User talk:Maximilianklein/Archive/3

Seattle meetup
Thanks for the automated post on my talk page!

Unfortunately, I'm not from Seattle, and I've never even set foot in the Pacific Northwest. My specialty is where my home is, in Arizona. Raymie (t • c) 03:32, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the invite, but that's about 3,000 miles away from me. I'm in Virginia. :) -  Neutralhomer  •  Talk  • 03:38, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

I'll be there roughly 10AM-noon. By the way, your post refers to "Decemmber" in its heading. - Jmabel &#124; Talk 04:40, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

Will you be covering the $490 in gas? It's a 2,241 mile drive each way. - Dravecky (talk) 05:11, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
 * And I thought I was far away, but I'm "just" 2,238 miles away in Indiana :-) Nyttend (talk) 05:42, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Even further, I'm in Ohio here... and I don't even have a car! The Rev (talk) 07:43, 1 December 2012 (UTC)


 * You were receiving the messages because you're signature was somewhere on WikiProject United States/Members. Regrettable we cannot cover gasoline, but I appreciate the thought of dedication. Maximilianklein (talk) 09:13, 1 December 2012 (UTC)


 * I am in Germany.... a bit far away. :/ I suggest making a more locally targeted list, such as those members of WikiProject Washington or WikiProject Seattle, and using a geonotice.  I am sure that will be more effective. Using services such as meetup.com and social media can also be helpful. Anyway, all the best for the meetup. :) Cheers --Aude (talk) 00:46, 3 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Ditto on the above. Spamming *everybody* on WikiProject United States is pretty damned foolish. Q  T C 01:51, 3 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Yes sorry for spamming. I used a link for Wikiproject Washington Members that redirected to the entire United States. Sorry for the mistake. Maximilianklein (talk) 22:22, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #34
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 08:22, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Development
 * Added DirectSqlStore to client so that it can directly access the repository database, and not require creating any tables on the client
 * Bug fixing on the client extension, and preparing it for first deployment
 * Less edit conflicts due to a smarter conflict detection
 * Better recent changes comments on the client
 * Clean up on the backend for entity artefacts
 * The statement UI enables to create statements and displays them, but has still a few glitches
 * The client now accesses the data on the server directly, and the data is not replicated anymore
 * Added a number of profiler calls
 * Special:Contributions displays labels now
 * User preference on the client to hide Wikidata edits
 * Statements can be created and saved now
 * Statements are properly styled in JavaScript and non-JavaScript version
 * Improved JavaScript part of the templating engine
 * Improved entity selector widget
 * Client:Watchlist Selenium Tests
 * Client: RecentChanges Selenium tests
 * Added DataValues, DataTypes, jQuery.ui QUnit tests to Selenium
 * Some PHPUnit test fixes
 * Discussions/Press
 * Behaviour on null edits
 * Events
 * Linuxday
 * Open Sunday after Wikimedia Deutschland’s membership assembly
 * SWIB
 * foss.in
 * upcoming: intro and Q&A in Bangalore
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Chart of item creation progress
 * Demo system will be unavailable shortly next week
 * Code-base is now nearly 100 000 lines
 * You can now look up Wikidata identifiers on dbpedia lite and it shows up in the RDF
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Hack on one of these
 * Give the demo system a try

Thanks!
... for the barnstar. הסרפד (Hasirpad) [formerly Ratz...bo] 23:51, 5 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Same here! I presume you still want us reporting any errors we find? Canadian   Paul  04:47, 6 December 2012 (UTC)


 * If you come across any then yes please still do report them, it will help sharpen our algorithms. Maximilianklein (talk) 06:49, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #35
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 13:22, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Development
 * Deployed new code on wikidata.org with a lot of bug fixes and a new Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel (all changes here)
 * http://test2.wikipedia.org now uses Wikidata (click “edit links” at the bottom of the page), and we are working to enable the synchronization of changes to test2 and display links from the repository
 * Added wbsetqualifier API module
 * Added wbremovequalifiers API module
 * New JavaScript wb.Api now used for labels, descriptions, aliases and sitelinks
 * Improved Selenium tests and PHPUnit tests
 * Selenium tests now independent from ULS
 * Selenium tests for statements UI
 * Existing statements can be edited now
 * Filtering anons and Wikidata in RecentChanges on client now works correctly
 * Added extra checks on client RecentChange save point to avoid duplicate entries
 * Started an experimental branch with API methods for claims
 * Link to Commons Media displayed for Snak values of related data type
 * Improved styling of statements in JavaScript mode
 * Improvements in templating engine
 * Started working on adding Statements to existing section of Statements
 * Set up a fresh dev server for testing
 * Discussions/Press
 * Publicity for Wikidata and Wikivoyage
 * “Importing data is hard: a rant about integrating open data projects”
 * Disallowing links to locked wikis
 * Sourcing of every statement
 * Events
 * Foss.in
 * Intro and Q&A in Bangalore
 * WhereCamp Berlin
 * Upcoming: Wikidata talk as part of a lecture on knowledge management, Karlsruhe
 * Announced next office hours
 * Still looking for people/projects to join us for the mass collaboration assembly
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New mockups for phase 2: 1 and 2
 * New admin notice board
 * “How to Edit Wikidata” presentation by Sven
 * “Working With MediaWiki” has been released. First book to mention Wikidata!
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Give feedback on phase 2 mockups
 * Code on one of these
 * Have a look at Wikidata:Contribute

Service award
By virtue of the non-authority not vested in me, I present you with this here service award. Feel free to put it or one of its variants on your user page, or not, as you will. Nice meeting you at the Seattle meetup. Yworo (talk) 20:35, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for your contributions!
Thanks for attending the Wikipedia Loves Libraries edit-a-thon at the Seattle Public Library! Your help was greatly appreciated ;-) Mlet (talk) 20:38, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #36
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 14:47, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Development
 * Deployed new code on wikidata.org. All changes can be found here
 * Updated demo system
 * http://test2.wikipedia.org now uses http://wikidata.org for getting language links and wikidata.org edits affecting the existing articles on test2 show up in RecentChanges (if they are not hidden)
 * Statements (think of “population: 2.000.000” and similar things) are taking shape in the interface. They are still pretty buggy though at this point.
 * It is now possible to link to images on Wikimedia Commons in a statement (think of “image: sundown_at_the_beach.png” for example)
 * Links are now protocol-relative (42534)
 * No longer possible to create new items and set labels when database is set to read-only
 * Added more tests to the GeoCoordinate parser
 * Make use of EditEntity in removeclaims API
 * Removed many singletons to reduce global state
 * Made SpecialSetLabel work with non-item entities
 * Improved settings system
 * Improved options of ValueFormatters
 * Improved options of ValueParsers
 * Moved label+description uniqueness check out of transaction to avoid deadlocks and changed it to only be enforced for edits changing any violating values
 * Fixed serialization of SiteArray
 * ~=[,,_,,]:3
 * Had to fix reporting of aliases in wbsearchentities again
 * Implemented integration of baserevids for statements UI API calls for editconflict detection for statements/claims/snaks
 * Universal Language Selector fallback fix for Selenium tests
 * Report URL to entity in wbsearchentites API module
 * Moved the demo system to a larger server
 * Fixed several bugs in Statements user interface, most notably, adding Statements to existing sections and layout fixes
 * Added wikibase API module on the client to provide information about the associated repo (e.g. url, script path, article path)
 * A bunch of messages for autocomments were fixed (they are automatically added as an edit summary for edits on items and co in Wikidata - for example: “‎Changed [en] description: Finnish rock band”)
 * Discussions/Press
 * “Wikidata: Summing the sum of human knowledge“
 * Events
 * WhereCamp
 * Wikidata talk as part of a lecture on knowledge management in Karlsruhe
 * upcoming: 29C3
 * upcoming: Office hours
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * More pretty Wikidata artwork
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Want to help Lydia write the next weekly summary? Let her know.
 * Hack on one of these

Edit-a-thon tomorrow (Saturday) in Oakland
Hi, I hope you will be joining us tomorrow afternoon at the Edit-a-thon at Tech Liminal, in Oakland. We'll be working on articles relating to women and democracy (and anything else that interests you). It's sponsored by the California League of Women Voters, Tech Liminal, and me.

If this is the first you are hearing of this event, my apologies for the last-minute notice! I announced it on the San Francisco email list and by a banner on your watchlist, but I neglected to look at the San Francisco invitation list until this evening. If you can't make it this time, I hope to see you at a similar event soon! -Pete (talk) 04:48, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #37
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
 * Development
 * Deployed fix for 42956 on wikidata.org that caused problems when using the site in French in Firefox
 * Updated demo system
 * Fixed some bugs in wbsearchentities
 * Removed empty aliases structure from wbsearchentities
 * Heavy Selenium testing of statements UI
 * Improved overall usability and responsiveness of the statements UI
 * Implemented remove functionality for statements in the UI
 * Refactored and added tests for language links handler in the client
 * Bug fixes in the client
 * Improved SiteLinkTable class in WikibaseLib and added tests
 * Started work to improve AbuseFIlter integration
 * Added logic to find all referenced entities for a given set of claims
 * Added serialization of referenced claims to output of entity pages
 * Diff Extension: Split off diffing code from MapDiff and ListDiff to dedicated Differ classes
 * Diff Extension: Added dedicated patcher classes, which are used for the getApplicableDiff functionality
 * Discussions/Press
 * Representing values 1 2 (including a prototype to try out the current state of discussions)
 * "Wikidata: People And Bots Busy Filling The System In Phase One"
 * Events
 * Office hours (logs for English and German)
 * Wikidata talk as part of a lecture on knowledge management in Karlsruhe
 * upcoming: 29C3
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Announced the expected date for deployment on the Hungarian Wikipedia
 * Wikidata has been added to the Wikimedia stats site
 * Video of the Wikidata talks at Wikimania 2012 is online now
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Give input to the representing values discussion
 * Hack on one of these

Have a great holiday season!

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 13:51, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #38
''Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. It's rather short this time because pretty much everyone enjoys some well-deserved vacation.'' Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 19:47, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Development
 * Some of us unwrapped gifts (-:
 * Started working on supporting different kinds of Snaks in the user interface
 * Fixing support for PostgreSQL in core, which was broken with introduction of the sites stuff
 * Code reviewing of changes in MediaWiki core
 * Adding watchlist filter in client for Wikidata changes
 * Discussions/Press
 * Ranking of Items
 * Events
 * right now: 29C3
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Hack on one of these

Wikidata weekly summary #39
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 21:37, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Development
 * Updates for selenium testenvironments (browsers, ruby, selenium-tools)
 * Extended tests for statements user interface
 * Refactored snakview user interface to handle other property-snak types than PropertyValueSnak
 * Layout improvements in the user interface
 * Several minor bugfixes in the user interface
 * Updated Vagrant for Wikidata
 * More work on AbuseFilter
 * Deployed new version of Wikibase and MediaWiki core to wikidata.org and test2.wikipedia (bugfixes - all Wikibase changes here)
 * Fix for bug 43595 which was seen on Wednesday during attempted deployment of the wmf7 version of MediaWiki core. Thanks Marius!
 * Discussions/Press
 * Created prototypes for parsing coordinates and time in Wikidata that need feedback
 * Bureaucrat support requirements
 * Defining administrators
 * Events
 * 29C3
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * We’ve reached item ID 2.000.000
 * You can now enable the SitelinkCheck gadget in your preferences that makes it easier to check if a certain link is already in use in an existing item
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Give feedback on prototypes for parsing time and coordinates
 * Help translate the client extension (especially to Hungarian in light of the upcoming deployment)
 * Hack on one of these

Greetings from WikiProject Open Access
Hi Max, here's what I'm just posting to other members of the project, in case you'd like to chime in again.

it is now one year since WikiProject Open Access was started by User:Bluerasberry on January 10, 2012. Since then, the project has advanced modestly, but we have not interacted much. For the coming year, we certainly want to improve on that.

We also plan to overhaul the project pages to make them more conducive to collaboration, and we are pondering the idea of expanding the concept of a WikiProject Open Access to projects other than the English Wikipedia, e.g. to other languages or to Wikimedia Commons. You are warmly invited to add your voice to all that. We would also appreciate if you would share some of your OA-related activities by way of our news ticker or via the monthly Open Access report that is part of the GLAM newsletter (to which you can subscribe here), or as you see fit otherwise.

As a visual token of the anniversary, I am adding today's Open Access File of the Day. Feel free to nominate files yourself. As of today, commons:Category:Open access (publishing) contains more than 15,000 files, of which about 2/3 are video and sound files uploaded by the Open Access Media Importer.

Thanks for being part of the project, and looking forward to more interaction.

With a smile, -- Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 23:46, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #40
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <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; Global message delivery 16:23, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Development
 * Bene* developed a new tool to show existing or missing items for a given Wikipedia category
 * Selenium test-groups for (non)experimental features (43828)
 * Notification for IP edits that IP will be logged (42954)
 * Verified fix & added Selenium tests for broken error-reporting on label/description uniqueness constraint (43301)
 * Label-edit-button links to Special:SetLabel when JavaScript disabled (43814)
 * Updated PHP, MySQL, Ruby, Selenium, etc.. on internal test server and enabled APC + memcached
 * Work on AbuseFilter to make it work with Wikidata content (42064)
 * Implemented length constraint for labels, descriptions and aliases (configurable with a default of 2500 UTF8 characters)
 * Implementing a new mechanism for dispatching change notifications to client wikis
 * Worked more on how Wikidata changes are handled in the client watchlist (43124)
 * Some work went into using Solr for the search. Still very simple
 * Prepared improvements to our puppet files on labs
 * Worked on statements UI (snaktypes/references)
 * Fixed bugs in UI event handling of widgets
 * Put EntityId parsing code into a dedicated class
 * Finished EntityDiff cleanup
 * Discussions/Press
 * Reworked inclusion syntax completely 1 2
 * Updates to time and space model
 * Is there a need for bureaucrats?
 * Planned improvement to the search field
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Deployment on the Hungarian Wikipedia is still planned for Monday (Jan 14th)
 * Jens writes a bit about Wikidata’s mascots
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Give feedback on inclusion syntax draft version 3, the updated time and space model and the plans for improving the search field
 * Hack on one of these

Wikipedia Ambassadors update
Hi! You're getting this message because you are or have been a Wikipedia Ambassador. A new term is beginning for the United States and Canada Education Programs, and I wanted to give you an update on some important new information if you're interested in continuing your work this term as a Wikipedia Ambassador.

You may have heard a reference to a transition the education program is going through. This is the last term that the Wikimedia Foundation will directly run the U.S. and Canada programs; beginning in June, a proposed thematic organization is likely to take over organizing the program. You can read more about the proposal here.

Another major change in the program will take effect immediately. Beginning this term, a new MediaWiki education extension will replace all course pages and Ambassador lists. (See Course pages and Help:Education Program extension for more details.) Included in the extension are online volunteer and campus volunteer user rights, which let you create and edit course pages and sign up as an ambassador for a particular course.

If you would like to continue serving as a Wikipedia Ambassador — even if you do not support a class this term — you must create an ambassador profile. If you're no longer interested in being a Wikipedia Ambassador, you don't need to do anything.

First, you need the relevant user rights for Online and/or Campus Ambassadors. (If you are an admin, you can grant the rights yourself, for you as well as other ambassadors.) Just post your rights request here, and we'll get you set up as quickly as possible.
 * Please do these steps as soon as possible

Once you've got the ambassador rights, please set up at a Campus and/or Online Ambassador profile. You can do so at:
 * Special:CampusAmbassadorProfile
 * Special:OnlineAmbassadorProfile

Going forward, the lists of Ambassadors at Special:CampusAmbassadors and Special:OnlineAmbassadors will be the official roster of who is an active Ambassador. If you would like to be an Ambassador but not ready to serve this term, you can un-check the option in your profile to publicly list it (which will remove your profile from the list).

After that, you can sign on to support courses. The list of courses will be at Special:Courses. (By default, this lists "Current" courses, but you can change the Status filter to "Planned" to see courses for this term that haven't reached their listed start date yet.)

As this is the first term we have used the extension, we know there will be some bugs, and we know the feature set is not as rich as it could be. (A big wave of improvements is already in the pipeline. And if you know MediaWiki and could help with code review, we'd love to have your help!) Please reach out to me (Sage Ross) with any complaints, bug reports, and feature suggestions. The basic features of the extension are documented at Course pages, and you can see a tutorial for setting up and using them here.

In the past, the Education Program has had a pretty fragmented set of communication channels. We're trying to fix that. These are the recommended places to discuss and stay up-to-date on the education program:
 * Communication and keeping up to date
 * 1) The education noticeboard has become the main on-wiki location for discussion of the Education Program. You can post there about broad education program issues as well as issues with individual courses.
 * 2) The Ambassadors Announce email list is a very low-traffic announcements list of important information all Ambassadors need to be aware of. We encourage all Ambassadors (and other interested Wikipedians) to subscribe to the list; follow the instructions on the link to add your email address.
 * 3) If you use IRC regularly, or need to try to reach someone immediately, the  IRC channel is the place to find me and fellow Ambassadors.

We now have an online training for Ambassadors, which is intended to be both an orientation about the Wikipedia Ambassador role for newcomers and the manual for how to do the role. (There are parallel trainings for students and for educators as well.)
 * Ambassador training and resources

Please go through the training if you feel like you need a refresher on how a typical class is supposed to go and where the Ambassadors fit in, or if you want to review and help improve it. If there's something you'd like to see added, or other suggestions you have for it, feel free to edit the training and/or leave feedback. A primer on setting up and using course pages is included in the educators' training.

The Resources page of the training is the main place for Ambassador-related resources. If there's something you think is important as a resource that's not on there, please add it.

Finally, whether or not you work with any classes this term, I encourage you to post entries to the Trophy Case whenever you see excellent work from students or if you have great examples from past semesters. And, as always, let students (and other editors!) know when they do things well; a little WikiLove goes a long way!

--Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 20:43, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #41
<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="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; Global message delivery 15:53, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Development
 * We are live on the Hungarian Wikipedia \o/
 * We have an intern for a week, Marius aka User:Hoo man. He’ll be working on the wizard for linking a new Wikipedia article to an existing item or creating a new item for it if none exists yet. (the first two stories here)
 * Refactored sites code to improve design
 * Changed item datatype to use entityid as datavalue rather than string
 * Added lots of new Selenium tests
 * Changed AbuseFilter so Wikibase can hook into it
 * Implemented new change dispatcher script
 * ~=[,,_,,]:3
 * Working on combining successive changes to avoid watchlist clutter
 * Claims error handling (i.e. they now show error messages when needed)
 * Implemented initial version of Solr-based search for Wikidata in extension WikibaseSolr
 * Started investigating use of Lua/Scribunto for the Wikibase client
 * Updated the Wikidata Vagrant development machine
 * Improved the setup via puppet on Labs
 * Discussions/Press
 * Latest updates on time and coordinate datatypes
 * Schedule for the reconfirmation of the first round of admins
 * RFC on en:wp about the transition to language links from Wikidata
 * Signpost, among others, covers the deployment on the Hungarian Wikipedia
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Congrats to our sister Wikivoyage on their official launch
 * There’s now a manual for using the Pywikipediabot on Wikidata
 * Deployed new code on wikidata.org
 * Community Portal got a rework
 * Tried to drop www from Wikidata URLs but that was more difficult than expected. Sorry for the issues it caused. We're working on resolving the remaining ones.
 * Open Tasks for You
 * d:Wikidata:Press coverage needs some love and attention
 * Hack on one of these

Wikidata weekly summary #42
<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="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; Global message delivery 14:54, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Development
 * Updated demo system
 * Improved design of sites code in core
 * Fixed SQLite compatibility
 * Worked on implementing references handling in statements user interface
 * Useful error messages will be shown in statements user interface in case of data value mismatches
 * Switched the demo system to Labs’ puppet
 * Selenium tests for length constraint, claim edit-conflicts
 * Setting up dispatcher script on internal test machine
 * More work on wikibase.getEntities function for Scribunto/Lua-Templates
 * AbuseFilter is now working with Wikibase
 * The change dispatcher script is now ready for use on the WMF cluster
 * Initial implementation of parser function for the client
 * Created a widget for the client to connect a page to a Wikidata item and add interwiki language links to a page
 * Preparing a page to list unconnected pages on the clients
 * Discussions/Press
 * VIAF
 * Events
 * InfoLunch at Hasso-Plattner-Institut
 * Deutscher Sprachtechnologietag
 * upcoming: FOSDEM
 * upcoming: talk about MediaWiki groups
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Reconfirmation of temporary admins
 * Next deployment (Hebrew and Italian Wikipedia) still scheduled for 30th of January as planned
 * Planning for Wikimania in Hong Kong
 * Wikimedia data center move went rather smoothly
 * Request from the Bosnian Wikipedia community to be among the next to use Wikidata
 * Project about paid editing that might also become relevant for Wikidata at some point
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Hack on one of these

Wikidata weekly summary #43
<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="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; Global message delivery 13:23, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Development
 * Deployment on the Hebrew and Italian Wikipedia
 * Switched the Wikipedias over to a new, more scalable dispatching changes script for propagating changes from the repository to the clients
 * Fixing various deeply buried bugs and a few minor bugs reported after deployment
 * Preparations for next deployment on wikidata.org
 * Working on property parser function for the client
 * Implemented robust serialization of changes for dispatching
 * Resumed work on linked data interface
 * References can now be created, edited and removed on existing statements
 * Several minor user interface fixes
 * Styling of the user interface for statements
 * Selenium tests for references
 * Selenium tests for non-JS SpecialPages
 * Worked on puppet
 * Discussions/Press
 * Abuse filter guidelines
 * Policy on properties
 * First external tool for output in RDF: and
 * Running your own instance of Wikibase (for science!)
 * Events
 * We’ve set the date for the next office hours
 * upcoming: FOSDEM
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Admin reconfirmation is still ongoing
 * Deployment of first parts of phase 2 on wikidata.org are planned for February 4 and deployment on English Wikipedia for February 11. See this blog post for details and more dates.
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Test statements on the [demo system before the roll-out to wikidata.org on February 4
 * Hack on one of these

Related to VIAFbot
Hi, At en.wikipedia I have manually inserted and completed hundreds of authority control more than a hundred times, almost all during 2012 prior to operation of VIAFbot (~20% of our total!) and to provision of links from VIAF people pages to our biographies --I suppose, as I didn't notice links to us from VIAF.

Recently I did six more: those six biographies of Newbery Medal winners that did not include authority control information after operation of VIAFbot ( --called "VIAF missing" for short but not precisely that). I have wondered what is useful to do next but only today I visited User:VIAFbot and the blog "VIAFbot Debriefing; November 28th, 2012 by Max". Perhaps you can answer some remaining questions.

Reply on any point may be helpful. Thank you for your time.
 * 1) Is there a convenient way to enable interwiki links? I would follow those to DE.wikipedia and look around ("bad" VIAF ID, "bad" reciprocal interwiki?).
 * 2) Does User:VIAFbot/Stats cover a preliminary run only about one quarter of full size?
 * 3) All six of my so-called VIAF missing have VIAF pages (and LCCN and GND pages also, and now have complete AC templates in their EN biographies).
 * 4) Three (order 2,3,4 as listed) have good links from VIAF to EN so I anticipate identifying their "Case" numbers and perhaps helping in some way. Three have no links here from VIAF; none have bad links.
 * 5) The last two (5,6 as listed) have distinct VIAF ID linked to LCCN and GND. For what it's worth they both have WorldCat pages lacking adequate links to EN.wikipedia. Does VIAF/errors cover such "errors" of omission where no bad data was added to our biography and evidently there was no accidental match?
 * 6) In residence at OCLC, do you know a good way to report errors in WorldCat people pages? As for the last of my six as listed. WorldCat and VIAF pages both exist; our biography now provides valid ac data. But WorldCat links to a bad VIAF page and does not link here at all.

--P64 (talk) 21:20, 2 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks for all your contributions to VIAF before. Your early efforts were the reason we could find consensus to run VIAFbot. I'll try and respond point by point.


 * 1) Is your question can we generate an interwiki link between enwp page A with dewp page B because they both have VIAF ID C? That's possible, I'd never thought of doing it. It's simple enough to write, if you think there's consensus for such a bot.
 * 2) User:VIAFbot/Stats does just cover about the first quarter of the run. We tweaked the algorithm at that point and I didn't update the statistics after that. Do you think we should delete the page?
 * 3) Well done. Dilligent thorough work.
 * 4) If there were VIAF->ENWP links present, then there must have been some conflict with DEWP. Otherwise those present cases where the was some logic bug that I didn't catch.
 * 5) 'No bad data added' is not a error case that I anticipated for reporting.
 * 6) If you update the Wikipedia page the have the right AC, then VIAF has a high likely hood of automatically healing that reciprocation next time the VIAF clustering algorithm runs (every six months) because it scans Wikipedia for changes to the AC.

Hope that answers your questions. Maximilianklein (talk) 21:48, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply!
 * No, I am a beginner in this respect. I mean "enable" interwiki links in the sense of "Show hidden categories" . Presently I visit a page by interwiki link only manually: Open page; read code to find interwiki link or learn there is none; visit de.wikipedia; paste.
 * 1) VIAFbot/Stats may be instructive. I would insert a hatnote such as "This page was in use 2012 October XX to November 5". (I was confused by "will now be updated manually."
 * 2) In effect I have learned what is important, partly from your answer number 4.
 * 3) Thanks, this helps answer number 3. Here I have changed the subject to WorldCat. OCLC is the manager(?) of WorldCat so think you may know >how to report WorldCat errors . (LCCN i know.)
 * 4) Visit Virginia Sorensen at WorldCat, section Useful links. WorldCat gives a bad link to VIAF (and none to wikipedia). Our biography now has the good link to VIAF.
 * 5) After reading yesterday I understand that we humans and bots have not used WorldCat data to help link EN and VIAF. (Before reading carefully I had jumped from "OCLC" to supposing that your bot used WorldCat links.)
 * 6) (P.S.) Links provided on WorldCat people pages would help in some cases. For example, Avi at WorldCat, section Useful links, does link adequately both to our biography and to that VIAF file which I have now linked manually to our biography. --A robot might not have closed the case with these data, however, for DE.wikipedia links Avi to a different VIAF file (Avi Wortis, which I'll fix).
 * My original questions that remain open are at number 1 and 4 underscored . --P64 (talk) 00:21, 4 February 2013 (UTC)


 * 1. I'm not sure I know precisely what your question is? As far as I know, by default, if an interwikilink of language X exists in the wikitext then a link to that article in language X is rendered under the "Languages" section of the persistent Left sidebar.
 * 4. If you want to report errors about WorldCat Identities (which OCLC does manage) then, I'd use this form with 'activity' of 'Identities network'.
 * Maximilianklein (talk)


 * Max, At Wikipedia talk: Authority control, today I reported some progress since last year in merging "Multiple VIAFs" for people whose biographies I worked on last year: more than 10 Multiples out of almost 100 people among "hundreds" that I mentioned in the first paragraph above.
 * All of those 10 to 15 have been merged. I checked them only this week and not since last summer. As far as I know the progress may have been effected partly by VIAFbot itself, if its run last October collected data on LCCN and GND id that were already in place.--P64 (talk) 20:55, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Well done. All your work really helps make VIAF more accurate, it's really nice to see some people caring about the data. You might be interested in this wikidata database report on VIAF uniqueness. Maximilianklein (talk) 15:12, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #44
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 * Development
 * Deployment of the first parts of phase 2 (infoboxes/statements) on wikidata.org done - see it live for example here, here and here
 * Diffs for statement edits can now be shown
 * Started work on query definitions
 * Edit links are now disabled in the interface when the user does not have the rights to edit
 * Edit links are now hidden when viewing old revision
 * Worked on search field for WikibaseSolr
 * More work on Lua templates for Wikibase entities
 * Worked on bugfixes in the statement user interface
 * New features in the statement user interface (references counter/heading)
 * JavaScript editing for table showing labels and description of the same item in different languages
 * Repaired and updated the demo system
 * Resumed work on Linked Data interface
 * Support for enhanced recent changes format in client
 * There are automatic comments for statement edits as well in the history now
 * Special page for unconnected pages, that is pages on the client that are not connected to items on the repository
 * Added permission checks for statements, so a user that can not edit will not be able to edit or that only a group can be allowed to do some changes like creating statements
 * Discussions/Press
 * Signpost
 * Lots of discussions about the usage details and policies of phase 2 on d:Wikidata:Project chat
 * Events
 * FOSDEM
 * upcoming: office hour (English; German later)
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Deployment of phase 1 (language links) on the English language Wikipedia is still planned for Monday late evening UTC (pending a performance review)
 * List of existing properties and their usage
 * List of new proposed properties
 * Open Tasks for You
 * d:User:PinkAmpersand is looking for someone to write a script that once someone has been made an autopatroller, retroactively patrols all of their prior edits
 * d:Wikidata:Press coverage could use some love and care
 * Hack on one of these

Wikidata weekly summary #45
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 * Development
 * Deployment to English Wikipedia
 * Fix various minor bugs in client, including watchlist toggle with preference to default to always show Wikidata edits
 * Added the new Baso Minangkabau Wikipedia (min)
 * Fixed wrong revision of statements being shown in diff and old revision view
 * Diff visualization for claims (simple version for main snak)
 * Diff visualization for claims (extended version for references, qualifiers, ranks)
 * Tooltip that notifies about the license your contributions will be covered by while editing (can be disabled by each user)
 * Started with valueview refactoring
 * Started with user interface handling of deleted properties
 * Started with refactoring of local partial entity lookup
 * Started with refactoring of toolbar usage in jQuery.wikibase view widgets
 * Finished improvement on jQuery.wikibase.claimview’s edit mode handling
 * Improved search by using entity selector in search field instead of normal MediaWiki search field
 * More work on Lua-based templates for entities
 * Specified the capabilities of the query language we need
 * Created query object
 * Proper bot-flagging of edits (44857)
 * Use of ID to directly address an item or property
 * Search should give more of the complete matches now
 * Special:ItemByTitle should work for canonical namespaces and later on for local namespaces
 * More robust format for notifications of changes on the repository to the client
 * Started work on refactoring API and autocomments code
 * Started to maintain documentation of configuration options in git
 * Discussions/Press
 * List of currently existing properties
 * Proposals for new properties
 * Events
 * Upcoming: Wikipedia Day NYC
 * Upcoming: office hour in English tomorrow
 * Note: changed day of next German office hour to March 8
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * We have a time scheduled when Wikidata will be read-only for a database migration. The window for that is Feb 20 19:00 to Feb 21 2:00 UTC.
 * New features and bugfixes on Wikidata are planned to be deployed on Monday (Feb 18). This should among other things include:
 * Showing useful diffs for edits of claims (they’re currently empty)
 * Automatic comments for editing of claims (there are currently none)
 * Ability to add items to claims by their ID
 * Better handling of deleted properties
 * More results in the entity selector (that’s the thing that lets you select properties, items and so on) so you can add everything and not just the first few matches that are shown
 * We’re still working on the issue that sometimes editing of certain parts of items or properties isn’t possible. If you’re running into it try to reload the page and/or change the URL to the www. version or the non-www. version respectively.
 * Deployment on all other Wikipedias is currently planned for March 6 (a note to the Village Pumps of all affected projects will follow soon)
 * Check out a well-done item
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Help expand en:Wikipedia:Wikidata
 * Help expand and translate Wikidata/Deployment Questions
 * Hack on one these

Wikidata weekly summary #46
<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.
 * Development
 * Deployed new features and bugfixes including diffs for statements and the ability to enter items and properties by their ID
 * Updated demo system
 * Database maintainance (Wikidata was in read-only mode for a bit)
 * Implemented first version of a string data type
 * Worked on better error reporting from the API
 * Ported Lua function mw.wikibase.getEntity to Wikibase extension
 * Worked on making the search box suggest items and properties while typing
 * Improved the behaviour of the entity selector (thingy that lets you select items and entities)
 * Improved debugging experience in JavaScript when dealing with prototypical inheritance
 * Worked on cleanup of local entity store
 * Generalized generation of localizable edit summaries
 * Discussions/Press
 * Wikidata development will continue in 2013
 * Wikidata Phase 2 in Full Swing
 * RFC about the Wikidata API
 * Lots of discussions about certain properties and how they should be used. Current state is at d:Wikidata:List of properties and new ones are being discussed at [d:Wikidata:Property proposal]]
 * RCF about amending the global bot policy for Wikidata
 * Proposed changes to Wikidata’s notability guidelines
 * Events
 * office hour including a report on the current status of Wikidata (log)
 * upcoming: Wikipedia Day NYC
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Deployment of phase 1 (language links) on all remaining Wikipedias and a small update on Wikidata are planned for March 6
 * Great page for editors to learn about what phase 1 means for them
 * Cool tool visualizing family relations based on data in Wikidata
 * “Restricting the World” (first in a series about some design decisions behind Wikidata)
 * List of most used properties
 * OmegaWiki is using Wikidata to get links to Wikipedia articles
 * Nyan Nyan Wikidata Nyan Nyan
 * We’ve hit Q5000000
 * Had a look at d:Wikidata:Tools lately?
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Hack on one of these
 * Help translate Wikidata/Deployment Questions
 * Help bring the content of en:Wikipedia:Wikidata to your Wikipedia

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Wikidata weekly summary #47
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 * Development
 * Extended diff view to include references now
 * Fixed bug where incorrect statements revision was shown in diff view
 * Added first version of Linked Data interface (RDF/XML); will be accessible from Special:EntityData
 * Updated the demo system
 * More work towards using Solr for our search
 * More investigation and fixes of search issues
 * Fixed several bugs in the entity selector and improved its behavior
 * Worked on refactoring of how our widgets use the toolbar
 * Worked on implementation of missing data model components in JavaScript
 * A lot of bug fixing
 * Events
 * Wikipedia Day NYC
 * upcoming: Wikimedia metrics and activities meeting
 * upcoming: office hour (German)
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Rollout of phase 1 (language links) on all remaining Wikipedias is still planned for March 6
 * Next update on wikidata.org is also planned for March 6. This will have bugfixes and if all goes well string as a new available data type.
 * Proposal was made to the Hungarian, Hebrew and Italian Wikipedias to be the first batch to use phase 2 of Wikidata (infoboxes). Scheduled timeframe for this is end of March
 * d:Wikidata:Database reports has some useful reports like the list of most used properties
 * The interwiki shortcut :d was changed to always use www in the resulting link (to prevent editing issues on other URLs).
 * The list of available properties is growing and a whole bunch of new ones are being discussed
 * Reasonator gives you a nice adapted view of an item about a person
 * Items by cat helps you find missing items in a certain Wikipedia category
 * A few more additions to d:Wikidata:Tools that you should have a look at if you’re editing statements
 * We now have more than 2600 active users on Wikidata. Thanks for being awesome. <3
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Help bring the content of en:Wikipedia:Wikidata to the remaining Wikipedias that will get phase 1 on March 6
 * Hack on one of these

Wikidata weekly summary #48
<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="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; Global message delivery 18:50, 8 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Development
 * More work on widget to add language links on the Wikipedias directly without having to go to Wikidata
 * Bug fixes for Wikipedias, including:
 * don't show edit link when noexternallanglinks magic word suppresses Wikidata links (45037)
 * use Q## links instead of linking to Special:ItemByTitle for “edit links” link (44536)
 * preference for showing Wikidata edits by default in watchlist (44973)
 * Catching up on writing tests for untested functionality
 * More work on the Lua support for accessing data from the repository (wikidata.org) on the Wikipedias
 * Updated Wikidata’s Vagrant development machine
 * Created initial QueryStore interface
 * Created initial setup code for the SQL QueryStore
 * Discussed and created initial schema for the SQL QueryStore
 * Simplified code for client settings, including which namespaces can have Wikidata links. The default is now all namespaces, without needing to explicitly specify them in the settings
 * Improved code for sorting interwiki links in the clients, with step towards allowing the communities to specify custom sort orders per Wikipedia
 * Improved handling of deleted properties
 * Further work on replacement for current search box
 * More work on improving error reporting and edit summaries in the API
 * Tim and Aaron killed the mystery bug that caused corrupt login tokens (41586)
 * Discussions/Press
 * Hacker News noticed we exist
 * RFC about opting out of global sysops or not (more RFCs d:Wikidata:Requests for comment)
 * Asked the Italian, Hebrew and Hungarian Wikipedias if they want to be the first to use phase 2 (will ask a few more to join the first batch later today)
 * Events
 * WMF Metrics and Activities meeting (recording is linked there)
 * office hour in German
 * upcoming: Bibliothek & Information
 * upcoming: Wikidata trifft Achäologie
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * We’re now live on all Wikipedias with phase 1 \o/
 * Deployed bugfixes and a new data type (string) to wikidata.org
 * How will Wikidata impact Wikipedia?
 * More useful database reports (more are being requested on the discussion page)
 * Quite a few new properties that make use of the new string data type now and more are being proposed
 * Lukas wants to work with us to improve usability
 * New user scripts at d:Wikidata:Tools
 * Did you know?
 * Is a specific bug report really important to you? If you have an account on bugs.wikimedia.org you can easily add yourself to the CC list of the bug and then receive updates about its status via email
 * Wikidata is also on Twitter, identi.ca, Facebook and Google+
 * There is an IRC channel too: #wikimedia-wikidata on freenode
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Hack on one of these
 * Continue being awesome

Request for Template:Authority control on article
Can Maximilianklein please manually add the Template:Authority control in the Wikipedia article Bruce Djite. – Boranel (talk) 06:39, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately Bruce doesn't have any authority control about him because he has not been the subject of any cataloged publications yet. This is a fundamental problem with authority control. Maybe he'll eventually get an ISNI. Maximilianklein (talk) 17:44, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #49
<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="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; Global message delivery 18:37, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Development
 * Design improvements to the SetClaim API module
 * More work on implementing the simple inclusion syntax that will be 1 way to access Wikidata data on Wikipedia
 * More work on Lua (the second way to access Wikidata data on Wikipedia)
 * Added parser page property to hold entity id in client. This fixes:
 * 45037 - don’t show edit link if noexternallanglinks has suppressed all Wikidata links
 * 44536 - have the edit link go directly to the Q### pages, instead of Special:ItemByTitle which shall make the link be more reliable and work for all namespaces
 * Selenium tests for deleted-property-handling
 * Selenium tests for multiline references
 * Selenium tests for add-sitelinks-from-client
 * Selenium tests for Entity-Selector-as-Searchbox
 * Selenium tests for language-table
 * Implemented in-process caching for entities
 * Lua support to access the repo data and implement getEntity (so you can use stuff like entity = mw.wikibase.getEntity("Q1459") in Lua modules)
 * rebuildTermSearchKey is now ready for production (this still needs to be run but once done it will make search case-insensitive)
 * Improved error reports from the API
 * Ground work for better edit summaries from the API
 * Added a table of content to item pages
 * Added debug functionality to be able to investigate why it takes longer than it should for Wikidata changes to show up on recent changes and watchlists on Wikipedia
 * Finished implementation of References-UI
 * Implemented GUID generator in JavaScript
 * Worked on fixing a bug related to deleted properties where the UI would display wrong information
 * Minor fixes/additions to the JS datamodel implementation
 * Minor bugfixes in Statements-UI
 * More work on RDF export
 * Discussions/Press
 * When to autoconfirm users
 * More property proposals
 * Events
 * Bibliothek und Information
 * 3rd Media Web Symposium
 * upcoming: Wikidata trifft Archäologie
 * upcoming: SMWCon
 * Log of latest office hour on IRC (in German)
 * We’ll be at the Amsterdam Hackathon
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New features/bugfixes on wikidata.org are planned for March 20
 * Lua roll-out! You’ll be able to use it soon to access Wikidata data on Wikipedia. Here's two introductory blogposts:
 * The new pope didn’t go unnoticed on Wikidata either
 * Someone sent the dev team a cake! <3
 * Want an easy way to add authority control data? Check this
 * We crossed item ID 7000000
 * We now have over 4000 active editors \o/
 * Some more stats based on a database dump from end of February
 * Reasonator got a few more goodies
 * Did you know?
 * If you add a Babel box to your user page Wikidata will show you items and descriptions in other languages you speak as well without you having to switch the language
 * Want to know which items use a certain property? Try the “what links here” link on a property page
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Help translate Wikidata/Deployment Questions
 * Hack on one of these

Wikidata weekly summary #50
<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="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; Global message delivery 00:20, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Development
 * Rolled out new code on wikidata.org. The new stuff you probably care about is:
 * Improved references. They can now have multiple lines. This should make references much more useful. You can now have one reference with for example values for each of the properties "book", "author", "page" to describe one source.
 * Fixed the prev/next links in diff view (45821)
 * d:Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel now lets you filter by language and entity type
 * Widget to add language links on the Wikipedias directly: added setting to enable/disable it per wiki and made it available for logged-in users only
 * Widget to add language links on the Wikipedias directly: improved layout / size
 * Made it so that the “edit links” link on Wikipedia is also shown when the corresponding item only has a link to this one language and no other languages
 * Submitted improved Apache config patch to make wikidata.org always redirect to www.wikidata.org, which is awaiting code review and deployment.
 * Improved the script that is responsible for taking Wikidata changes to the Wikipedias
 * Added a few ways to better debug the script responsible for taking Wikidata changes to the Wikipedias. This should help with investigating why some changes take way to long to show up on the Wikipedias.
 * Started work on automatically adding edited items to the user’s watchlist (according to preferences)
 * Finished script for rebuilding search keys, so we can finally get case insensitive matches in a lot of places
 * Support for multi-line references in diff view
 * Selenium tests for inclusion syntax
 * Improved parser function (that will be used to access Wikidata data on the Wikipedias) to accept property ID or label
 * Increased isolation of data model component to increase clarity and visibility of bad dependencies
 * Worked on schema access in the SQLStore (of the query component)
 * Discussions/Press
 * Denny had a look at some data about Wikidata
 * Events
 * 3rd Media Web Symposium 2013
 * Wikidata trifft Archäologie
 * SMWCon Spring NYC
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Join us for the Amsterdam and Wikimania hackathon and Wikimania
 * Too many items with the same label and no description? Terminator helps you hunt them all down and clean them up. Also check out the top 1000
 * Interested in the distribution of books by genre on Wikidata and similar things? WikidataStats can help
 * d:Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot needs input from more people
 * Detailed list of bots
 * Collecting information about creating a bot
 * We’ve crossed Q8000000
 * Did you know?
 * When you edit a statement there is a little wheel in front of the text field. This lets you choose between “custom value”, “unknown value” and “no value”. “No value” means that we know that the given property has no value, e.g. Elizabeth I of England had no spouse. “Unknown value” means that the property has a value, but it is unknown which one -- e.g. Pope Linus most certainly had a year of birth, but it is unknown to us.
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Hack on one of these
 * Still looking for the right way to contribute for you? Have a look at d:Wikidata:Contribute

Wikidata weekly summary #51
<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.
 * Development
 * The first 11 Wikipedias can now include data from Wikidata in their articles (If you want to see it in action see the infobox at it:Torino)
 * Worked on automatic summaries for statements
 * Worked on making properties accessible from the client using their label so you can use instead of  for example
 * Made qualifiers ready for the next deployment (Please test. See details further down.)
 * Selenium tests for qualifiers
 * Fixed some issues related to QUnit testing
 * Worked on improved handling and code design of multiple snak lists in the UI (qualifiers, references)
 * Discussions/Press
 * Denny wrote down how we’re planning to support queries on Wikidata. Feedback welcome.
 * Proposal for a vandalism policy
 * Now that improvements for references have been deployed here’s a discussion on the best way to use them. (You can see an example of how it could be used in the source for “CAS registry number” on Q153)
 * Should Wikidata have featured items?
 * RFC about restricting the ability to create properties to some users
 * Heise.de reporting about deployment of phase 2 on the first 11 Wikipedias
 * Report about a collaboration event between Wikipedians and archeologists
 * Events
 * Newline 2013
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * We’re currently carefully monitoring performance after the deployment of phase 2 on the first 11 Wikipedias. There seem to be a few small issues. As soon as they are resolved we'll deploy on English Wikipedia. All other Wikipedias are planned to follow very soon after that.
 * Bye and a big thank you to Anja, Silke, Jens and John who are leaving the development team at the end of the month and will work on other cool things. You’ll be missed!
 * Ever had any doubt about the possibilities of Wikidata? Talk to Wiri!
 * We worked on reducing the time it takes for Wikidata edits to show up in the Wikipedias and made some progress. Daniel posted an analysis
 * We started running a script on the database in order to make search on Wikidata case-insensitive. This should be finished in a few days and then search should be more useful.
 * In addition to the above we have rolled out a new search box that suggests items. This should also make finding things on Wikidata a lot easier for you.
 * We’re making some progress with Internet Explorer 8 support but there are a lot of issues with it (some outside our control). It’s unclear at the moment how much we can improve it still without spending an unjustified amount of time on it. You can follow the progress at 44228
 * Edits are now auto-confirmed for users with more than 50 edits and account age 4 days: 46461
 * Do you need old-style interwiki links for a sister project for example? This is for you
 * The Wikimedia Foundation applied as a mentoring organisation for Google Summer of Code again. We have proposed some Wikidata projects for students to take up if the Foundation is accepted again. At least 2 other organisations that applied also propose Wikidata ideas. More details on that once we know which organisations are accepted.
 * Denny hacked together a tree of life based on data from Wikidata
 * Wikidata was added to wikipulse
 * A template to retrieve data from Wikidata if no local value is set
 * Did you know?
 * If you need to merge two items d:Help:Merge explains how
 * Open Tasks for You
 * See note at the end of this weekly summary
 * Help test qualifiers (Wikidata/Notes/Data model primer - see also example statements there) on the test wiki so we can roll it out with the next release
 * Did you file a bug report for Wikidata or did someone else do it for you? Please take a minute to check if it is still valid. (Thanks for filing it btw!)
 * Add some missing descriptions to those items with the same label?
 * Hack on one of these

Could I have 2 mins of your time? As I’ll be working on some other projects for Wikimedia Germany as well from now on the time I can spend on Wikidata will be reduced. This means I’ll have to figure out what is useful to spend time on. If you’re reading this could you let me know for example on this discussion page? Also if you have ideas how to improve the weekly summaries please post them. --Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) (talk) <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; Global message delivery 20:37, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #52
<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.
 * Development
 * The first year is over. Thank you everyone for being amazing and helping to build Wikidata and making it more than we could possibly have hoped for already. <3
 * Put a lot of work into improved support for Internet Explorer 8
 * Worked on improving recent changes code in client
 * Finished valueview refactoring. Created new extension “ValueView”
 * Implemented string formatter
 * Discussions/Press
 * RFC for defining the bureaucrats role on Wikidata
 * RFC about statements for items related to software
 * Events
 * upcoming: GLAM-Wiki 2013
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Deployment of phase 2 on English Wikipedia is currently planned for April 8. The remaining Wikipedias are scheduled for April 10. As usual this might change if we run into problems along the way.
 * There is now a page showing the current lag for changes propagating to the Wikipedias so they can show up in watchlists and recent changes for example. This should ideally be in the range of a few minutes. Right now it is higher because of some abnormally high bot activity but decreasing. Should be down to a few minutes soon.
 * There’s now a badge you can add to Wikipedia articles to indicate there is data about it on Wikidata
 * We hit Q10000000
 * A Wikidata item in the wild ;-)
 * Did you know?
 * There are a number of task forces that take care of specific jobs or topics on Wikidata
 * You can get database dumps to play with
 * There are a lot of stats about Wikidata on http://stats.wikimedia.org
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Hit a random item and add a missing source?
 * Hack on one of these

Based on feedback for last week’s call for comments we will continue this newsletter. However more community help will be needed. From now on they’ll be drafted at d:Wikidata:Status updates/Next and your help is very welcome. <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; Global message delivery 02:30, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

GLAM activities in the USA in March 2013
Hello Maximilianklein, You have written before for the newsletter This Month in GLAM. I see the USA is missing regarding the edition about March 2013, do you perhaps have any idea what GLAM activities were done in the USA in March? Can you perhaps write about those? Or do you know who I can ask to write about it? Thanks! (Deadline of the March edition is Monday 8 April.) You can start writing via the page GLAM/Newsletter/Newsroom. If you wish to be informed by e-mail next time, please write me at this page. You can reach me the best at nl-wiki talk page. Greetings - Romaine (talk) 02:23, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #53
<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.
 * Development
 * Got some external professional review of our code and architecture and started working on their feedback
 * Worked on reducing the dispatch lag (the time it takes for changes on Wikidata to be sent to the Wikipedias for display in watchlist, recent changes and to purge affected pages)
 * Worked on using Redis for job queue to improve the lag situation even further
 * Created new Wikibase Query extension for phase 3 functionality
 * Autocomments & Autosummaries for SetClaim module
 * Worked on the GeoCoordinate parser
 * Events/Press
 * right now: GLAM-WIKI 2013
 * Discussions
 * The RFC about bureaucrats was closed
 * RfC about policy for translation admins
 * We need feedback from contributors working on references addition or having tried to add references to statements. Please comment about your problems or your trials at d:Help:Sources
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Deployment of phase 2 on the remaining Wikipedias was delayed because of a high lag of changes being propagated to the Wikipedias. The lag has been reduced considerably now and is going down even more. The new date for deployment will not be next week because there are other large changes on Wikimedia infrastructure scheduled that we do not want to interfere with. It will hopefully happen very soon after that though.
 * Next code update on wikidata.org is planned for Wednesday. This should include qualifiers and bugfixes.
 * There will probably be a short outage/read-only for wikidata.org on Tuesday (database is being switched to MariaDB)
 * If you're a student and interested in coding on Wikidata consider applying for Google Summer of Code.
 * There is a new user right: property creators
 * There is now a page to request deletion of a property
 * We now have Bureaucrats
 * Reasonator was improved and extended (1 2)
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Hack on one of these
 * Help draft the next weekly summary

Based on feedback for last week’s call for comments we will continue this newsletter. However more community help will be needed. From now on they’ll be drafted at d:Wikidata:Status updates/Next and your help is very welcome. <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; Global message delivery 23:27, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #54
<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="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; Global message delivery 22:51, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Development
 * Dispatch lag is now down to 0 so changes should show up very quickly on the Wikipedias in watchlists and recent changes
 * wikidata.org now always redirects to www.wikidata.org. This should among other things solve the issue where people were not able to edit when on wikidata.org (45005)
 * Fixed weird blocked-user/protected-page handling in UI (45140)
 * Final meetings for the external professional review of our code and architecture. They were quite happy with the quality of the codebase and gave useful tips for improvements
 * Worked on automatic summaries for editing claims
 * Investigation of different JavaScript frameworks dealing with date and time
 * Worked on using Redis and the job queue for change notifications to clients
 * Work on the storage code for answering queries
 * Events/Press
 * GLAM-WIKI 2013
 * upcoming: office hour on IRC about sources
 * upcoming: Opensource Treffen
 * upcoming: intro to Wikidata at the British Library
 * Discussions
 * RfC about references and sources
 * RfC about local oversighters
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Deployment of phase 2 (infoboxes) on English Wikipedia is planned for April 22. All remaining Wikipedias are planned for April 24.
 * Qualifiers are available now. In the same update several bugs have been fixed mainly related to Internet Explorer 8. At the same time search has been made case-insensitive. More details here.
 * d:Wikidata:Notability has been completely rewritten
 * Cool task force page: d:Wikidata:Video games task force
 * List of Wikipedia articles that still have language links in the wiki text
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Hack on one of these

Wikidata weekly summary #55
<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="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; Global message delivery 21:52, 26 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Development
 * Started working on support for the Time data type in the frontend (editing/displaying of time values)
 * Fixed copyright tooltip’s issues where it was not possible to dismiss it
 * Started work for making it possible to track where on the client a property is used
 * Work on dispatching changes to Wikipedias via the redis job queue
 * Introducing core hooks to allow us to avoid page re-rendering when language links are changed
 * Implemented automatic comments for setClaim (adding/setting claim, adding/removing/changing qualifiers)
 * Investigated issue where edit conflicts are detected in error
 * Fixed wrong revision shown in history-view
 * Events/Press
 * A lot of articles about the deployment of phase 2 on all Wikipedias among them: Wikipedia-Datenfundus Wikidata geht in den Regelbetrieb, Wikidata goes live worldwide, Wikidata-revolutionen är här: Möjliggör strukturerade data på Wikipedia
 * Wikimedia switching to MariaDB in c'T (German): Wikipedia wechselt von MySQL auf MariaDB
 * Office hour about references (log)
 * Introduction to Wikidata - talk at the British Library
 * OpensourceTreffen in Munich
 * Upcoming: Hypertext 2013
 * Discussions
 * RfC about vandalism
 * RfP for oversighters
 * RfC about interproject links interface
 * RfC about inactive administrators
 * RfC about permissions for rollbackers regarding vandalism
 * RfC about Kinship
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Phase 2 has been deployed on English Wikipedia and all remaining ones
 * Deployed a widget that makes it easier to add language links when there is only one language link on Wikidata so far
 * Page to collect information about phase 2 on the Wikipedias
 * Page edits have passed 31 million.
 * d:Help:Shortcut lists shortcuts for frequently used pages
 * Nice interaction of local data and data from Wikidata on English Wikipedias
 * Did you know?
 * Item Q12000000 is is the Czech Wiki entry about "Výškové horolezectví" or "high altitude climbing"
 * Newest properties are: occupant, color (hex triplet), NOR, member of, color (item), opposite of, said to be the same as, IMO ship number, foundational text, Emporis ID, Structurae ID, industry, cohabitant, astronaut's missions, original network, launch site
 * Newest qualifiers are: determination method, role
 * Properties merged: sister and brother (discussion)
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Hack on one of these
 * Translate the Table of properties into your language
 * Review a proposal for a qualifier property
 * Respond to a "Request for Comment"
 * If fixing a particular bug is especially important for you then please consider voting for it in Bugzilla to help the development team prioritize. A list of all of the currently open ones is here.

Wiknic 2013
"Wiknic 2013 Sunday, June 23rd · 12:34pm · Lake Merritt, Oakland Theme: Hyperlocal list-making" This year's 2013 SF Wiknik will be held at Lake Merritt, next to Children's Fairyland in Oakland. This event will be co-attended by people from the hyperlocal Oakland Wiki. May crosspollination of ideas and merriment abound!

Location and Directions

 * Location: The grassy area due south of Children's Fairyland (here) (Oakland Wiki)
 * Nearest BART: 19th Street
 * Nearest bus lines: NL/12/72
 * Street parking abounds

EdwardsBot (talk) 04:42, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #56
<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="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; Global message delivery 05:02, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Development
 * Worked with students on their Google Summer of Code proposals
 * Worked on time data type editing in the frontend
 * Worked on improving the DataTypes system
 * Working on better Continuous Integration strategy
 * Moving Selenium tests to Cloudbees & Saucelabs
 * Catching up with Selenium tests
 * Events/Press
 * Hypertext 2013
 * upcoming: Treffen der Redaktion Chemie
 * Discussions
 * RFC to enable the "flood flag"
 * RFC about "labels in uncommon language variants"
 * RFC to create "Items for Wikimedia projects besides Wikipedia"
 * 7 users requesting access to the oversight permission
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Bugfixes were deployed on wikidata.org. The ones you probably care about are:
 * when clicking "edit links" on a Wikipedia article the user is automatically taken to the language links part of the item. Hopefully it is now more obvious how to change the links.
 * fixed a few cases where edit conflicts where detected in error
 * added automatic edit summaries for adding qualifiers and claims
 * fixed wrong revision being shown in div history
 * Translators can now sign up to receive translation notifications at d:Special:TranslatorSignup
 * Visual query interface for Wikidata
 * 3 Wikimania submissions that could use your vote at the bottom: State of Wikidata, The Technology Behind Wikidata, Ask Us Anything About Wikidata
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Recorded at (studio), Supporting actor/actress, Palissy identifier, Filmaffinity number, input device, Volume (collections), Historic Places identifier, CELEX number, country calling code, local dialing code, eight banner register, lakes on river, dan/kyu rank, legislated by
 * Newest task forces: Pokémon task force, Cultural heritage task force, Space task force
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Review a proposal for a qualifier or property
 * Respond to a "Request for Comment"
 * Hack on one of these

May 3 2013, 19-20h UTC, GLAMout Google Hangout Link Location is GLAM/GLAMout
Hello, You signed up to participate or view in this month's GLAMout. We'll be using Google Hangout, but unfortunately the link to the Hangout won't be available, until 15 minutes beforehand. We'll post the link as soon as possible at GLAM/GLAMout

Time: 12pm-1pm Pacific Time (3pm-4pm ET | 19-20h UTC) Coordinator: Merrilee Proffitt, OCLC Anchor topic: VIAFbot and authority control in EN:WP, and on Wikidata.

EdwardsBot (talk) 05:06, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM in April in the USA
Hello Maximilianklein, You have written before for the newsletter This Month in GLAM. I see the USA report is only a very short story in the edition about April 2013, do you perhaps have any idea what GLAM activities were done in the USA in April? Can you perhaps write about those? Or do you know who I can ask to write about it? Thanks! (Deadline of the April edition is 8 May.) You can start writing at the page GLAM/Newsletter/Newsroom. If you wish to be informed by e-mail next time, please write me at this page. You can reach me the best at nl-wiki talk page. Greetings - Romaine (talk) 08:55, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: April 2013
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Wikidata weekly summary #57
<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="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; Global message delivery 15:27, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Development
 * Implemented basic editing of Time values
 * Worked on advanced editing of Time values (having a preview, defining precision and calendar model while editing the value)
 * Work on RDF mapping/export
 * ~=[,,_,,]:3
 * Solving issues with WMF Jenkins
 * Migrating Selenium test from RSpec to Cucumber
 * Events/Press
 * Interview on dradio.de
 * PHP Unconference Europe 2013
 * PHP Days 1013 Berlin
 * Treffen der Redaktion Chemie
 * Discussions
 * RfC: Bureaucrats' role in removal of permissions
 * RfC: Disambiguation pages guidelines
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Blog post by Magnus Manske about the Wikidata tool ecosystem
 * New mailing list for discussion of development of Wikidata
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: ISO 4217, CBDB ID, ORCID, country of origin, ICD-10, ICD-9, OMIM ID, orbit diagram, provisional designation (astronomy), currency symbol description, chairperson, Unicode character, MeSH ID, archives at, IMA Number
 * Newest task forces: Baseball
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Review a proposal for a qualifier or property
 * Respond to a "Request for Comment"
 * Hack on one of these

You're invited...
to two upcoming Bay Area events:
 * Maker Faire 2013, Sat/Sun May 18-19, San Mateo -- there will have a booth about Wikimedia, and we need volunteers to talk to the public and ideas for the booth -- see the wiki page to sign up!
 * Edit-a-Thon 5, Sat May 25, 10-2pm, WMF offices in San Francisco -- this will be a casual edit-a-thon open to both experienced and new editors alike! Please sign up if on the wiki page if you can make it so we know how much food to get.

I hope you can join us at one or both! -- phoebe / (talk to me) 01:06, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

You're invited...
to two upcoming Bay Area events:
 * Maker Faire 2013, Sat/Sun May 18-19, San Mateo -- there will have a booth about Wikimedia, and we need volunteers to talk to the public and ideas for the booth -- see the wiki page to sign up!
 * Edit-a-Thon 5, Sat May 25, 10-2pm, WMF offices in San Francisco -- this will be a casual edit-a-thon open to both experienced and new editors alike! Please sign up if on the wiki page if you can make it so we know how much food to get.

I hope you can join us at one or both! -- phoebe / (talk to me) 17:17, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #58
<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="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; Global message delivery 22:22, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * What should be done with the property stable Version?
 * Sex Ratios in Wikidata, Wikipedias, and VIAF
 * The Ropebridges: Authority Control in Wikidata
 * Events/Press
 * A lot of Wikidata-related submissions have been accepted for Wikimania
 * Treffen der Redaktion Chemie
 * upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Amsterdam
 * upcoming: Linked Data in Business
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * d:Help:Lua is now the place for all things Lua on Wikidata
 * Item Q13000000 is Devarakonda, a village in India.
 * The geographic relation "exclave of" is the property with the ID 500.
 * English Wikipedia discussion closes allowing for use of Wikidata
 * Template to display a tree based in Wikidata data
 * Deployed new bugfixes on wikidata.org including a fix for pages not being added to the watchlist automatically plus the first version of the RDF exort
 * The ability to include data using the property label is planned to be deployed on English Wikipedia on Monday and all others on Wednesday (You can then for example use in addition to  .)
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: exclave of, enclave within, HURDAT identifier, ISO standard, home port, general manager, ISO 15924, Swedish county code, BNFC Thesaurus, cause of death, brother-in-law (sister's husband), honorific prefix, academic degree, birth name, interleaves with, state, phase, powerplant, interaction, part concerned, armament, scheduled service destination, type of orbit, temporal range start, temporal range end, Swedish municipality code, located on island, consists of
 * can be used on Wikidata to get the label of the given property (P123) in the readers language. does the same for items.
 * Development
 * Simplified the inclusion syntax (this is one way how you access data from Wikidata in a Wikipedia article - the other one is via Lua)
 * Result of the external codebase review has been published
 * Worked on implementation of editable time values in frontend
 * Selenium tests for false edit-conflicts and old-revision-view
 * Jenkins setup improvements
 * Made many improvements to the unit test configuration and bootstrapping code in Ask, Diff, DataValues, WikibaseQueryEngine and WikibaseDatabase
 * Automatic class loading based on PSR-0 convention in Ask, Diff and WikibaseQueryEngine
 * Added new array comparison code and started work on merging diffs together in Diff
 * Progress on the SQLStore
 * Improved many unit tests by removing unneeded dependencies they had
 * Bug fixing
 * Made property parser function code more robust
 * Worked on EntityPerPage rebuild script, to enable it to run for Wikidata to fill in missing entities in the wb_entity_per_page table
 * Making the Settings system more robust, preparing split of client and repo settings
 * Work on RDF mapping and serialization
 * Work on content negotiation for Special:EntityData
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
 * Determine statements to add to Wikidata based on Wikipedia categories
 * Map a Wikipedia infobox to Wikidata properties (advanced sample)
 * Select a rarely used property and add values to Wikidata: either manually, through "array properties", through a bot request, with Wikidata useful, or by operating your own bot
 * Respond to a "Request for Comment"
 * Hack on one of these

Wikidata weekly summary #59
<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="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; Global message delivery 21:27, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Events/Press
 * Linked Data in Business
 * currently: Hackathon in Amsterdam
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * It is now possible to access data from Wikidata on the Wikipedias by using the property's label.
 * The time datatype can now be tested on the demosystem and should become available on Wikidata next week.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: catalog code (P528), runway (P529), diplomatic relation (P530), diplomatic mission sent (P531), diplomatic mission sent (P531), port of registry (P532), target (P533), streak color (P534), Find a Grave (P535), ATP id (P536), twinning (P537), fracturing (P538), Museofile (P539)
 * Newest task forces: Ship task force
 * d:Template:Constraint:Item allows to check if items using a given property also have other properties. To find items to fix, it links to one of Magnus' tools and to a daily report. Sample: items with property mother should also have main type (GND) with value person.
 * Development
 * A lot of discussions and hacking at the MediaWiki hackathon on Amsterdam
 * Worked on content negotiation for the RDF export
 * Bugfixing for editing of time datatype
 * Added validation in the api for claim guids. This also resolves bug 48473, an exception being thrown in production, whenever a bot or api user requested a claim with an invalid claim guid
 * Improved error message popup bubbles to show HTML and parse the links correctly
 * Fixed bug 48679, to hide the view source tab for item and property pages
 * Testing on Diff extension and SQLstore
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Add statements to Wikidata: either manually, through "array properties", through a bot request, with Wikidata useful, or by operating your own bot
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
 * Respond to a "Request for Comment"
 * Hack on one of these

Wikidata weekly summary #60
<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="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; Global message delivery 20:12, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Events/Press
 * Deutschlandfunk interview about Wikipedia, Wikidata and more
 * Hackathon in Amsterdam
 * Linked Data in Business
 * Upcoming: Arts, Humanities and Complex Networks
 * Upcoming: SemTechBiz
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The time datatype is now available allowing you to enter dates in Wikidata (this also includes a short rundown of what the developers are going to work on next)
 * 5 students are working on projects related to Wikidata as part of Google Summer of Code 2013
 * prototype of a multilingual map using Wikidata
 * Many Wikimedia wikis got a new account creation and login page - among them Wikidata
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: venue (P540), office contested (P541), officially opened by (P542), oath made by (P543), torch lit by (P545), docking port (P546), commemorates (P547), version type (P548), MGP ID (P549), chivalric order (P550), residence (P551), handedness (P552), social media account on (P553), social media address (P554), doubles record (P555), crystal system (P556), DiseasesDB (P557), unit symbol (P558), terminus (P559), direction (P560), NATO reporting name (P561), central bank/issuer (P562), ICD-O (P563), singles record (P564), crystal habit (P565)
 * Newest task forces: Tennis task force, Taxonomy task force, Iranian Persian task force, Medicine task force
 * Development
 * Made good progress on moving the sitelinks on Wikidata too when a page on Wikipedia is moved (36729 - currently the bug with most votes)
 * Fixed some bugs in the time value user interface
 * Worked on coordinate value support
 * Worked together with Wikimedia Foundation ops staff on Apache configuration changes to enable “pretty urls” for item pages. (e.g. https://en.wikidata.org/wiki/New_York_City goes to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60 in the future)
 * Added MediaWiki setting wgLogAutopatrol to allow wikis the option to disable logging of autopatrol actions
 * Improved EntityPerPage rebuild script, which is needed to fix the situation where some Wikipedia articles can't access data from Wikidata (48506)
 * Fixed bug in SetQualifiers API module; Moved both SetQualifiers and RemoveQualifiers out of experimental mode
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
 * Respond to a "Request for Comment"
 * Hack on one of these

Wikidata weekly summary #61
<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="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; Global message delivery 19:07, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Please use the next week to review the discussions about sourcing of statements (d:Wikidata:Requests for comment/References and sources and Discussion on the Project Chat)
 * Events/Press
 * Arts, Humanities and Complex Networks
 * SemTechBiz
 * WMF metrics and activities meeting
 * "Exakter und aktueller" Bessere Daten für Wikipedia durch Wikidata
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Large donation by Yandex for further development of Wikidata (press coverage here and here among others)
 * en:Template:Infobox road and simple:Template:Infobox road now have the ability to use Wikidata for the map field
 * Denny writes about Wikidata and the truth
 * Average edits per page has passed 4
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: basionym (P566), hangingwall (P567), footwall (P568), date of birth (P569), date of death (P570), foundation/creation date (P571), date of scientific description (P574), discovery date (P575), date of dissolution (P576), date of publication (P577), Sandbox-TimeValue (P578), IMA status (P579), start date (P580), end date (P582), as of (P585), IPNI author ID (P586), MMSI (P587), coolant (P588), point group (P589), GNIS (P590), EC Number (P591), ChEMBL (P592), Homologene ID (P593), Ensembl ID (P594), IUPHAR ID (P595), in the direction of (P596), WTA ID (P597), commands (P598), ITF ID (P599), Wine AppDB-ID (P600), MedlinePlus ID (P604), NUTS (P605), first flight (P606)
 * Newest task forces: Catalunya task force
 * Development
 * Worked on globe coordinate editing
 * Reviewed and merged code for SetSiteLink special page
 * EditEntity API refactoring (Info: EditEntity API’s EXCLUDE parameter will be dropped - see here)
 * First steps towards being able to add sitelinks for the first sister-project (WikiVoyage)
 * Improved the Travis CI continuous integration setup
 * Made the DataValue component installable via Composer
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
 * Respond to a "Request for Comment"
 * Hack on one of these

Wikidata weekly summary #62
<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="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; Global message delivery 20:46, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Noteworthy Stuff
 * Geocoordinates can now be entered in Wikidata and language links can now be edited without JavaScript
 * The folks at OCLC did a great intro video to Wikidata and VIAF/authority files
 * And here's some interesting analysis on the most unique Wikipedias according to Wikidata
 * Magnus updated his tool to add missing properties to an item
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: battle/war (P607), exhibition history (P608), terminus location (P609), exhibition history (P608), terminus location (P609), highest point (P610), religious order (P611), mother house (P612), OS grid reference (P613), CHRC (P616), yard number (P617), source of energy (P618), spacecraft launch date (P619), spacecraft landing date (P620), spacecraft decay date (P621), spacecraft docking/undocking dates (P622), crew photo (P623), guidance system (P624), coordinate location (P625), Sandbox-GeoCoordinateValue (P626), IUCN-ID (P627)
 * If you're interested in a specific topic then the task forces are a good place to find like-minded people. Can't find one for your interest? Start one!
 * Development
 * More progress on supporting links to sisterprojects
 * Fixing issues with geocoordinate datatype that popped up after deployment
 * Selenium tests for time and geocoordinate interface
 * EditEntity Refactoring (added parameter “new”)
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
 * Respond to a "Request for Comment"
 * Hack on one of these

Wikidata weekly summary #63
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 * Discussions
 * Final vote on the "Guidelines for sourcing statements" till June 24.
 * Work started on a policy regarding information about living people
 * Feedback needed on a proposal by the development team for how to support Wiktionary
 * RfC about sockpuppetry guidelines
 * RfC about personal names
 * Events/Press
 * Wikidata, le Wikipédia que vous utiliserez bientôt tous
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: E number (P628), edition of (P629), Paris city digital code (P630), structural engineer (P631), cultural properties of Belarus reference number (P632), Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec identifier (P633), captain (P634), ISTAT ID (P635), route of administration (P636), Protein ID (P637), PDB ID (P638), RNA ID (P639), Léonore ID (P640), sport (P641), of (P642), Genloc Chr (P643), Genloc Start (P644), Genloc End (P645), Freebase identifier (P646), drafted by (P647), Open Library identifier (P648), NRHP (P649), RKDartists (P650), BPN (P651), UNII (P652), PubMed Health (P653), direction relative to location (P654)
 * Development
 * Worked on site-link group editing to make it possible to link to sisterprojects
 * Further work on input validation
 * Further work on handling invalid data gracefully
 * Use Serializers for generating API results
 * Finished selenium tests for TimeUI and CoordinateUI
 * Changed globe coordinate value input to use backend coordinate parser
 * Fixed issues with data type definitions not being available in the frontend
 * Wrote a little hack so that on statements with a long list of values you will always be able to see the name of the property of the current section you are in (since the label moves when scrolling the page)
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
 * Respond to a "Request for Comment"
 * Hack on one of these