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Wikidata weekly summary #64
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 23:39, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Development team published a proposal how to make use of Wikidata for Commons
 * Community proposal for how Wikidata could support Wikisource
 * RfC on source items and supporting Wikipedia sources
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * d:User:Byrial is creating database reports that are useful to find issues in the current data
 * Denny created a map of all geocoordinates currently in Wikidata (normal and huge version - updated daily)
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: RTECS number (P657), RefSeq (P656), translator (P655)
 * Development
 * The Wikidata bug report with the most votes was closed (36729 - updating the link on Wikidata automatically when a page on Wikipedia is moved)
 * Wikipedia pages will soon have a link named "Data item" in the toolbox section of the sidebar that links to the Wikidata item that is connected to the page (49105 - You can already see it on the main page of test2.wikipedia.org for example.)
 * Calendar names displayed for time values can now be translated (49080)
 * Added serializers for the Ask query language
 * Buuuugfixes and testing
 * Refactoring
 * Worked on better handling of bad values (= values that don't fit the datatype they should have)
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate one of the help pages to make it easier for newcomers
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
 * Hack on one of these

Wikidata weekly summary #65
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 16:41, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Alternative proposal for Wiktionary support
 * RfC on the sourcing requirements for bots
 * Project chat discussion about creating a new Requests for mergers page
 * One of our Google Summer of Code students is looking for feedback on mockups for Wikidata mobile
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: MeSH Code (P672), Mouse Genome Informatics ID (P671), street number (P670)
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikivoyage deployment planned to start July 22nd, see the coordination page here
 * Addshore joins the Wikidata development team as an intern (project chat)
 * Byrial creates Statistics showing the namespaces used in item site links
 * Proposal for a new Wikimedia Foundation Sister project called 'Global Economic Map' that could use Wikidata at its core (on meta.)
 * Development
 * Very rough and tentative timeline for the next month of development: Roadmap
 * Continued work on validation and handling of partially invalid data
 * Breaking change for 'wbeditentity' in the API fixing (49526) - when creating new items the 'new' parameter must now be given
 * Improved handling of broken UTF-8 encoding
 * Made it possible to enter the direction in a geocoordinate also at the beginning now (for example 52°31′N 13°23′E can soon also be entered as N 52°31′ E 13°23′)
 * Introduced PropertyInfoStore for quick access to meta-info about properties
 * Deserialization of Description objects in Ask
 * Lots of bugfixing
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate one of the help pages to make it easier for newcomers
 * Update and expand Wikidata:Contribute to provide more information for newcomers
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
 * Hack on one of these

Wikidata weekly summary #66
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 14:43, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * A request for comment on defining administrator activity
 * A request for comment on image properties
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * A personal note and secret from Denny Vrandečić (WMDE)
 * Denny's map gets an upgrade, take a look at the amazing visualisations!
 * Browser search plugins for wikidata have beeen created.
 * Byrial's database reports have been updated from the 2013-07-10 dump! These can be seen here.
 * Development
 * Support for badges in the process of being added to the DataModel.
 * Created further UI mockups for Wikidata Mobile.
 * Front end performance improvements in a few areas (including multiple edits on pages).
 * The bug in wbeditentity where aliases were removed has been fixed.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: eMedicine (P673), a list of (P674), Google Books identifier (P675), lyrics by (P676), ÚSOP code (P677), incertae sedis (P678), ZVG number (P679), molecular function (P680), cell component (P681), biological process (P682), ChEBI ID (P683), ortholog (P684), NCBI Taxonomy ID (P685), Gene Ontology ID (P686)
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate one of the help pages to make it easier for newcomers
 * Update and expand Wikidata:Contribute to provide more information for newcomers
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
 * Hack on one of these

Wikidata weekly summary #67
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 15:18, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * A request for comment for exclusion criteria in wikipedia namespace.
 * Images for the Main Page proposed and discussed on project chat.
 * Discussion on Wikivoyage notability and changes to WD:N.
 * Request for comment on sockpuppetry guidelines closes.
 * Events/Press
 * Watson has received the Feigenbaum Prize which has been donated to Wikimedia and Wikidata.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Kemler ID (P700), Disease Ontology ID (P699), Pubmed ID (PMID) (P698), Ex taxon author(s) (P697)
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The fourteen-millionth item, about Huangjue, a village in China, is created.
 * 239 Million language links removed from the Wikipedias, almost 5GB of text. (2012 vs 2013).
 * Saskia joins the Wikidata team to analyze the proposals for Wiktionary in Wikidata.
 * Wikivoyage deployment planned to start July 23rd, see the coordination page here.
 * Development
 * Wmf11 has been deployed to test.wikidata.org!
 * Wikidata is moving from a Squid to a Varnish cache system!
 * Search ranking has been improved ready for the next deployment where Wikivoyage support will also be added.
 * Optional title normalization added to 'wbgetentities'
 * Fixed broken XML result for wbeditentity.
 * Fixed broken link to anchor in sitelinks section.
 * Templates no longer parsed in labels.
 * Technical documentation improved for Ask and WikibaseQueryEngine.
 * Work started on EntitiesByPropertyValue API module.
 * Work on ChangeOps and API module edit summaries.
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate one of the help pages to make it easier for newcomers
 * Update and expand Wikidata:Contribute to provide more information for newcomers
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
 * Hack on one of these

Wikidata weekly summary #68
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 22:32, 26 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * New UI Mockup suggested for Wikidata Mobile. Please give feedback.
 * Events/Press
 * Next office hour on August 26
 * upcoming: COSCUP
 * upcoming: Wikimania (including hackathon)
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata learns to travel - language link support for Wikivoyage has been enabled and it was concluded that Wikivoyagers are pretty awesome
 * There is now a gadget you can use to see a map of a geocoordinate on Wikidata
 * Picture of the week could use some more input
 * Top 20 items on Wikidata that are covered in a lot of Wikipedias? Here you go.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Dodis (P701), encoded by (P702), found in taxon (P703), Ensembl Transcript ID (P704), Ensembl Protein ID (P705), located on terrain feature (P706), Satellite bus (P707), diocese (P708), Historic Scotland ID (P709), participant (P710), Strunz 8 (P711), Strunz 9 (P712), Strunz 10 (P713), Dana 8th edition (P714), Drugbank ID (P715), JPL Small-Body Database identifier (P716), Minor Planet Center observatory code (P717), Canmore ID (P718), Notable Incident (P719)
 * Newest task forces: Global Economic Map task force
 * Development
 * When a page is moved on Wikipedia or Wikivoyage the link on Wikidata is now updated (36729)
 * Ranking of the search results has been improved
 * Worked on URL data type
 * Added coveralls.io support for most of our components (test coverage)
 * Fixed some minor bugs related to site-links editing
 * Fixed 52023, where multiple anon warning bubbles are displayed at once
 * Worked on SpamBlacklist to filter URL values in Wikibase
 * Improved handling of corrupt data from the database
 * Made tests more reliable
 * Made regular undo via the API work with Wikibase
 * Worked on Time value formatter
 * Error handling for ByPropertyValue API module
 * Work on implementing QueryEntity
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Add some data about Hong Kong and related things. Denny promises nice visualizations ;-)
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Respond to a "Request for Comment".
 * Hack on one of these.

Wikidata weekly summary #69
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 16:08, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Request for comment on defining CheckUsers.
 * Request for comment on class ⇄ instance relationship in Wikidata
 * The d:Wikidata:Global Economic Map task force is starting its property list. Please go there to propose important properties about economics for countries, regions or companies.
 * Events/Press
 * Next office hour on August 26
 * COSCUP this weekend, Taipei (August 3-4, 2013)
 * Wikimania is nearly here!, Hong Kong (August 7-11, 2013)
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The list of interwiki links has been updated with more infomation and now also includes wikivoyage!
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: removed feature, introduced feature, Parent company
 * Newest task forces: Global Economic Map task force
 * Development
 * Custom edit-summaries added for the majority of API modules
 * Started working on implementation for ordering qualifiers in the JavaScript user interface
 * ChangeOps for wbsetclaimvalue, wbcreateclaim, wbremoveclaims and refactoring of wbremoveclaim
 * Fix handling of '0' value in API response
 * Solved bugs related to copyright notice
 * Some minor UI speed improvements
 * EditEntity refactored
 * Test cases improved
 * Further work on URLs
 * Work on implementing QueryEntity
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Add some data about Hong Kong and related things. Denny promises nice visualizations ;-)
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Respond to a "Request for Comment".
 * Hack on one of these.

Wikidata weekly summary #70
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 14:22, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Request for comment on Property proposal organisation reform to a more Model
 * Request for comment on VCards for Wikivoyage
 * Requests for bot approval has many requests that need further discussion!
 * Many property proposals still need input!
 * Events/Press
 * Wikimania continues! If you are around make sure you come and say Hi!
 * Wikidata meetup in the chapters village on Saturday at 1 PM at Wikimania.
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Following numerous discussions we are happy to present the new version of the proposal that would lead to Wikidata supporting structured data for the Wiktionaries.
 * There are now only an estimated 1,000,000 articles remaining with inter language links, down from the previous 26,000,000!
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: LAU (local administrative unit), Sikart (identifier in SIKART), symptoms (the possible symptoms of a medical condition)
 * Frequently used for cities and other places, P17 ("country") indicates the sovereign state an item relates to. There now at least 100 items for most present day sovereign states. Leading is China (Q148) with 607,817 items, followed by Iran (!794) with 105,875 items and the United States of America (Q30) with 99,243 items. China rose from just 5266 items a month ago.
 * Development
 * Changeops implemented for all Api modules
 * All Api modules now have better auto comments and custom summaries
 * Work on claim ordering started
 * Work on refactoring Api Tests
 * Bug Fixes!!
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Add some data about Hong Kong and related things. Denny promises nice visualizations ;-)
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Respond to a "Request for Comment".
 * Hack on one of these.

Wikidata weekly summary #71
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 22:43, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * COSCUP (Wikidata intro slides)
 * Wikimania (State of Wikidata presentation, Tech behind Wikidata presentation, Wiktionary discussion)
 * Wikidata babel multi-language easter egg
 * The Occitan Wikipedia and Wikidata
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikivoyage is scheduled to get access to Wikidata data (aka phase 2) on August 26th.
 * Listen to and watch beautiful Wikidata edits
 * To support the inclusion of geographical coordinates in Wikidata, just about two months a new data type came available and d:Property:P625 "coordinate location" was created. Already 565,000 pairs of coordinates are now available on WikiData. Compare this to 870,000 coordinates on English Wikipedia or 1,500,000 items with d:Property:P17 "country", likely to have coordinates. Have a look at them on a map.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: approved by (P790), ISIL ID (P791), chapter (P792), Key event (P793), as (P794), distance along (P795), geo datum (P796), executing authority (P797), mission design series designation (P798), air ministry specification (P799), work (P800), notable work (P801), student (P802), professorship (P803), GNIS Antarctica ID (P804), subject of (P805). Italian cadastre code (P806) In Addition new properties to describe mushrooms were created: hymenium type (P783), mushroom cap shape (P784), hymenium attachment (P785), stipe character (P786), spore print color (P787), mushroom ecological type (P789), edibility (P789). These will allow to build the data for a mushroom infobox (as w:Template:Mycomorphbox).
 * Newest task forces: Physics task force
 * Wikidata helped remove 240,000,000 language links from Wikipedia's wiki text.
 * Development
 * Want to get an overview of what Pragun, our Google Summer of Code student working on Wikidata for mobile, is doing? Check here
 * Worked on simple special page to make a query (52385)
 * Worked on ability to move qualifiers
 * Started improving API and Special Page tests
 * Fixed links to Special:SetSiteLink in non-JavaScript interface (51914)
 * ChangeOps, custom summaries and autocomments for SetStatementRank API module
 * Fixed displaying “0” as label/description in autocomments
 * Some minor fixes for rare crashes of editing UI
 * Worked on moving Selenium tests to Cucumber
 * Open Tasks for You
 * See if you can connect some of these Wikivoyage pages to their item on Wikidata.
 * Check if some of the items on this and this list can be merged. But be careful to only merge if they are really about the same topic! Help about merging is at d:Help:Merge.
 * Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
 * Hack on one of these.

possible resolution to VIAF conflict
Maximilian -- It was a pleasure to talk with you at Wikimania. I believe I've made my first useful edits to Wikidata, based on the VIAF-conflict list. I discovered and undid some unhelpful edits to Q40649. Could you take a glance at the diff to verify my judgment made sense?

More interestingly, there are two VIAFs in this case, but viaf.org maps them to the same location. I'm guessing the other URL pointed to a maiden name. Since now there seems to be just one location, should I update wikidata and the various Wikipediae to use that one location only? -- Econterms (talk) 15:22, 17 August 2013 (UTC)


 * , What's happening here is that as more libraries become added to VIAF the cluster shift and rearrange and grow more nodes. Sometimes that means that an record will shift its ID. In that case a redirect will be left behind. So you're right the ID 29255645, just redirects to the other one.
 * As for your reversions, I think you're right, the aliases and descriptions belong there. Thanks for helping out! It was good meeting you too at Wikimania Maximilianklein (talk) 03:47, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #72
<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 21:30, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion started about improving the RfC process
 * d:Wikidata:Requests for comment/References and sources has been closed
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Report from Wikimania
 * Wikidata meets Incubator
 * Office hour on 26th
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Average edits per page is nearly 5 now.
 * Wikivoyage is still scheduled to get access to data on Wikidata (aka phase 2) on August 26.
 * Developers are working hard to also make the URL datatype available by August 26 but there are factors that are not in their hands so it might have to be delayed until the next deployment in 2 weeks. URL as a datatype will soon be available on test.wikidata.org. Please give it some thorough testing and report bugs.
 * Outsch! (Help collect and fix paper cuts.)
 * Did you know?
 * 20 undescribed monsters
 * Newest properties: separated from (P807), code Bien de Interés Cultural (P808), WPDA id (P809), academic minor (P811), academic major (P812), date retrieved (P813), IUCN protected areas category (P814), ITIS TSN (P815), decays to (P816), decay mode (P817)
 * Development
 * Prepared deployment of phase 2 on Wikivoyage
 * Worked on ability to sort qualifiers and references inside a statement
 * Started work on an api module to merge items
 * Worked on special page to query for items with one specific property and value
 * Cleaned up code for handling recent change entries from Wikidata in the clients (Wikipedia/Wikivoyage)
 * Worked on generic script for populating sites table and better integration with WMF process for creating new wikis
 * Setup new git repo for WikibaseMobile skin and extension
 * Fixed SetClaim api module to properly mark bot edits in recent changes and advised pywikipedia maintainers about adding support for the module. SetClaim can be used to create claims with references in a single edit.
 * Reviewed code for Google Summer of Code students
 * Updated doxygen documentation
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Report a paper cut (see above).
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Hack on one of these.

Wikidata weekly summary #73
<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 13:11, 30 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Request for comment on Geo Coordinates for people
 * Request for comment on reuse of data from DBpedia
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * State of the Map (September 6-8, 2013)
 * Recent office hour logs now availible.
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Abraham, Denny and Lydia sat down for an evening trying to capture what Wikidata is about in a video.
 * Deployment! Wikivoyage now has access to the wikidata dataset and various other bugs have also been fixed (including the copyright warning)!
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: interchange station (P833), public holiday (P832), parent club (P831), Encyclopedia of Life (P830), OEIS ID (P829), possible causes (P828), BBC programme identifier (P827), tonality (P826), dedicated to (P825), Meteoritical Bulletin Database ID (P824)
 * Newest task forces: País Valencià task force
 * Development
 * Work on allowing API module editentities to edit claims
 * Work on entity / item redirects
 * Work on support for moving qualifiers in API and Frontend
 * Adding coordinates to diff display and improving diff display code
 * Allowing site groups for language links on clients to be configurable (needed for commons)
 * EntityId changes, we are now working on 0.5!
 * Show snaktype in summary for novalue and somevalue snaks
 * Further work on merge module for the API
 * Wrote missing tests for various jQuery widgets
 * Work on value formatters
 * Continue on moving tests to cucumber
 * Bug fixes for coordinates following the latest deployment
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Report a paper cut (see above).
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Hack on one of these.

Wikidata weekly summary #74
<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 22:40, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Saskia has finished her analysis of the different Wiktionary proposals and projects
 * Oversight nomination for Ajraddatz
 * Request for input by ontology experts
 * Help Sven compile a list of major accomplishments of Wikidata to date
 * RfC about the Guidelines for the RfC process
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * State of the Map
 * Dbpedia-Wikidata workshop
 * 10 questions about VIAF, Wikidata and the world
 * Wikidata quality and quantity
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Potentially useful Coursera course about metadata and information started
 * URL datatype needs more testing
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: GSS code (2011) (P836), BioLib ID (P838), IMSLP ID (P839), narrative set in (P840), Paleobiology Database Identifier (P842), SIRUTA code (P843), UBIGEO code (P844). A set of properties to build calenders: public holiday (P832), day in year for periodic occurrence (P837) and feast day (P841). A proposal for "reoccurring date in machine readable format" is still under review.
 * Development
 * mlazowik has put in more work to getting support for batches (featured article and so on) to Wikidata
 * Jeroen gave a presentation on clean functions
 * More work on the URL datatype to make it ready for deployment
 * Continuous work on cucumber & moving browser tests to saucelabs/cloudbees
 * Simple query special page
 * DataValues reorganization
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
 * Respond to a "Request for Comment".
 * Hack on one of these.

VIAF/errors
Hi Max, are the errors listed on VIAF/errors processed by OCLC? The oldest entries were posted almost one year ago. --тнояsтеn &hArr; 20:44, 10 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Yes! They go in the processing queue, which is being constanly worked on. Also, the corrections that were made on articles that aren't even being reported on that page are being noticed. Thanks for following up. Maximilianklein (talk) 16:20, 11 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Is it possible to mark/strike the resolved issues in the list? --тнояsтеn &hArr; 16:51, 11 September 2013 (UTC)


 * I'll check. Maximilianklein (talk) 16:53, 11 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Thank you. At the moment it looks like the list is growing and growing but nothing is happening in the background. --тнояsтеn &hArr; 17:07, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #75
<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 16:21, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * State of the Map
 * Dbpedia-Wikidata workshop
 * Slides for a Wikidata intro in French and English
 * Speaker needed for a Wikidata talk in Slovakia
 * Blog post by Denny: A categorical imperative?
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The URL datatype is now available. Go and add all the sources ;-)
 * Sourcerer gadget by Magnus to help you add URLs from Wikipedia articles for claims
 * Wikimedia Commons is scheduled to get interwiki links via Wikidata on 23rd of September
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Saskatchewan Register of Heritage Property identifier (P845), Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (P846), United States Navy aircraft designation (P847), Japanese military aircraft designation (P849), World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850), ESRB rating (P852), CERO rating (P853), URL (P854), Sandbox-URL (P855), official website (P856), CNKI (P857), ESPN SCRUM ID (P858), sponsor (P859), e-archiv.li ID (P860), premiershiprugby.com ID (P861), Operational Requirement of the UK Air Ministry (P862), InPhO identifier (P863), ACM Digital Library author identifier (P864), BMLO (P865), Perlentaucher (P866), ROME Occupation Code (P867), foods traditionally associated (P868), instrumentation (P870), printed by (P872), phase point (P873), UN class (P874), UN code classification (P875), UN packaging group (P876), NFPA Other (P877), avionics (P878), pennant number (P879), CPU (P880), Variable type (P881), FIPS 6-4 (US counties) (P882), FIPS 5-2 (code for US states) (P883), State Water Register Code (Russia) (P884), origin of the watercourse (P885), LIR (P886), based on heuristic (P887), JSTOR (P888), Mathematical Reviews identifier (P889), Request for Comments number (IETF) (P892), Social Science Research Network (P893)
 * Newest task forces: Occupations and professions task force
 * Development
 * Breaking change to the API in the last deployment
 * Started work on number data type
 * Worked on simple query special page
 * Worked more on moving (ordering) of qualifiers
 * Worked on JSON dumps
 * Continued working on allowing editentities API module to allow editing of claims
 * Continued work on the merge items API module
 * Worked on fixing the way Claim GUIDs are used throughout the code
 * Worked on TableDefinitionReaders for Database component
 * Unified and improved rendering of property values in summaries, diffs, wiki-pages, etc.
 * Continued moving to new browsertests framework
 * Bugfixes on autosummaries
 * Worked with GSoC student on mobile skin
 * Worked on refactoring of how we serialize and provide data about used entities on a page (e.g. entity pages or certain special pages) to the frontend
 * 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 #76
<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 22:03, 20 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * upcoming: UK Wikidata Training
 * Magnus blogged about the Wikidata Query tool
 * Gerard did an interview with Emw about the heady stuff of Wikidata
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * 30 percent of all items are categorized in 6 large groups (main type (GND) (P107)). Most are items about geographic features (1.7 million items), some of these already have coordinates (0.5 million). Items about persons are fairly frequent too (1.3 million), many already with gender (0.9 million), a few with DOB (0.05 million) or DOD (0.04 million). Other groups include: creative works (305,000), terms, organizations, and events.
 * The first 2 Wikidata oversighters are elected, Ajraddatz and Rschen7754. Please contact the email at the above page, and do not post requests onwiki. Two more candidates are running: Stryn and Sven Manguard.
 * Neat new gadget to semi-automatically import labels, aliases and descriptions based on Wikipedia article introductions
 * New search backend on testwikidata needs testing
 * Commons is still scheduled to get interwiki links via Wikidata on Monday and can also be tested on test.wikidata.org
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: GSRR rating, filming location, USK rating, notation, facility, South African municipality code, topic's main category, Nova Scotia Register of Historic Places identifier, PEGI rating, AMG Game ID, Libris, PORT identifier
 * Development
 * Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a software developer with a focus on frontend development with Java Script to work on Wikidata among other things. Apply!
 * Paper Cut: Display the ID of an item or property page next to the label (53462)
 * Paper Cut: Fix value field not loading for some properties (53157)
 * Paper Cut: Work on supporting non-earth globes in the UI (54097)
 * Worked on quantity data type implementation in backend and frontend
 * Work on a build and release tool for the Wikidata software
 * More work on sorting of references and qualifiers
 * Work on database schema modification functionality to be used by the query store
 * Prepare deployment for Wikimedia Commons (including improving script for populating sites table, adding support for Wikimedia Commons)
 * Work on making entity data available in the Mobile Wikibase skin
 * new Cirrus Search (Elastic Search) backend enabled on test.wikidata.org
 * Finished up cucumber tests for sitelinks
 * Hotfixes for coordinates autosummaries
 * Worked on simplifying process of defining wb.fetchedEntities
 * Finished working on wbeditentity
 * Worked on MySQL and SQLite table definition readers
 * 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 #77
<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 23:20, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * upcoming: UK Wikidata Training
 * What can Wikidata, the collaboratively edited knowledge base, do for Wikipedia?
 * “Allow me to reintroduce myself,” say those in Wikidata and VIAF
 * Importing data from the Polish Wikipedia
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Denny's last day on the development team was today. He has a few closing remarks in this blog post.
 * Wikimedia Commons now gets language links via Wikidata
 * Stryn's request for oversight flag
 * Individual Engagement Grants Proposal: Understanding Wikidata
 * Terminator now also has most linked-to items with no label in language X
 * Draft for Wikidata support of Wikiquote
 * Open position for a JavaScript developer to work on Wikidata - please spread the word
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: KSH code, FishBase species identifier, work location, Commons gallery, heritagefoundation.ca ID, PMCID, city served, type of electrification, color space, activating neurotransmitter, anatomical location, postsynaptic connection, presynaptic connection, possible treatments, possible examinations, magnetic ordering, main topic of creative work, Spanish subject headings for public libraries, SOC Occupation Code, NOC Occupation Code, GRAU index
 * Development
 * Said Good Bye to Denny - *sob*
 * Improved layout for commons sitelink table
 * More work on sorting
 * Worked on statements UI tests
 * Fixed failing QUnit tests
 * Deployed new code and updated sites for Commons deployment
 * Fixed a number of small bugs
 * Code review for Google Summer of Code student projects
 * Work to automate creating deployment branches and builds of Wikibase with its dependencies
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
 * Respond to a "Request for Comment".
 * Hack on one of these.

Authority control
Hi Max, are you still Wikipedian in Residence for OCLC? I've gone through the authority control at Wikidata. It seems that a lot of the numbers are already outdated. Four questions: Cheers --Kolja21 (talk) 18:45, 28 September 2013 (UTC)
 * 1) Is it possible for VIAFbot to add belated the date of import?
 * 2) You mean as a qualifier statement? I could give an approximate date probably.
 * 3) Is it possible to delete all GND, type n ("undifferentiated")? (Meanwhile the German Wikipedia has gone rid of most of them.)
 * 4) So this task is to delete all the P107 claims with a certain value? Aren't all P107 claims going to be deleted anyway?
 * 5) Are there plans to export all authority data from enWP to WD and delete these numbers at enWP? Perhaps there should be a new template called "Authority control WD" without the possibility to add new numbers at enWP.
 * 6) The Authority Control Template on English Wikipedia, already "falls back" on Wikidata. So if there is no local data specified it will get the Wikidata data. Try it, just delete a VIAF on enwiki and it will get the WD. I suppose we should then try and delete the local data so the German corrections will be integrated.
 * 7) When will OCLC start to use Wikidata?
 * 8) That's on my priority list. VIAF will start to watch WD and not enWP in about 3 months I would say (but I can't promise).


 * 13.900 VIAF redirects have been corrected @ deWP: see here. --Kolja21 (talk) 19:36, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure google translate is getting this right, but it seems like deWP want to make corrections to deWP and not WD. I think we both need to commit to using WD to make this work, and I will try and convince enWP to do that. Maximilianklein (talk) 16:56, 30 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Yes, you've got it right. The corrections are only made on deWP. Imho deWP authority control will join as the last to WD. Since GND type (P107) is going to be deleted the templates of de, no, plWP and some other languages, that are based on GND type, can migrate only partially on WD. But it would be a great step if enWP would go ahead. --Kolja21 (talk) 22:33, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

Help test better mass message delivery
Hi. You're being contacted as you've previously used global message delivery (or its English Wikipedia counterpart). It doesn't feel so great to be spammed, does it? ;-)

For the past few months, Legoktm has built a replacement to the current message delivery system called MassMessage. MassMessage uses a proper user interface form (no more editing a /Spam subpage), works faster (it can complete a large delivery in minutes), and no longer requires being on an access list (any local administrator can use it). In addition, many tiny annoyances with the old system have been addressed. It's a real improvement! :-)

You can test out MassMessage here: testwiki:Special:MassMessage. The biggest difference you'll likely notice is that any input list must use a new  parser function. For example,  or. For detailed instructions, check out mw:Help:Extension:MassMessage.

If you find any bugs, have suggestions for additional features, or have any other feedback, drop a note at m:Talk:MassMessage. Thanks for spamming! --MZMcBride (talk) 05:19, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #78
<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 23:04, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * 3 Individual Engagement Grants related to Wikidata are looking for feedback and endorsements: Understanding Wikidata, Wikidata Toolkit and Wikintelligence
 * Request for Comments on linking Wikimedia Commons
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * UK Wikidata training
 * Pushing Wikidata to the Next Level
 * Hello, Good-bye at Wikidata
 * Google Summer of Code 2013 - Let's Mobilize Wikidata! - A Summary
 * Wikidata Query updates
 * Blog: Wikidata qualifiers
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Tempo-spatial display (events in Wikidata on a map)
 * Canned queries (for queries that help find missing information)
 * Wikidata Browse (pretty slideshow of random Wikidata items, their pictures, labels in various languages and statements)
 * Wikidata generic tree (displays a tree of data in Wikidata)
 * We've crossed ID 15000000: Q15000000 (Category:Sternorsidis)
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Code of nomenclature, programmer, theme music, inspired by, GHS precautionary statements
 * Development
 * Finished initial version of the build tool (= tool that creates one tarball/git repository from all our extensions and their dependencies for deployment)
 * Continued work on numbers data type
 * Continued work on Formatters (for autosummaries, diffs, etc)
 * Fixed RDF serialization issue
 * Merged merge API module
 * Finished up database schema updating code
 * Added validation for precision in globe coordinate value
 * Finished and released Diff extension version 0.9
 * Polishing work on Wikibase QueryEngine
 * Some cleanup of EntityView
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Note from Lydia about the future of the weekly summaries
 * I've been compiling the weekly summaries for Wikidata for the past 1.5 years. It is time to give this into the hands of a few capable community members now that I have moved on to product management. Starting next week I will not be compiling the weekly summaries anymore. I am happy to help anyone who wants to take over get up to speed of course. Please contact me if you'd like to take this over.

Wikidata weekly summary #79
<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 17:23, 11 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion over how Property metadata should be stored within Wikidata
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * [//blog.pragunbhutani.in/articles/wikidata-sends-goodies/ Wikidata sends goodies to Google Summer of Code 2013 volunteers]
 * [//ultimategerardm.blogspot.de/2013/10/10-wikidata-questions-for-lydia.html A Wikidata interview with Lydia]
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Statistics about sourcing on Wikidata
 * Help the development team prioritise!
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Wikivoyage banner, RSL identifier, ISIN
 * Development
 * Added index removal and addition support to Wikibase Database
 * Improved initialization code of Wikibase Query
 * Added database setup code to Wikibase Query
 * Added schema updating support to Wikibase QueryEngine
 * Added SimpleQuery special page to Wikibase Query. This page allows users to find entities by a property value pair
 * Formatters for snaks/values are now used throughtout Wikibase
 * Some progress on DecimalValues and QuantitiyValues
 * Started work to include the data type of snaks in the JSON dumps
 * Worked on cleaning up inconsistent handling of Claim GUIDs vs hashes.
 * Implemented more convenient user interface for Special:SimpleQuery.
 * MergeAPI module and claim editing from wbeditentity to be deployed
 * Further work on a build step to make deployment easier
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
 * Respond to a "Request for Comment".
 * Hack on one of these.

Wikidata weekly summary #80
<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 19:50, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion over the implementation of 'showcase items'
 * Requests for comment over restructuring user rights
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Lydia gives a talk at Latinoware about Wikidata
 * Talk at UCBerkeley about Wikidata
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * This week the 80 millionth edit was made to Wikidata
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: street address, e-mail, guest of honor, MusicBrainz label ID, burial plot reference, Austrian municipality key, streaming media URL, MycoBank taxon name identifier, IPNI taxon name identifier, Tropicos taxon name identifier, MSW species identifier, section, verse, or paragraph, ISBN-10, IBNR identifier, full text available at, ISCO code, NSZL identifier, BNE identifier, NLI (Israel) identifier
 * Newest task forces: International relations task force
 * Development
 * Further development on WikibaseDatabase
 * IE8 is working again
 * JSON socumentation created and merged
 * Lots of work carried out on the quantity datavalues
 * Papercut: mouseover input suggestions messes up input. Fixes bug 44896
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
 * Respond to a "Request for Comment".
 * Hack on one of these.

Wikidata weekly summary #81
<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 22:48, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion over whether to split three properties into six more specific ones
 * Closed: Exclusion criteria for Wikipedia: namespace items
 * Closed:Place of property documentation
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Gerard wrote about Wikipedia's place as a source within Wikidata
 * Semantic MediaWiki Conference (SMWCon) will be held next week, Monday to Wednesday, in Berlin.
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Echo has been enabled on Wikidata
 * Magnus created some queries for Wikidata
 * Wikidata is 1 year on October 29th! Stay tuned for some 'surprises'
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Philippine Standard Geographic Code, IOC country code, MusicBrainz area ID, BAG-code for Dutch villages, code for weekend and holiday homes (Sweden), Pastoratkod (Sweden), code for parishes in the Church of Sweden, Civil parish code/ATA-code in Sweden, Minor urban area code in Sweden, Urban area code in Sweden, tributary, described in URL, catalogue, category combines topics, neurological function
 * Development
 * Lazowik worked on API support for editing badges
 * Bene added a keyboard shortcut to get from an article to the item it is connected to on Wikidata (46538)
 * Bene worked on a table of content for items (44876)
 * Bene improved Special:ItemDisambiguation (55466)
 * Bene added ftp as an allowed protocol for the URL datatype (54103)
 * Linked sitelinks in diffs (53471)
 * Cleaned up and added tests in client that are necessary for improving the recent changes integration and for supporting enhanced changes
 * Worked on the user interface for simple queries
 * Worked on the user interface for the numbers datatype
 * Continued work on ordering statement groups in the user interface
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
 * Improve some road items in your country by adding some statements to them.
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
 * Hack on one of these.