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Wikidata weekly summary #216
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.  Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:51, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Europeana280 Art History Challenge has finished
 * Europeana blog post
 * video
 * Wikimedia blog post
 * The life and times of Mr Herbert Ellerby: Linking Llandudno, Lancashire, and Moggill, Australia
 * Wikidata auf der GPN
 * Past: PSESHSF (You can sign up to be notified about more Wikidata workshops in France)
 * Past: Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon
 * Upcoming: office hour on IRC
 * Upcoming: State of the Map US in Seattle - http://stateofthemap.us/
 * Upcoming: Wikimedia UK AGM with Wikidata training
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * There is now a 100wikidatadays challenge based on the 100wikidays challenge for Wikipedia. The goal: convert 100 templates to make use of Wikidata over the course of 100 days.
 * Tobias started writing a tutorial on how to write infoboxes that make use of Wikidata's data and could use your help expanding it.
 * Thiemo wrote a user script to pre-fill "date retrieved" in a reference with the current date. Please test and let us know what you think ont he linked page. If you like it it can become a gadget.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: British Book Trade Index ID, Plarr ID, warheroes.ru ID, Dailymotion channel ID, Munk's Roll ID, Catalogus Professorum Rostochensium ID, CageMatch tag team ID, Pleiades place type identifier, parliamentary term
 * Query examples: Ancestors of Guðni Jóhannesson (note the last names), movies with Bud Spencer (source), largest cities per country (source), longest river of each continent (source), rivers in Antarctica (source), continents (source), and some other continents (source), places with continent Antarctica more than 3000 km north of south pole (source), files used as “image” in more than 10 items (source), monuments historiques in Loire-Atlantique (source), music composers by birth place (source), places of whorship (source), teachers with most students (source), buildings in more than one country (source), sandwiches (source), [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Each%20composer%E2%80%99s%20most%20used%20tonality%2C%20with%20number%20of%20works%20in%20that%20tonality.%0A%23%20%28If%20this%20is%20ambiguous%20%E2%80%93%20multiple%20tonalities%20with%20the%20same%20number%20%E2%80%93%20there%20are%20multiple%20results%20for%20one%20composer.%29%0A%23%20%0A%23%20The%20SPARQL%20for%20this%20is%20an%20evil%20perversion%20of%20three%20subqueries%20%28one%20of%20them%20nested%20in%20another%29.%0A%23%20To%20understand%20it%2C%20you%20have%20to%20go%20inside%20out%E2%80%A6%20follow%20the%20numbers.%0A%0ASELECT%20%3FcomposerLabel%20%3FtonalityLabel%20%3Fcount%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%23%204.%20Group%20again%2C%20this%20time%20just%20by%20the%20composer.%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20%20%20%20We%20also%20select%20the%20highest%20count%20of%20a%20tonality.%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20%20%20%20Notice%20that%20we%20don%E2%80%99t%20know%20what%20tonality%20this%20count%20is%20associated%20with%20%E2%80%93%20we%E2%80%99ll%20get%20to%20that.%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20%20%20%20So%20now%20we%20have%20each%20composer%2C%20along%20with%20how%20often%20they%20used%20whatever%20tonality%20they%20used%20most.%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fcomposer%20%28MAX%28%3Fcount%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%0A%20%20%20%20WHERE%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%202.%20Group%20by%20composer%20and%20tonality%2C%20so%20that%20for%20each%20composer%20and%20tonality%2C%20we%20get%20a%20count%20of%20how%20often%20the%20composer%20used%20this%20tonality.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fcomposer%20%3Ftonality%20%28COUNT%28%3Fcomposition%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20WHERE%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%201.%20Extremely%20straightforward%3A%20the%20%3Fcomposition%20has%20the%20composer%20%3Fcomposer%20and%20the%20tonality%20%3Ftonality.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20%20%20%20%28I%E2%80%99m%20not%20bothering%20with%20any%20%E2%80%9Cinstance%20of%E2%80%9D%20because%20the%20presence%20of%20these%20two%20properties%20is%20a%20sufficient%20indicator%20of%20%3Fcomposition%20being%20a%20composition.%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcomposition%20wdt%3AP86%20%3Fcomposer%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP826%20%3Ftonality.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fcomposer%20%3Ftonality%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20HAVING%28%3Fcount%20%3E%201%29%20%23%203.%20Limit%20that%20to%20counts%20%3E%201%2C%20because%20using%20a%20tonality%20once%20is%20hardly%20%E2%80%9Cmost%20used%E2%80%9D.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fcomposer%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%23%206.%20Identical%20to%202.%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fcomposer%20%3Ftonality%20%28COUNT%28%3Fcomposition%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%0A%20%20%20%20WHERE%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%205.%20Identical%20to%201.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcomposition%20wdt%3AP86%20%3Fcomposer%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP826%20%3Ftonality.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fcomposer%20%3Ftonality%0A%20%20%20%20HAVING%28%3Fcount%20%3E%201%29%20%23%207.%20Identical%20to%203.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%23%208.%20That%E2%80%99s%20it.%20Wait%2C%20what%3F%0A%20%20%23%20%20%20%20From%204%2C%20we%20now%20have%20%3Fcomposer%2C%20any%20composer%2C%20and%20%3Fcount%2C%20the%20count%20of%20how%20often%20they%20used%20whatever%20tonality%20they%20used%20most.%0A%20%20%23%20%20%20%20From%206%2C%20we%20also%20have%20a%20%3Fcomposer%2C%20as%20well%20as%20a%20%3Ftonality%2C%20and%20the%20count%20of%20how%20often%20they%20used%20that%20particular%20tonality.%0A%20%20%23%20%20%20%20The%20trick%20is%20that%20%3Fcomposer%20and%20%3Fcount%20are%20the%20same%20variable%20in%20each%20subquery%2C%20and%20so%20now%2C%20when%20the%20two%20subqueries%20are%20joined%2C%0A%20%20%23%20%20%20%20we%20select%20only%20that%20%3Ftonality%20from%206%20where%20the%20%3Fcomposer%20and%20the%20%3Fcount%20are%20identical%20to%20those%20from%204%20%E2%80%93%0A%20%20%23%20%20%20%20that%20is%2C%20where%20this%20tonality%20was%20used%20as%20often%20as%20the%20composer%E2%80%99s%20most-used%20tonality.%0A%20%20%23%20%20%20%20In%20other%20words%2C%20this%20must%20%2abe%2a%20the%20composer%E2%80%99s%20most-used%20tonality%20%28except%20when%20there%20are%20multiple%20tonalities%20with%20the%20same%20count%29.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29%20%23%209.%20Order%20by%20count%20%28highest%20first%29%2C%20because%20the%20result%20isn%E2%80%99t%20very%20meaningful%20for%20low%20counts%20%28many%20compositions%20aren%E2%80%99t%20on%20Wikidata%20or%20don%E2%80%99t%20have%20a%20tonality%20statement%29. composers and their most-used tonality] (source), former capitals (source), list of suicide attacks (source), birthplaces of people named Antoine (source), ||%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%28%3Fel%20%3C%20%3Fkm*3281%20%26%26%20%3Funit%20%3D%20wd%3AQ3710%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20||%20%28%3Fel%20%3C%20%3Fkm%20%26%26%20%3Funit%20%3D%20wd%3AQ828224%29%20%29.%20%0A%20%20%3Fp%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Flocation.%0A%20%20optional%20%7B%20%3Fp%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%7D%0A places that are below 10 meters above sea level (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Etymology, Knowledge Organization Systems
 * Newest external tools: Navel Gazer (users statement addition counts)
 * Development
 * More groundwork for Commons. We can now save a statement in the new MediaInfo entity type \o/ (Some minor issues still with the demo system but should be solved next week.)
 * Fixed a display issue with description tooltips in recent changes. Thanks Matěj Suchánek! (T89663)
 * Refactored quite some of the sitelinks-related JavaScript code (T127056 and 294687. This may break some existing gadgets and user scripts temporarily.
 * Updated the graphic representing the data model in Wikidata: long, medium, short
 * Fixed problem with editing statements on Wikidata, after last week's deployment (T138974)
 * Started interviews to find user needs and workflows for automated list generation (T139284)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Wikidata weekly summary #217
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.  Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 15:33, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Connecting OpenStreetMap and Wikidata, blog post by Mapbox
 * Past: office hour on IRC (log)
 * Now: ISMB 2016 Editathon
 * Upcoming: Viquimarató de Wikidata sobre Ramon Llull
 * Upcoming: OpenSym
 * Monitoring the Gender Gap with Wikidata Human Gender Indicators
 * An Empirical Evaluation of Property Recommender Systems for Wikidata and Collaborative Knowledge Bases
 * Mapping street names to Wikidata entities they refer to and enriching OpenStreetMap with linked data
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The removal of Persondata from the English Wikipedia is completed. There are still much information to migrate to Wikidata at KasparBot's tool.
 * Tour de France data is coming from Wikidata in at least 3 Wikipedias
 * Freebase API will be shut down on August 31
 * TXT Werk is now using Wikidata to identify entities (previously Freebase)
 * Magnus' reference drag and drop script is now a gadget
 * Got an idea for a cool project around Wikidata but need some funding? A project grant might be an option.
 * There are several full PhD/postdoc positions available at TU Dresden with Markus including work on Wikidata
 * Magnus' Wiki Loves Monuments tool now also reads cultural identifiers from Wikidata and was switched to use SPARQL
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: archive date, permanent duplicated item, throughput, NAIF ID, point of penalty, Transferred Account Data Interchange Group Code, Estonian Research Portal person ID, bateau d'intérêt patrimonial, Cultural heritage database in Austria ObjektID, Nomisma ID, WikiTree ID, Estonian cultural monument ID, BacDive ID
 * Query examples: timeline of space probes (source), countries with most UNESCO World Heritage Sites (source), places in America named after places in England (source), emergency number by country size (source)
 * Development
 * Working on an infographic to represent the flow of data in Wikidata
 * Work on multi-content revisions in order to be able to store an entity (item, property, mediainfo) and wiki text in the same page (This is needed for Commons) (T107595)
 * Did more interviews with editors as preparation for the work on automated list generation for Wikipedia and co based on Wikidata data
 * Fixed a bug with data parsing in Korean and a few other languages (T139509)
 * Added "non" as a language code for monolingual text values (T137115)
 * Removed display of calendar model for dates with precision of 10 years or larger (T133973)
 * Fixed issues in some of the forms on special pages on mobile (T138413)
 * Disabled PDF export in item and property pages (T136814)
 * Worked on making it possible to have quantities with no bounds set (T115270)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Wikidata weekly summary #218
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.  Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 17:06, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * From Damascus to Berlin: A very special internship at Wikimedia Deutschland
 * Wikidata als Universalbibliographie: ein Kommentar
 * First image, good image?
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Since Pokémon is all the rage at the moment here is a short reminder that we have WikiProject Pokémon for them
 * TIB is looking for a Wikimedian in Residence in the Open Science Lab
 * The code for the Primary Sources Tool has been moved from the Google to the Wikidata organisation on github.
 * The ISCB competition for 2016 has been announced
 * Use Wikipedia “article main images” to find candidate images for Wikidata
 * StrepHit fact extraction agent v.1.1-beta has been released
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: GCatholic church ID, GoodReads book ID, QUDT unit ID, Queensland Heritage Register ID, National Library of Wales Archives and Manuscripts, EU River Basin District code, right to vote, GoodReads author ID, title of chess player, BVPH ID
 * Query examples: letters with more than two forms (source), metro stations (source), railway incidents (source), pyramids in Egypt (source), women described as wife and men described as husband (source), neuroinformatics coauthor network (source), nationalities of people with an article in the Bavarian Wikipedia (source), Irish general elections and their winners (source), types of historical monuments (source), Alpine four-thousanders (source), Alpine peaks (source), language statements that point to a country instead of a language (source)
 * Newest database reports: list of people who died on their birthday
 * Development
 * Map layers are coming soon to the Query Service
 * A lot of clean-up under the hood for the user interface
 * More interviews with editors in preparation for automated list generation
 * Fixed a bug where forms on the mobile site looked broken (T138413)
 * More work on Citoid integration for easier reference adding
 * Added Cape Verdean Creole (T127435)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Books & Bytes - Issue 18
 The Wikipedia Library Books & Bytes

Issue 18, June–July 2016 by, Ocaasi, Samwalton9, UY Scuti, and Sadads

 Read the full newsletter The Interior via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:25, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
 * New donations - Edinburgh University Press, American Psychological Association, Nomos (a German-language database), and more!
 * Spotlight: GLAM and Wikidata
 * TWL attends and presents at International Federation of Library Associations conference, meets with Association of Research Libraries
 * OCLC wins grant to train librarians on Wikimedia contribution

Precious anniversary
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 * Armenia: Armenian students inspire their parents to join Wikipedia
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 * Egypt: Cairo University students wrap up their eighth term and start their ninth term on WEP
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 * Greece: Online wiki training for educators in Greece
 * Israel: Outcomes report on a Wikipedia Course “Skills for Producing and Consuming Knowledge”, Tel Aviv University
 * Israel: Wikipedia as a Teaching and Learning Tool in Medical Education at IAMSE Medical Education Conference
 * Israel: "Writing a new article is a special experience that feels new every time"
 * Mexico: Video projects redefine student Wiki work and student community service
 * Russia: Wiki Workshop at Saint Petersburg Internet Conference 2016 in Russia
 * Sweden: Swedish National Agency of Education endorses Wikipedia Education Program
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 * West Africa: West African schools will test Kiwix, the offline Wikipedia reader
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Wikidata weekly summary #232
<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;"> Wikidata celebrates its 4th anniversary on October 29th. Around this date, a lot of events will happen online and offline.
 * Wikidata's birthday is coming!

Birthday events

Editors all around the world organize meetups to celebrate the birthday. You can join one of them or create an event in your own town!
 * San Francisco (USA), October 26th
 * Torino (Italy), October 26th
 * Tokyo (Japan), October 28th
 * Paris (France), October 29th
 * Utrecht (NL), October 29th
 * Berlin (Germany), November 4th
 * Rennes (France), November 5th

Online

A lot of surprises, stories and presents will be shared between October 29th and November 4th. Check the project chat or the mailing-list every day to see what happens!

You can also participate by posting a story (more info here), a tweet with #WikidataBirthday, let a message or a present on the birthday page.

If you're participating to Wikidata's birthday, you can add this template to your user page.


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Wikidata workshops in Paris : every month, Wikimédia France and editors organize a workshop about Wikidata and related tools. Check out the schedule
 * Upcoming: Ladies that FOSS October 29th in Berlin, organized by Lucie and Julia from the Wikidata team


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * WikiCite 2016 report


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Third-party formatter URL, Open Media Database film ID, broadcast by, musical conductor, Student register of the University of Helsinki 1640–1852 ID, Belgian Senate person ID, Flemish Parliament person ID, DRÚSOP ID


 * Query examples:
 * places of birth of living US senators (compare with last week's)
 * Wikidata map of filming locations (source)
 * Streets in Paris named after a physician (source)
 * Moons of trans-Neptunian objects (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Chess


 * Development
 * Fixed a rounding error in the geo coordinate formatter (see [//github.com/DataValues/Geo/pull/78 GitHub]). Thanks, 0x686578!
 * Improvements to technical error messages, e.g. "illegal value" when editing a Commons media statement (T141880).
 * Continued working on a new parser function to get rich, formatted statements.
 * Continued working on making entity usage information visible to users.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

<div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 10:37, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #233
<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;"> The birthday week started and already a lot of events happened, presents have been shared, stories have been told! Here's what you may have missed:
 * Wikidata's birthday: presents, stories and events
 * a word from the development team by Lydia
 * a new version of the map showing all the Wikidata items with geolocalisation, by Addshore, who explains how he generated it in a blog post
 * The 4th birthday logo by Incabell
 * A new release of the Wikipedia and Wikidata Tools for Google Spreadsheets add-on has made working with Wikidata a lot easier for Google Sheets users, by Tomayac
 * A guide to SPARQL and the Wikidata Query Service, by TweetsFactsAndQueries
 * Four new types of charts for the Query Service: line chart, bar chart, scatter chart and area chart (read more and try examples in the documentation) by Jonas
 * , a new parser function is currently in development with better features that you can try on beta by the Wikidata dev team and volunteers
 * Search field added in Scholia, a tool to create scholarship profiles, by fnielsen
 * 10 cool queries for Wikidata that will blow your mind. Number 7 will shock you, by Jens and Cornelius
 * 4 years of Wikidata by Stryn
 * A lot of people celebrating and posting pictures on Twitter or on Commons!

The birthday party is not finished yet, every day until November 4th you will discover new presents and stories. Follow the project chat or the mailing-list or #Wikidatabirthday to get the news!


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Wikidata birthday in Kanpur (India), November 3rd
 * Wikidata birthday in Berlin (Germany), November 4th
 * Wikidata birthday in Rennes (France), November 5th
 * OKlab Berlin hacknights, October 31st and November 7th
 * Pidapalooza, Reykjavik, November 9-10
 * Past: Ladies that FOSS (livetweet report)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: SummitPost ID, lib.reviews ID, Galiciana Author ID, ICAA rating, KINENOTE person ID, NGS pumping station ID, third-party formatter URL, Open Media Database film ID, broadcast by


 * Query examples:
 * Deities and their families
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20p%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20v%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fstatement%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20q%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fqualifier%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20rdfs%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2F01%2Frdf-schema%23%3E%0APREFIX%20ps%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fstatement%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20psv%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fstatement%2Fvalue%2F%3E%0A%0A%20%20%20%23%20%20Query%20to%20find%20the%20most-frequently%20represented%0A%20%20%20%23%20%20variants%20of%20the%20male%20given%20name%20%3Ftgt_name%0A%20%20%20%23%20%20when%20%3Ftgt_name%20%3D%20Q2958359%0A%20%20%20%23%20%20Query%20generated%20by%20%5B%5BTemplate%3ANameVariantStatsM%5D%5D%0A%0ASELECT%20%3Fname%20%3FnameLabel%20%3Fcount%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20hint%3AQuery%20hint%3Aoptimizer%20%22None%22%20.%20%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fname%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fa%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fname%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%3Fname%20wdt%3AP460%2A%20wd%3AQ15235674%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%20wd%3AQ15235674%20wdt%3AP460%2A%20%3Fname%7D%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fname%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ12308941%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%20LIMIT%20100%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fa%20wdt%3AP735%20%3Fname%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fa%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fname%0A%20%20%7D%20.%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%0A%23%20HAVING%20%28%3Fcount%20%3E%201%29%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29%20%3FitemLabel%0A Most frequently variants of given names] (source)
 * Cheese made with cow milk (source)
 * Abandoned villages in the Czech Republic (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Informatics: File Formats
 * Newest database reports: Liam Neeson filmography


 * Development
 * We proposed a meaningful initial order for the statementSort gadget (T147062)
 * Commons media file properties now support pasting full Wikimedia Commons URLs (T147917)
 * Added distinct hover tooltips to rank and snak type selectors, as well as some of the "add" buttons (T139356)
 * Our concept base URI will be exposed as part of the [#action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=general ] API (T143910). Thanks, user Lokal Profil!
 * Progress on the  API module to query entity usage information (T145880)
 * Progress on the new parser function for rich, formatted statements (T142940)
 * Released [//github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModel/releases/tag/6.2.0 Wikibase DataModel 6.2.0]
 * Released [//phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/GDVV/browse/master/RELEASE-NOTES.md ValueView 0.18.0]

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


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 * Hack on one of these.
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 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

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 * New and expanded donations - Foreign Affairs, Open Edition, and many more
 * New Library Card Platform and Conference news
 * Spotlight: Fixing one million broken links

Wikidata weekly summary #234
<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;">

Thanks to everyone who celebrated the birthday by organizing or attending to an event, letting a message on Wikidata or on the social networks, writing a story or creating a present!
 * Fourth birthday: thank you!

Here's the list of the birthday presents from the community and development team:
 * d:Template:User Wikidata birthday 2016 (Pigsonthewing)
 * A new version of the map showing all the Wikidata items with geolocalisation (Addshore)
 * Wikidata's 4th birthday logo (Incabell)
 * A new release of the Wikipedia and Wikidata Tools for Google Spreadsheets add-on has made working with Wikidata a lot easier for Google Sheets users. (Tomayac)
 * A guide to SPARQL and the Wikidata Query Service (TweetsFactsAndQueries)
 * Four new types of charts for the Query Service: line chart, bar chart, scatter chart and area chart! Read more and try examples in the documentation (Jonas)
 * , a new parser function is currently in development with better features: try it here! (Thiemo, Wikidata dev team and volunteers)
 * Search field added in Scholia, a tool to create scholarship profiles (fnielsen)
 * Technical documentation about Wikibase for PHP and JS scripts (Ladsgroup and Jonas)
 * new feature for the graph view in the Query Service: it can now browse the properties of items. see in the video (Jonas)
 * graph builder tool for the query service to create and export graphs (demo video) (Jonas, [[d:user:Smalyshev (WMF)|Smalyshev)
 * d:Module:PropertyPath and d:Template:Show Path Items (TomT0m)
 * Everything is connected, a knowledge game based on Wikidata and Commons (list of levels) (Denny)


 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Editing descriptions from Wikipedia Android app


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Histropedia: “The power of data visualisation combined with free knowledge” on WMF's blog
 * Presenting the Wikidata Human Gender Indicators by Max Klein
 * How the world’s first Wikidata Visiting Scholar created linked open data for five thousand works of art on WMF's blog


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Music in Canada at 150 Wikipedia Project, a multifaceted campaign to increase the amount and quality of content about Canadian music in Wikipedia and Wikidata
 * 400,000,000th edit was made.
 * The average amount of statements per item became higher than five and is still growing.
 * Wikidata entities usage on Wikimedia projects


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: DRÚSOP ID, code, encoding, BALaT image ID, DocCheck Flexikon De ID, DocCheck Flexikon En ID, biography at the Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Cellosaurus ID, World Spider Catalog ID, Squash Info ID, MSC ID, Yahoo! Japan Talent Database ID, Bandcamp artist ID, French National Assembly Lobbyist ID, BanQ author ID, statistical leader, Sandbox-Monolingual text II


 * Query examples:
 * Continents on Wikidata (All eleven of them) (source)
 * Sluices on the river "Vilaine" in Brittany (source)
 * Countries with most cities named after saints (source)
 * Disney characters who share name with their actors (source)
 * 204 items that cite themselves (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20statements%20with%20two%20references%20where%20one%20source%20cites%20the%20other%0ASELECT%20%3Fsubject%20%3FsubjectLabel%20%3FpropertyLabel%20%3FobjectLabel%20%3Fsource1Label%20%3Fsource2Label%0AWITH%20%7B%20%23%20subquery%20that%20actually%20finds%20the%20statements%20and%20sources%20%28written%20as%20named%20subquery%20to%20ensure%20it%E2%80%99s%20only%20run%20once%2C%20independently%20of%20the%20rest%20of%20the%20query%3B%20see%20https%3A%2F%2Fwiki.blazegraph.com%2Fwiki%2Findex.php%2FNamedSubquery%29%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fstatement%20%3Fsource1%20%3Fsource2%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fstatement%20prov%3AwasDerivedFrom%2Fpr%3AP248%20%3Fsource1%2C%20%3Fsource2.%20%23%20statement%20has%20two%20%E2%80%9Cstated%20in%E2%80%9D%20references%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fsource1%20wdt%3AP2860%20%3Fsource2.%20%23%20first%20source%20cites%20the%20second%20one%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Fsource1%20%21%3D%20%3Fsource2%29.%20%23%20apparently%20some%20items%20cite%20themselves%3F%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25results%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25results.%0A%20%20%23%20auxiliary%20query%20to%20find%20the%20subject%2C%20property%20and%20object%20of%20the%20statement%2C%20as%20well%20as%20labels%0A%20%20%3Fsubject%20%3Fp%20%3Fstatement.%0A%20%20%3Fstatement%20%3Fps%20%3Fobject.%0A%20%20%3Fproperty%20a%20wikibase%3AProperty%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3Aclaim%20%3Fp%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AstatementProperty%20%3Fps.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D Statements with two references where one source cites the other] (source)


 * Development
 * Stable interface policy update
 * More work on federation in order to be able to use Wikidata's items and properties to describe media files on Wikimedia Commons in the future (T149580)
 * Worked on first version of Lexeme entity type (T148139)
 * Worked more on linking values in Lua and the property parser function instead of just returning the label (T142940) You can test it here: https://de.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Statements
 * Improved map layer colors in the query service (T148022)
 * Improved size of map markers in the query service (T148496)
 * Upcoming: quantity changes
 * Worked more on automated sitelinks for Wiktionary (T987) Test system is coming in the next days.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


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 * Contribute to a Showcase item
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 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

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Wikidata weekly summary #235
<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;"> This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-11-12.


 * Discussions
 * Current request for comments: Editing descriptions from Wikipedia Android app


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Wikidata and the Chain of Death, by Karl Beecher
 * Scaling multilingual name tags with Wikidata OpenStreetMap contributor blog post
 * Wikidata and Persistent Identifiers was presented at PIDapalooza November 9th.
 * Wikidata in OpenStreetMap
 * Wikidata and the Semantic Web of Food


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * A new Wikidata PageRank dataset has been published. The dataset was computed in August 2016 and provides PageRank scores for 10,364,840 Wikidata entities.
 * Due to a possible hack, please consider resetting your passwords.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: generation time, hazard on site,	ACM Digital Library event ID,	ACM Digital Library citation ID,	HGVS nomenclature,	Supermodels.nl ID,	CIViC variant ID,	wurvoc.org measure ID,	Réserves Naturelles de France ID,	World Waterfall Database ID,	Ylioppilasmatrikkeli 1853–1899 ID,	ID petit-patrimoine.com,	opponent during disputation,	Vlindernet ID,	male form of label,	board member,	Patrimonio Inmueble de Andalucía ID,	BDI ID,	ICCF ID,	chesstempo ID,	365chess player ID,	plan image,	muscle action,	SummitPost ID,	lib.reviews ID,	Galiciana Author ID,	ICAA rating,	KINENOTE person ID,	NGS pumping station ID,	third-party formatter URL,	Open Media Database film ID,	broadcast by,	musical conductor,	Student register of the University of Helsinki 1640–1852 ID,	Belgian Senate person ID,	Flemish Parliament person ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of educational institutes from all over the world (source)
 * Current US Supreme Court justices by their date of birth (source)
 * Death dates of people with Wikidata items (source)
 * French towns that a street in Paris is name after(source)
 * Statements with “reason for deprecation” rank that aren’t deprecated(source)


 * Development
 * More work on federation (T76007)
 * Worked on first basic version of Lexeme entity type for Wiktionary support (T148139)
 * Test system for automated language links for Wiktionary (T987)
 * Analysed feedback prototype for editing on Wikipedia in order to refine it
 * Worked on mapping Commons workflows and needs
 * Analysed queries used with Listeria
 * More work on making ArticlePlaceholder pages indexeable by search engines (T117693)
 * More work on enabling translations from existing articles in other languages on ArticlePlaceholder pages (T124036)
 * Link to local articles in ArticlePlaceholders (T113955)
 * Fix for bug that prevented editing (T150401)
 * Experimented with improvements for property suggestions (T132839)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

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