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Hello
Hi Kelly, thanks for the training! Really enjoying it so far. Olivia

Women in Classics
Listening to your talk at the Women in Classics event. Just saying hello and thanks for this. Andrew D. (talk) 11:33, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

Thank you! What I've learnt: SAVE OFTEN. DonPantalone (talk) 12:41, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

Kelly - my WCC editathon subject, Miriam Griffin, has kindly consented to email me a photo. In my request I explained that the photo once uploaded could then be used by anyone for anything and she still agreed. How do I go about picking the right licence for the upload now? Any help appreciated! Thanks again for your training on Monday :) DonPantalone (talk) 08:51, 25 January 2017 (UTC)

Hi Kelly!
Thanks for talking us through wiki editing at the RA today!

Inês — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ineslc (talk • contribs) 15:57, 5 March 2017 (UTC)

Hi!
Hi, it's Kate - leaving a message as requested! Thanks for teaching us about Wiki Editing - it has been a very useful session.

Hello!
Hello Kelly :)

Thank you for all the training so far, really enjoying it.

Claire

Hi Kelly

Thanks for a really useful session introducing us to editing Wikipedia.

Lesley

Hi Kelly!
Thanks for the wonderful session today. It's been great - and I feel so much more confident in just jumping in and editing!

Ellie.

Hi Kelly, thanks for the training :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Franthos (talk • contribs) 12:44, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

HI Kelly,

thank you for the training today!

Francesca — Preceding unsigned comment added by Franthos (talk • contribs) 12:47, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

February 2017 at Women in Red
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Category:Languages of the African diaspora
Hi Eatha78. I noticed your edits to this category and I do not think you may understand fully what a "diaspora language" is. An African diaspora language for example, would be an actual language in Africa taken elsewhere and its close derivatives. Creole languages for example in the Americas are not African displaced, rather they are "American" or of the Americas (European language + African contact = "Indigenous to the Caribbean"). here Example of languages of the African diaspora would be Lucumí language, Haitian Vodoun Culture language, Habla Congo etc. AAVE (African American Vernacular English) taken to let's say Canada, is of the "African-American" (Black American) diaspora languages, opposed to simply an "African" one because its not from Africa.

Dialects of English is not African, its European actually. see this list languages The category here is not languages black people speak outside of Africa because if that was the case there wouldn't be a need for a list as there are blacks speaking Chinese etc. If they changed a sound to a Chinese word is it going to be listed in this category? That's crazy. Just as Ebonics being placed in this category. There's a reason why this category seemed "underpopulated" since 2009. There aren't many African diasporic languages out there. Most of them are religious-based only. Furthermore, the Transatlantic slave trade brought Africans to the western hemisphere, not of their free will. They were forced to lose their old languages and many came from different tribes that could not communicate with each another. If this wasn't the case and were allowed ro retain their tongue and it slightly changed or evolved, then this outcome that was preserved would be considered a viable inclusion into this category. See above mentioned. Savvyjack23 (talk) 07:39, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

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hi Eartha, thanks for the info!Juliec55 (talk) 15:55, 5 March 2017 (UTC)

just testing
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Thanks for the pic
There he is on the top table! I wonder if we can identify all of them. Hope to see you at the meet-up tomorrow. Leutha (talk) 11:57, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

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Weekly Summary #252
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin on March 31st
 * Upcoming: Datensummit in Berlin, April 29th. We're looking for Wikidata editors to help :)
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop in Rennes, March 22nd
 * A successful Wikidatathon about women's history in Puri, India
 * Wikidata as information source to support the Dutch elections
 * Quora: Adding Locations via Wikidata
 * Quora: Identifying Topics about People
 * How to quickly generate word analogy datasets with Wikidata by Finn Arup Nielsen


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Deadline for submitting a presentation for Wikimania 2017 is March 30th: discuss about ideas or ask for help
 * SWAT4LS 2016 poster Linking Wikidata to the Semantic Web
 * Mix’n’match interface update


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: FFA ID, European Athletics ID, All-Athletics.com ID


 * Query examples:
 * Gallery of authors of scientific articles that have been published on this day of the year (source)
 * Scholarly articles that have Wikipedia articles about them (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0A%23%20Faux%20Vermeer%20%0A%23%20Genre%2Fp136%20%3A%20faux%2FQ1400612%20%0A%23%20Cr%C3%A9ateur%2Fp170%20avec%20qualificateur%20d%27apr%C3%A8s%2FP1777%20Vermeer%2Fwd%3AQ41264%0ASELECT%20distinct%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fdate%20%28GROUP_CONCAT%28distinct%20%3FcreaLb%3B%20separator%3D%22%20-%20%22%29%20as%20%3Fcreateur%29%20%3Fimg%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP136%20wd%3AQ1400612%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP170%20%3Fcrea%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimg%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP170%20%5B%20pq%3AP1777%20wd%3AQ41264%20%5D%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP571%20%3Fdeclarationdate%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20MINUS%20%7B%3Fdeclarationdate%20pq%3AP1319%20%3Fpasavant%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20MINUS%20%7B%3Fdeclarationdate%20pq%3AP1480%20wd%3AQ5727902%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fdeclarationdate%20ps%3AP571%20%3Fdateunique%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%20%28year%28%3Fdateunique%29%20AS%20%3Fdate%29%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20MINUS%20%7B%3Fdeclarationdate%20pq%3AP1319%20%3Fpasavant%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fdeclarationdate%20pq%3AP1480%20wd%3AQ5727902.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fdeclarationdate%20ps%3AP571%20%3Fdateunique%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%20%28CONCAT%28%22c.%22%2CSTR%28year%28%3Fdateunique%29%29%29%20AS%20%3Fdate%29%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fdeclarationdate%20pq%3AP1319%20%3Fpasavant%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fdeclarationdate%20pq%3AP1326%20%3Fpasapres.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%20%28CONCAT%28STR%28year%28%3Fpasavant%29%29%2C%22-%22%2CSTR%28year%28%3Fpasapres%29%29%29%20AS%20%3Fdate%29%7D%0A%20%20%3Fcrea%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FcreaLb%20.%20filter%20%28lang%28%3FcreaLb%29%20%3D%20%22fr%22%29%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7Bbd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22fr%22%7D%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fdate%20%3Fimg%20 False Vermeer works] (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AGraph%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%0APREFIX%20gas%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bigdata.com%2Frdf%2Fgas%23%3E%0A%0Aselect%20%3Fauthor%20%3FauthorLabel%20%3Fwork%20%3FworkLabel%20where%20%7B%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20select%20%3Fwork%20%3Fauthor%20where%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20service%20gas%3Aservice%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20gas%3Aprogram%20gas%3AgasClass%20%22com.bigdata.rdf.graph.analytics.BFS%22%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20gas%3Ain%20wd%3AQ173746%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20gas%3Atarget%20wd%3AQ25975509%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20gas%3AtraversalDirection%20%22Undirected%22%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20gas%3Aout%20%3Fwork%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20gas%3Aout1%20%3Fdepth%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20gas%3Aout2%20%3Fpredecessor%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20gas%3AlinkType%20wdt%3AP50%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20gas%3AmaxIterations%2012%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20gas%3AmaxVisited%202000%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fwork%20wdt%3AP50%20%3Fauthor%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20union%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bind%28wd%3AQ25975509%20as%20%3Fwork%29%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwork%20wdt%3AP50%20%3Fauthor%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20 From Natalie Portman to Paul Erdös graph] (source)


 * Development
 * Fixing a bug on the save button (T159244)
 * Fixing a bug with the link to the Query Service on an ember query (T156013)
 * More work on Federation (T157442, T158169)
 * Fixing a bug on geoformats (T158772)
 * Fixing a bug on the treemap view (T160320) Thanks EdouardHue for the patch!
 * More groundwork on Lexemes (T157791)
 * Show thumbnails in commons suggester (T160319)
 * Fixing a bug on coordinate (T153429)
 * Applying WikimediaUI color palette to Wikibase (T151194)
 * Writing spec for technical data model for Wiktionary support (T150785)
 * Working on providing API for constraint check (T102757)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
 * 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) 16:28, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

Ways to improve Barbara Walker (artist)
Hi, I'm Mduvekot. Eartha78, thanks for creating Barbara Walker (artist)!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. Thanks!

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse.

Mduvekot (talk) 17:27, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #253
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.  This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-03-27.


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, Friday, March 31st at 19:30 in Neukölln
 * Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, April 5th, 16:00 UTC, on
 * A tool to estimate gender gap on Wikidata and Wikipedia (source)
 * (fr) Odonymie rennaise : que nous apprend Wikidata sur les noms des voies de Rennes ? (source)
 * Wikidata's excellent sample SPARQL queries by Bob DuCharme
 * 10 steps to integrate CIViCdb with other public data in Wikidata


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * RFC: Wikidata → OSM lookup table
 * Participate to the definition of the Wikimedia movement's strategy
 * The deadline for Wikimania talks submission has been extended to April 10th (check what we're planning around Wikidata)
 * Conceptual documentation for the Lexemes and examples (feel free to help translating)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: FI WarSampo army unit ID, KMRB film rating, FI WarSampo person ID, film script, volcano observatory, BoF person ID, Bivouac.com pass ID, Elle.fr person ID, Evidence & Conclusion Ontology ID, Parks.it ID, YerelNET district ID, The Numbers movie ID, S2A3 Biographical Database ID, Mapa place ID, Tax-exempt heritage asset ID, TV Guide show ID, original film format, Launchpad.net project ID, INEGI municipality ID, Safsal coach ID, Safsal player ID, Star Wars Databank ID, autonomous system number, Bureau of Meteorology station ID, Flora of Israel plant ID, Dictionary of Sydney ID, IPv6 routing prefix, rate of fire, Art Renewal Center ID, AnimeCons.com ID, Telegram username, BNA author ID, danskefilm silent film ID, danskefilm person ID, danskefilm film ID, CiteSeerX ID, Christie's work ID, Artnet artist ID, has active ingredient, active ingredient in, negative allosteric modulator of, positive allosteric modulator of, antisense inhibitor of, inhibitor of, disrupting agent for, blocker of, antagonist of, agonist of, activator of, PeakFinder ID, It's Rugby ID, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain Book ID


 * Query examples:
 * Time zones that are more than 12 hours away from UTC (source)
 * Countries which have the same name as their capital in their official language (source)
 * Roman amphitheatres on Wikidata (source)
 * Sluices on canals in Bretagne (France) (source)
 * Newest database reports: film scripts
 * Showcase items: Wressle Castle (Q8037764)


 * Development
 * Fixing a bug that prevented users to edit descriptions in some non-latin alphabets (T161263)
 * Worked on Special:NewLexeme which will be used to create new Lexemes for supporting lexicographical data (T157973)
 * Aligned some more colors with Wikimedia color palete (T151194)
 * Added more autocompletion for the Wikidata Query Service (T150950)
 * Started working on support for Forms of words in the UI for supporting lexicographical data (T160520)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
 * 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) 14:39, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-13
 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
 * When you edit with the visual editor, you can see a visual diff as well as a wikitext diff when you review your changes.

Problems
 * Special:AllPages was disabled for two days due to some performance issues. It is back, but the filter for redirects is gone as the cause of the performance problem. It still needs to be fixed.

Changes this week
 * New filters for Recent changes will be released on Portuguese and Polish Wikipedias and MediaWikiwiki on March 28. Other wikis will get it progressively. The new filters include filtering, highlighting and, on certain wikis, user intent prediction.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from March 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from March 29. It will be on all wikis from March 30 (calendar).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  14:47, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #254
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Grenoble (France), April 4th (more info)
 * Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, April 5th, 16:00 UTC, on
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in London (UK), April 8th (more info)
 * Bunhill Fields: Wikimedia, gamification and richer media content
 * Biocuration 2017
 * Talk: Repurpos.us: A fully open and expandable drug repurposing portal by Sebastian Burgstaller-Muehlbacher, PhD
 * Poster: Best practices for data provenance in Wikidata by Gregory S. Stupp et al.
 * Poster: Using Shape Expressions (ShEx) to model, validate and curate Wikidata by Andra Waagmeester et al.
 * Five years ago, the development of Wikidata started


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Attention: Editing will be disabled during parts of April 19 and May 3, to allow a server switch
 * New filters for the Recent Changes will be deployed on April 11. (more info)
 * Data donation: Songkick have donated a datafile with 155K of their Songkick artist ID (P3478). ~45K are already matched, and the rest are in Mix'n'Match, awaiting your kind attention.
 * Query Service: you can now create a template to explain what your query is doing
 * new data type for geographical shapes will be enabled on April 24th
 * Several CC0 databases are now federated with the Query Service endpoint


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: located in present-day administrative territorial entity, Human Phenotype Ontology ID, slope rating, Tab4u artist ID, Tab4u song ID, United States Public Law, Pinterest username, Mendeley person ID, RTC film rating, diaspora, Europeana Fashion Vocabulary ID, object has role, CueTracker player ID, Publons author ID, wears, JSTOR topic ID, Welsh Rugby Union player ID, United States Statutes at Large citation, VTJ-PRT building ID, Ethnologue language status, rules for classification, Bangla Movie Database ID, Flanders Arts Institute venue ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of the megaliths of the World, coloured by type (showing some nice paterns, source)
 * French people without a gender (source)
 * Eldest members of noble families (source)
 * Map of places with population “zero” (0) (source)


 * External Tools News
 * wikidata-cli
 * new command: wd summary
 * improved support for custom Wikibase instances
 * wikidata-edit:
 * new function: remove claim
 * improved support for custom Wikibase instances
 * wikidata-sdk:
 * new function: simplify.entity
 * major documentation restructuration
 * wikidata-filter:
 * new filter criteria: sitelinks. Example of a query that times out on the SPARQL endpoint but that is now possible with wikidata-filter: Get all entities with a Chinese and a French Wikipedia article, keeping only id, labels, and sitelinks matching those languages
 * Monumental: brand new app for displaying heritage data


 * Development
 * A warm welcome to our new intern, Lucas Werkmeister! You may now him for his work on queries as WikidataFacts. He will work in the team for the next months.
 * Attending to Wikimedia Conference, talking with Wikidata and Wiktionary users
 * Improving performance on Special:Entities pages (T161631)
 * Tracking the number of identifier properties on an item in page_props (T114617)
 * More work on Senses (T161523) and Forms (T160524)
 * Improving the autocompletions of Query Service (T150950)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


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

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 13:35, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-14
 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  button now says   or   on most Wikipedias. The point is to make it more clear that the edit will change the page immediately.   is when you save a new page and   when you edit an existing page.
 * The tracking category    : is now added when a template loop is found. A template loop is for example when a template tries to use a second template that uses the first template.
 * English Wikipedia now has cookie blocks. It will come to more wikis in the future. This is an extension to the autoblock system so when a user is blocked, the next time they visit the wiki a cookie will be set. This means that even if the user switches accounts and to a new IP address the cookie will block them again.

Problems
 * Wikidata descriptions, aliases and labels that used some characters could not be saved. This has now been fixed.

Changes this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 April. It will be on all wikis from 6 April (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 4 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * You can join the next office hour with the Wikidata team. The meeting will be on 5 April at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * New filters for Recent changes will come to Wikidata and Persian, Dutch, Russian, Turkish, Czech and Hebrew Wikipedia on 11 April. The new filters include filtering, highlighting and user intent prediction. User intent prediction means the filter tries to help editors determine if the edit was made in good faith or not. Other wikis will get it later.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  17:53, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 21
<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 21, January-March 2017 by, , , ,

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 * # 1lib1ref 2017
 * Wikipedia Library User Group
 * Wikipedia + Libraries at Wikimedia Conference 2017
 * Spotlight: Library Card Platform

Wikidata weekly summary #255
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 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Zolo
 * New request for comments: Proposed client side disambiguation page


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * The Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) helps unlock millions of connections between scholarly research, on WMF blog, by Dario Taborelli
 * Le canal de Nantes à Brest sur Wikidata (fr) by Édouard Hue
 * Comprende!, a quiz interface on top of MediaWiki/WikiBase by Magnus Manske
 * Next Wikidata meetup in Berlin: April 26th, 18:00 in WMDE's office


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Deadline for submitting a talk, workshop or roundtable for Wikimania is today, April 10th, at midnight (UTC)!
 * There's now also a #100wikidays challenge on Wikidata, aptly named #100wikidatadays! It is a personal challenge in which a person very significantly improves (at least) one Wikidata items per day, for 100 days in a row. There was already a version of the challenge on various Wikipedias, on Commons and on Wikisource - now on Wikidata as well. Participate and make Wikidata shine!
 * New filters for Recent Changes: the beta deployment is rescheduled on May 9th
 * Grant application to extend the work of John Commings at UNESCO
 * New MapRoulette challenges: Add missing Wikidata ids to cities and capitals on OpenStreetMap
 * You can be a candidate for the Wikimedia Foundation's board of trustees
 * Log of the last IRC office hour with Wikidata development team
 * Help us translating this short message in your language


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: TV Guide person ID, Deutsche Synchronkartei film ID, DLV athlete ID


 * Query examples:
 * Notable integers
 * Longest streets of Moscow
 * Top 20 of heaviest humans in Wikidata (source)
 * Timeline of Paris marathons (source)
 * Countries not involved in any world war (source)
 * People whose place of birth is named after them (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Figure skating
 * Newest external tools: Sistercities, an overview of sister cities of German cities on Wikipedia and Wikidata
 * Newest database reports: list of duos


 * Development
 * Preparing for making more ArticlePlaceholder indexable by search engines on Welsh Wikipedia (T162244)
 * Preparing the deployments of Cognate and geoshape data type
 * Lexemes: starting adding sections for forms and senses

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
 * 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: 2017-15
<section begin="technews-2017-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
 * Octicons-tools.svg Tidy is going to be replaced with an HTML5 parsing algorithm. Bad HTML in wikitext would cause problems on a number of wikis. There is now a ParserMigration extension on all wikis that you can use to help clean this up. You can read more about how you can use it.

Changes this week
 * Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis from this week. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can upgrade to a newer version.
 * New filters for Recent changes will come to Wikidata and Persian, Russian, Turkish and French Wikipedia on 11 April. The schedule has been changed to fix the user intent prediction filters for some wikis. User intent prediction means the filter tries to make it easier for editors to determine if the edit was made in good faith or not. Other wikis will get it later.
 * The list of special characters in the wikitext editor and the visual editor will now have a group of Canadian Aboriginal characters.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 April. It will be on all wikis from 13 April (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 11 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April and 3 May. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this.
 * RevisionSlider will change how you move between revisions. This will be available on the test wiki from 11 April. It will come to other wikis later if users like the change. You can test it and give feedback.

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This Month in GLAM: March 2017
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Fancy a go at proofreading on Wikisource?
Hi, I have just been doing some work on the Trials of the Slave Traders Samo, Peters and Tufft, which now needs proof reading. This is quite straight forward. If you go to s:Page:Trials_of_the_Slave_Traders_Samo,_Peters_and_Tufft_(1813).pdf/2 you will find the wikified text next to the scanned page of the original. The little arrows at the top of the page enable you to go to the previous (←) or subsequent (→) page with the up arrow (↑) going to the index. This one of the contemporaneous texts which illustrates the points I have been making about the history of Sierra Leone. Leutha (talk) 17:13, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
 * I'll give it a go! MassiveEartha (talk) 01:03, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-16
<section begin="technews-2017-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
 * You can add  to the end of the URL on Wikimedia wikis to disable your personal CSS and JavaScript. Example:  . This means you can test if a problem is because of your user scripts or gadgets without uninstalling them.
 * You can now see a list of all autoblocks on Special:AutoblockList.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Wikiversity and Wikinews logos are now shown directly from the configuration and not from . If you want to change logo or have an anniversary logo, see how to request a configuration change. This is how it already works for other projects. They can request logo changes the same way.

Problems
 * Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this. This will also happen on 3 May.

Changes this week
 * There is no new Mediawiki version this week. This is because of the data centre test.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * stats.wikimedia.org will be replaced. You can see the new prototype. You can leave feedback on this change.
 * Page Previews will be turned on for logged-out users on a large number of wikis in May. It could be postponed and happen later. Page Previews shows readers a short part of a linked article when they rest their mouse pointer on the link. This is to help them understand what it is about without leaving the article they are reading. Page Previews used to be called Hovercards. Users who have tested the feature can give feedback.
 * Octicons-tools.svg From next week, user scripts using very old deprecated wikibits functions will show errors. These functions have not worked since 2013. You should fix or disable broken scripts. You can see examples of how to upgrade scripts.

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Attention: WikiProject African diaspora participants
Hello fellow project participants. Not sure how many users are still active as normal Wikipedia editors but felt the need to attempt to get a gauge on who can be called on for help with articles falling under the umbrella of the African diaspora project. According to the project's article table there are over six thousand articles related to the African diaspora; there's not a hundred at FA/GA grade and there's over twelve hundred that are unassessed. With Wikipedia being one of the major information reference points in the world today we should consider this unacceptable. Much work needs to be done on the rating of the importance of articles as well. With more communication amongst participants and a dedication to addressing the articles on the to-do list I believe we can make this WikiProject one of the most well organized and thorough on the site. If you are interested in collaborative work with some of your fellow project members, have certain expertise on any particular subjects, ideals on/about the WikiProject, etc. simply drop your name under the "Project revision" section I've created on the project's talk page and state your intentions and main points of interest in our WikiProject and we can attempt to move forward from there. Hoping to hear from everyone soon! WikiGuy86 (talk) 03:43, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #257
<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/Press/Blogs
 * The Wikidata data model and your SPARQL queries by Bob DuCharme
 * Wikidata meetup in Berlin, Wednesday, April 26th in WMDE's office
 * Datensummit by OKFN, April 29th, in Berlin


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Editing will be disabled during parts of May 3rd, to allow a server switch
 * Deployed on Monday, April 24th: new datatype for geoshapes and Cognate on Wiktionaries


 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: PictoRight ID-Droit de suite, observing time available, MetaboLights Compound ID, Swiss Federal Archives ID, Boijmans artist ID, KVAB member ID, number of perpetrators, History of Modern Biomedicine ID, Tilastopaja male athlete ID, Red Bull athlete ID, Tilastopaja female athlete ID, National Track & Field Hall of Fame athlete ID, Caverphone, Cologne phonetics, Soundex, HappyCow restaurant ID, category for alumni of educational institution, Justia Patents company ID, Justia Patents inventor ID, daily patronage, patronage, tributary orientation, ZFIN gene ID, IAFD female-born performer ID, MyDramaList title ID, Israel Chess Federation player ID, LAWA waterbody ID
 * Query examples:
 * Place of birth of the candidates to French presidency since 1958 (source)
 * Oldest given names on Wikidata (source)
 * Cocktails and their ingredients (source)
 * Cities in UK named after a patron saint (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Wikiproject Terrorism
 * New template: d:Template:Film festivals


 * Development
 * Changing Special:NewProperty to not have a datatype selected by default (T138295)
 * Restoration of deleted items broken on Wikidata (T163144)
 * Making notifications when page is being connected to Wikidata ready to deploy (T110604)
 * Writing basic documentation for WikibaseMediaInfo extension (T159710)
 * Hiding header image gadget when sitelinks are floated below the statement section (T160530)
 * Making the "add" button display the "add Form" form (T162342)
 * Getting the datatype to link to tabular data sets on Commons ready to deploy (T160048)
 * Showing supported data formats in Special:EntityData (T162870)
 * Setting meta name="description" on article placeholders (T157466)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
 * 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: 2017-17
<section begin="technews-2017-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
 * New filters for recent changes are now available as a beta feature on most wikis. You can turn it on in your preferences. Remaining wikis will have the new filters on 9 May.
 * When administrators, bureaucrats and stewards make a user a member of a user group they can now set an expiry date. A user group is for example "administrators" or "bots". This means that they can give someone user rights for a limited time. This is similar to how blocks and page protections can be limited in time. Special:UserRights will have new options for this. You can read more about user groups.

Problems
 * Since the data centre test last week the content translation tool has been disabled. This is because of a database problem. It will be back as soon as the problem has been solved.

Changes this week
 * The GuidedTour extension will be enabled on all wikis. This is a tool to explain to new users how to edit.
 * Wiktionary will handle interlanguage links in a new way. The Cognate extension will automatically link pages with the same title between Wiktionaries. For this to work all old interlanguage links have to be removed. You can read more about this.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 April. It will be on all wikis from 27 April (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 25 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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cookies
thanks MassiveEartha, where are the cookies stashed? susully29 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Susully29 (talk • contribs) 10:27, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

Thank you!
I love the look of your groups #blackwomendiaspora etc. KitchenBonAmi (talk) 10:40, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for your help at the British Library Wikieditathon
Thanks for all your help today, I really enjoyed the editathon :-) Stellawisdom (talk) 15:38, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-18
<section begin="technews-2017-W18"/> 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 content translation tool works again. It was turned off because of a database problem.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Scripts using very old deprecated wikibits functions show errors. These functions have not worked since 2013. You should fix or disable broken scripts. You can see examples of how to upgrade scripts. This is the same thing as Tech News wrote about in issue 2017/16. You need to add  block for your scripts also, or add   dependency in gadget ResourceLoader section in MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition.

Problems
 * Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 3 May. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this.

Changes this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week. This is because of the data centre test.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 2 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * All Wikimedia wikis will have cookie blocks from May 8. This is an extension to the autoblock system so when a user is blocked, the next time they visit the wiki a cookie will be set. This means that even if the user switches accounts and to a new IP address the cookie will block them again.
 * The,   and   buttons will look slightly different. This is to fit with the OOUI look. Users can test scripts, gadgets and so on to see if they work with the new interface by adding   to the URL.

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Wikidata weekly summary #258
<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/Press/Blogs
 * Past: FOSSnorth (Gothenburg), where Lydia gave a keynote about Wikidata
 * Past: Wikidata meetup in Berlin
 * Past: Datensummit in Berlin, organized by OKFN, where we introduced Wikidata and the query service
 * Combining Forces with the Wikipedia Universe - by Songkick, about their data donation
 * Introducing Wikimedian in Residence, Mr Andy Mabbett - by The History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Attention: Editing will be disabled for an hour on May 3rd, to allow a server switch
 * New filters for the Recent Changes will be deployed on May 9th. (more info)
 * new data type for tabular data to be deployed on May 15th
 * Try our new script that displays constraint violations on the item pages
 * Get involved in the movement strategy for Wikidata
 * Query the Mediawiki API with the Query Service? Give us your feedbacks
 * Documentation on using OpenRefine to match from a data set you have to items in Wikidata


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Canadian Coastguard Lighthouse ID, contributed to published work, Répertoire national des associations identifier, IPA number order, UNESCO Thesaurus ID, Athletics Australia athlete ID, GuideStar Israel organization ID, MobyGames developer ID, newspaper format, STW Thesaurus for Economics ID, Bollywood Hungama ID, last words, Reprezentacija ID, LoJ peak ID, Ishim ID, GINCO ID, VIVC grape variety ID, column, had as last meal, ADAGP artist ID, CONICET person ID, Medium username


 * Query examples:
 * 15415 people who died in 2016
 * Maps of statues of Jeanne d'Arc on a horse (source)
 * Families who’ve had the same occupation for five generations (source)
 * Couples of capitals more than 19,000 km away from each other (source)
 * A ten-persons “surname = given name” chain on Wikidata (source)
 * Newest database reports: list of newspapers by newspaper format


 * Development
 * Working on Lexeme support - specifically grammatical features of Forms of a Lexeme and statements on Forms
 * Finishing touches on a new notification type for Echo. This will notify the creator of an article when it has been connected to an item on Wikidata.
 * The new d:Special:AvailableBadges list all badges that can be used for sitelinks.
 * Discussed implementation plan for Multi Content Revisions which are a building block for structured data on Commons (T107595)
 * Worked on feedback for the constraints API and user script
 * Worked on database and access improvements to take load off a much-used database table

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
 * 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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Minet Library
Hi Kelly, thanks for helping me improve the Minet Library page. I recently helped an architect who is a resident of Myatt's Fields South Estate to create a page for that estate, and someone quickly started arguing for its deletion. Do you think you could have a look at it if you have time and see if there's any way you can help improve it. I think that a lot of good sources for it won't be available online unfortunately. Jwslubbock (talk) 09:57, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #259
<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: Updating References for External Data


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Registration is open for the Celtic Knot Conference 2017 (July 6th, Edinburgh)
 * Pre-hackathon of the Wikimedia Hackathon, May 12th-14th in Prague
 * Wikimedia Hackathon 2017, May 19th-21st in Vienna. On site or remotely, you can join the Wikidata documentation sprint


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Vote in the board election (see also Voter guides and rationales
 * Sitelinks for the new Doteli Wikipedia (dtywiki) can be added
 * You can now track the number of identifier properties for an item
 * We provide weekly a new type of database dumps: nt truthy dumps
 * Wikipedia article-draft-generator developed by Pharos for Met Museum project
 * Schema.org proposes to encourage the use of Wikidata as a common entity base for the target of the sameAs relation


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: light sector, Wikidata SPARQL query equivalent, Canadian Coastguard Lighthouse ID, contributed to published work


 * Query examples:
 * All places (with coordinates) that gave its name to something (source)
 * Paintings depicting monkeys (source)
 * Artworks with presumably depicted persons (source)
 * Newest database reports: list of oldest lighthouses


 * Development
 * Worked more on support for lexicographical data (specifically support for lexicographic category and statements on forms)
 * Dealt with issues after the deployment of automatic interwiki links for Wiktionary
 * Worked on constraint violation user script based on your feedback (improving messages to make it more understandable, layout, etc)
 * Add support for the following new language codes for monolingual text properties: brx, chn, cop, gez, quc, kjh, nr (will become available in a few days)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
 * 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: 2017-19
<section begin="technews-2017-W19"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * Some users have a problem with the watchlist. Some changes in categories make the watchlist a blank page. The developers are working on this. Until this is fixed you can try some things that have helped other editors if you have this problem. You can turn on  in your watchlist preferences. You can turn off   in your watchlist preferences. You can remove problematic categories from Special:EditWatchlist/raw.
 * There was a problem with the visual editor for several days. You could not save edits that triggered a CAPTCHA. This would for example be when a new user added external links in references. This was fixed on 2 May.

Changes this week
 * When you edit you can switch between the visual editor and the wikitext editor. This works if the wiki you edit has the visual editor. The menu will now say  and   instead of   and  . This is because it was confusing when the menu said you could switch to the editor you were already using.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 May. It will be on all wikis from 11 May (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 9 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * You will be able to get a notification when a page you created is connected to a Wikidata item. This will come to Wikivoyage on 9 May. If there are no problems it will come to most Wikipedias on 30 May. It will come to other projects and English, French and German Wikipedia later in the summer. It will be opt-in for existing users and opt-out for new users.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Markup that looks like code for language variants might need to be fixed. If  is used in transclusions or web addresses it has to be escaped appropriately. You can use   for transclusions and   in web addresses. A transclusion could for example be when you use   in a template:  . This is because of some code fixes to the preprocessor and affects all wikis.

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A cup of tea for you!

 * thank you!! MassiveEartha (talk) 18:00, 10 May 2017 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: April 2017
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Wikidata weekly summary #260
<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
 * Development input: Client editing prototype


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: Pre-hackathon of the Wikimedia Hackathon, May 12th-14th in Prague (see a video of the Wikidata and SPARQL training)
 * Upcoming: Wikimedia Hackathon 2017, May 19th-21st in Vienna. On site or remotely, you can join the Wikidata documentation sprint
 * Upcoming: WikiCite, May 23rd-25th in Vienna
 * Next Wikidata meetup in Berlin: June 7th in WikiBÄR
 * You can still register for the Wikidata/election data hackathon in Ulm, Germany (June 23-25)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Discuss the movement strategy on Wikidata. The Cycle 2 started on May, 11.
 * WikidataCon: join the program committee and other teams!
 * TwoColConflict is now enabled on Wikidata
 * OSMgadget is a tool to help Wikipedia editors find objects in OpenStreetMap, and tag them with their Wikidata IDs
 * The OSM ↔ Wikidata matcher tool
 * Two language properties will be merged but the discussion still needs to go on
 * Tabular data files datatype is now enabled
 * The constraint table has been updated


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: NLL player ID, Italian Senate ID, ALPG golfer ID, Stereo Ve Mono artist ID, BioRxiv ID, narrower external class, Juwra.com ID, MLL player ID, Directorio Grierson ID, RANM member ID, Old Bailey Proceedings ID, Tumblr ID, Bmx-results.com rider ID, Israel Antiquities Authority ID, OlimpBase Chess Olympiad player ID, ESTC citation number, named by, Reactome pathway ID, NFF person profile ID, Chamber of Deputies of Italy ID, face value, Cinema ID, Digital Valencian Library author ID, copyright owner, Rallye-info.com driver or co-driver ID, V&A item ID, MotoGP racer ID, eWRC-results.com athlete ID, USATF athlete ID, Track and Field Statistics male athlete ID, Track and Field Statistics female athlete ID, Diamond League athlete ID


 * Query examples:
 * Paintings in the Louvre Museum, with heights and widths (source)
 * Chart of USA cities founded per year (source)
 * Country flags including a symbol of sun (source)
 * Birthplace of Spanish Queen Consorts (source)


 * Development
 * More work on Special:NewLexeme page (T164582)
 * Correctly compare time values on constraints (T164279)
 * Check wording of messages/constraint check results (T164354)
 * Creating grammatical features for Forms (T160525)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Help adding missing statements to properties
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
 * 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: 2017-20
<section begin="technews-2017-W20"/> 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 ISBNs to automatically generate citations in the visual editor. This works on wikis that have enabled Citoid.
 * The Two Column Edit Conflict View is available as a beta feature on all wikis. It is a new interface for the edit conflict resolution page.

Problems
 * The  library does not load automatically any more. Your Special:MyPage/common.js may use it. If you have technical problems that started a couple of weeks ago you can try adding   as the first line in the file and   as a last one. Tech News wrote about this in the 2017/18 issue.

Changes this week
 * The RevisionSlider extension will be a default feature on all wikis. RevisionSlider is an easier way to move between changes in the page history. It has been a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia and a beta feature on all wikis. You will be able to turn it off in your preferences.
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes
 * Administrators will soon be able to search through deleted pages.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Markup that looks like code for language variants might need to be fixed. Tech News wrote about this last week. If   is used in transclusions or web addresses it has to be escaped appropriately. You can use   for transclusions and   in web addresses. This is because of some code fixes to the preprocessor and affects all wikis. You can now see the full list of wikis with this problem and help fix them to avoid that things break later this month. You might find false positives. You can read more about what to fix.

Older unreported changes
 * Your Meta user page is shown on all wikis where you don't have a local user page. You can now add the magic word  to your Meta user page to stop this.

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