. Most of these edits have been made since the Editing team started improving the mobile visual editor in 2018.
 * The proportion of all edits made using the visual editor has been increasing every year.
 * Editors have made more than 7 million edits in the 2017 wikitext editor, including starting 600,000 new articles in it. The 2017 wikitext editor is VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode.  You can enable it in your preferences.
 * On 17 November 2019, the first edit from outer space was made in the mobile visual editor.
 * In 2019, 35% of the edits by newcomers, and half of their first edits, were made using the visual editor. This percentage has been increasing every year since the tool became available.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 02:06, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #423
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 * Events
 * Past: Wikidata Parliament of Ghana contest launch (replay)
 * Upcoming: Biohackathon 2020 Barcelona 2020 November 9th - 13th The accepted wikidata related proposal: Knowledge graphs and wikidata subsetting
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #20, July 12
 * Upcoming: Celtic Knot conference, July 9-10, including several sessions about Wikidata, a Wikidata helpdesk


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Why Ariadne uses Getty AAT over Wikidata
 * Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #10 - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Ptable displays the periodic table automatically extracted from information provided by Wikidata; it also provides a check that all the elements are there with some basic properties. Additional pages provide charts of the nuclides under different criteria such as half-life. Each element or nuclide is linked to its Wikidata item for more information or to edit if necessary.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Abstract Wikipedia was approved.
 * OpenRefine 3.4 beta 2 was released.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: Open Data portal, theorised by, DOI formatter, set in environment, academic appointment
 * External identifiers: House Divided ID, thefreedictionary medical term ID, People's Representative Council of Indonesia ID, Grove Art Online ID, Supreme Court of Sweden case number, KBpedia ID, Swedish Environmental Protection Agency OBJECTID, Oxford Bibliographies ID, Swiss Timber Bridges ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: taxon synonym string, PM20 subject code, PM20 geo code, number of downloads, Interactive element, course, Zoning symbol, vanDerWaalsConstant, has pattern
 * External identifiers: AlloCiné theater ID, Cistercian Biography Online ID, Pitchfork artist ID, Archive Of Our Own tag, Austrian encyclopedia of music online, Swiss Tunnel ID, ANZSRC 2020 FoR ID, CPJF ID, TripAdvisor ID 2, Wien Kulturgut: Kunstwerke im öffentlichen Raum ID, public transport stop, Homebrew formula name, Offizielle Deutsche Charts song ID, British Museum object ID, ToS;DR service numerical identifier, code EHESS d'une commune, IAPH code, ProtonDB video game ID


 * Query examples:
 * France has a new Prime Minister: see the list of all ministers in French history (very long scroll). If you want to know more, see this notebook
 * Open data portals in Wikidata (using the newly created property Open Data portal (P8402))
 * Objects that are named after people on Wikidata (Source)


 * Development
 * More work on the consistent design system (Phabricator board)
 * More work on decoupling the different Wikibase extensions from each other
 * Proposal to stop registering WikibaseLib as a separate extension
 * Polishing the first step of Federation (using Wikidata's Properties in another Wikibase installation) (incl. preventing users from selecting a federated property with a non-supported data type (T252012) and preventing users from accessing Special:NewProperty when federation is enabled (T255576) and viewing a list of all properties when federation is enabled (T246339))
 * Continuing research and interviews around the topic of making it easier to access Wikidata's data for programmers
 * Doing first testing of mockups and prototypes of the first version of the Query Builder - coding can start soon
 * Convert a few properties from string to external identifier: Linguasphere code (P1396), KOATUU identifier (P1077) and ISIN (P946)

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.

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 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * 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!

Tech News: 2020-28
<section begin="technews-2020-W28"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * The Score extension has been disabled for now. This is because of a security issue. It will work again as soon as the security issue has been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 July. It will be on all wikis from 9 July (calendar).

Future changes
 * Abstract Wikipedia is a new Wikimedia project. It will collect language-independent information that can be easily read in different languages. It builds on Wikidata. The name is preliminary. You can read more.
 * The iOS Wikipedia app developers are thinking about new experimental tools. If you use an iPhone you can help them by answering the survey.
 * Some rules for user signatures will soon be enforced. Lint errors and invalid HTML will no longer be allowed in user signatures. Nested substitution will not be allowed. A link to your user page, user talk page or user contributions will be required. You can check if your signature works with the new rules. This is because the signatures can cause problems for tools or other text on the page.

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Nomination of How to Buy, Sell, and Profit on eBay for deletion
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Editing news 2020 #3
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Seven years ago this month, the Editing team offered the visual editor to most Wikipedia editors. Since then, editors have achieved many milestones:


 * More than 50 million edits have been made using the visual editor on desktop.
 * More than 2 million new articles have been created in the visual editor. More than 600,000 of these new articles were created during 2019.
 * The visual editor is increasingly popular . The proportion of all edits made using the visual editor has increased every year since its introduction.
 * In 2019, 35% of the edits by newcomers (logged-in editors with ≤99 edits) used the visual editor. This percentage has increased every year.
 * Almost 5 million edits on the mobile site have been made with the visual editor. Most of these edits have been made since the Editing team started improving the mobile visual editor in 2018.
 * On 17 November 2019, the first edit from outer space was made in the mobile visual editor. 🚀 👩‍🚀
 * Editors have made more than 7 million edits in the 2017 wikitext editor, including starting 600,000 new articles in it. The 2017 wikitext editor is VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode.  You can enable it in your preferences.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

12:48, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #424
<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
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: New co-facilitator introductions and tools for editathons, 14 July. Agenda
 * Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #12, 18 July Facebook, YouTube
 * Past: Celtic Knot Wikimedia language conference, online, July 9-10. Videos, documentation and slides of sessions are accessible from the program page.


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Using OpenRefine with Wikidata for the first time, by Addshore
 * Using Wikidata in Mathematica and Wolfram, by Toni Schindler
 * Fostering the presence of museums on Wikipedia and Wikidata, by Debora Lopomo
 * Extending the Met’s reach with Wikidata, by Jennie Choi
 * Wikidata-related videos from the Celtic Knot Conference:
 * Wikidata and how you can use it to support minority languages (Mohammed Sadat)
 * Wikidata-powered infoboxes (Pau Cabot)
 * Hands-on Wikidata and lexicographical data (Nicolas Vigneron and Léa Lacroix)
 * FAIR linguistic data thanks to norm data – Wikidata as part of the research project VerbaAlpina (Christina Mutter)
 * Sámi placenames on Wikidata (Jon Harald Søby)
 * Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - Wikidata editing #11 Facebook, YouTube
 * Video: Introducing the Wikidata powered Dictionary of Welsh Biography timeline (Jason Evans), YouTube
 * Video: Diving into Wikidata workshop (Will Kent), YouTube
 * Video: Linked data for libraries with Wikibase, Infrastructure track (Jens Ohlig), YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * DragNDrop.js makes it possible to show a Wikipedia article and drag items to Wikidata.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * GQIS can now render results from a Wikidata SPARQL query with a new plugin.
 * New feature in V for Wikipedia that uses Wikidata identifiers to direct users to their favorite streaming app.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: Dowker-Thistlethwaite name
 * External identifiers: AlloCiné theater ID, Maniadb artist ID, Group Properties wiki ID, Oberwolfach mathematician ID, Archive Of Our Own tag, GameBanana video game ID, Spanish Olympic Committee athlete ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Image link, numeric ID, peak bagging classification, vanDerWaalsConstantA, vanDerWaalsConstantB, road name formatter, road number formatter, Medical Service, Ofsted inspection rating, OpenStreetMap numeric user ID, traffic sign template image, Vietnamese middle name
 * External identifiers: Wiki Loves Earth Ukraine identifier, OHM Relation ID, Filmstarts title ID, UK Research and Innovation person ID, SmallGroup ID, Personendatenbank Germania Sacra ID, SAH Archipedia building ID, SAH Archipedia architect ID, Our Campaigns candidate ID, VPE railway line ID, Churches in Limburg, The Draft Review ID, ANZSCO 2013 ID, ANZSOC ID, ASCRG ID, Encyclopédie berbère, 雑誌コード, OpenStreetMap user name, National Registry of Exonerations Case ID, Svenska Akademiens Ordbok ID, QLD Biota ID, Australian Weed ID


 * Query examples:
 * Illustrated Basque word of the day for children
 * Oldest UK MPs at the time of election (Source)
 * Map of archives in Wikidata (Source)


 * Development
 * Continued building out documentation for Federated Properties (phabricator:T255651) and making interface improvements to the first stage of the feature (incl. phabricator:T246886, changes to special pages that interact with both Items/Properties, and phabricator:T255581, changes to Special:ListDataTypes when federation is enabled)
 * More work on the consistent design system
 * More work on decoupling the different Wikibase extensions from each other to make development easier
 * Finalizing research and interviews to better understand what could be improved in the way developers access Wikidata's data (APIs, SPARQL)
 * Testing the first prototype of the Simple Query Builder with some editors to get final input before coding starts
 * Sorting of language links on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects was broken (presumably by a change in MediaWiki core). A fix is being worked on. (phabricator:T257625)

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
 * 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: 2020-29
<section begin="technews-2020-W29"/> 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
 * Users can thank others for their edits. Checkusers can now see user data related to that action. This can help identify sock puppets who harass others using thanks.

Problems
 * Everyone was logged out a couple of weeks ago to fix a security problem. The problem was not entirely fixed. Because of this everyone was logged out once again last week.

Changes later this week
 * Wikis that are not for one specific language can translate pages. Sometimes parts of translations are outdated or missing. Outdated translations are marked with a pink background . Missing translations will also be marked in the future. This markup can sometimes break things. It can soon be disabled by using  on the source page.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 July. It will be on all wikis from 16 July (calendar).

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg Wikimedia code review plans to use GitLab. It would be hosted on Wikimedia servers.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2020-W29"/> 16:30, 13 July 2020 (UTC)