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WikiCup 2019 May newsletter
The second round of the 2019 WikiCup has now finished. Contestants needed to scored 32 points to advance into round 3. Our top four scorers in round 2 all scored over 400 points and were: Other notable performances were put in by Barkeep49 with six GAs, 🇺🇸 Ceranthor, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lee Vilenski, and  Canada Hky, each with seven GARs, and 🇩🇰 MPJ-DK with a seven item GT.
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Cas Liber (1210), our winner in 2016, with two featured articles and three DYKs. He also made good use of the bonus points available, more than doubling his score by choosing appropriate articles to work on.
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Kosack (750), last year's runner up, with an FA, a GA, two FLs, and five DYKs.
 * Pirate_Flag_of_Henry_Every.svg (480), a WikiCup veteran, with 16 featured pictures, mostly restorations.
 * Zwerg Nase (461), a seasoned competitor, with a FA, a GA and an ITN item.

So far contestants have achieved nine featured articles between them and a splendid 80 good articles. Commendably, 227 GARs have been completed during the course of the 2019 WikiCup, so the backlog of articles awaiting GA review has been reduced as a result of contestants' activities. The judges are pleased with the thorough GARs that are being performed, and have hardly had to reject any. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). 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 your name from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:46, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #363
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Closed request for adminship: BRPever, welcome on board!


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


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


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


 * Did you know?


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


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


 * Query examples:
 * Some people are named after the strangest sorts of things (source)

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


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

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


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

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

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

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 8 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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This Month in GLAM: April 2019
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The Bugle: Issue CLVII, May 2019
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Wikidata weekly summary #364
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events
 * Upcoming: Wikimedia hackathon in Prague, that will include many Wikidata-related sessions and projects, May 17-19
 * Upcoming: UGent Wikidata and Wikibase Workshop 2019, by Julie Birkholz, 3 - 5 July 2019 Ghent, Belgium
 * Upcoming: DC-2019 Hack Day on Wikidata, Wikibase, Application Profiles and FAIR data at DC19 in Seoul, South Korea 23rd - 26th September 2019, Hackathon by Tom Baker and Andra Waagmeester
 * Upcoming: How does Wikimedia Solve the Problems of Biodiversity Informatics, Workshop in Leiden, the Netherlands, 20-25 October


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


 * Did you know?


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


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


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


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

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


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

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Timeless Newsletter • Issue 4
Newsletter • April 2019

Welcome to the fourth issue of the Timeless newsletter, with a cat! Or maybe not.

Un chat qui miaule???

It's true! The angry cat, a fundamental part of Timeless, has resulted in confusion and bug reports all across the projects and phabricator. And now it shall be immortalised forever in the new, shiny Timeless logo.

Updates:

After putting off the project for three months because I got hit in the head with a flight of stairs, and then putting off the project for another two months while working out what the status of the grant was, I have now put off the project even more in order to focus on my other project for a bit. So progress lately has been a bit whims-based as a result:
 * The project now has a logo. For some reason.
 * The angry cat in the background is now customisable! Behold: not a cat. What would you like to replace it with on your project?
 * I broke, unbroke, and then sort of sideways broke all the form styles. Help.

Radar:
 * The French Wiktionary voted to set Timeless as their default skin, with results possibly as you might expect: I ran away and hid, and the WMF said no. A bit of discussion later and we largely agreed that all else aside, this is a bit of a branding issue, but we love the enthusiasm! Also the bug reports that inevitably come out of such a discussion. I'm still working on properly going through those.
 * Theme support is still stuck in limbo, but now we have another skinning RfC. tl;dr, we wanna replace the entire skinning system, and Skizzerz'll write a prototype later.

I will be fully resuming work on Timeless next week, or maybe the week after, depending on what madness (or illness) comes out of the Hackathon in Prague. Please come talk to me there to discuss strategy!

-— Isarra ༆ 16:51, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

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NPR Newsletter No.18


Hello ,

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

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

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


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


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

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

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

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

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

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Books & Bytes, Issue 33
 The Wikipedia Library Books & Bytes

Issue 33, March – April 2019 
 * # 1Lib1Ref
 * Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
 * Global branches update
 * Bytes in brief

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


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


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


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


 * Did you know?


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


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


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


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

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


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

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Wikidata weekly summary #366
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 * Events
 * Past: Wikidata Labs XV in Brazil, with an introduction to lexicographical data (slides)
 * Past: Workshop for experienced editors of nl.wiktionary to explore the possibilities of lexicographical data.


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


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


 * Did you know?


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


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


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


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

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


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

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

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This Month in Education: May 2019
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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 6
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Hello everyone and welcome to the 6th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
 * Cscr-featured.svg userRightsManager


 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Opencooper's domainRedirect* Danski454's hotcat-summary* Guywan's 12HourFormat* DannyS712's Subcategories


 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Twinkle (commit 53b6bf4)

Pending requests
 * Help with helping
 * List annotator
 * ...and many more, all available at User scripts/Requests



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