User talk:MartinPoulter/Archive 5

Wikidata weekly summary #236
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: How to make new languages enabled on Wikidata


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Problematizing and Addressing the Article as Concept Assumption in Wikipedia (Q27827559)
 * schema.org, Wikidata, Knowledge Graph: strands of the modern semantic web by Dan Scott


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Parlement & Politiek ID (P1749) has been completed in Mix'n'match. Over 5000 politicians from the Netherlands (and also Belgium) now have a link to this resource
 * Two policies about abandoned tools on Tool Labs are currently voted on
 * The Community Wishlist Survey is now closed and the vote phase will start on November 28. Here's the category for Wikidata
 * Data import hub and Data import guide: feel free to give feedbacks on these documents!


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: musipedia tune ID, Adult Film Database person ID, WHO international non-proprietary names ID, designed to carry, National Library of Greece ID, PermID, HKMDb person ID, RxNorm CUI, Vote Smart ID, legislation.gov.uk ID, significant person, Kvikmyndir person ID, Kvikmyndir film ID, World Surf League ID, Encyclopedia of Surfing ID


 * Query examples:
 * Occupations of women, with French female-form labels (source, database report)
 * Documents with most signatories (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Wikidata%20map%20of%20James%20Bond%20filming%20locations%0A%23%20SPARQL%20by%20Jura1%2C%202016-11-05%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%09%3Ffilm%20%28CONCAT%28str%28%3FactorLabel%29%2C%20%22%20%2Fin%2F%20%22%2C%20str%28%3FfilmLabel%29%2C%20%22%20--%20the%20%22%2C%20str%28%3FfilmDescription%29%29%20as%20%3Flayer%29%20%0A%09%09%3Fenwiki_article%09%3Fcoor%09%0A%09%09%3Ffilminglocation%09%3FfilminglocationLabel%0A%7B%09SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Ffilm%09%3FfilmLabel%20%3FfilmDescription%20%09%3Fenwiki_article%09%3Fcoor%09%3Ffilminglocation%09%3FfilminglocationLabel%20%3FactorLabel%20%3FpropertyLabel%20%0A%09%7B%0A%20%20%09%3Fstatement%20pq%3AP453%20wd%3AQ2009573%20.%0A%20%20%09%3Ffilm%20p%3AP161%20%3Fstatement%20.%20%3Fstatement%20ps%3AP161%20%3Factor%20.%0A%20%20%09%3Ffilm%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2A%20wd%3AQ11424%20.%0A%20%20%09%3Ffilm%20wdt%3AP915%20%3Ffilminglocation%20.%0A%20%20%09%3Ffilminglocation%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoor%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Ffilminglocation%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Ffilminglocation%20%7D%20%20%0A%09OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fenwiki_article%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Ffilm%20%3B%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20%7D%0A%09SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%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%3Ffilm%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FfilmLabel%20.%20%3Ffilm%20schema%3Adescription%20%3FfilmDescription%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%3Ffilminglocation%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FfilminglocationLabel%20.%20%3Factor%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FactorLabel%20%20%7D%0A%09%7D%0A%7D Filming locations of James Bond films] (source)
 * United States National Historic Landmarks not actually located in the United States (source)
 * Items with VIAF, but no P31/279 (source)
 * Newest database reports: List of Italian language films without articles in Italian Wikipedia


 * Development
 * Unit conversion has been rolled out for the first dimension for a short while now.
 * Undo diffs now utilize language fallbacks for property and item labels (315291). Thanks to Matěj Suchánek!
 * Reworked database schema for Cognate (the extension that will do automatic interwiki links for Wiktionary). It is still waiting for security review before it can be deployed.
 * Worked more on basic version of Lexeme entity type
 * Fixed a bug where the links on action=info where wrong (T149598)
 * Getting close to finishing the groundwork for Federation so that in the future you'll be able to use Wikidata's items and properties to describe files on Commons.
 * Added Innu-aimun as a language for monolingual text values (T151129)
 * Worked on linking to Wikipedia articles in the statements on an ArticlePlaceholder (T113955)
 * ArticlePlaceholder got a button to translate articles via the ContentTranslation extension (T124036)
 * Prepared a bot to fix quantity values after the recent changes to precisions (T142087)
 * Did user interviews for use cases and workflows on Commons
 * Analyzed more Listeria queries in order to figure out steps forward for easier query writing

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:07, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help write 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

Wikidata weekly summary #237
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Closed request for comments: Semi-automatic Addition of References to Wikidata Statements


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: Wikidata introduction by Pigsonthewing at DJUK 2016


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Items without statements is down to 5% for enwiki (source)
 * Wikidata:WikiProject Biographical Identifiers


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Auckland Art Gallery artist ID, Observatoire du Patrimoine Religieux ID, Géopatronyme ID, Prabook ID, GECD film ID, GECD person ID, Enciclopedia Treccani, stereoisomer of, Tennishof ID, operating income, PictoRight ID code, Nobel Prize People Nomination ID, negative prognostic predictor, positive prognostic predictor, negative diagnostic predictor, positive diagnostic predictor, negative therapeutic predictor, positive therapeutic predictor, National Recreation Trails Database ID


 * Query example : List of sovereign state flags by proportion (source)
 * Newest tool: Display the link to Wikiversity in the title of Wikipedia using Wikidata
 * Newest database report: Unique films: film items with a link to a single Wikipedia


 * Development
 * Adding new wikis to interwiki sort order and move sort orders to WMF config. T111023

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

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:54, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #238
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


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


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: Wikidata workshop at Code for Germany with OKLabs, Jens and WikidataFacts. You can read a blog post by Riedelwerk (in German) More documentation to come soon
 * How Wikidata could be used for biomedical knowledge (Benjamin Good)
 * The Fossasia Opentech Submit in Singapore is looking for speakers. If you're in the area and want to introduce attendees to Wikidata, feel free to send your application!


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Sitelinks for the new Finnish Wikivoyage can be added


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: French Sculpture Census work ID, Japan Sumo Association ID, film poster, GeneDB ID, File Format Wiki page ID, FAO 2007 genetic resource ID, Model Manual ID, Merck Index reaction ID, Bloomberg private company ID, Belgian Enterprise number, GECD Firmen-ID, endianness, sibling


 * Query examples:
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Bridges%20named%20after%20women%0A%23%20Adapted%20from%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fwiki%2FWikidata%3ARequest_a_query%23bridges_named_after_women%20by%20MisterSynergy%20%2C%20Jura1%202016-12-03%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%0A%09%3Fbridge%20%3FbridgeLabel%20%0A%09%3Fwoman%20%3FwomanLabel%20%0A%09%3Fcoor%20%0A%09%3Fcountry%20%3FcountryLabel%20%0A%09%3Fwaterbody%20%3FwaterbodyLabel%20%0A%09%28BOUND%28%3FenArticle%29%20AS%20%3FhasEn%29%20%28BOUND%28%3FfrArticle%29%20AS%20%3FhasFr%29%20%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20%3Fbridge%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ12280%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP138%20%3Fwoman%20.%0A%20%20%3Fwoman%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ6581072%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%20%20%20%3Fbridge%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fcountry%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%09%3Fbridge%20wdt%3AP177%20%3Fwaterbody%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%20%20%20%3FenArticle%20a%20schema%3AArticle%3B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fwoman%3B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2F%3E.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%20%20%20%3FfrArticle%20a%20schema%3AArticle%3B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fwoman%3B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Ffr.wikipedia.org%2F%3E.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fbridge%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoor%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%2Cfr%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%20%0AORDER%20BY%20%3Fcountry Bridges named after women] (source)
 * Network of brands of some big food/drink companies (source, help improve it)
 * Cities located next to most rivers (source)
 * Nobel Prize winners on Twitter (source)
 * French deputies who died during their mandate (source)
 * Streets in the Netherlands named after people
 * People burried in the cemetery of La Croix Rousse (Lyon, France) (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Politicians in France
 * Newest database reports: list of films with multiple-language versions (Italian labels)


 * Development
 * Special:EntityUsage and Special:PagesWithBadges now are using OOjs UI (T152046)
 * RFC discussion on ways to allow visitors to choose a language without logging in (T149419 and T114662)
 * Investigating performance issues with change dispatching (T151681)
 * Continued work on Lexeme prototype (T146662), refining the Lexeme data model (T151582)
 * Continued work on federation basics (T149580)
 * Some discussion on tracking usage of statements or statement groups on clients (T151717, see mailing list)
 * Investigating support for Linked Data Fragments (T136358)
 * We're participating in this year's Google Code-In with a couple of Wikidata related tasks
 * Research for Wikidata for Commons and Wiktionary continues
 * Added olo (Livvinkarjala), mai and tcy to interwiki sorting order. (T151449)

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!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Help with one of the bot requests
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:58, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #239
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.  It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of User:Coyau. He was a very active editor on Wikidata and the other Wikimedia projects. He will be deeply missed by his friends and family but his great work on open culture will stay. Feel free to browse and share his work. Thanks Guillaume for this message.


 * Discussions
 * New development input: Avoiding breaking gadgets when developing UI
 * Closed request for comments: Data quality framework for Wikidata
 * Wishlist at What government data is of best interest?


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: Open Gov Partnership conference in Paris, where Ash_Crow and other editors presented Wikidata


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Have a look at PAWS, a tool to create Wikidata bots (and a cheat sheet from WikidataFacts)
 * Item Q 28 000 000 is about to be created.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: CNC film rating (Romania), Wilderness.net ID, CORDIS Project ID, JTWC tropical cyclone ID, Butterflies and Moths of North America ID, Guide of the French Church person ID, Guide of the French Church structure ID, heart rate, Järviwiki ID, LittleSis organisation ID, Surman ID, Verkhovna Rada MP id, Consolidated code of the electronic catalog of libraries of Belarus, Royal Swedish Academy of Letters member ID, LittleSis people ID, minimum frequency of audible sound


 * Query examples:
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23%20Query%20Find%20in%20WikiData%20people%20with%20Place%20of%20Burial%20Q252312%20Norra%20Begravningsplatsen%0A%23%20Show%20Wikitree%20ID%2C%20Find%20A%20Grave%20ID%20and%20if%20picture%20of%20the%20grave%20exist%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%0Aselect%20distinct%20%3FgroupLabel%20%28%3FgroupLabel%20as%20%3Flayer%29%20%3Farticle%20%3Fperson%20%3FpersonLabel%20%20%3FpersonDescription%20%20%3Fgraveplot%20%3Fcoord%20%3Fpic%20%3FpicGrave%20%3FWikiTree%20%3FFindAGrave%7B%0A%7B%0A%09%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP119%20wd%3AQ252312%3B%20%23Place%20of%20burial%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP119%20%5B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP965%20%3Fgraveplot%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP625%20%3Fcoord%5D.%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%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP2949%20%3FWikiTreeID%20.%7D%20%09%09%09%23%20If%20we%20have%20a%20WikiTree%20profile%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP535%20%3FFindAGraveID%20.%7D%20%09%09%23%20If%20we%20have%20a%20FindAGrave%20ID%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fpic%20.%7D%20%09%09%09%09%09%23%20If%20we%20have%20an%20illustration%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP1442%20%3FpicGrave%20.%7D%20%09%09%09%23%20If%20we%20have%20a%20picture%20of%20the%20grave%0A%20%20%20BIND%20%28URI%28CONCAT%28%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.findagrave.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Ffg.cgi%3Fpage%3Dgr%26df%3Dall%26GRid%3D%22%2C%3FFindAGraveID%29%29%20AS%20%3FFindAGrave%29%0A%20%20%20BIND%20%28URI%28CONCAT%28%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikitree.com%2Fwiki%22%2C%3FWikiTreeID%29%29%20AS%20%3FWikiTree%29%20%20%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fperson%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3AinLanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fsv.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fperson%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3AinLanguage%20%22sv%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fsv.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP106%20%3Fgroup%20.%7D%20%09%09%09%23%20Occupation%20in%20Layer%0A%0A%7D%20%20%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%2C%22sv%22%7D%0A%20%7D%0AOrder%20by%20%3FpersonLabel Map of people buried in the cemetery of Norra Begravningsplatsen] (Stockholm, Sweden)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%23%23%20%C5%92uvres%20du%20mus%C3%A9e%20Saint-Raymond%20sur%20Wikidata%0A%0APREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%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%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FinstanceLabel%20%20%3FNumInventaire%20%28CONCAT%28%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.culture.gouv.fr%2Fpublic%2Fmistral%2Fjoconde_fr%3FACTION%3DCHERCHER%26FIELD_1%3DREF%26VALUE_1%3D%22%2C%3FIDJoconde%29%20as%20%3FJoconde%29%20%3Fimage%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP195%20wd%3AQ1376%20%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Item%20ayant%20en%20collection%20%28P195%29%20le%20mus%C3%A9e%20Saint-Raymond%20%28Q1376%29%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20%3Finstance%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Nature%20de%20l%27item%20%28P31%29%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%7BSELECT%20%3Fitem%20%28GROUP_CONCAT%28DISTINCT%20%20%3Finv%3B%20separator%3D%22%3B%22%29%20as%20%3FNumInventaire%29%20%20%23%20Num%C3%A9ros%20d%27inventaire%20%28P214%29%20%0A%20%20%20%20WHERE%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP217%20%3Finv%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%7DGROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP347%20%3FIDJoconde.%7D%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Identifiant%20Joconde%0A%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%7BSELECT%20%3Fitem%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fimg%29%20AS%20%3Fimage%29%20%20%23%20Fichier%20image%20sur%20Wikimedia%20Commons%20%28P18%29%20%0A%20%20%20%20WHERE%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimg%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%7DGROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7Bbd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22fr%22%7D%0A%7DORDER%20BY%20%3Fitem Works of Musée Saint-Raymond (Toulouse, France) on Wikidata] (source)
 * Communes of France named after a river
 * People awarded by a Theater World Award in 2016
 * Upcoming creative works: films, TV series, video games… (source)
 * Number of demonstrations per country (source)
 * Newest database reports: Spanish-language films without an article in Spanish Wikipedia


 * Development
 * Continued work on Lexeme prototype (T146662), we're discussing some details in the data model (T152019)
 * Continued work on federation basics (T149580)
 * Rework translation/article creation UI (T151858)
 * Creating OOUI mockups as preparation for the dev summit
 * Finishing touches on the extension for automatic generation of inter-wiktionary links (preparatory work for lexicographic data in Wikidata)

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!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Help with one of the bot requests
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:47, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #240
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Voting on Make family member properties gender neutral: replacement of mother/father with a new "parent" properties
 * Switch Wikidata entities from http to https: T153563


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Blog post about the Wikidata workshop at Code for Germany (de)
 * Wikidata people will be at the Chaos Communication Congress (Hamburg, December 27th-30th) on the Open Knowledge Assembly stand


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Basque language Wikipedia develops a most prominent basque and worlwide person born/death in this day for all the day related articles. For example, eu:Abenduaren 19. It also displays interesting red links for people born and dead that day that are not represented in eu:wp.
 * WDQ about to be shut down (you can add sub-tasks for remaining uses to T153439)
 * SQID now supports PrimarySources
 * Project Grants program will fund 12 community-led projects, several of them directly related to Wikidata
 * Citoid, a script for editing references that can automatically populate parts of the reference, is now available for testing!
 * New parser function has been enabled
 * Histropedia added new features to the Wikidata query timeline


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Yle Areena ID, Leopoldina member ID, Protected areas of Canada ID, Saxon Academy of Sciences member ID, Clergy of the Church of England database ID, Catalogus Professorum Lipsiensis ID, FINA Athlete ID, Klosterdatenbank, Saccharomyces Genome Database ID, Nederlands Soortenregister ID, The Vogue List ID, coextensive with


 * Query examples:
 * Timeline of the Christmas movies (source)
 * All Theatre World Award winners, in a timeline with pictures (source)
 * Birthplaces of people buried in Norra Begravningsplatsen (source)
 * Planets, their moons, and the things they are named after (source)
 * Items with no father or no mother (source)
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 * Newest external tools: “short author name” resolver tool
 * Newest database reports: hospital lists
 * Development
 * Statements will soon be ordered as specified in MediaWiki:Wikibase-SortedProperties (T150788)
 * Getting ready the basic Lexeme prototype (T146662), we're discussing some details in the data model (T152019)
 * Continued work on federation basics (T149580)
 * We removed the page property, old entries will not be updated any more (T146792)
 * Removed a visible jump while an entity page loads (325924)
 * Fixed a formatting issue in which the geo coordinate formatter may output "60 seconds" (T153429)
 * Fixed a bug in Special:NewProperty where it was not possible to provide the property type as part of the URL (327496)
 * Working on a major rewrite of Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel/Description, one of many steps to phase numeric entity IDs out (T140891)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

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 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
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 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
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 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.

This Month in Education: December 2016
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 * Greece: Greek schools collaborate to write on local history
 * Israel: It’s a win win project: An interview with Sivan Lerer, a teacher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
 * Germany: Open Science Fellows Program launched in Germany
 * Basque Country: Students go wikipedian in the Basque Country
 * Norway: Third term of Wikipedia editing at the University of Oslo
 * Macedonia: First Wiki Club in Macedonia
 * Global: Articles of interest in other publications

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Wikidata weekly summary #241
<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;"> <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 13:30, 26 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Upcoming: 33C3
 * Scaling OpenStreetMap with Wikidata knowledge
 * Scraping data from Wikipedia using Wikidata
 * Using cbimport to import Wikibase data to JSON documents
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Linked data fragment enabled on the Query Service
 * Quora topic IDs have been added to Mix'n'match
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Belvedere artist ID, Calflora ID, basic unit of settlement code (Czech/Slovak), Google Play Store ID, Quora topic ID, end period, start period
 * Query examples:
 * List of heads of state by Erdős number (source)
 * Airports named after people (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23%20Query%20Find%20in%20WikiData%20people%20with%20Place%20of%20Burial%20Q252312%20Norra%20Begravningsplatsen%0A%23%20that%20has%20no%20picture%20of%20the%20grave%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%0Aselect%20distinct%20%3FgroupLabel%20%28%3FgroupLabel%20as%20%3Flayer%29%20%3Farticle%20%3Fperson%20%3FpersonLabel%20%20%3FpersonDescription%20%20%3Fgraveplot%20%3Fcoord%20%3Fpic%20%3FpicGrave%20%3FWikiTree%20%3FFindAGrave%7B%0A%7B%0A%09%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP119%20wd%3AQ252312%3B%20%23Place%20of%20burial%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP119%20%5B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP965%20%3Fgraveplot%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP625%20%3Fcoord%5D.%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%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP535%20%3FFindAGraveID%20.%7D%20%09%09%23%20If%20we%20have%20a%20FindAGrave%20ID%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fpic%20.%7D%20%09%09%09%09%09%23%20If%20we%20have%20an%20illustration%0A%20%20%20minus%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP1442%20%3FpicGrave%20.%7D%20%09%09%09%23%20If%20we%20have%20a%20picture%20of%20the%20grave%0A%20%20%20BIND%20%28URI%28CONCAT%28%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.findagrave.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Ffg.cgi%3Fpage%3Dgr%26df%3Dall%26GRid%3D%22%2C%3FFindAGraveID%29%29%20AS%20%3FFindAGrave%29%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fperson%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3AinLanguage%20%22sv%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fsv.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fperson%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3AinLanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP21%20%3Fgroup%20.%7D%20%09%09%09%23%20Gender%20in%20Layer%0A%0A%7D%20%20%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%2C%22sv%22%7D%0A%20%7D%0AOrder%20by%20%3FpersonLabel Graves with no grave pictures of people buried in Norra Begravningsplatsen] ([https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Query%20Find%20in%20WikiData%20people%20with%20Place%20of%20Burial%20Q252312%20Norra%20Begravningsplatsen%0A%23%20that%20has%20no%20picture%20of%20the%20grave%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%0Aselect%20distinct%20%3FgroupLabel%20%28%3FgroupLabel%20as%20%3Flayer%29%20%3Farticle%20%3Fperson%20%3FpersonLabel%20%20%3FpersonDescription%20%20%3Fgraveplot%20%3Fcoord%20%3Fpic%20%3FpicGrave%20%3FWikiTree%20%3FFindAGrave%7B%0A%7B%0A%09%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP119%20wd%3AQ252312%3B%20%23Place%20of%20burial%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP119%20%5B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP965%20%3Fgraveplot%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP625%20%3Fcoord%5D.%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%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP535%20%3FFindAGraveID%20.%7D%20%09%09%23%20If%20we%20have%20a%20FindAGrave%20ID%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fpic%20.%7D%20%09%09%09%09%09%23%20If%20we%20have%20an%20illustration%0A%20%20%20minus%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP1442%20%3FpicGrave%20.%7D%20%09%09%09%23%20If%20we%20have%20a%20picture%20of%20the%20grave%0A%20%20%20BIND%20%28URI%28CONCAT%28%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.findagrave.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Ffg.cgi%3Fpage%3Dgr%26df%3Dall%26GRid%3D%22%2C%3FFindAGraveID%29%29%20AS%20%3FFindAGrave%29%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fperson%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3AinLanguage%20%22sv%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fsv.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fperson%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3AinLanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP21%20%3Fgroup%20.%7D%20%09%09%09%23%20Gender%20in%20Layer%0A%0A%7D%20%20%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%2C%22sv%22%7D%0A%20%7D%0AOrder%20by%20%3FpersonLabel source])
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23%20Query%20Find%20in%20WikiData%20people%20with%20Place%20of%20Burial%20Q252312%20Norra%20Begravningsplatsen%0A%23%20that%20has%20picture%20of%20the%20grave%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%0Aselect%20distinct%20%3FgroupLabel%20%28%3FgroupLabel%20as%20%3Flayer%29%20%3Farticle%20%3Fperson%20%3FpersonLabel%20%20%3FpersonDescription%20%20%3Fgraveplot%20%3Fcoord%20%3Fpic%20%3FpicGrave%20%3FWikiTree%20%3FFindAGrave%7B%0A%7B%0A%09%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP119%20wd%3AQ252312%3B%20%23Place%20of%20burial%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP119%20%5B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP965%20%3Fgraveplot%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP625%20%3Fcoord%5D.%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%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP535%20%3FFindAGraveID%20.%7D%20%09%09%23%20If%20we%20have%20a%20FindAGrave%20ID%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fpic%20.%7D%20%09%09%09%09%09%23%20If%20we%20have%20an%20illustration%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP1442%20%3FpicGrave%20.%7D%20%09%09%09%23%20If%20we%20have%20a%20picture%20of%20the%20grave%0A%20%20%20BIND%20%28URI%28CONCAT%28%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.findagrave.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Ffg.cgi%3Fpage%3Dgr%26df%3Dall%26GRid%3D%22%2C%3FFindAGraveID%29%29%20AS%20%3FFindAGrave%29%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fperson%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3AinLanguage%20%22sv%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fsv.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fperson%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3AinLanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP21%20%3Fgroup%20.%7D%20%09%09%09%23%20Gender%20in%20Layer%0A%0A%7D%20%20%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%2C%22sv%22%7D%0A%20%7D%0AOrder%20by%20%3FpersonLabel Graves with grave pictures of people buried in Norra Begravningsplatsen] ([https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Query%20Find%20in%20WikiData%20people%20with%20Place%20of%20Burial%20Q252312%20Norra%20Begravningsplatsen%0A%23%20that%20has%20picture%20of%20the%20grave%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%0Aselect%20distinct%20%3FgroupLabel%20%28%3FgroupLabel%20as%20%3Flayer%29%20%3Farticle%20%3Fperson%20%3FpersonLabel%20%20%3FpersonDescription%20%20%3Fgraveplot%20%3Fcoord%20%3Fpic%20%3FpicGrave%20%3FWikiTree%20%3FFindAGrave%7B%0A%7B%0A%09%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP119%20wd%3AQ252312%3B%20%23Place%20of%20burial%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP119%20%5B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP965%20%3Fgraveplot%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP625%20%3Fcoord%5D.%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%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP535%20%3FFindAGraveID%20.%7D%20%09%09%23%20If%20we%20have%20a%20FindAGrave%20ID%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fpic%20.%7D%20%09%09%09%09%09%23%20If%20we%20have%20an%20illustration%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP1442%20%3FpicGrave%20.%7D%20%09%09%09%23%20If%20we%20have%20a%20picture%20of%20the%20grave%0A%20%20%20BIND%20%28URI%28CONCAT%28%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.findagrave.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Ffg.cgi%3Fpage%3Dgr%26df%3Dall%26GRid%3D%22%2C%3FFindAGraveID%29%29%20AS%20%3FFindAGrave%29%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fperson%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3AinLanguage%20%22sv%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fsv.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fperson%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3AinLanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP21%20%3Fgroup%20.%7D%20%09%09%09%23%20Gender%20in%20Layer%0A%0A%7D%20%20%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%2C%22sv%22%7D%0A%20%7D%0AOrder%20by%20%3FpersonLabel source])
 * Solidays occurring today (source)
 * Streets in Paris named after current countries (source)
 * Streets in Paris named after battles (source)
 * Wikipedia articles (in any language) of paintings by painter (source)
 * Sovereign state flags with no red, white, or blue (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AScatterChart%0ASELECT%20%28MIN%28%3Fage%29%20AS%20%3FminAge%29%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fcomposition%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%20%3Fcomposer%20%3FcomposerLabel%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%7B%20%23%20find%20only%20compositions%20with%20a%20single%20composer%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fcomposition%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcomposition%20wdt%3AP86%20%3Fcomposer.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fcomposition%0A%20%20%20%20HAVING%28COUNT%28%3Fcomposer%29%20%3D%201%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fcomposition%20wdt%3AP86%20%3Fcomposer%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP571%2Fpsv%3AP571%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AtimeValue%20%3Fdate%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AtimePrecision%20%3FdatePrecision%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3FdatePrecision%20%3E%3D%209%29.%20%23%20filter%20out%20sub-year%20precision%0A%20%20%3Fcomposer%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP569%2Fpsv%3AP569%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AtimeValue%20%3Fborn%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AtimePrecision%20%3FbornPrecision%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3FbornPrecision%20%3E%3D%209%29.%0A%20%20BIND%28FLOOR%28%28%3Fdate%20-%20%3Fborn%29%2F365.2425%29%20AS%20%3Fage%29.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fcomposer%20%3FcomposerLabel%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FminAge Graph of number of compositions over age at first composition] (source)
 * Development
 * Worked more on the first entity type (Lexeme) for Wiktionary support
 * Worked more on federation in order to allow using Wikidata items and properties to describe images on Commons in the future
 * Fixed a bug with getLabelWithLang returning the wrong language (T152241)
 * Fixed an issue where some coordinate values displayed 60 seconds instead of rounding to 1 minute (T153429)
 * Adjusted language for simple English sitelinks (T152915)
 * 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

Happy New Year, MartinPoulter!
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Wikidata weekly summary #242
<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 requests for adminship: יונה בנדלאק, Pyb


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Next IRC office hour on January 5th
 * Past: we were at 33c3
 * Scaling OpenStreetMap with Wikidata knowledge
 * 2016 – A busy year for Gene Wiki and WikiData


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata and the celebrity deaths of 2016 on Buzzfeed
 * Welsh Wikipedia has some 16,000 lists regularly maintained from Wikidata


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: INSEE arrondissement code, INSEE countries and foreign territories code


 * Query examples:
 * [http://www.histropedia.com/showcase/wikidata-viewer.html?query=SELECT%20?person%20?personLabel%20%0A(SAMPLE(?birth_date)%20AS%20?birth_date)%20%0A(SAMPLE(?birth_date_precision)%20AS%20?birth_date_precision)%20%0A(SAMPLE(?death_date)%20AS%20?death_date)%20%0A(SAMPLE(?death_date_precision)%20AS%20?death_date_precision)%20%0A(SAMPLE(?image)%20AS%20?image)%20%0A(SAMPLE(?country_of_birth)%20AS%20?country_of_birth)%20%0A?Spotify%0A?awardLabel%0A?genreLabel%0A%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20?person%20wdt:P1902%20?SpotifyID%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B?person%20wdt:P166%20?award%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B?person%20wdt:P136%20?genre%7D%0A%0A%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20?person%20wdt:P18%20?image.%20%7D%20%20%0A%20BIND%20(URI(CONCAT(%22https://open.spotify.com/artist/%22,?SpotifyID))%20AS%20?Spotify)%0A%20%0A%20%20?person%20p:P569/psv:P569%20?birth_date_node%20.%20%0A%20%20?birth_date_node%20wikibase:timeValue%20?birth_date%20.%20%23this%20is%20now%20the%20actual%20birth%20date%0A%20%20?birth_date_node%20wikibase:timePrecision%20?birth_date_precision%20.%0A%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%0A%20%20%20%20?person%20p:P570/psv:P570%20?death_date_node.%20%0A%20%20%20%20?death_date_node%20wikibase:timeValue%20?death_date%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20?death_date_node%20wikibase:timePrecision%20?death_date_precision%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20?person%20wdt:P19/wdt:P17%20?countryItem.%20%0A%20%20%20%20?countryItem%20rdfs:label%20?country_of_birth.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER((LANG(?country_of_birth))%20%3D%20%22en%22)%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase:label%20%7B%20bd:serviceParam%20wikibase:language%20%22en%22,%22sv%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20?person%20?personLabel%20?Spotify%20?awardLabel%20?genreLabel%0A%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC(?rank)&url=Spotify&title=personLabel&from=birth_date&fromPrecision=birth_date_precision&to=death_date&toPrecision=death_date_precision&imageUrl=image&colourCodeBy=genreLabel&filterBy=country_of_birth,awardLabel%20&view=timeline Filtered timeline of Spotify artists]
 * Paintings of the Eiffel Tower by Robert Delaunay (source)
 * Ratio of “famous” (≥25 sitelinks) people’s deaths since 2000 (source)
 * Things with coordinates on globes other than Earth (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: US Virgin Islands
 * Newest external tools: "Descriptioner" - Tool to add descriptions batchwise
 * Newest database reports: Popular items without claims, Portuguese-language films without articles in Portuguese

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
 * Development
 * When a  property couldn't be resolved, a tracking category will be added (T50799)
 * Rewrote Special:NewItem and all other Special:New… pages to use OOUI error handling (T150205)
 * Getting ready the basic Lexeme prototype (T146662)
 * Continued work on federation basics (T149580)
 * Release version 1.0.0 of the [//github.com/wmde/DataTypes DataTypes] component
 * Enjoying the holidays and getting ready for this year's challenges. Hope you do to :)


 * 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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Books and Bytes - Issue 20
<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 20, November-December 2016 by, , ,

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 * Partner resource expansions
 * New search tool for finding TWL resources
 * # 1lib1ref 2017
 * Wikidata Visiting Scholar

New topic
hello it is xav--Kcabe1 (talk) 15:12, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #246
<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
 * We need your input about quality criteria for building a tool to evaluate item quality


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: FOSDEM
 * Upcoming: WSDM Cup 2017
 * Upcoming: WikiCite 2017, Vienna, May 23-25, 2017
 * Upcoming: A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners, by Asaf Bartov, February 9th, 19:00 UTC (livestream on Youtube)
 * Scaling the matching of Wikidata to OpenStreetMap with wikimama
 * Software product management as an internship in the Wikidata development team
 * Being a Volunteer Developer for Wikimedia projects: An Interview with Greta Doçi


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Inspire Campaign on outside knowledge networks launched
 * What would you like to talk about during Wikimania Montreal?
 * Join the Wikimania program committee!
 * OpenStreetMap uses several -related tags in its database. See also the related documentation
 * Dutch is now the most used language for descriptions on Wikidata (56,7%), leaving English (55,8%) and German (34,7%) behind.
 * An OpenRefine service for Wikidata is waiting for testing: https://tools.wmflabs.org/openrefine-wikidata/
 * WMDE looking for a data analyst to work mostly on Wikidata
 * WMF looking for a project manager to work on structured data for Commons


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Saros cycle of eclipse, World Checklist of Selected Plant Families ID, Relations Ontology ID, GCD series ID, WNBA player ID, Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures ID, CricketArchive playing ground ID, UltraSignup runner ID, ITRA runner ID, Surfline ID, SunshineTour ID, Pro Football Hall of Fame ID, SIPCA code, Sina Weibo id, autologous cell line, Croatian Football Federation player ID, TLG author ID, data size, Fangraphs ID, European Handball Federation ID, ESPNcricinfo playing ground ID, ESPN MLB player ID, European Case Law Identifier, Cultureel Woordenboek identifier, OWGR ID, Legends of Hockey ID, Just Sports Stats ID, J.League Data Site ID, Global Poker Index ID, NGA Lighthouse ID, Admiralty number, pro-football-reference ID, College Football Data Warehouse ID, maximum size or capacity, USCF ID, World Curling Federation ID, World Curling Tour ID, World Guide to Covered Bridges ID, World Series of Poker ID, Zhihu topic ID


 * Query examples:
 * Places of worship south of 48°S(source)
 * Fictional items named after real items(source)


 * Development
 * You can now download query results as SVG images
 * When posting a link to an item to social networks and on messenger apps that show previews the previews will now be nicer and show an image. (T51859)
 * We published the results of our research around Commons usage: How do heavy Commons users work? ...and what does that mean for structured data on Commons?
 * Setting up test system for federation (being able to use Wikidata's items and properties on Commons)
 * Setting up test system for lexemes
 * Setting up test system for improved change dispatching (sending notifications about edits on Wikidata to Wikipedia and co)
 * Doing more groundwork for lexemes
 * Working on better integration with Elastic
 * More work on Federation
 * Getting ready to deploy automated sitelinks for Wiktionary
 * Fixing a number of keyboard navigation issues based on your feedback
 * Working on the new datatype for geoshapes (T57549)
 * Looking into linking more complicated external identifiers properly (T151329)
 * Improved the link to the help portal on the query service (T154993)

See all open tickets related to Wikidata.


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

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This Month in Education: [February 2017]
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: #006699; font-size:60px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">This Month in Education <span style="font-weight: bold; color: #006699; font-size:20px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; display:block; width:900px"> Volume 6 | Issue 1 | February 2017

<span style="font-weight: regular; text-align:center; font-size:14px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; display:block; width:1000px"> This monthly newsletter showcases the Wikipedia Education Program. It focuses on sharing: your ideas, stories, success and challenges. Be sure to check out the full version, and past editions. You can also volunteer to help publish the newsletter. Join the team!

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We hope you enjoy this issue of the Education Newsletter.-- Sailesh Patnaik using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:54, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

Hello
My turn Martin...--JonPrag (talk) 15:43, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

Hello and thanks for your message--Gabrielledev (talk) 15:46, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

Big new article
Hi Martin, you might be interested in Tax status of Scientology in the United States. I'd appreciate (by email?) any thoughts you might have. Prioryman (talk) 15:36, 4 March 2017 (UTC)