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Administrators' newsletter – March 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2017).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Amortias • Deckiller • BU Rob13
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Ronnotel • Islander • Chamal N • Isomorphic • Keeper76 • Lord Voldemort • Shereth • Bdesham • Pjacobi

Guideline and policy news
 * A recent RfC has redefined how articles on schools are evaluated at AfD. Specifically, secondary schools are not presumed to be notable simply because they exist.
 * AfDs that receive little participation should now be closed like an expired proposed deletion, following a deletion process RfC.
 * Defender, HakanIST, Matiia and Sjoerddebruin are our newest stewards, following the 2017 steward elections.
 * The 2017 appointees for the Ombudsman commission are Góngora, Krd, Lankiveil, Richwales and Vogone. They will serve for approximately 1 year.

Technical news
 * A recent query shows that only 16% of administrators on the English Wikipedia have enabled two-factor authentication. If you haven't already enabled it please consider doing so.
 * Cookie blocks should be deployed to the English Wikipedia soon. This will extend the current autoblock system by setting a cookie for each block, which will then autoblock the user after they switch accounts under a new IP.
 * A bot will now automatically place a protection template on protected pages when admins forget to do so.

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March 2017 WikiCup newsletter
And so ends the first round of the competition, with 4 points required to qualify for round 2. It would have been 5 points, but when a late entrant was permitted to join the contest in February, a promise was made that his inclusion would not result in the exclusion of any other competitor. To achieve this, the six entrants that had the lowest positive score of 4 points have been added to the 64 people who otherwise would have qualified. As a result, some of the groups have nine contestants rather than eight. Our top four scorers in round 1 were:


 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Cas Liber, last year's winner, led the field with two featured articles on birds and a total score of 674.
 * 🇪🇺 Iry-Hor, a WikiCup newcomer, came next with a featured article, a good article and a tally of 282 bonus points for a score of 517. All these points came from the article Nyuserre Ini, an Ancient Egyptian pharaoh,
 * 🇯🇵 1989, another WikiCup newcomer, was in joint third place at 240. 1989 has claimed points for two featured lists and one good article relating to anime and comedy series, all of which were awarded bonus points.
 * Peacemaker67 shared third place with five good articles and thirteen good article reviews, mostly on naval vessels. He is also new to the competition.

The largest number of DYKs have been submitted by Vivvt and The C of E, who each claimed for seven, and MBlaze Lightning achieved eight articles at ITN. Carbrera and Peacemaker67 each claimed for five GAs and Krishna Chaitanya Velaga was well out in front for GARs, having reviewed 32. No featured pictures, featured topics or good topics yet, but we have achieved three featured articles and a splendid total of fifty good articles.

So, on to the second round. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is a good article candidate, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 13:52, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 10
Issue 10 of the WikiProject X newsletter is here!

This month, we discuss the new CollaborationKit extension. Here's an image as a teaser:



23:59, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #250
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * International Open Data Day was on Saturday, 4 March (tweets about Wikidata)
 * Wikidata documentation sprint during the Wikimedia hackathon (May 19-21): We need your help to improve Wikidata help pages!
 * Getting to know Wikidata (from Bob DuCharme, author of the book "learning SPARQL")
 * Tutorial to mashup Wikidata and government data with Dataiku DSS and Palladio (fr)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Library of Congress updated their inventory of Format Description Documents to include Wikidata URIs
 * Surfacing Wikidata objects with coordinates to match them with OSM
 * The Wikiproject Welcome has been created to work on welcoming the new editors, feel free to participate


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: FIH player ID, seed dispersal, number of works, inflorescence, minimum wavelength of electromagnetic sensitivity, maximum wavelength of electromagnetic sensitivity, Eurovision Song Contest song ID, Ghetto Encyclopedia ID, category for value same as Wikidata, MOOMA artist ID, PhilPapers record, Serbia cadastral municipality ID, next higher rank, next lower rank, New Zealand Heritage List number, Serbia municipality ID, Eu-football.info player ID, CEV player ID, USHMM Holocaust Encyclopedia ID, USCG Lighthouse ID, Commons maps category, public key fingerprint


 * Query examples:
 * Countries with similar populations (source)
 * Items that have "feminist art" as a value (source)
 * Books, incipits, concatenating a sentence to the incipit (source and inspiration)
 * Paintings by Vermeer depicting maps (source)
 * Painters sorted by the number of Wikipedia articles about their works (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Fashion


 * Development
 * Finishing touches on the new geo shape data type. It is available on the first test wiki now (T57549).
 * SetLabel, SetDescription, SetAliases, SetLabelDescriptionAliases, SetSiteLink have been migrated to ooUI. Thanks, Ricordisamoa! (T48248)
 * Making progress on integrating the new Lexeme entity type with the wbeditentity API (T155699).

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


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

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4th GA Cup - The Final
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Tech News: 2017-10
 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 search on English, French, Hebrew and Greek wikis and find words even if you forget the diacritics. It also works if you use diacritics in your search but the wiki doesn't.
 * When you use the mobile view and click on a link to an article in another language you will see that article in the mobile view. Previously it changed to the desktop view.

Problems
 * Some watchlist gadgets didn't work for a period of time last week. This has now been fixed.
 * Admins who click on "mass delete" on a user's Special:Contributions will be taken directly to a list pages created by that user. It has worked like this before, but not lately.

Changes this week
 * The way you switch between wikitext and the visual editors in the desktop view has changed. It is now a drop-down menu. This is the same as in the mobile view.
 * The "flag the edit in the abuse log" checkbox will be removed from the abuse filter interface. This is because the edits are always flagged in the abuse log.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 March. It will be on all wikis from 9 March (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 7 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Clarification
 * The 2017/09 issue of Tech News mentioned 3D file formats you can soon upload to Commons. The AMF format will be available later.

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Overview #2 of updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process
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As we mentioned last month, the Wikimedia movement is beginning a movement-wide strategy discussion, a process which will run throughout 2017. This movement strategy discussion will focus on the future of our movement: where we want to go together, and what we want to achieve.

Regular updates are being sent to the Wikimedia-l mailing list, and posted on Meta-Wiki. Each month, we are sending overviews of these updates to this page as well. Sign up to receive future announcements and monthly highlights of strategy updates on your user talk page.

Here is a overview of the updates that have been sent since our message last month:
 * Update 7 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (16 February 2017)
 * Development of documentation for Tracks A & B
 * Update 8 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (24 February 2017)
 * Introduction of Track Leads for all four audience tracks
 * Update 9 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (2 March 2017)
 * Seeking feedback on documents being used to help facilitate upcoming community discussions

More information about the movement strategy is available on the Meta-Wiki 2017 Wikimedia movement strategy portal.

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The Bugle: Issue CXXXI, March 2017
The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here. If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 23:20, 12 March 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-11
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes this week
 * You will be able to show references from  tags in more than one column on your wiki. This is the list of footnotes for the sources in the article. How many columns you see will depend on how big your screen is. On some wikis, some templates already do this. Templates that use   tags will need to be updated, and then later the change can happen for all reference lists.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 March. It will be on all wikis from 16 March (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 14 March at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Some old web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis in the future. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can upgrade to a newer version.
 * Octicons-tools.svg CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future.

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Wikidata weekly summary #251
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Ladies that FOSS, March 15th, 18:00, Berlin. Meetup dedicated to women who want to start coding for Wikidata, Mediawiki or other open source software
 * Wikidata workshop in Manchester, March 17th, 10:00, at the Manchester Central Library (information)
 * Wikidata workshop in Paris, March 17th, 20:30. More questions about SPARQL and the Query Service (information and registration)
 * Would you like to attend to a Wikidata meetup in Berlin? You can choose the next date!
 * Wizards, Muggles and Wikidata: The Room of Requirements for structured knowledge by Jens Ohlig, John Cummings and Navino Evans
 * Wikidata for winners (in Economics) by Martin Poulter
 * Des Successions à Wikidata : vers un réseau social des philosophes antiques ? (fr) by Pierre-Carl Langlais


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Do you want to help watching the recent changes? Have a look at this useful collection of links by YMS
 * Watch the gender gap on Wikipedia and Wikidata with this tool by Envlh
 * Play Stadt, Fluss, Land with Wikidata! (by Knut)
 * Deadline for submitting a presentation for Wikimania 2017 is March 30th: discuss about ideas or ask for help
 * WMF is hiring a program manager, a product manager and a community liaison to work on the structured data project on Commons


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: pole position, MIMO instrument ID, openMLOL author ID, IPv4 range, Iditarod musher ID, SAHRA heritage site ID, DOCOMOMO Ibérico ID, average space complexity, best-case space complexity, worst-case space complexity, average performance, best-case performance, worst-case performance, Shoftim BeIsrael judge ID, KMDb documentary ID, Google Maps CID, Israel Football Association player ID, SSRN author ID, Wildflowers of Israel ID, World Rugby Sevens Series ID, number of subscribers, ITU/ISO/IEC object identifier


 * Query examples:
 * List of female bioinformaticians/computational biologists (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20most%20gender-imbalanced%20occupations%20in%20%3Fcountry%20citizens%0ASELECT%20%3FoccupationLabel%20%3Fwomen%20%3Fmen%20WITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Foccupation%20%28SUM%28%3Fwoman%29%20AS%20%3Fwomen%29%20%28SUM%28%3Fman%29%20AS%20%3Fmen%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28wd%3AQ30%20AS%20%3Fcountry%29.%20%23%20substitute%20country%20of%20your%20choice%20here%20%28remove%20the%20Q30%2C%20hit%20Ctrl%2BSpace%20and%20start%20typing%20the%20country%20name%2C%20select%20the%20right%20one%20from%20the%20suggestions%20with%20the%20arrow%20keys%20and%20insert%20it%20with%20Enter%29%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP27%20%3Fcountry%3B%20%23%20remove%20this%20to%20search%20world-wide%20%E2%80%93%20results%20in%20query%20timeout%20unless%20you%20reduce%20the%20dataset%20in%20some%20other%20fashion%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP106%2Fps%3AP106%20%3Foccupation.%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ6581097.%20BIND%281%20AS%20%3Fman%29.%20%7D%20UNION%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ2449503.%20BIND%281%20AS%20%3Fman%29.%20%7D%20UNION%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ6581072.%20BIND%281%20AS%20%3Fwoman%29.%20%7D%20UNION%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ1052281.%20BIND%281%20AS%20%3Fwoman%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20TODO%20consider%20how%20to%20count%20P21%3A%20Q48270%20%28genderqueer%29%20and%20Q1097630%20%28intersex%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Foccupation%0A%7D%20AS%20%25results%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25results.%20%23%20subquery%20as%20optimization%3A%20don%E2%80%99t%20make%20the%20label%20service%20fetch%20labels%20for%20every%20%3Fperson%20in%20the%20subquery%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%0A%20%20%23%20divide%20%3Fvariable%2B1%20instead%20of%20%3Fvariable%20to%20avoid%20division%20by%20zero%0A%20%20%23%20%28unfortunately%2C%20we%20can%E2%80%99t%20use%20ABS%28LOG%28x%2Fy%29%29%20instead%20of%20the%20IF%28%29%20because%20SPARQL%20has%20no%20LOG%20function%29%0A%20%20DESC%28IF%28%3Fwomen%20%3E%20%3Fmen%2C%20%28%3Fwomen%2B1%29%2F%28%3Fmen%2B1%29%2C%20%28%3Fmen%2B1%29%2F%28%3Fwomen%2B1%29%29%29%0A%20%20%23%20if%20the%20ratio%20is%20the%20same%2C%20show%20results%20with%20more%20people%20in%20total%20first%0A%20%20DESC%28%3Fwomen%2B%3Fmen%29 Most gender-imbalanced occupations in US citizens] (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20awards%20received%20by%20more%20women%20than%20men%0ASELECT%20%3Faward%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Flabel%29%20AS%20%3FawardLabel%29%20%3Fwomen%20%3Fmen%20WITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Faward%20%28SUM%28%3Fwoman%29%20AS%20%3Fwomen%29%20%28SUM%28%3Fman%29%20AS%20%3Fmen%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP166%2Fps%3AP166%20%3Faward.%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ6581097.%20BIND%281%20AS%20%3Fman%29.%20%7D%20UNION%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ2449503.%20BIND%281%20AS%20%3Fman%29.%20%7D%20UNION%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ6581072.%20BIND%281%20AS%20%3Fwoman%29.%20%7D%20UNION%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ1052281.%20BIND%281%20AS%20%3Fwoman%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Faward%0A%20%20HAVING%28%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20more%20women%20than%20men%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwomen%20%3E%20%3Fmen%20%26%26%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20but%20exclude%20women-only%20awards%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fmen%20%3E%200%0A%20%20%29%0A%7D%20AS%20%25results%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25results.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Faward%20wdt%3AP1448%20%3FofficialName.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Faward%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FenLabel.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FenLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Faward%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FanyLabel.%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND%28COALESCE%28%3FofficialName%2C%20%3FenLabel%2C%20%3FanyLabel%29%20AS%20%3Flabel%29.%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Faward%20%3Fwomen%20%3Fmen%0AORDER%20BY%20STR%28%3FawardLabel%29 Awards received by more women than men] (source)
 * Transgender characters played by trangender actors/actresses (source)
 * The most famous astronomical objects in Solar System according to Wikipedia sitelinks (source)
 * Natural arches around the globe (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Board Games
 * Newest external tools: official first release of WikidataIntegrator


 * Development
 * Converted undo/restore interface to use OOUI. You can test it here (T134643).
 * Fixed an other rounding issue on geo coordinates (T158772).
 * Added thumbnail images to the Wikimedia Commons suggester (T160319).
 * Continued working on introducing Lexeme entity type.
 * Finishing federation prototype.
 * We are going to change all snak, reference, and qualifier hashes with the planned DataModel 7.0 release. If you are a tool developer, make sure you do not persist hashes, and never use them to request edits to entities. Statement IDs are safe (T157965).
 * Removed unnecessary CSS on ooui special pages (T159702)
 * Allowed example queries to be searched for SPARQL commands (T154768)
 * Converted Wikibase interface for undoing/restoring a revision to OOUI (T134643)
 * Converted image header user script to gadget (T159929)
 * Started writing spec for technical data model for Wiktionary support (T150785)
 * Worked 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!

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We invite you to join the movement strategy conversation (now through April 15)

 * This message, "We invite you to join the movement strategy conversation (now through April 15)", was sent through multiple channels by Gregory Varnum on 15 and 16 of March 2017 to village pumps, affiliate talk pages, movement mailing lists, and MassMessage groups. A similar message was sent by Nicole Ebber to organized groups and their mailing lists on 15 of March 2017. This version of the message is available for translation and documentation purposes

Dear Wikimedians/Wikipedians:

Today we are starting a broad discussion to define Wikimedia's future role in the world and develop a collaborative strategy to fulfill that role. You are warmly invited to join the conversation.

There are many ways to participate, by joining an existing conversation or starting your own:

Track A (organized groups): Discussions with your affiliate, committee or other organized group (these are groups that support the Wikimedia movement).

Track B (individual contributors): On Meta or your local language or project wiki.

This is the first of three conversations, and it will run between now and April 15. The purpose of cycle 1 is to discuss the future of the movement and generate major themes around potential directions. What do we want to build or achieve together over the next 15 years?

We welcome you, as we create this conversation together, and look forward to broad and diverse participation from all parts of our movement.


 * Find out more about the movement strategy process
 * Learn more about volunteering to be a Discussion Coordinator

Sincerely,

Nicole Ebber (Track A Lead), Jaime Anstee (Track B Lead), & the engagement support teams 05:02, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

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!

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Tech News: 2017-12
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * The  button now says   or   on the Wikimedia wikis except for Wikipedias and Wikinewses. This change will come to Wikipedias later. 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.
 * DMOZ no longer works. Templates that use DMOZ can be redirected to archive.org or another mirror. DMOZ has been removed from the RelatedSites extension on Wikivoyage.
 * You can see monthly page views when you click on  in the sidebar. Developers can also get monthly page views through the API.
 * The Linter extension is now on smaller Wikimedia wikis. It helps editors find some wikitext errors so they can be fixed. It will come to other Wikimedia wikis later. The extension will be able to find more errors later.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The MediaWiki-Vagrant portable development environment has been updated to use Debian Jessie. This means local development and testing will be more like on the majority of Wikimedia production servers.

Problems
 * On 15 March some interwiki links to other languages were not correctly sorted. This has been fixed. If you still see pages where the interwiki links are not sorted as they should be, they should be fixed automatically with time or you can edit the page and save it without changing anything. If this doesn't work, please report it.

Changes this week
 * When you edit with the visual editor, you will be able to switch the direction you write in from right-to-left to left-to-right as you are editing. This is especially important for editors who edit in languages that write from right to left. You can do this with a tool in the editing menu. You can also use the keyboard shortcut + +  on PCs or  + +  on Macs.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 March. It will be on all wikis from 23 March (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 21 March at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Wikidata weekly summary #253
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;"> This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 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)

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

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Tech News: 2017-13
<section begin="technews-2017-W13"/> 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).

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