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This Month in Education: September 2017
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Administrators' newsletter – October 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2017). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Boing! said Zebedee • Ansh666 • Ad Orientem
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Guideline and policy news
 * Following a successful proposal to create it, a new user right called "edit filter helper" is now assignable and revocable by administrators. The right allows non-administrators to view the details of private edit filters, but not to edit them.
 * Following a discussion about mass-application of ECP and how the need for logging and other details of an evolving consensus may have been missed by some administrators, a rough guide to extended confirmed protection has been written. This information page describes how the extended-confirmed aspects of the protection policy are currently being applied by administrators.

Technical news
 * You can now search for IP ranges at Special:Contributions. Some log pages and Special:DeletedContributions are not yet supported. Wildcards (e.g. 192.168.0.*) are also not supported, but the popular contribsrange gadget will continue to work.

Arbitration
 * Community consultation on the 2017 candidates for CheckUser and Oversight has concluded. The Arbitration Committee will appoint successful candidates by October 11.
 * A request for comment is open regarding the structure, rules, and procedures of the December 2017 Arbitration Committee election, and how to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.

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Wikidata weekly summary #280
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Using Wikidata data, fixing wrong Wikipedia and Wikidata tags, by Mateusz Konieczny
 * One Knowledge Graph to Rule Them All? Analyzing the Differences Between DBpedia, YAGO, Wikidata & co
 * Modeling the Domain of Digital Preservation in Wikidata
 * Wikidata as a linking hub for knowledge organization systems? Integrating an authority mapping into Wikidata and learning lessons for KOS mappings (Paper and presentation), by Joachim Neubert, NKOS Workshop 2017 at TPDL
 * Knowledge exploration in public linked data ontologies


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The ArticlePlaceholder has been enabled on Bengali Wikipedia (example)
 * There is a new page with information around Wikidata:Wikidata in Wikimedia projects. You can help expand and improve it.
 * New Wikidata Game to help you evaluate merge candidates based on projectmerge.
 * A reading tip from Spinster (not mentioning Wikidata, but interesting general background knowledge): Indigenous peoples and responsible data: an introductory reading list from responsibledata.io
 * Where's Wally (aka Waldo)? Right here on Wikidata, of course!
 * Wikidata passed 8 average statements per item
 * Statement 300.000.000 was created
 * 20 million edits were done in September 2017


 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: TSE number, defined daily dose, Vincoli in Rete ID, The Black Book ID, Tagesschau election ID, LfD-HB object ID, cultural heritage monument in Serbia ID, Bavarian monument authority ID
 * Query examples: What exists in the "... as a service" genre? (source)


 * Development
 * Added a css class to values that link to redirects so they can more easily be identified by editors who want that for maintenance work (T70567) Thanks Matej!
 * Continued work on persistent editing of forms as part of the work to support lexicographical data (T173742, T173744)
 * Finishing touches on adding full URIs for external identifiers to our RDF export so we're good citizens of the semantic web (T121274)
 * Added a new  Lua function in addition to the existing , that returns all statements regardless of their rank (T176124)
 * Looking into an issue where unwanted email notifications are being sent (T174794)
 * Released version 2.1.1 of the base DataValues component


 * 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: 2017-40
 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 preload features in the visual editor. This means you can create links to create new pages and some text will already be in the edit window when someone clicks on it.

Changes later this week
 * If you have turned on "" you will now get the 2017 wikitext editor. Before this you had to turn it on manually even though it is a beta feature.
 * Special:Block and Special:Unblock will get the OOUI look.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The jQuery library will be upgraded to version 3 on all Wiktionary wikis from 2 October. It will be on all non-Wikipedia wikis from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October (calendar).

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 * 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 4 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * A new feature called Reading Lists are coming to the Wikipedia mobile apps. First it will be in the Android version. Reading Lists are a private user preference where you can see lists of articles on multiple devices. You can give feedback on this feature.
 * The search function has used fallback languages for language analysis. This means a language could be analysed with the grammar of a completely unrelated language to find related words. This will be removed from most wikis the week starting with 9 October. You can read more and give feedback.

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Water in the Arab region (October 3)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Onel5969 was:

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.


 * If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Water in the Arab region and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
 * If you need any assistance, you can ask for help at the [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation/Help_desk&action=edit&section=new&nosummary=1&preload=Template:Afc_decline/HD_preload&preloadparams%5B%5D=Draft:Water_in_the_Arab_region Articles for creation help desk] or on the [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Onel5969&action=edit&section=new&nosummary=1&preload=Template:Afc_decline/HD_preload&preloadparams%5B%5D=Draft:Water_in_the_Arab_region reviewer's talk page].
 * You can also use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

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Actualités du Wiktionnaire, numéro 30, septembre 2017
 Le dernier numéro des Actualités du Wiktionnaire est arrivé ! Retrouvez ici le numéro 30 de septembre 2017.

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WikiProject Women in Red/The World Contest
Hi. Thankyou for your participation in the challenge series or/and contests. In November The Women in Red World Contest is being held to try to produce new articles for as many countries worldwide and occupations as possible. There will be over $4000 in prizes to win, including Amazon vouchers and paid subscriptions. If this would appeal to you and you think you'd be interested in contributing new articles on women during this month for your region or wherever please sign up in the participants section. The articles done may also count towards the ongoing challenge. If you're not interested in prize money yourself but are willing to participate and raise money to buy books about women for others to use, this is also fine. Help would also be appreciated in drawing up the lists of missing articles. If you think of any missing articles please add them to the sub lists by continent at Missing articles. Thankyou, and if taking part, good luck!♦ Dr. Blofeld  17:11, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

WikiProject Women in Red/The World Contest
Hi. Thankyou for your participation in the challenge series or/and contests. In November The Women in Red World Contest is being held to try to produce new articles for as many countries worldwide and occupations as possible. There will be over $4000 in prizes to win, including Amazon vouchers and paid subscriptions. If this would appeal to you and you think you'd be interested in contributing new articles on women during this month for your region or wherever please sign up in the participants section. The articles done may also count towards the ongoing challenge. If you're not interested in prize money yourself but are willing to participate and raise money to buy books about women for others to use, this is also fine. Help would also be appreciated in drawing up the lists of missing articles. If you think of any missing articles please add them to the sub lists by continent at Missing articles. Thankyou, and if taking part, good luck!♦ Dr. Blofeld  17:14, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2017-41
<section begin="technews-2017-W41"/> 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 number of active users listed by  and on Special:Statistics will now only include Wikidata edits as activity on Wikidata and not on other wikis too.
 * Previously you could create wiki links starting with two colons. Now you need to use one colon. :File:X.jpg now has to be File:X.jpg . There is now a new Linter category. You can see a list on Special:Linterrors/multi-colon-escape. The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. You can read more about using Linter.

Problems
 * You will not be able to edit or upload files to Commons for around 30 minutes on 11 October. This will start at 06:00 UTC. This is because of work to let Commons show 3D models.

Changes later this week
 * The font in the edit window is monospace by default. Today you can change preferences to another font family or use "the browser default" instead of monospace. Switching to the browser default has only changed the font on Macs. The option to use browser default will be removed this week.
 * If you want to print a page or make a PDF of a page you can do so in the side menu. The way the pages look when you do this will change. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 October. It will be on all wikis from 12 October (calendar).

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Wikidata weekly summary #281
<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
 * Upcoming: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October (sold out)
 * We will have two exciting keynotes. The first keynote speaker is Fabian M. Suchanek, professor at Télécom Paris Tech University, working on the knowledge base YAGO. The second keynote speaker is Michael Kreil, datajournalist working on the project Data Sciences and Stories.
 * Please volunteer for some tasks at the conference if you are attending.
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop at XLDB, October 12th, Clermont-Ferrand, France
 * Rebuild the map of famous artwork with Wikidata by Poulpy (in French)
 * Research libraries and Wikimedia: A shared commitment to diversity, open knowledge, and community participation


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * There is now a good start for documentation for QuickStatements. Feel free to help improve it!
 * New Mix’n’match mode to show just the entries with multiple matches (example)


 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Lega Pallavolo Serie A player ID, KNAU ID, PfaF id, YouTube Playlist ID, Wheelchair ITF player ID, VBL player ID, MIL-STD-2525 Symbol Identification Code, stellar rotational velocity, readership, PROSPERO ID, PM20 folder ID, possessed by spirit, panorama view, official app, LFH player ID, UK National Fruit Collection ID, Riigikogu ID, Nominis saint ID, Theses.fr person ID, Nominis given name ID, LUMIERE director ID, LUMIERE film ID, LNV player ID, International Standard Text Code, hydrological order number, FCI rider ID, Daum movie ID, Cinémathèque québécoise work identifier, Japanese Database of National important cultural properties, Tunisian geographic code, New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission ID, DPLA subject ID, rating, Daum TV series ID, half maximal effective concentration, half maximal inhibitory concentration (IC50), Landtag of Liechtenstein ID, Bavarian geotope ID, Reddit user name, LinkedIn company ID, THW Kiel player ID, Footoféminin.fr player ID, FFVoile sailor ID, NPB player ID, Lega Pallavolo Serie A Femminile player ID, Gallica ID, National Museums of Japan e-museum ID, Spanish "Boletín Oficial del Estado" ID, Banglapedia (English version) ID, Banglapedia (Bengali version) ID, number of constituencies, All-Russian Mathematical Portal ID
 * Query examples:
 * Women who won the Nobel Prize in Physics (source)
 * For each award, percentage of women who received it (source)
 * Intelligent personal assistants described in Wikidata (source)
 * Units of measurement named after German people (source)
 * Buildings constructed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Delhi Metro
 * Newest database reports: television series by camera setup


 * Development
 * Breaking change: "wb_entity_per_page" table will not be updated and replicated on ToolLabs anymore
 * A  Lua function will be added (T173262)
 * The  Lua function will accept a second parameter with the global identifier of a wiki (e.g. "enwiki") to link to (T142903)
 * Had to temporarily turn off showing Wikidata's changes on Commons and Russian Wikipedia because of database issues. We're working on turning it back on.
 * Continued work on persistently storing edits to Forms on Lexemes
 * Finishing work on checking constraints on qualifiers and references with the constraint checks gadget
 * Fixed a bug where notification emails for Wikidata changes were sent when they shouldn't have been (T174794)
 * Full URIs for external identifiers will soon be in the RDF export (T121274)


 * 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!

<div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 20:27, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

Wiki.J.Med. associate editor list
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In order to be compliant with SCOPUS guidelines, WikiJournal of Medicine is resetting our associate editor list. This is so that there is a record of applications for all editors involved in the project. To re-apply, simply click the button below and fill out the template. There is no need to have information in all sections. If you wish to remain anonymous, insert your username in the name section and email to confirm your identity privately.

Thank you for your understanding as we reorganise! T.Shafee(Evo &#38; Evo)talk 14:03, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2017-42
<section begin="technews-2017-W42"/> 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 a template with the visual editor it follows the template's  configuration on how to save it. You can now change the format in more powerful ways if your wiki wants it.
 * The TwoColConflict extension is a new way to solve edit conflicts. It makes it easier to copy and paste the relevant text to the text field. It has been a beta feature for the last five months. You can now try out the new interface on a page where you will actually get simulated edit conflicts. You can give feedback to the developers.

Problems
 * There is a problem with recent changes pages and your watchlist that show a large number of pages. Until it is fixed, Wikidata edits will not be shown on recent changes or in your watchlist on Commons or Russian Wikipedia. If necessary, Wikidata edits will be removed from all wikis.
 * Notifications are not working for some actions. For example some users don't get a notification when they are mentioned. The developers are working on fixing this.
 * Users on some wikis could not change their preferences. This has now been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * Editors and readers who still use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP will not be able to use Wikipedia from 17 October. Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP can't connect securely to the wikis. When we allow them to do so it means that we get less security for everyone else. If you use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP you can install Firefox 52 ESR instead. Around 0.1% of the traffic to the Wikimedia wikis comes from Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 October. It will be on all wikis from 19 October (calendar).

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 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 17 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * 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 18 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2017-W42"/> 15:31, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #282
Wikidata weekly summary #282

<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;"> <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 21:39, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Association Football Matches
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Upcoming: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October (sold out)
 * If you organize a local event for the Wikidata birthday, feel free to add it on the events page and the birthday page
 * A blog post describing Textes d'affiches, a tool using Wikidata to show movies and the works they are adapted from, developed during a hackathon at the national French library (by Shonagon, in French)
 * Slides of the presentation "Wikidata Query Service: The State of the Engine" by Stas Malyshev
 * Slides of the presentation "Wikidata and structured data initiatives at Wikimedia. Current trends and priorities" by Dario Taborelli
 * Wikidata as a linking hub for knowledge organization systems? Integrating an authority mapping into Wikidata and learning lessons for KOS mappings by Joachim Neubert
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * If you are interested in Structured Data on Commons, and helping out as a Wikidata contributor, please consider joining the new Structured Commons community focus group!
 * Participate to the Global Legislative Openness Week with MySociety and organize a Wikidata workshop in your country, from 20th to 30th November 2017
 * Inventaire now has a News section where you can follow ongoing discussions and developments of the project
 * wikidata-cli added bot support and new commands (wd search, wd aliases, wd add-alias, wd remove-alias, wd set-alias)
 * wikidata-edit added bot edits support and new functions (alias.add, alias.remove, alias.set)
 * HarvestTemplates has a new collaboration platform
 * You can now use reCh to patrol items from your PagePile
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Women's Sports Foundation ID, Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame ID, North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame ID, New Mexico Sports Hall of Fame ID, National Trust Collections ID, Infopatrimônio ID, KBO pitcher ID, KBO hitter ID, Cairn author ID, Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame ID, Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame ID, Kansas Sports Hall of Fame ID, Hawai‘i Sports Hall of Fame ID, Georgia Sports Hall of Fame ID, DSMHOF athlete ID, ASHOF athlete ID, ExecutedToday ID, Monumentos de São Paulo ID, gravsted.dk ID, Dutch lost building register ID, Musikverket person ID, Megalithic Portal ID, PROSITE documentation ID, Search formatter URL, nominated by, BillionGraves cemetery ID, Cravo Albin artist ID, salinity, Lotsawa House Indian author ID, Lotsawa House Tibetan author ID, Florida Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, T4T35 megalith ID, excavation director, QEdu ID, WBPLN author ID, Store norske leksikon ID, synodic period, PubsHistory pub ID, Organization ID on Radio Radicale, LOINC ID, digitised page from Lloyd's Register of Ships from 1930 to 1945, Lloyd's Register Ship ID, IDESCAT territorial code in Catalonia, Heritage Conservation District of Ontario ID, GenBank Assembly accession, Deutsche Synchronkartei actor-ID, Department of Education and Skills roll number, contains, Wikimedia template, Brueckenweb id, BHL bibliography ID, BFI-Filmography person ID, APA phoneme code, combination classification, young rider classification, best sprinter classification, best combative classification, mountains classification, Elite Prospects staff ID, Scottish Sports HoF athlete ID, GARD rare disease ID, kinship equivalent in SPARQL at Wikidata, SwimSwam ID, SpeedskatingResults.com speed skater ID, musée de Bretagne identifiant collections ID, camera setup, FOIH taxon ID, FOIH decree types ID, FOIH event types ID, FOIH value types ID, FOIH heritage types ID, FOIH periods ID, FOIH styles and cultures ID, FOIH materials ID
 * Query examples:
 * Flags with more than 5 stars (source)
 * Timeline of programming languages (source)
 * Female scientists sorted by number of citations of their work (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Women
 * Newest database reports: Jean Rochefort Filmography
 * Development
 * Continued working on persistently storing edits on Lexeme pages (specifically Forms)
 * Dealt with issues caused by too many edits being injected into recent changes on Commons and Russian Wikipedia
 * Constraint checks will also be done on qualifiers and references (T176863)
 * Fixed a regression with the focus not automatically being set after a property was selected (T177485)
 * Full URIs for external identifiers will soon be in the RDF export (T121274)
 * The secondary  table got removed now (T140890)
 * The secondary  table does have a   column now (T167114)
 * Released version 4.0.0 of the [//github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModelJavaScript Wikibase DataModel JavaScript library] as a pure NPM package with no MediaWiki dependency (T177476)
 * Released version 3.0.0 of the [//github.com/wmde/WikibaseSerializationJavaScript Wikibase Serialization JavaScript library] as a pure NPM package with no MediaWiki dependency (T177613)
 * Released version 0.10.0 of the [//github.com/wmde/DataValuesJavaScript DataValues JavaScript library] as a pure NPM package with no MediaWiki dependency (T177232)
 * 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!

Books and Bytes - Issue 24
<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

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<div style = "margin-top: 1.5em; border: 3px solid #ae8c55; border-radius: .5em; padding: 1em 1.5em; font-size: .9em"> Arabic, Kiswahili and Yoruba versions of Books & Bytes are now available in meta! Read the full newsletter Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:53, 21 October 2017 (UTC)
 * User Group update
 * Global branches update
 * Star Coordinator Award - last quarter's star coordinator: User:Csisc
 * Wikimania Birds of a Feather session roundup
 * Spotlight: Wiki Loves Archives
 * Bytes in brief

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Tech News: 2017-43
<section begin="technews-2017-W43"/> 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 Changes later this week
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can use  when you create an abuse filter. This can be used to look for multiple words or phrases within a string. It will find words where some characters have been replaced. You can read more in the documentation.
 * When you search in some languages the search function could use specific other languages if the first language didn't work. This is called a fallback language. This didn't work properly and created bad searches. The search index is being fixed to work better.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 October. It will be on all wikis from 26 October (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 24 October at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * 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 25 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * There is a Structured Commons community focus group for Commons and Wikidata contributors who want to give input on structured data on Wikimedia Commons. You can sign up to join it.

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Wikidata weekly summary #283
Wikidata weekly summary #282

<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;"> <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 08:53, 24 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: Zugang Gestalten (slides by multichill)
 * Past: Coding Da Vinci (slides by Jonas)
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Birthday Tokyo, 27 October from 12:00 to 14:00 in Roppongi Hills
 * Upcoming: WikiArabia 2017, Cairo, Egypt, 23-25 October
 * Upcoming: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October (sold out)
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Birthday Seoul, 29 October from 15:00 to 18:00
 * Upcoming: Biographical Data in a Digital World 2017 6-7 November 2017 (in cooperation with Wikimedia Austria)
 * COOL-WD: A Completeness Tool for Wikidata (tool website)
 * Provenance Information in a Collaborative Knowledge Graph: an Evaluation of Wikidata External References
 * Question Answering Benchmarks for Wikidata
 * Using Word Embeddings for Search in Linked Data with Ontodia (tool website)
 * Unlocking the human potential of Wikidata
 * Textes d’Affiches, des films à lire sur Gallica
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * If you have a present or organize an event for the Wikidata's fifth birthday, feel free to add link and pictures here
 * New version of the Alexa skill for Wikidata by metaphacts
 * Nice short gif tutorial for writing a Wikidata query
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Ontario Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Quora username, Women's Basketball Hall of Fame ID, Baseball Almanac ID, sports.ru player ID, Opera Vivra singer ID, Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame ID, NLBPA ID, MusicBrainz recording ID, caliber, Women's Collegiate Tennis Hall of Fame ID, Museus.br ID, Memória Globo, Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural ID, Canada's Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, International Paralympic Committee athlete ID, Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum athlete ID, BrainInfo ID (hierarchical), NeuroNames ID (plain mode), Anvisa drug ID, BC Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, TheSports.org athlete ID, mapping relation type, Science Museum people ID, Mappy place ID, update method, Virginia Sports Hall of Fame ID, Missouri Sports Hall of Fame ID, DAMIT asteroid ID, Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, LFB player ID, Soccerdonna player ID, Sandrart.net artwork ID, youth wing
 * Query examples:
 * Average age of members of the 19th German Bundestag (source)
 * Mountains in CH by height (topographic prominence) (source)
 * Mountains in CH by height (elevation above sea level) (source)
 * Monuments in Berlin for which Berlin cultural heritage ID and geolocation are known in Wikidata (source)
 * Initial characters of names of free software (source)
 * Initial characters of names of nonfree software (source)
 * First World Heritage site per country (source)
 * Newest database reports: list of kinship types
 * Development
 * Query Service throttling has been tweaked, to block a type of abusive client
 * Adding diff support for Lexeme-related edits
 * More work on checking constraints on qualifiers and references (T168532)
 * Now caching constraints results to make it ready for rollout for more users
 * Continued work on more fine-grained usage tracking so we better know which parts of an item is used on an article on Wikipedia and the other sister projects
 * Improved the way Wikidata changes are shown in watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and Co so they are more in-line with the other changes (T48329, T50684) Thanks Matej!
 * Released the [//github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModel Wikibase DataModel] component in version 7.2.0 (T177486)
 * 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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Structured Commons newsletter, October 25, 2017
''Welcome to the newsletter for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons! You can update your subscription to the newsletter. Do inform others who you think will want to be involved in the project!''


 * Community updates


 * Rama published an article about Structured Commons in Arbido, a Swiss online magazine for archivists, librarians and documentalists: original in French, illustrated and the article translated in English.
 * We now have a dedicated IRC channel: wikimedia-commons-sd webchat


 * Things to do / input and feedback requests


 * Join the community focus group!
 * Translation. Do you want to help out translating messages about Structured Data on Commons from English to your own language? Sign up on the translators page.
 * The documentation and info pages about Structured Data on Commons have received a thorough update, in order to get them ready for all the upcoming work. Obsolete pages were archived. There are undoubtedly still a lot of omissions and bits that are unclear. You can help by editing boldly, and by leaving feedback and tips on the talk pages.
 * We have started to list tools, gadgets and bots that might be affected by Structured Commons in order to prepare for a smooth transition to the new situation. You can help by adding alerts about/to specific tools and developers on the dedicated tools page. You can also create Phabricator tasks to help keep track of this. Volunteers and developers interested in helping out with this process are extremely welcome - please sign up!
 * Help write the next Structured Commons newsletter.


 * Presentations / Press / Events


 * Structured Data on Commons was presented at Wikimania 2017 in Montréal for a packed room. First design sketches for search functionality were discussed during a breakout session. Read the Etherpad reports of the presentation and the breakout session.
 * Katherine Maher, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, answered questions on Quora. One of her answers, mentioning Structured Data on Commons, was republished on Huffington Post.
 * Sandra Fauconnier, Amanda Bittaker and Ramsey Isler from the Structured Commons team will be at WikidataCon. Sandra presents Structured Commons there (with a focus on fruitful collaboration between the Wikidata and Commons communities). If you attend the conference, don't hesitate to say hi and have a chat with us! (phabricator task T176858)


 * Team updates

Two new people have been hired for the Structured Data on Commons team. We are now complete! :-)
 * Ramsey Isler is the new Product Manager of the Multimedia team.
 * Pamela Drouin was hired as User Interface Designer. She works at the Multimedia team as well, and her work will focus on the Structured Commons project.


 * Partners and allies


 * We are still welcoming (more) staff from GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) to become part of our long-term focus group (phabricator task T174134). You will be kept in the loop of the project, and receive regular small surveys and requests for feedback. Get in touch with Sandra if you're interested - your input in helping to shape this project is highly valued!


 * Research

Design research is ongoing.
 * Jonathan Morgan and Niharika Ved have held interviews with various GLAM staff about their batch upload workflows and will finish and report on these in this quarter. (phabricator task T159495)
 * At this moment, there is also an online survey for GLAM staff, Wikimedians in Residence, and GLAM volunteers who upload media collections to Wikimedia Commons. The results will be used to understand how we can improve this experience. (phabricator task T175188)
 * Upcoming: interviews with Wikimedia volunteers who curate media on Commons (including tool developers), talking about activities and workflows. (phabricator task T175185)


 * Development

In Autumn 2017, the Structured Commons development team works on the following major tasks (see also the quarterly goals for the team):


 * Getting Multi-Content Revisions sufficiently ready, so that the Multimedia and Search Platform teams can start using it to test and prototype things.
 * Determine metrics and metrics baseline for Commons (phabricator task T174519).
 * The multimedia team at WMF is gaining expertise in Wikibase, and unblocking further development for Structured Commons, by completing the MediaInfo extension for Wikibase.


 * Stay up to date!


 * Follow the Structured Data on Commons project on Phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/34/
 * Subscribe to this newsletter to receive it on a talk page of your own choice.
 * Join the next IRC office hour and ask questions to the team! It takes place on Tuesday 21 November, 18.00 UTC.

Warmly, your community liaison, SandraF (WMF)

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Wikidata weekly summary #284
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 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Defining account creators


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: WikiArabia 2017, Cairo, Egypt, 23-25 October
 * Past: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October. You can find the slides, notes and video recordings for most of the sessions
 * Past: Wikidata's fifth birthday in Tokyo, Seoul, Munich
 * Upcoming: Using Wikidata to create a multi-lingual multi-dialectal dictionary for Arabic dialects in the 14th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2017), Yasmine Hammamet, Tunisia, 30 October-3 November.
 * Upcoming : Wikidata and Wiki Loves Monuments editathon in Berlin, 24-26 November (in German). We're looking for trainers to explain the basic use of QuickStatements, Open Refine and Mix'n'Match. If you want to join, please contact MB-one


 * Wikidata's birthday
 * The fifth anniversary of Wikidata was celebrated, as every year, with a lot of presents, events and stories. You can find an overview on the birthday page.
 * Birthday presents
 * Search index now contains statements with and  . These can be used to influence search rankings and in the future also for matching.
 * inventaire.io CC0 Wikidata-ready NDJSON and TTL dumps are now accessible at dumps.inventaire.io
 * You can now move claims to new items with moveClaim.js. You can do so by typing "new".
 * Prefix search on Wikidata (wbsearchentities API) now is using ElasticSearch as backend. This should improve search quality and also is more flexible and tunable.
 * Wikidata becomes a proper citizen of the linked open data web
 * graves.wiki – visualization of grave locations stored in Wikidata
 * Wikidata Concepts Monitor (WDCM) - Wikidata semantic topics and usage statistics
 * Happy Birthday to You, Dear Wikidata – recording and improvisation (Lucas Werkmeister)
 * You can now create items from the command-line
 * Crochet your own cute structured data bee to express your appreciation for structured data in the Wikimedia movement! And ask her/him/it to join the.
 * Wikidata Query Service UI: Geoshapes from Commons are now displayed in the Map view: [https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23defaultView%3AMap%0A%23%20constituencies%20for%20the%20election%20to%20the%20German%20Bundestag%202017%2C%20with%20winning%20candidate%20and%20party%0ASELECT%20%3Fdistrict%20%3FdistrictLabel%20%3FdistrictNumber%20%3Fmdb%20%3FmdbLabel%20%3Fparty%20%3FpartyLabelCONF%20%28%3FpartyLabel%20AS%20%3Flayer%29%20%3FvotesPercentage%20%3Frgb%20%3Fshape%20%3FsanityCheckMdb%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20find%20districts%20with%20shape%0A%20%20%3Fdistrict%20wdt%3AP3896%20%3Fshape%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20successful%20candidate%20for%2019th%20German%20Bundestag%20with%20party%20and%20%25%20votes%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP991%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP991%20%3Fmdb%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP2937%20wd%3AQ30579723%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP1268%20%3Fparty%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pqv%3AP1111%20%5B%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3FvotesPercentage%3B%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ11229%20%5D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20district%20number%20in%202017%20Bundestag%20constituencies%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP528%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP528%20%3FdistrictNumberString%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP972%20wd%3AQ26971257%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%23%20turn%20string%20district%20number%20into%20integer%0A%20%20BIND%28xsd%3Ainteger%28%3FdistrictNumberString%29%20AS%20%3FdistrictNumber%29%0A%20%20%23%20sanity%20check%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fmdb%20p%3AP39%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP39%20wd%3AQ1939555%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP2937%20wd%3AQ30579723%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP768%20%3Fdistrict%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP4100%20%3Fparty%0A%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28true%20AS%20%3FsanityCheckMdb%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%23%20find%20original%20color%20of%20party%0A%20%20%3Fparty%20wdt%3AP462%3F%2Fwdt%3AP465%20%3FrgbOriginal.%0A%20%20%23%20fade%20color%20depending%20on%20%25%20votes%2C%20knowing%20that%20the%20original%20colors%20are%20only%20composed%20of%20FF%2C%2080%2C%2000%3A%20shift%2080%20to%20A0%20or%20C0%2C%20and%2000%20to%2040%20or%2080%0A%20%20%23%20%28using%20separate%20calls%20to%20replace%20R%2C%20G%2C%20and%20B%20components%20so%20that%20the%20replacements%20are%20aligned%20to%20them%29%0A%20%20BIND%28IF%28%3FvotesPercentage%20%3E%3D%20%28100%2F2%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FrgbOriginal%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3FvotesPercentage%20%3E%3D%20%28100%2F3%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28%3FrgbOriginal%2C%20%2280%28..%29%28..%29%22%2C%20%22A0%241%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%2980%28..%29%22%2C%20%22%241A0%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%29%28..%2980%22%2C%20%22%241%242A0%22%29%2C%20%2200%28..%29%28..%29%22%2C%20%2240%241%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%2900%28..%29%22%2C%20%22%24140%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%29%28..%2900%22%2C%20%22%241%24240%22%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28%3FrgbOriginal%2C%20%2280%28..%29%28..%29%22%2C%20%22C0%241%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%2980%28..%29%22%2C%20%22%241C0%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%29%28..%2980%22%2C%20%22%241%242C0%22%29%2C%20%2200%28..%29%28..%29%22%2C%20%2280%241%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%2900%28..%29%22%2C%20%22%24180%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%29%28..%2900%22%2C%20%22%241%24280%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%29%20AS%20%3Frgb%29%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fdistrict%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FdistrictLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fparty%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FpartyLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fmdb%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FmdbLabel.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FdistrictNumber Constituencies for the election to the German Bundestag 2017, with winning candidate and party]
 * Wikidata Query Service UI: The query service now shows you code examples for how to use your query in many programming languages (example query)
 * [//www.johl.io/dungeonofknowledge/ Dungeon of Knowledge] ([//github.com/johl/dungeonofknowledge source]), a roguelike game where you explore a dungeon full of bits of Wikidata wisdom
 * Simple WD an experiment of a simple frontend API on top of Wikidata using JSON-LD and schema.org.
 * mapview widget/user script on Wikidata
 * Images fragments for an item depicted on several artworks
 * Histropedia Query Timeline tool - Demo of cool new features launched today for WikidataCon
 * Q42395533 - the first item about a notable item!
 * SQID now suggests statements that we are missing (example page, log in to see suggestions) -- more on WikiProject_Reasoning soon
 * From labs VM to Wikibase Query Service in 2 minutes (using Docker images and docker-compose)
 * Stories and reflections
 * Wishes for the year to come, by Tpt
 * Happy Birthday Wikidata! by the Gene Wiki Team
 * Some random thoughts on the occasion of Wikidata's fifth birthday, by PKM
 * Wishes and a personal story, by Spinster
 * Happy Birthday, Wikidata by RolandUnger from Wikivoyage
 * Happy Birthday, Wikidata by Katherine Maher
 * Two years of Wikidata experience from ArthurPSmith
 * Happy Birthday wishes from Wikimedia Deutschland
 * Message from the development team


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Biblioteca Nacional de México ID, MNCARS artist ID, BFI Film and TV ID, FPB rating, The Coptic Library ID, snap package, LesBiographies.com ID, Indian Foundation for Butterflies ID, AKL Online Artist ID, Google Doodle, New York City Parks Monument ID, Pro14 player ID, implementation of, GACS ID, Y-DNA Haplogroup, mtDNA haplogroup, mandates, Portuguese lighthouse ID, U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame athlete ID, Sportbox.ru ID, VNDB ID, Videolectures ID, New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame ID, rfpl.org player ID, Panthéon des sports du Québec ID, Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee ID, New Brunswick Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Ontario Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Quora username, Women's Basketball Hall of Fame ID


 * Query examples:
 * Organic acids with images (source)
 * People who are their father's father (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0A%23%20constituencies%20for%20the%20election%20to%20the%20German%20Bundestag%202017%2C%20with%20winning%20candidate%20and%20party%0ASELECT%20%3Fdistrict%20%3FdistrictLabel%20%3FdistrictNumber%20%3Fmdb%20%3FmdbLabel%20%3Fparty%20%3FpartyLabelCONF%20%28%3FpartyLabel%20AS%20%3Flayer%29%20%3FvotesPercentage%20%3Frgb%20%3Fshape%20%3FsanityCheckMdb%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20find%20districts%20with%20shape%0A%20%20%3Fdistrict%20wdt%3AP3896%20%3Fshape%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20successful%20candidate%20for%2019th%20German%20Bundestag%20with%20party%20and%20%25%20votes%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP991%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP991%20%3Fmdb%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP2937%20wd%3AQ30579723%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP1268%20%3Fparty%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pqv%3AP1111%20%5B%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3FvotesPercentage%3B%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ11229%20%5D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20district%20number%20in%202017%20Bundestag%20constituencies%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP528%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP528%20%3FdistrictNumberString%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP972%20wd%3AQ26971257%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%23%20turn%20string%20district%20number%20into%20integer%0A%20%20BIND%28xsd%3Ainteger%28%3FdistrictNumberString%29%20AS%20%3FdistrictNumber%29%0A%20%20%23%20sanity%20check%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fmdb%20p%3AP39%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP39%20wd%3AQ1939555%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP2937%20wd%3AQ30579723%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP768%20%3Fdistrict%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP4100%20%3Fparty%0A%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28true%20AS%20%3FsanityCheckMdb%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%23%20find%20original%20color%20of%20party%0A%20%20%3Fparty%20wdt%3AP462%3F%2Fwdt%3AP465%20%3FrgbOriginal.%0A%20%20%23%20fade%20color%20depending%20on%20%25%20votes%2C%20knowing%20that%20the%20original%20colors%20are%20only%20composed%20of%20FF%2C%2080%2C%2000%3A%20shift%2080%20to%20A0%20or%20C0%2C%20and%2000%20to%2040%20or%2080%0A%20%20%23%20%28using%20separate%20calls%20to%20replace%20R%2C%20G%2C%20and%20B%20components%20so%20that%20the%20replacements%20are%20aligned%20to%20them%29%0A%20%20BIND%28IF%28%3FvotesPercentage%20%3E%3D%20%28100%2F2%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FrgbOriginal%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3FvotesPercentage%20%3E%3D%20%28100%2F3%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28%3FrgbOriginal%2C%20%2280%28..%29%28..%29%22%2C%20%22A0%241%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%2980%28..%29%22%2C%20%22%241A0%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%29%28..%2980%22%2C%20%22%241%242A0%22%29%2C%20%2200%28..%29%28..%29%22%2C%20%2240%241%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%2900%28..%29%22%2C%20%22%24140%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%29%28..%2900%22%2C%20%22%241%24240%22%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28%3FrgbOriginal%2C%20%2280%28..%29%28..%29%22%2C%20%22C0%241%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%2980%28..%29%22%2C%20%22%241C0%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%29%28..%2980%22%2C%20%22%241%242C0%22%29%2C%20%2200%28..%29%28..%29%22%2C%20%2280%241%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%2900%28..%29%22%2C%20%22%24180%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%29%28..%2900%22%2C%20%22%241%24280%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%29%20AS%20%3Frgb%29%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fdistrict%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FdistrictLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fparty%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FpartyLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fmdb%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FmdbLabel.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FdistrictNumber 2017 German federal election results by district with geoshapes and color depending on the % of votes] (source)
 * Cities with most first performances of works (source)
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 * Percentage of popes who died in Rome (source)
 * First sites registered at Unesco for each country (source)


 * Development
 * Continued working on persistent storage of edits on Lexeme pages
 * Fixed an encoding problem in the SVG download of query results in the query service (T178564)
 * Fixed a problem with change dispatching changes to Wikipedia and co, that sometimes lead to single wikis falling way behind. (T179060)
 * Added full URIs for external identifiers to the RDF export
 * You can leave feedback on how improved fulltext search result page should look like

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