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NPR Newsletter No.17


Hello ,


 * News
 * The WMF has announced that Google Translate is now available for translating articles through the content translation tool. This may result in an increase in machine translated articles in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to use the tag and gently remind (or inform) editors that translations from other language Wikipedia pages still require attribution per WP:TFOLWP.


 * Discussions of interest
 * Two elements of CSD G6 have been split into their own criteria: R4 for redirects in the "File:" namespace with the same name as a file or redirect at Wikimedia Commons (Discussion), and G14 for disambiguation pages which disambiguate zero pages, or have "(disambiguation)" in the title but disambiguate a single page (Discussion).
 * db-blankdraft was merged into G13 (Discussion)
 * A discussion recently closed with no consensus on whether to create a subject-specific notability guideline for theatrical plays.
 * There is an ongoing discussion on a proposal to create subject-specific notability guidelines for chemicals and organism taxa.


 * Reminders
 * NPR is not a binary keep / delete process. In many cases a redirect may be appropriate. The deletion policy and its associated guideline clearly emphasise that not all unsuitable articles must be deleted. Redirects are not contentious. See a classic example of the templates to use. More templates are listed at the R template index. Reviewers who are not aware, do please take this into consideration before PROD, CSD, and especially AfD  because not even all admins are aware of such policies, and many NAC do not have a full knowledge of them.


 * NPP Tools Report
 * Superlinks – allows you to check an article's history, logs, talk page, NPP flowchart (on unpatrolled pages) and more without navigating away from the article itself.
 * copyvio-check – automatically checks the copyvio percentage of new pages in the background and displays this info with a link to the report in the 'info' panel of the Page curation toolbar.
 * The NPP flowchart now has clickable hyperlinks.

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Brown is a Beautiful Color

 * I have added several references to reviews of the book since you posted this here. MarkZusab (talk) 20:32, 24 March 2019 (UTC)

Request for clarification/education
Hi,

I put a PROD on this page, which you declined https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibodies_from_lymphocyte_secretions, and I wondered if you would be willing to educate me on criteria for deletion. I'm not arguing about this page in particular -- I can see why a bias towards keeping information that might be useful one day to someone, once it's been reviewed, makes sense -- but I still think this is a bad page and I'm interested to know whether I didn't communicate my reasons properly, or whether I'm just wrong. What happened was this: I noticed the page on a list of pages with issues, and wondered if I could help. The page is a mess, unclear and with a number of inaccurate statements. So I looked at the original paper and the papers that reference it to see how I could clarify the page. Bottom line, there is no "there" there: the assay is hardly referenced at all, and nobody has built on it; it is not recommended by any of the papers on best practices for diagnosing tuberculosis that I checked; and the "method" is so basic that it doesn't deserve a name ("isolate white blood cells from a patient and see if they're making antibody to a suspected pathogen" is not exactly a major advance). It seemed to me that this is almost the equivalent of listing a self-published novel on Wikipedia, and even though it survived initial review I thought there was a case it should be taken down. I didn't explain all this in the note, and I wonder if discussing these issues in detail would have been helpful, or if there needs to be more of a smoking gun to justify removal.

I'm not sure if it matters, but when I put the PROD on the page itself I also put a note on the talk page of the original author https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Mamunbmb and found that s/he has a history of putting up dubious pages.

Thank you for any advice you're willing to offer this newbie! Logophile59 (talk) 00:57, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #356
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events
 * Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikipedia workshop in Aberdeen, Scotland, on March 19th
 * Upcoming: Training "Valoriser les collections patrimoniales et la recherche en histoire de l’art sur Wikipédia, WikiCommons et Wikidata" in Paris, 28 and 29 March (in French)
 * Upcoming: GLAM and Wikidata in National Library, Bern (Switzerland), on March 28th (in German and French).
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop for GLAM in Lausanne (Switzerland), on March 29th (in French).
 * Upcoming: Monthly Wikidata meetup in Buenos Aires


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * What Wikidata offers Oxford’s GLAM Digital Strategy


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * A new data type is available : musical notation
 * A research report is now available for the project Wikimedia Commons Data Roundtripping. The research investigates which (updated) metadata cultural institutions would like to retrieve back from (Structured) Wikimedia Commons, and what the main barriers are. Research summary / presentation slides / full report
 * If you're using Wikidata dumps, please note that the update schedule may change from fixed weekday to fixed day of the month. More info in this ticket
 * Slides of the Wikidata presentation during UNESCO's Mobile Learning Week by Shani Evenstein now available on Commons.
 * A project to link branded businesses in Open Street Maps to Wikidata


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: Guggenheim fellows ID, Sandbox-Musical Notation
 * External identifiers: Paintings by Salvador Dalí ID, a-tremasov.ru biography ID, Digital Dictionary of Surnames in Germany ID, flgr-results.ru athlete ID, HCA Red List of Endangered Crafts ID, Resident Advisor artist ID, Resident Advisor label ID, Rhineland-Palatinate protected area ID, film-documentaire.fr author ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: average speed, Digital Author Identifier, date of the latest value change, chữ Nôm, capacity factor, study or design for, motif (music), chess position
 * External identifiers: Salvador Dali Museum ID, Tainacan MHN ID, AWARE ID, Cini Foundation ID, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam ID, Semantic Scholar topic ID, Artcurial ID, Ashmolean museum ID, Index to American Botanical Literature ID, Periscope pscp.tv, LinkedIn personal profile ID, Library of Parliament Person ID, Gamepedia Article ID, 100 bombardirov person ID, JRC Names id, Fandango theater ID, Epitafier.se


 * Query examples:
 * Color associations in national flags (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20German-language%20female%20science%20fiction%20authors%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fauthor%20%3FauthorLabel%20%3FdateOfBirth%20%3FdateOfDeath%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fauthor%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP21%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ6581072.%0A%20%20%23%20speaks%2Fwrites%20German%2C%20or%20citizen%20of%20Germany%2C%20Austria%20or%20Liechtenstein%20%28since%20%E2%80%9Clanguages%20spoken%2C%20written%20or%20signed%E2%80%9D%20alone%20is%20not%20very%20complete%3B%20Swiss%20citizenship%20would%20probably%20include%20too%20many%20French-%20or%20Italian-writing%20authors%29%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fauthor%20wdt%3AP1412%20wd%3AQ188.%0A%20%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20VALUES%20%3Fcountry%20%7B%20wd%3AQ183%20wd%3AQ40%20wd%3AQ347%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fauthor%20wdt%3AP27%20%3Fcountry.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%23%20genre%20science%20fiction%2C%20or%20occupation%20science%20fiction%20author%2C%20or%20genre%20science%20fiction%20as%20qualifier%20on%20occupation%20author%20statement%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fauthor%20wdt%3AP136%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ24925.%0A%20%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fauthor%20wdt%3AP106%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ28225718.%0A%20%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fauthor%20p%3AP106%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20a%20wikibase%3ABestRank%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP106%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ482980%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP136%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ24925%0A%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fauthor%20wdt%3AP569%20%3FdateOfBirth.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fauthor%20wdt%3AP570%20%3FdateOfDeath.%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D List of German-language female science fiction authors] (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Liste%20des%20projets%20Wikimedia%20localis%C3%A9s%20dans%20les%20langues%20r%C3%A9gionales%20et%20minoritaires%20de%20France%0A%23%20telles%20que%20d%C3%A9finies%20par%20la%20DGLFLF%0A%23%20auxquelles%20s%27ajoutent%20le%20fran%C3%A7ais%20et%20le%20luxembourgeois%0A%23%20Manquent%20%3A%20%0A%23%20-%20Wikisource%20en%20al%C3%A9manique%20%28sur%20als%3A%29%0A%23%20-%20Wikisource%20en%20corse%20%28sur%20oldwikisource%29%0A%23%20-%20Wikisource%20en%20occitan%20%28sur%20oldwikisource%29%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Flanguage%20%3FlanguageLabel%20%3FwpURL%20%3FwiktURL%20%3FwsURL%20%3FwnURL%20%3FwqURL%20%3FwbURL%20%3FwvURL%20%3FwvoyURL%0AWHERE%20%0A%7B%0A%20%20%7B%20VALUES%20%3Flanguage%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ150%0A%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ33302%0A%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ9051%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%20UNION%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Flanguage%20wdt%3AP361%2Fwdt%3AP361%20wd%3AQ496250%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%3Fwp%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ10876391%20.%0A%20%20%3Fwp%20p%3AP407%20%3FwpLangStatement%20.%0A%20%20%3FwpLangStatement%20ps%3AP407%20%3Flanguage%20.%0A%20%20%3Fwp%20wdt%3AP856%20%3FwpURL%20.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwikt%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ22001389%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwikt%20p%3AP407%20%3FwiktLangStatement%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FwiktLangStatement%20ps%3AP407%20%3Flanguage%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwikt%20wdt%3AP856%20%3FwiktURL%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fws%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ15156455%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fws%20p%3AP407%20%3FwsLangStatement%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FwsLangStatement%20ps%3AP407%20%3Flanguage%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fws%20wdt%3AP856%20%3FwsURL%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwn%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ20671729%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwn%20p%3AP407%20%3FwnLangStatement%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FwnLangStatement%20ps%3AP407%20%3Flanguage%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwn%20wdt%3AP856%20%3FwnURL%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwq%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ22001361%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwq%20p%3AP407%20%3FwqLangStatement%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FwqLangStatement%20ps%3AP407%20%3Flanguage%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwq%20wdt%3AP856%20%3FwqURL%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwb%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ22001316%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwb%20p%3AP407%20%3FwbLangStatement%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FwbLangStatement%20ps%3AP407%20%3Flanguage%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwb%20wdt%3AP856%20%3FwbURL%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwv%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ22001390%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwv%20p%3AP407%20%3FwvLangStatement%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FwvLangStatement%20ps%3AP407%20%3Flanguage%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwv%20wdt%3AP856%20%3FwvURL%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwvoy%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ19826567%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwvoy%20p%3AP407%20%3FwvoyLangStatement%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FwvoyLangStatement%20ps%3AP407%20%3Flanguage%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwvoy%20wdt%3AP856%20%3FwvoyURL%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22fr%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20%3FlanguageLabel List of the Wikimedia projects in French and languages of France] (source)


 * Development
 * Prepare new constraint icons (T191322)
 * View history revisions of entities on new termbox mobile (T210615)
 * Caching termbox output on the Wikibase side (T214679)
 * Fix emojis breaking the termbox layout in Chrome (T217244)
 * Work on multilingual support for schemas (T215387)
 * Implement a length limit for the schema text (T216148)
 * Replace the heading/title for schema pages similar to what Wikibase does (T215759)
 * Deploy the shex-simple website, which can be used to check entities against a schema in the browser, on Toolforge (T217333)
 * Deploy the score data type to production

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


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

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:04, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-12
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week
 * When you use rollback you will be able to get a confirmation prompt on most wikis. It asks you if you wanted to do the rollback. This is to avoid misclicks. You will have to opt in to get it. On German Wikipedia it will be an opt-out feature from 28 March.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 March. It will be on all wikis from 21 March (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Admins will be able to block someone from editing a page or a namespace. This already works on a few Wikimedia wikis. You can read more. If your wiki wants to be an early tester of this, you can tell the developers.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Toolforge will shut down the Ubuntu Trusty job grid. This will happen the week of 25 March. Tools that use this grid needs to be moved to the new Debian Stretch job grid. If they haven't, they will be taken offline. Maintainers can restart the tools later. Users may not be able to use them in the meanwhile. You can see a list of affected tools.

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Wikidata weekly summary #357
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Stanglavine
 * An open discussion on how to model one-way train routes is now taking place, and everyone is welcome to pitch in


 * Events
 * Past: Researcher meets Curator, 22 March 2019, Maastricht: meeting about biographies, where Wikidata was mentioned in many talks, eg. Visual Biographies of Scholars and the Topics they Studied, Egon Willighagen
 * Upcoming: Training "Valoriser les collections patrimoniales et la recherche en histoire de l’art sur Wikipédia, WikiCommons et Wikidata" in Paris, 28 and 29 March (in French)
 * Upcoming: GLAM and Wikidata in National Library, Bern (Switzerland), on March 28th (in German and French)
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop for GLAM in Lausanne (Switzerland), on March 29th (in French)
 * Upcoming: Monthly Wikidata meetup in Buenos Aires
 * Upcoming: Where iNaturalist meets Wiki April 16th, in Meise (Belgium)


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * SPARQL via WDQS (very basic introduction for archivist) (in French).
 * "Build your own Digital Bodleian with IIIF and SPARQL", Martin Poulter, Bodleian Digital Library blog
 * A call to action: Wikidata-fy your Commons photos, Martin Poukter, Wikimedia UK blog
 * On Wikimedia Research from March 2019: Learning How to Correct a Knowledge Base from the Edit History, by Thomas Pellissier Tanon, Camille Bourgaux and Fabian Suchanek (slides, video)
 * The panEuropean Research Infrastructure "Mobilising Data, Experts and Policies in Scientific Collections" initiative's kick-off meeting had a workshop on the "Authority Management of People Names". Wikidata featured strongly - and was highly praised: Twitter thread
 * Lexicographical data on Wikidata: Words, words, words by Jens Ohlig


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * It is now possible to filter by property in EditGroups. For instance, you can get an overview of the author disambiguation efforts by filtering on.
 * Related Wikidata Properties: new tool to explore Wikidata properties and find properties used together (example: external id properties used in conjunction with Elo rating (P1087)).
 * New tool: BNF Scrapper generates content ready for QuickStatement from an author file from the French National Library
 * Tips for Wikidata SPARQL query optimization


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: study or design for, constraint clarification, General Material Designation, value hierarchy property
 * External identifiers: Plant Illustrations artist ID, Ashmolean museum ID, Semantic Scholar topic ID, FFS athlete ID, CSKA person ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: quotation or excerpt (music), Classification RCQ, CHVRS Classification
 * External identifiers: Kicker.de player ID, XING company ID, Le Figaro tag ID, Le Parisien tag ID, L'Express tag ID, Orlando person ID, Identifier, Sumo Reference, SA Rugby Player ID, EUNIS ID for habitats, Japan Search name ID, FIS telemark skier ID, Rxivist author ID, Rxivist preprint ID, Motorsports Hall of Fame of America ID


 * Query examples:
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0A%23%20maximum%20temperatures%20on%20Earth%20%0A%23%20from%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fwiki%2FProperty_talk%3AP6591%0ASELECT%20%3Fdegrees_Celsius%20%3Fdegrees_Fahrenheit%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Flocation%20%3FlocationLabel%20%3Fdate%20%3Fcoor%20%3Flayer%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%09%3Fitem%20p%3AP6591%20%3Fst%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fst%20psv%3AP6591%20%20%5B%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3Fdegrees_Celsius%20%3B%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ25267%20%5D%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%20%28%20ROUND%20%28%20%3Fdegrees_Celsius%20%2a%201.8%20%2B%2032%20%29%20as%20%3Fdegrees_Fahrenheit%20%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20UNION%0A%09%7B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fst%20psv%3AP6591%20%20%5B%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3Fdegrees_Fahrenheit%20%3B%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ42289%20%5D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%20ROUND%28%20%28%20%3Fdegrees_Fahrenheit%20-%2032%20%29%20%2F%201.8%20%2a%2010%29%2F10%20as%20%3Fdegrees_Celsius%20%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fst%20pq%3AP276%20%3Flocation%20%7D%20%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fst%20pq%3AP585%20%3Fdate%20%7D%20%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoor%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28%20CONCAT%28str%28Floor%28%3Fdegrees_Celsius%20%2F%2010%29%29%2C%220s%20%C2%B0C%22%29%20as%20%3Flayer%29%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%20%7D%20%20%20%20%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fdegrees_Celsius%29%0ALIMIT%201000 Maximum temperatures on Earth (°F/°C)] (source)
 * People with social media accounts that are identical but differently capitalised (source)


 * Development
 * Update property suggester data (T216270)
 * Add a link to the shex-simple tool to make it easier to check entities against a Schema (T217331)
 * Make the placeholders on Special:NewSchema now match the ones on Special:NewItem (T215386)
 * Check for edit conflicts when editing schemas (T217338, T218300)
 * Enable the parser cache for Schema pages (T218459, T218769)
 * Use the FormatAutocomments hook for Schemas to implement translatable edit summaries (T218889)
 * Implement a proper Wikibase-Termbox-Integration according to the ADR (T214679)
 * Fix the emoji breaking the termbox column layout (T217244)
 * Correctly showing revisions with the new termbox (T210615)
 * Correctly handle user-specific language settings in the new termbox (T218111)
 * Fix an issue for score extension (T218535)
 * Turn off RDF support for entity types that doesn't support it (T213483)
 * Respect nofollow config on wikidata identifier links (T175230)
 * Allow accessing Wikibase entities from multiple (Wikibase) databases (T214557)

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


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

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:20, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-13
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * The new version of the content translation tool will be used for all new translations. The older version will still be used for translations that were started with it. Most users won’t see any change. More than 80% of the published translations are already using the new version.

Problems
 * There was a problem with editing with Safari on iOS. When you wrote an edit summary you couldn't save the edit. This has now been fixed.
 * The editing toolbar sometimes disappears when you scroll on iOS devices. This will be fixed soon.
 * Wikis can over-ride interface messages on-wiki. A problem meant that sometimes an old versions of any changed messages were shown instead. This included the sitenotice and other important parts of the interface. This was fixed at around 2019-03-22 16:00 (UTC). Logged-out users may still get the wrong message. Purging the page should fix it for them.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (calendar).

Meetings
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De-PRODs
Hi,

I've BLAR'd the de-PRODs you suggested suggested for merges (Ipostparcels and Gentoolkit) and tagged them as R with history.

Thanks,

 SITH   (talk)   19:31, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
 * StraussInTheHouse, thank you for your edits and for notifying me. MarkZusab (talk) 00:42, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I'll also note that you cannot "decline" prods or speedy deletions, you're welcome to contest or de-prod them but as you're not an administrator, you can't decline much of anything. Thanks! Praxidicae (talk) 00:03, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I am aware that I am not an administrator, but do not see how that affects the wording of my de-PRODs. I've used the wording "remove" and "decline" in the past, both to indicate the same thing. As I understand it, the word is means (in this context) to politely refuse or to withhold consent. This seems to fit the action of removing a PROD. I also can not seem to find any specific policy saying that the word "decline" may only be used by administrators. Could you please elaborate why different wording must be used?


 * To add on to your statement that "as you're not an administrator, you can't decline much of anything", I'd like to point out that being an administrator is not a requirement to decline draft submissions, decline requested redirects, or to decline edit requests. MarkZusab (talk) 00:42, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
 * You can't decline deletion requests was my point. Praxidicae (talk) 00:44, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I can't just remove an AfD template or speedy deletion without reason, but I am free to remove controversially placed speedy deletion tags (on a page I have not created & when another process should be used) or to remove any PROD. Are you saying that I am not allowed to decline/remove a PROD? MarkZusab (talk)

Children's Literature Newsletter March 2019
More good work has been underway since our last newsletter. Thanks to all the project members for what you to do to support Children's literature on Wikipedia.
 *  Children's Literature  March 2019


 * Newly Recognized Content

With the completion of our project banner project, we have a large backlog of unassessed articles. Doing article rating is a great way to find interesting articles with-in our project's scope and to also find articles that were incorrectly tagged. This project will hopefully let us better monitor and aid in the development the many articles that this project supports. Thanks to for all his work in making this happen. Looking for information on a book? Try out the new Children's literature custom search engine. This custom google search engine will look at designated sites for information. Included so far are Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, Horn Book, and Publisher's Weekly. If you have ideas for other sites which should be added start a discussion on our project talk page.
 * Article Assessment
 * Google Custom Search Engine

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This Month in Education: March 2019
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Facto Post – Issue 22 – 28 March 2019
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Thank you very much!
Thank you for helping improve my draft Draft:Louwailou. Now it's much better, and I feel more comfortable resubmitting it! Woshiyiweizhongguoren</b> (<b style="color:#0077C0">🇨🇳</b>) 12:17, 28 March 2019 (UTC)


 * You're welcome. I was happy to help out and improve a draft. Feel free to let me know if there are any other draft articles you are submitting. MarkZusab (talk) 23:31, 29 March 2019 (UTC)

Phil Yates
Thanks for finding sources for the Phil Yates article! If you have anything you can add to any of the articles at User:BOZ/Draft pages that would put them a few steps closer to being reinstated as articles. :) I can restore the content of the redlinked articles if you find anything for those. BOZ (talk) 22:14, 29 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Thank you for notifying me about this. I plan to look and and try to improve some of those drafts. MarkZusab (talk) 15:59, 27 April 2019 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 March 2019
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Wikidata weekly summary #358
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Events
 * Past: Wikidata meetup during the Wikimedia Summit, March 29th in Berlin (collaborative notes)
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop for archives in Saint-Etienne, France, on April 3rd and 5th
 * Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin in Wikibär on April 14th
 * Upcoming: Where iNaturalist meets Wiki April 16th, in Meise (Belgium)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * WikidataCon 2019 application, program submission and scholarship processes are now open until April 29th
 * Structured Data on Commons: You can now test creating depicts statements
 * While editing OpenStreetMap from the iD editor, it will now be possible to match map data with Wikidata by typing in names and getting an autocompleted label.
 * OpenStreetMap is participating in this year's Google Summer of Code, and quite a few of the project ideas involve Wikidata integration.
 * Discussion going on in W3C SPARQL 1.2 Community Group about the improvements in SPARQL language


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: capacity factor, position in Forsyth-Edwards Notation
 * External identifiers: Libreflix ID, Kicker.de player ID, Library of Parliament of Canada person ID, RoMEO publisher ID, Federal-State Cooperative System ID, XING company ID, L'Express person ID, Le Figaro tag ID, Le Parisien tag ID, Gamepedia article ID, FSkate.ru skater ID, Salvador Dali Museum ID, Index to American Botanical Literature ID, FaroeSoccer player ID, FaroeSoccer coach ID, Artcurial lot ID, SNISB ID, Tainacan MHN ID, 100 bombardirov person ID, Cini Foundation ID, LinkedIn personal profile ID, ACA author ID, CDEC ID, AWARE ID, JRC Names id, Zomato ID, TV Spielfilm series ID, Fandango theater ID, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam ID, JMdictDB ID, Zagat ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: First attestation, match interval, réédité par, calligrapher, Ordained by, code produit, Wikidata property example for media
 * External identifiers: Baden-Württemberg Schutzgebiete-ID, K10plus editions, Utpictura18 ID, Le Vif tag ID, Common Sense Media review ID, Pro-Linux.de DBApp ID, Libregamewiki ID, Democracy Club Election ID, MARGS ID, Kobo author ID, WoRMS source ID, Kobo narrator ID, NGMDb Prod ID, Memórias da Ditadura ID, Placar UOL Eleições ID, AntWiki, MESH Concept ID, MESH Term ID, Desaparecidos Políticos ID


 * Query examples:
 * Siblings who have won the Israel Prize (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fsort%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Farticle%20%0A%20%20%20%20(GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT%20%3Focc_label%3B%20SEPARATOR%20%3D%20'%20%2F%20')%20AS%20%3Foccs)%20%0A%20%20%20%20(GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT%20%3Ffield_label%3B%20SEPARATOR%20%3D%20'%20%2F%20')%20AS%20%3Ffields)%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fdob%20%3Fdod%0A%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ81096%20%5Ewdt%3AP279*%20%3Focc%20.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20(%3Focc%20!%3D%20wd%3AQ183945)%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Focc%20%5Ewdt%3AP106%20%3Fitem%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ6581072%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%20.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fdob%7D%20.%0A%20%20%20%20BIND(COALESCE%20(year(%3Fdob)%2C%209999)%20AS%20%3Fsort)%20.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdod%7D%20.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20(!bound(%3Fdod)%20%7C%7C%20!(year(%3Fdod)%20%3C%201919)).%0A%20%20%20%20VALUES%20%3Fuk%20%7Bwd%3AQ145%20wd%3AQ174193%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP27%7C((wdt%3AP937%7Cwdt%3AP19%7Cwdt%3AP20)%2Fwdt%3AP131*)%20%3Fuk%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP101%20%3Ffield%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Ffield%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Ffield_label.%20FILTER(lang(%3Ffield_label)%20%3D%20'en')%20%7D%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Focc%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Focc_label.%20FILTER(lang(%3Focc_label)%20%3D%20'en')%20%7D%20.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Farticle%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fitem%20.%20%3Farticle%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20%7D%20.%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Farticle%20%3Fdob%20%3Fsort%20%3Fdod%0AORDER%20BY%20%3Fsort%20%3FitemLabel British female engineers, 1919-2019] (source)
 * Female scientific illustrators (source)
 * French archivists with a picture (source)
 * Archive institutions in Switzerland and how much they hold (source)
 * Graph of open source research software by field (source)
 * Groups of characters in the Marvel universe (source)
 * In what type of places are ancient Greek potteries stored? (source)


 * Development
 * Work on a dashboard for external identifiers (T204440)
 * Add baserevid to WikibaseLexeme API modules (T217243)
 * Add tests for embed.html (T212649)
 * Improve features for wikibase vandalism detection model (T194737)
 * Improve Property Info cache performance (T218115, T218197)
 * Adding nofollow to external identifiers links (T175230)
 * Hide query helper by default in Query Service (T217886)
 * More work on wb_terms normalization (Phab board)
 * Enable trimming whitespace around Label/Description/Aliases and Schema text (T215761)
 * Prevent moving Schemas between namespaces (and generally) (T219313)
 * Limit the length of Schema labels, descriptions, aliases, and schema text in the frontend (T218867)
 * Add tracking for clicks on the “check entities against this Schema” link (T218899)
 * Disallow importing of Schemas from another wiki or XML files to avoid ID conflicts (T218181)
 * Make sure RTL text is being handled correctly in the Schema labels, descriptions and aliases table (T219136)
 * Add a publish button on mobile termbox: (T218573)
 * Building the wbeditentity request to be fired on save request: (T218577)

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


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

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Tech News: 2019-14
<section begin="technews-2019-W14"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week
 * Notifications tell you about things that happen on the wiki. You can turn on notifications about new links to pages you created. For performance reasons you can no longer get e-mails about this.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 April. It will be on all wikis from 4 April (calendar).

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Nomination of List of Georgia distilleries for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article List of Georgia distilleries 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/List of Georgia distilleries 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. Clarityfiend (talk) 08:22, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

Draft:Alan Crossman (Structural Engineer)
Thanks for your edits on my original article. One reviewer has rejected the draft saying the person is 'reun of the mill'. I strongly dispute that. I wonder if you have any advice/ thoughts about how I can get the article accepted. Ian.Kirkland76 (talk) 16:03, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2019).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Reaper Eternal • ThaddeusB
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Bogdangiusca • Christopher Parham • Necrothesp • Schneelocke • Siroxo • Sarah
 * Pictogram voting rename.png →

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Mr. Stradivarius

Bureaucrat changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg DeltaQuad
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Kingturtle

Technical news
 * In Special:Preferences under "Appearance" → "Advanced options", there is now an option to show a confirmation prompt when clicking on a rollback link.
 * The Wikimedia Foundation's Community health initiative plans to design and build a new user reporting system to make it easier for people experiencing harassment and other forms of abuse to provide accurate information to the appropriate channel for action to be taken. Please see meta:Community health initiative/User reporting system consultation 2019 to provide your input on this idea.

Arbitration
 * The Arbitration Committee clarified that the General 1RR prohibition for Palestine-Israel articles may only be enforced on pages with the ARBPIA 1RR editnotice edit notice.

Miscellaneous
 * Two more administrator accounts were compromised. Evidence has shown that these attacks, like previous incidents, were due to reusing a password that was used on another website that suffered a data breach. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. All admins are strongly encouraged to enable two-factor authentication, please consider doing so. Please always practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.
 * As a reminder, according to WP:NOQUORUM, administrators looking to close or relist an AfD should evaluate a nomination that has received few or no comments as if it were a proposed deletion (PROD) prior to determining whether it should be relisted.

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Wikidata weekly summary #359
<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 adminship: Stanglavine (welcome onboard!)
 * New request for comments: Countries, subdivisions, and disputed territories
 * Closed request for comments: Talk pages consultation 2019


 * Events
 * Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, April 9th at 16:30 UTC (18:30 in Berlin)
 * Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, April 14th in Wikibär
 * Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris, April 19th
 * Upcoming: The Celtic Knot Conference, dedicated to languages on the Wikimedia projects, will take place in Cornwall on July 4-5. Call for submissions is now open


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Using Wikidata’s entities and ontology to measure how much attention content receives, by Conrad Lee on Parse.ly


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * [Breaking change] Empty containers in JSON outputs will be serialized as empty object "{}"
 * [Breaking change] A new status of constraint will be enabled, causing some changes in the WikibaseQualityConstraints constraint checking API
 * The Wikimedia URL shortener will be launched on 11 April; see Wikidata:URLShortener. It will not be immediately incorporated into the Query Service but the feature is planned.
 * The Library of the African Studies Centre in Leiden compiled an experimental web dossier which combines the components of a classical ASCL web dossier with features offered by Wikidata.
 * The gender gap tool Delenezh is online again and now hosted by Wikimedia France
 * New tool: Related Properties, exploring Wikidata properties by the similarity of their use (see blog post by Envlh)
 * Property statistics on Wikiprojects: sum of all paintings, video games


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: stroke order, CHVRS Classification, Classification RCQ, musical quotation or excerpt
 * External identifiers: Democracy Club Election ID, Martindale-Hubbell profile, Sumo Reference ID, ETS Designated Institution code, Periscope pscp.tv, BHCL ID, Baden-Württemberg protected area ID, Rxivist author ID, Rxivist preprint ID, Springboks Rugby Player ID, Utpictura18 artwork ID, Le Vif tag ID, Pro-Linux.de DBApp ID, Libregamewiki ID, MARGS ID, theatre-contemporain.net ID, FIS telemark skier ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Arcade system, Audio system, IANA time zone identifier, has sequenced genome, WMF short URL, translated to (language translation)
 * External identifiers: OpenEdition books ID, OpenEdition ID, MassBank Accession ID, identyfikator sztuki w e-teatr.pl, identifiant GameFAQs d'un jeu, CIN ID, New York City Neighborhood Tabulation area ID, Alexander Turnbull Library Name ID, Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG cards ID, DCMI metadata term, CroRec ID, Radio Courtoisie program ID, Russia.tv actor profile ID, LNB Coach id, Sachsen Schutzgebiete-ID, Dictionnaire des Vendéens ID, Trainline ID


 * Query examples:
 * Public art in London (source)
 * Software titles that have their own mascot (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Wikipedia%20articles%20and%20other%20wiki%20pages%20using%20a%20transgender%20person%E2%80%99s%20deadname%20in%20the%20title%0A%23%20%28this%20query%20only%20checks%20the%20given%20name%20of%20a%20person%29%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Farticle%20%3Ftitle%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20transgender%20or%20non-binary%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP21%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ17884%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20deadnames%20are%20any%20names%20with%20an%20end%20time%20qualifier%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP735%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP735%2Fwdt%3AP1705%20%3Fdeadname%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP582%20%3FdeadnameEndTime%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%23%20find%20articles%20%28any%20project%2C%20not%20just%20Wikipedias%29%20containing%20the%20deadname%0A%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fitem%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3Aname%20%3Ftitle.%0A%20%20FILTER%28CONTAINS%28%3Ftitle%2C%20%3Fdeadname%29%29%0A%20%20%23%20remove%20articles%20that%20actually%20use%20the%20new%20name%2C%20but%20it%E2%80%99s%20a%20variant%20of%20the%20deadname%20%28e.%E2%80%AFg.%20Andrej%20%E2%86%92%20Andreja%29%20so%20they%20contain%20the%20deadname%20as%20well%0A%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP735%20%3FnameStatement.%0A%20%20%20%20MINUS%20%7B%20%3FnameStatement%20pq%3AP582%20%3FnameEndTime.%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%3FnameStatement%20ps%3AP735%2Fwdt%3AP1705%20%3Fname.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28CONTAINS%28%3Fname%2C%20%3Fdeadname%29%20%26%26%20CONTAINS%28%3Ftitle%2C%20%3Fname%29%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Farticle Wikipedia articles using a transgender person’s deadname in the title] (source)
 * Entities linked to a 3d model (source)
 * Graph of parties at the Feb 1974 general election in the UK (source)
 * Newest database reports: first names of Italians


 * Development
 * More work on documenting and preparing the announcement for the Wikidata External Landscape dashboard (T204440)
 * Improved the documentation of WMDE analytic documents (T219844)
 * Set up translatable schema edit summaries using the FormatAutocomments hook (T218893)
 * Improved right-to-left support on schema pages (T219298)
 * Protected schemas against imports (T218181) and page moves (T219313) and disabled the useless “move” and “create” protections for them (T219980)
 * Improved schema edit conflict detection to allow merging of non-conflicting edits (T218300, T219173)
 * Improved the Extension:WikibaseSchema documentation on mediawiki.org (T219979)
 * Fixed a bug on Lexicographical Data when editing existing grammatical features (T219318)
 * Increased musical notation datatype string length limit to 1500 characters (T218767)
 * Got ready for the last steps of new constraint level for suggestions (T204439)
 * More work on allowing editing of mobile termbox fields (T216987)
 * Let term value fields grow with their content (T220185)
 * More work on migrating away from wb_terms

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


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

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Tech News: 2019-15
<section begin="technews-2019-W15"/> 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
 * More wikis are now testing visual editor section editing for mobile users. You can read more.
 * Admins on French and Polish Wikipedia can block someone from editing a page or a namespace. If your wiki wants to get these blocks before they are available to all wikis, you can tell the developers.

Problems
 * You will be able read but not edit most wikis for 30 minutes on 11 April at 05:00 (UTC). This is because of a hardware problem. You can see a list of the affected wikis.
 * A map update caused some problems on 29 March and 30 March. It was rolled back.
 * Pages on some Wikivoyages had problems with the top headline. This has been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * When you add an edit summary the VisualEditor will search your recent edit summaries in case you want to re-use one. This works in both the visual and wikitext modes on desktop. It also works on the mobile site.
 * The Wikimedia wikis will get a URL shortener. This will work from 11 April. You can read more.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The  magic word will no longer work. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it will return   (empty string). When you read a page it will return   (dash). For now this will only affect content namespaces.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * You will be able to preview references. This means that when you hover over the link you will get a popup that shows you a preview of the reference. It will work much like page previews. This is so you don't have to go to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will now be available as a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Wikidata JSON output will change. Empty containers will be serialised as empty objects. This is a breaking change that will affect tools that use JSON outputs and APIs. It will happen on 30 April. You can read more and see how to test your code.

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This Month in GLAM: March 2019
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Gary Stewart (music executive) moved to draftspace
An article you recently created, Gary Stewart (music executive), does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of " " before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Snickers2686 (talk) 23:16, 13 April 2019 (UTC)


 * The article contains five references, from Los Angeles Times, Deadline Hollywood, Variety, Billboard, and The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles. Are you seriously saying that the article "does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published", fails WP:GNG, and contains unreferenced information? Please revert your move. MarkZusab (talk) 23:22, 13 April 2019 (UTC)


 * It needs more body than just a single sentence. Okay, so he died. How was he important? What did he do? As the article stands, it seems insignificant. That's why I moved it to draft to give you a chance to expand it PRIOR to publishing.

G13
So, are you going to work on all of these stale drafts you are saving? Just curious. Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 04:57, 15 April 2019 (UTC)


 * I do plan to work on the majority of them. However, some of them were rushed and will likely be deleted again in 6 months. MarkZusab (talk) 22:27, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #360
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Non-free content


 * Events
 * Past: Wikidata IRC office hour, on April 9th (read the log)
 * Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris, April 19th
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XIV, April 25th in São Paulo, Brazil


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Wikidata at work on tcworld.info
 * Searching News Articles Using an Event Knowledge Graph Leveraged by Wikidata (pdf) (search engine demonstration)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New tool: qwikidata, a Python package to process Wikidata entities and dumps
 * New dashboard: visualisations of external identifiers on Wikidata
 * Several Wikidata-related projects will be funded by WMF Project Grants
 * The page Wikidata:Wikimania 2019 is here to help you coordinating with other people regarding your submissions for Wikimania 2019. The opening of submissions is planned for late April.
 * Reminder: you can apply to participate to the WikidataCon 2019 before April 29th


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: first attested from, Wikidata property example for media, musical motif
 * External identifiers: French public service directory ID, Placar UOL Eleições ID, Memórias da Ditadura ID, Desaparecidos Políticos ID, OpenEdition book ID, OpenEdition Books author ID, WoRMS source ID, e-teatr.pl play ID, MESH Term ID, EUNIS ID for habitats, Motorsports Hall of Fame of America ID, Alexander Turnbull Library Name ID, IANA timezone ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Recognition, recognized by, not recognized by, jurisdiction status, job title, military unit size, business partner, microarchitecture, Video system, Mesh Qualifier ID, cache l1-l2-l3, text features, Software development model, Dimore Storiche Italiane ID, SIUSA ID, FTP server
 * External identifiers: Shanghai Library person ID, Shanghai Library place ID, IMTL.org id, CNV-SP ID, MyNeta.info political party ID, GruCultura ID, CEMDP ID, identifiant Projet de recherche en littérature de langue bretonne, SportSport.ba player ID, SportSport.ba club ID, SportSport.ba news ID, Heritage Gazetteer of Libya, FoodOn ID, Finnish Trade Register ID


 * Query examples:
 * Gender balance of art prizes and Gender balance of literary awards (source)
 * Images used on more than one item about a person (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3Fs%20%3FsLabel%20%3Fcoor%20%3Foperator%20%3FoperatorLabel%20%3Fimage%20%3Flayer%20WHERE%20%7B%20%20%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fs%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ28564%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP17%20wd%3AQ145%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoor%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP137%20%3Foperator%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fs%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20VALUES%20%3Foperator%20%7B%20wd%3AQ4923796%20wd%3AQ4966533%20wd%3AQ5016926%20wd%3AQ5038400%20wd%3AQ5043224%20wd%3AQ5064127%20wd%3AQ5166758%20wd%3AQ5256629%20wd%3AQ16837157%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ5623821%20wd%3AQ6083890%20wd%3AQ16997658%20wd%3AQ6901162%20wd%3AQ6984500%20wd%3AQ16998902%20wd%3AQ7161994%20wd%3AQ7236943%20wd%3AQ7321391%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ5123523%20wd%3AQ7825688%20wd%3AQ7909538%20wd%3AQ8038115%20%7D%0ABIND%28%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Foperator%20%3D%20wd%3AQ4923796%2C%20%22Blaenau%20Gwent%22%2C%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Foperator%20%3D%20wd%3AQ4966533%2C%20%22Bridgend%22%2C%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Foperator%20%3D%20wd%3AQ5016926%2C%20%22Caerphilly%22%2C%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Foperator%20%3D%20wd%3AQ5038400%2C%20%22Cardiff%22%2C%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Foperator%20%3D%20wd%3AQ5043224%2C%20%22Carmarthenshire%22%2C%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Foperator%20%3D%20wd%3AQ5064127%2C%20%22Ceredigion%22%2C%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Foperator%20%3D%20wd%3AQ5166758%2C%20%22Conwy%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Foperator%20%3D%20wd%3AQ5256629%2C%20%22Denbighshire%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Foperator%20%3D%20wd%3AQ16837157%2C%20%22Flintshire%22%2C%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Foperator%20%3D%20wd%3AQ5623821%2C%20%22Gwynedd%22%2C%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Foperator%20%3D%20wd%3AQ6083890%2C%20%22Isle%20of%20Anglesey%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Foperator%20%3D%20wd%3AQ16997658%2C%20%22Merthyr%20Tydfil%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Foperator%20%3D%20wd%3AQ6901162%2C%20%22Monmouthshire%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Foperator%20%3D%20wd%3AQ6984500%2C%20%22Neath%20Port%20Talbot%22%2C%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Foperator%20%3D%20wd%3AQ16998902%2C%20%22Newport%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Foperator%20%3D%20wd%3AQ7161994%2C%20%22Pembrokeshire%22%2C%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Foperator%20%3D%20wd%3AQ7236943%2C%20%22Powys%22%2C%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Foperator%20%3D%20wd%3AQ7321391%2C%20%22Rhondda%20Cynon%20Taf%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Foperator%20%3D%20wd%3AQ5123523%2C%20%22Swansea%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Foperator%20%3D%20wd%3AQ7825688%2C%20%22Torfaen%22%2C%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Foperator%20%3D%20wd%3AQ7909538%2C%20%22Vale%20of%20Glamorgan%22%2C%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Foperator%20%3D%20wd%3AQ8038115%2C%20%22Wrexham%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%22%22%29%29%29%29%29%29%29%29%29%29%29%29%29%29%29%29%29%29%29%29%29%29%20AS%20%3Flayer%29.%20%20%0A%20%20%0ASERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FoperatorLabel%20%3FsLabel Map of public libraries in Wales coloured by county] (source)
 * Artworks by street artist Invader in Versailles (source)
 * American Sign Language signs for the letters of the English alphabet
 * French Sign Language signs for the letters of the French alphabet


 * Development
 * Added Sámi monolingual language codes  (Akkala),   (Kemi) and   (Ter), thanks to Jon Harald Søby (T217521)
 * Moving forward with enabling constraints suggestions for everyone and remove beta feature (T220609)
 * Fixing an issue with displaying mapframes for geocoordinate on client (T220122)
 * Make it impossible to set the same content in the same language for label and description (T212869)
 * Catch Exceptions where the entity can not be serialized due to being too big (T217741)
 * Fix the order of value suggestions based on constraint (T220587)
 * Add links on entity suggestions from constraint definitions (T207363)
 * Increase musical notation datatype string length limit to 1500 characters (T218767)
 * More work on making the new mobile termbox editable (T216987)
 * More work on migrating away from wb_terms

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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 * 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: 2019-16
<section begin="technews-2019-W16"/> 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
 * All wikis now have the TemplateWizard for the wikitext editor.

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

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Wikidata will get a new constraint status called . This will change how the   constraint checking API works.
 * You can test the  property for structured data on Commons.

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TheWikiWizard - April 2019
Hello, MarkZusab! Here is the April 2019 issue of TheWikiWizard. Hope you like this month's issue! If you'd like to discuss this issue, please go to this issue's talk page. Happy Reading! -- Thegooduser  Life Begins With a Smile :)  🍁 03:06, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
 * What's Hot! (Oshwah gets his own Wikiproject!)
 * Articles (Wikipedia Hacks, Vandalism Detection Tricks)
 * Editor's Notes (New design, new page main page coming soon!)
 * Activity Page (Fun Activities, and answers to those trick questions...)
 * Ads (Ads)

Joan Almond vs. Joan Almond articles
Hello, It appears that we've both created and have been working simultaneously on draft articles for the same person: Joan Almond. My version of the Joan Almond article is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:LorriBrown/Joan_Almond. I recently submitted this article to AfC for approval (yesterday); however, it was rejected. :-) Would you consider collaborating on my version rather than continuing your research to expand on your version?  Thank you for your consideration! Kind regards, LorriBrown (talk) 18:18, 17 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Thank you for notifying me about this. I appreciate all of the work/research that you have done with your draft. I have since published Draft:Joan Almond to main space, but would greatly appreciate you merging your work into the page. The career section and its references, most of all. I don't have a specific interest in expanding my research into the article at this time, and am also sorry that your draft was rejected. If you are okay with it, I can also merge your text/draft into the article, if you want. Feel free to let me know if you have any other comments or queries. MarkZusab (talk) 21:42, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
 * I apologize for misunderstanding your intent. I have replied to you at IDOH's talk page after deleting Joan Almond. MarkZusab (talk) 01:17, 19 April 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Shelly (character) for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Shelly (character) 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/Shelly (character) 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. CoolSkittle (talk) 23:03, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

Geometry of an algebraic curve
About the note at the top of the page. Why is it so important to remove the note about the status of the page? I don't think it is against the policy or anything. I think it's important and useful to have some editorial note at the top for the sake of the other editors and the readers (to avoid the page to be considered as a proper Wikipedia article). -- Taku (talk) 04:46, 19 April 2019 (UTC)

Intrusionism
Hi Mark. You declined my PROD on Intrusionism on the grounds that it could be merged and that you’d found sources. The reason I didn’t consider merging it was that I could not find sources that used the term with the meaning defined in the article. I therefore considered it a neologism effectively used by only one person. If you’ve found sources supporting the use of the term with this specific meanjng, could you add them please? Then I’d agree with you that a merge would be a good course of action. Thanks Mccapra (talk) 01:10, 20 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Sorry for not getting back to you earlier, but thank you for taking it to AfD. MarkZusab (talk) 15:57, 27 April 2019 (UTC)

I think it would have made sense to merge the entry with Jagdish Bhagwati. FloridaArmy (talk) 17:53, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

Ellen Auster
Nice work! Cheers,  PK T (alk)  23:28, 20 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Thank you and thanks for deprodding the article. I appreciate it. MarkZusab (talk) 23:34, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-17
<section begin="technews-2019-W17"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * The advanced search function URL now shows which namespaces you search in. The namespace field is collapsed by default on the search page. You can also add new fields to the search interface through a hook.
 * The wikis now look slightly different in the mobile web version.

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

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Wikipedia articles will have the  meta property. It adds structured data. This makes it easier for search engines to find Wikipedia articles. It also makes it easier to reuse content. There will an A/B test.

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This Month in Education: April 2019
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Wikidata weekly summary #361
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Events
 * Past: Editathon Where iNaturalist meets Wiki, on April 16th in Meise, Belgium
 * Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Argentina, April 25th
 * Upcoming; Wikidata workshop in Pardubice, Czech Republic


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Association of Research Libraries White Paper on Wikidata: Opportunities and Recommendations
 * Open-sourcing PyTorch-BigGraph for faster embeddings of extremely large graphs and the example of Wikidata, on AI Facebook blog
 * OpenTapioca: Lightweight Entity Linking for Wikidata (paper by Antonin Delpeuch)
 * Update on the Factgrid project with Wikibase and GND by Olaf Simons


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Plenty of documentation pages have been translated into Spanish: Wikidata in one page, Query Service in one page, a new data model example based on Marie Curie, and the flyer "Wikidata for developers". Thanks a lot to Mlemusrojas and the Wikidata group in Argentina!
 * Depicts statements were due to arrive on Commons on April 23rd
 * The Wikimedia URL Shortener is live and now included in the Query Service to create short links to queries or direct results (announcement)
 * Reminder: the application phase for the WikidataCon is open until April 29th: if you want to attend to the conference, don't forget to participate!
 * Wikidata Sign Languages Browser
 * You can help by training ORES, the machine learning system, to better judge if edits are good or bad. We need another 7000 edits judged


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: number of sentences, Football Money League rank
 * External identifiers: National Wrestling Hall of Fame wrestler ID, MassBank Accession ID, CNV-SP ID, GruCultura ID, CEMDP ID, NGMDb Prod ID, MESH Concept ID, PRELIB organization ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: supported metadata, expansion, CatholicSaints.info ID, Musixmatch track ID, transfer speed, KeyWiki page ID, художник-мультипликатор, Number of polling stations, music video
 * External identifiers: The Atlas of African Frogs, Ming Qing Archive authority ID, Kinosozvezdie biography ID, RGALI ID, Referee.ru person ID, NSW Capital Conviction ID, Australian War Memorial ID, Flora of Australia (new) ID, Drobné památky ID, Identifiant IndieDB for video game, Whitney Museum of American Art ID, Archaeology Data Service person ID, CanLII ID, Justia Patents assignee ID, interwiki, Identifiant Mod DB for video game, OBIS ID, Alvin, FemBio ID


 * Query examples:
 * All deaths in Game of Thrones (source)
 * Wikidata knows of at least 5263 buildings started before Notre Dame de Paris (query based on this discussion)
 * Timeline for the History of Telecommunications (source)
 * Graph of London Tube stations that are on at least three lines (source)
 * Map of churches in Sri Lanka (source)


 * Development
 * Improved the external identifiers landscape (T204440)
 * Prepare process and announcement for the wb_terms migration to come
 * Allow configuring WDQS UI without changes to files under version control (T194179)
 * Configure suggestion constraint level on Beta (T221107)
 * Graduate suggestions based on constraints beta feature out of beta features (T209879)
 * Editing of labels and descriptions on mobile (T216987)
 * Editing aliases on mobile (T218690)

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


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

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Famousbirthdays.com as a source
Hi MarkZusab. I noticed that you recently used famousbirthdays.com as a source for biographical information in Emma Tremblay. Please note that there is general consensus that famousbirthdays.com does not meet the reliable sourcing criteria for the inclusion of personal information in such articles. (See ). If you disagree, let's discuss it. Thanks. --Ronz (talk) 17:31, 24 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Thank you for notifying me. I am aware. MarkZusab (talk) 15:49, 27 April 2019 (UTC)

April 2019
Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but you removed a speedy deletion tag from Prema Sridevi, a page you have created yourself. If you believe the page should not be deleted, you may contest the deletion by clicking on the button that says: Contest this speedy deletion which appears inside the speedy deletion notice. This will allow you to make your case on the talk page. Administrators will consider your reasoning before deciding what to do with the page. Thank you. Daiyusha (talk) 15:43, 27 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Please stop placing false warning messages. I am not the creator of that page, and you placed speedy deletion tags that do not apply. The article does "credibly indicate the importance or significance of the subject" and it does serve "only to promote or publicise an entity". Feel free to take it to AfD. MarkZusab (talk) 15:47, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Okay, G11 maybe not but definitely an A7. Daiyusha (talk) 15:51, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
 * The article does indicate significance as an investigative journalist who was editor of and associated with several prominent Indian news channels. She may or may not be notable, so I suggest you take this to AfD as an alternative to edit-warring. MarkZusab (talk) 15:55, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
 * I see that you have a history of improperly placing speedy deletion tags, so I suggest you stop doing this in the future. I also recommend you read Criteria for speedy deletion, Credible claim of significance, and Common claims of significance or importance. MarkZusab (talk) 16:09, 27 April 2019 (UTC)

Disruptive
wtf is abusive, you deprodded without a reason, editwarred instead of discussing first, see talk page Atlantic306 (talk) 19:59, 27 April 2019 (UTC) \


 * You seem to have a deep misunderstanding of what disruptive means, what abusive means, how PROD works, and how editwarring works. Saying "wtf" in response to someone reverting useful changes to an article in what appears to be bad faith is not "abusive" and there is nothing wrong with deprodding without a given reason. I find it ironic that you are accusing me of being disruptive and editwarring, when the only person doing here that is yourself. My only three edits to the page have been a deprod, the addition of wikilinks, and a revert of a disruptive edit. This is not in any way repeatedly overriding the contributions of others, nor is it anywhere close to violating WP:3RR. I recommend that you read WP:MOS, WP:PROD, Disruptive editing, and Edit warring. If you want to argue with people other than me about the citation style or promotional language, feel free to continue that on the talk page of the article. MarkZusab (talk) 20:18, 27 April 2019 (UTC)


 * You know full well that WP:PROD advises strongly to give a reason for deprodding, my edit was not disruptive as it was removing promotional material added by a blocked suspected UPE editor and you can see on the talk page the link to the discussion where it is confirmed that the referencing system used is not appropriate for websites and does not comply with MOS. Finally, wtf is abusive and discourtious Atlantic306 (talk) 20:26, 27 April 2019 (UTC)


 * 1. I am fully aware of what WP:PROD does and does not advise. I removed the PROD due to it not being an uncontroversial deletion. That does not change the fact that removing a PROD is not disruptive editing.
 * 2. Your edit was disruptive due to the fact that you were reverting a useful and good faith edit. Do you seriously think adding two wikilinks to an article is "obvious promotion"? In addition, your change of wording in the lead of the article was not grammatically correct or following convention. Removing undisclosed paid editing that is promotional is good, but not when you remove good faith and constructive edits from other editors at the same time.
 * 3. There is no policy or consensus that the current system of citing sources may only be used for books. WP:MOS, WP:SFN and WP:SRF do not dictate that it at all. The Village Pump discussion linked to from the talk page also does not discuss its use only in books at all, but does give examples of citing websites.
 * 4. I do not want to argue with you about the meaning of "wtf". I intended it as a ""expression of disbelief" and apologize if you found that a discourtesy.
 * MarkZusab (talk) 22:34, 27 April 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #362
<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: BRPever


 * Events
 * Past: WikiNusantara 2019, the first Wikimedia Indonesia conference was successfully held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on Apr 27-28, 2019. The conference included two Wikidata talks:
 * Wikidata I: Intro to Wikidata by Raisha Abdillah from WMID
 * Wikidata II: Advancements for Wikidata by Adila Krisnadhi, Ph.D. and Dr. Fariz Darari from Faculty of Computer Science, Universitas Indonesia
 * Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in London on May 2nd
 * Upcoming: Ghent University Wikidata and Wikibase Workshop, 3 - 5 July 2019


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Wikidata is mentioned in Mozilla's Internet Health report


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Breaking change - Important for Wikidata tools maintainers: wb_terms table to be dropped at the end of May
 * The ability to add structured depicts (P180) statements to file pages is live on Commons.
 * Suggestions based on the on-of constraints are now enabled for all users
 * New tool: Wikimedia Related Projects provides statistics about Wikimedia projects and the relations between them, using the number of sitelinks they have in common


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: approach angle, departure angle, Løøv classification, linear reference, data transfer speed
 * External identifiers: Japan Search name ID, Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG cards ID, Saxony protected area ID, Referee.ru person ID, Shanghai Library person ID, Shanghai Library place ID, FrogMAP ID, Ming Qing Archive ID, De Agostini ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: specifying descriptor, SciGraph IDs, era name, moved by, seconded by, debated by, Commons quality assessment, National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities code, OBO Gazetteer ID
 * External identifiers: FemBio ID, BlackPast.org ID, CineChile filmmaker ID, grwar.ru person ID, Whitney Museum of American Art artwork ID, Arabic Ontology ID


 * Query examples:
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%7B%22hide%22%3A%5B%22%3Fcoordinates%22%2C%20%22%3Fline%22%2C%20%22%3Frgb%22%5D%7D%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fcoordinates%20%3Fline%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FconnectLabel%20%3Fimage%20%3Fcode%20%3Frgb%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fcoordinates%29%20AS%20%3Fcoordinates%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fimage%29%20AS%20%3Fimage%29%20%28sample%28%3Flat1%29%20as%20%3Flat1%29%20%28sample%28%3Flon1%29%20as%20%3Flon1%29%20%28sample%28%3Fcode%29%20as%20%3Fcode%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ2175765.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP131%20wd%3AQ8678.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoordinates%20%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP625%20%2F%20psv%3AP625%20%2F%20wikibase%3AgeoLatitude%20%3Flat1%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP625%20%2F%20psv%3AP625%20%2F%20wikibase%3AgeoLongitude%20%3Flon1%20.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20%7D.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP5696%20%3Fcode%20%7D.%0A%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%0A%7D%20AS%20%25stations%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fnextstation%20%28sample%28%3Flat2%29%20as%20%3Flat2%29%20%28sample%28%3Flon2%29%20as%20%3Flon2%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fnextstation%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ2175765%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fnextstation%20wdt%3AP131%20wd%3AQ8678%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fnextstation%20p%3AP625%20%2F%20psv%3AP625%20%2F%20wikibase%3AgeoLatitude%20%3Flat2%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fnextstation%20p%3AP625%20%2F%20psv%3AP625%20%2F%20wikibase%3AgeoLongitude%20%3Flon2%20.%0A%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fnextstation%0A%7D%20AS%20%25nextstations%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fline%20%3Fconnect%20%28%229B0058%22%20as%20%3Frgb%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25stations%20.%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25nextstations%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP197%20%3Fnextstationstatement%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fnextstationstatement%20ps%3AP197%20%3Fnextstation%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fnextstationstatement%20pq%3AP81%20%3Fconnect%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28STR%28%3Fitem%29%20%3C%20STR%28%3Fnextstation%29%29%20.%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28CONCAT%28%27LINESTRING%20%28%27%2C%20STR%28%3Flon1%29%2C%20%27%20%27%2C%20STR%28%3Flat1%29%2C%20%27%2C%27%2C%20STR%28%3Flon2%29%2C%20%27%20%27%2C%20STR%28%3Flat2%29%2C%20%27%29%27%29%20AS%20%3Fstr%29%20.%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28STRDT%28%3Fstr%2C%20geo%3AwktLiteral%29%20AS%20%3Fline%29%20%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25lines%20%0A%20%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%7B%20INCLUDE%20%25stations%20%7D%20%20UNION%20%7B%20INCLUDE%20%25lines%20%20%7D%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cpt%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D A map of the Rio de Janeiro light rail network]
 * Nigerian women with Wikipedia article and pictures (source)
 * Map of places of residence for accused witches with a layer for occupations (source)
 * Map of Wikidata items that are dedicated to, named after or depict etc, St George. (source)
 * Partigiani color-coded by year of death (source)


 * Development
 * Displaying mapframes for geocoordinate on client requires preprocessing by the user (T220122)
 * Fixing cursor jumping to next field and overlapping of menus (T172937)
 * Wikidata a focus issue on grammatical features field (T218229)
 * Add language codes rm-rumgr, rm-sursilv, rm-surmiran, rm-sutsilv, rm-vallader, rm-puter for Lexemes (T210293)
 * Align RTL languages in glosses to right (T203081)
 * Add new monolingual codes: qya + sjn, el-cy, syc, abq, hbo)
 * Fix a bug with NewLexeme suggester menu (T199409)
 * Created a dedicated Phab board to help tool builders with the changes on wb_terms
 * More internal work to get the first version of mobile termbox ready for deployment

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


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

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Tech News: 2019-18
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Recent changes
 * The Wikipedia app for Android now invites users to add Wikidata descriptions to Wikidata objects that have Wikipedia articles but no Wikidata descriptions. It will only invite users who have added a number of Wikidata descriptions in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits.

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 * Octicons-tools.svg Wikimedia wikis will soon use a token when you log out. This changes how the API works. Some tools might need to be updated.

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The Signpost: 30 April 2019
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Back to the drawing board
Implementation of the new portal design has been culled back almost completely, and the cull is still ongoing. The cull has also affected portals that existed before the development of the automated design.

Some of the reasons for the purge are:
 * Portals receive insufficient traffic, making it a waste of editor resources to maintain them, especially for narrow-scope or "micro" portals
 * The default bpsp portals are redundant with the corresponding articles, being based primarily on the corresponding navigation footer displayed on each of those articles, and therefore not worth separate pages to do so
 * They were mass created

Most of the deletions have been made without prejudice to recreation of curated portals, so that approval does not need to be sought at Deletion Review in those cases.

In addition to new portals being deleted, most of the portals that were converted to an automated design have been reverted.

Which puts us back to portals with manually selected content, that need to be maintained by hand, for the most part, for the time being, and back facing some of the same problems we had when we were at this crossroads before:
 * Manually maintained portals are not scalable (they are labor intensive, and there aren't very many editors available to maintain them)
 * The builders/maintainers tend to eventually abandon them
 * Untended handcrafted portals go stale and fall into disrepair over time

These and other concepts require further discussion. See you at WT:POG.

However, after the purge/reversion is completed, some of the single-page portals might be left, due to having acceptable characteristics (their design varied some). If so, then those could possibly be used as a model to convert and/or build more, after the discussions on portal creation and design guidelines have reached a community consensus on what is and is not acceptable for a portal.

See you at WT:POG.

Curation
A major theme in the deletion discussions was the need for portals to be curated, that is, each one having a dedicated maintainer.

There are currently around 100 curated portals. Based on the predominant reasoning at MfD, it seems likely that all the other portals may be subject to deletion.

See you at WT:POG.

Traffic
An observation and argument that arose again and again during the WP:ENDPORTALS RfC and the ongoing deletion drive of bpsp default portals, was that portals simply do not get much traffic. Typically, they get a tiny fraction of what the corresponding like-titled articles get.

And while this isn't generally considered a good rationale for creation or deletion of articles, portals are not articles, and portal critics insist that traffic is a key factor in the utility of portals.

The implication is that portals won't be seen much, so wouldn't it be better to develop pages that are?

And since such development isn't limited to editing, almost anything is possible. If we can't bring readers to portals, we could bring portal features, or even better features, to the readers (i.e., to articles)...

Quantum portals?
An approach that has received some brainstorming is "quantum portals", meaning portals generated on-the-fly and presented directly on the view screen without any saved portal pages. This could be done by script or as a MediaWiki program feature, but would initially be done by script. The main benefits of this is that it would be opt-in (only those who wanted it would install it), and the resultant generated pages wouldn't be saved, so that there wouldn't be anything to maintain except the script itself.

Non-portal integrated components
Another approach would be to focus on implementing specific features independently, and provide them somewhere highly visible in a non-portal presentation context (that is, on a page that wasn't a portal that has lots of traffic, i.e., articles). Such as inserted directly into an article's HTML, as a pop-up there, or as a temporary page. There are scripts that use these approaches (providing unrelated features), and so these approaches have been proven to be feasible.

What kind of features could this be done with?

The various components of the automated portal design are transcluded excerpts, news, did you know, image slideshows, excerpt slideshows, and so on.

Some of the features, such as navigation footers and links to sister projects are already included on article pages. And some already have interface counterparts (such as image slideshows). Some of the rest may be able to be integrated directly via script, but may need further development before they are perfected. Fortunately, scripts are used on an opt-in basis, and therefore wouldn't affect readers-in-general and editors-at-large during the development process (except for those who wanted to be beta testers and installed the scripts).

The development of such scripts falls under the scope of the Javascript-WikiProject/Userscript-department, and will likely be listed on User scripts/List when completed enough for beta-testing. Be sure to watchlist that page.

Where would that leave curated portals?
Being curated. At least for the time being.

New encyclopedia program features will likely eventually render most portals obsolete. For example, the pop-up feature of MediaWiki provides much the same functionality as excerpts in portals already, and there is also a slideshow feature to view all the images on the current page (just click on any image, and that activates the slideshow). Future features could also overlap portal features, until there is nothing that portals provide that isn't provided elsewhere or as part of Wikipedia's interface.

But, that may be a ways off. Perhaps months or years. It depends on how rapidly programmers develop them.

Keep on keepin' on
The features of Wikipedia and its articles will continue to evolve, even if Portals go by the wayside. Most, if not all of portals' functionality, or functions very similar, will likely be made available in some form or other.

And who knows what else?

No worries.

Until next issue... &mdash; The Transhumanist  00:27, 2 May 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of The Self-Sufficient-ish Bible for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article The Self-Sufficient-ish Bible 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/The Self-Sufficient-ish Bible 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. Andy Dingley (talk) 22:13, 3 May 2019 (UTC)

We have a problem
I have restored your edit. We have the same problem with the same self-important Wikipedian :-) But my problem is more serious because he has reverted my 7 consecutive edits, then restored only one. By the way; What was wrong with this? I do not want to start an edit war but you can do something about it because the title is really misleading. Regards :-) Vikom talk 17:35, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2019).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg HickoryOughtShirt?4 • RexxS
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Necrothesp
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Bratsche • Kyle Barbour • Kzollman • Madman

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Pharos

Bureaucrat changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Primefac

CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Reaper Eternal

Guideline and policy news
 * A request for comment concluded that creating pages in the portal namespace should be restricted to autoconfirmed users.
 * Following a request for comment, the subject-specific notability guideline for pornographic actors and models (WP:PORNBIO) was removed; in its place, editors should consult WP:ENT and WP:GNG.

Technical news
 * XTools Admin Stats, a tool to list admins by administrative actions, has been revamped to support more types of log entries such as AbuseFilter changes. Two additional tools have been integrated into it as well: Steward Stats and Patroller Stats.

Arbitration
 * In response to the continuing compromise of administrator accounts, the Arbitration Committee passed a motion amending the procedures for return of permissions (diff). In such cases, the committee will review all available information to determine whether the administrator followed "appropriate personal security practices" before restoring permissions; administrators found failing to have adequately done so will not be resysopped automatically.  All current administrators have been notified of this change.
 * Following a formal ratification process, the arbitration policy has been amended (diff). Specifically, the two-thirds majority required to remove or suspend an arbitrator now excludes (1) the arbitrator facing suspension or removal, and (2) any inactive arbitrator who does not respond within 30 days to attempts to solicit their feedback on the resolution through all known methods of communication.

Miscellaneous
 * A request for comment is currently open to amend the community sanctions procedure to exclude non XfD or CSD deletions.
 * A proposal to remove pre-2009 indefinite IP blocks is currently open for discussion.

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Wikidata weekly summary #363
<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 adminship: BRPever, welcome on board!


 * Events
 * Upcoming: Adding structured and machine-readable data for copyright and licensing on Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata, workshop by Sandra Fauconnier about modelling copyright statuses on Wikidata, 10 May, at the Creative Commons Global Summit in Lisbon
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Utrecht, Netherlands, on May 11th
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XV about lexicographical data, May 23th in São Paulo, Brazil


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Kennisverrijking via Wikidata (in Dutch), by Netwerk Oorlogsbronnen, Hanno Lans and Janneke Jorna
 * Solving Art's Data Problem - Part One, Museums. Interview with Neil Stimler by Jason Bailey, mentioning Wikidata quite a few times
 * Technical usability of Wikidata's linked data: Evaluation of machine interoperability and data interpretability - Nuno Freire and Antoine Isaac.
 * Fine-Grained Named Entity Recognition using ELMo and Wikidata - C. Deha Doğan, et al.
 * Debiasing Vandalism Detection Models at Wikidata (PDF), Stefan Heindorf et al.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Scholia receiving a grant from the Sloan Foundation
 * An upcoming version of the iD OpenStreetMap editor will prevent users from accidentally removing notable features if they have a link to Wikidata QIDs
 * New status of constraint, "suggestion", is now enabled


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: precedes word-initial, music video, specifying descriptor
 * External identifiers: Australian War Memorial ID, Whitney Museum of American Art artist ID, SIUSA ID, MyNeta.info political party ID, IndieDB video game ID, interwiki prefix at Wikimedia, K10plus editions, FemBio ID, BlackPast.org ID, Trainline ID, CatholicSaints.info ID, NSW Capital Conviction ID, Dimore Storiche Italiane ID, Dictionnaire des Vendéens ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: gene sequence, Has written for, Rigging, Guix Variable Name, review of, NSF FICE Code ID
 * External identifiers: Watercolour World artist ID, VTB United League player ID, GNU ELPA package ID, MELPA package ID, Paměť národa ID, FragDenStaat public body ID, MobyGames genre ID, Interactive Fiction Database ID, Recreation.gov campground ID, HAL institution ID, Swedish Royal Theater


 * Query examples:
 * Some people are named after the strangest sorts of things (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Commons%20categories%20for%20a%20set%20of%20books%2C%20that%20have%20categories%20for%20people%20other%20than%0A%23%20those%20%27explained%27%20by%20statements%20on%20Wikidata%20for%20author%2C%20contributor%2C%20etc.%0A%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fbook%20%3FcommonsCategoryBook%20%3FcommonsCategoryAuth%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fbook%20%3Fauth%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fbook%20wdt%3AP195%20wd%3AQ53764729%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fbook%20wdt%3AP50%7Cwdt%3AP767%20%3Fauth%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25pairs%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fauth%20%3FcommonsCategoryAuth%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20hint%3ASubQuery%20hint%3Aoptimizer%20%22None%22.%20%23%20we%20have%20to%20disable%20the%20optimizer%20for%20this%20subquery%20because%20it%20gets%20confused%20by%20the%20%3FcommonsCategoryStatementEn%20part%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25pairs.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fauth%20wdt%3AP373%20%3FcommonsCategoryStatement.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28STRLANG%28CONCAT%28%22Category%3A%22%2C%20%3FcommonsCategoryStatement%29%2C%20%22en%22%29%20AS%20%3FcommonsCategoryStatementEn%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FcommonsCategoryFromStatement%20schema%3Aname%20%3FcommonsCategoryStatementEn%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2F%3E.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FcommonsCategoryFromSitelink%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fauth%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2F%3E.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28STRSTARTS%28STR%28%3FcommonsCategoryFromSitelink%29%2C%20%22https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FCategory%3A%22%29%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28COALESCE%28%3FcommonsCategoryFromStatement%2C%20%3FcommonsCategoryFromSitelink%29%20AS%20%3FcommonsCategoryAuth%29%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28BOUND%28%3FcommonsCategoryAuth%29%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25authsWithCommonsCategories%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fbook%20%3FcommonsCategoryBook%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20hint%3ASubQuery%20hint%3Aoptimizer%20%22None%22.%20%23%20we%20have%20to%20disable%20the%20optimizer%20for%20this%20subquery%20because%20it%20gets%20confused%20by%20the%20%3FcommonsCategoryStatementEn%20part%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25pairs.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fbook%20wdt%3AP373%20%3FcommonsCategoryStatement.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28STRLANG%28CONCAT%28%22Category%3A%22%2C%20%3FcommonsCategoryStatement%29%2C%20%22en%22%29%20AS%20%3FcommonsCategoryStatementEn%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FcommonsCategoryFromStatement%20schema%3Aname%20%3FcommonsCategoryStatementEn%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2F%3E.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FcommonsCategoryFromSitelink%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fbook%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2F%3E.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28STRSTARTS%28STR%28%3FcommonsCategoryFromSitelink%29%2C%20%22https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FCategory%3A%22%29%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28COALESCE%28%3FcommonsCategoryFromStatement%2C%20%3FcommonsCategoryFromSitelink%29%20AS%20%3FcommonsCategoryBook%29%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28BOUND%28%3FcommonsCategoryBook%29%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25booksWithCommonsCategories%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fbook%20%3Fauth%20%3FcommonsCategoryBook%20%3FcommonsCategoryAuth%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25pairs%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25booksWithCommonsCategories.%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25authsWithCommonsCategories.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25pairCats%20%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25booksWithCommonsCategories%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fbigdata%2Fnamespace%2Fcategories%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FcommonsCategoryBook%20mediawiki%3AisInCategory%20%3FcommonsCategoryAuth%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FcommonsCategoryAuth%20mediawiki%3AisInCategory%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FCategory%3APeople_by_name%3E%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20MINUS%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25pairCats%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20 Commons categories for a set of books, that have categories for people other than those 'explained' by statements on Wikidata for author, contributor, etc.] (source)
 * Timeline for members of the Illuminati Order (source)
 * Newspapers founded before 1900 with their Twitter hashtag (source)


 * Development
 * Remove heading elements in Wikibase diffs (T220772)
 * Fix several issues on the Query Service interface (T222182, T222133, T222129)
 * Rename the Schema extension to EntitySchema (T221942)
 * Add data value type to Special:ListDatatypes (T210598)
 * Investigate surprising rise in mobile page views (T220977)
 * Show placeholders for label, description and alias on mobile termbox (T217000)
 * Show each alias in a separate line in edit mode on mobile termbox (T218690)
 * Cancel edit mode on mobile termbox (T215951)

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


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

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Tech News: 2019-19
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Problems
 * Special:Watchlist can show the wrong information. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. The developers are working on solving the problem.

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

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WikiProject Tree of Life Newsletter

 * April 2019&mdash;Issue 001


 * Tree of Life


 * Welcome to the inaugural issue of the Tree of Life newsletter!

Tree of Life editors are making a respectable showing in this year's WikiCup, with three regular editors advancing to the third round. Overall winner from 2016,, topped the scoreboard in points for round 2, getting a nice bonus for bringing Black mamba to FA. continues to favor things remotely related to bats, bringing Stellaluna to GA. Plants editor also advanced to round 3 with several plant-related DYKs. A March 2019 paper in PLOS Biology found that Wikipedia page views vary seasonally for species. With a dataset of 31,751 articles about species, the authors found that roughly a quarter of all articles had significant seasonal variations in page views on at least one language version of Wikipedia. They examined 245 language versions. Page views also peaked with cultural events, such as views of the Great white shark article during Shark Week or Turkey during Thanksgiving.
 * WikiCup heating up
 * Wikipedia page views track animal migrations, flowers blooming
 * Did you know ... that Tree of Life editors bring content to the front page nearly every day?

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This Month in GLAM: April 2019
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Speedy deletion nomination of How to Buy, Sell, and Profit on eBay


A tag has been placed on How to Buy, Sell, and Profit on eBay, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Organizations for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the.  DGG ( talk ) 10:41, 10 May 2019 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #364
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 * Events
 * Upcoming: Wikimedia hackathon in Prague, that will include many Wikidata-related sessions and projects, May 17-19
 * Upcoming: UGent Wikidata and Wikibase Workshop 2019, by Julie Birkholz, 3 - 5 July 2019 Ghent, Belgium
 * Upcoming: DC-2019 Hack Day on Wikidata, Wikibase, Application Profiles and FAIR data at DC19 in Seoul, South Korea 23rd - 26th September 2019, Hackathon by Tom Baker and Andra Waagmeester
 * Upcoming: How does Wikimedia Solve the Problems of Biodiversity Informatics, Workshop in Leiden, the Netherlands, 20-25 October


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * How to use a Wikidata full json dump, requirements, steps and script, by Aliakbar Akbaritabar
 * New testing ground for Wikibase: A federal agency goes on an expedition in the Wiki universe, by Barbara Fischer and Jens ohlig


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities code, number of polling stations
 * External identifiers: VTB United League player ID, Archaeology Data Service person ID, Watercolour World artist ID, Drobné památky ID, grwar.ru person ID, Whitney Museum of American Art artwork ID, Russia.tv actor profile ID, Justia Patents assignee ID, Kinosozvezdie biography ID, Musixmatch track ID, LNB Coach id, FragDenStaat public body ID, Orlando author ID, Paměť národa ID, Recreation.gov campground ID, tads.org Unique Identifier, CanLII ID, CineChile filmmaker ID, Heritage Gazetteer of Libya ID, RGALI ID, OBIS ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Xikao School ID, Xikao Repertoire ID, langue d'écriture, nominalised item for this sense, copyright clarification, WMI Code, archevêque, langue liturgique, date d'élévation, province ecclésiastique, diocèse suffragant, f-number, paroisse, prêtre, religieux, religieuse, diacre
 * External identifiers: Victoria and Albert Museum name ID, Campendium ID, ROR ID, MEMORIA ID, Unified Social Credit Identifier, Prazdne Domy architect ID, Know Your Meme entry, Danskefilmstemmer.dk person ID, Harper's author ID, The Atlantic author ID, Character entry on LGBT fans deserve better database, Igromania ID, Pro-Football-Reference coach ID, Keybase username, RFGS person ID


 * Query examples:
 * Street signs in Rennes (source)
 * Lines linking UK MPs' place of birth and their constituency with colour-coded layers for each political party (source)
 * Map of birthplaces for Members of Scottisch Parliament born outside Scotland (source)
 * Global map of dams and reservoirs (source)
 * Lexemes language overlap tree map (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Limits of Wikidata


 * Development
 * Finish renaming WikibaseSchema to EntitySchema
 * Investigate how to port Wikibase Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js (T221638)
 * Include a clear two step process in shex simple tool (T221612)
 * Fix the "edit visually" on the Query Service interface (T222181)
 * More work on wb_terms redesign (see documentation on T221764)
 * More work on mobile termbox
 * Investigate on a bug found on wbeditentity not removing all aliases (T203337)
 * Getting ready for the Wikimedia hackathon

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


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

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Tech News: 2019-20
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Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 May. It will be on all wikis from 16 May (calendar).

Meetings
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Nomination of How to Buy, Sell, and Profit on eBay for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article How to Buy, Sell, and Profit on eBay 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/How to Buy, Sell, and Profit on eBay 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.  DGG ( talk ) 17:52, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

TheWikiWizard - May 2019
Hello, MarkZusab! Here is the May 2019 issue of TheWikiWizard. Hope you like this month's issue! If you'd like to discuss this issue, please go to this issue's talk page. Happy Reading! -- Thegooduser  Life Begins With a Smile :)  🍁 23:51, 16 May 2019 (UTC)
 * What's Hot! (battle of the hairs?)
 * Articles (Deny Recognition, Wikipedia's Welcome Page!)
 * The Wikipedian This month we interview an Ip editor!
 * News about Wikipedia! (Wikipedia News and Events!)
 * Editor's Notes (New Sections to Main Page!)
 * Activity Page (Fun Activities, and answers to last time's questions...)
 * Ads (Ads)

Facto Post – Issue 24 – 17 May 2019
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NPR Newsletter No.18


Hello ,

, a product manager for the growth team, announced that work is underway in implementing improvements to New Page Patrol as part of the 2019 Community Wishlist and suggests all who are interested watch the project page on meta. Two requested improvements have already been completed. These are:
 * WMF at work on NPP Improvements
 * Allow filtering by no citations in page curation
 * Not having CSD and PRODs automatically marked as reviewed, reflecting current consensus among reviewers and current Twinkle functionality.

has been compiling a list of reliable sources across countries and industries that can be used by new page patrollers to help judge whether an article topic is notable or not. At this point further discussion is needed about if and how this list should be used. Please consider joining the discussion about how this potentially valuable resource should be developed and used.
 * Reliable Sources for NPP

Look for information on the an upcoming backlog drive in our next newsletter. If you'd like to help plan this drive, join in the discussion on the New Page Patrol talk page.
 * Backlog drive coming soon


 * News
 * Following a request for comment, the subject-specific notability guideline for pornographic actors and models (WP:PORNBIO) was removed; in its place, editors should consult WP:ENT and WP:GNG.


 * Discussions of interest
 * A request for bot approval for a bot to patrol two kinds of redirects
 * There has been a lot discussion about Notability of Academics
 * What, if anything, would a SNG for Softball look like

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Reset G13
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Tech News: 2019-21
<section begin="technews-2019-W21"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * The report for phase 1 of the talk pages consultation 2019 has been published. Communities are invited to start phase 2 of the consultation on their wikis.

Problems
 * File descriptions for files from Commons were not shown properly on other Wikimedia wikis for a few days. For example the image descriptions and license information were missing. This has now been fixed.
 * Some diffs show an error message when you try to see them. The developers are working on fixing it. It could be because of some edit comments.

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

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

Future changes
 * The content translation tool on Wikipedia can use machine translations. There is a system to stop translations where the editors do not fix machine translation mistakes. This warns or stops them if they seem to just copy what the machine translation gives them. If this system is too strict or not strict enough you can tell the language team.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Wikidata  API endpoint will remove all aliases if the request includes an empty alias. This is how it supposed to work. It has not been working this way because of a bug. This will start on 12 June.

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Books & Bytes, Issue 33
<div style = "color: #936c29; font-size: 4em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif"> The Wikipedia Library <span style="font-size: 2em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif">Books & Bytes

Issue 33, March – April 2019 <div style = "margin-top: 1.5em; border: 3px solid #ae8c55; border-radius: .5em; padding: 1em 1.5em; font-size: .9em">
 * # 1Lib1Ref
 * Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
 * Global branches update
 * Bytes in brief

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Wikidata weekly summary #365
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Talk pages consultation 2019, phase 2


 * Events
 * Past: Wikimedia hackathon 2019 in Prague, where plenty of people worked on Wikidata and Wikibase related projects (see list below)
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Affinity Group Meeting, 21 May 2019
 * Upcoming: Hacknowledge 2019 hackathon, where you can make a project that uses or improves Wikidata. Moscow, Russia, May 25-26
 * Upcoming: Let's start Wikidata!/ウィキデータを始めよう！, 25 May 2019@Tokyo


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Ordia: A Web application for Wikidata lexemes, by Finn Årup Nielsen
 * Papers on Rust by Magnus Manske
 * Building Knowledge Base through Deep Learning Relation Extraction and Wikidata (Published in AAAI Spring Symposium: Combining Machine Learning with Knowledge Engineering, 2019)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * [Breaking Change] wbeditentity including empty alias set will remove all aliases
 * Update: change of dates regarding wb_terms redesign. More information in this ticket
 * Support for shape expressions will be enabled on Wikidata on May 28th
 * Reminder: the program submission phase for Wikimania runs until June 1st
 * QAnswer, a question answering system based on Wikidata and other projects, now supports lexicographical data
 * Wikidata-related projects presented during the Wikimedia Hackathon 2019 (see all documented projects)
 * Integraality/Template:Property dashboard, to generate property statistics tables for Wikiprojects like the ones made for Sum of all Paintings, hospitals and video games
 * BlockQuery: Prototype of a graphical QueryBuilder to click and drag.
 * Prototype of an Alexa Skill of Voice assisted editing of Wikidata Source Code Screenshot
 * Wikidata Quality Score Display: Gadget that displays on a Wikipedia article the quality level of the related Wikidata item
 * Wikidocumentaries service approaches beta quality and displays content from Wikimedia and other openly licensed sources for each Wikidata item. The latest user interface translations are Indonesian and Russian, and the newest content source plugin for the related images section is the brand new Creative Commons Search catalog.
 * GPS-friendly download of query result & Download of RDF Formats
 * Some documentation about shape expressions was prepared
 * Improvements on Namescript (documentation, descriptions for kanji names)
 * Wiki loves iNaturalist, a tool to look for images in iNaturalist, matching them with Wikidata
 * Mortar: easily upload GLAM collections in Wikidata and Commons
 * Fixing the URL shorteners on the Query Service interface
 * AddQuickClaim.js: pass the property and target item you want to add to an item into the url so you can quickly add a statement
 * ExternalItemSuggester.js: a gadget that provides autocomplete for selected external ID properties
 * Localization for the Saami and Romani languages was improved.
 * All of the copyright-negative pictures and metadata of the digital image repository of the National Archive of Curaçao were scraped. They will possibly be batch-uploaded later on.
 * Wikidata Stream: A nice view of the Wikidata edit stream to use as an eye-catcher for people interested in Wikidata


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: exposure time, supported sports team
 * External identifiers: Flora of Australia ID (new), NARA record group number, Know Your Meme ID, NARA collection identifier, FilmFreeway ID, Dictionary of Anhui Writers ID, V&A artist ID, Guix Variable Name, Who's on First ID, FoodOn ID, SportSport.ba news ID, CNKI article ID, Swiss National Sound Archives ID, Arabic Ontology ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Seating chart properties, Arachne Bauwerk ID, ISO speed, target muscle, Pinakes author ID, University of Amsterdam Album Academicum ID
 * External identifiers: Buddhist Author Authority Database ID, ITF women's tournament ID, Digital Giza ID, National Library of Wales Catalogue ID, ATP tennis tournament edition ID, NooSFere edition ID, TV Tropes identifier, Find New Zealand Artists iD, Kobo author ID, Malaysia company number, GLIMS ID, Gamepedia Wiki id, ProofWiki ID, Mediapart tag ID, abART ID, Corporate Number (South Korea), Art Gallery of South Australia work ID, Art Gallery of South Australia creator ID, speedrun.com game ID, JIS standard, Hoopla artist ID, OSZMI ID, Hoopla publisher ID, Repology, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant ID, Elhuyar Dictionary ID


 * Query examples:
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Most%20common%20properties%20for%20maps%2C%20with%20top%205%20values%0A%0ASELECT%20%3Fprop%20%3FpropLabel%20%20%3Fprop_items%20%3Fprop_stmts%20%3Fval%20%3FvalLabel%20%3Fval_count%20%3Fsamp%20%3FsampLabel%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3Fprop%20%3Fstmt%20%3Fval%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20hint%3AQuery%20hint%3Aoptimizer%20%22None%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ4006%20%5Ewdt%3AP279%2a%2F%5Ewdt%3AP31%20%3Fitem%20.%0A%20%20%20%20MINUS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ17146139%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20%3Fp%20%3Fstmt%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fprop%20wikibase%3Aclaim%20%3Fp%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fprop%20wikibase%3AstatementProperty%20%3Fps%20.%0A%20%20%20%20MINUS%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%3Fprop%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ19847637%7D%20%20%23%20Wikidata%20property%20representing%20a%20unique%20identifier%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%3Fprop%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ18614948%7D%20%20%23%20Wikidata%20property%20for%20authority%20control%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fstmt%20%3Fps%20%3Fval%20.%0A%20%20%7D%20%23LIMIT%202000%0A%7D%20AS%20%25maps_props_vals%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fprop%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%28%3Fitem%29%29%20AS%20%3Fprop_items%29%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%28%3Fstmt%29%29%20AS%20%3Fprop_stmts%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25maps_props_vals%20%0A%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fprop%0A%7D%20AS%20%25prop_stats%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0AWITH%20%7B%20%20%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fprop%20%3Fval%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%28%3Fitem%29%29%20AS%20%3Fval_count%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fitem%29%20AS%20%3Fsamp%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25maps_props_vals%0A%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fprop%20%3Fval%0A%20%20HAVING%20%28%3Fval_count%20%3E%203%29%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%7D%20AS%20%25prop_val_counts%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fprop%20%3Fval%20%3Fsamp%20%3Fval_count%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%28%3Fval1%29%29%20AS%20%3Fval_rank%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25prop_val_counts%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fprop%20%28%3Fval%20AS%20%3Fval1%29%20%28%3Fval_count%20AS%20%3Fval1_count%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25prop_val_counts%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28%3Fval1_count%20%3E%3D%20%3Fval_count%29%0A%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fprop%20%3Fval%20%3Fval_count%20%3Fsamp%0A%7D%20AS%20%25prop_val_ranks%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25prop_stats%20.%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25prop_val_ranks%20.%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28%3Fval_rank%20%3C%206%29%20.%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fprop_items%29%20DESC%28%3Fprop_stmts%29%20%3Fprop%20%3Fval_rank%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20 Most common properties for maps, with their top 5 values] (source)
 * Timeline of pioneers of photography, via Wikidata and DBpedia (source)
 * Maps of synagogues in Czech Republic (source)
 * Lexemes that lack Senses but have at least one usage example (source)


 * Development
 * Added  of entities to JSON dumps – thanks Pintoch!
 * Working to scale the Wikidata Concepts Monitor system (T203366)
 * Imrpove logging in on mobile (T215913)
 * More work on mobile termbox
 * Several developers from the Wikidata team attended to the hackathon, discussed with the community, gathered feedback, hacked on things together with volunteers :)

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


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

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Nomination of Emma Chamberlain for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Emma Chamberlain 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/Emma Chamberlain 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. Abote2 (talk) 23:24, 24 May 2019 (UTC)

Clean-up activities
Hi - Please can you make sure you use the edit summaries to explain the nature of your edits. In particular please can you explain why you reverted a couple of clean up actions (i) Mid-Western Regional Hospital. This is a disambiguation page. No hospitals have used this name for a number of years and the article is an orphan (ii) Carlow-Kilkenny Acute Hospitals. This grouping of just two hospitals went their separate ways on the re-organisation of the Irish health service in 2013. So again no hospitals are members of this grouping and the article is an orphan. We do not normally retain short articles like this if they are orphans. Thank you. Dormskirk (talk) 06:43, 25 May 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #366
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Events
 * Past: Wikidata Labs XV in Brazil, with an introduction to lexicographical data (slides)
 * Past: Workshop for experienced editors of nl.wiktionary to explore the possibilities of lexicographical data.


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Using contemporary constraints to ensure data consistency. David Abián, Jorge Bernad, Raquel Trillo LadoPublished in SAC 2019. DOI:10.1145/3297280.3297509 (Paywalled)
 * Published in WWW 2019
 * Fast Interval Joins for Temporal SPARQL Queries. Melisachew Wudage Chekol, Giuseppe Pirrò, Heiner Stuckenschmidt. DOI:10.1145/3308560.3314997
 * QAnswer: A Question Answering prototype bridging the gap between a considerable part of the LOD cloud and end-users. Ronan Cummins, et al. DOI:10.1145/3308558.3314124
 * Implicit Bias in Crowdsourced Knowledge Graphs. Gianluca Demartini. DOI:10.1145/3308560.3317307
 * Learning to Map Wikidata Entities To Predefined Topics. Preeti Bhargava, et al. DOI:10.1145/3308560.3316749
 * Citation.js: Wikidata Update, by Lars Willighagen
 * Wikidata: Open Linked Data for Library Publishing, by Mairelys Lemus-Rojas et al.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The US Library of Congress are integrating Wikidata QIDs into their authority files (blog post)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Buddhist Author Authority Database ID, HAL structure ID, Mod DB video game ID, Finnish Trade Register ID, IMTL.org ID, Danskefilmstemmer.dk person ID, OBO Gazetteer ID, (speedy delete me), LGBTFansDB character ID, ProofWiki ID, ROR ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: title qualifiers, goodwill ambassador of, UPA transcription, hospital beds, Courage ID, bibliography url
 * External identifiers: Messes.info Catholic parish ID, The DRAGON Archive id, racing-reference track ID, racing-reference race ID, Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic (DPRR) ID, MSX Games World ID, Coco Game List ID, Dictionary of Irish Biography ID, Ask.fm ID, National Film Board of Canada director identifier


 * Query examples:
 * European countries that have a street named after them in Rennes
 * Map of meteor impact craters (source)
 * Bubble chart of all instances of color which have an sRGB color hex triplet (source)
 * Number of riots per country (source)
 * European country having the most female politicians (source)


 * Development
 * Deploy the EntitySchema extension on test.wikidata.org and beta.wikidata.org
 * Remove the remaining beta feature config for constraint-suggestions (T220609)
 * Introduce baserevid for conflict checking in Lexeme (T217245)
 * Fix a bug making impossible to get Lexeme Forms and Senses via the API (T223995)
 * Add Wikidata query service lag to Wikidata maxlag (T221774)
 * Allow accessing Wikibase entities from multiple Wikibase databases (T214557)
 * More work to get termbox ready for deployment
 * Add a login warning on mobile termbox editing (T221831)

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


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

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Tech News: 2019-22
<section begin="technews-2019-W22"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-tools.svg Big changes to the replica database will happen on 3 June. Some tools on Cloud Services will stop working if the maintainers do not update them to use the new schema. This probably affects tools that query for revisions or log entries made by a user.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 May. It will be on all wikis from 30 May (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Bocadin
Given the improvements you made to the article, especially the addition of sources, I'm surprised you didn't go ahead and remove the PROD tag yourself. Wikiacc (¶) 19:59, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

This Month in Education: May 2019
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TheWikiWizard - Update
Dear reader,

Thank you for subscribing to TheWikiWizard. This is a special message letting you know that the June/July/August issues of TheWikiWizard may be delayed, due to the absence of User:Thegooduser. Thegooduser and the other editors of TWW will try their best to deliver these issues to you. Thank you for reading TWW, and we hope to see you again in September 2019. Thank you for your patience and understanding, and enjoy your summer! :-) We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. Happy Editing!

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The Signpost: 31 May 2019
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Wikidata weekly summary #367
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Events
 * Past: Wikidata workshop, May 27th at UIN Maliki, Malang, Indonesia (in collaboration with Faculty of Computer Science, UI) - Slideset link - Press release
 * Past: OSM x Wikidata workshop, June 3rd, Taipei, Taiwan
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Days 2019, June 7-8th in Lisbon, Portugal.
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XVI, June 13th in São Paulo, Brazil
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Edit-a-thon during Atla 2019, June 13th, Vancouver, Canada


 * Press, articles, blog posts


 * Blogpost by RightStatements.org - a system of standardised interoperable rights and reuse information for GLAMs - describing the role and importance of the property P6426.
 * Welcome Japan Search to the web of Linked Open Data by Martin Poulter, Bodleian Digital Library


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Shape expressions are now live on Wikidata
 * At WikiWoordenboek (Dutch wiktionary) a project titled Widawiwo has begun to explore how the maximal mutual benefit of Wikidata and WikiWoordenboek can be achieved.
 * Hauki is a new tool by d:User:Vesihiisi to browse lexicographical data.
 * Wikidata trainings & online courses for librarians by WikiEdu


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: ISO speed, f-number, WMI Code, minimum wage, UPA transcription
 * External identifiers: speedrun.com game ID, Harper's author ID, Pakistan Railways station code, National Library of Wales Catalogue ID, Arachne building ID, Messes.info Catholic parish ID, The Atlantic author ID, Find NZ Artists ID, Unified Social Credit Identifier, OSZMI ID, MSX Games World ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: motif represents, Shape Expression for class, Album Academicum-identificatiecode, gender educated, ABA League ID, start grade, end grade, digilibLT author ID, IntraText author ID, in defining formula, PHI Latin Texts author ID, associated shape, comparison image, emergency services, Married by
 * External identifiers: Rugby League Project ID (general), Hungarian National Namespace, Pakistan EMIS code(s), CCDC Number, swMATH work ID, Czech parliament ID, Tainacan MAI ID, Biographical Dictionary Of Iowa ID, Pro Football Hall of Fame ID (new), euroleague.net coach ID, eurobasket.com coach ID, Who's Who of American Comic Books, PCE Daisakusen ID, Musixmatch artist ID, eBiodiversity ID


 * Query examples:
 * Gay parades in Italy in 2019
 * Map of communes of the French area "Ille-et-Vilaine" which share borders (source)
 * Connections between the subject and printing location of Welsh landscape prints (source)
 * Dunes in Wikidata (source)
 * Co-author network of Journal of Cheminformatics authors (source)
 * Map of archives in the world (source)
 * Newest database reports: frequent first names in Spain


 * Development
 * Specify license of mediawiki/Wikibase/WikibaseLexeme ontology (T216842)
 * Enable bugfix on beta for wbeditentity setting aliases to empty array (T223300)
 * Use correct validator in alias changeop and provide error messages if alias is too short (T223311)
 * More work on the use of special pages Special:SetAliases and Special:SetLabelDescriptionAliases with aliases containing | character (T223270)
 * Add Wikidata query service lag to Wikidata maxlag (T221774)
 * Fix BadMethodCallException wbgetentities when getting Lexeme subentities (forms, senses) (T223995)
 * Scale the machine learning components of the WDCM system w. {text2vec} WarpLDA implementation (T203366)
 * Inspect strange behavior of the WD_percentUsageDashboard (T217994)
 * WDCM dashboards maintenance: eliminating the need to use the wdcm.maintable in Hive, WDCM Geo is now independent of it (with its update engine running Spark instead) and re-designed to match the WDCM standards (T217994, T214586, T217997)
 * Further preparations for the Wikidata Languages Landscape project (T221965)
 * More progress in order to get the mobile service deployed
 * Adding an IP edit warning popup for mobile termbox (T221831)
 * Allowing users to ignore this popup permanently (T221833)

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 * Monthly Tasks
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 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
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Tech News: 2019-23
<section begin="technews-2019-W23"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * You can now write all special letters in all African Wikipedia languages. This works in the desktop version.
 * There is now a field called  on Commons. This is a way to show what is in a picture with the help of Wikidata. It is still in development.
 * Some tools on Toolforge may break on or after 3 June because of database changes. Maintainers should update their tools to use the new schema.

Problems
 * You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on 19 June at 05:00 (UTC). This is to fix a hardware problem.

Changes later this week
 * Some wikis have one tab for the visual editor and one tab for a wikitext editor. Others wikis just have one tab. If your wiki has two tabs, clicking a link to create a new page has always opened a wikitext editor. It will now open the editor you used the last time you edited.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 May. It will be on all wikis from 6 May (calendar).

Meetings
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Children's Literature Newsletter April/May 2019
This newsletter sees us embark on a project drive around article creation of some medium, or higher, importance topics that are currently redlinks. Read more and consider joining the work.
 *  Children's Literature  April/May 2019
 * Newly Recognized Content

recently pointed out that on some of our Top importance pages about Children's literature awards there are many redlinks. The three pages with these redlinks are Caldecott Medal, Newbery Medal, and Carnegie Medal (with 0 existing redlinks in the other top importance award article - Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award). As of this newsletter there are 222 redlinks in those three articles. How many can we as a project create over the next 6 weeks? Could we even do better and see if we could create any that earn a Did You Know or even get it up to Good Article status? As always feel free to head on over to the project discussion page if you find yourself in need of any help as we work to turn these notable entries on some of our most important articles blue.
 * Awards in Red

You are receiving this because you are listed as an active member of the Children's Literature WikiProject or have chosen to subscribe to the newsletter. If you would like to sign-up for just the newsletters or want to be an active member but not get the newsletters you can do that here. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:20, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

May 2019 Tree of Life Newsletter

 * May 2019&mdash;Issue 002


 * Tree of Life


 * Welcome to the Tree of Life newsletter!

On 23 May, user created a talk page post, "Revamp of Wikiproject Biology--Who is In?". In the days since, WP:BIOL has been bustling with activity, with over a dozen editors weighing in on this discussion, as well as several others that have subsequently spawned. An undercurrent of thought is that WP:BIOL has too many subprojects, preventing editors from easily interacting and stopping a "critical mass" of collaboration and engagement. Many mergers and consolidations of subprojects have been tentatively listed, with a consolidation of WikiProjects Genetics + Molecular and Cell Biology + Computational Biology + Biophysics currently in discussion. Other ideas being aired include updating old participants lists, redesigning project pages to make them more user-friendly, and clearly identifying long- and short-term goals.
 * Fundamental changes being discussed at WikiProject Biology

Editors and  had a very fruitful month, collaborating to bring two dinosaur articles to GA and then nominating them both for FA. They graciously decided to answer some questions for the first ToL Editor Spotlight, giving insight to their successful collaborations, explaining why you should collaborate with them, and also sharing some tidbits about their lives off-Wikipedia.
 * Editor Spotlight: These editors want you to write about dinosaurs

1) Enwebb: How long have you two been collaborating on articles? 2) Enwebb: Why dinosaurs? 3) Enwebb: Why should other editors join you in writing articles related to paleontology? Are you looking to attract new editors, or draw in experienced editors from other areas of Wikipedia?
 * Jens Lallensack: I started in the German Wikipedia in 2005 but switched to the English Wikipedia because of its very active dinosaur project. My first major collaboration with FunkMonk was on Heterodontosaurus in 2015.
 * FunkMonk: Yeah, we had interacted already on talk pages and through reviewing each other's articles, and at some point I was thinking of expanding Heterodontosaurus, and realised Jens had already written the German Wikipedia version, so it seemed natural to work together on the English one. Our latest collaboration was Spinophorosaurus, where by another coincidence, I had wanted to work on that article for the WP:Four Award, and it turned out that Jens had a German book about the expedition that found the dinosaur, which I wouldn't have been able to utilise with my meagre German skills. Between those, we also worked on Brachiosaurus, a wider Dinosaur Project collaboration between several editors.
 * JL: Because of the huge public interest in them. But dinosaurs are also highly interesting from a scientific point of view: key evolutionary innovations emerged within this group, such as warm-bloodedness, gigantism, and flight. Dinosaur research is, together with the study of fossil human remains, the most active field in paleontology. New scientific techniques and approaches tend to get developed within this field. Dinosaur research became increasingly interdisciplinary, and now does not only rely on various fields of biology and geology, but also on chemistry and physics, among others. Dinosaurs are therefore ideal to convey scientific methodology to the general public.
 * FM: As outlined above, dinosaurs have been described as a "gateway to science"; if you learn about dinosaurs, you will most likely also learn about a lot of scientific fields you would not necessarily be exposed to otherwise. On a more personal level, having grown up with and being influenced by various dinosaur media, it feels pretty cool to help spread knowledge about these animals, closest we can get to keeping them alive.
 * JL: Because we are a small but active and helpful community. Our Dinosaur collaboration, one of the very few active open collaborations in Wikipedia, makes high-level writing on important articles easier and more fun. Our collaboration is especially open to editors without prior experience in high-level writing. But we do not only write articles: several WikiProject Dinosaur participants are artists who do a great job illustrating the articles, and maintain an extensive and very active image review system. In fact, a number of later authors started with contributing images.
 * FM: Anyone who is interested in palaeontology is welcome to try writing articles, and we would be more than willing to help. I find that the more people that work on articles simultaneously with me, the more motivation I get to write myself. I am also one of those editors who started out contributing dinosaur illustrations and making minor edits, and only began writing after some years. But when I got to it, it wasn't as intimidating as I had feared, and I've learned a lot in the process. For example anatomy; if you know dinosaur anatomy, you have a very good framework for understanding the anatomy of other tetrapod animals, including humans.

4) Enwebb: Between the two of you, you have over 300 GA reviews. FunkMonk, you have over 250 of those. What keeps you coming back to review more articles?
 * FM: One of the main reasons I review GANs is to learn more about subjects that seem interesting (or which I would perhaps not come across otherwise). There are of course also more practical reasons, such as helping an article on its way towards FAC, to reduce the GAN backlog, and to "pay back" when I have a nomination up myself. It feels like a win-win situation where I can be entertained by interesting info, while also helping other editors get their nominations in shape, and we'll end up with an article that hopefully serves to educate a lot of people (the greater good).
 * JL: Because I enjoy reading Wikipedia articles and like to learn new things. In addition, reviews give me the opportunity to have direct contact with the authors, and help them to make their articles even better. This is quite rewarding for me personally. But I also review because I consider our GA and FA system to be of fundamental importance for Wikipedia. When I started editing Wikipedia (the German version), the article promotion reviews motivated me and improved my writing skills a lot. Submitting an article for review requires one to get serious and take additional steps to bring the article to the best quality possible. GAs and FAs are also a good starting point for readers, and may motivate them to become authors themselves.

5) Enwebb: What are your editing preferences? Any scripts or gadgets you find invaluable? 6) Enwebb: What would surprise the ToL community to learn about your life off-wiki?
 * FM: One script that everyone should know about is the duplink highlight tool. It will show duplinks within the intro and body of a given article separately, and it seems a lot of people still don't know about it, though they are happy when introduced to it. I really liked the citationbot too (since citation consistency is a boring chore to me), but it seems to be blocked at the moment due to some technical issues.
 * JL: I often review using the Wikipedia Beta app on my smartphone, as it allows me to read without needing to sit in front of the PC. For writing, I find the reference management software Zotero invaluable, as it generates citation templates automatically, saving a lot of time.
 * Editor's note: I downloaded Zotero and tried it for the first time and think it is a very useful tool. More here.
 * FM: Perhaps that I have no background in natural history/science, but work with animation and games. But fascination with and knowledge of nature and animals is actually very helpful when designing and animating characters and creatures, so it isn't that far off, and I can actually use some of the things I learn while writing here for my work (when I wrote the Dromaeosauroides article, it was partially to learn more about the animal for a design-school project).
 * JL: That I am actually doing research on dinosaurs. Though I avoid writing about topics I publish research on, my Wikipedia work helps me to keep a good general overview over the field, and quite regularly I can use what I learned while writing for Wikipedia for my research.

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2019). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Andonic • Consumed Crustacean • Enigmaman • Euryalus • EWS23 • HereToHelp • Nv8200pa • Peripitus • StringTheory11 • Vejvančický

CheckUser changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * An RfC seeks to clarify whether WP:OUTING should include information on just the English Wikipedia or any Wikimedia project.
 * An RfC on WT:RfA concluded that Requests for adminship and bureaucratship are discussions seeking to build consensus.
 * An RfC proposal to make the templates for discussion (TfD) process more like the requested moves (RM) process, i.e. "as a clearinghouse of template discussions", was closed as successful.

Technical news
 * The CSD feature of Twinkle now allows admins to notify page creators of deletion if the page had not been tagged. The default behavior matches that of tagging notifications, and replaces the ability to open the user talk page upon deletion.  You can customize which criteria receive notifications in your Twinkle preferences: look for Notify page creator when deleting under these criteria.
 * Twinkle's d-batch (batch delete) feature now supports deleting subpages (and related redirects and talk pages) of each page. The pages will be listed first but use with caution!  The und-batch (batch undelete) option can now also restore talk pages.

Miscellaneous
 * The previously discussed unblocking of IP addresses indefinitely-blocked before 2009 was approved and has taken place.
 * The 2019 talk pages consultation produced a report for Phase 1 and has entered Phase 2.

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Tech News: 2019-24
<section begin="technews-2019-W24"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * When you create a PDF from a page on the wiki this is now done by Proton. Before this we used Electron. It should look the same but work better. Both use Chromium. This is a different system from when you collect several articles into a book and make a PDF from them.
 * The Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standard OOUI icons. There will be additional minor fixes for positioning in the next deployment.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Bots and other scripts that do not set an identifiable User-Agent may find their requests strictly rate-limited until they identify themselves properly.

Problems
 * Please check if the Flagged Revisions configuration on your wiki is as you expect (or as it was a few weeks ago). If not, please report it.

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

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Wikidata weekly summary #368
<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: Wikidata Edit-a-Thon in Atla, Canada, 13 June 2019
 * Upcoming: the Celtic Knot Conference, dedicated to minority languages in the Wikimedia projects, will take place in Penryn, Cornwall, on July 4-5. The program is published and will contain several Wikidata-related sessions. The registration is open


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Batches of Rust - Magnus' improvements to QuickStatements
 * Robustifying Scholia &mdash; Developing a Wikipedia interface for exploring the research ecosystem


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The W3C Entity Reconciliation Community Group has launched


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: sequenced genome URL, number of hospital beds, related image, taxa found at location, calendar feed URL, calligrapher, replacement property, feed-in tariff
 * External identifiers: GLIMS ID, Art Gallery of South Australia creator ID, Art Gallery of South Australia work ID, racing-reference race ID, racing-reference track ID, SportSport.ba player ID, Xikao History ID, Xikao Repertoire ID, Prazdne Domy architect ID, AntWiki article ID, Mediapart tag ID, NWBib ID, University of Amsterdam Album Academicum ID, The Dragon Archive ID, SVT Open archive ID, Australian bank branch ID, Alvin ID, Tainacan MAI ID, GNU ELPA package ID, RFGS person ID, Igromania ID, Czech parliament ID, Dictionary of Irish Biography ID, swMATH work ID, Pinakes author ID, IndicePA ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Married by, Access status, Musixmatch album ID, Antecedent anatomical structure, effective temperature, aperture, surface gravity, historic first
 * External identifiers: ECI Lok Sabha constituency code, DR.dk Tag ID, Réunionnais du monde ID, Planilla Códigos Únicos Territoriales (CUT), Doximity ID, dbSNP ID, Bloodhound ID, Xing profile ID, NeoGeoSoft ID, Den Store Danske Encyklopædi ID, MAHG ID, Syriac Biographical Dictionary ID, Ciência ID


 * Query examples:
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#PREFIX%20jps%3A%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fjpsearch.go.jp%2Fterm%2Fproperty%23%3E%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fname%20%3Fwork_link%20%3Fwork%20%3FcreatorLabel%20%3Fdate%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fcreator%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20VALUES%20%3Fcitizenship%20%7Bwd%3AQ145%20wd%3AQ174193%7D%20.%20%23%20UK%2C%20Britain%20%26%20Ireland%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fcreator%20wdt%3AP6698%20%5B%5D%3B%20%20%20%23%20Only%20get%20things%20with%20a%20Japan%20Search%20ID%0A%20%20%20wdt%3AP27%20%3Fcitizenship%3B%20wdt%3AP106%20wd%3AQ1281618%7D%20%20%20%20%23%20sculptors%0A%20%20%20%20%20%7D%20AS%20%25creators%0AWHERE%20%7B%0Ainclude%20%25creators%0A%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fjpsearch.go.jp%2Frdf%2Fsparql%2F%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Fjps_creator%20owl%3AsameAs%20%3Fcreator%20.%20%23%20convert%20Wikidata%20ID%20to%20Japan%20Search%20ID%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwork%20schema%3Acreator%20%3Fjps_creator%20.%20%20%23%20Works%20by%20this%20artist%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fwork%20schema%3Aname%20%3Fname%20%7D%20%20%20%23%20This%20will%20return%20separate%20names%20in%20English%20and%20Japanese%20names%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fwork%20schema%3AdateCreated%20%3Fdate%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0AFILTER%20(lang(%3Fname)%3D%22en%22)%20%20%23%20Show%20only%20the%20English%20name%0ABIND(URI(%20REPLACE(STR(%3Fwork)%2C%20%22%2Fdata%2F%22%2C%20%22%2Fitem%2F%22)%20)%20AS%20%3Fwork_link)%0ASERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20%3Fdate Items in Japanese museums by British sculptors (federated query with Japan Search)] (source)
 * Number of items about Australia created over time (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23%20compare%20lat%2Flong%20of%20Parliament%20and%20Wikidata%20constituency%20records%0A%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%7B%22hide%22%3A%5B%22%3Fline%22%5D%7D%0APREFIX%20parliament%3A%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fid.parliament.uk%2Fschema%2F%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fconstituency%20%3Fparlcoord%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fwdcoord%20%3Fdist%20%3Fline%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fapi.parliament.uk%2Fsparql%3E%20%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Fconstituency%20parliament%3AconstituencyGroupHasConstituencyArea%20%3Farea%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farea%20parliament%3Alatitude%20%3Flat%20.%20%3Farea%20parliament%3Alongitude%20%3Flong%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20bind%28SUBSTR%28str%28%3Fconstituency%29%2C26%29%20as%20%3Fparlid%29%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND%28concat%28%22Point%28%22%2Cstr%28%3Flong%29%2C%22%20%22%2Cstr%28%3Flat%29%2C%22%29%22%29%20as%20%3Fparlcoord%29%20%0A%20%20%23%20get%20constituencies%20from%20Parliament%20with%20coordinates%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP6213%20%3Fparlid%20.%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ27971968%20.%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fwdcoord%20.%20%0A%20%20%23%20now%20get%20them%20from%20Wikidata%20with%20coordinates%0A%20%20BIND%28geof%3Adistance%28%3Fparlcoord%2C%20%3Fwdcoord%29%20as%20%3Fdist%29%20.%20filter%20%28%3Fdist%20%3E%3D%2010%29%0A%20%20%23%20now%20find%20out%20the%20distance%20%28in%20kms%29%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP625%20%3Fstatementnode.%20%3Fstatementnode%20psv%3AP625%20%3Fvaluenode.%0A%20%20%3Fvaluenode%20wikibase%3AgeoLatitude%20%3Fwikilat%20.%20%3Fvaluenode%20wikibase%3AgeoLongitude%20%3Fwikilon.%0A%20%20BIND%28CONCAT%28%27LINESTRING%20%28%27%2C%20STR%28%3Fwikilon%29%2C%20%27%20%27%2C%20STR%28%3Fwikilat%29%2C%20%27%2C%27%2C%20STR%28%3Flong%29%2C%20%27%20%27%2C%20STR%28%3Flat%29%2C%20%27%29%27%29%20AS%20%3Fstr%29%20.%0A%20%20BIND%28STRDT%28%3Fstr%2C%20geo%3AwktLiteral%29%20AS%20%3Fline%29%20%0A%7D%0A Federated query comparing Wikidata and UK Parliament database, to show differences of more than 10km in locations of UK parliamentary constituencies] (source)


 * Development
 * When typing an item ID on Special:Search, labels are now shown in the suggestion menu
 * More work on preparing the migration of wb_terms to the new design
 * Add CC0 License overlay popup on termbox editing (T221835)
 * Add "You are not logged in" overlay popup on termbox editing (T221831)
 * Add the "Remember my choice" checkbox to the "You are not logged in" popup on mobile termbox editing (T221833)
 * Add EntitySchema in the license footer (T224536)
 * Several improvements to shex simple tools (T221604, T221606)
 * Work on an issue with a deleted constraint still appearing on Lexemes (T223372)
 * Work on normalistation in the Lua API mw.wikibase.getEntityIdForTitle (T224593)
 * Improved tests and fixed failing tests

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


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

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Wikidata weekly summary #369
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Unifying GO activities and enzyme articles


 * Events
 * Upcoming: ld4-Wikidata Affinity Group call on June 18th
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Paris, France, on June 21st
 * Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Wellington, New Zealand, on June 22nd


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * EventKG - the Hub of Event Knowledge on the Web - and Biographical Timeline Generation - Simon Gottschalk, Elena Demidova (in ArXiv)
 * Assessing The Factual Accuracy of Generated Text Ben Goodrich, et al. (in ArXiv)
 * Enriching Bibliographic Data by Combining String Matching and the Wikidata Knowledge Graph to Improve the Measurement of International Research Collaboration Xuan Nguyen, et al. (in ArXiv)
 * Treasured Manuscript collection gets the Wikidata Treatment, on the National Library of Wales' blog
 * On the road to joint embedding with Wikidata lexemes? by Finn Årup Nielsen
 * Wikipedia and Wikidata user contributions as part of Wikipedia for Peace at Europride Vienna 2019


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata-Toolkit 0.10.0 was released
 * New Grafana board: number of edits per namespace


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: title in HTML, title in LaTeX, student organization of, emergency services, average speed
 * External identifiers: Pro Football Reference coach ID, Keybase username, Elhuyar Dictionary ID, TV Tropes identifier, ITF tournament ID, Campendium ID, Malaysia company number, abART person ID, abART document ID, abART exhibition ID, abART group ID, abART institution ID, DR.dk topic ID, ABA League ID, Biographical Dictionary Of Iowa ID, CCDC Number, Coco Game List ID, Dimensions grant ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: text of verse, literary motif, scribe.amanuensis or copyist.illuminator, distribution format, phosphorylates, RogerEbert.com film ID, literacy rate, Retrosheets ID
 * External identifiers: 7digital United Kingdom artist ID, Metacritic person ID, Nacionālā enciklopēdija, IMVDb artist ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts artist ID, Charts in France artist ID, VG-lista artist ID, Beatport artist ID, Djshop artist ID, Gaana.com artist ID, Juno Download artist ID, Moov artist ID, Murfie artist ID, Napster artist ID, Qobuz artist ID, YouTube Music channel ID, Bebo profile ID, Steam profile ID, Pandora artist ID, SNBP ID, Fundamental.org Baptist Church ID, EMIS codes for Pakistani provinces, RIAA artist ID, Gambay ID, Facebook Gaming game ID, Cameo ID, Amburger database ID, BVLarramendi, Equipboard artist ID


 * Query examples:
 * Table of counts of distinct MPs, legislative terms and per constituency P39s for UK parliamentary constituencies, with links to per constituency reports (source)
 * Reverse taxon names of 100 mosquitoes (source)
 * Five-letter words beginning with "f", from wikidata's lexeme collection (source)
 * Péniches in Lyon
 * Lexemes ordered according to compound parts (source)
 * Airports named after a person, color-coded by gender (source)
 * Timeline of the Chief Mousers of 10 Downing Street, with photographs when available
 * Newest WikiProjects: European Colonialism


 * Development
 * Grafana now tracks the number of edits per namespace (T218901) and the EntitySchemas on the entity by type board (T216835)
 * Fixed a bug Special:MobileDiff for an EntitySchema Revision (T224545)
 * Make possible to edit items via wbeditentity when they have same label and description, if the edit is about making them different (T222621)
 * Fix a bug on ArticlePlaceholder hook on SpecialSearch (T207235)
 * Add CC0 License overlay popup on termbox editing (T221835)
 * More maintainance on the WDCM dashboards T214586 (T217997)
 * Maintain the WDCM Biases Dashboard to make it fully client-side dependent

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


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

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Tech News: 2019-25
<section begin="technews-2019-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.

Problems
 * You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on 19 June at 05:00 (UTC). This is to fix a hardware problem.

Changes later this week
 * MIDI files can soon be played without the Score extension. You can then add them with . Later   and   will stop working. Instead you will need to add the MIDI file below the music score.
 * A new video player will soon replace the old one. You will be able to enable it as a beta feature in your preferences. It will later be enabled for everyone if there are no big problems.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 19 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg Some gadgets and user scripts still use the old  and   values. These values are always true. They will soon be removed. This might break the gadgets and scripts. You should fix your gadgets to not use these values.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2019-W25"/> 20:37, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #370
<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: semi-protection to prevent vandalism on most used Items


 * Events
 * Upcoming: 1st Iberoamerican Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web Conference keynote on Wikidata by José E. Labra Villa Clara, Cuba 24-28 June
 * Upcoming: Wikidata meeting for researchers in Sfax University, Tunisia, 25-27 June 2019
 * Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in London, June 29th
 * Upcoming: July 3rd: UGent Wikidata and Wikibase Workshop 2019


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Demonstrating Spindra: A Geographic Knowledge Graph Management System, Yuhan Sun, et al (in 2019 IEEE 35th International Conference on Data Engineering)
 * Comparing DBpedia, Wikidata, and YAGO for Web Information Retrieval, Sini Govinda Pillai, et al.
 * WikiDataSets: Standardized sub-graphs from WikiData, Armand Boschin, in ArXiv
 * Ordia: A Web application for Wikidata lexemes, Finn Årup Nielsen
 * Combining embedding methods for a word intrusion task Finn Årup Nielsen, et al
 * Query expansion using Wikidata attributes’ values Sarah Dahir, Abderrahim et al., in ICCWCS'19
 * Automatic Question Generation based on MOOC Video Subtitles and Knowledge Graph Lin Ma, Yuchun Ma, in ICIET 2019
 * Wikidata as a linked-data hub for Biodiversity data, Andra Waagmeester, et al.
 * Using Crowd-curation to Improve Taxon Annotations on the Wikimedia Infrastructure, Andra Waagmeester, et al.
 * ''Using Shape Expressions (ShEx) to Share RDF Data Models and to Guide Curation with Rigorous Validation, et al. Best in-use paper award ESWC
 * From “an” Identifier to “the” Identifier, Theo van Veen
 * Developing workflows for local authority file conversion from MARC to Wikidata


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Structured Data on Commons: qualifiers for depicts support have been enabled on June 20th
 * Result format change for Query Service JSON query output
 * Filename scheme for Wikidata RDF entity dumps will change
 * The development of Wikidata Bridge (editing Wikidata's data from Wikipedia) started
 * CheckShex userscript adds an in-page way of checking if an item fits an Entityschema


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: has written for, motif represents, solar irradiance, effective temperature
 * External identifiers: JIS standard, Réunionnais du monde ID, Corporate Number (South Korea), dbSNP ID, digilibIT author ID, Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic ID, eBiodiversity ID, eurobasket.com coach ID, euroleague.net coach ID, Gamepedia Wiki ID, Hoopla artist ID, Hoopla publisher ID, Latvian National Encyclopedia Online ID, ECI Lok Sabha constituency code, IntraText author ID, Musixmatch artist ID, MAHG ID, Amburger database ID, ATP tennis tournament edition ID, Rugby League Project ID (general), RIAA artist ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: extracted from, Instagram hashtag, Historical Archives of the European Union ID, number of pins, number of pin positions, Representative in legislature, subscribers
 * External identifiers: nchdb asset id, Biblioteca Nacional Aruba ID, Bangladesh administrative division code (2017-), Goodreads series ID, Heritage Gazetteer of Cyprus, Retrosheet ID, The DJ List artist ID, BBC artist ID, The Independent topic ID, NME artist ID, Metro topic ID, MangaSeek person ID, Soccerway coach ID, Nederlandse Top 40 artist ID, Dutch Charts artist ID, hitparade.ch artist ID, Aviation Safety Network Wikibase ID, Find & Connect ID, SA Flora ID, ATRF ID, geograph, ArtBrokerage artist ID, Indian gallantry awardee ID, Scandipop topic ID, iTunes movie collection ID, SLNSW unpublished item ID, LB.ua dossier, FPBR person ID, RBF amateur boxer ID, RBF professional boxer ID, Roskomnadzor media license number, 2014 Commonwealth Games athlete ID, Music certifictions ID, El portal de Música artist ID


 * Query examples:
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#SELECT%20%3Ftotal%20%3Fcount%20%3Fdepicts_class%20%3Fdepicts_classLabel%20%3Fprop%20%3FpropLabel%20%3Fsamp%20%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3Fdepicts_stmt%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP180%20%3Fdepicts_stmt%20.%0A%20%20%7D%20%23%20LIMIT%20100000%0A%7D%20AS%20%25stmts%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fprop%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%28%3Fdepicts_stmt%29%29%20AS%20%3Ftotal%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25stmts%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fdepicts_stmt%20%3Fqual%20%5B%5D%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fprop%20wikibase%3Aqualifier%20%3Fqual%20.%0A%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fprop%0A%7D%20AS%20%25totals%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fdepicts_class%20%3Fprop%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%28%3Fdepicts_stmt%29%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fitem%29%20AS%20%3Fsamp%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25stmts%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fdepicts_stmt%20ps%3AP180%20%3Fdepicts_val%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fdepicts_val%20wdt%3AP31%3F%20%3Fdepicts_class%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fdepicts_stmt%20%3Fqual%20%5B%5D%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fprop%20wikibase%3Aqualifier%20%3Fqual%20.%0A%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fdepicts_class%20%3Fprop%0A%20%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29%20%0A%20%20LIMIT%205000%0A%7D%20AS%20%25data%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fdepicts_class%20%3Fprop%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%28%3Fdepicts_class1%29%29%20AS%20%3Frank%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25data%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%28%3Fdepicts_class%20AS%20%3Fdepicts_class1%29%20%3Fprop%20%28%3Fcount%20AS%20%3Fcount1%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25data%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28%3Fcount1%20%3E%3D%20%3Fcount%29%20.%0A%20%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fdepicts_class%20%3Fprop%0A%7D%20AS%20%25ranks%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25data%20.%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25ranks%20.%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25totals%20.%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28%3Frank%20%3C%2011%29%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Ftotal%29%20%3Fprop%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29%0A Most commonly used qualifiers on depicts (P180) statements on Wikidata, with top 10 classes or items that each one is used on] (source)
 * Most commonly used properties connecting military people to military organisations (source)
 * Bubblechart of most frequent WMF import sources
 * French male first names ending with "ée" (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Australia
 * Newest database reports: Property completion by country leaderboard


 * Development
 * Beginning of wb_terms migration (T221764)
 * Fixed a bug with phan on Wikibase (T226083)
 * Enable bugfix for wbeditentity setting aliases to empty array (T223303)
 * Fix an issue with pipe character on some special pages (T223270)
 * Fix an issue with removed constraint still displayed on Lexeme (T223372)
 * Make edits to EntitySchema pages autopatrolled (T224495)
 * Work on creating better edit summaries for wbeditentity API endpoint (T224010)
 * Deploy the work environment for new mobile termbox
 * Start setting up the technical environment for Wikidata bridge

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


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

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Tech News: 2019-26
<section begin="technews-2019-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
 * The new version of MediaWiki for last week was not fully released due to issues. It was removed from most wikis on Tuesday and from test wikis on Thursday.
 * Most wikis were slow and then briefly read-only last week due to one of the database servers having a problem. It is now replaced.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 June. It will be on all wikis from 27 June (calendar).

Meetings
 * You can watch or join the next Wikimedia Language showcase. It will be about the usage of Machine Translation in Wikimedia projects. The showcase will be on 26 June at 13:00 (UTC). A recording will be kept for later viewing
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 26 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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New Page Review newsletter July-August 2019


Hello ,

More new features are being added to the feed, including the important red alert for previously deleted pages. This will only work if it is selected in your filters. Best is to 'select all'. Do take a moment to check out all the new features if you have not already done so. If anything is not working as it should, please let us know at NPR. There is now also a live queue of AfC submissions in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to review AfCs, but bear in mind that NPP is an official process and policy and is more important. Articles are still not always being checked thoroughly enough. If you are not sure what to do, leave the article for a more experienced reviewer. Please be on the alert for any incongruities in patrolling and help your colleagues where possible; report patrollers and autopatrolled article creators who are ostensibly undeclared paid editors. The displayed ORES alerts offer a greater 'at-a-glance' overview, but the new challenges in detecting unwanted new content and sub-standard reviewing do not necessarily make patrolling any easier, nevertheless the work may have a renewed interest factor of a different kind. A vibrant community of reviewers is always ready to help at NPR. The backlog is still far too high at between 7,000 and 8,000. Of around 700 user rights holders, 80% of the reviewing is being done by just TWO users. In the light of more and more subtle advertising and undeclared paid editing, New Page Reviewing is becoming more critical than ever. NPR is triage, it is not a clean up clinic. This move feature is not limited to bios so  you may have to slightly re-edit the text in the template before you save the move. Anything that is not fit for mainspace but which might have some promise can be draftified - particularly very poor English and machine and other low quality translations. Remember to use the message feature if you are just tagging an article for maintenance rather than deletion. Otherwise articles are likely to remain perma-tagged. Many creators are SPA and have no intention of returning to Wikipedia. Use the feature too for leaving a friendly note note for  the author of a first article you found well made or interesting. Many have told us they find such comments particularly welcoming and encouraging. Admins are now taking advantage of the new time-limited user rights feature. If you have recently been accorded NPR, do check your user rights to see if this affects you. Depending on your user account preferences, you may receive automated notifications of your rights changes. Requests for permissions are not mini-RfAs. Helpful comments are welcome if absolutely necessary, but the bot does a lot of the work and the final decision is reserved for admins who do thorough research anyway. School and academic holidays will begin soon in various places around the Western world. Be on the lookout for the usual increase in hoax, attack, and other junk pages.
 * WMF at work on NPP Improvements
 * QUALITY of REVIEWING
 * Backlog
 * Move to draft
 * Notifying users
 * PERM
 * Other news

Our next newsletter might be announcing details of a possible election for co-ordinators of NPR. If you think you have what it takes to micro manage NPR, take a look at New Page Review Coordinators - it's a job that requires a lot of time and dedication.

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Article includes missing bio information.
Hi,

Wikipedia is absolutely hard to understand.

I believe you've done some editing on a page about me. (Fishel Jacobs)

Is it allowed to make a couple of suggestions? These sources supply valid citations.

First, someone might want to add this source, which is a profile with researched sources:

"Hebrew Profile,"Chabadpedia.co.il. http://chabadpedia.co.il/index.php/פישל_ג%27ייקובס

Report about an online database/Talmudic law program over which I preside: https://www.jewishpress.com/judaism/halacha-hashkafa/a-revolution-for-jewish-women-technology-meets-halacha/2019/01/06/

"I recorded my yechidut," Shturem.com. http://shturem.org/index.php?section=news&id=89560

"Collection, karate breaks," Vidoops.com. https://vidoops.com/channel/youtube:UCqoL8jW055_weD-My2lAhkw

"Personal story," Ch79.178.33.108 (talk) 19:45, 30 June 2019 (UTC)abad.org. https://www.chabad.org/therebbe/article_cdo/aid/3915599/jewish/Against-all-Odds.htm

"Op-Ed" Israel National News. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/22017

Profile http://crownheights.info/chabad-news/39257/mishpacha-magazine-profiles-rabbi-fishel-jacobs/

Is it possible to remove the banner?

Best wishes.

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Wikidata weekly summary #371
<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: July 3rd: UGent Wikidata and Wikibase Workshop 2019
 * Upcoming: OSM TW x Wikidata TW Meetup, June 3rd, Taipei, Taiwan - Facebook event
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XVII in São Paulo, Brazil, July 11th
 * Upcoming: Inventaire & OpenData Week 2019 in Wurzen, Germany, July 18th-25th
 * State of the Map 2019: early bird tickets are available until July 7th. The program will include a Wikidata workshop


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Placing EveryPolitician on hold by MySociety ("it's clear that Wikidata should be the natural global home for this type of data")
 * Celebrity Profiling by Matti Wiegmann et al.,
 * Published in ArXiv:
 * DocRED: A Large-Scale Document-Level Relation Extraction Dataset by Yuan Yao et al.
 * ConTrOn: Continuously Trained Ontology based on Technical Data Sheets and Wikidata by Kobkaew Opasjumruskit et al.
 * Wikidata as opportunity for special collections: the 20th Century Press Archives use case. Presentation at LIBER 2019 (LOD working group of the Association of European Research Libraries), by Joachim Neubert


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The Wikibase community Telegram group has been recreated, here's the invitation link


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: LilyPond notation, target muscle, historical region, writing language, match interval, microarchitecture, literacy rate, era name, seconded by, moved by
 * External identifiers: MELPA package ID, Nchdb asset ID, National Film Board of Canada director identifier, Fundamental.org Baptist Church ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts artist ID, Beatport artist ID, Bangladesh administrative division code (2017-), Djshop artist ID, NeoGeoSoft ID, New York City Neighborhood Tabulation area ID, NicoNicoPedia, NooSFere edition ID, ArtBrokerage artist ID, ATRF ID, Bebo profile ID, National Library of Aruba ID, BVLarramendi ID, Cameo ID, Charts in France artist ID, CIN ID, Dutch Charts artist ID, Equipboard artist ID, Facebook Gaming game ID, Gaana.com artist ID, Gambay ID, Heritage Gazetteer of Cyprus, Historical Archives of the European Union ID, hitparade.ch artist ID, Indian gallantry awardee ID, Juno Download artist ID, MangaSeek person ID, Metro topic ID, Moov artist ID, Murfie artist ID, Musicalics composer ID, Nederlandse Top 40 artist ID, NME artist ID, PCE Daisakusen ID, CUT code, Pro Football Hall of Fame ID, Repology project name, Rogerebert.com film ID, SA Flora ID, Syriac Biographical Dictionary ID, The DJ List artist ID, Who's Who of American Comic Books ID, SNBP ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: double major, Poster, Throwing handedness, Batting handedness, Institut-ID in der Unternehmensdatenbank der BaFin, Wolfram Language unit code, National Transportation Safety Board report, enemy of, PHI Latin Texts author ID, default description for instances
 * External identifiers: ACNP journal ID, Personnel de l'administration préfectorale ID, Bursa Malaysia stock code, etrain.info station ID, Rupa Publications author ID, Pro Kabaddi League player ID, OYO Hotel ID, Anime Characters Database, IMFDB work ID, Australian Faunal Directory publication ID, Ident.Nr., Sverigetopplistan artist ID, Musiikkituottajat artist ID, Radio Courtoisie show ID, Biyografya ID


 * Query examples:
 * Nouns without grammatical gender in a chosen language (source)
 * Current UK Members of Parliament ranked by number of Wikimedia sitelinks (source)
 * Architectural drawings depicting cathedrals in France (source)
 * Music bands named after Tolkien's universe, by genre (source)
 * Newest database reports: education by country

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
 * Development
 * More work on preparing the technical setup for Wikidata Bridge development
 * Implement Feature Flag for Wikidata Bridge (T225935)
 * Discuss the best way to connect template parameter to corresponding Wikidata property (T224832)
 * Improve the documentation for Wikibase sites setup (T218282)
 * Prepare the last steps for reading from new term store implementation (T225603) according to the migration plan (T221765)
 * Fixed a bug and reduced significantly the amount of addUsagesForPage jobs in our jobs queue (T205045)
 * Removed feature flag for the bugfix for wbeditentity setting aliases to empty array (T223305)
 * Decreased EntityUsageTable addUsage batch size to 100 (T225500)
 * Configured query service lag for Wikidata maxlag (T222193)
 * Helped fixing an issue with moving files on Commons (T226672)


 * 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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Administrators' newsletter – July 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2019). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg 28bytes • Ad Orientem • Ansh666 • Beeblebrox • Boing! said Zebedee • BU Rob13 • Dennis Brown • Deor • DoRD • 1 • Flyguy649 • 2 • Gadfium • GB fan • Jonathunder • Kusma • Lectonar • Moink • MSGJ • Nick • Od Mishehu • Rama • Spartaz • Syrthiss • TheDJ • WJBscribe
 * 1 's access was removed, then restored, then removed again.
 * 2 's access was removed, then restored, then removed again.

Bureaucrat changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg 28bytes • WJBscribe • Wizardman

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg MSGJ • TheDJ

CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Beeblebrox • BU Rob13 • DoRD

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Beeblebrox • BU Rob13 • DoRD • GB fan

Guideline and policy news
 * A request for comment seeking to alleviate pressures on the request an account (ACC) process proposes either raising the account creation limit for extended confirmed editors or granting the account creator permission on request to new ACC tool users.
 * In a related matter, the account throttle has been restored to six creations per day as the mitigation activity completed.
 * The scope of CSD criterion G8 has been tightened such that the only redirects that it now applies to are those which target non-existent pages.
 * The scope of CSD criterion G14 has been expanded slightly to include orphan "Foo (disambiguation)" redirects that target pages that are not disambiguation pages or pages that perform a disambiguation-like function (such as set index articles or lists).
 * A request for comment seeks to determine whether Office actions should be a policy page or an information page.

Technical news
 * The Wikimedia Foundation's Community health initiative plans to design and build a new user reporting system to make it easier for people experiencing harassment and other forms of abuse to provide accurate information to the appropriate channel for action to be taken. Community feedback is invited.

Miscellaneous
 * In February 2019, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) changed its office actions policy to include temporary and project-specific bans. The WMF exercised this new ability for the first time on the English Wikipedia on 10 June 2019 to temporarily ban and desysop . This action has resulted in significant community discussion, a request for arbitration (permalink), and, either directly or indirectly, the resignations of numerous administrators and functionaries. The WMF Board of Trustees is aware of the situation, and discussions continue on a statement and a way forward. The Arbitration Committee has sent an open letter to the WMF Board.

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Tech News: 2019-27
<section begin="technews-2019-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.

Recent changes
 * The development of Wikidata Bridge has started. The goal is to allow Wikidata edits from Wikipedia.

Problems
 * Sometimes pages load slowly for users routed to the Amsterdam data center. Investigation is in progress.
 * Wikidata query service was overloaded between 11:50 UTC until 13:15 UTC on June 24. It has been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * You will be able to read but not to edit all wikis for a short amount of time, on 3 July at 06:00 (UTC). This is to move a database.
 * There is no deployment of a new version of MediaWiki on the wikis this week (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 3 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2019-W27"/> 21:22, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

June 2019 Tree of Life Newsletter

 * June 2019&mdash;Issue 003


 * Tree of Life


 * Welcome to the Tree of Life newsletter!


 * Spineless editors overwhelmed by stubs

Within the Tree of Life and its many subprojects, there is an abundance of stubs. Welcome to Wikipedia, what's new, right? However, based on all wikiprojects listed (just over two thousand), the Tree of Life project is worse off in average article quality than most. Based on the concept of relative WikiWork (the average number of "steps" needed to have a project consisting of all featured articles (FAs), where stub status → FA consists of six steps), only seven projects within the ToL have an average rating of "start class" or better. Many projects, particularly those involving invertebrates, hover at an average article quality slightly better than a stub. With relative WikiWorks of 5.98 each, WikiProject Lepidoptera and WikiProject Beetles have the highest relative WikiWork of any project. Given that invertebrates are incredibly speciose, it may not surprise you that many articles about them are lower quality. WikiProject Beetles, for example, has over 20 times more articles than WikiProject Cats. Wikipedia will always be incomplete, so we should take our relatively low WikiWork as motivation to write more articles that are also better in quality.

We're joined for this month's Editor Spotlight by, a long-time contributor who lists themselves as a member of WikiProject Fungus, WikiProject Algae, and WikiProject Cephalopods.
 * Editor Spotlight: Showing love to misfit taxa

1) Enwebb: How did you come to edit articles about organisms and taxonomic groups?
 * Nessie: The main force, then and now, driving me to create or edit articles is thinking "Why isn't there an article on that on Wikipedia?" Either I'll read about some rarely-sighted creature in the deep sea or find something new on iNaturalist and want to learn more.  First stop (surprise!) is Wikipedia, and many times there is just a stub or no page at all.  Sometimes I just add the source that got me to the article, not sometimes I go deep and try to get everything from the library or online journals and put it all in an article.  The nice thing about taxa is the strong precedent that all accepted extant taxa are notable, so one does not need to really worry about doing a ton of research and having the page get removed.  I was super worried about this as a new editor:  I still really dislike conflict so if I can avoid it I do.  Anyway, the most important part is stitching an article in to the rest of Wikipedia:  Linking all the jargon, taxonomers, pollinators, etc., adding categories, and putting in the correct WikiProjects.  Recently I have been doing more of the stitching-in stuff with extant articles.  The last deep-dive article I made was Karuka at the end of last year, which is a bit of a break for me.  I guess it's easier to do all the other stuff on my tablet while watching TV.

2) Enwebb: Many editors in the ToL are highly specialized on a group of taxa. A look at your recently created articles includes much diversity, though, with viruses, bacteria, algae, and cnidarians all represented&mdash;are there any commonalities for the articles you work on? Would you say you're particularly interested in certain groups?
 * Nessie: I was a nerd from a time when that would get you beat up, so I like odd things and underdogs. I also avoid butting heads, so not only do I find siphonophores and seaweeds fascinating I don't have to worry about stepping on anyone's toes.  I go down rabbitholes where I start writing an article like Mastocarpus papillatus because I found some growing on some rocks, then in my research I see it is parasitized by Pythium porphyrae, which has no article, and how can that be for an oomycete that oddly lives in the ocean and also attacks my tasty nori.  So then I wrote that article and that got me blowing off the dust on other Oomycota articles, encouraged by the pull of propagating automatic taxoboxes.  Once you've done the taxonomy template for the genus, well then you might as well do all the species now that the template is taken care of for them too. and so on until I get sucked in somewhere else. I think it's good to advocate for some of these 'oddball' taxa as it makes it easier for editors to expand their range from say plants to the pathogenic microorganisms of their favorite plant.


 * My favorite clades though, It's hard to pick for a dilettante like me. I like working on virus taxonomy, but I can't think of a specific virus species that I am awed by.  Maybe Tulip breaking virus  for teaching us economics or Variola virus for having so many, one of which was popularly sung about by Desi Arnaz and then inspired the name of a cartoon character who was then misremembered and then turned into a nickname for Howard Stern's producer Gary Dell'Abate.  Sorry, really had to share that  chain, but for a species that's not a staple food it probably has the most deities.  But anyway, for having the most species that wow me, I love a good fungus or algae, but that often is led by my stomach.  Also why I seem to research so many plant articles.  You can't eat siphonophores, at least I don't, but they are fascinating with their federalist colonies of zooids.  Bats are all amazing, but the task force seems to have done so much I feel the oomycetes and slime moulds need more love.  Same thing with dinosaurs (I'm team Therizinosaurus though).  But honestly, every species has that one moment in the research where you just go, wow, that's so interesting.  For instance, I loved discovering that the picture-winged fly (Delphinia picta) has a mating dance that involves blowing bubbles.  Now I keep expecting them to show me when they land on my arm, but no such luck yet.

3) Enwebb: I noticed that many of your recent edits utilize the script Rater, which aids in quickly reassessing the quality and importance of an article. Why is it important to update talk page assessments of articles? I also noticed that the quality rating you assign often aligns with ORES, a script that uses machine-learning to predict article quality. Coincidence?
 * Nessie: I initially started focusing on WikiProject talk page templates because they seem to be the key to data collecting and maintenance for articles, much more so than categories. This is where you note of an article needs an image, or audio, or a range map.  It's how the cleanup listing bot sorts articles, and how  does his automated taxobox usage stats.  The latter inspired me to look for [https://petscan.wmflabs.org/?language=en&project=wikipedia&ns%5B0%5D=1&ns%5B118%5D=1&templates_any=Virusbox%0D%0ATaxonbar%0D%0ATaxobox%0D%0ASubspeciesbox%0D%0ASpeciesbox%0D%0AParaphyletic%20group%0D%0AOobox%0D%0AMissing-taxobox%0D%0AInfraspeciesbox%0D%0AIchnobox%0D%0AHybridbox%2Flua%0D%0AHybridbox%0D%0ABiota%20infobox%0D%0AAutomatic%20taxobox&templates_no=rodents%0D%0Afishproject%0D%0AWikiProject%20Viruses%0D%0AWikiProject%20Turtles%0D%0AWikiProject%20Spiders%0D%0AWikiProject%20Sharks%0D%0AWikiProject%20Rodents%0D%0AWikiProject%20Reptiles%0D%0AWikiProject%20Primates%0D%0AWikiProject%20Poultry%0D%0AWikiProject%20Plants%0D%0AWikiProject%20Paleontology%0D%0AWikiProject%20Palaeontology%0D%0AWikiProject%20Microbiology%0D%0AWikiProject%20Micro%0D%0AWikiProject%20Marine%20life%0D%0AWikiProject%20Marine%20Life%0D%0AWikiProject%20Mantodea%0D%0AWikiProject%20Mammals%2FBats%20Task%20Force%0D%0AWikiProject%20Mammals%0D%0AWikiProject%20Lepidoptera%0D%0AWikiProject%20Insects%0D%0AWikiProject%20Hypericaceae%0D%0AWikiProject%20Gastropods%0D%0AWikiProject%20Fungi%0D%0AWikiProject%20Fishes%0D%0AWikiProject%20Equine%0D%0AWikiProject%20Dogs%0D%0AWikiProject%20Dinosaurs%0D%0AWikiProject%20Cetaceans%0D%0AWikiProject%20Cephalopods%0D%0AWikiProject%20Cats%0D%0AWikiProject%20Carnivorous%20plants%0D%0AWikiProject%20Bivalves%0D%0AWikiProject%20Birds%0D%0AWikiProject%20Beetles%0D%0AWikiProject%20Banksia%0D%0AWikiProject%20Arthropods%0D%0AWikiProject%20Animals%0D%0AWikiProject%20Amphibians%20and%20Reptiles%0D%0AWikiProject%20Algae%0D%0AWPSpiders%0D%0AWP%20Spiders%0D%0ASquirrels%0D%0ARodent%0D%0AMammal%0D%0ALepidopteraTalk%0D%0ABirdTalk%0D%0AAARTalk&templates_use_talk_no=on&search_max_results=500&sortby=title&sortorder=descending&add_image=on&interface_language=en&active_tab=tab_templates_n_links&doit= articles on organisms that are not assigned to any ToL WikiProjects] which initially was in the thousands.  I got it down to zero with just copypasta so you can imagine I was excited when I saw the rater tool.  Back then I rated everything stub/low because it was faster:  I couldn't check every article for the items on the B-class checklists.  Plus each project has their own nuances to rating scales and I thought the editors in the individual projects would take it from there.  I also thought all species were important, so how can I choose a favorite?  Now it is much easier with the rater tool and the apparent consensus with 's method of rating by the pageviews (0-9 views/day is low, 10-99 is med, 100-999 is high...).  For the quality I generally go by the ORES rating, you caught me.  It sometimes is thrown off by a long list of species or something, but it's generally good for stub to C: above that needs formal investigation and procedures I am still learning about.  It seems that in the ToL projects we don't focus so much on getting articles to GA/FA so it's been harder to pick up.  It was a little culture shock when I went on the Discord server and it seemed everyone was obsessed with getting articles up in quality.  I think ToL is focusing on all the missing taxa and (re)organizing it all, which when you already have articles on every anime series or whatever you can focus on bulking the articles up more.  In any event, on my growing to-do list is trying to get an article up to FA or GA and learn the process that way so I can better do the quality ratings and not just kick the can down the road.

4) Enwebb: What, if anything, can ToL and its subprojects do to better support collaboration and coordination among editors? How can we improve?
 * Nessie: I mentioned earlier that the projects are the main way maintenance is done. And it is good that we have a bunch of subprojects that let those tasks get broken up into manageable pieces.  Frankly I'm amazed anything gets done with WikiProject Plants with how huge its scope is.  Yet this not only parcels out the work but the discussion as well.  A few editors like  and  keep an eye on many of the subprojects and spread the word, but it's still easy for newer editors to get a little lost.  There should be balance between the lumping and splitting.  The newsletter helps by crossing over all the WikiProjects, and if the discord channel picked up that would help too.  Possibly the big Enwiki talk page changes will help as well.

5) Enwebb: What would surprise the ToL community to learn about your life off-Wikipedia?
 * Nessie: I'm not sure anything would be surprising. I focus on nature offline too, foraging for mushrooms or wild plants and trying to avoid ticks and mosquitos.  I have started going magnet fishing lately, more to help clean up the environment than in the hopes of finding anything valuable.  But it would be fun to find a weapon and help solve a cold case or something.


 * June DYKs

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Thank you for pointing out the mistakes I did in my draft Draft:Romanian_Crown_Estate. I was not aware that in the draft the Categories must be preceded by a semicolon. Now I know and I'll remember for the next time. Out of curiosity, what is the next step with my Draft? I guess it's waiting for review. Or do I still need to change/adapt something? Leochato (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 22:19, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #372
<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: ZI Jony


 * Events
 * Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, Tuesday, June 16th, at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time), on the #wikimedia-office channel
 * Past: Celtic Knot Conference 2019 - minority languages on Wikimedia projects. Slides to be added in the Commons category


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * A new Wikidata map and comparison with previous maps, by Addshore
 * The story of building the inteGraality tool at the Wikimedia Hackathon, by JeanFred
 * Des identifiants ouverts pour la science ouverte by the Comité pour la Science ouverte (Open Science Committee), June 2019. Extract: "Since 2012, the Wikidata database has gradually become the global point of convergence for open identifiers." (Depuis 2012, la base Wikidata est devenue progressivement le point de convergence mondial des identifiants ouverts.)
 * Lydia Pintscher submitted a chapter for the collaborative book Wikipedia@20, called Wikidata - Wikipedia’s not so little sister is finding its own way. Feel free to have a look, review is open until July 19th
 * You can also check out Denny Vrandečić's submission about Abstract Wikipedia and Wikidata


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Because of a server switch, Wikidata will be in read-only mode on July 30th from 05:00 to 05:30 AM UTC (T227063)
 * Change in the name pattern of new Wikidata RDF dumps: starting on July 15th, dumps will have a new name format (T226153)
 * Reminder for tool builders: Python tools should use a user-agent to access the Query Service. If you recently encountered issues with the Query Service, please check that your tool is compliant to User-Agent policy.
 * New user script for lexicographical data to add Forms on Lexemes that don't have any, by suggesting and filling out templates


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: animator, video system, announcement date, access status, literary motif, review of, middle family name
 * External identifiers: FPBR person ID, PHI Latin Texts author ID, VG-lista artist ID, Bloodhound ID, Steam profile ID, Find & Connect ID, Goodreads series ID, Scandipop topic id, 2014 Commonwealth Games ID, El portal de Música artist ID, Balochistan Education Management Information System code, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Education Management Information System code, Punjab Education Management Information System code, Sindh Education Management Information System code, IMVDb artist ID, Institute-id in the BaFin company database, Musiikkituottajat artist (certyfication) ID, IFPI Austria artist ID, IFPI Danmark artist ID, SNEP artist ID, hitparade.ch artist (certyfication) ID, BVMI artist ID, Music Canada artist ID, IFPI Norge artist ID, Napster artist ID, Personnel de l'administration préfectorale ID, RBF professional boxer ID, Retrosheet ID, SLNSW unpublished item ID, LB.ua dossier ID, ACNP journal ID, Australian Faunal Directory publication ID, Sverigetopplistan artist ID, Rupa Publications author ID, OYO Hotel ID, Hungarian National Namespace place ID, Hungarian National Namespace person ID, Hungarian National Namespace organisation ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: catalogue raisonné, Wikia Article URL 2, Wikispecies template for this work, imprimatur, periphrasis, terms of service, privacy policy, Musisque Deoque author ID, SAR Value, IAAF competition category, Academic rank, MPG ID, newspaper archive, unabbreviated text, identifiant Q-Codes, ft.dk politician identifier
 * External identifiers: Biyografya ID, Magazine in BitArkivo.org, PharmGKB ID, World Encyclopedia of Puppetry Arts ID, identifiant Missions étrangères de Paris, DigitalNZ ID, Handball123 player ID, ScOT ID, Atlas of Living Australia ID, номер российской организации, AtlasFor ID, Repertorium van ambtsdragers en ambtenaren id, Adventure Gamers ID, Bebo profile numeric ID, MovieLens ID, WikiApiary, Scribd Book ID, Penguin India author ID, Spanish Catalogued Heritage


 * Query examples:
 * 762 people made edits on lexicographical data, 571 created at least one Lexeme (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%7B%22hide%22%3A%5B%22%3Fgeoshape%22%2C%22%3Frgb%22%2C%22%3FWelshSpeakerPercentage%22%5D%2C%22layer%22%3A%22%3FWelshSpeakerPercentage%22%7D%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%0A%3Farea%20%3FareaLabel%0A%3F2011%0A%3FWelshSpeakerPercentage%0A%3Fgeoshape%20%0A%3Frgb%20%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%0A%20%20%3Farea%20wdt%3AP3896%20%3Fgeoshape%20.%0A%20%20%20%0A%20%20%7B%20SELECT%20%3Farea%20%3F2011%20%3F2011_percent%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20BIND%28CONCAT%28%222001%3A%20%22%2C%20%3F2011_Population%2C%20%22%20%3B%20%22%2C%20%3F2011_Speakers%2C%20%22%20%22%2C%20%3F2011_Percent%29%20as%20%3F2011%29%0A%0A%20%20%7B%20SELECT%20%3Farea%20%3F2011_Population%20%3F2011_Speakers%20%3F2011_Percent%20%3F2011_percent%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%0A%20%20BIND%28CONCAT%28%22Population%3A%20%22%2C%20STR%28%3F2011_population%29%29%20as%20%3F2011_Population%29%0A%20%20BIND%28CONCAT%28%22Welsh%20speakers%3A%20%22%2C%20STR%28%3F2011_speakers%29%29%20as%20%3F2011_Speakers%29%0A%20%20BIND%28CONCAT%28%22%28%22%2C%20SUBSTR%28STR%28%3F2011_percent%29%2C0%2C5%29%2C%20%22%25%29.%22%29%20as%20%3F2011_Percent%29%0A%20%20%20%0A%20%20%7B%20SELECT%20%3Farea%20%3F2011_speakers%20%3F2011_population%20%3F2011_percent%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%0A%20%20BIND%28100%20%2a%20%3F2011_speakers%20%2F%20%3F2011_population%20AS%20%3F2011_percent%29%0A%0A%20%20%7B%20SELECT%20%3Farea%20%3F2011_speakers%20%3F2011_population%20WHERE%20%7B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Farea%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ15979307%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP2936%20%3F2011_SpeakersStatement%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP1082%20%3F2011_PopulationStatement%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3F2011_SpeakersStatement%20%3Fpq_qual%20%3Fpq_obj%20.%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fqual%20wikibase%3Aqualifier%20%3Fpq_qual%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3F2011_SpeakersStatement%20pq%3AP585%20%222011-00-00T00%3A00%3A00Z%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP1098%20%3F2011_speakers%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3F2011_PopulationStatement%20%3Fpq_qual%20%3Fpq_obj%20.%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fqual%20wikibase%3Aqualifier%20%3Fpq_qual%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3F2011_PopulationStatement%20pq%3AP585%20%222011-00-00T00%3A00%3A00Z%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP1082%20%3F2011_population%20.%0A%20%20%7D%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20BIND%28%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3F2011_percent%20%3C%2010%2C%20%220-10%25%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3F2011_percent%20%3C%2020%2C%20%2210-20%25%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3F2011_percent%20%3C%2030%2C%20%2220-30%25%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3F2011_percent%20%3C%2040%2C%20%2230-40%25%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3F2011_percent%20%3C%2050%2C%20%2240-50%25%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3F2011_percent%20%3C%2060%2C%20%2250-60%25%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3F2011_percent%20%3C%2070%2C%20%2260-70%25%22%2C%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%2270%25%2B%22%29%29%29%29%29%29%29%0A%20%20%20%20AS%20%3FWelshSpeakerPercentage%29.%20%0A%20%20%0A%20%20BIND%28%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3F2011_percent%20%3C%2010%2C%20%22ffe6e6%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3F2011_percent%20%3C%2020%2C%20%22ffb3b3%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3F2011_percent%20%3C%2030%2C%20%22ff8080%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3F2011_percent%20%3C%2040%2C%20%22ff4d4d%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3F2011_percent%20%3C%2050%2C%20%22ff1a1a%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3F2011_percent%20%3C%2060%2C%20%22e60000%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3F2011_percent%20%3C%2070%2C%20%22b30000%22%2C%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%22800000%22%29%29%29%29%29%29%29%0A%20%20%20%20AS%20%3Frgb%29.%0A%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FWelshSpeakerPercentage Map with percentage of Welsh speakers in the regions of Wales] (source)
 * Publication dates of works used as usage example for Swedish Lexemes (source)
 * Ratios of male/female organizers and speakers at conferences (source)
 * World map of sign languages by country (source)
 * Number of punk bands from Indonesia by region (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fsite%20%3FsiteLabel%20%3Fplace%20%3FplaceLabel%20%3FcountryLabel%20%3Fcoords%20%3Fimage%20%3FunescoUrl%20%3Flayer%20WHERE%20%7B%7B%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fsite%20%3Fplace%20%3Fcountry%20%3Fcoords%20%3Fimage%20%3FunescoUrl%20%3Flayer%20WHERE%20%7B%7B%0ASELECT%20%3Fcountry%20WHERE%20%7B%7B%20%3Fcountry%20wdt%3AP463%20wd%3AQ7809%3Bwdt%3AP30%20wd%3AQ46%20.%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%20%3Fcountry%20wdt%3AP361%20wd%3AQ1191549%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%20%3Fcountry%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ15304003%20%7D%7D%7D%0A%7BSELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fsite%20%3Fprotection%20%3Fcountry%20%28group_concat%28DISTINCT%20%3FsiteType%29%20AS%20%3FsiteType%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%3Fsite%20p%3AP1435%20%3FprotectionStatement%20%3Bwdt%3AP17%20%3Fcountry%20.%0AFILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Fx%20wdt%3AP527%20%3Fsite%20.%20%3Fx%20wdt%3AP1435%20%3Fprotection%20%7D%0A%3FprotectionStatement%20ps%3AP1435%20%3Fprotection%20.%0AFILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3FprotectionStatement%20pq%3AP582%20%3Fx%20%7D%0AVALUES%20%3Fprotection%20%7B%20wd%3AQ9259%20wd%3AQ17278671%20wd%3AQ52683530%20wd%3AQ16617071%20wd%3AQ52683527%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fsite%20wdt%3AP2614%20%3Fcriteria%20.%0ABIND%20%28IF%20%28%28%3Fcriteria%20in%20%28wd%3AQ23038972%2C%20wd%3AQ23038976%2C%20wd%3AQ23038977%2C%20wd%3AQ23038978%2C%20wd%3AQ23038979%2C%20wd%3AQ23038980%29%29%2C%20%22Cultural%22%2C%20%22Natural%22%29%20AS%20%3FsiteType%29%0A%7D%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fsite%20%3Fprotection%20%3Fcountry%0A%7D%0A%7B%0A%3Fsite%20p%3AP757%20%3FidStatement%20.%0A%3FidStatement%20ps%3AP757%20%3Fid%20.%0AFILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3FidStatement%20pq%3AP582%20%3Fx%20%7D%0Awd%3AP757%20p%3AP1630%20%3FformatterUrlStatement%20.%0A%7D%20UNION%20%7B%0A%3Fsite%20p%3AP4171%20%3FidStatement%20.%0A%3FidStatement%20ps%3AP4171%20%3Fid%20.%0AFILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3FidStatement%20pq%3AP582%20%3Fx%20%7D%0Awd%3AP4171%20p%3AP1630%20%3FformatterUrlStatement%20.%0A%7D%0A%3FformatterUrlStatement%20ps%3AP1630%20%3Fformatterurl%20%3B%0Apq%3AP407%20wd%3AQ1860%20.%0ABIND%28IRI%28REPLACE%28%3Fid%2C%20%27%5E%28.%2B%29%24%27%2C%20%3Fformatterurl%29%29%20AS%20%3FunescoUrl%29.%0A%7B%3Fsite%20wdt%3AP527%2B%20%3Fplace%20.%0A%3Fplace%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fcountry%20%3B%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fplace%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoords%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fplace%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20%7D%0A%7D%20UNION%20%7B%0AFILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Fsite%20wdt%3AP527%20%3Fx%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fsite%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoords%20.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fsite%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20%7D%0A%7D%0ABIND%20%28IF%20%28%3Fprotection%20%3D%20wd%3AQ17278671%2C%20%22Tentative%20list%22%2C%20%22World%20heritage%22%29%20AS%20%3FsiteProtection%29%0ABIND%20%28IF%20%28%3FsiteType%20%21%3D%20%22%22%2C%20CONCAT%28%3FsiteProtection%2C%20%22%20-%20%22%2C%20IF%20%28%3FsiteType%20%3D%20%22Cultural%20Natural%22%20%7C%7C%20%3FsiteType%20%3D%20%22Natural%20Cultural%22%2C%20%22Mixed%22%2C%20%3FsiteType%29%29%2C%20%3FsiteProtection%29%20AS%20%3Flayer%29%0A%7D%0A%7D%0ASERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Flayer%29%20%3FsiteLabel%20%3FplaceLabel Map of World Heritage places in Europe] (source)
 * Map of parishes of New South Wales, Australia, colour-coded by county (source)
 * Newest database reports: Glasnevin Cemetery, Mount Jerome Cemetery


 * Development
 * Enabled JSONLD support for entity data (example)
 * Fixed JSON dump issue (T226601)
 * Readded qualifier hashes in JSON output that accidentally got lost (T227207)
 * Made sure changes on Entity Schema pages by autoconfirmed users are autopatrolled (T224495)
 * Looked into issues with partial blocking on Wikidata entities (T207893)
 * Adding MediaInfo as an entity type that can be used in the "allowed entity types"-constraint (T224362)
 * Investigating an issue with the tours on Wikidata (T223999)
 * Initial work for the edit dialog that is needed for editing of Wikidata's data from Wikipedia (Wikidata Bridge)

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


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

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Tech News: 2019-28
<section begin="technews-2019-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.

Recent changes
 * For event organizers, if you request a temporary lift of the IP cap for mass account creation, this will now also raise the edit rate limit for those new accounts at the event, which will prevent another bottleneck.
 * Administrators at all Wiktionary, Wikivoyage, and Wikisource wikis are now able to use the new partial blocks feature.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 July. It will be on all wikis from 11 July (calendar).
 * The design of MediaWiki's software windows will change for desktop users. Layout will be simpler, buttons will be bolder and clearer, and close buttons will be just icons. This is like the mobile design. This will affect ContentTranslation, VisualEditor, TemplateWizard, and other tools.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Wikidata will be in read-only mode on 30 July from 05:00 to 05:30 UTC because of a server switch.
 * Octicons-tools.svg There will be a change in the name format of new Wikidata RDF dumps starting on 15 July.

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This Month in GLAM: June 2019
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Books & Bytes Issue 34, May – June 2019
<div style = "color: #936c29; font-size: 4em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif"> The Wikipedia Library <span style="font-size: 2em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif">Books & Bytes

Issue 34, May – June 2019 <div style = "margin-top: 1.5em; border: 3px solid #ae8c55; border-radius: .5em; padding: 1em 1.5em; font-size: .9em"> French version of Books & Bytes is now available on meta!
 * Partnerships
 * # 1Lib1Ref
 * Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
 * Global branches update
 * Bytes in brief

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Move Draft to Wikipedia, is it ready?
Hi,

Can I move my draft Wikipedia page/article Draft:Romanian_Crown_Estate. I assume I can, since before it was under review and now I see a new button "Move". I clicked once on the Move button and now I'm being asked to choose a new title and there I need to choose from a drop down list a sort of category such as (Article), User, Wikipedia... According to my understanding my draft can be moved to an Article. Could you please help me by confirming or correcting my above understanding. This is my first article here on Wikipedia, I'm very happy about it, but I prefer to ask, instead of making a mistake Leochato (talk) 20:35, 14 July 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-29
<section begin="technews-2019-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
 * The mobile web will get more advanced editing tools. Seven more Wikipedias can use them now. This works for Arabic, Indonesian, Italian, Persian, Japanese, Spanish and Thai Wikipedia. You can try the tools on the mobile web and give feedback.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-tools.svg The abuse filter system user will soon do maintenance edits on broken abuse filters. This user is called   and has administrator rights. This is meant to fix technical problems. It will not do any other changes. You can read more.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 July. It will be on all wikis from 18 July (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The Wikipedia app for Android will invite users to add image captions to images on Commons. It will only invite users who have added a number of edits in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. You can read more and leave feedback.

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Wikidata weekly summary #373
<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: Wikidata IRC office hour, Tuesday, July 16th, at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time), on the #wikimedia-office channel
 * Upcoming: Next LD4-Wikidata Affinity Group Meeting on July 16th
 * Upcoming: Structured Data on Commons IRC office hour for "other statements" on 18 July, 17:00-18:00 UTC on the #wikimedia-office channel
 * Upcoming: The Wikidata Menu Challenge - Wikimania 2019 edition starts July 16 and goes on until August 11.


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * An International Knowledge Base for all Heritage Institutions by Giovanna Fontenelle and Beat Estermann on SocietyByte
 * How to estimate completeness of classes in Wikidata by Michael Luggen et. al. on SocietyByte
 * Videos of the presentations given during the Wikidata + OSM workshop in London


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Structured Data on Commons: RDF output for MediaInfo is now available (example)
 * Edits with the tag #suggestededit-add 1.0 come from the suggested edit feature on Wikipedia's Android app: see the FAQ for more information
 * Property number 7000: DigitalNZ ID is live. This data aggregator has over 30 million records. The proposal was the first from Ambrosia10, a New Zealand editor.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: IMFDB work ID, Pro Kabaddi League player ID, RBF amateur boxer ID, National Transportation Safety Board report ID, Epitafier.se ID, magazine in BitArkivo.org, iTunes movie collection ID, Musisque Deoque author ID, DigitalNZ ID, PharmGKB ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Perseus ID, TuttoCalciatori.Net player ID, TuttoCalciatori.Net coach ID, Typing discipline, video game mod, Arachne collection ID, NOTAM, begin and end of covered period ; covered period, periphrasis, Kerala state school code, The Latin Library author ID, type code, FEC campaign committee id, Documenta Catholica Omnia author ID, Ex æquo with, EU Publication office ID, Supreme Court docket number
 * External identifiers: National Library of Luxembourg ID, Lebanese National Library ID, National Library of Morocco ID, National Library of Iceland ID, Syriaca person ID, Syriaca work ID, Flemish Public Libraries ID, National Library of Russia ID, National Library of Chile ID, ACMI ID, Australian Suppliers Directory ID, Hazardous Chemical Information System ID, ANZCTR ID, National Pollutant Inventory ID, AICS Chemical ID, PBS Manufacturer ID, PBS Drug Code, BIC of the Canary Islands ID, Arachne object ID, Gotlands museum, Indian Super League player ID, Premier Badminton League player ID, Colonial Frontier Massacres ID, TheTVDB episode ID, Album of the Year artist ID, Album of the Year album ID, HOV-ID, Nosdéputés.fr identifiant, TikTok username, NosSénateurs.fr identifiant, eBay username, Jaxsta profile ID, Jaxsta release ID, Jaxsta recording ID, Musixmatch writer ID


 * Query examples:
 * places in Canada with no English label
 * Languages having the most usage examples in Wikidata's lexicographical data (source)
 * Map of places of residence of accused witches in Scotland, colour-coded by gender (source)
 * Symphonies written by Camille Saint-Saëns (source)


 * Development
 * Create docker image for wdqs version 0.3.2 (T226939)
 * Fix an issue with JSON output lacking qualifier hashes (T227207)
 * Track number of links to schema pages (T218903)
 * Disable Wikidata sitelinks in ProofreadPage namespaces (thanks to Matěj Suchánek) (T227201)
 * Fix a cache issue with the language of the "check entities against this schema" link (T224594)
 * Add EntitySchema extension to wikibase-docker bundle image (T226152)
 * Enable JSON-LD support for Wikidata (T220696)
 * Add baserevid to WikibaseLexeme API module (T225073)
 * Extracting (and logging) Data Bridge parameters from edit links (T226994)
 * Opening a modal with edit this link information (T226996)
 * Showing the current Wikidata value in edit modal (T226997)
 * Disabling interactive elements while saving on mobile termbox (T222886)

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


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

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Editing News #1—July 2019
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Did you know?

Did you know that you can use the visual editor on a mobile device?

Every article has a pencil icon at the top. Tap on the pencil icon to start editing.

 Edit Cards 



This is what the new Edit Cards for editing links in the mobile visual editor look like. You can try the prototype here: 📲 Try Edit Cards.

Welcome back to the Editing newsletter.

Since the last newsletter, the team has released two new features for the mobile visual editor and has started developing three more. All of this work is part of the team's goal to make editing on mobile web simpler.

Before talking about the team's recent releases, we have a question for you:

Are you willing to try a new way to add and change links?

If you are interested, we would value your input! You can try this new link tool in the mobile visual editor on a separate wiki.

Follow these instructions and share your experience:

📲 Try Edit Cards.

Recent releases
The mobile visual editor is a simpler editing tool, for smartphones and tablets using the mobile site. The Editing team has recently launched two new features to improve the mobile visual editor:


 * 1) Section editing
 * 2) * The purpose is to help contributors focus on their edits.
 * 3) * The team studied this with an A/B test. This test showed that contributors who could use section editing were 1% more likely to publish the edits they started than people with only full-page editing.
 * 4) Loading overlay
 * 5) * The purpose is to smooth the transition between reading and editing.

Section editing and the new loading overlay are now available to everyone using the mobile visual editor.

New and active projects
This is a list of our most active projects. Watch these pages to learn about project updates and to share your input on new designs, prototypes and research findings.


 * Edit cards: This is a clearer way to add and edit links, citations, images, templates, etc. in articles. You can try this feature now.  Go here to see how: 📲Try Edit Cards.
 * Mobile toolbar refresh: This project will learn if contributors are more successful when the editing tools are easier to recognize.
 * Mobile visual editor availability: This A/B test asks: Are newer contributors more successful if they use the mobile visual editor?  We are collaborating with 20 Wikipedias to answer this question.
 * Usability improvements: This project will make the mobile visual editor easier to use.  The goal is to let contributors stay focused on editing and to feel more confident in the editing tools.

Looking ahead

 * Wikimania: Several members of the Editing Team will be attending Wikimania in August 2019.  They will lead a session about mobile editing in the Community Growth space.  Talk to them about how editing can be improved.
 * Talk Pages: In the coming months, the Editing Team will begin improving talk pages and communication on the wikis.

Learning more
The VisualEditor on mobile is a good place to learn more about the projects we are working on. The team wants to talk with you about anything related to editing. If you have something to say or ask, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.

PPelberg (WMF) (talk) and Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 21:25, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Gary Stewart (music executive)
Hello MarkZusab,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Gary Stewart (music executive) for deletion, because it seems to be copied from another source, probably infringing copyright.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to rewrite it in your own words, you can [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=&action=edit&section=new&preload=Template:Hangon_preload&preloadtitle=This+page+should+not+be+speedy+deleted+because...+ contest this deletion], but don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Thanks!

Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.

 Onel 5969  <i style="color:blue">TT me</i> 14:59, 21 July 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #374
<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: 1997kB


 * Events
 * Past: IRC office hour, July 16th (log)
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Tainan Meetup in Taiwan, July 31st (Facebook event)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Reminder: because of a database switch, Wikidata will be read-only on July 30th, between 05:00AM-05:30 AM UTC (Phabricator task, help translate the banner)
 * You can nominate tools for the Coolest Tool Award until July 29th
 * Wikimania's draft program has been published
 * User:Bodhisattwa joined CIS-A2K as Wikidata Advisor
 * wbEntity config value to be dropped on July 24th - if you use it, please consider replacing it


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: Wolfram Language unit code, unabbreviated text, extracted from, imprimitur granted by, terms of service, surface gravity, lexeme, chassis, enemy of
 * External identifiers: PharmGKB ID, Handball123 player ID, ACMI web ID, AtlasFor ID, Adventure Gamers ID, BIC of the Canary Islands ID, Russian organisation number, World Encyclopedia of Puppetry Arts ID, Anime Characters Database character ID, Anime Characters Database anime ID, ANZCTR ID, Arachne collection ID, Arachne object ID, Australian Suppliers Directory ID, Biyografya ID, Flemish Public Libraries ID, HCIS ID, Lebanese National Library ID, MPG ID, National Library of Luxembourg ID, National Library of Russia ID, National Pollutant Inventory ID, Penguin India author ID, Repertorium van ambtsdragers en ambtenaren id, Australian Educational Vocabulary ID, Syriaca work ID, TuttoCalciatori.Net coach ID, TuttoCalciatori.Net player ID, COURAGE ID, Documenta Catholica Omnia author ID, National Library of Iceland ID, NosDéputés.fr identifiant, Perseus author ID, The Latin Library author ID, TheTVDB episode ID, Colonial Frontier Massacres ID, HOV-ID, PBS Drug Code, AICS Chemical ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: image of bone or fossil record, (de)evolution method, WeChat Official Account, Dose, hat Mitglied, Variété de la forme, value group number, orientation, Digital audio workstation, title geographic ref, location of point of view
 * External identifiers: misas.org Catholic church ID, identificador de arte público de Zaragoza, Taxonomicon ID, Wayback ID, Common Sense Media ID, FFR fencer ID, Australian Marine Algal Name Index ID, ABBBS Taxon ID, AFCD PFKID, Plant Breeders Rights Database AID, WaterNSW Rivers and Streams Site No., Lens ID, LezWatch.TV actor ID, LezWatch.TV show ID, Grand Canyon Trust ID, LezWatch.TV character ID, Bossu ID, Textile Connect publication ID


 * Query examples:
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20number%20of%20living%20people%20who%20have%20walked%20on%20the%20moon%2C%20over%20time%0A%0A%23defaultView%3ALineChart%0ASELECT%20%3Fdate%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20get%20all%20the%20dates%20where%20the%20number%20of%20living%20people%20who%20have%20walked%20on%20the%20moon%20changed%0A%20%20%23%20%28person%20walked%20on%20the%20moon%20or%20person%20died%29%0A%20%20SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fdate%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20person%20walked%20on%20the%20moon%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP793%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP793%20wd%3AQ42882411%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP580%20%3Fdate_%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20person%20died%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP793%2Fps%3AP793%20wd%3AQ42882411%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdate_.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20for%20each%20date%2C%20inject%20a%20second%20date%2C%20one%20day%20before%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20so%20that%20we%20get%20a%20straight%20line%20until%20that%20date%20and%20then%20a%20steep%20climb%2Fdrop%20for%20the%20real%20change%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20instead%20of%20a%20diagonal%20slope%20over%20the%20entire%20preceding%20period%0A%20%20%20%20VALUES%20%3Ftoggle%20%7B%20true%20false%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28IF%28%3Ftoggle%2C%20%3Fdate_%2C%20%3Fdate_%20-%20%22P1D%22%5E%5Exsd%3Aduration%29%20AS%20%3Fdate%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25dates%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20inject%20the%20current%20time%20as%20another%20date%2C%20so%20that%20the%20chart%20continues%20until%20the%20present%20day%0A%20%20%7B%20INCLUDE%20%25dates.%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%20BIND%28NOW%28%29%20AS%20%3Fdate%29%20%7D%0A%20%20%23%20main%20query%3A%20find%20all%20living%20people%20who%20have%20walked%20on%20the%20moon%20at%20each%20date%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP793%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20ps%3AP793%20wd%3AQ42882411%3B%0A%20%20%20%20pq%3AP580%20%3Fwalkdate%0A%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3Fdate%20%3E%3D%20%3Fwalkdate%29%20%23%20must%20have%20walked%20on%20the%20moon%20already%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdied.%20%7D%0A%20%20FILTER%28%21BOUND%28%3Fdied%29%20%7C%7C%20%3Fdate%20%3C%20%3Fdied%29%20%23%20must%20not%20yet%20have%20died%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fdate%0AORDER%20BY%20%3Fdate Number of living people who have walked on the Moon] (source)
 * Artworks depicting the Moon (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20persons%20that%20have%20been%20on%20spaceflights%20operated%20by%20at%20least%20two%20distinct%20%0A%23%20sovereign%20states%2C%20and%20the%20number%20of%20seconds%20they%20have%20spent%20in%20space%0ASELECT%0A%3Fperson%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20find%20persons%20%E2%80%A6%0A%3FpersonLabel%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20%E2%80%A6%20their%20label%0A%3FsecondsInSpace%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20%E2%80%A6%20seconds%20spent%20in%20space%0A%28GROUP_CONCAT%28DISTINCT%20%3FcountryLabel%3B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20%E2%80%A6%20and%20all%20operating%20countries%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20SEPARATOR%3D%22%2C%20%22%29%20AS%20%3Fcountries%29%20%20%20%20%20%20%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20this%20subquery%20finds%20all%20humans%20on%20spaceflights%20and%20their%20operators%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fperson%20%3Fflight%20%3Fcountry%20WHERE%20%7B%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fflight%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ752783%20%3B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20human%20spaceflight%20%E2%80%A6%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP620%20%5B%5D%20%3B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20%E2%80%A6%20has%20landed%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP619%20%5B%5D%20%3B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20%E2%80%A6%20has%20launched%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP137%2Fwdt%3AP17%20%3Fcountry%20%3B%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20%E2%80%A6%20sovereign%20state%20of%20operator%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP1029%20%3Fperson%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20%E2%80%A6%20with%20%3Fperson%20as%20crew%20member%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25spaceflight%20WITH%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20this%20subquery%20finds%20two%20distinct%20launch%20operators%20for%20humans%20on%0A%20%20%23%20spaceflights.%20we%20order%20countries%20A%20and%20B%20by%20their%20URI%2C%20so%20that%20we%0A%20%20%23%20can%20more%20easily%20filter%20out%20duplicates%0A%20%20SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fperson%20%3FcountryA%20%3FcountryB%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%20SELECT%20%3Fperson%20%3FflightA%20%3FcountryA%20WHERE%20%7B%20%20%20%23%20find%20a%20spaceflight%20for%20%3Fperson%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25spaceflight%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%3Fflight%20AS%20%3FflightA%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%3Fcountry%20AS%20%3FcountryA%29%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%20SELECT%20%3Fperson%20%3FflightB%20%3FcountryB%20WHERE%20%7B%20%20%20%23%20find%20a%20second%20spaceflight%20for%20the%20%3Fperson%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25spaceflight%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%3Fflight%20AS%20%3FflightB%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%3Fcountry%20AS%20%3FcountryB%29%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28STR%28%3FflightA%29%20%3C%20STR%28%3FflightB%29%29%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20enforce%20that%20the%20launches%20are%20distinct%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28STR%28%3FcountryA%29%20%3C%20STR%28%3FcountryB%29%29%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20enforce%20that%20the%20operating%20countries%20are%20distinct%0A%20%20%7D%7D%20AS%20%25flightCountries%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%7B%20SELECT%20%3Fperson%20%3Fcountry%20WHERE%20%7B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20now%20get%20both%20results%20into%20the%20same%20column%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%20SELECT%20%3Fperson%20%3Fcountry%20WHERE%20%7B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20find%20%3FcountryA%20for%20%3Fperson%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25flightCountries%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%3FcountryA%20AS%20%3Fcountry%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%7D%20UNION%20%7B%20SELECT%20%3Fperson%20%3Fcountry%20WHERE%20%7B%20%20%20%20%23%20find%20%3FcountryB%20for%20%3Fperson%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25flightCountries%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%3FcountryB%20AS%20%3Fcountry%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%7D%0A%20%20%7D%7D%0A%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP2873%20%3FsecondsInSpace%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20also%20get%20the%20time%20spent%20in%20space%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20finally%2C%20get%20the%20labels%20%E2%80%A6%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fperson%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FpersonLabel%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20%E2%80%A6%20for%20person%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fcountry%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FcountryLabel%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20%E2%80%A6%20and%20for%20the%20country%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fperson%20%3FsecondsInSpace%20%3FpersonLabel%20%20%20%23%20group%20by%20%3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People that have been on spaceflights operated by at least two different sovereign states, and their time in space] (source)
 * Temporal distribution of book editions in Swedish (source)
 * How long after a UK general election that a political party has appointed a new leader, since 1945 (source)
 * Newest database reports: family names in Ireland

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
 * Development
 * Fix a bug that was preventing to add multiple glosses (T228080)
 * Show number of senses and forms on page information for WikibaseLexeme entities (T224844)
 * Show number of statements and external identifiers on page information for Wikibase entities (T224842))
 * Track number of external identifiers on Wikidata over time (T224129)
 * Fix a few queries on Grafana (T227788)
 * Update the query host for Grafana (T218710)
 * Add support for "MediaInfo" as value for "allowed entity types"-constraint (T224362)
 * Data bridge: open a modal with edit link information (T226996)
 * Show the current Wikidata value in edit modal (T226997)
 * Extract data bridge parameters from edit links (T226994)


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

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Tech News: 2019-30
<section begin="technews-2019-W30"/> 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
 * Communities interested by easing newcomers' first steps can now benefit from the Growth team experiments on their wikis. Check the conditions and the request process.
 * The Coolest Tool Award 2019 is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools by July 29. The awarded tools will be presented at Wikimania.

Problems
 * The release of the last version of MediaWiki (1.34.0-wmf.14) has been blocked for groups 1 and 2.

Changes later this week
 * Phabricator database will be moved to a different server. Writes will be blocked on Thursday 25 July, between 05:30 and 06:00 AM UTC. Reads will remain unaffected.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 July. It will be on all wikis from 25 July (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 24 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Some items in the visual editor will change later this week. This will make it easier to edit links, citations, and templates on both desktop and mobile.
 * With advanced search turned on you will be able to choose the sorting order of the search results when you do a search.
 * Users who edit from IP addresses whitelisted on a request for temporary lift of the IP cap for mass account creation will bypass CAPTCHAs. This will happen in August. If you think this should not happen for some reason, please let us know.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The variable  will be removed from AbuseFilter. A list of filters needing a fix is provided.

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Editing News #1—July 2019
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Did you know?

Did you know that you can use the visual editor on a mobile device?

Every article has a pencil icon at the top. Tap on the pencil icon to start editing.

 Edit Cards 



This is what the new Edit Cards for editing links in the mobile visual editor look like. You can try the prototype here: 📲 Try Edit Cards.

Welcome back to the Editing newsletter.

Since the last newsletter, the team has released two new features for the mobile visual editor and has started developing three more. All of this work is part of the team's goal to make editing on mobile web simpler.

Before talking about the team's recent releases, we have a question for you:

Are you willing to try a new way to add and change links?

If you are interested, we would value your input! You can try this new link tool in the mobile visual editor on a separate wiki.

Follow these instructions and share your experience:

📲 Try Edit Cards.

Recent releases
The mobile visual editor is a simpler editing tool, for smartphones and tablets using the mobile site. The Editing team recently launched two new features to improve the mobile visual editor:


 * 1) Section editing
 * 2) * The purpose is to help contributors focus on their edits.
 * 3) * The team studied this with an A/B test. This test showed that contributors who could use section editing were 1% more likely to publish the edits they started than people with only full-page editing.
 * 4) Loading overlay
 * 5) * The purpose is to smooth the transition between reading and editing.

Section editing and the new loading overlay are now available to everyone using the mobile visual editor.

New and active projects
This is a list of our most active projects. Watch these pages to learn about project updates and to share your input on new designs, prototypes and research findings.


 * Edit cards: This is a clearer way to add and edit links, citations, images, templates, etc. in articles. You can try this feature now.  Go here to see how: 📲 Try Edit Cards.
 * Mobile toolbar refresh: This project will learn if contributors are more successful when the editing tools are easier to recognize.
 * Mobile visual editor availability: This A/B test asks: Are newer contributors more successful if they use the mobile visual editor?  We are collaborating with 20 Wikipedias to answer this question.
 * Usability improvements: This project will make the mobile visual editor easier to use. The goal is to let contributors stay focused on editing and to feel more confident in the editing tools.

Looking ahead

 * Wikimania: Several members of the Editing Team will be attending Wikimania in August 2019.  They will lead a session about mobile editing in the Community Growth space.  Talk to the team about how editing can be improved.
 * Talk Pages: In the coming months, the Editing Team will begin improving talk pages and communication on the wikis.

Learning more
The VisualEditor on mobile is a good place to learn more about the projects we are working on. The team wants to talk with you about anything related to editing. If you have something to say or ask, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.

PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:33, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #375
<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 adminship: 1997kB, welcome on board!
 * Closed request for comments: Adopt a username policy


 * Events
 * Past: lecture on Wikidata and Mix'n'Match at the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School, Oxford University, 24 June
 * Upcoming: Wikimania, 16-18 August in Stockholm. Full program, list of Wikidata-related sessions
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4-Wikidata Affinity Group call discussing communication in Wikidata/Wikimedia communities, 30 July. Agenda


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Technical usability of Wikidata’s linked data - Evaluation of machine interoperability and data interpretability, by Nuno Freire and Antoine Isaac


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Reminder: because of a database switch, Wikidata will be read-only on July 30th, between 05:00AM-05:30 AM UTC (Phabricator task, help translate the banner)
 * Scripts that use the Query Service need to be identified by user-agent header
 * Structured Data on Commons - testing statements other than Depicts is ongoing this week before release into production on Commons.
 * OpenRefine 3.2 was released
 * The config value mw.config.get('wbEntity') has been dropped in order to improve the page load time


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: IAAF competition category, video game mod of, typing discipline, shrinkage, specific absorption rate, quotation or excerpt, surface roughness, related category, start grade, inverse label item, end grade, privacy policy URL, start of covered period, end of covered period
 * External identifiers: Album of the Year artist ID, Atlas of Living Australia ID, Jaxsta profile ID, Indian Super League player ID, misas.org Catholic church ID, Jaxsta release ID, Jaxsta recording ID, FEC Campaign Committee ID, National Library of Morocco ID, Premier Badminton League player ID, NosSénateurs.fr identifier, Supreme Court docket number, PBS Manufacturer ID, Kerala state school code, Taxonomicon ID, Album of the Year album ID, Gotlands museum, Musixmatch writer ID, Qobuz artist ID, wiki on WikiApiary, extension on WikiApiary, skin on WikiApiary, Zaragoza public art ID, Paris Foreign Missions Society ID, TikTok username, AFCD PFKID, Australian Marine Algal Name Index ID, Common Sense Media ID, FFR fencer ID, ABBBS Taxon ID, WaterNSW Rivers and Streams Site No., Lens ID, Grand Canyon Trust ID, LezWatch.TV actor ID, LezWatch.TV character ID, LezWatch.TV show ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: estimated IQ, Manner of torture, date of the first one & date of the last one, Glacier Status, School code of the Ministry of Education, Taiwan, bequest, Sells, Opinion joined by, ComingSoon.it film ID, Acknowledgments, copyright exemption, Subscribers, external georeferencer URL, 出演作品, Bar
 * External identifiers: Media Art Database console games ID, Acharts artist ID, Acharts chart ID, Museu do Diamante ID, CUP2002.RU person ID, Euro04.Ru person ID, Germany06.Ru person ID, 08euro.Ru person ID, WorldCup10.Ru person ID, Gazeta.Ru Euro 2012 person ID, AMPAS collections person ID, AMPAS collections film ID, Hiking Project ID, Douyin, Vidwan ID, AllTrails ID, Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America ID, PEPC ID, Bureau des longitudes ID, Goibibo Hotel ID, Cleartrip Hotel ID, identifier of french public Forest, Rijksmonument complex ID, Mojarto artist ID, located on street with OSM relation ID, muenchenwiki.de article ID


 * Query examples:
 * Settlements along the Way of Saint James in Basque Country (source)
 * Map of places of residence of accused witches in Scotland (source)
 * List of regional languages of France (source)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
 * Development
 * Re-evaluate supporting dcatap namespace (feel free to give feedback)
 * Data bridge: open modal with edit link information (T226996)
 * Show the current Wikidata value in the modal (T226997)
 * Add editing widget/input to client edit modal (T226998)
 * supporting baserevid request param in lexeme api endpoints (T217245)
 * Fix new store code in order to continue the terms migration (T226008)
 * Fix an issue with broken WikibaseQualityConstraints tests (T228855)
 * Fix issue that used to cause many fatals on production (T227450)
 * Drop wbEntity config in entity pages (T85499)
 * Fix an Internal error in Recent Changes for Lexeme (T228996)
 * Create better summaries for our wbeditentity endpoint (T220696)
 * Respect user's preference for thumbnail sizes on Wikidata (T224189)
 * Allow linking to Schemas in statements (T214884)
 * Fix a bug with Wikidata Tours (T223999)
 * Update accounting for WDQS lag in wikidata maxlag param (T221774)
 * More work on allowing accesing one wikibase instance from another (T214557)
 * Deploy the mobile termbox on test.wikidata.org and fix various bugs
 * Show progress/activity on termbox mobile if a save request is still being processed (T222890)

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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
 * 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: 2019-31
<section begin="technews-2019-W31"/> 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
 * Wikidata will be in read-only mode on 30 July from 05:00 to 05:30 UTC because of a server switch.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 July. It will be on all wikis from 1 August (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 31 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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This Month in Education: July 2019
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The Signpost: 31 July 2019
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Administrators' newsletter – August 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2019).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Johnuniq • Kosack • Valereee
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Ad Orientem • Ched • Gadfium • Jonathunder • Nick • Yelyos
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Bald Zebra • Beetstra • Doug Bell • Journalist • Ruud Koot • Splash • Voice of Clam

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Dinoguy1000

CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg RickinBaltimore

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Beeblebrox
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg RickinBaltimore

Guideline and policy news
 * Following a request for comment, the page Office actions has been changed from a policy page to an information page.
 * A request for comment (permalink) is in progress regarding the administrator inactivity policy.

Arbitration
 * Editors may now use the template Ds/aware to indicate that they are aware that discretionary sanctions are in force for a topic area, so it is unnecessary to alert them.

Miscellaneous
 * Following a research project on masking IP addresses, the Foundation is starting a new project to improve the privacy of IP editors. The result of this project may significantly change administrative and counter-vandalism workflows. The project is in the very early stages of discussions and there is no concrete plan yet. Admins and the broader community are encouraged to leave feedback on the talk page.
 * The new page reviewer right is bundled with the admin tool set. Many admins regularly help out at Special:NewPagesFeed, but they may not be aware of improvements, changes, and new tools for the Curation system. Stay up to date by subscribing  here to the NPP newsletter that appears every two months, and/or putting the reviewers' talk page on your watchlist. Since the introduction of temporary user rights, it is becoming more usual to accord the New Page Reviewer right on a probationary period of 3 to 6 months in the first instance. This avoids rights removal for inactivity at a later stage and enables a review of their work before according the right on a permanent basis.

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Tech News: 2019-32
<section begin="technews-2019-W32"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 August. It will be on all wikis from 8 August (calendar).

Problems
 * A change in RelatedArticles extension accidentally enabled it for everyone, not just for mobile users. This has been fixed.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Today everyone can see IP addresses if someone edits without an account. In the future this could be more hidden. This is to protect unregistered editors so fewer can see their IP address. This would only happen after we make sure the tools for vandal fighting can still be effective. You can read more and comment.

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Wikidata weekly summary #376
<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: OSM TW x Wikidata Taipei Meetup, August 12nd - Facebook event
 * Upcoming: Wikimania, 16-18 August in Stockholm. Full program, list of Wikidata-related sessions


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Wikidata: From "an" Identifier to "the" Identifier, Theo van Veen, Information Technology and Libraries, 38(2), 72-81.
 * ''Opening up Research Data in Film Studies by Using the Structured Knowledge Base Wikidata', Adelheid Heftberger et al, in "Digital Cultural Heritage", pp 401-410.
 * Bridging the gap between linked open data-based recommender systems and distributed representations, Pierpaolo Basile, et al, Information Systems, Volume 86, December 2019, pp 1-8.
 * OpenRefine Beginners Tutorial, video tutorial by Emmacarroll3 demonstrating how to import a dataset with OpenRefine.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * soweego version 1.0 is out: a machine learning system that links Wikidata to large-scale third-party catalogs
 * New data type for EntitySchemas will be available on August 7th


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: location of the point of view, opinion joined by, date of the first one, date of the latest one, Mac OS type code, acknowledged
 * External identifiers: Acharts.co artist ID, Textile Connect publication ID, 08euro.Ru person ID, CUP2002.RU person ID, Euro04.Ru person ID, Gazeta.Ru Euro 2012 person ID, WorldCup10.Ru person ID, Hiking Project trail ID, Media Art Database console games ID, AMPAS collections film ID, AMPAS collections person ID, Douyin ID, School code of the Ministry of Education, Taiwan, AllTrails trail ID, Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America ID, PEPC park ID, Vidwan ID, Bureau des longitudes ID, ComingSoon.it film ID, Cleartrip Hotel ID, Mojarto artist ID, Rijksmonument complex ID, Goibibo Hotel ID, Acharts.co chart ID, ONF forest national ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: axis, Principal, Epigraph, contact area count, Cases consolidated, detail of painting, exonerated of, possibly reproduction of, Werke ohne Opuszahl, obituary of, significant place
 * External identifiers: Poincaré Papers person ID, Acharts album ID, Rollerstory.net skater ID, CHESNO politician ID, Nauka Ukrainy scientist ID, OhRanger.com ID, Wynk artist ID, Plus Music artist ID, WP Muzyka artist ID, Interia Muzyka artist ID, Empik author ID, merlin.pl author ID, The Top Tens ID, Raptekster.dk ID


 * Query examples:
 * French female authors whose work is in the public domain (source)
 * Timeline of hypertext systems (source)
 * Megaliths in the Basque Country, color-coded by type (source)
 * Heavy metal bands from Finland with or without picture and date of the picture (source)
 * Types of GLAMs in Wikidata (source)


 * Development
 * Fix logging for errors on wbcontentlanguages requests (T228888)
 * Add request information to request timeout errors (T228885)
 * Show an error message when saving fails on mobile termbox (T222884)
 * Add editing widget/input to client edit modal (T226998)
 * Show the current Wikidata value in the Bridge modal (T226997)
 * EntitySchema datatype (T214884)
 * Reduce the number of ResourceLoader modules that WikibaseClient register: (T203696)
 * Reduce text returned by EntityContent::getTextForFilters (T226216)
 * Fixed a bug with PHP Warning (T229482)
 * Fixing a bug about value pickers being broken (T229604)
 * Fixed BadMethodCallException wbgetentities when getting Lexeme subentities (T223995)
 * Investigate on Graphoid issues (T229236)
 * Fix issues on Wikidata Tours (T214884)
 * Make logging warning or info of not finding entity for revision configurable (T229574)
 * Fix Grafana Datamodel References dashboard (T214894)
 * Move "Wikidata item" link outside of "toolbox" sidebar to "other projects" sidebar (T66315)

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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This Month in GLAM: July 2019
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Wikidata weekly summary #377
<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;">
 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Conclusion of 7th Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana Wikidata Editathon (grant report)
 * "Creating Library Linked Data with Wikibase: Lessons Learned from Project Passage" OCLC Research. DOI: 10.25333/faq3-ax08


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The open source geocoder Nominatim used by the OpenStreetMap project is participating in the Google Summer of Code with an internship working on integrating Wikidata as a ranking metric for its search results. Check the development blog.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: musical bar, epigraph (literature), copyright exemption, significant place
 * External identifiers: München Wiki article ID, Poincaré Papers person ID, Acharts.co album ID, NOTAM (FAA), CHESNO politician ID, Rollerstory.net skater ID, Nauka Ukrainy scientist ID, OhRanger.com ID, Wynk artist ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: legend for number, does not have effect, word stem type, Voting system, Class, Peer-review-process properties for journals, Wikisource-Kategorie, line(s), Election called by, image or photo-making technique
 * External identifiers: FGrHist ID, Acharts.co song ID, shmup.com ID, TA2 ID, Hacker News User ID, Swedish lighthouses, EPW author ID, Gaana.com album ID, Cinestaan film ID, Cinestaan person ID, Service d'Information sur les Etudes et les Professions job ID, IBP 4-letter bird species alpha code, PLIA ID, Planespotters.net ID, Awards & Winners artist ID, TuneIn artist ID, AccuRadio artist ID, Jango artist ID, LiveXLive artist ID, mora artist ID, CD Universe artist ID, Ex Libris author ID, Fishpond.co.nz author ID, YesAsia author ID, Supraphonline artist ID, Image-Line artist ID, RMF FM artist ID, eska.pl topic ID, Register nehnuteľných NKP, deejay.de artist ID, Bandsintown artist ID, musica.com artist ID, GreatSong artist ID, AZLyrics.com artist ID, RauteMusik artist ID, Getty Images topic ID, Tunefind artist ID, SoundHound artist ID, SongMeanings artist ID, Census of India ID, OpenWeatherMap city ID


 * Query examples:
 * Bands whose name is part of Tolkien's legendarium (source)
 * Map of offshore windfarms (source)
 * Cities having more Wikipedia sitelinks than their country (source)


 * Development
 * Fix a caching problem on termbox (T228978)
 * Investigate options for termbox load testing (T229790)
 * Use thumbnail preferences for thumbnail of Commons media file (T224189)
 * Add tags parameter to Wikibase APIs that edit entities (T229917)
 * Move "Data item" link outside of sidebar toolbox (T66315)
 * Create Maintenance Script to Remove Terms in a Language from Current Revision (T222606)
 * Fix Grafana Datamodel References dashboard (T214894)
 * Add editing widget/input on Bridge (T226998)

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


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

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Tech News: 2019-33
<section begin="technews-2019-W33"/> 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
 * Editors using the mobile website on Wikipedia can opt-in to new advanced features via your settings page. This will give access to more interface links, special pages, and tools. Feedback on the discussion page is appreciated.
 * Due to the absence of volunteer maintenance of Cologne Blue skin, the link to activate it will be hidden. The skin will still work, but editors using it are encouraged to switch to another skin.

Changes later this week
 * Due to Wikimania, there is no deployment this week.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The "Wikidata item" link will be moved from "Tools" to "In other projects" section on all Wikimedia projects, starting on August 21. Full announcement, Phabricator task.

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Proposed deletion of Salah Eddin Zaimeche Al-Djazair
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Missing citations
Hi MarkZusab, I think I fixed the missing citations (due to the removal of Prabook.com) on the Joanne Jackson Johnson article. :-) LorriBrown (talk) 03:07, 16 August 2019 (UTC)

Invitation to project revival
Dear user, I, with Willbb234, are a attempting to revive the Wikiproject Requested Articles, of which you are a member. If you wish to be a part of our effort, feel free to add your signature in it's talk page. Best regards, Eni vak   (speak)  16:28, 17 August 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #378
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Improved instructions for translation admin


 * Events
 * Current: Wikimania in Stockholm and hackathon, August 14 to 18. Check out the list of all Wikidata-related events. Each session page should include notes, slides and streaming if available.


 * Tool of the week
 * In this new section, you can share your favourite tool with the other Wikidata users. You can add some suggestions here.
 * NameGuzzler allows you to automatically add an identical label or alias into many languages (for example, the name of a person or a place). You can define your own custom list of languages that you want to add.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * There is now a Wikiquote page for Wikidata
 * ISA is a new tool to easily add structured data to Commons files, including from mobile
 * You can help improve the vandalism detection by completing a set of labels for ORES
 * QuickStatements won the Coolest Tool Award, category "editor", during the first ceremony at Wikimania 2019
 * New Wikidata-related projects developed during the Wikimania hackathon:
 * Documentation translation sprint: several people translated Wikidata help pages in their own language. Feel free to continue the efforts to make Wikidata more accessible!
 * Item creation helpers helps create similar items, and link them together, with a simple form. Example with skating competitions


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: manner of inhumane treatment, cases consolidated, typically sells, noun class, does not have effect, substitute director/manager, school class
 * External identifiers: Empik author ID, WP Muzyka artist ID, Interia Muzyka artist ID, The Top Tens ID, merlin.pl author ID, Plus Music artist ID, Kinsky–Halm Catalogue, Raptekster.dk ID, Acharts.co song ID, FGrHist ID, register of real estate NKP, Hacker News User ID, shmup.com ID, TA2 ID, Gaana.com album ID, XING profile ID, Cinestaan film ID, Cinestaan person ID, job ID in Service d'Information sur les Etudes et les Professions, Planespotters.net aircraft ID, PLIA ID, IBP 4-letter bird species alpha code, EPW author ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: graph radius, Belgian Species List ID, amino acid (start, end) position, ordeal by, protected region scheme, image revision-id, region within image, access restriction status, georeferencing data, number of processor threads, part number, CPUID, based on tabular data, Siddham script name, Number of active electronic terminals
 * External identifiers: OpenWeatherMap city ID, Scribd Publication ID, moly.hu azonosító, Hungarian Movie Database film ID, Lyrics007 artist ID, jog.fm artist ID, Hype Machine artist ID, Liber Liber author ID, Dizionario biografico dei Friulani ID, Just Hear It artist ID, Lyrics Translations artist ID, LINE BLOG user ID, Digitalt Museum ID, MTV UK artist ID, MTV Germany artist ID, MTV Polska artist ID, Vox FM artist ID, Allcinema person ID, Eiga.com person ID, Eiga.com movie ID, GoodRx, BEACON ID


 * Query examples:
 * Books in Bengali Wikisource that are validated (source)
 * Flightless birds of New Zealand (source)
 * Islands in Germany (source)
 * Clandestine center of detention and torture in Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina (source)
 * Same-sex married couples where neither partner has a sexual orientation (source)
 * Schema examples:
 * Danish numerals
 * Danish hyphenation


 * Development
 * Fix an issue with the pop up of Wikidata Tours (T223999)
 * Call WikibaseLexeme API with baserevid parameter from the UI (T217245)
 * Fix a bug with CheckConstraintsJob (T227450)
 * Fix a bug with wbgetentities when getting Lexeme subentities (T223995)
 * Add editing widget/input to client edit modal: (T226998)
 * Add tags parameter to Wikibase APIs that edit entities: (T229917)
 * More work on the the production Termbox service
 * tidying up our browser test suite (T229910)
 * adding browser tests for basic editing (T230187)

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


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

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Tech News: 2019-34
<section begin="technews-2019-W34"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News
 * There will be no Tech News issue next week. The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 2 September 2019.

Problems
 * Octicons-tools.svg Some abuse filters stopped working because of a code change. Only variables for the current action will work. Variables defined inside a branch may not work outside of that branch. You can read more to see how to fix the filters.
 * Only six accounts can be created from one IP address per day. Between 12 August and August 15 this was two accounts per day. This was because of a security issue. It is now six accounts per day again.

Changes later this week
 * Only a limited number of accounts can be created from one IP address. An IP address can be whitelisted so that it can create as many accounts as needed. This is useful at events where many new persons learn to edit. IP addresses that are whitelisted for this reason will also not show CAPTCHAs when you create accounts. This will happen on Wednesday.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 August. It will be on all wikis from 22 August (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * There is an RFC about creating a new global user group with the right to edit abuse filters. This will be used to fix broken filters and make sure all filters will still work when software changes happen. You can read more and comment.
 * will no longer be working. This is because of performance reasons. It showed edits by new accounts. You can see this in the recent changes feed instead.

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Wikidata weekly summary #379
<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: Wikimania recap, 27 August. Agenda


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * What we talk about when we talk about Wikidata quality: a literature survey, by Alessandro Piscopo and Elena Simperl
 * Introduction to OpenRefine in video by Emma (University of Edimburgh) (12min)
 * Old but gold: introduction to Wikidata by Asaf Bartov (7min)


 * Tool of the week
 * In this new section, you can share your favourite tool with the other Wikidata users. You can add some suggestions here.
 * Integraality generates tables to assess the completeness of properties on sets of items, such as properties on railway stations for instance. Tables are automatically updated and highly configurable.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Edit 1,000,000,000 - the one-billionth, or 10⁹ - was the creation of by User:Stevenliuyi
 * New termbox interface on mobile is enabled - you can view and edit easily the labels, descriptions and aliases on mobile devices (full announcement)
 * Random finds from WikiProject Random
 * Starting from July 2019, Wikimedia Sverige and the Wikimedia Foundation's GLAM team work together to create a more sustainable technical infrastructure for global heritage and content partnerships. Read more about this initiative on meta.wikimedia.org.
 * Wiki Loves Monuments and other Wikimedia Commons campaign organizers can now specify structured data fields in the campaign UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons.
 * The new termbox interface is now enabled on mobile, you can edit labels, descriptions and aliases from a mobile device


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: ordeal by, newspaper archive url, periphrastic definition, lexeme for periphrastic definition, link for periphrastic definition
 * External identifiers: Awards & Winners artist ID, eska.pl topic ID, Image-Line artist ID, Jango artist ID, LiveXLive artist ID, mora artist ID, RMF FM artist ID, Supraphonline artist ID, TuneIn artist ID, YesAsia author ID, AZLyrics.com artist ID, Bandsintown artist ID, musica.com artist ID, OpenWeatherMap city ID, RauteMusik artist ID, Scribd publication ID, SongMeanings artist ID, SoundHound artist ID, Belgian Species List ID, Dizionario biografico dei Friulani ID, Mafab.hu film ID, jog.fm artist ID, Lyrics007 artist ID, moly.hu book ID, Liber Liber author ID, GreatSong artist ID, LINE BLOG user ID, Lyrics Translations artist ID, Allcinema person ID, Eiga.com person ID, MTV Polska artist ID, MTV UK artist ID, Vox FM artist ID, Eiga.com movie ID, Transfermarkt team ID, Insects (Insecta) of the World ID, BEACON ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: associated with, present on map, translated title, Wikia Article URL 2, position in sequence, color produced, Itch.io ID, mobile formatter, subscribers, Attribution text, difficulty
 * External identifiers: RPGGeek, Faculté des sciences de Nancy ID, DIBAVOD ID, Fundación Goya en Aragón ID, Estudanky ID, LongSwimsDB ID, L-number, Dove.org work ID, WTA ID, iTunes (gb) artist ID, Arnet Miner publication ID, Chinese Engineering Expert Tank ID, Open Science Framework ID, Laws & Regulations Database of the Republic of China ID, NLP ID, SCTrails ID, Transporter Classification Database ID, UN treaty reference, musicbrainz tag, Identification code for universities and colleges, Toons Mag, YouTube Music channel ID, The Independent topic ID, Pandora artist ID


 * Query examples:
 * https://w.wiki/7UY timeline of competitions of the 2019-2020 figure skating season]
 * Future figure skating competitions
 * Currently happening figure skating competitions
 * French ships whose name start with an A (source)
 * Map of birth places of delegates to the Alaska Constitutional Convention (source)
 * Schema examples:
 * human chromosome, built on chromosome, built on sequence assembly
 * Lunar crater


 * Development
 * Deploy mobile termbox, follow-up and bug fixing
 * Deploy then rollback the move of "Wikidata item" link on clients due to cache issues (T66315)
 * Work on adjusting the save button of the Entity Schema editor (T230398)
 * Work on the bridge emitting button (T230326)
 * Introduce a header for the bridge modal (T230328)
 * Produce initial statistics/indicators for the Wikidata Languages Landscape (T223119)

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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The Signpost: 30 August 2019
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Wikidata weekly summary #380
<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;">
 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Working with Structured Data on Commons: A Status Report, by Lucas Werkmeister
 * Citation.js: a format-independent, modular bibliography tool for the browser and command line, article in PeerJ Computer Science (Q27726596) by Lars Willighagen (Q45907528)
 * A systematic literature review on Wikidata (paywalled) - Marçal Mora-Cantallops et al.
 * GeneDB and Wikidata - Magnus Manske, et al.
 * Wikidata from a Research Perspective -- A Systematic Mapping Study of Wikidata - Mariam Farda-Sarbas, Claudia Mueller-Birn
 * Enriquecimiento de entidades de Wikidata mediante un modelo de descomposición y mapeado de categorías de Wikipedia ("Enrichment of Wikidata entities through a decomposition model and mapping of Wikipedia categories") - Tomás Saorín et al.; text in Spanish


 * Tool of the week
 * In this new section, you can share your favourite tool with the other Wikidata users. You can add some suggestions here.
 * Cocoda is a web application to manage mappings between authority files. It supports editing Wikidata-mappings including GND, Basisklassifikation, Regensburg Classification, Iconclass, and Nomisma. Cocoda can be used like mix'n'match but for more complex mappings.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The vision and strategy papers for Wikidata and Wikibase have been published - comments welcome on the talk page
 * Follow-up from Wikimania: you can now give input about the language barrier on Wikidata and federating Wikibase instances with Wikidata
 * New tool: a Python library to create bots, scripts and tools for lexicographical data by MichaelSchoenitzer
 * There is now a new API parameter to add tags on edits summaries
 * soweego version 1.1 is on its way, thanks to a WMF Rapid Grant
 * Several job offers related to Wikidata were published in the last few weeks:
 * Scribe, a Wikimedia Foundation funded software and research project, is looking for a full-stack software engineer
 * The Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a software engineer for its Search Platform team, including work on Wikidata Query Service
 * Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a UX designer and a full-stack developer for Wikidata


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: access restriction status, in defining formula
 * External identifiers: RPGGeek ID, DIBAVOD ID, Fundación Goya en Aragón ID, AccuRadio artist ID, eSTUDÁNKY ID, LongSwimsDB ID, WTA trail ID, Scribd Item ID, Dove.org work ID, Chinese Engineering Expert Tank ID, Open Science Framework ID, SCTrails trail ID, Laws & Regulations Database of the Republic of China ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Mediawiki Wiki, Pilze Deutschland ID, Moose Deutschland ID, scope and content, Number of nodes, Performance, use restriction status, Significant number, FCC Product Code, Hardware Version Identification Number, amount cataloged, number of decimal digits, Gregorian calendar, food energy, pronunciation
 * External identifiers: YouTube Music channel ID 2, Pandora artist ID 2, The Independent topic ID 2, NÖ Proposal ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos brazilian comic ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos international comic ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos brazilian publishing house ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos international publishing house ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos artist ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos character ID, ScienceOpen author ID, ScienceOpen publication ID, Newspapers.com ID, ESPN.com College Football Player ID, WGA writer ID, WGA project ID, FCC Grantee Code, Spectrum Management System Company Number, Radio Equipment List Certification Number, National Equipment Registration System Supplier Number, Prime Pages ID, New Encyclopedic Dictionary of Czech, Peakbagger climber ID, Naver Music artist ID, Naver Music album ID, Hiking Project area ID, Hiking Project site ID, Slovo i Dilo person ID, playmarkerstats.com team ID, WorldFootball.net team ID, FNL player ID, Peakbagger key col ID, MUBI film ID, MUBI person ID


 * Query examples:
 * Public art in London by female artists
 * People used as examples in Wikidata properties (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fcountry1Label%20%3Fcountry2Label%20%3Fcapital1Label%20%3Fcapital2Label%20%3Fdistance%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fcountry1%20%3Fcountry2%20%3Fcapital1%20%3Fcapital2%20%3Fdistance%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcountry1%20p%3AP463%20%3Fstatement1%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP36%20%3Fcapital1%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fstatement1%20ps%3AP463%20wd%3AQ1065%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Fstatement1%20pq%3AP582%20%3Fx%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Fcountry1%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ3024240%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcountry2%20p%3AP463%20%3Fstatement2%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP36%20%3Fcapital2%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fstatement2%20ps%3AP463%20wd%3AQ1065%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Fstatement2%20pq%3AP582%20%3Fx%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Fcountry2%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ3024240%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcapital1%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoords1%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcapital2%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoords2%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28xsd%3Astring%28%3Fcountry1%29%20%3C%20xsd%3Astring%28%3Fcountry2%29%29%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcountry1%20p%3AP47%20%3FstatementBorder%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FstatementBorder%20ps%3AP47%20%3Fcountry2%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3FstatementBorder%20pq%3AP5102%20%3Fx%20%7D%20%7D%20UNION%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3FstatementBorder%20pq%3AP5102%20wd%3AQ15104814%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28ROUND%28geof%3Adistance%28%3Fcoords1%2C%20%3Fcoords2%29%29%20AS%20%3Fdistance%29%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28%3Fdistance%3C200%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3Fdistance Closest capitals of non bordering countries (<200 km)] (source)
 * Hillforts mapped with their heritage designation/protection status
 * YouTubers without a YouTube channel
 * Racing automobile drivers who died in a car crash (source)
 * Schema examples:
 * Public library branch in The Netherlands
 * Newest database reports: papers about Wikipedia


 * Development
 * Adjust label of save button of the Entity Schema and add accesskey for easier editing editor (T230398)
 * Get Grafana Datamodel References dashboard back up and running (T214894)
 * Fix an issue in EntitySchema tests that caused some CI failures (T231065)
 * Localize Wikibase API help links (T231269)
 * Support tags parameter on Wikibase APIs that edit entities (T229917)
 * Add in Wikidata support for sitelinks to https://nap.wikisource.org (T212886)
 * Reading property terms from new store in production now (T225053)
 * Adding WDQS lag to maxlag info, to avoid stress on WDQS machines (T221774)
 * Implementing the fallback version of the new better edit summary messages on items through API (T224010)
 * Fixing the issue of an invisible quality constrain violation indicator (T227866)
 * Switching item terms to migration stage of writing to both wb_terms and the new store (T225055)
 * Preparing to run migration of item terms (T219123)
 * Allowing to access Wikibase entities from multiple (Wikibase) databases (T214557)
 * Hiding non-supported languages in old termbox (T227083)
 * Work on a new solution to move "Data item" link outside of sidebar toolbox avoiding the cache issues (T66315)
 * Bridge: saving the Wikidata edit when submitting (T226999)
 * Showing the current Wikidata value in the edit modal (T226997)

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


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

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Tech News: 2019-36
<section begin="technews-2019-W36"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * You can use the new termbox interface if you edit Wikidata on a mobile device. This is to edit labels, descriptions and aliases easier on the mobile pages.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki has been deployed during the last week.
 * The previously announced change of positions of the "Wikidata item" link on all wikis has been rollbacked due to unexpected cache issues.
 * The limit for rollbacks has been increased from 10 to 100 rollbacks per minute.
 * The advanced version of the edit review pages (Recent Changes, Watchlist, and Related Changes) now include two new filters. These filters are for "All contents" and "All discussions". They will filter the view to just those namespaces. However the "All discussions" filter does not include pseudo talk pages, like discussions that are in the Project: or Wikipedia: namespaces. But it will include changes happening on Project talk: or the Wikipedia talk:.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * When you log in, the software checks your password to see if it follows the Password policy. From this week, it will also complain if your password is one of the most common passwords in the world. If your password is not strong enough, please consider to change your password for a stronger password.

Meetings
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Future changes
 * You will be able to read but not to edit Wikidata for up to 30 minutes on September 10 at 05:00 (UTC).
 * You will be able to read but not to edit some mid-sized wikis for up to 30 minutes September 17 at 05:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis.
 * You will be able to read but not to edit some mid-sized wikis for up to 30 minutes September 24 at 05:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis.
 * You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for up to 30 minutes on September 26 at 05:00 (UTC).

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This Month in Education: August 2019
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Administrators' newsletter – September 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2019). Administrator changes
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Technical news
 * Editors using the mobile website on Wikipedia can opt-in to new advanced features via your settings page. This will give access to more interface links, special pages, and tools.
 * The advanced version of the edit review pages (recent changes, watchlist, and related changes) now includes two new filters. These filters are for "All contents" and "All discussions". They will filter the view to just those namespaces.

Arbitration
 * A request for comment is open to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the 2019 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee election and to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.

Miscellaneous
 * A global request for comment is in progress regarding whether a user group should be created that could modify edit filters across all public Wikimedia wikis.

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Wikidata weekly summary #381
<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: References in Wikidata, 10 September. Agenda


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Merging Open Data Sources to Plan Learning Activities for Online Students - Antonio Sarasa Cabezuelo, et al., in: 2019 23rd International Conference Information Visualisation (IV)
 * Open-Access Society Publishers in Wikidata by A. Britton


 * Tool of the week
 * moveClaim allows you to move or copy claims from one item to another. This is especially useful when splitting items, or creating lots of similar items.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Seventh birthday of Wikidata: you can start thinking about organizing a meetup in your area to celebrate the birthday, or about a present for the community!
 * The first draft of the program of the WikidataCon is now available. The content of the three main session rooms will be live-streamed and recorded for people who cannot participate in the conference.
 * Because of a database switch, Wikidata will be in read-only more on September 10th at 05:00 UTC, for max. 30min (T230762)
 * Recent tool: @Wikidatabot, a Telegram bot that allows you to search for something on Wikidata from Telegram
 * New game: Wikidata Mall, a Telegram management simulation game where content is generated from Wikidata


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: mobile formatter URL, degree of difficulty, color produced, computer performance, use restriction status, FCC Product Code, Itch.io ID, Gregorian calendar start date
 * External identifiers: Identification code for Japanese universities and colleges, Pilze Deutschland ID, Moose Deutschland ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos artist ID, Toons Mag ID, Newspapers.com ID, Transporter Classification Database ID, ESPN.com College Football Player ID, Prime Pages ID, FCC Grantee Code, FNL player ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos brazilian comic ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos brazilian publishing house ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos character ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos comic ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos international publishing house ID, Hiking Project area ID, Hiking Project site ID, National Equipment Registration System Supplier Number, Naver Music album ID, Naver Music artist ID, New Encyclopedic Dictionary of Czech, Pandora artist ID, Peakbagger climber ID, Peakbagger key col ID, playmarkerstats.com team ID, Radio Equipment List Certification Number, Slovo i Dilo person ID, Spectrum Management System Company Number, The Independent topic ID, WGA project ID, WGA writer ID, WorldFootball.net team ID, Bursa Malaysia stock code, CPUID, L-number, Arnet Miner publication ID, NLP ID (record)


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: IP Code, dénivelé cumulé positif, Supports qualifier, climbing route, madhhab, TDV İslam Ansiklopedisi ID
 * External identifiers: Auckland Museum ID, Al-Jazeera Topic ID, Highland Historic Environment Record ID, Grammy Awards artist ID, SNK ID, Online PWN Encyclopedia, VAT identification number, TOP500 System ID, ACUF unique ID (UFI), Marine Regions Geographic IDentifier, Downdetector ID, National Wildlife Refuge Trails ID, Behind the voice Actors short ID, Rate Your Music label ID, Labelcode, Maine Trail Finder ID, Aozora Bunko author ID, Aozora Bunko work ID, iHeartRadio podcast ID, iHeartRadio artist ID, WeChat ID


 * Query examples:
 * UK Cabinet Ministers and their links in the UK National Archives | (Histropedia timeline)
 * Most common properties on Senses (source)
 * Place of birth of actors in The Matrix (source)
 * Graph of all species in the Heron (Ardeidae) family with an IBP alpha code (source)


 * Development
 * Wikidata got a high-resolution logo, thanks to Odder (T230120)
 * New monolingual code languages are added, thanks to Jon Harald Søby: TLI (Tlingit), clc (Tsilhqotʹin), alc (Kawésqar), kld (Gamilaraay), peo (Old Persian)
 * Fixed a bug in constraint violations indicator that was not showing up sometimes (T227866)
 * Make Lua's function mw.wikibase.entityExists return true for redirects (T192462)
 * Reviewed and followed up on highlighting statements when using "#P" in URL (T178745)
 * Wikidata Bridge: saving the Wikidata edit when submitting (T226999)
 * Showing the label for the Property instead of the id (T227759)
 * Overcoming a conceptional oversight between mediawiki and standard language codes (T231833)

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


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

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This Month in GLAM: August 2019
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New Page Review newsletter September-October 2019
Hello ,

Instead of reaching a magic 300 as it once did last year, the backlog approaching 6,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.
 * Backlog

A proposal is taking place here to confirm a nominated user as Coordinator of NPR.
 * Coordinator

Why I Hate Speedy Deleters, a 2008 essay by long since retired, is still as valid today. Those of us who patrol large numbers of new pages can be forgiven for  making  the occasional  mistake while  others can learn from  their 'beginner' errors. Worth reading.
 * This month's refresher course

Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon (you will need to have 'Nominated for deletion' enabled for this in your filters) may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders using Twinkle. They require your further verification.
 * Deletion tags

Please be sure to look for the tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. WMF policy requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.
 * Paid editing


 * Subject-specific notability guidelines' (SNG). Alternatives to deletion
 * Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves once more with notability guidelines for organisations and companies.
 * Blank-and-Redirect is a solution anchored in policy. Please consider this alternative before PRODing or CSD. Note however, that users will often revert or usurp redirects to re-create deleted articles. Do regularly patrol the redirects in the feed.

Regular reviewers will appreciate the most recent  enhancements to  the New Pages Feed and  features in the Curation  tool, and there are still more to  come. Due to the wealth  of information  now displayed by  ORES, reviewers are strongly  encouraged to  use the system now rather than Twinkle; it  will  also  correctly  populate the logs.
 * Not English
 * A common issue: Pages not in English or poor, unattributed machine translations should not reside in main space even if they are stubs. Please ensure you are familiar with WP:NPPNE. Check in Google for the language and content, and if they do have potential, tag as required, then move to draft. Modify the text of the template as appropriate before sending it.
 * Tools

Stub sorting, by SD0001: A new script is available for adding/removing stub tags. See User:SD0001/StubSorter.js, It features a simple HotCat-style dynamic search field. Many of the reviewers who are using it are finding it an improvement upon other available tools.

Assessment: The script at User:Evad37/rater makes the addition of Wikiproject templates extremely easy. New page creators rarely do this. Reviewers are not obliged to make these edits but they only take a few seconds. They can use the Curation message system to let the creator know what they have done.

is now patrolling certain categories of uncontroversial redirects. Curious? Check out its patrol log.

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TheWikiWizard - September 2019
Hello, MarkZusab! Here is the September 2019 issue of TheWikiWizard. We Hope you like this month's issue! If you'd like to discuss this issue, please go to this issue's talk page. Happy Reading! Thegooduser  Life Begins With a Smile :)  🍁 21:44, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
 * A big thank you! (TWW is now 1 years old!)
 * What's Hot! (Can you solve the riddles?)
 * Articles (Assume Good Faith, The Teahouse)
 * The Wikipedian
 * News about Wikipedia! (Wikipedia News and Events!)
 * Editor's Notes (New Sections to Main Page!)
 * Activity Page (Fun Activities, and answers to last time's questions...)
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Wikidata weekly summary #382
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Events
 * Past: Wikidata et Wiktionnaire session at the French-speaking WikiConvention by Pamputt (slides)
 * Upcoming: WikidataWednesday in Vienna, September 18th
 * Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris, September 20th
 * Upcoming: #4 Wikidata tea party/第4回 ウィキデータ茶話会, 20 Sep 2019 in Tokyo, Japan
 * Upcoming: Wikibase Workshop/ウィキベースワークショップ, 28 Sep 2019 in Tokyo, Japan


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Wikidata gets wordier, by Christian Lieske and Felix Sasaki on Multilingual
 * Non-Parametric Class Completeness Estimators for Collaborative Knowledge Graphs -- The Case of Wikidata - Michael Luggen et al.


 * Tool of the week
 * Hauki lets you browse existing Lexemes, add Senses to them, and easily create new Lexemes for common languages and lexical categories.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * мир (L99999) (peace), мир (100000) (world/earth) and L166666 were created


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: cumulative elevation gain, climbing route
 * External identifiers: Lower Austrian Museum ID, Auckland Museum ID, MUBI film ID, MUBI person ID, Al-Jazeera topic ID, Digital Giza ID, Grammy Awards artist ID, Highland Historic Environment Record ID, Online PWN Encyclopedia, Downdetector ID, TOP500 System ID, National Wildlife Refuge Trails ID, Maine Trail Finder ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Masters Thesis, OFLC classification (New Zealand), worn by, station type, interchange, status, first, last and so on, front and backside
 * External identifiers: Archnet Site ID, Trail Finder ID, ExplorePaTrails ID, code DANE, ICD-11, SMHI drainage basin ID, Letteraturaitaliana.net author ID, NMM artist ID, Pathway Ontology ID, Mixer game ID, Vudu video ID


 * Query examples:
 * Number of times a Wikidata item for Carl von Linnaeus was created
 * Picture of species were the author(s) of the first scientific description is in WD and connected to Uppsala University Alvin database
 * same query but where we miss a picture in Wikidata
 * Twins with different places of birth (source)
 * Places in Scottish local government areas (source)
 * Libraries in Austria (source)
 * Schema examples:
 * space probe
 * Tsunami
 * Newest WikiProjects: Textile arts, Dark


 * Development
 * Started working on two new projects: improving the resource loader module and tainted references
 * Wikidata Bridge: save the Wikidata edit when submitting (T226999)
 * Show the label for the Property instead of the id (T227759)
 * Warn user about blank edit summary on EntitySchema (T230399)

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
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

Wikidata weekly summary #383
<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: Wikidata Zurich Training in Zurich on the weekend of November 2-3. There will be presentations and hands-on sessions on editing, querying and coding for Wikidata.
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Zurich Hackathon in Zurich on the weekend of November 23-24.
 * Upcoming: Wikidata as a hub for the Linked Data cloud - tutorial (full day) at Dublin Core Metadata Initiative 2019 conference, Seoul, on September 25.
 * Past: OpenStreetMap and Wikidata - Awesome Together during State of the Map 2019 (slides of part one)


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Wikidata ist für alle (Bibliotheken) offen. Presentation at 34. Austrian Librarian conference 2019 (Q67368932), September 11th. (in German)
 * Opening up the linked data world of Wikidata to new editors, by Will Kent (WikiEdu)


 * Tool of the week
 * Namescript fills in labels, descriptions and aliases of items about names, making it easier to create such items (you only need to provide a few statements).


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Structured Data on Commons: Please help to build a basic data model for describing Wikimedia Commons file with structured data! Your help is welcome to solve different modeling challenges, including how to model dates, sources and authors. You can also look at current Wikimedia Commons infobox templates and discuss how the information in wikitext can be translated to structured data.
 * Structured Data on Commons: the team is going to develop computer-aided tagging for depicts statements on Commons. You can read the project page and participate on the talk page.
 * Your comments on the vision and strategy papers are still welcome on the associated talk page.
 * WikidataCon Award 2019: you can nominate your favorite Wikidata or Wikibase project or tool! 🏆 Participation open until October 7th
 * Wikidata passed 8B triples on the 19th September (grafana)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: IP Code, number of decimal digits, OFLC classification, amount cataloged, Hardware Version Identification Number
 * External identifiers: Aozora Bunko author ID, Aozora Bunko work ID, Rate Your Music label ID, TDV İslam Ansiklopedisi ID, iHeartRadio artist ID, Behind The Voice Actors short ID, ExplorePaTrails ID, Labelcode, Trail Finder ID, Marine Regions Geographic IDentifier (MRGID), Archnet site ID, iHeartRadio podcast ID, DANE code, MobyGames genre ID, ICD-11 ID, Letteraturaitaliana.net author ID, NMM artist ID, Pathway Ontology ID, Vudu video ID, Mixer game ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Peer review location, fineness, regnal ordinal, Wikinews coverage, educational stage, faculty, Kivid.info ID, Fossiilid.info ID, CITES Appendix, Content descriptor
 * External identifiers: Wi-Fi Certification ID, GCF Reference, Rivals.com ID, sixpackfilmdata, Dirección General de Bibliotecas ID, Elitefootball player ID, The Wind Power ID, IGNrando ID, ISSN-L, Skiddle artist ID, Juno Download album ID, See Tickets artist ID, Ticketmaster artist ID


 * Query examples:
 * Library systems in California
 * Waterfalls without a drainage basin yet
 * Works of art depicting kisses (source)
 * Longest English word without a repeated letter (source)
 * Longest alphabetically sorted words in English (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Q68235346


 * Development
 * Wikidata Bridge: add an edit tag parameter when saving (T227003)
 * Adapt buttons' texts to UI language (T228259)
 * More work on setting up the technical background to work on tainted references
 * More work on reducing the resources needed to load pages
 * Create a dependency graph of existing RessourceLoader modules (T232728)

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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Structured Data - blogs posted in Wikimedia Space
There are two separate blog entries for Structured Data on Commons posted to Wikimedia Space that are of interest:


 * Working with Structured Data on Commons: A Status Report, by Lucas Werkmeister, discusses some ways that editors can work with structured data. Topics include tools that have been written or modified for structured data, in addition to future plans for tools and querying services.
 * Structured Data on Commons - A Blog Series, written by me, is a five-part posting that covers the basics of the software and features that were built to make structured data happen. The series is meant to be friendly to those who may have some knowledge of Commons, but may not know much about the structured data project.

I hope these are informative and useful, comments and questions are welcome. All the blogs offer a comment feature, and you can log in with your Wikimedia account using oAuth. I look forward to seeing some posts over there. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 21:33, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 35, July – August 2019
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Wikidata weekly summary #384
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 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Catherine Laurence


 * Events
 * Past: Using Wikidata to Provide Visibility to Women in STEM during Dublin Core 2019
 * Upcoming: WikiCon, meeting of the German speaking Community from 4th to 6th of October 2019 in Wuppertal (Germany)
 * Upcoming: #5 Wikidata tea party/第5回 ウィキデータ茶話会, 18 Oct 2019 in Tokyo, Japan
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Zurich Training in Zurich on the weekend of November 2-3. There will be presentations and hands-on sessions on editing, querying and coding for Wikidata.
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Zurich Hackathon in Zurich on the weekend of November 23-24.


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Scottish witches in the press and on TV
 * Some witchy history and a very smart woman in data science
 * Spoken Conversational Search for General Knowledge - Lina Maria Rojas-Barahona, et al.
 * GeneDB and Wikidata, by Magnus Manske


 * Tool of the week
 * This Recent changes tool allows to get a list of unpatrolled Wikidata changes with enhanced filters that are more adapted to Wikidata than the standard Recent Changes page. Available actions include mass patroling and easier revert interface.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The state library of Berlin is using Wikidata to display a map of pictures from their architecture journals: Berlin um 1900 - eine fotografische Zeitreise
 * Edit summaries coming from the wbeditentity API (for example from the mobile termbox) will be improved from October 2nd (announcement, ticket)
 * You can nominate your favourite Wikidata and Wikibase projects for the WikidataCon Award until October 7th


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: regnal ordinal, peer review URL
 * External identifiers: GCF Reference, Wi-Fi Certification ID, Rivals.com ID, sixpackfilmdata film ID, sixpackfilmdata person ID, Dirección General de Bibliotecas ID, Elitefootball player ID, The Wind Power farm ID, IGNrando' ID, Fossiilid.info ID, Kivid.info ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: bus, mwnf, Maximum number of playable characters, FIDAL team ID, candidate name string, IP range start, code (image), name in hiero markup, disputed by, name (image), style of karate
 * External identifiers: NTS Radio artist ID, Gazetteer for Scotland ID, Gazetteer for Scotland person ID, FootballFacts.ru team ID, FootballDatabase.eu team ID, GENUKI ID, DC Books author ID, LaPreferente.com player ID, Ukrainian Premier League player ID, UEFA team ID, UEFA coach ID, Naver Encyclopedia ID, FAIMER school ID, China Martyrs ID, JournalBase ID, PCEngine Catalog Project ID, PubPeer article ID, memoriademadrid publication ID, doujinshi.org author ID, Beatport label ID, Knesset Law Id, caves.4at.info ID, ADL Hate Symbols Database ID, Amazon Music album ID 2, Qobuz album ID, Plus Music album ID, eska.pl release ID, iHeartRadio album ID, Three Decks people ID, Diccionari de la Literatura Catalana ID, Empik e-book or album ID, identificador GENavarra, Oricon News artist ID, Turkish Football Federation Match ID, Turkish Football Federation Team ID, Turkish Football Federation Referee ID, Turkish Football Federation Stadium ID, Fortuna liga player ID


 * Deleted properties: P5130 (island of location)
 * Query examples:
 * Civil parishes of Scotland, revealed through their listed buildings (source)
 * Scottish civil parishes by county and present-day council area (source)
 * [https://tora.entryscape.net/snorql/?query=PREFIX+wd%3A+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%0D%0APREFIX+wdt%3A+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0D%0ASELECT+DISTINCT+%3Finstance+%3FTORA_label+%3FTORA_province_name+%3FwdLabel+%3FwdAdminLabel++%3FTORA_parishcode+%3FTORA_wd+%3FTORA_wd+%3FWD+%3FWDsame+%3Fitem+%3FWiki%0D%0AWHERE+%7B+%3Finstance+a+%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fdata.riksarkivet.se%2Ftora%2Fschema%2FModernParish%3E.%0D%0A%3Finstance+skos%3AprefLabel+%3FTORA_label+.%0D%0AOPTIONAL+%7B%3Finstance+tora%3Aprovince_name+%3FTORA_province_name%7D%0D%0A%3Finstance+tora%3Aparishcode+%3FTORA_parishcode+.%0D%0A%3Finstance++rdfs%3AseeAlso+%3FTORA_wduri+.%0D%0ABIND+%28REPLACE%28str%28%3FTORA_wduri%29%2C%22https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fwiki%2F%22%2C%22%22%29+AS+%3FTORA_wd%29.%0D%0ABIND+%28REPLACE%28str%28%3Fitem%29%2C%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%22%2C%22%22%29+AS+%3FWD%29.%0D%0A++BIND%28%0D%0A+++IF%28%3FWD+%3D+%3FTORA_wd%2C+%22Y%22%2C++%22N%22%29%0D%0A++++AS+%3FWDsame%29.%0D%0ASERVICE+%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fsparql%3E+%7B+%0D%0A++++%3Fitem+wdt%3AP31+wd%3AQ1523821%3B+wdt%3AP777+%3FTORA_parishcode+.+%0D%0A%09OPTIONAL+%7B%0D%0A%09%09%3Fitem+rdfs%3Alabel+%3FwdLabel.%0D%0A%09%09FILTER%28LANG%28%3FwdLabel%29+%3D+%22sv%22%29.%0D%0A%09%7D%0D%0A+++++++OPTIONAL+%7B+%0D%0A+++++++++++++++%3Fitem+wdt%3AP131+%3FWDAdmin.%0D%0A+++++++++++++++%3FWDAdmin+wdt%3AP31+wd%3AQ193556.%0D%0A%09%09%3FWDAdmin+rdfs%3Alabel+%3FwdAdminLabel.%0D%0A%09%09FILTER%28LANG%28%3FwdAdminLabel%29+%3D+%22sv%22%29.%0D%0A%09%7D%0D%0A%7D%0D%0AFILTER+%28%28+STRSTARTS%28str%28%3FTORA_wduri%29%2C+%22https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fwiki%2F%22%29%29+%26%26+%3FWDsame+%3D+%22N%22+%29%0D%0A%7D+order+by++%3FTORA_label Federated SPARQL query] from the Swedish National Archive TORA project to Wikidata
 * Librairies in Africa (source)
 * Most recently dissolved enterprises that were over 200 years old (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Red pandas


 * Development
 * More work done on removing some resource loader modules in order to speed up the load of pages
 * Wikidata Bridge: add an edit tag parameter when saving (T227003)
 * Adapt buttons' texts to UI language (T228259)
 * research regarding permissions/protection (T231209)
 * More preparation work for improving references

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
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 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
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 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
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Tech News: 2019-40
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Meetings
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 * Special:Contributions will get the standard OOUI look. This makes it easier to use on mobile and makes it look like other  pages. There is a script you can use to make the form smaller if you want to.

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This Month in Education: September 2019
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September 2019 Tree of Life Newsletter



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Administrators' newsletter – October 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2019).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Barkeep49
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Beetstra • KillerChihuahua • Kusma
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Arcadian • Extraordinary Machine • Xeno
 * Pictogram voting rename.png JamesBWatson →

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Evad37

CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Courcelles • SilkTork • Timotheus Canens

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Courcelles • SilkTork • Timotheus Canens

Guideline and policy news
 * Following a discussion, a new criterion for speedy category renaming was added: C2F: One eponymous article, which applies if the category contains only an eponymous article or media file, provided that the category has not otherwise been emptied shortly before the nomination. The default outcome is an upmerge to the parent categories.

Technical news
 * As previously noted, tighter password requirements for Administrators were put in place last year. Wikipedia should now alert you if your password is less than 10 characters long and thus too short.

Arbitration
 * The 2019 CheckUser and Oversight appointment process has begun. The community consultation period will take place October 4th to 10th.
 * The arbitration case regarding was closed.  While there will be a local RfC focus[ing] on how harassment and private complaints should be handled in the future, there is currently a global community consultation on partial and temporary office actions in response to the incident. It will be open until October 30th.

Miscellaneous
 * The Community Tech team has been working on a system for temporarily watching pages, and welcomes feedback.

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Wikidata weekly summary #385
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Structured path for property definition changes, Import of item into wikidata private instance
 * Closed requests for comments: Notability wording


 * Events
 * Wikidata (für Archive) beim Herbsttreffen des AK Archive der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft (in German)
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4-Wikidata Affinity Group call: Finding GLAMs campaign 08 October. Agenda


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Generating "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" Questions Sets Automatically from Wikidata, Markus Wohlan, et al.
 * Wikidata: A large-scale collaborative ontological medical database, Houcemeddine Turki et al.
 * Wikidata & Wikibase for National Libraries: the inaugural meeting by Wendy Byrne and Liam Wyatt
 * Una lezione di biblioteconomia, o Del nome corto dell’autore,


 * Tool of the week
 * soweego links Wikidata to large third-party catalogs. Together with its friend Mix'n'match, it helps Wikidata to become the universal linking hub of open data.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The WikiProject India will send a quarterly newsletter, more info and subscribe here
 * Two Wikidata users were nominated for a “WikiEule”, the German Wikipedia community’s annual awards: MisterSynergy (nomination) for an “EngagementEule” (special commitment to the wiki projects) and Tobias1984 (nomination) for an “OrgaEule” (organizational work).
 * You can nominate projects for the WikidataCon award until October 7th at 23:59 UTC (today).
 * During the summer, WikidataJS became WikibaseJS! More specifically:
 * wikidata-sdk became wikibase-sdk (changelogs)
 * wikidata-edit became wikibase-edit (changelogs)
 * wikidata-cli became wikibase-cli (changelogs)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: content descriptor, educational stage, MWNF ID, worn by, tussenvoegsel, item disputed by
 * External identifiers: Gazetteer for Scotland person ID, Gazetteer for Scotland place ID, FootballDatabase.eu team ID, GENUKI ID, NTS Radio artist ID, Ticketmaster artist ID, See Tickets artist ID, DC Books author ID, Diccionari de la Literatura Catalana ID, FootballFacts.ru team ID, LaPreferente.com player ID, UEFA coach ID, UEFA team ID, Ukrainian Premier League player ID, ISSN-L, FIDAL team ID, China Martyrs ID, FAIMER school ID, JournalBase ID, National Library of Chile ID, PCEngine Catalog Project identifier, Beatport label ID, memoriademadrid publication ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: serving temperature, Ordained by, Main deity, image with frame, urn formatter, folio(s), minimum temperature record, venue of the grand final, Steam bundle ID
 * External identifiers: Basis Wien, MIC, DynamoMania.com player ID, 247Sports ID, Internet Off-Broadway Database work ID, Beachsafe Beach Key, LibraryThing author ID, FutbolMe.com player ID, Pubs Galore ID, Publons publisher ID, EconBiz publication ID, ERIC publication ID, ForaDeJogo.net team ID, FreeBSD port, HCPCS Identifier, Ents24 artist ID, Eventim artist ID, Coast to Coast Tickets artist ID, ScoreBig artist ID, SeatGeek artist ID, MovieTickets person ID, Ticket Liquidator artist ID, TicketCity artist ID, Tickets.com artist ID, TickPick artist ID, Viagogo artist ID, Vivid Seats artist ID, StubHub artist ID, NAD topographic databas, Rotterdam City Archives name ID, State Catalogue of the Museum Fund of Russia museum ID, Professional Football League of Ukraine player ID, Ancient Tree Inventory ID, FantLab author ID, Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain ID


 * Deleted properties:
 * Query examples:
 * Biographical entries in the Gazetteer for Scotland, with no article on English Wikipedia
 * Map of medical facilities in Murshidabad district, India, color-coded by type (source)
 * Map of flight connections between airports in India (source)
 * GLAMs institutions located north of Umeå (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Climate Change


 * Development
 * Continue work on removing and optimizing resource loader modules
 * Wikidata Bridge: obey wgEditSubmitButtonLabelPublish (T228260)
 * Canceling the modal (T231282)
 * Research regarding permissions/protection (T231209)
 * Investigation to ensure editing with the same credentials (T231887)

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: 2019-41
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Recent changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg The abuse filter function now has a faster parser. This is to shorten the waiting time when you save an edit.

Problems Changes later this week Meetings
 * There is a problem in the visual editor when you copy or delete text with footnotes. It will be fixed soon.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 October. It will be on all wikis from 10 October (calendar).
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Future changes
 * The Community Wishlist Survey has a new format. It will focus on wikis that typically get less support. It will probably go back to the normal format next year. It is not decided exactly how it will work this year. You can leave feedback.
 * The URL of the Wikimedia wiki main pages could be changed. This is because the current URLs cause several problems. For example  would be   instead. You can tell the developers if this would cause problems for your wiki.
 * There is a new technical community newsletter. You can read more about the work of Wikimedia's technical community. Subscribe to get the information in the future.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Outreachy is an internship program for groups who are underrepresented in free and open-source software. There are seven Wikimedia projects about coding, documentation and quality assurance in the next round. Persons who fit the criteria can apply. The last day to apply is 5 November.

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This Month in GLAM: September 2019
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Wikidata weekly summary #386
<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: Monthly workshop in Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 17th
 * Upcoming: Talk about connections between Wikidata, Wikipedia and OSM, Bordeaux, France, October 17th
 * Upcoming: Monthly workshop in Paris, France, October 18th
 * Upcoming: Wikidata goes Library, Talks and Workshops, Vienna, Austria, October 18th
 * Upcoming: WikidataCon 2019 and side events: Wikibase workshop, iNaturalist workshop, October 24th to 27th, Berlin


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * My message to video game databases: We(kidata) come in peace, by Jean-Frédéric (the subject is broader than just video games)
 * Lei (Nico) Zheng, et al. (2019) The Roles Bots Play in Wikipedia. Proceedings of the ACM: Human-Computer Interaction, Volume 3, Issue CSCW, Article 215 (November 2019), 20 pages. DOI: 10.1145/3359317 (also blog post).
 * Lina M. Rojas-Barahona, et al. (2019) Spoken Conversational Search for General Knowledge. Proceedings of the 20th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue. ACL Anthology ID: W19-5914 + arXiv:1909.11980


 * Tool of the week
 * ShowTalkLabels: with this script enabled, when a talk page is shown on your watchlist or similar pages, the label of the related entity is shown.


 * Other noteworthy stuff
 * We now have Q70000000 (3,5-dimethyl-3H-pyrazole, chemical compound) and Lexeme:L200000 (spiritualistically, English adverb)
 * Your feedback is welcome about Computer-aided tagging designs for Structured data for Commons
 * The next office hour will take place on November 5th on Telegram (see full announcement)


 * Did you know? =


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: fineness, identified in image by, name in hiero markup, graph radius, style of karate, name (image), code (image), folio(s)
 * External identifiers: PubPeer article ID, Turkish Football Federation Match ID, geograph.org.uk image ID, Q-Codes ID, Great Encyclopedia of Navarre ID, Three Decks people ID, Knesset Law ID, DynamoMania.com player ID, Beachsafe Beach Key, 247Sports ID, Internet Off-Broadway Database work ID, FutbolMe.com player ID, LibraryThing author ID, SMHI drainage basin ID, Turkish Football Federation Stadium ID, Publons publisher ID, ADL Hate Symbols Database ID, Turkish Football Federation Referee ID, EconBiz publication ID, ERIC publication ID, Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System Identifier, Pubs Galore ID, ForaDeJogo.net team ID, Ancient Tree Inventory ID, State Catalogue of the Museum Fund of Russia museum ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: pathway annotation, number of games, contains functional group, contains chemical element, relative count, electron configuration, reason for preferred rank, creator's signature, Wikimedia revision-id, pdf page, capital social, Source of file, gained territory from
 * External identifiers: Soccerway referee ID, Eu-football.info referee ID, WorldReferee.com ID, Bluetooth Declaration ID, Bundle ID, Wolfram Language quantity ID, FantLab work ID, FantLab publisher ID, FantLab awar ID, FIG gymnast (no licence) identifier, Renaud Camus person ID, WorldFootball.net competition ID, academia.edu publication ID, Rijksmuseum Library ID, NARCIS researcher ID, Soccerbase team ID, 90minut.pl team ID, Transfermarkt.com match ID, Brazilian federal deputy ID, AAAS keyword ID, Kinématoscope, CanadaSoccer.com person ID


 * Query examples:
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20settlements%20in%20Scottish%20parishes%0A%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%7B%22hide%22%3A%5B%22%3Fpoint%22%2C%20%22%3Fline%22%2C%20%22%3Flayer%22%5D%7D%0ASELECT%20%3Fpoint%20%3Fline%20%3Fpar%20%3FparLabel%20%3Fsett%20%3FsettLabel%20%28%3FparLabel%20AS%20%3Flayer%29%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fpar%20%28AVG%28%3Flat%29%20AS%20%3Favg_lat%29%20%28AVG%28%3Flong%29%20AS%20%3Favg_long%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP709%20%5B%5D%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP131%20%3Fadm_stmt%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fadm_stmt%20pq%3AP3831%20wd%3AQ5124673%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fadm_stmt%20ps%3AP131%20%3Fpar%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP625%20%3Fcoord_stmt%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcoord_stmt%20psv%3AP625%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLatitude%20%3Flat%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcoord_stmt%20psv%3AP625%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLongitude%20%3Flong%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fpar%0A%7D%20AS%20%25par_data%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fpar%20%3Fpoint%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25par_data%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28CONCAT%28%27POINT%20%28%27%2C%20str%28%3Favg_long%29%2C%20%27%20%27%2C%20str%28%3Favg_lat%29%2C%20%27%29%27%29%20AS%20%3Fstr%29%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28STRDT%28%3Fstr%2C%20geo%3AwktLiteral%29%20AS%20%3Fpoint%29%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25points%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fsett%20%3Fpar%20%3Fline%20%3Fpoint%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25par_data%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fpar%20wdt%3AP1383%20%3Fsett%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fsett%20p%3AP625%20%3Fsett_stmt%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fsett_stmt%20ps%3AP625%20%3Fpoint%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fsett_stmt%20psv%3AP625%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLatitude%20%3Fsett_lat%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fsett_stmt%20psv%3AP625%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLongitude%20%3Fsett_long%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28CONCAT%28%27LINESTRING%20%28%27%2C%20STR%28%3Fsett_long%29%2C%20%27%20%27%2C%20STR%28%3Fsett_lat%29%2C%20%27%2C%27%2C%20STR%28%3Favg_long%29%2C%20%27%20%27%2C%20STR%28%3Favg_lat%29%2C%20%27%29%27%29%20AS%20%3Fstr%29%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28STRDT%28%3Fstr%2C%20geo%3AwktLiteral%29%20AS%20%3Fline%29%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%20%0A%7D%20AS%20%25lines%0A%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%7B%20INCLUDE%20%25points%20%7D%20%20UNION%20%7B%20INCLUDE%20%25lines%20%20%7D%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0A Map of Scottish settlements linked to the average coordinates of Historic Scotland items within civil parishes] - demonstrating the use of map lines to highlight possible data quality issues (source)
 * Bundesliga football results - exemplar of a report predicated mainly on statement qualifiers (source)
 * On which side of the road do cars drive? - demonstrating the use of geoshapes to fill a map (source)
 * Map of the embassies to Belgium (source)
 * Graph showing direct descendants of Prithwiraj Kapoor (source)
 * Nobel laureates by award type and gender (source)
 * Newest database reports: Mersenne numbers


 * Development
 * Abuse filter has been improved so saving an edit should be a bit faster now. (T156095)
 * A new Lua function is providing the site's global ID of the wiki where this function is used (T194023)
 * Wikidata Bridge: test data for the demo system (T224834)
 * Research regarding permissions/protection (T231209)
 * Investigate of the purging strategy (T227758)
 * Restyling of mobile termbox (T223452)
 * Adding "fewer languages" button at the end of the expanded list of "all entered languages" (T232595)
 * More work on reducing the resource loader modules
 * More work on tainted references

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.
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Tech News: 2019-42
<section begin="technews-2019-W42"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * You can now use more advanced editing tools on the mobile web. You can turn them on and off in your preferences in the mobile version.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 October. It will be on all wikis from 17 October (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 16 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Internet Explorer 6 and 7 are no longer supported. This means the browsers might start looking a bit weird. They will not get security support. You can't read Wikimedia wikis in Internet Explorer on Windows XP or Windows versions that are older than Windows XP. This is because almost no one uses the browsers anymore. Supporting them made the wikis less secure for everyone else.
 * In the future section headings might have a share link. This is to make it easier to link to the section. You can read more and discuss.

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Editing News #2 – Mobile editing and talk pages – October 2019
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Inside this newsletter, the Editing team talks about their work on the mobile visual editor, on the new talk pages project, and at Wikimania 2019.

Help
What talk page interactions do you remember? Is it a story about how someone helped you to learn something new? Is it a story about how someone helped you get involved in a group? Something else? Whatever your story is, we want to hear it!

Please tell us a story about how you used a talk page. Please share a link to a memorable discussion, or describe it on the talk page for this project. The team would value your examples. These examples will help everyone develop a shared understanding of what this project should support and encourage.

Talk Pages
The Talk Pages Consultation was a global consultation to define better tools for wiki communication. From February through June 2019, more than 500 volunteers on 20 wikis, across 15 languages and multiple projects, came together with members of the Foundation to create a product direction for a set of discussion tools. The Phase 2 Report of the Talk Page Consultation was published in August. It summarizes the product direction the team has started to work on, which you can read more about here: Talk Page Project project page.

The team needs and wants your help at this early stage. They are starting to develop the first idea. Please add your name to the "Getting involved" section of the project page, if you would like to hear about opportunities to participate.

Mobile visual editor
The Editing team is trying to make it simpler to edit on mobile devices. The team is changing the visual editor on mobile. If you have something to say about editing on a mobile device, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.

Edit Cards



 * On 3 September, the Editing team released version 3 of Edit Cards. Anyone could use the new version in the mobile visual editor.
 * There is an updated design on the Edit Card for adding and modifying links. There is also a new, combined workflow for editing a link's display text and target.
 * Feedback: You can try the new Edit Cards by opening the mobile visual editor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Edit cards talk page.

Toolbar



 * In September, the Editing team updated the mobile visual editor's editing toolbar. Anyone could see these changes in the mobile visual editor.
 * One toolbar: All of the editing tools are located in one toolbar. Previously, the toolbar changed when you clicked on different things.
 * New navigation: The buttons for moving forward and backward in the edit flow have changed.
 * Seamless switching: an improved workflow for switching between the visual and wikitext modes.
 * Feedback: You can try the refreshed toolbar by opening the mobile VisualEditor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Toolbar feedback talk page.

Wikimania
The Editing Team attended Wikimania 2019 in Sweden. They led a session on the mobile visual editor and a session on the new talk pages project. They tested two new features in the mobile visual editor with contributors. You can read more about what the team did and learned in the team's report on Wikimania 2019.

Looking ahead

 * Talk Pages Project: The team is thinking about the first set of proposed changes.  The team will be working with a few communities to pilot those changes. The best way to stay informed is by adding your username to the list on the project page: Getting involved.
 * Testing the mobile visual editor as the default: The Editing team plans to post results before the end of the calendar year. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: VisualEditor as mobile default project page.
 * Measuring the impact of Edit Cards: The Editing team hopes to share results in November.  This study asks whether the project helped editors add links and citations.  The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: Edit Cards project page.

– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 16:51, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2019-43
<section begin="technews-2019-W43"/> 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' prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.]] The API sandbox and help pages now show more clearly when API modules are marked as . API modules marked as internal were probably internal before. It was easier to miss. You should look for non-internal alternatives.

Problems
 * There is a translation tool we use on wikis with more than one language. For a few days it did not create pages for new languages when someone translated a page. The languages did not show in the language bar. This has been fixed.
 * The history and diffs can show wrong content. This is because of a cache problem. It will soon be fixed.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 October. It will be on all wikis from 24 October (calendar).
 * Reference Previews will be a beta feature on all Wikipedias and some Wikivoyages. It shows you a preview of the footnote when you hover over or click on the number. It has been a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia since April.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 October. See how to join.

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Wikidata weekly summary #387
<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: WikidataCon 2019 on October 25-26. If you're not attending, you can follow most of the sessions remotely with live stream.
 * Upcoming: Wikidata's seventh birthday, on October 29th. You can organize an event in your area and add it to the list!
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Finding GLAMs campaign cont. with OpenRefine demo, 22 October. Agenda
 * Upcoming: Wikidata and Archival Metadata : opportunities and challenges for heritage institutions by Baptiste de Coulon in Study day on Linked Data,, Friday November 22th, 2019.
 * Past: Several sessions at Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2019 (11–13 October):
 * Wikidata content oriented projects, talk by Mārtiņš Bruņenieks (video)
 * Using Wikidata as an Educational Platform, talk by Nebojša Ratković (video)
 * Beyond the basics: Intermediate Wikidata tools, workshop by Asaf Bartov (not recorded)
 * Your first Wikidata Lua infobox, workshop by Tobias Schönberg (not recorded)


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Querying Wikidata RDF with SQL using RDF2X
 * Ozymandias in Canberra - how the Atlas of Living Australia could be enhanced using Wikidata
 * Knowledge Graph Consolidation by Unifying Synonymous Relationships - Jan-Christoph Kalo, et al.
 * PhD thesis: Candela Romero, Gustavo (2019). Publicación y enriquecimiento semántico de datos abiertos en bibliotecas digitales (in Spanish).
 * Wikidata Wordmap


 * Tool of the week
 * The Wikidata Wor(l)dmap is showing translations of the same concept on a world map. To use it, type a word (for example "water") in the search field, then observe the map. You can zoom in the map. The data comes from Wikidata item labels and the coordinate location property of the language.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata won an Open Publishing Award (description).
 * Panandâ, a mobile app powered by Wikidata (and Wikimedia Commons), was selected as one of the five finalists in the App for Social Good category in the Android Masters 2019 competition organized by Google Developer Group Philippines. The final event will be held on November 16.
 * Issue with Wikidata Query Service: aggregate variables can no longer reuse the names of other variables (T235540).
 * You can translate labels in the background image of Wikidata front page by adding translation to this file


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: image backside, frontside image, gender educated, image with frame, line(s), minimum temperature record, glacier status, number of processor threads, reason for preferred rank, creator's signature
 * External identifiers: Professional Football League of Ukraine player ID, Rotterdam City Archives actor ID, FreeBSD port, Bluetooth Declaration ID, Bundle ID, Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain ID, Wolfram Language quantity ID, Steam bundle ID, FantLab author ID, NAD place ID, Eu-football.info referee ID, WorldReferee.com referee ID, FantLab award ID, FantLab publisher ID, FantLab work ID, FIG gymnast (no licence) identifier, WorldFootball.net competition ID, Rijksmuseum Research Library authority ID, Basis Wien person ID, Basis Wien institution ID, Basis Wien event ID, Basis Wien object ID, NARCIS researcher ID, Turkish Football Federation Team ID, Czech Fortuna liga player ID, 90minut.pl team ID, Soccerbase team ID, Transfermarkt.com match ID, AAAS keyword ID, Kinematoscope film ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: MOHW HospID, graph diameter, ICP filing, aspect, key col, key col of
 * External identifiers: FlashScore.com match ID, GHR Conditions ID, Eu-football.info coach ID, Soccerbase referee ID, Edvard Munchs correspondance person ID, Neliti Journal ID, Broadway Photographs person ID, National Marine Biological Library authority ID, Auckland War Memorial Museum Online Cenotaph Serviceperson ID, iNaturalist place ID, dp.ru persons ID, IISG ID, ifixit ID, Wolfram Language entity type, CinemaRx person ID, Kinématoscope - Literary work, Kinématoscope - Film director, Kinématoscope - Writer, Stathletics-ID, BDFutbol team ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of châteaux in the French world heritage site "the Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes" (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AGraph%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem1%20%3Fimage1%20%3Fitem1Label%20%3Frgb%20%3Fitem2%20%3Fimage2%20%3Fitem2Label%20%3FedgeLabel%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fitem1%20%3Frgb%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%28%3Fcharacter%20as%20%3Fitem1%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fgame%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ7889.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fgame%20wdt%3AP179%20wd%3AQ219623.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fgame%20wdt%3AP674%20%3Fcharacter.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Find%20sport%20-%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%28%3Fsport%20as%20%3Fitem1%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fgame%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ7889.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fgame%20wdt%3AP179%20wd%3AQ219623.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fgame%20wdt%3AP674%20%3Fcharacter.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcharacter%20wdt%3AP641%20%3Fsport.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Find%20games%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%28%3Fgame%20as%20%3Fitem1%29%20%3Frgb%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fgame%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ7889.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fgame%20wdt%3AP179%20wd%3AQ219623.%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%227FFF00%22%20as%20%3Frgb%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25item1%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%28%3Fitem1%20AS%20%3Fitem2%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25item1.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25item2%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25item1%20.%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25item2%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem1%20%3Fwdt%20%3Fitem2%20.%0A%20%20%3Fedge%20wikibase%3AdirectClaim%20%3Fwdt%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20a%20wikibase%3AProperty%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem1%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage1%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem2%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage2%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D Graph of the personal relationships between Tekken characters and their fighting styles] (source)
 * Timeline of the chief ministers of Haryana and Maharashtra (source)
 * Language representation of descriptions in Wikidata for objects connected to Ksamsök (source)
 * Cricketers who have ever played on an Indian Super League team (source)


 * Development
 * Fixed the DuplicateReferences gadget that was broken due to refactoring work needed to make pages load faster and development easier (T234094)
 * Wikidata Bridge: restricting the length of string value inputs (T229241)
 * research delayed kicking in of Bridge (T233305)
 * enable/disable save button depending on Bridge state (T230342)
 * More work on reducing the resource loader modules
 * More work on tainted references

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


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

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TheWikiWizard - October 2019
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This Month in Education: October 2019
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Tech News: 2019-44
<section begin="technews-2019-W44"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * You can post proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can read more about the format for this year.
 * Mobile users now have a specific design for their Watchlist.
 * You can share feedback and ideas on the Desktop Improvements project. The goal is to make the interface easier to use for readers and editors without removing any functionality. The Foundation's Readers Web team will work on this over the next two years.
 * Octicons-tools.svg OOUI now allows using  (pixels) instead of   (em) for some specific cases.

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

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

Future changes
 * There will be no software changes from 19 December to 2 January. The first MediaWiki version next year will come the week of 6 January.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Gadgets and user scripts can access variables about the current page in JavaScript. In 2015, this information was moved from global variables named  to  . The old global variables will be removed later this year. You can know more about it and tell the developers if you want to try this out on your wiki first.

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Wikidata weekly summary #388 & Wikidata Birthday
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 * Happy birthday, Wikidata!
 * Today, on October 29th, it’s Wikidata’s 7th birthday. Time to reflect and celebrate and to look forward to see where we are going from here. Message from the Wikidata development team
 * You can also write a birthday message or add a present to the list


 * Events
 * Past: Several sessions at Wikidata goes Library, Vienna, (18 October):
 * Wikidata is amazing, talk by Jean-Fréd
 * Uses of Wikidata and Wikibase in France, talk by Nicolas Vigneron
 * Using Wikidata for Video Game Research, talk by Tracy Hoffmann
 * Wikidata based extended search queries, talk by
 * Past: WikidataCon 2019 in Berlin. You can see the videos of the sessions and the list of slides and notes, also from the program. Among them, here are few suggestions of sessions to watch:
 * Glimpse over Wikidata & Wikidata and languages (Lydia Pintscher)
 * Birthday presents demo (various people presenting new tools and features)
 * WikidataCon awards ceremony (Birgit Müller & Liam Wyatt)
 * New usages of Wikidata to support underserved language communities (Lucie-Aimée Kaffee)
 * Overview of the data import process (Navino Evans)
 * A lot of interesting tools and projects presented during the two lightning talks sessions
 * Upcoming: plenty of events taking place for Wikidata's seventh birthday! In London on 29th, in Cape Town on 31st, a datathon organized in India, in Barcelona on November 13th, etc.


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Analysis of Urban Information of Colombia on Wikidata, 2nd CATAÏ Workshop, Bogota, Colombia, 23-24 October 2019 (Preprint)
 * Wikidata as a FAIR knowledge graph for the life sciences (preprint in Biorxiv)


 * Tool of the week
 * MachtSinn is a game to easily add Senses to Lexemes, based on suggestions from Items labels. It helps improving the data about languages in Wikidata.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Open request for oversight permission: -revi
 * OpenRefine 3.3 beta was released
 * The Community Wishlist Survey 2020 from Wikimedia Foundation started. This year, it is focused on small projects and Wikidata-related wishes will not be included.
 * You can help expanding the list of databases, encyclopedias, etc. which could be added to Mix'n'match. Can be used for property creation too.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: graph diameter, orientation, URN formatter, iFixit Repairability Score, key col, variety of form, source of file, grammatical aspect
 * External identifiers: CanadaSoccer.com person ID, FlashScore.com match ID, Publons journals/conferences ID, Eu-football.info coach ID, Genetics Home Reference Conditions ID, Soccerbase referee ID, Edvard Munch's correspondance person ID, Broadway Photographs person ID, MOHW HospID, iNaturalist place ID, National Marine Biological Library authority ID, Neliti Journal ID, Online Cenotaph ID, dp.ru person ID, ifixit ID, ICP license ID, Brazilian federal deputy ID, CinemaRx person ID, Kinematoscope - Film director, Kinematoscope - Writer, Kinematoscope - Literary work, BDFutbol team ID, Stathletics ID, teams.by team ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: religion or world view, Comorbidity, CMF identifier, masculine form, feminine form, XML namespace, Commons category for the interior of the item, statement is regarded as spoiler for, menu items
 * External identifiers: Austrian Parliament 1848 – 1918 ID, Eu-football.info match ID, playmarkerstats.com match ID, Soccerway match ID, Jeugdliteratuur ID, Fussballdaten.de team ID, Van Wijngaarden quarry ID, NZPCN ID, Women Film Pioneers ID, ACL Anthology article ID, Ovrtur Biography ID, Golden ID, Ben Yehuda author ID, Estonian biographical database ID, startrek.com Database ID, Chinese Professional Baseball League player ID, Software Preservation Society game ID


 * Query examples:
 * Tree map of members of the 16th Lok Sabha, grouped by state represented (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20pictures%20of%20animals%20with%20female%20grammatical%20gender%20in%20German%20but%20male%20grammatical%20gender%20in%20French%0A%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0ASELECT%20%3Fanimal%20%3FdeLemmas%20%3FfrLemmas%20%3Fimage%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fanimal%20%28STRLANG%28GROUP_CONCAT%28%3FdeLemma%3B%20separator%20%3D%20%22%2F%22%29%2C%20%22de%22%29%20AS%20%3FdeLemmas%29%20%28STRLANG%28GROUP_CONCAT%28%3FfrLemma%3B%20separator%20%3D%20%22%2F%22%29%2C%20%22fr%22%29%20AS%20%3FfrLemmas%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fde%20dct%3Alanguage%20wd%3AQ188%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AlexicalCategory%20wd%3AQ1084%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3Alemma%20%3FdeLemma%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP5185%20wd%3AQ1775415%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ontolex%3Asense%20%5B%20wdt%3AP5137%20%3Fanimal%20%5D.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Ffr%20dct%3Alanguage%20wd%3AQ150%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AlexicalCategory%20wd%3AQ1084%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3Alemma%20%3FfrLemma%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP5185%20wd%3AQ499327%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ontolex%3Asense%20%5B%20wdt%3AP5137%20%3Fanimal%20%5D.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fanimal%20wdt%3AP279%2B%20wd%3AQ729.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fanimal%0A%7D%20AS%20%25animals%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fanimal%20%3FanimalLabel%20%3FdeLemmas%20%3FfrLemmas%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25animals.%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25animalsWithLabels%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25animalsWithLabels.%0A%20%20BIND%28CONCAT%28%22haswbstatement%3AP180%3D%22%2C%20STRAFTER%28STR%28%3Fanimal%29%2C%20STR%28wd%3A%29%29%29%20AS%20%3Fsearch%29%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Amwapi%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Aapi%20%22Search%22%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3Aendpoint%20%22commons.wikimedia.org%22%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20mwapi%3Asrsearch%20%3Fsearch%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20mwapi%3Asrnamespace%20%226%22%3B%20%23%20NS_FILE%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20mwapi%3Asrlimit%20%22max%22.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Ftitle%20wikibase%3AapiOutput%20mwapi%3Atitle.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND%28IRI%28CONCAT%28%22http%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSpecial%3AFilePath%2F%22%2C%20STRAFTER%28%3Ftitle%2C%20%22File%3A%22%29%29%29%20AS%20%3Fimage%29%0A%7D Pictures of animals with female grammatical gender in German but male grammatical gender in French] (source)
 * Map of bus stops in Biscay (source)
 * Tree graph of doctoral advisors going backward from Abhijit Banerjee (source)


 * Development
 * Wikidata Bridge: Create progressive disabled version of save button (T235055)
 * Save original revision data in store (T235052)
 * Add interface for tracking/logging (T236233)
 * Make app change button attributes depending on state of store (T235056)
 * More work on reducing the resource loader modules
 * More work on tainted references

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
 * 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!

Editing News #2 – Mobile editing and talk pages
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Inside this newsletter, the Editing team talks about their work on the mobile visual editor, on the new talk pages project, and at Wikimania 2019.

Help
What talk page interactions do you remember? Is it a story about how someone helped you to learn something new? Is it a story about how someone helped you get involved in a group? Something else? Whatever your story is, we want to hear it!

Please tell us a story about how you used a talk page. Please share a link to a memorable discussion, or describe it on the talk page for this project. The team wants your examples. These examples will help everyone develop a shared understanding of what this project should support and encourage.

Talk pages project
The Talk Pages Consultation was a global consultation to define better tools for wiki communication. From February through June 2019, more than 500 volunteers on 20 wikis, across 15 languages and multiple projects, came together with members of the Foundation to create a product direction for a set of discussion tools. The Phase 2 Report of the Talk Page Consultation was published in August. It summarizes the product direction the team has started to work on, which you can read more about here: Talk Page Project project page.

The team needs and wants your help at this early stage. They are starting to develop the first idea. Please add your name to the "Getting involved"  section of the project page, if you would like to hear about opportunities to participate.

Mobile visual editor
The Editing team is trying to make it simpler to edit on mobile devices. The team is changing the visual editor on mobile. If you have something to say about editing on a mobile device, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.

Edit Cards



 * On 3 September, the Editing team released version 3 of Edit Cards. Anyone could use the new version in the mobile visual editor.
 * There is an updated design on the Edit Card for adding and modifying links. There is also a new, combined workflow for editing a link's display text and target.
 * Feedback: You can try the new Edit Cards by opening the mobile visual editor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Edit cards talk page.

Toolbar



 * In September, the Editing team updated the mobile visual editor's editing toolbar. Anyone could see these changes in the mobile visual editor.
 * One toolbar: All of the editing tools are located in one toolbar. Previously, the toolbar changed when you clicked on different things.
 * New navigation: The buttons for moving forward and backward in the edit flow have changed.
 * Seamless switching: an improved workflow for switching between the visual and wikitext modes.
 * Feedback: You can try the refreshed toolbar by opening the mobile VisualEditor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Toolbar feedback talk page.

Wikimania
The Editing Team attended Wikimania 2019 in Sweden. They led a session on the mobile visual editor and a session on the new talk pages project. They tested two new features in the mobile visual editor with contributors. You can read more about what the team did and learned in the team's report on Wikimania 2019.

Looking ahead

 * Talk Pages Project: The team is thinking about the first set of proposed changes. The team will be working with a few communities to pilot those changes. The best way to stay informed is by adding your username to the list on the project page:  Getting involved.
 * Testing the mobile visual editor as the default: The Editing team plans to post results before the end of the calendar year. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist:  VisualEditor as mobile default project page.
 * Measuring the impact of Edit Cards: This study asks whether the project helped editors add links and citations.  The Editing team hopes to share results in November.  The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist:  Edit Cards project page.

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October 2019 Tree of Life Newsletter



 * October 2019&mdash;Issue 007


 * Tree of Life


 * Welcome to the Tree of Life newsletter!

{| role="presentation" class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width:100%; background:#b6ecd0;" By request from another editor, this month I wrote an overview of ways that content is featured on Wikipedia. Below I have outlined some of the processes for getting content featured:
 * Alphabet Soup: Explaining DYK, GA, FA, and More

Did You Know (DYK)
What is it: A way for articles to appear on the main page of Wikipedia. A short hook in the format of "Did you know...that ___" presents unusual and interesting facts to the reader, hopefully making the reader want to click through to the article

How it works: The DYK process has fairly low barriers for participation. The eligibility criteria are few and relatively easy to meet. Some important guidelines: The process for creating the nomination is somewhat tedious. Instructions can be found here (official instructions) and here ("quick and nice" guide to DYK). Experience is the best teacher here, so don't be afraid to try and fail a few times. The last few DYK nominations I've done, however, have been with the help of SD0001's DYK-helper script, which makes the process a bit more streamlined (you create the template from a popup box on the article; created template is automatically transcluded to nominations page and article talk page)
 * To be eligible, article is either new (newly created or moved to mainspace), a 5x expansion, or passed a GA review. Its creation, expansion, or promotion to GA must have been in the past 7 days.
 * Article must be long enough, with more than 1,500 characters of prose (this doesn't include embedded lists)
 * I find Shubinator's DYKcheck script useful in determining whether an article is eligible for nomination.

Once your nomination is created and transcluded, it will need to be reviewed. The reviewer will check that the article meets the eligibility criteria, that the hook is short enough, cited, and interesting, and that other requirements are met, such as for images. If you've been credited with more than 5 DYKs, the reviewer will also check that you've reviewed someone else's nomination for each article that you nominate. This is called QPQ (quid pro quo). You can check how many credited DYKs you've had here to see if QPQ is required for you to nominate an article for DYK.

Good Article (GA)
What it is: A peer review process to determine that an article meets a set of criteria. This adds a symbol to the top of the article. About 1 in 200 articles on Wikipedia is a GA.

How it works: You follow the instructions to nominate an article, placing a template on its talk page. Anyone can nominate an article&mdash;you don't have to be a major contributor, though it is considered polite to inform the major contributors that you are nominating the article. The article is added to a queue to await a review. In the ToL, it seems that reviews happen pretty quickly, thanks to our dedicated members. Once the review begins, the reviewer will offer suggestions to help the article meet the 6 GA criteria. Upon addressing all concerns, the reviewer will pass the article, and voilà! Good Article!

Advice to a first-time nominator: Look at other Good Articles in related areas before nominating. If you're unsure about nominating, consider posting to the talk page of your project to see what other editors think. You can also have a more experienced editor co-nominate the article with you.

Featured Article (FA)
What it is: An exhaustive peer review to determine that an articles meets the criteria. This adds a to the top of the article. About 1 in 1,000 articles on Wikipedia is a FA.

How it works: You follow the instructions to nominate an article, placing a template on its talk page. Nominated articles are usually GAs already. Uninvolved editors can nominate, though the article's regular editors should be consulted first. Several editors will come by offering feedback, eventually supporting or opposing promotion to FA. A coordinator will determine if there is consensus to promote the article to FA. For an editor's first FA, spot checks to verify that the sources support the text are conducted.

Advice to a first-time nominator: The Featured Article Candidate (FAC) process is a bit intimidating, but several steps can make your first one easier (speaking as someone who has exactly one). If you also did the GA nomination of the article, you can ask the reviewer for "extra" feedback beyond the GA criteria. You can also formally request a peer review and/or a copy edit from the Guild of Copy Editors to check for content and mechanics. First-time nominators are encouraged to seek the help of a mentor for a higher likelihood of passing their first FAC.

Good and Featured Topics (GT and FT)
What it is: It took me a while to realize we even had GT and FT on Wikipedia, as they are not very common relative to GA and FA. Both GT and FT are collections of related articles of high quality (all articles at GA or FA, all lists at Featured List). GT/FT have to be at least 3 articles with no obvious gaps in coverage of the topic, along with other criteria. For GT, all articles have to be GA quality and all lists must be FL. For FT, at least half the articles must be FA or FL, with the remaining articles at GA.

How it works: Follow the nomination procedures for creating a new topic or adding an article to an existing topic. Other editors weigh in to support or oppose the proposal. Coordinators determine if there is consensus to promote to GT/FT.

Advice to a first-time nominator: There are very few GT/FT in Tree of Life (5 GT and 11 FT). Most of the legwork appears to be improving a cohesive set of articles to GA/FA.
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New Page Review newsletter November 2019
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This newsletter comes a little earlier than usual because the backlog is rising again and the holidays are coming very soon. There are now holders of the New Page Reviewer flag! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog but it's still roughly less than 10% doing 90% of the work. Now it's time for action. Exactly one year ago there were 'only' 3,650 unreviewed articles, now we will soon be approaching 7,000 despite the growing number of requests for the NPR user right. If each reviewer soon does only 2 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by every reviewer doing only 1 review every 2 days - that's only a few minutes work on the bus on the way to the office or to class! Let's get this over and done with in time to relax for the holidays. Want to join? Consider adding the NPP Pledge userbox. Our next newsletter will announce the winners of some really cool awards. Admin has been officially invested as NPP/NPR coordinator by a unanimous consensus of the community. This is a complex role and he will need all the help he can get from other experienced reviewers. Paid editing is still causing headaches for even our most experienced reviewers: This official Wikipedia article will be an eye-opener to anyone who joined Wikipedia or obtained the NPR right since 2015. See The Hallmarks to know exactly what to look for and take time to examine all the sources. Would you like feedback on your reviews? Are you an experienced reviewer who can give feedback to other reviewers? If so there are two new feedback pilot programs. New Reviewer mentorship will match newer reviewers with an experienced reviewer with a new reviewer. The other program will be an occasional peer review cohort for moderate or experienced reviewers to give feedback to each other. The first cohort will launch November 13. The annual ArbCom election will be coming up soon. All eligible users will be invited to vote. While not directly concerned with NPR, Arbcom cases often lead back to notability and deletion issues and/or actions by holders of advanced user rights. There is to be no wish list for WMF encyclopedias this year. We thank Community Tech for their hard work addressing our long list of requirements which somewhat overwhelmed them last year, and we look forward to a successful completion. To opt-out of future mailings, you can remove yourself here MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:33, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Getting the queue to 0
 * Coordinator
 * This month's refresher course
 * Tools
 * It is now possible to select new pages by date range. This was requested by reviewers who want to patrol from the middle of the list.
 * It is now also possible for accredited reviewers to put any article back into the New Pages Feed for re-review. The link is under 'Tools' in the side bar.
 * Reviewer Feedback
 * Second set of eyes
 * Not only are New Page Reviewers the guardians of quality of new articles, they are also in a position to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged for deletion and maintenance and that new authors are not being bitten. This is an important feature of your work, especially while some routine tagging for deletion can still be carried out by non NPR holders and inexperienced users. Read about it at the Monitoring the system section in the tutorial. If you come across such editors doing good work, don't hesitate to encourage them to apply for NPR.
 * Do be sure to have our talk page  on your watchlist. There are often items that require reviewers' special attention, such as to watch out for pages by known socks or disruptive editors, technical issues and new developments, and of course to provide advice for other reviewers.
 * Arbitration Committee
 * Community Wish list

Administrators' newsletter – November 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2019).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg GermanJoe • Girth Summit • Kees08 • Nosebagbear
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg DESiegel • GB fan • MSGJ • Voice of Clam • WilyD
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg DeltaQuad • Fang Aili • Pakaran

Bureaucrat changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg DeltaQuad • Pakaran

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg MSGJ

CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg L235 • Mz7 • SQL • ST47
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Ivanvector
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg DeltaQuad

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg L235 • Mz7 • ST47 • Stwalkerster • The Blade of the Northern Lights • Xaosflux
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg DeltaQuad • DGG • Julia W

Guideline and policy news
 * An RfC was closed with the consensus that the resysop criteria should be made stricter.
 * The follow-up RfC to develop that change is now open at Requests for comment/2019 Resysop Criteria (2).
 * A related RfC is seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure.

Arbitration
 * Eligible editors may now nominate themselves as candidates for the 2019 Arbitration Committee Elections. The self-nomination period will close November 12, with voting running from November 19 through December 2.

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Wikidata weekly summary #389
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Events
 * Past: Wikidata Zurich Training 2019
 * Upcoming: Next Wikidata office hour on Tuesday, November 5th at 18:00 Berlin time (UTC+1)  on the the Wikidata Telegram channel
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Martin Poulter on Wikidata projects at the University of Oxford, 05, November. Agenda


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * ZBW Labs: 20th Century Press Archives: Data donation to Wikidata
 * The WikidataCon Card Game, Envel Le Hir
 * The Great(er) Bear - using Wikidata to generate better artwork
 * ''Linked (Open) Data for Knowledge Solutions, Artificial Intelligence and more presentation touching amongst others Wikidata and schema.org at Semantics 2019 by Felix Sasaki and Christian Lieske
 * Querying the Edit History of Wikidata - Thomas Pellissier Tanon & Fabian Suchanek
 * Online Disinformation and the Role of Wikipedia - Diego Saez-Trumper (WMF)


 * Tool of the week
 * SPARQL RC is showing the recent changes on items that are listed from a specific query. It is very useful to monitor the changes on a specific subset of data, for example data that you recently imported in Wikidata.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikimedia Deutschland is hiring a Product Manager for Wikibase
 * Live Wikidata editing videos: Jan Ainali makes videos showing his process while editing Wikidata. Magnus Sälgö also makes videos showing specific features and tools
 * is a new template that can be used to store SPARQL queries on a dedicated wiki page, to be transcluded in various styles (announcement)
 * New feature on Mix'n'match: job management


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: comorbidity, audio system, election called by, XML namespace
 * External identifiers: Austrian Parliament 1848 - 1918 ID, Eu-football.info match ID, playmarkerstats.com match ID, Soccerway match ID, Fussballdaten.de team ID, NZPCN ID, Wolfram Language entity type, Women Film Pioneers ID, Van Wijngaarden quarry ID, Golden ID, Ovrtur Biography ID, Jeugdliteratuur ID, ACL Anthology article ID, Naver Encyclopedia ID, Ben Yehuda author ID, Estonian biographical database ID, doujinshi.org author ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: food composition, landscape architect, charge conjugation quantum number, IP address or range, featured in, Room number, Jabber channel, lighting, Mentioned at
 * External identifiers: Sega Retro ID, CA Prop 65 ID, Gaming-History company ID, dp.ru company ID, Filmový přehled film ID, Filmový přehled person ID, SK cinema film ID, SK cinema authority ID, ePSD ID, classicamiga ID, Czech cadastral area ID, MEA Indian Mission ID, Planète Aventure ID, AaRC person ID, fyyd podcast identifer, Encyclopedia of Mathematics wiki ID, fyyd podcast episode ID, UEFA referee ID, Flowers of India ID, Panoptikum podcast episode ID, NBAIR pest ID, Reptiles of India ID, Odonata of India ID, Birds of India ID, Moths of India ID, India Biodiversity Portal species ID, Indian Medicinal Plants Database ID, ZSI author ID, Biodiversity of West Bengal species ID, UK Lakes Portal ID, askArt person ID


 * Deleted properties: P2035 (LinkedIn personal profile URL), P1946 (N6I ID)
 * Query examples:
 * Map of UK MPs coloured by party (source) - may change in the next few weeks
 * Maintenance query: items which have a value of "unknown" (Q24238356) rather than the "unknown" special value (source)
 * 100 cities closest to the North pole with more than 200k inhabitants (source)
 * Actors with whom Shah Rukh Khan collaborated, in a bubble chart showing how many times it happened (source)
 * New Integraality dashboards: Journals by publisher, Theses by institution
 * Schema examples:
 * Painting
 * Member of parliament from Sweden
 * Malayalam lexeme
 * Newest WikiProjects: Sum of all Podcasts
 * Newest database reports:
 * Uniform Resource Name (URN) in Wikidata
 * Universally Unique IDentifier (UUID) constraint check


 * Development
 * Made the Lua functions mw.wikibase.getBestStatements and mw.wikibase.getAllStatements faster if called more than once for the same statement on a single page
 * Fix a bug on the mobile termbox (T236677)
 * Update Wikibase Lua documentation (T225497)
 * Highlight individual statements when selecting them in the URL (T234079)
 * Add monolingual language code "sa-Sidd", "pi-Sidd", tnq (Taíno), car (Kalinago) and bdr (T230881, T220284, T234330)
 * Make it possible to collapse the "All entered languages" section when at the end of the section (T232595)
 * Cache php.getEntityStatements in mw.wikibase (T236491)
 * Tracking Wikidata Bridge openings by Datatype in Grafana (T231204)
 * Not showing Bridge edit pens when the editor cannot edit the article (T235152)
 * A bugfix to only show scrollbars where they are supposed to be shown (T235622)
 * Enabling/Disabling the Save button depending on the bridge state (T230342)
 * More work on tainted references

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


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

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Tech News: 2019-45
<section begin="technews-2019-W45"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * At Special:Contributions you could see up to 5000 edits at the same time if you edited the URL. This has been lowered to 500. This is to stop requests which break the sites.

Changes later this week
 * can set the default length to block a user for your wiki. You will be able to use  to set a different default block length for IP editors.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 November. It will be on all wikis from 7 November (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Wikidata weekly summary #390
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Wikidata to use data schemas to standardise data structure on a subject


 * Events
 * Past: Wikidata office hour (notes)
 * Past: "Using Wikidata to describe the structure of a book" Webinar by Martin Poulter for LD4P2 project (Video), (Slides), (Notes)
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop OpenRefine in Prague on 12 November
 * Upcoming: Online editathon in Swedish 17 November


 * Tool of the week
 * Speedpatrolling is a tool to easily patrol Wikidata recent changes, typically on mobile devices.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikipedia Personality Infobox in Catalan and French display now the Heritage Institution in charge of their archives via P485 (archives at).
 * The Discord server Wikimedia Community has now a Wikidata channel.
 * @Wikipedia talks about @Wikidata by GerardM


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: landscape architect, charge conjugation quantum number, statement is regarded as spoiler for, room number, scope and content
 * External identifiers: startrek.com Database ID, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant ID, Chinese Professional Baseball League player ID, Software Preservation Society ID, Sega Retro ID, classicamiga ID, Filmový přehled film ID, Filmový přehled person ID, Gaming-History company ID, SK cinema authority ID, SK cinema film ID, CA PROP 65 ID, ePSD identifier, Czech cadastral area ID, dp.ru company ID, Fortuna liga player ID, MEA Indian Mission ID, AaRC person ID, MIC market code


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: general law, population rank, area rank, population density rank, references, territorial entity ranking context, mentions named entity, plot features event, Jyutping (2)
 * External identifiers: National Health Portal hospital ID, IPC ID, Plusliga player ID, Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility's Species List ID, Sinemalar person ID, UVL game ID, WikiTreeCategories, Ahotsak Lexeme, UVL platform ID, Inguma database ID, UVL company ID, UVL group ID, Home of the Underdogs game ID, name-suggestion-index identifier, OGDB game title ID, common exchange code, Memorial Book Bundesarchiv ID, CISCE school code, CBSE Affiliation No., JNAF artist ID, OGDB compilation ID


 * Query examples:
 * Persons in the genealogy family tree WikiTree were WIkidata has a source from the Swedish National Archives Birth/Death records
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23defaultView%3AMap%0A%23%20minimum%20temperatures%20on%20Earth%20%0A%23%20from%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fwiki%2FProperty_talk%3AP7422%0ASELECT%20%3Fdegrees_Celsius%20%3Fdegrees_Fahrenheit%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Flocation%20%3FlocationLabel%20%3Fdate%20%3Fcoor%20%3Flayer%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%09%3Fitem%20p%3AP7422%20%3Fst%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fst%20psv%3AP7422%20%20%5B%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3Fdegrees_Celsius%20%3B%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ25267%20%5D%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%20%28%20ROUND%20%28%20%3Fdegrees_Celsius%20%2a%201.8%20%2B%2032%20%29%20as%20%3Fdegrees_Fahrenheit%20%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20UNION%0A%09%7B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fst%20psv%3AP7422%20%20%5B%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3Fdegrees_Fahrenheit%20%3B%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ42289%20%5D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%20ROUND%28%20%28%20%3Fdegrees_Fahrenheit%20-%2032%20%29%20%2F%201.8%20%2a%2010%29%2F10%20as%20%3Fdegrees_Celsius%20%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fst%20pq%3AP276%20%3Flocation%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Flocation%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoor0%20%7D%20%7D%20%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fst%20pq%3AP585%20%3Fdate%20%7D%20%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoor1%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28%20COALESCE%28%3Fcoor0%2C%20%3Fcoor1%29%20as%20%3Fcoor%29%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28%20CONCAT%28str%28Floor%28%3Fdegrees_Celsius%20%2F%2010%29%29%2C%220s%20%C2%B0C%22%29%20as%20%3Flayer%29%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%20%7D%20%20%20%20%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20ASC%28%3Fdegrees_Celsius%29%0ALIMIT%201000 Minimum temperature records on Earth]
 * Map of districts of India by ratio of illiterate to literate population in 2011 (source)
 * List of episodes of Detective Conan's Case Closed, with date and place of publication and series and season number, sorted by date of publication (source)
 * Parent and child who both had a governor mandate in the USA (source)
 * Belgian artists whose work will be in public domain starting in 2020 (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Wolfram Language, most frequent first names in Poland, Paintings and images of signatures of painters


 * Development
 * In order to decrease the size of what we store in caches we stopped storing the actual EntityUsage objects in ParserOutput and now just store minimal identifier strings (T236749)
 * Investigated why Termbox broke on an update (T235261)
 * Removed auto jump of focus from Property field to value field (T234322 - thanks to Envlh for the patch)
 * Removed non-functional site link groups for other Wikibase installations that don't need them (T232248)
 * Continued working on the migration of the wb_terms table to address scalability issues
 * Continued working on the shortened version of edit summaries for edits made through the mobile termbox (T224013)
 * For the Wikidata Bridge we are not showing edit pens when the user can not edit the article anymore (T235152)
 * Working on viewing existing references in the Wikidata Bridge (T233397)
 * Worked on showing an information popup when clicking the tainted reference icon to tell you what went wrong and how to solve it.
 * Worked on defining first version of Federation for wikis outside Wikimedia
 * Commons search have stopped indexing statements (structured data) since 30 October 2019 (T237849)

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


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

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Tech News: 2019-46
<section begin="technews-2019-W46"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * MediaWiki2LaTeX can put different pages from a Wikimedia wiki into a PDF. It can now make a PDF with around 5000 pages. Previously this was 800 pages.

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

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Wikimedia will take part in Google Code-in. This is for young students who want to help with open source software. You can read more. Experienced technical Wikimedians can mentor students.

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This Month in GLAM: October 2019
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Wikidata weekly summary #391
<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: Recap of WikidataCon and WikiConference North America, 19 November. Agenda


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Online Disinformation and the Role of Wikipedia


 * Tool of the week
 * The Mix'n'Match gadget displays on an item all unconfirmed matches on Mix'n'match, allowing to quickly add them.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * There are now over 2.5 million Wikidata Infoboxes in Commons categories.
 * OpenRefine is awarded a USD 200,000 grant by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to fund its development in 2020.
 * Autojump from a field to another will be removed
 * Panandâ, a mobile app powered by Wikidata (and Wikimedia Commons), won the top prize in the App for Social Good category in the Android Masters 2019 competition organized by Google Developer Group Philippines. Eugene, the app's developer, recently gave a lightning talk about the app at WikidataCon 2019.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: Commons category for the interior of the item
 * External identifiers: Birds of India ID, India Biodiversity Portal species ID, Moths of India ID, NBAIR pest ID, Odonata of India ID, Planète Aventure ID, Reptiles of India ID, ZSI author ID, Indian Medicinal Plants Database ID, askArt person ID, Flowers of India ID, National Health Portal hospital ID, UK Lakes Portal ID, Biodiversity of West Bengal species ID, International Paralympic Committee athlete alphabetical ID, Plusliga player ID, Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility's Species List ID, Sinemalar person ID, Encyclopedia of Mathematics wiki ID, UVL game ID, UVL platform ID, Inguma database ID, Ahotsak Lexeme, UVL company ID, UVL group ID, Home of the Underdogs game ID, OGDB game title ID, CISCE school code, JNAF artist ID, OGDB compilation ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: IAST transliteration, Hunterian transliteration, IFCO rating, stellar age, Wildlife Protection Act 1972 schedule, nominalisated form, date of assent, effective date, valid for, supervisor, Xmodmap keysym, Properties for Indian ragas
 * External identifiers: Digital Corpus of Sanskrit ID, OGDB company ID, Sri Granth Punjabi word ID, Broadcast Radio Bearer URI, AboutTheArtists artist ID, Czech city district ID, Prague administrative district ID, NinDB game ID, DUC ID, VideoGameGeek game ID, VideoGameGeek platform ID, Cinepub person ID, Disney+ movie ID, Disney+ series ID, Lutris game ID, Cinept film ID, CinePT person ID, Finnish generals and admirals in the Imperial Russian Army 1809–1917 ID, Biblioteche dei filosofi ID, Lutris platform ID, Beaux-arts ID, Dictionary of Wisconsin History ID, India PlayStation Store ID, Enciclopedia dei Papi ID, The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church ID, SHARE Catalogue work ID, Czech municipality ID, Lutris genre ID


 * Query examples:
 * Adaptations of The War of the Worlds (source)
 * Graves at the Stockholm church Riddarholmskyrkan who use book Riddarholmskyrkan - inventories and graves (Q61765464) as a source, source
 * Map of sisterly relationships with cities in India (source)
 * Map of the languages without any Wikidata Lexemes yet (source)
 * Newest database reports: translations for port/starboard and windward/leeward


 * Development
 * Tainted references: Show warning icon if statement value is changed but reference is not changed in the same edit (T231728)
 * Make WikibaseQualityConstraints link using SpecialMyLanguage (T233003)
 * Work on the issue of property labels not showing up on some pages (T237984)
 * Track Bridge openings by property datatype (T231204)
 * Viewing existing references in the Bridge (T233397)
 * Attaching the link listener sooner, so the user gets a bit less often wrongly forwarded to wikidata (T235765)

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
 * 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: 2019-47
<section begin="technews-2019-W47"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * You will be able to read but not to edit some wikis for up to 30 minutes on 26 November at 06:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis. It will probably last much shorter than 30 minutes. This will also affect the  database. This could for example affect changing passwords, logging in to new wikis, changing emails or global renames.

Changes later this week
 * You can soon vote on proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can read more about the format for this year.
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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List of birds of Jinja edits
Thank you for upgrading List of birds of Jinja - it's overdue. However, you need to follow the Wikipedia Manual of Style WP:MOS. Only the first word of common names is capitalized, unless more of the name is normally a proper noun. For example: White-faced whistling duck and Sao Tome paradise flycatcher. Scientific names (genus and specific epithet) are always italicized: Dendrocygna viduata. Items on bullet-holed lists are not additionally separated by commas. And the Orders which are fully capitalized should be reduced to only a leading capital like Anseriformes already is. Craigthebirder (talk) 22:42, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 36
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 * #1Lib1Ref January 2020
 * #1Lib1Ref 2019 stories and learnings

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Tech News: 2019-48
<section begin="technews-2019-W48"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week
 * The mobile beta mode will be disabled to have less maintenance. The developers will focus on the desktop improvements project. You can turn on advanced mobile contributions mode if you want to see the categories. You could also jump back to the top. This can instead be done with a gadget or user script.
 * Parsoid is software we use for the visual editor, content translation, Flow and the Android app. This has been rewritten. It will come to the wikis gradually over the next two weeks. It has been tested, but there could be some diffs or previews that don't look right. If you see any you can report them.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 November. It will be on the other wikis next week (calendar). This is because of holidays.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * You will switch between the article and the talk page in a new way in the mobile view in the future. It will use tabs. This is more like in the desktop view.

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Wikidata weekly summary #392
<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
 * Join the global WikiForHumanRights Campaign by participating with WikiProject Human rights. The campaigns is focused on increasing coverage of human rights topics on Wikimedia projects through January 30.
 * Upcoming: Online editathon in Swedish 1 December
 * Past: ProWD, a tool for PROfiling the multi-dimensional completeness of WikiData, was presented at the K-CAP 2019 conference on Nov 21, 2019 in Marina del Rey, USA. Using ProWD, one may compare, for example, the completeness of computer scientists by nationality and sex. The slides are available by clicking this link. The ProWD developers are welcoming any feedback!
 * Past: WikiTechStorm in Amsterdam. See the videos of the sessions, including a lot of Wikidata-related introductions
 * Past: | Wikidata Zurich Hackathon
 * Past: Wikimedia Tech Talk: Wikidata, behind the curtain, by Ladsgroup


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Die Datenlaube launched diedatenlaube.github.io - a collection of blog posts, links and scripts around "wikidatafying" the big German Wikisource project Die Gartenlaube (in German).


 * Tool of the week
 * Cradle enables editors to create a new item by completing a form. You can create a new form on the Cradle help page. Cradle forms can be used as templates to ensure that similar new items are structured the same way. This can be especially helpful for specific WikiProjects or datathons, and is a great timesaver if you are creating many similar items by hand.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * 570k VIAF identifiers have been added to Wikidata items in an effort of synchronisation between the two databases, thanks to Bargioni. In order to report errors in VIAF an apposite page has been created. More information here.
 * Query Service lag now affects maxlag. You may need to retry/reset error multiple times when you run QuickStatement or OpenRefine in busy hours.
 * Wikidata now documented more than six million people, more than the number of articles in English Wikipedia
 * New documentation page: Wikidata:Map data


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: Wikimedia page-version URL, IFCO rating, IAST transliteration, Wildlife Protection Act 1972 (India) schedule, age estimated by a dating method, effective date, date of assent, ascending scale, descending scale, primary note, secondary note, CITES Appendix, supervisor, Hunterian transliteration
 * External identifiers: CBSE Affiliation No., OGDB company ID, Memorial Book Bundesarchiv ID, Digital Corpus of Sanskrit ID, Swedish Royal Theater Archive, Sri Granth Punjabi word ID, Broadcast Radio Bearer URI, Czech city district ID, DUC ID, Prague administrative district ID, AboutTheArtists artist ID, fyyd podcast ID, NinDB game ID, Cinepub person ID, eFloraSA ID, eBay username, VideoGameGeek game ID, VideoGameGeek platform ID, CinePT film ID, CinePT person ID, Disney+ movie ID, Disney+ series ID, Lutris game ID, Ratingraph MALE person ID, Czech municipality ID, WikiTreeCategories, P7608, SHARE Catalogue work ID, Taiwan Cinema company ID, Taiwan Cinema Film ID, Taiwan Cinema person ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: amends, syndicate, corporate domicile, Latvian transcription, implies, stargate-wiki.de article ID
 * External identifiers: SciProfiles ID, Scilit journal ID, YVNG ID, TheGamesDB game ID, VLR ID, Archives Portal Europe ID, Church Heritage Cymru ID, NVE Powerplant ID, TheGamesDB platform ID, Artsdata ID, WPI ID, TheGamesDB developer ID, MPPDA Digital Archive person ID, MPPDA Digital Archive film ID, MPPDA Digital Archive organisation ID, Dictionary of Scottish Architects building ID, Czech municipality with authorized municipal office ID, Czech municipality with expanded powers ID, IDU theatre ID, Scienza a due voci ID, TheGamesDB publisher ID, OverDrive publisher ID, RomanianActors person ID, Encyclopedia of Cleveland History ID, Cochrane concept ID, Vectrex Game Database ID, OverDrive creator ID, OverDrive series ID, Hoopla series ID, Speiderhistorisk leksikon article, super-famicom.jp ID, Arolsen ID, Doctrine court decision ID, Juricaf decision ID, Riksdagen person guid, Places of Worship in Scotland ID, Museum of Family History ID, MovieGe person ID, GameFAQs credit ID, IMovies person ID, Ratingraph FEMALE person ID, Scilit publication ID, FMV World ID


 * Query examples:
 * Paintings of people with cats (source)
 * Number of English Lexemes in Wikidata by first letter (source)
 * Tree map of 1990s National Film Award winners, sorted by specific award (source)
 * Map of world's disputed areas (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Human Rights
 * Newest database reports: poems by Emily Dickinson


 * Development
 * Add Wikidata query service lag to Wikidata maxlag (T221774)
 * More work on tainted references and getting the feature ready to be tested
 * Fix a bug with Wikibase test builds (T238575)
 * More work on improving the edit summaries (T224013)
 * Bridge: Viewing existing references (T233397)
 * Preserving native behavior on key+click (T234060)
 * Speeding up initialization, by attaching link listeners sooner (T235765) and reducing the size of the init module (T235771)
 * Recording metrics for bridge opening performance (T237368)

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


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

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This Month in Education: November 2019
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Special Notice for TheWikiWizard
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The Signpost: 29 November 2019
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Administrators' newsletter – December 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2019). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg EvergreenFir • ToBeFree
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Akhilleus • Athaenara • John Vandenberg • Melchoir • MichaelQSchmidt • NeilN • Youngamerican • 😂

CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Beeblebrox
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Deskana

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Evad37

Guideline and policy news
 * An RfC on the administrator resysop criteria was closed. 18 proposals have been summarised with a variety of supported and opposed statements. The inactivity grace period within which a new request for adminship is not required has been reduced from three years to two. Additionally, Bureaucrats are permitted to use their discretion when returning administrator rights.
 * Following a proposal, the edit filter mailing list has been opened up to users with the Edit Filter Helper right.

Technical news
 * Wikimedia projects can set a default block length for users via MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry. A new page, MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ip, allows the setting of a different default block length for IP editors. Neither is currently used. (T219126)

Arbitration
 * Voting in the 2019 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 2 December 2018 UTC. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.

Miscellaneous
 * The global consultation on partial and temporary office actions that ended in October received a closing statement from staff concluding, among other things, that the WMF will no longer use partial or temporary Office Action bans... until and unless community consensus that they are of value or Board directive.

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Wikidata weekly summary #393
<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: Gadgets, 3 December. Agenda


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Open Access Directory’s List of Blogs: Wikidata Ingest by A. Britton
 * Wikidata and Archival Metadata ; opportunities and challenges for heritage institutions by Baptiste de Coulon, 22.11.2019, Linking the Past,,.
 * Introducing ISA – a cool tool for adding structured data on Commons by Isla Haddow-Flood
 * Video of live queries building by WikidataFacts
 * Video of the Wikidata editathon in Swedish with Jan Ainali, Magnus Sälgö and UncleCJ


 * Tool of the week
 * Alt Labels displays item labels in other languages when there is no label in your default language. You may click a label to add it as the label for your language. This tool is very helpful for labels for people, books, articles, or films that do not need their labels to be translated.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel and Special:EntitiesWithoutDescription will use ElasticSearch, improving display and ranking
 * Edit summaries coming from wbeditentity API will have a new format


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: covered period
 * External identifiers: Biblioteche dei filosofi ID, Dictionary of Wisconsin History ID, Finnish generals and admirals in the Imperial Russian Army 1809–1917 ID, Lutris genre ID, Lutris platform ID, VLR ID, The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church ID, Enciclopedia dei Papi ID, Church Heritage Cymru ID, TheGamesDB game ID, TheGamesDB platform ID, YVNG ID, WPI ID, NVE Powerplant ID, Artsdata.ca ID, Dictionary of Scottish Architects building ID, MPPDA Digital Archive film ID, MPPDA Digital Archive organisation ID, MPPDA Digital Archive person ID, administrative district of Czech municipality with authorized municipal office ID, administrative district of Czech municipality with expanded powers ID, IDU theatre ID, OverDrive creator ID, OverDrive publisher ID, MTV Germany artist ID, TheGamesDB publisher ID, Encyclopedia of Cleveland History ID, RomanianMaleActors person ID, IISG ID, Cochrane concept ID, OverDrive series ID, Vectrex Game Database ID, WeChat ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija ID, Prog Archives artist ID, www.gesetze-im-internet.de ID, quantity symbol, research status, Playstation Data Center ID, recombination author, superfamicom.org ID, commissioned for
 * External identifiers: Code de l'autorité de l'aviation civile grecque, Flanders Architecture Institute ID, NEC Retro ID, Semion author ID, WorldCat Identities, Czech district ID, Czech region ID, Cinépolis KLIC ID, Vie publique person ID, Vie publique intervention ID, Wikimapia, OpenRetro Game Database ID, Vie publique report ID, Israel Museum Jerusalem artist id, Colorado Encyclopedia ID, National Library of New Zealand authority ID, Utah History Encyclopedia ID, Mississippi Encyclopedia ID, South Carolina Encyclopedia ID, The Oregon Encyclopedia ID, Online Nevada Encyclopedia ID, CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas ID, Encyclopedia of the Great Plains ID, WyoHistory.org ID, Kansaspedia ID, The Sierra Chest ID, Quora topic ID (Spanish) 2, RomanianActresses person ID, Europeana Entity, Aberdeenshire HER ID, AncientFaces person ID, SNESmusic.org game ID, Français libres ID, Musée de la Résistance ID


 * Query examples:
 * Graph of shared borders between regions of Myanmar (source)
 * Plurals in German ending with only "n" (not "en") (source)
 * Women's + Gender History Digital Humanities list (source)
 * Newest database reports: descendants of Charlemagne


 * Development
 * Fix security issues impacting the Query Service GUI (more details)
 * Work on a a new Parser function (commaSeparatedList) (T224013)
 * Implement Shortened version for edit summary (T224013)
 * Add user agent to Wikidata Query UI code examples (T226709)
 * Add label and description collision detectors for new terms store (T232040)
 * Wikidata Bridge: showing a loading bar during initialization (T232468)
 * Showing an error dialog if users can’t edit on Wikidata (T235154)

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


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

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Tech News: 2019-49
<section begin="technews-2019-W49"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * Mix'n'match is a tool to connect Wikidata items to information in other databases. It can be used to find subjects that are missing in a Wikipedia. It now has more than 3000 datasets. Before it was closer to 2000.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 December. It will be on all wikis from 5 December (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg There will be a new schema for XML dumps. Scripts and apps that use them will need to be updated. If they are not updated they will no longer work.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The  magic word will no longer work in the content namespaces. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it returns   (empty string). When you read a page it returns   (dash). In the future this will also affect other namespaces. The next ones are file and category namespaces.

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Bio drafts
Hey there MarkZusab! Thanks for volunteering to work on the pages I had linked to at User:BOZ/Draft pages which had been deleted previously. :) If you want to take a look at the other two after doing what you can on the three that were just undeleted, then I will see what I can do about making those available as well! :) BOZ (talk) 03:25, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

Copying within Wikipedia requires attribution
Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you copied or moved text from 1938 New England hurricane into Thirty-Eight: The Hurricane That Transformed New England. While you are welcome to re-use Wikipedia's content, here or elsewhere, Wikipedia's licensing does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied at minimum in an edit summary at the page into which you've copied content, disclosing the copying and linking to the copied page, e.g.,. It is good practice, especially if copying is extensive, to also place a properly formatted copied template on the talk pages of the source and destination. The attribution has been provided for this situation, but if you have copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, please provide attribution for that duplication. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you. If you are the sole author of the prose that was copied, attribution is not required. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:17, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #394
<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: Online editathon in Swedish, 15 December
 * Upcoming: Sydney Wikidata Workshop, 16 December


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Use of Wikidata in GLAM institutions, research report done by the user experience team at Wikimedia Deutschland
 * Measuring Social Bias in Knowledge Graph Embeddings
 * Letra zopak, Scrabble eta euskarazko letrarik ohikoena, about the most common characters in Basque language, and how this should affect automatic letter-soups and Scrabble point-system.
 * Two new blog posts about GLAM pilot projects for Structured Data on Commons:
 * How we helped a small art museum to increase the impact of its collections, with Wikimedia projects and structured data by Sandra Fauconnier
 * How can Structured Data on Commons, Wikidata, and Wikisource walk hand in hand? A pilot project with Punjabi Qisse by Satdeep Gill


 * Tool of the week
 * overpass: Embeds a map displaying features tagged with the current item in OpenStreetMap. Powered by overpass turbo. It helps check if the Wikidata object is mapped in OSM and also if it's correct.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * A WikiCite event will take place in May 2020 in Cologne. Call for contributions is now open (more info)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: file page
 * External identifiers: Hoopla series ID, Germany06.Ru person ID, MovieGe person ID, Ratingraph FEMALE person ID, Speiderhistorisk leksikon article, Arolsen ID, Doctrine court decision ID, Juricaf decision ID, POWiS ID, super-famicom.jp ID, GameFAQs credit ID, Scilit journal ID, Scienza a due voci ID, FMV World ID, Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija ID, Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority airport code, NEC Retro ID, Prog Archives artist ID, Semion author ID, Musiikkituottajat artist ID, Czech district ID, Czech region ID, Vie publique intervention ID, Vie publique person ID, www.gesetze-im-internet.de ID, Wikimapia ID, Cinépolis KLIC ID, Colorado Encyclopedia ID, Israel Museum Jerusalem artist id, National Library of New Zealand authority ID, OpenRetro Game Database ID, Vie publique report ID, CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas ID, Encyclopedia of the Great Plains ID, Kansaspedia ID, Mississippi Encyclopedia ID, Online Nevada Encyclopedia ID, South Carolina Encyclopedia ID, The Oregon Encyclopedia ID, Utah History Encyclopedia ID, WyoHistory.org ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Complex Portal accession, Cache, is supervisor of, Gazette of India notification, molecular model, SSNE person ID, sex, year of recombination (taxonomy), Text features
 * External identifiers: Slovak National Library id, National Library of Lithuania id, Maine: An Encyclopedia ID, e-WV ID, SNESmusic.org company ID, Våre falne person ID, World Flora Online ID, ACMA Broadcast Service Licence Number, tDAR creator ID, SNESmusic.org composer ID, identifiant Auteurs - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Domaines - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Découverte - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Dénominations - Joconde du Service des musées de France, Beni Ecclesiastici in web ID, portable music history ID, Atlas Obscura identifier, identifiant Genèse - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Inscriptions - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Lieux - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Périodes - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Techniques - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Epoques - Joconde du Service des musées de France, Mille Anni di Scienza in Italia ID, Czech cohesion region ID, Czech territorial region ID, Prague territorial district ID, SPIE profile ID, console music history ID, Wikispore, DLE RAE ID, DEJ RAE ID, MarketScreener business leaders ID, VBProfiles person ID, garaph.info game ID, PubAg ID, Tubi movie ID, Tubi series ID, NTIS accession number, garaph.info group ID, Fossilworks ID for journal article, Littré ID, DES ID, DAF ID, Bob ID, TLFi ID, NES Cart Database ID


 * Query examples:
 * Number of lexemes on Wikidata in Indian languages (source)
 * Collections of the National Gallery of Armenia imported into Wikidata (source)
 * Movie directors having the longest carrier (source)


 * Development
 * Implement Shortened version for edit summary (T224013)
 * Add monolingual language code WLS (Wallisian) (T239411)
 * DumpRDF for MediaInfo entities loads each page individually (T222497)
 * Add user agent to Wikidata Query UI code examples (T226709)
 * Wikidata Bridge: Showing a loading bar during initialization (T232468)

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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 * 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: 2019-50
<section begin="technews-2019-W50"/> 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
 * Wikimedia projects use Translatewiki to translate the wiki interface. You can now use WatchTranslations to watch projects there. You would get an email if there are missing translations to your language.
 * Octicons-tools.svg There is a new dataset you can use. It shows the number of editors per country per month for a number of countries. You can read the documentation and download the dataset.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 December. It will be on all wikis from 12 December (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * You can test a new reference tool. It makes it possible to reference different parts of a source without repeating all information. You can test it on the beta cluster. You can see an example article.

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This Month in GLAM: November 2019
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December 2019
Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give Category:Wikia a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into Category:Fandom (website). This is known as a "cut-and-paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history, which is legally required for attribution. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.

In most cases, once your account is four days old and has ten edits, you should be able to move an article yourself using the "Move" tab at the top of the page (the tab may be hidden in a dropdown menu for you). This both preserves the page history intact and automatically creates a redirect from the old title to the new. If you cannot perform a particular page move yourself this way (e.g. because a page already exists at the target title), please follow the instructions at requested moves to have it moved by someone else. Also, if there are any other pages that you moved by copying and pasting, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Requests for history merge. Thank you. —37.42.107.237 (talk) 13:13, 15 December 2019 (UTC)

Weekly Summary #395
<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;">
 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * More WikidataCon 2019 reports:
 * WikidataCon 2019 report on the Latvian Wikipedia
 * Wikidata+OSM at State of the Map 2019 and WikidataCon 2019


 * Tool of the week
 * Recoin displays information about the relative completeness of a Wikidata item by comparing its statements with those found on other similar items. Especially useful for editors working in a knowledge area that is new to them.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Following a discussion on generalizing P2572 to all hashtags and the rejections of Instagram hashtag, Flickr tag, and Gfycat tag properties propositions, the formerly 'Twitter hashtag' property is now a platform-agnostic hashtag (P2572) property. A tool was created to be used as formatter url and link to those different platforms regrouping content by hashtags: toolforge:hashtags-hub.
 * New tool: WDumper, generating customized Wikidata RDF dumps. More information
 * Call for Proposals for grants to support WikiCite satellite events
 * MediaWiki Technical Advice IRC Meetings will not continue in 2020


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: superfamicom.org ID, nominalized form, PlayStation DataCenter ID, implies
 * External identifiers: Aberdeenshire HER ID, e-WV ID, Français libres ID, Maine: An Encyclopedia ID, Musée de la Résistance ID, National Library of Lithuania ID, Slovak National Library ID, SNESmusic.org game ID, The Sierra Chest ID, Spanish Quora topic ID, Europeana Entity, SNESmusic.org company ID, ScienceOpen author ID, ScienceOpen publication ID, Joconde author ID, Joconde domain ID, SNESmusic.org composer ID, tDAR creator ID, World Flora Online ID, ACMA Broadcast Service Licence Number, Vaare falne ID, Complex Portal accession ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Differential diagnosis, part of terminology, voice gender, verifiability of property, study type, NIPS Proceedings author ID, field of training, litter size, Copyright status of author, academic appointment, written at, legislative committee, Member of military unit, access status of contents, EAN-13, filename in archive
 * External identifiers: Computer Emuzone ID, Projekt Gutenberg-DE ID, PlanetMath, Natural Product Atlas ID, EEPS ID, screenscraper platform ID, The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture ID, ScreenScraper game ID, Nonfiction ID, ScreenScraper company ID, National September 11 Memorial ID, Museum of Modern Art exhibition ID, PS photographer ID, deviantArt, Frick Art Reference Library Artist File Names ID, LiverTox ID, ScreenScraper group ID, ZX81 Collection ID, Netherlands Photo Museum photographer ID, Movie Walker person ID, ZX81 Collection publisher ID, IDFA film ID


 * Query examples:
 * Wikidata properties > 7000
 * Wikidata External identifiers > 4590
 * Map of locations of "big cities" (source)
 * Seats which changed party in the 2019 UK General Election (source) (mapped)
 * artists in Wikidata mapped to the Swedish National museums but are not an entity in Europeana (image view)
 * Newest WikiProjects: d:Wikidata:WikiProject Human Rights (created to support WikiForHumanRights)


 * Development
 * Work on deploying the first version of tainted references on test Wikidata
 * Bridge: show an error dialog if users can’t edit on the repo wiki (T235154)
 * Set up a shared Vue component library for Wikibase (T240329)
 * More work on the new term store
 * Add Wikidata support for mnwwiki" (T235745)
 * New languages for monolingual strings: mfa, ckt, abq-Latn, dag
 * Help identifying an issue with QuickStatements when one user is blocked on Wikidata (T240316)
 * Hide non-supported languages in the termbox (T227083)

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


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

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Tech News: 2019-51
<section begin="technews-2019-W51"/> 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 Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. It did not show new changes last week. This was because of an API problem. It is now working again.
 * Special:Watchlist can show the wrong information again. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. This is because of a database problem. The developers are working on solving the problem.

Changes later this week
 * You can get email notifications. You can get them immediately, a summary every day or a summary once every week. If you choose a summary you can soon choose not to get notifications you have already marked as read on the wiki.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 December. It will be on all wikis from 19 December (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The partial blocks feature is now stable. It will come to most wikis on 6 January. Your wiki can ask to wait. Contact NKohli (WMF) if you don't want it now.

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Happy holidays
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Interstellarity (talk) is wishing you Happy Holidays! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user Happy Holidays, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Happy New Year!

Spread the cheer by adding {{subst:Happy holidays}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

New Page Review newsletter December 2019


This year's Reviewer of the Year is. Having gotten the reviewer PERM in August 2018, they have been a regular reviewer of articles and redirects, been an active participant in the NPP community, and has been the driving force for the emerging NPP Source Guide that will help reviewers better evaluate sourcing and notability in many countries for which it has historically been difficult.
 * Reviewer of the Year

Special commendation again goes to who ends the year as one of our most prolific reviewers for the second consecutive year. Thanks also to and  who have been in the top 5 for the last two years as well.

Several newer editors have done a lot of work with CAPTAIN MEDUSA and DannyS712 (who has also written bots which have patrolled thousands of redirects) being new reviewers since this time last year.

Thanks to them and to everyone reading this who has participated in New Page Patrol this year.

(The top 100 reviewers of the year can be found here)

A recent Request for Comment on creating a new redirect autopatrol pseduo-permission was closed early. New Page Reviewers are now able to nominate editors who have an established track record creating uncontroversial redirects. At the individual discretion of any administrator or after 24 hours and a consensus of at least 3 New Page Reviewers an editor may be added to a list of users whose redirects will be patrolled automatically by.
 * Redirect autopatrol

Set to launch early in the new year is our first New Page Patrol Source Guide discussion. These discussions are designed to solicit input on sources in places and topic areas that might otherwise be harder for reviewers to evaluate. The hope is that this will allow us to improve the accuracy of our patrols for articles using these sources (and/or give us places to perform a WP:BEFORE prior to nominating for deletion). Please watch the New Page Patrol talk page for more information.
 * Source Guide Discussion

While New Page Reviewers are an experienced set of editors, we all benefit from an occasional review. This month consider refreshing yourself on Notability (geographic features). Also consider how we can take the time for quality in this area. For instance, sources to verify human settlements, which are presumed notable, can often be found in seconds. This lets us avoid the (ugly) 'Needs more refs' tag. Delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) at 16:11, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
 * This month's refresher course

Tech News: 2019-52
<section begin="technews-2019-W52"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News
 * Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 6 January 2020.

Recent changes
 * All mobile site users now have new features. Features include: tabs for page/discussion; an expanded user-menu; direct access to history pages. These features were initially part of the "advanced mode".

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

Future changes
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Wikidata weekly summary #396
<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 2 weeks. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Discussions:
 * New request for comments: Handle genealogical information, Sort identifiers


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Data Roundtripping: a new frontier for GLAM-Wiki collaborations, by Sandra Fauconnier
 * Leveraging open data at the National Library of Wales, by Jason Evans
 * Context-aware Entity Linking with Attentive Neural Networks on Wikidata Knowledge Graph, Isaiah Onando Mulang et al. (on Arxiv)
 * Celebrating FactGrid’s Q100000: Conrad Alexandre Gérard
 * Descartes, social networks and popular culture: An excursion into digital scholarship
 * How to select your Christmas movie using SPARQL and Wikidata


 * Tool of the week
 * The revised version of the very powerful PetScan offers to edit or create items based on Wikipedia categories, search, SPARQL, links with filters by label or properties


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New tool: Dwynwen, adapted from Crotos, provides users with a search interface designed specifically for artworks and other visual digital content from Commons, using Wikidata.
 * MichaelSchoenitzer is looking for co-maintainers for the tool MachtSinn and the Lexeme Python library
 * We now have Q80000000
 * Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a UX designer to work on Wikidata and Wikibase as well as a technical writer


 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: litter size, legislative committee
 * External identifiers: Fossilworks ID for journal article, Wikispore ID, TLFi ID, The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture ID, Littré ID, PlanetMath ID, GUI number
 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: filename in archive, Microworld ID, Position with respect to the noun, network bands, Viewpoint heading, egg incubation period, author's wikimedia username, unit of measurement, type of age limit, attested as, provides data, recipient, external type, Amino community ID, used in phrase, type of external page
 * External identifiers: Australian National Maritime Museum ID, Australian National Maritime Museum person ID, The Video Games Museum system ID, Vikidia article, National Aviation Hall of Fame person ID, RationalWiki ID, The Video Games Museum game ID, CEEB K-12 school code, D-MSX ID, Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging, VGMPF ID, Games Database system ID, ICD-11 ID (foundation), AdoroCinema, Games Database game ID, Games Database developer ID, LFE player ID, PersonalData.IO ID, Games Database publisher ID, The Digital Local Culture Encyclopedia of Korea ID, textove.com, textove.com Song ID, kino-teatr.ru person ID, dovidka.com.ua person ID, Russian PFL player ID, Ten-Bruggencatenummer, J-GLOBAL ID, The Good Old Days ID, AuthenticusID, Ciência ID, ExoticA ID, Decine21 person ID, Identifier for a resource held by the Smithsonian Institution, Macintosh Garden game ID, UCUM code, PragerU presenter ID, Ukrainica ID, Macintosh Repository ID, LaunchBox Games Database platform ID
 * Query examples:
 * Map showing objects named after a person represented in Europeana
 * Locations where paintings were made (source)
 * Swedish citizens who died in 1949 and whose works will enter the public domain on 1 January 2020 with profession and image, ordered by number of Wikimedia articles (source)
 * Oldest subways (source)
 * Popes who were children of other popes (source)
 * Colorful flags (source)


 * Development
 * Worked on better error dialogues for the Wikidata Bridge
 * Investigated and fixed labels for some Properties not being shown (T237984)
 * Continued working on the new database tables that replace wb_terms
 * Expanded documentation for 3rd party Wikibase installs
 * Continued working on making sure components in different areas of Wikibase can easily be shared to make development easier (T240329)
 * Enjoying the holidays. Hope so are you :)


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Administrators' newsletter – January 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2019).

Administrator changes
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Arbitration
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Wikidata weekly summary #397
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 * Events
 * New: you can Wikidata-related events in the calendar of Wikimedia Space
 * Upcoming: next Wikidata office hour, January 22nd, 18:00 (UTC+1), on the Wikidata Telegram channel
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Grenoble, France, January 16th


 * Tool of the week
 * Resolver allows you to quickly find an item based on a property+value string pair. It is especially useful for checking whether an external identifier such as a VIAF ID (P214) or Getty AAT ID (P1014) is already in use in Wikidata.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: copyright status as a creator, serving temperature, egg incubation period, member of military unit
 * External identifiers: ZX81 Collection publisher ID, ZX81 Collection ID, DAF ID, Computer Emuzone game ID, console music history ID, Czech cohesion region ID, Czech territorial region ID, deviantArt person ID, EEPS ID, garaph.info game ID, garaph.info group ID, IDFA film ID, Lithuanian Football Encyclopedia player ID, Microworld ID, Mille Anni di Scienza in Italia ID, Movie Walker person ID, Natural Product Atlas ID, NES Cart Database ID, NIPS Proceedings author ID, Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging, Nonfiction ID, portable music history ID, Prague territorial district ID, Projekt Gutenberg-DE ID, PS photographer ID, ScreenScraper company ID, ScreenScraper game ID, ScreenScraper platform ID, SPIE profile ID, The Video Games Museum system ID, Tubi movie ID, Tubi series ID, VBProfiles person ID, Archives Portal Europe ID, DES ID, Bob ID, Australian National Maritime Museum object ID, Australian National Maritime Museum person ID, PersonalData.IO ID, Atlas Obscura identifier, The Digital Local Culture Encyclopedia of Korea ID, The Good Old Days ID, RationalWiki ID, SSNE person ID, AdoroCinema film ID, Museum of Modern Art exhibition ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: literary form, HASC, Stairway To Hell ID, number of reviews or ratings, armament used, equipment used
 * External identifiers: bauhaus.community, LaunchBox Games Database game ID, OpenBibArt ID, LaunchBox Games Database developer ID, Saregama artist ID, openSUSE package, LaunchBox Games Database publisher ID, Orthodox Wiki ID, Wien Geschichte Wiki ID, What is the Apple IIGS? ID, BookBrainz work ID, NMVW id, David Wojnarowicz Knowledge Base ID, FandangoNow ID, CPCWiki ID, Sarvavijnanakosam ID, Punjabipedia ID, Open Churches ID, Apple IIGS France ID


 * Query examples:
 * Horses sorted by age of death (source)
 * Affiliates of the USA organization Peace Action (source)
 * 100 random paintings related to Haarlem (source)
 * Timeline of adaptations of Little Women and actresses who played Jo's character (source)
 * Indian people whose work is entering public domain in 2020 (source)

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Wikidata weekly summary #398
<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
 * Registration for the Wikimedia Hackathon in Tirana (May 9-11) opened
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: getting started in Wikidata, labels, and aliases, 14 January. Agenda


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Report of Wiki Techstorm 2019 by Jsamwrites
 * Aberdeen Plaques – Part Two: Visualisations, calculations, and analysis using wikidata by Ian Watt
 * Overview of Wikidata gadgets and user scripts - slides from LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Meetings
 * Wikipedia Rolls Out Our Research on Providing Semantic Information for Mathematical Formulae - this feature uses Wikidata


 * Tool of the week
 * Tabernacle creates a tabular view of a set of data items from a SPARQL query, PagePile list, or manual list of items. You can select which languages and properties to display. The tool lets you drag-and-drop statements from one item to another, and manually add or edit statements without leaving the page. Tabernacle is great for harmonizing a set of related items or identifying items that need their labels and descriptions translated.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * You can test a new feature highlighting mismatched references
 * The next Weekly Summary (January 20) will be the issue #400. Please help us collecting interesting Wikidata-related facts around the number 400!


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: exonerated of, Commons category for ship name, heading, filename in archive
 * External identifiers: Russian PFL player ID, J-GLOBAL ID, LaunchBox Games Database developer ID, LaunchBox Games Database game ID, Époques ID, openSUSE package, Ten-Bruggencatenummer, DLE RAE ID, NTIS accession number, PubAg ID, Games Database developer ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Beta Masaheft ID, ordered by, university of the third age, period of lactation, position, grape variety, merged into, distribution map of taxon
 * External identifiers: Ogólnopolska Baza Kolejowa - stacja ID, Livelib.ru person ID, ScummVM wiki ID, Instituto Moreira Salles ID, Arcade PCB database game ID, Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology ID, eu-football team ID, Museen in OÖ ID, Voetbal International player ID, Museums in Salzburg (AT) ID, C64.COM ID, Museen in Burgenland (AT) ID, FlashScore.com team ID, Soccerdonna team ID, c64games.de ID, Museums in Austria Code, Canmore thesaurus ID, The Cutting Room Floor ID, NPDRIM record ID, EFIS person ID, coinop.org game ID, EFIS film ID, EFIS filmmaker ID, EFIS film festival ID, WeChangEd ID, marterl.at ID


 * Query examples:
 * Locations depicted on album covers
 * Forts and heritage-scheduled sections of the Antonine Wall in Scotland (source)
 * Number of Lexemes including recordings from Lingua Libre by language (source)


 * Development
 * More work on finishing the migration of wb_terms table
 * Don’t check constraints on “Wikidata property example for media” statements (T227865)
 * Warn users that they're not nogged-in before performing restore or undo (T234430, thanks to Matěj Suchánek)
 * Remove edit link from Special:NewPages if page is not directly editable (T240561, thanks to Matěj Suchánek)
 * Introduce MwEraParser and improve i18n of dates BCE (T140541, thanks to Matěj Suchánek)
 * Bridge: show error dialog if the user isn't allowed to edit Wikidata (T235154)
 * Bridge: ask the user if the change is a fix or an update (T237333)
 * Enabled tainted references on test.wikidata.org

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 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
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Tech News: 2020-03
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Recent changes
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 * Octicons-tools.svg The weekly MediaWiki branch cut will soon become automated. The timing for this cut may change. You can discuss in Phabricator if this affects you.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can read about coming technical events and mentoring interns.

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Wikidata weekly summary #400
<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;">
 * Welcome to the 400th Weekly Summary! Here are some interesting Wikidata facts or queries collected by the community and related to the number 400:
 * Item #400 is Jenna Jameson; Property #400 is platform (software), and Lexeme #400 is "vierhonderd" - Dutch for "four hundred". The QID for the natural number 400 is Q1535396. The QID for the year 400 is Q25621.
 * The page ID 400 is Ludwig van Beethoven; the Wikidata page version ID 400 was a version of printer.
 * The Greek philosopher Hypatia, one of the first women scientists, became head of the Neo-Platonist school at Alexandria, in 400 AD. We include her here in tribute to those working to reduce Wikidata's gender gap.
 * Wikimedia Commons has 627 images taken with the Canon PowerShot A400 - you can see one on baritone saxophone.
 * Map of things at an altitude of 400 m.
 * Map of places with a population of 400 ± 5 (yellow) graduating to 400 ± 0 (red).
 * From this query, Wikidata knows of 21 theatres, 15 cinemas, 11 sports venues, 11 event venues, and 9 ships having a maximum capacity of 400.
 * Image grid of taxa with a highest observed lifespan of at least 400 years.
 * Image grid of items with a mass of 400 kilograms and image grid of items with a mass of 400 grams.
 * List of 400m distance sports events.
 * 400 Ducrosa is a main-belt asteroid named after J. Ducros.
 * List of items with an external ID equal to 400.
 * Last but not least, 400 dahlias for Léa, Lydia and the other contributors to this list!


 * Events
 * Past: Wikidata office hour on Telegram, January 22nd. Notes of the meeting
 * Upcoming: WikiTuesday / Wikidata Talks Meetup in Istambul, Turkey, January 28th
 * Upcoming: online meeting dedicated to organizers of Wikidata's 8th birthday, January 29th


 * Tool of the week
 * Duplicate Item copies the current item (without descriptions or sitelinks) to a new item. This tool is useful for splitting items and for making sets of similar items. Recommended for experienced users.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New development roadmap for Wikidata and Wikibase for 2020
 * OpenRefine usage survey 2020
 * Wikidata has an entry in Google's new data search tool


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: attested as, category for files created with program, period of lactation, aperture
 * External identifiers: C64.COM ID, c64games.de ID, eu-football.info team ID, museum in Salzburg (AT) ID, fyyd podcast episode ID, Upper Austria Museum ID, WorldCat Identities ID, word in DEJ of RAE ID, HAL article ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: LiverTox Likelihood Score, dean, stated age in source, US Bureau of Prisons Register Number, located in the constituency, motherboard, WMF short URL, Recognition, recognized by, not recognized by, jurisdiction status, supported metadata, expansion, historic first, number of pins, number of pin positions, catalogue raisonné, Dose, value group number, external georeferencer URL, axis, Voting system, image revision-id, region within image, georeferencing data, based on tabular data, Number of active electronic terminals, associated with, translated title, position in sequence, Attribution text, food energy, madhhab, Maximum number of playable characters, Main deity, electron configuration, capital social, gained territory from, key col of, religion or world view, CMF identifier, masculine form, feminine form, menu items, food composition, IP address or range, featured in, lighting, general law, territorial entity ranking context, references, mentions named entity, hardiness
 * External identifiers: NASA active astronaut ID, VGMRips company ID, DSSTOX compound identifier, Roglo person ID, VGMRips system ID, Museu de Memes ID, Nobel API ID, VideoGamer.com game ID, Canmore object-type ID, Canmore maritime-type ID, GameRevolution game ID, TrueAchievements game ID, PARADISEC Catalog, ELAR ID, ChemSynthesis ID, Whaling History ID, ft.dk politician identifier, Ciência ID, 7digital United Kingdom artist ID, Ident.Nr., GoodRx, part number, Faculté des sciences de Nancy ID, MIC, UEFA referee ID, name-suggestion-index identifier, TrueAchievements series ID, Bollywood Hungama ID 2, Gamekult game ID


 * Query examples:
 * The results of the Australian Triple J Hottest 100, 2019 music voting poll were published on 25 January 2019. See the results with associated music videos to watch.
 * Map of destinations from Wuhan Tianhe International Airport
 * 50 philosophers for which DBpedia and Wikidata state different date of birth (source)


 * Development
 * More work on wb_terms migration
 * Units support for quantity datatype (T239474)
 * Fix the link to rawgraphs.io from WDQS (T222257)
 * More work on showing messages related to permissions on the Wikidata Bridge
 * Tainted references: fix minor alignment issues (T243269, T242212)
 * Add a "remove warning" button to confirm a correct reference (T234789)
 * Preparing the ground for a unified component library for the Wikidata UI

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Tech News: 2020-05
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Changes later this week
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Books & Bytes – Issue 37
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2020).

Administrator changes
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Interface administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
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 * The request for comment seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure closed with wide-spread support for an alternative desysoping procedure based on community input. No proposed process received consensus.

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This Month in Education: January 2020
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Wikidata weekly summary #401
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 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Mike Peel


 * Events
 * Past: | Wikidata in Social Science Classroom - Workshop, Dubai, January 21st
 * Upcoming: Wikibase Community User Group online meeting (date to be decided, you can vote here)
 * Upcoming: OSM TW x Wikidata Taiwan meetup, February 10th, Taipei


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * A newbie's guide to querying Wikidata, by Mark Needham


 * Tool of the week
 * VizQuery allows you to use the Wikidata Query Service without having to know SPARQL. Simply use a couple of autocomplete input boxes and you can do most basic queries.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Bruno and Denny present how to use Lexical Masks in ShEx to validate lexemes, including a first set of example schemata. They also invite everyone to work on more languages, and will keep adding more ShEx schema over time.
 * 2020 report on Property constraints by user:Abián
 * Wikimedia Hackathon in Tirana: scholarship requests and registration for people needing visa support are open until February 9th.
 * Mismatched reference: first version to be deployed this week
 * OpenRefine 3.3 was released


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: category for maps, number of reviews/ratings, merged into, 8-bits.info ID
 * External identifiers: CoBiS author ID, marterl.at ID, NPDRIM record ID, Analysis & Policy Observatory node ID, Analysis & Policy Observatory term ID, PCBdB game ID, Diccionari del cinema a Catalunya ID, EFIS film festival ID, EFIS person ID, Eurogamer ID, FlashScore.com team ID, GameStar ID, Soccerdonna team ID, The Video Games Museum game ID, Voetbal International player ID, Games Database game ID, ft.dk politician identifier, Historical Marker Database ID, Joconde Inscription ID, Joconde time period ID, Media Art Database ID, Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology ID, EFIS filmfirm ID, EFIS film ID, Ciência ID, Swedish School Registry ID, Whaling History ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: hierarchy switch, Wikipedia infobox field, ontological level of Wikidata item, status of mortal remains, TheTVDB person ID, fails compliance with
 * External identifiers: Gamekult company ID, Gamekult franchise ID, CNGB project ID, Gamekult platform ID, Adelsvapen ID, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina ID, Clavis Clavium ID, FEMA number, SerialStation game ID, GBAtemp game ID, AnimalBase ID, RPGamer ID, Denkmalatlas Niedersachsen Objekt-ID, DR music artist ID, Jurisdiction List Number, Médias 19 ID, ArchiWebture ID, MOCAGH ID


 * Query examples:
 * Number of cases coronavirus reported per country
 * Release date of albums from before 1980 by artists of the EDM genre (source)
 * Books related to LGBTI+ topics (source)
 * Map of medical facilities in Kalimpong district, India, color-coded by type (source)


 * Development
 * Enable the first version of tainted/mismatched references on wikidata.org
 * Work on adding a button to hide the notification (T234789)
 * Show the icon after canceling editing if the icon was shown before (T234790)
 * More work on Wikidata Bridge (restrict editing based on user rights or data types)
 * More work on wb_terms migration

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Tech News: 2020-06
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Wikidata weekly summary #402
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 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Nomen ad hoc


 * Events
 * Learn about the use of Wikidata, Wikipedia and sister projects in education, at the Wikimedia in Education UK Summit at Coventry University on 26 February
 * Hackday Niederrhein, Germany, on March 28-29, including a Wikidata workshop
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: further discussion of labels and aliases; start looking at Google Sheets, 11 February. Agenda
 * WikiCite meetup in Melbourne, Australia, on February 14th
 * Wikidata Wednesday in Vienna, Austria, on February 19th


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Wikidata and Beyond – Knowledge for everyone by everyone, keynote video from Denny Vrandečić at SWAT4HCLS 2019
 * Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2019 edition, by Jean-Frédéric
 * Discovering Implicational Knowledge in Wikidata, by Tom Hanika, Maximilian Marx and Gerd Stumme.


 * Tool of the week
 * Reasonator offers a visual formatted display of Wikidata information. It is useful for introducing Wikidata to new audiences and can help find missing or incorrect data by presenting a different view than the standard editing interface.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The Kensho Derived Wikimedia Dataset is a a cleaned English subset of Wikipedia/Wikidata with 2.3B tokens, 5.3M pages, 51M nodes, and 120M edges for use in natural language processing (NLP) research
 * Property talk pages now include a link to query for a few random items using the "SERVICE bd:sample" in SPARQL. Example: look for "random list" on d:Property talk:P279
 * "Status of Wikidata Query Service" update from WMF, on Wikidata mailing list
 * Facebook page of a volunteer working on Wikidata about the French local elections in Conflans
 * Swiss newspaper Le Temps built a new front-end to interact with a Wikibase backend developed by nonprofit PersonalData.IO to power its citizen-led investigation of personal data flows.
 * There are now 100,000 people with the name "John" in Wikidata. "Elizabeth" is now the most frequent female given name.
 * Knowledge Grapher is a new tool to create Wikidata knowledge graphs without needing any knowledge of Wikidata Query or SPARQL code. Developed by Fuzheado, it is currently in early testing mode and helps create graphs as described by MartinPoulter at his 2019 blog post Making Wikidata Visible. Feedback is appreciated.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Academia.edu publication ID, TI-99/4A Videogame House ID, National Aviation Hall of Fame ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: гражданский чин, uses dataset, CVR person ID, description, Wikimedia community discussion, The Great Biography
 * External identifiers: Visual AIDS Artist+ Registry ID, CYRI ID, Mendeley publication ID, CODEPAC-Bauru ID, Daughters of the American Revolution ancestor ID, PC Games Database.de game ID, Encyclopedia of Chicago, DANFS ID, Deutsche Biographie ID, Haz-Map ID, RAL ID, PC Games Database.de company ID, Kickstarter project ID, Adventure Games company ID, VcBA ID, Adventure Games series ID, Hrvatska enciklopedije ID, Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland: 1880-2000 ID, Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development ID, Trakt.tv uri, Open Food Facts label, Compendium heroicum ID, Gry Online game ID, Gram.pl game ID, startrekdb.se query, Legislative Assembly of Ontario MPP ID, Gry Online company ID


 * Deleted properties: lithography (P2157)
 * Query examples:
 * Timeline of same-sex marriage legalization in various countries (source)
 * Chart of the number of infections and deaths casued since the outbreak of novel coronavirus, as reported by the World Health Organisation
 * Adjacent constituencies of the UK Parliament - query federated with Ordnance Survey's SPARQL endpoint. (source)
 * List of this year’s Academy Awards winners


 * Development
 * Wikidata Bridge: more work on enabling error messages for various cases (datatype not supported, user can't edit on client or repo, etc.)
 * Including the property label in the title of the Data Bridge dialog (T233295)
 * Mismatched references: follow-up of the deployment in production, adding the "remove warning" button
 * Monitoring the number of times the feature reference warnings are being triggered and opened (T231731)
 * Fixing some issues connected to the train deployment
 * Fixing an issue with new edit summaries not being displayed on client wikis (T244129)
 * Fixing an issue with ittem having label conflict with itself (T243158)

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 * Suggested and open tasks!
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Tech News: 2020-07
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Recent changes
 * There is a new version of the Wikimedia Commons app for Android. It should fix the failed uploads problem.

Problems
 * There was a problem with the new MediaWiki version last week. It deleted some messages by accident. The new version was late because it was stopped to fix things.

Changes later this week
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 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 February. It will be on all wikis from 13 February (calendar).

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This Month in GLAM: January 2020
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New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020
Hello ,

The first NPP source guide discussion is now underway. It covers a wide range of sources in Ghana with the goal of providing more guidance to reviewers about sources they might see when reviewing pages. Hopefully, new page reviewers will join others interested in reliable sources and those with expertise in these sources to make the discussion a success.
 * Source Guide Discussion

New to NPP? Looking to try something a little different? Consider patrolling some redirects. Redirects are relatively easy to review, can be found easily through the New Pages Feed. You can find more information about how to patrol redirects at WP:RPATROL.
 * Redirects


 * Discussions and Resources
 * There is an ongoing discussion around changing notifications for new editors who attempt to write articles.
 * A recent discussion of whether Michelin starred restraunts are notable was archived without closure.
 * A resource page with links pertinent for reviewers was created this month.
 * A proposal to increase the scope of G5 was withdrawn.

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Wikidata weekly summary #403
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 * Discussions
 * Versionize property definitions ?
 * Closed request for comments: Non-free content


 * Events
 * Past: Warsaw, 13-14 February: Workshop to develop the data model for taxonomic and nomenclatural data in Wikidata
 * Upcoming: March 12, Amsterdam: Datasprint Amsterdam Time Machine/Golden Agents with the ECARTICO and ONSTAGE datasets, involving Wikidata.
 * Upcoming: FindingGLAMs Wikidata editing challenge, improve data about cultural heritage institutions, from February 17th to 23rd


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * "Wikidata is just a matter of facts", blog post on the Workshop to develop a data model for taxonomic and nomenclatural data in Wikidata
 * Vandalism Detection in Crowdsourced Knowledge Bases by Stefan Heindorf


 * Tool of the week
 * Looking for one of the 7000+ Wikidata properties? Try Propbrowse to search and browse all properties.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Cradle tool can now generate forms based on Schemas (example for human)
 * Loading time of pages on Wikidata and Commons has been improved. You can learn more about page load performance and developing with ResourceLoader.
 * Science Stories by Kat Thornton and Kenneth Seals-Nutt, an application that tells stories about underrepresented people in STEM using Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia, is the winner of the LODLAM 2020 Challenge!


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: gained territory from, gave up territory to
 * External identifiers: MOCAGH ID, Denkmalatlas Niedersachsen Objekt-ID, Encyclopedia of Chicago ID, Deutsche Biographie ID, AnimalBase ID, Canmore maritime-type ID, Canmore object-type ID, Clavis Clavium ID, CYRI ID, DANFS ship ID, Gamekult company ID, Gamekult franchise ID, Gamekult game ID, Gamekult platform ID, GBAtemp game ID, Mendeley publication ID, Museums in Austria Code, Médias 19 ID, SerialStation game ID, TheTVDB person ID, TrueAchievements series ID, Canmore monument-type ID, Bollywood Hungama person alphabetic ID, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina ID, Jurisdiction List number, Visual AIDS Artist+ Registry ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: energy consumption per transaction, yearly energy consumption, church patron saint, national identification number, Democracy Index, business model, intended subject, examination jury, depicted format, DoME artist ID, historic county, код персоны на elibrary.ru, applies if regular expression matches
 * External identifiers: Patamu Certificate ID, Colecovision Addict ID, Annuaire des Maîtres d'art, Biographisches Lexikon zur Geschichte Südosteuropas ID, GameReactor game ID, Fandango performer ID, Cell Ontology ID, ColecoVision.dk ID, BioLexSOE ID, EH.Net Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History ID, NHS Health A to Z ID, Corpus Corporum author ID, Colecovision Zone ID, Catalogue of Life ID, GreatSchools ID, Clavis Patrum Graecorum ID, Clavis Patrum Latinorum ID, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca ID, Podchaser podcast ID, Mirabile author ID, Mirabile saint ID, Kanopy ID, Czech War Graves Register


 * Query examples:
 * Place names of Bergamo: map with pronunciation audio files (source)
 * Number words whose number of letters equals their value: with Lexemes (source), with labels (source)
 * Graph of the extended Kardashian clan (source)
 * Scottish monuments with a commons sitelink, but no image (source)
 * Number of films with LGBT representation per country (source)


 * Development
 * Wikidata Bridge: more work on unsupported edit cases (unsupported datatypes T235753, ambiguous statements T240212, deprecated statements T238660, unknown value or no value statements T242747)
 * Including the property label in the title of the Data Bridge dialog (T233295)
 * Making the edit based on the user's fixed/updated choice (T238662)
 * Style fixes and font size adjustments (T239421, T243192)
 * Create Grafana boards to track the results of the tainted references feature
 * Increase factor for query service that is taken into account for maxlag (later reverted) (T244722)
 * Fix edit summaries not displayed on client wikis (T244129)
 * Fixed some issues causes by the wb_terms migration

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Wikidata weekly summary #404
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 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: DannyS712, Fralambert
 * Possible change of usage of "located in administrative territorial entity" (P131)


 * Events
 * Scholarships application process for Wikimania 2020 (Bangkok) is now open until March 17th. More information, FAQ, apply
 * Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference, one of the themes being how Wikidata can support minority languages, will take place on July 9-10 in Limerick, Ireland. Call for submissions open from February 27th to March 30th.
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: More discussion of pseudonyms and historical place names, 25 February. Agenda
 * Upcoming: Wikimedia Research office hour, February 26th
 * Upcoming: Wikidata x OSM meetup in Taiwan, March 9th


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Wikidata's Linked Data for Cultural Heritage Digital Resources: An Evaluation Based on the Europeana Data Model by Nuno Freire, Antoine Isaac
 * When Humans and Machines Collaborate - Cross-lingual Label Editing in Wikidata, by Lucie-Aimée Kaffee: video during Wikimedia Research Showcase (at 30:00), paper
 * Do you speak data? Wikidata as the Open Internet’s universal language, by Elisabeth Giesemann
 * “Wikidata is just a matter of facts”, by Andra Waagmeester
 * Does Biodiversity Informatics 💘 Wikidata?, by Quentin Groom & Deborah Paul


 * Tool of the week
 * Wiki Art Depiction Explorer is a web interface for adding depiction information for artworks in Wikidata by surfacing frequently used terms and providing suggestions. Read the full project description and documentation


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * QWiki, a mobile game asking geography questions based on Wikidata, now has a new version released as well as a website where one can learn how the game was made and how to contribute;
 * soweego is an artificial intelligence that links Wikidata to large external catalogs. The proposal for version 2 is out for your consideration. review of version 1 is open for discussion.
 * Wikimedia Developer Satisfaction Survey run by the WMF until March 6th (source)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: Wikimedia community discussion
 * External identifiers: Open Food Facts label, BioLexSOE ID, Roglo person ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: applies to name of object, Country of registry, Poeti d'Italia in lingua latina author ID, generational suffix
 * External identifiers: RealGM basketball coach ID, Irish playography person ID, Irish playography play ID, Mirabile title ID, Mirabile manuscript ID, Filmfront person ID, Filmfront film ID, Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon ID, Global Music Rights work ID, SESAC work number, The First Amendment Encyclopedia ID, Indiegogo project ID, Glassdoor company ID, block creators, targeted block time, staking ratio, SOCAN work number, NHLR ID, The Washington Post ID


 * Query examples:
 * Importing from ThePeerage (Nov. 2019) added 50% to the number of Johns on Wikidata (source)
 * SF movies and series with a significant character known to have been portrayed by an actor who was born in Liverpool (source)
 * countries in Europe whose ISO 2-letter abbreviation contains letters not in the native language name of their country (source)
 * places names in Wales with Welsh pronunciation audio (source)
 * Map of types of GLAMs in Wales (source)


 * Development
 * Provide better redirect for statement nodes (T203397)
 * Wikidata Bridge: style fixes and font size adjustments (T239421, T243192)
 * making the edit based on the user's fixed/updated choice (T238662)
 * research how to do reference rendering (T244987)
 * showing the loading bar while saving (T237433)
 * More work on wb_terms table and fixing various issues
 * Removing all of pre-entity source based federation code
 * Fixing various issues causing errors in production
 * Investigate on an issue with pasting exact Commons file title (T196165)
 * Update the APIs to specify an errorformat and a uselang parameter (T242769)

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Administrator changes
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Wikidata weekly summary #405
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 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Kostas20142


 * Events
 * March 7: Wikidata introductions and editathon during OpenDataDay in Hasselt, Belgium
 * July 2-4, Lisbon: WikiData Days 2020. Call for proposals is open until April 15.
 * Program submissions for the Celtic Knot Conference are open until March 30th. Submissions about languages on Wikidata, GLAM or supporting minority languages are very welcome.


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Tutorial on how to use machine learning with Wikidata.
 * Bob DuCharme's blog post: Populating a Schema.org dataset from Wikidata
 * About Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons:
 * Explainer video with a beginner-level introduction about Structured Data on Commons
 * Connecting the work of three generations of decorative artists, with structured data, by Sandra Fauconnier
 * Structured Data on Commons and GLAM: open questions and fresh challenges, by Sandra Fauconnier
 * OpenRefine: results of the 2020 user survey


 * Tool of the week
 * Wikidata graph builder is a front-end on top of the Query service, allowing to easily build graphs.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The Wikidata Languages Landscape dashboard provides insights into the ways languages are organized and used in Wikidata and across the Wikimedia projects that reuse Wikidata.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: business model, format of creative work, associated electoral district
 * External identifiers: Adelsvapen ID, Irish playography play ID, Irish playography person ID, Corpus Corporum author ID, Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon ID, Adventure Gamers company ID, Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland: 1880-2000 ID, NHLR ID, The Washington Post writer ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Type of bow used, staking lock-up period, validator bond lock-up period, URL match pattern, Pertainym, cognate, symbol of, transactions per month, compatible wallets, minimum amount to run a validator, minimum amount to participate in voting
 * External identifiers: Kooora player ID, Marvel Comics creators ID, DC Comics talent ID, EcuRed, IGCD fictional car ID, Chicago Landmarks ID, URL on Nintendo eShop, BC Register of Historic Places ID


 * Query examples:
 * Updated chart of the number of infections and deaths caused since the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2, as reported by the World Health Organisation
 * British Prime Ministers with children under the age of 5 when elected, or born during their time in office (source)
 * Timeline of countries of origin of the winner of the European Film Award for Best European Film
 * People with profiles on the Washington Post website


 * Development
 * Started working on Federated Properties for Wikibase
 * Bridge: more style adjustments
 * Research on reference rendering for the Bridge (T244987)
 * Disable WDQS jump to focus when used in an iframe (T245637)

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Tech News: 2020-10
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Problems
 * Readers who were not logged in briefly saw the interface in a language decided by their browser. It should normally be in the language of the wiki. This happened for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug.

Changes later this week
 * 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 will now be able to choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This will be a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for.
 * When you asked for a new password you could see if the username didn't exist on Special:PasswordReset. Now the page will show the username you entered and tell you an email has been sent if the username exists. This is for better security.
 * On Special:WhatLinksHere you can see what other pages link to a page. You can see if the link is from a redirect. You can now see which section the redirect links to.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

Future changes
 * The developers are working on a new interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. You can give feedback.
 * There is a vote on the creation of a new user group called abuse filter manager. The vote runs from March 1 to March 31 on Meta.
 * Octicons-tools.svg  was used for the mobile site. It was deprecated in 2017. It will stop working in April. Wikis should see if they use it. If they do they should fix it. You can read more and ask for help. This affects 183 wikis. There is a list.

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Wikidata weekly summary #406
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 * Discussions
 * Closed request for adminship: Fralambert, Kostas20142, welcome on board!
 * New request for comments: Restrictions on making items


 * Events
 * WikiGap Challenge, online editing challenge to improve the coverage of women on Wikipedia and Wikidata, from March 8th to April 8th


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Knowledge Graphs on the Web -- an Overview - Nicolas Heist, et al.
 * Some issues with this paper's reporting of Wikidata are identified in this Twitter thread
 * The List Revolution: Creating dynamic lists using linked data, by Alex Stinson


 * Tool of the week
 * wikibase-cli (Q87194660) now (>= v9.2.0) has a batch mode, and EditGroups support (auto-activated for batch edits targeting Wikidata): ready to make some mass edit, and open for feedback!


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The WikidataCon 2019 grant report has been published
 * EqualStreetNames.Brussels shows streets in Brussels named after men and women, visualized with data from OpenStreetMap and Wikidata


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: The Washington Post contributor ID, DoME artist ID, ArchiWebture ID, Museu de Memes ID, WeChangEd ID, GreatSchools ID, Czech War Graves Register, Marvel Comics creators ID, DC Comics talent ID, The First Amendment Encyclopedia ID, Indiegogo project ID, RealGM basketball coach ID, Global Music Rights work ID, SESAC work number, Directory of Maîtres d'art, Chicago Landmarks ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: SIUSA archive conservator ID, ToposText IDs, content partnership category, eligible award recipient, NetBSD package, OpenBSD port, Number of recoveries, footedness, HTML autocomplete attribute, SoloTutes, see talk page discussion at
 * External identifiers: BC Register of Historic Places ID, Encyclopédie sur le développement des jeunes enfants ID, RFI Musique ID, Moravian Lives, EL, Dictionnaire des femmes de l’ancienne France ID, Google Scholar case ID, TaDiRAH ID, Movie Review Query Engine ID, SkiMo Stats ID


 * Query examples:
 * Subjects and panelists of the BBC radio programme In Our Time (source)
 * People affected by COVID-19
 * Map of hillforts in the UK (source)
 * Images for language items (source)


 * Development
 * Querying the URL datatype with haswbstatement is now possible (T243693). It will take two to three months before URLs are indexed for all Wikidata items.
 * Wikidata Bridge: more style fixes, preparing a prototype to show how we will display references
 * Fixing various production errors
 * Monitoring the run of wb_terms migration
 * Fixing an issue with the Commons files search field (T196165)

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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Recent changes
 * There is a new search word called . You can use it to search for articles on a specific topic. It is available on the Arabic, Czech, English and Vietnamese Wikipedias. It will come to more Wikipedias soon.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 March. It will be on all wikis from 12 March (calendar).

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 * There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.
 * The Wikipedia Android app will do push notifications if users want them. This could help you see for example when someone wrote on your talk page or your edit was reverted. This will come later this year.

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Wikidata weekly summary #407
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 * Discussions
 * Closed request for comments: Wikidata:Wikidata to use data schemas to standardise data structure on a subject


 * Events
 * Note: Due to the ongoing COVID-19 situation, most meetups, including all those funded by Wikimedia Foundation grants, have been cancelled, or moved online, for the foreseeable future.
 * Past: Wikidata workshop at the central library of Göttingen. Slides: connecting Wikidata and other databases (in German)
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Paris, March 20th, will take place online starting at 20:00 on IRC (freenode:wikidata-fr)
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #5, March 22
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Wochenende in Ulm, June 12-14
 * Postponed:
 * Wikidata Days 2020 (July, Portugal) will be postponed (more information)
 * WikiCite Satellite Cologne 2020 (May, Germany) is postponed until "late 2020"
 * Cancelled:
 * Wikimedia Hackathon (9-11 May, Tirana) is cancelled due to COVID-19.


 * '''Press, articles, blog posts
 * People First: Wikimedia’s Response to COVID-19 - Update from Katherine Maher, Wikimedia Foundation CEO
 * Wikimedia Foundation’s Knowledge Infrastructure with Grant Ingersoll, CTO of Wikimedia Foundation
 * Improving Neural Named Entity Recognition with Gazetteers - "describes how to generate gazetteers from the Wikidata knowledge graph"
 * Introduction to Wikidata video by Jason Evans and Aaron Morris, available both in English and in Welsh
 * Video of the live Wikidata Querying, March 15th, by WikidataFacts


 * Tool of the week
 * TabulistBot, a tool to generate and update tabular data on Commons, based on Wikidata SPARQL queries. Sample: earthquakes.tab


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New help page: Suggesters and selectors
 * All identifiers are now sorted mostly alphabetically according to the RfC regarding the sorting of identifiers, which remains open if you have improvement proposals. Feel free to comment here!
 * Maximilian Klein applied for a project grant to merge and improve WHGI and Denelezh, tools that heavily rely on Wikidata to provide statistics about gender gap and biographical content in Wikimedia projects.
 * QuickStatements change (4 March). QuickStatements is now executing "run in background" batches with the same priority as direct batches run from the browser. Background batches may now run many times faster than they previously did (discussion), when the WDQS updater can handle this.
 * News and discussions about Structured Data on Commons SPARQL endpoint


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: historic county, corresponding HTML autocomplete attribute
 * External identifiers: Joconde Discovery ID, Joconde Genèse ID, Dictionnaire des femmes de l’ancienne France ID, Cell Ontology ID, Scilit work ID, NetBSD package, OpenBSD port, VR GameCritic ID, DAR ancestor ID, FandangoNow ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: descriptive solubility, Unicode character (item), Donations, endorsed by, countermeasure, Venue of the final, Tournament format, tilt
 * External identifiers: Social Blade YouTube channel ID, Dizionario di Filosofia ID, re:publica speaker ID, ACM Conference ID, HuijiWiki Wiki ID, ACM Journal ID, m3db.com film ID, m3db.com person ID, TripAdvisor ID 2


 * Query examples:
 * Timeline of films about pandemics
 * World map of hospitals (source)
 * English and Scottish health trusts & boards (source)
 * Videogames nominated at the Pégases award (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject COVID-19
 * Newest database reports: COVID-19 deaths


 * Development
 * Add monolingual codes nrf-gg (Guernésiais), nrf-je (Jèrriais), thanks to Mbch331! (T165648)
 * Article Placeholder: make the entity field required (T247478)
 * Remove legacy Wikibase service containers (T245865)
 * Fix an error UnresolvedEntityRedirectException when viewing certain Wikidata item pages (T243779)
 * Fix an issue with new edit summaries not always showing what expected (T246873)
 * Federated properties: enable search with remote properties (wbsearchentities) (T246349)
 * showing the updated Wikipedia article after changing a value via Bridge (T235208)
 * research how to do reference rendering (T244987)

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 * You can see a proposed design for replying to comments in an easier way.

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Wikidata weekly summary #408
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 * Events
 * Upcoming: Wikidata and Wikibase office hour, April 7th, 18:00 Berlin time (UTC+2) in the Wikidata Telegram group
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #6, March 29
 * Postponed: Wikimania Bangkok is postponed until 2021


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Wikidata as a knowledge graph for the life sciences, Andra Waagmeester et.al.
 * Tensor Decompositions for Temporal Knowledge Base Completion ("Additionally, we propose a new dataset for knowledge base completion constructed from Wikidata ... for evaluating temporal and non-temporal link prediction methods.")


 * Tool of the week
 * Wikidata Lexeme Forms allows quickly generating a new lexeme with all its forms in selected languages; you can also use the tool to add forms to an existing lexeme, or bulk upload many lexemes and forms at once.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * A task force is formed under WikiProject India to work on 2020 coronavirus pandemic in India (Q84055514)
 * Important for tool maintainers: last steps of wb_terms table migration (wb_terms is not updated anymore and will be renamed next week)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: food energy, quantity symbol, depicted format, electron configuration, endorsed by, ordered by, research subject recruitment status, footedness, IM channel, number of recoveries, number of clinical tests
 * External identifiers: FandangoNow ID, CVR person ID, Faculté des sciences de Nancy ID, Filmfront film ID, stargate-wiki.de article, AncientFaces person ID, Decine21 ID, ACM Conference ID, Clavis Patrum Latinorum ID, ExoticA ID, Hrvatska enciklopedija ID, ACM Journal ID, Kanopy ID, Mirabile author ID, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca ID, Clavis Patrum Graecorum ID, Mirabile manuscript ID, Mirabile saint ID, Mirabile title ID, Poeti d'Italia in lingua latina author ID, Treccani Dizionario di Filosofia ID, Colecovision Zone ID, NHS Health A to Z ID, EH.Net Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History ID, Gry Online company ID, Podchaser podcast ID, Haz-Map ID, Social Security Death Index entry, ColecoVision.dk ID, US Bureau of Prisons Inmate Register Number, Google Scholar case ID, Adventure Games series ID, Trakt.tv ID, Compendium heroicum ID, Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development English ID, Encyclopédie sur le développement des jeunes enfants ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: tilt, Dog and cat breed registries, terminology, perpetrator, virtual tour, victims, décès, subpopulation 2, Institutionskennzeichen (IK), ODMP person ID, is metaclass for, correct spelling
 * External identifiers: Unified registration number, AGROVOC ID, Forest Stewardship Council Certificate Code, Forest Stewardship Council License Code, PIV Online ID, MusicBrainz genre ID, Curran Index Contributor ID, Curran Index Periodical ID, Artprice artist ID, Reta Vortaro, National Register of Historic Monuments in Bosnia and Herzegovina ID, identifiant co-optimus.com, Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon ID, Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity ID, CIRIS author ID, motorsportstats.com series, National-Football-Teams.com club ID, motorsportstats.com driver ID, motorsportstats.com team ID, CAB ID, motorsportstats.com venue ID, curlingzone.com ID, Visit Tuscany ID


 * Query examples:
 * Most recent common ancestors of George W. Bush and Queen Elizabeth II
 * Notable people with COVID-19 by number of sitelinks
 * COVID-19 case statistics for India:
 * State-level map
 * State-level line graph
 * Lakes spanning at least 3 countries (source)
 * Michelin starred restaurants in Luxembourg (source)


 * Development
 * Federated properties: set up a test system (T247734)
 * ore work on search for remote properties (T246349)
 * Bridge: more work on messages about the license (T238728)

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 * There was a problem when adding interwiki links. The tool you use to add interwiki links could suggest the wrong project to link to. This has now been fixed.

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 * Events
 * Today: Edit tools for Wikidata, on-line workshop in Polish, access link, March 30, 17:00 GMT (7pm Warsaw time)
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #7, April 5
 * Upcoming: Wikidata for beginners, April 1
 * Upcoming: Wiki Workshop, researchers forum (fully remote), on April 21. More information, registration
 * Upcoming: The Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference will take place fully remotely in July 2020. Call for submissions with remote formats is open until April 30th.
 * Upcoming: the Wikidata Wochenende (previously in Ulm) will take place fully remote on June 12-14


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Video: How can Wikimedia projects help fight the pandemic, by Susanna Ånäs
 * Investigating Software Usage in the Social Sciences: A Knowledge Graph Approach ("we linked the entities of the knowledge graph to other knowledge bases such as the Microsoft Academic Knowledge Graph, the Software Ontology, and Wikidata")
 * Wikidata Queries around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and pandemic (free eBook)
 * Video: Live SPARQL editing in French by Vigneron
 * Video: Live editing in English by Ainali and Abbe98: Youtube, Twitch, Periscope, Facebook


 * Tool of the week
 * IdentifierInput: when adding identifiers, it lets you paste the full URL, and extracts the ID part


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * About Wikidata dumps:
 * No second XML dump in March
 * RDF and JSON dumps generation is broken (no new dump since March 11th, fix in progress)
 * Wikidata knowledge imbalance dashboard - Alpha release
 * Internet Archive has launched a National Emergency Library and would like to work together with WikiCite
 * wb_terms migration: a temporary table has been created, the current wb_terms table will be emptied on April 6th (more details)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: generational suffix, LiverTox likelihood score, size designation, perpetrator, victim
 * External identifiers: IGCD game ID, Kickstarter project ID, Gram.pl game ID, Kooora/Goalzz player ID, RFI Musique artist ID, VideoGamer.com game ID, Nobel Laureate API ID, VGMRips system ID, VGMRips company ID, GameRevolution game ID, PIV Online ID, Movie Review Query Engine ID, VcBA ID, m3db.com film ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Chinese Clinical Trial Registry identifier, donated to, number of hospitalized cases, number of home cases, ARK formatter, Filceolaire, viability on surface, entry receptor, birth rate
 * External identifiers: SAN archive producer ID, SAR ancestor ID, National Catalog of Hospitals ID, Pinakes copyist or possessor ID, Frankfurter Personenlexikon ID, Encyklopedia Solidarności ID, Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters author ID, identifiant Geneastar, Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters work ID, Women of Scotland ID, Women of Scotland subject ID, World Biographical Information System ID, COTREX trail ID, Natural Atlas ID, Apache Project ID, Amazon Prime Video ID, Archival Resource Key, UM-BBD compound ID, BitterDB Compound ID, FooDB compound ID, ModelSEED compound ID, Hopital.fr ID, BookBrainz publisher ID, Macdonald Dictionary ID, FHF hospital group ID, FHF establishment ID, Ameli ID, Pascal et Francis ID, Retronews ID, Elephind.com, What Do They Know organisation ID, Papers Past, Internetowy Polski Słownik Biograficzny ID, I-Revues ID, BDSP ID


 * Query examples:
 * People born more than a year after one of their parents
 * UK MPs who were born after their father's death (source)
 * National flags representing mountains (source)
 * Map of Umgebindehäuser (Upper Lusatian houses) (source)
 * Map of megaliths in Morbihan (Bretagne) (source)


 * Development
 * Fix an issue with the Wikidata dumps (T248612)
 * Migrate to and read from new store for item terms (T219123)
 * Create wb_terms_no_longer_updated to ease the transition to the new tables
 * Bridge: improve the rendering of references (T238661)
 * More work on editing references (T240333)
 * Continue setting up a test system to work on federated properties
 * More research on suggesting references

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Tech News: 2020-14
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Recent changes
 * The beta version of the Wikipedia app for Android can now help users add tags on Commons. These tags are called depicts.

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 * The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. The current beta feature will become the video player for everyone. The old player will be removed.
 * There is a project to make templates easier to use. The next few weeks the developers will present ideas on the project page. You can watch that page if you are interested in giving feedback.

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

Administrator changes
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Technical news
 * There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.

Arbitration
 * Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold a Arbcom RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. A draft RfC has been posted at Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC (Draft) and not open to comments from the community yet. Interested editors can comment on the RfC itself on its talk page.

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Wikidata weekly summary #410
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 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Should we create new properties for beaches?


 * Events
 * Upcoming: Wikidata office hour, April 7th at 18:00 UTC+2, on the Wikidata Telegram channel
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Google Sheets add-on, Author Disambiguator Tool, 07 April. Agenda
 * Upcoming: live SPARQL queries in French by Vigneron, April 8 at 20:00 CEST
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #8, April 12
 * Upcoming: Wikidata for Beginners (German, Remoted via Zoom), May 3
 * Ongoing: WikiGap Challenge until April 8th
 * Ongoing: covid-19 virtual biohackathon until April 11th. Information on how to participate. Instructions to participate are on the github wiki and join #wikidata room. Several Wikidata-related topics are currently presented, such as: COVID-19 Global Dashboard, sync the ICTV Virus classification and Nomenclature with Wikidata, federate between Wikidata and NextProt, use wikibase to align between (bio)schema.org and Wikidata.


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Signpost special report: Wikipedia on COVID-19: what we publish and why it matters — with mentions of COVID-related Wikidata activities
 * Denny Vrandecic published a proposal that suggests some extensions to Wikidata, and also a wholly new project, Wikilambda.
 * ScienceGuide's The COVID-19 pandemic stresses the societal importance of open science mentions WikiProject COVID-19
 * SPARC*Europe mentions the WikiProject COVID-19 in Overnight, COVID-19 heightens the need for Open Science post
 * Video: Live SPARQL queries in English by WikidataFacts
 * Video: Live SPARQL queries in French by Vigneron


 * Tool of the week
 * Scholia highlights the scholarly data in Wikidata, including scholarly works, projects, topics, and individual researchers, including their relationships and statistics. It encourages further enrichment of Wikidata through links on the "missing" pages.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New tool: ShExStatements to generate Shape Expressions from CSV (more details)
 * Job opportunity: Science Museum, London. Research Developer, "using computational techniques to create links between the SMG collection and Wikidata at scale" (deadline: 19 April).
 * New tool: Wikidata Complete uses machine learning algorithms to read Wikipedia, identify facts and import them into Wikidata after manual check (blog post)
 * schema.org announced an extension to allow for special announcements with regards to COVID-19. The way to identify the topic as per the example? By using the Wikidata Q-Identifier, Q81068910: Structured data for special announcements
 * Interactive map showing the spread of COVID-19, updated daily with data from Wikidata.
 * wb_terms table will be emptied today
 * Your feedback is welcome on two projects to improve the queries and lists workflows


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: organized response related to outbreak, Latvian transcription, country of registry, number of hospitalized cases, ARK formatter, symbol of
 * External identifiers: m3db.com person ID, Filmfront person ID, SIUSA archive conservator ID, National Register of Historic Monuments in Bosnia and Herzegovina ID, RPGamer game ID, DR music artist ID, PC Games Database.de game ID, ELAR ID, Frankfurter Personenlexikon ID, Women of Scotland memorial ID, Women of Scotland subject ID, Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters author ID, MusicBrainz genre ID, Latvian unified registration number, Amazon Prime Video ID, VGMRips composer ID, Apache Project ID, coinop.org game ID, Glassdoor company ID, AGROVOC ID, Ameli ID, BookBrainz publisher ID, Chinese Clinical Trial Registry identifier, CIRIS author ID, Colecovision Addict ID, Macdonald Dictionary ID, ToposText place ID, ToposText person ID, ToposText work ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: located in the statistical territorial entity, formatter for periodical, CSS Color name
 * External identifiers: JournalTOCs ID, EZB ID, MUSE article ID, Paperity journal ID, Paperity article ID, Flora del Cono Sur Darwinion, MxM xref, Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada ID, TED speaker numeric ID, Sejm-Wielki.pl profile ID


 * Query examples:
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20target%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2FQ84263196%3E%20%23%20Replace%20Q84263196%20%28COVID-19%29with%20Wikidata%20ID%20of%20your%20concept%20of%20interest%2C%20e.g.%20Q202864%20%28Zika%20virus%29%20%0A%0A%23%20%23defaultView%3AGraph%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fcited_country%20%3Fcited_countryLabel%20%3Fcited_flag%20%3Fciting_country%20%3Fciting_countryLabel%20%3Fciting_flag%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fcited_country%20%3Fciting_country%20%28COUNT%28%3Fciting_country%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fciting_work%20wdt%3AP50%20%3Fciting_author%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fciting_work%20wdt%3AP921%20target%3A%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fcited_work%20wdt%3AP921%20target%3A%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fciting_work%20wdt%3AP2860%20%3Fcited_work%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fcited_work%20wdt%3AP50%20%3Fcited_author%20.%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28%3Fciting_work%20%21%3D%20%3Fcited_work%29%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fciting_work%20wdt%3AP50%20%3Fauthor%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fciting_work%20wdt%3AP2860%20%3Fcited_work%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcited_work%20%20wdt%3AP50%20%3Fauthor%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fciting_author%20%28wdt%3AP108%7Cwdt%3AP1416%29%20%3Fciting_organization%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fcited_author%20%28wdt%3AP108%7Cwdt%3AP1416%29%20%3Fcited_organization%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fcited_organization%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fcited_country.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fciting_organization%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fciting_country.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28%3Fciting_country%20%21%3D%20%3Fcited_country%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fcited_country%20%3Fciting_country%0A%20%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29%0A%20%20LIMIT%2030%20%23%20Adjust%20number%20of%20connections%20to%20display%0A%7D%20AS%20%25results%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25results%0A%20%20%3Fcited_country%20wdt%3AP163%20%2F%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fcited_flag%20.%20%0A%20%20%3Fciting_country%20wdt%3AP163%20%2F%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fciting_flag%20.%20%0A%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%7D%0A Country-level citation graph for #COVID19] (source)
 * Movies from artfilm.ch in free access (source)
 * Topic co-occurrence graph in the SARS-CoV-2 & #COVID19 literature (source)
 * Fibulas in Musée Saint-Raymond with date, material, location of discovery


 * Development
 * Working on a first prototype for automated finding references (board)
 * Bridge: improve rendering of references (T238661)
 * Only send incremental changes through the API (T230343)
 * Adding a screen allowing people to go edit the references on Wikidata (T240333)
 * Reducing the size of the extra Javascript that the user has to download for Bridge (T228857)

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Tech News: 2020-15
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Problems
 * There was a problem with user pages not being shown properly on desktop. This was because of a bug. It will soon be fixed.

Changes later this week
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 * MediaWiki will use a newer version of Unicode. Some characters that did not have an upper case equivalent before do now. Titles beginning with one of these characters will be moved. A list of these titles can be seen on Phabricator. The titles will be renamed by the user . This will start on 13 April 2020. You can rename them before this if you wish and the new title can be different from the one the script would rename it to.

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Editing news 2020 #1 – Discussion tools
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The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. The goal of the talk pages project is to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. This project is the result of the Talk pages consultation 2019.



The team is building a new tool for replying to comments now. This early version can sign and indent comments automatically. Please test the new Reply tool.


 * On 31 March 2020, the new tool was offered as a Beta Feature editors at four Wikipedias:  Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian.  If your community also wants early access to the new tool, contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF).
 * The team is planning some upcoming changes. Please review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page.  The team will test features such as:
 * an easy way to mention another editor ("pinging"),
 * a rich-text visual editing option, and
 * other features identified through user testing or recommended by editors.

To hear more about Editing Team updates, please add your name to the "Get involved"  section of the project page. You can also watch these pages: the main project page, Updates, Replying, and User testing.

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This Month in GLAM: March 2020
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The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Joseph Geierman 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.

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Tech News: 2020-16
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Recent changes
 * You can now use the  search word on all Wikipedias. It searches articles by topic.
 * You can see wiki tools in the new Tools Gallery.
 * You can see edits from the Wikimedia Cloud Services in a new dashboard.
 * When you use filters on a history page you sometimes don't see any edits. There is a text explaining this now. Before it was just empty.
 * There is a new Wikimedia Technical Blog.

Problems
 * There was a problem with the Wikidata database last week. Some wikis went down for twenty minutes. Wikidata and other projects showed error messages. Interwiki links were not shown, some tools did not work and other problems. Some of this was fixed quickly. The developers are working on fixing the rest.

Changes later this week
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Future changes
 * Some graphs have not worked on mobile. This will soon be fixed.
 * The article tab on talk pages of redirects links to the target of the redirect. It could link to the redirect page itself instead. You can leave feedback on this.
 * For pages using syntax highlighting, the use of the deprecated  tag, as well as the use of the deprecated   parameter, will add tracking categories.

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Editing news 2020 #1 – Discussion tools
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The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. The goal of the talk pages project is to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. This project is the result of the Talk pages consultation 2019.



The team is building a new tool for replying to comments now. This early version can sign and indent comments automatically. Please test the new Reply tool.


 * On 31 March 2020, the new tool was offered as a Beta Feature editors at four Wikipedias:  Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian.  If your community also wants early access to the new tool, contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF).
 * The team is planning some upcoming changes. Please review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page.  The team will test features such as:
 * an easy way to mention another editor ("pinging"),
 * a rich-text visual editing option, and
 * other features identified through user testing or recommended by editors.

To hear more about Editing Team updates, please add your name to the "Get involved"  section of the project page. You can also watch these pages: the main project page, Updates, Replying, and User testing.

– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 15:45, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #411
<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
 * CheckUser nominations: Sotiale, Jasper Deng, Romaine


 * Events
 * Ongoing: Wikidata Lab XXII on the Wikidata Wikiproject COVID-19, April 14, 1pm UTC, remote, in English. Event page
 * Upcoming: live SPARQL queries in French by Vigneron, Tuesday April 14 at 20:00 CEST (UTC+2)
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #9, April 19
 * Past: Wikidata and Wikibase office hour, April 7, on Telegram. Notes of the discussion
 * Past: Wikidata topic at the virtual biohackathon. Mid-term updates final presentations (Wikidata report starts at 1:17:40)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata, a case report (new preprint about virus info (strains, genes, proteins), ShEx, and SPARQL)
 * Multilingual enrichment of disease biomedical ontologies ("We look at the coverage of two biomedical ontologies focusing on diseases with respect to Wikidata for 9 European languages")
 * Wikidata and the bibliography of life in the time of coronavirus
 * Video: Editing Wikidata and creating a property proposal: YouTube, Facebook, Periscope


 * Tool of the week
 * COVID19 Dashboard is a Wikidata-powered one-stop information/visualization service for COVID19-related topics such as COVID19's outbreak map, deaths, symptoms, taxonomy, and publications.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * A database breakage, also affecting connected sister projects such as Wikipedia, on April 6, 11pm UTC. A fix has been deployed and no data has been lost. However, issues related to sitelinks and bots creating duplicates can still occur.
 * You're welcome to give feedback on ideas of improvements for the Query Service interface
 * The development team is working on automated finding of references, feel free to give feedback on the first batch
 * ZFOURGE UDS 19909 (Q90000000) - our ninety-millionth item, about a galaxy - was created on 10 April.
 * For the first time, a Wikipedia list article populated entirely from Wikidata, and built using Listeria, has been granted "featured" status, on the Portuguese Wikipedia (video on YouTube).
 * ListeriaBot blocked pending review on English Wikipedia.
 * A Telegram group has been created for discussions about Wikidata in German
 * Comment on QID Emoji proposal until April 20th


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: donations, network bands, bus, recommended unit of measurement, CSS color keyword
 * External identifiers: BDSP ID, CAB ID, Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity ID, Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters work ID, ScreenScraper group ID, The Cover Project game ID, FHF establishment ID, FHF hospital group ID, elibrary.ru person ID, Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon ID, WBIS ID, Spanish National Catalog of Hospitals ID, Visit Tuscany ID, URL on Nintendo eShop, Curran Index contributor ID, ODMP person ID, GameTDB game ID, Elephind.com ID, EZB ID, GameReactor game ID, Archival Resource Key, EcuRed article, Geneastar person ID, Encyklopedia Solidarności ID, Pinakes copyist or possessor ID, Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada ID, I-Revues ID, JournalTOCs ID, MUSE article ID, NASA active astronaut ID - DO NOT USE, Paperity article ID, Paperity journal ID, SAN archive producer ID, SOCAN work number, Papers Past ID, Pascal et Francis ID, Retronews ID, COTREX trail ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: ACUM work ID, appendix, Wikisource index page, Unicode character, Arlington Cemetery person ID, Eigentümerhistorie, quantification instruction, language level, Included in curricula, Order number, ShEx available at URL, dialect of (computer language), file page offset, station service succession
 * External identifiers: Seoul Information Disclosure Plaza management number, Wikiparques ID, NKAA ID, Described and Captioned Media Program producer ID, Provenio ID, Encyclopedia of Brno Person ID, RPPS ID, South African Company Registration Number, Sicilian Regional Assembly ID, Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis ID, SNCF station identifier, Benerail station identifier, Indian Railways train number, Soccerdonna coach ID, DLL Catalog IDs, MDN, Psocodea Species File ID, Slovak Registration ID, Swedish Glaciers, Club Identifier Netherlands Handball Association, Encyclopaedia Metallum label ID, UK Modern House Index building ID, UK Modern House Index architect ID, CPAN person, FactGrid item ID, FactGrid property ID, Texas Historic Sites Atlas ID


 * Query examples:
 * Names of countries without letter "a" (source)
 * Infectious diseases and their number of cases (source)
 * Map of mountain huts in Bulgaria (source)
 * Schema examples: pandemic (E184), preprint (E185), Macromolecular complex (E186), hospital (E187), 2020 coronavirus pandemic local outbreaks (E188), clinical trial (E189), Lockdown (E190), lockdown part of the 2019-2020 coronavirus disease pandemic (E191), virus taxon (E192), Preprint server (E193), Complex Portal entity (E194), contact tracing app (E195)


 * Development
 * Move wb_terms data in cloud replicas to wb_terms_no_longer_updated (T248592)
 * Rebuild wb_items_per_site, after incident where wb_items_per_site was dropped (T249596)
 * Purge / Reject client pages that were cached in parser cache during the incident (T249595)
 * More work on Automated finding references
 * More work on federated properties: create and save a statement with federated properties
 * Bridge: improve the generic error screen (T241126) and on save (T248087)

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
 * 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!

Nomination of Shahid Buttar for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Shahid Buttar 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/Shahid Buttar& 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. – Muboshgu (talk) 17:59, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

COI at NRH2O
I started a discussion about the COI possibility at Talk:NRH2O. - AH (talk) 23:16, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you for starting that discussion. MarkZusab (talk) 14:25, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Corona (film)


The article Corona (film) has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "Non-notable film, just has one notable source, not enough for a standalone article"

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. BOVINEBOY 2008 22:38, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

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Civil
Please remain civil.  Cassianto Talk  20:02, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

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Starting Page for a cryptocurrency project
hello im RichardJansma and i want to create my first article of a company/webside regarding cryptocurrency.

now I have made a draft and such but I'm not sure if its good enough.... now i hope that you could help me look into it if you have time and maybe get me started with Wikipedia (its kinda overwhelming) RichardJansma (talk) 21:15, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #412
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: How to model curricula and link them to educational resources?, Need comment on English item label and foreign language proper noun, Merging 2 items
 * Ongoing CheckUser nominations: Sotiale, Jasper Deng, Romaine


 * Events
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Wikidata Schemas, 21 April. Agenda
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #10, April 26
 * Past Wikidata Lab XXII - Wikiproject COVID-19 (video in English)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Open data and COVID-19: Wikipedia as an informational resource during the pandemic (Wikidata being also mentioned as a source for the research)
 * Videos:
 * Commons image uploading and Wikidata: YouTube
 * A call to action directed at the audience of the Weekly Debrief to edit Wikidata YouTube
 * Propose new identifiers on Wikidata (in Italian) YouTube
 * The Map of Libraries on Wikidata (in Spanish) YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Ordia generates statistics from Wikidata lexeme information, and through the "Text to Lexemes" feature allows linking a document to the associated lexemes, and highlighting missing lexemes that can be added.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * First step of blank node deprecation in WDQS & Wikibase RDF model: introducing the new function
 * The tool wikidata-filter was renamed wikibase-dump-filter, to better reflect that it can be used with dumps from any Wikibase instance
 * LexData – a python library to edit Lexicographical data – has been released in a major new version.
 * The ImageHeader gadget, which had been broken since February, was fixed.
 * Wikidata Lexeme Forms now supports Hebrew nouns
 * New tool: Anagram generator based on Wikidata names


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: eligible award recipient
 * External identifiers: Wikiparques ID, Encyclopedia of Brno Person ID, FooDB compound ID, Forest Stewardship Council Certificate Code, HASC


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: IDU general item ID, CONI honoured ID, parliament seats, electoral system, same transportation stop on the other side of the road, string instrument handedness, Canadiana Name Authorities in French ID, defines curriculum, clinitalregister.eu
 * External identifiers: Encyclopedia of České Budějovice ID, DPVweb ID, IDU theatre ID, Ternopil Encyclopedia ID, ROKPS ID, Aberdeen Built Ships ID, Bibliotheca Augustana author ID, Diels-Kranz ID, IDU theatre name ID (2), Oregon Historic Sites Database ID, Infames Romani ID, Accademia delle Scienze di Torino ID, Heritage Gateway ID, Il Sole 24 Ore ID, identifiant monument MémorialGenWeb, Extratime.ie player ID, DGHS facility code, WikiTrek ID, Itch.io developper profile


 * Deleted properties: P134 (has dialect), P1432 (B-side)
 * Query examples:
 * Women with cats in paintings (Source)
 * Films by Peter Mettler available free on VOD (Source)
 * Films broadcast on VOD by artfilm.ch sorted by Director and Date (Source)
 * Swiss films listed by date and duration per minutes (Source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FitemDescription%20%3Fosm%20%3Fceremonial%20%3FceremonialLabel%20%3FceremonialDescription%20%3Fceremonialosm%20%3Fadministrative%20%3FadministrativeLabel%20%3FadministrativeDescription%20%3Fadministrativeosm%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ1138494.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20wd%3AP402%20wdt%3AP1630%20%3Fformatterurl%20.%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP402%20%3Fosmid%20.%20BIND%28IRI%28REPLACE%28%3Fosmid%2C%20%27%5E%28.%2B%29%24%27%2C%20%3Fformatterurl%29%29%20AS%20%3Fosm%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1889%20%3Fceremonial.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fceremonial%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ180673%20.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20wd%3AP402%20wdt%3AP1630%20%3Fformatterurl%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fceremonial%20p%3AP402%20%3Fceremonialstatement.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fceremonialstatement%20ps%3AP402%20%3Fceremonialosmid%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fceremonialstatement%20pq%3AP518%20wd%3AQ180673%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28IRI%28REPLACE%28%3Fceremonialosmid%2C%20%27%5E%28.%2B%29%24%27%2C%20%3Fformatterurl%29%29%20AS%20%3Fceremonialosm%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20wd%3AP402%20wdt%3AP1630%20%3Fformatterurl%20.%20%3Fceremonial%20wdt%3AP402%20%3Fceremonialosmid%20.%20BIND%28IRI%28REPLACE%28%3Fceremonialosmid%2C%20%27%5E%28.%2B%29%24%27%2C%20%3Fformatterurl%29%29%20AS%20%3Fceremonialosm%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1889%20%3Fadministrative.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fadministrative%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ643815%20.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20wd%3AP402%20wdt%3AP1630%20%3Fformatterurl%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fadministrative%20p%3AP402%20%3Fadministrativestatement.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fadministrativestatement%20ps%3AP402%20%3Fadministrativeosmid%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fadministrativestatement%20pq%3AP518%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ643815%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28IRI%28REPLACE%28%3Fadministrativeosmid%2C%20%27%5E%28.%2B%29%24%27%2C%20%3Fformatterurl%29%29%20AS%20%3Fadministrativeosm%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20wd%3AP402%20wdt%3AP1630%20%3Fformatterurl%20.%20%3Fadministrative%20wdt%3AP402%20%3Fadministrativeosmid%20.%20BIND%28IRI%28REPLACE%28%3Fadministrativeosmid%2C%20%27%5E%28.%2B%29%24%27%2C%20%3Fformatterurl%29%29%20AS%20%3Fadministrativeosm%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20%28%3FitemLabel%29%0ALIMIT%2049 Counties in England] (Source)
 * Programming Languages, Year of creation and Image of inventor(Source)
 * Map of Antonine Wall items on Wikidata (Source)
 * Map of Hospitals in Buenos Aires on Spanish Wikipedia (Source)
 * Map of Michelin starred restaurants in Switzerland (Source)
 * English civil parishes on Wikidata with OSM relation ID (Source)
 * Collections in Louvre with an image on Wikimedia Commons (Source)
 * Chief Mousers(Source)
 * Books about Semantics (Source)
 * Danish COVID-19 research projects(Source)
 * Newest database reports: Lincoln (disambiguation page)


 * Development
 * Prototyping week: the Wikidata team at Wikimedia Germany spent one week working on some quick experiements. The projects developed during this week are not necessarily going to be added to the maintained codebase. Among those projects:
 * try to use GraphQL for the API providing access to Wikibase/Wikidata data
 * allow to programmatically access different configuration variables of a Wikibase instance to make it easier for tools to built on top of it
 * investigate ranking for Items to order them by their relevance in a query result
 * com up with a workflows for editing statements linking to other Items in the Wikidata Bridge
 * identify how to improve Wikidata's accessibility
 * create design system components to continue improving consistency

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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TheWikiWizard - April 2020
Hello, MarkZusab! Here is the April 2020 issue of TheWikiWizard. We hope you like this month's issue! If you'd like to discuss this issue, please go to this issue's talk page. Happy Reading & stay safe! -- Thegooduser  Life Begins With a Smile :)  🍁 02:05, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
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Spill Book Assistance
Thank you for your help with the novel Spill! I still want to get an image of the cover added to the box on the right. How were you able to get it published? Other approvers said it did not have enough references. This is great! I want to link Les Standiford's page with the article too so that the novel listed on his page directs to the Spill book page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spill_(book) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Standiford
 * I'm glad that I could help. I was able to get it published by adding independent / reliable references to the article, along with showing that the book was notable per WP:NBOOK. I have also linked the author's article to the book's article for you. The page WikiProject Books/Images has information about adding a book cover that you may find useful. MarkZusab (talk) 14:22, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-17
<section begin="technews-2020-W17"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News
 * The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 4 May 2020.

Recent changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg The small wiki toolkits is to help smaller wikis that need technical skills. They can learn and share technical skills.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Over-qualified CSS selectors in Wikimedia skins have been removed.  is now  .   is now  .   is now  . This is so the skins can use HTML5 elements. If your gadgets or user styles used them you will have to update them.

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

Future changes
 * Some things on the wikis might look weird or not work in Internet Explorer 8 in the future. Internet Explorer 8 was replaced in 2011.
 * The font in the diffs will change.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 April next week. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 April next week. It will be on all wikis from 30 April next week (calendar).

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John Atterbury
Thanks for your work on this article which you deprodded. The sources you’ve added don’t seem to do much to add notability at all. Do you have any substantial coverage that could help improve the article, before I nominate for WP:AFD? Thanks. Cardiffbear88 (talk) 11:31, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
 * I think there may be confusion here, as I was not the person who removed the PROD. I have no issue with you bringing the article to AFD. MarkZusab (talk) 14:15, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Crazy paving (medicine)
You removed COVID wikiproject template from Crazy paving (medicine) ("removed COVID-19 template, articles does not mention the topic") - isn't it enough that its only incoming links are from Coronavirus disease 2019 and COVID-19 testing? – attomir (talk &#124; contribs) 23:27, 23 April 2020 (UTC)


 * No, it's not. The article is about a medical term that can apply to numerous conditions, not specific to COVID-19. The reason those were the only two incoming links was because it is an obscure term. I have added a third incoming link. Thank you for creating the article. MarkZusab (talk) 23:41, 23 April 2020 (UTC)


 * I've mostly moved the content from Crazy paving which was about pavement. :) I'm unable to judge whether it's an important sign with respect to COVID diagnosis, so not going to argue. So, "case closed" for me. – attomir (talk &#124; contribs) 00:01, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

Richard Miller (author)
In case you're interested, I have moved my draft out of userspace to Draft:Richard Miller (author) for more collaboration. ☆ Bri (talk) 23:44, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #413
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: 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)
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