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Wikidata weekly summary #155
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 14:00, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * RfC: Opting out of Global sysops 2
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikidata emerges as central element of GLAM-WIKI 2015
 * ongoing: Coding DaVinci
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The question that started Wikidata has finally been answered! Thank you Markus! ;-)
 * Wikimedia Sverige adapted two brochures about Wikidata, one for GLAMs and one for researchers.
 * Bene* has been working on making Wikidata work nicely on mobile. You can check the current status on a demo system.
 * Amir could use your help with automatic transliteration of human names
 * Commons-WD: a tool to edit Wikidata based on a Commons category
 * Various improvements to the Primary Sources Tool including:
 * Edits made with it will now say so in the edit summary
 * It now uses the URL blacklist to not suggest low-quality references
 * Caching issues were fixed
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Kiev street code, blood type, Perry Index, input set, SSR Name ID, SSR WrittenForm ID, INPN Code, Nasjonalbiblioteket photographer ID, distribution map, anti-virus alias, HathiTrust id, common name, Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online identifier, Swedish district code, investigated by, US Federal Election Commission identifier, PSS-archi ID, Gaoloumi ID, draft pick number, GrassBase ID, electorate, owner of, Roud Folk Song Index, IPI Code, ISWC
 * There are a number of user boxes you can add to your user page to indicate interests and which wiki projects you belong to.
 * Development
 * On Tuesday, we are deploying usage tracking (no arbitrary access yet) to Dutch Wikipedia and French Wikisource, and subscription tracking on Wikidata. There should be no noticeable changes for users. These are necessary steps towards enabling arbitrary access in clients.
 * Worked on making language fallback work in the suggester (when adding a new statement or searching for an item)
 * More work on RDF output and the query service
 * Added Special:RedirectEntity for redirecting items
 * Investigated and working to fix JS bug on items with “invalid” values (92975)
 * Did work towards having entity ids in revision histories and in diffs linked with their label (like on watchlists or in the recentchanges)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

Wikidata weekly summary #156
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 14:36, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikidata was presented at a Swedish Linked Data Network Meet-up in Gothenburg.
 * The most important Wikipedia pages
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * P107 (main type) is finally orphaned and deleted, 20 months after deprecation. This was the first property used 1000000 times.
 * The royal baby was quickly updated on Wikidata. (her family tree)
 * New tool by Magnus: Find pictures on geography.co.uk, upload them to Commons and add them to Wikidata
 * All Van Gogh Museum paintings are now on Commons and Wikidata. Go go SumOfAllPaintings peeps!
 * List of topics with links in at least X Wikipedias
 * All French Senators matched using MixNMatch \o/
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: represented by, Netflix Identifier, maximum number of players, minimum number of players, CERL ID, Name Assigning Authority Number, Hall of Valor ID, ballots cast, eligible voters, catholic-hierarchy diocese ID, Wikidata example geographic coordinates, Wikidata example monolingual text, Wikidata example property, Wikidata example quantity, Wikidata example time, Wikidata example URL, Wikidata example item value, Wikidata example string, Wikidata example media file, Wikidata property example
 * Development
 * We rolled out usage tracking on the first two wikis (French Wikisource and Dutch Wikipedia). Users should not notice anything. More wikis will follow in the next weeks. This is the remaining step for enabling arbitrary access on wikis other than Commons.
 * The students team is working hard to get a first release of the improved constraint reports and checks against 3rd party databases out.
 * Ricordisamoa fixed the issue with long descriptions being cut off.
 * We fixed the focus flow in the property selector.
 * We improved the messages on Special:EntityData to make it more understandable.
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

Wikidata weekly summary #157
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 17:49, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Mbch331
 * New request for comments: Notability policy overhaul
 * Closed requests for comments: Conflict of Interest (no consensus), Speedy vs Regular deletion (stale)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * A study has been published about how Wikidata can help significantly improve the quality of medical content on Wikipedia. This is why we do Wikidata! \o/
 * MusicBrainz is migrating to Wikidata for Wikipedia links
 * Past: Open Data for Academics - some media available on Wikimedia Commons.
 * Upcoming: OuiShare Labs Camp in Paris
 * Upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Lyon
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The Wikidata Visualization Challenge has started. You can enter your submission until June 1 (23:59 CEST).
 * Denny has published a proposed breakdown of tasks for Wiktionary support incl mockups. Please read and comment.
 * The Wikidata Menu Challenge has started and goes on to May 27. Add labels, images and pronunciation audio to a list of around 290 items to help show off the power of Wikidata at a food festival.
 * Dynamic lists on Wikipedia based on Wikidata data
 * The Frick Collection and the Brooklyn Museum both have their paintings on Wikidata now.
 * The most distant known galaxy EGS-zs8-1 (Q19860435) has been discovered and added to Wikidata.
 * Reasonator has been restyled, to work better on mobile devices. It also has an enhanced display on first names (exsample: Paul)
 * Woah! Volcanos! (Help match the Smithonian's volcano identifiers with Wikidata) ;-)
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Smithsonian volcano identifier, cathedral, hair color, Declarator.org ID, Web Gallery of Art identifier, list of characters, measured by, income classification (Philippines), Vox-ATypI classification, after a work by, spacecraft
 * Development
 * Access to data from arbitrary items is coming to the first wikis on Monday \o/ It'll be Dutch Wikipedia and French Wikisource.
 * Sneak peek at the current state of development for showing constraint violations on statements
 * Hovercards also show the target's label and ID now. (Try them by turning them on in the beta features section of your preferences.)
 * Continued working on RDF export
 * More work on making it possible to add a reference right away when adding a statement (and allowing the full statement incl references to be edited at the same time)
 * Did more work to make usage tracking possible on multilingual wikis (namely Commons)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

Wikidata weekly summary #158
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 14:14, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Successful request for adminship: Mbch331
 * Closed request for comments: Opting out of Global sysops 2
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Using Wikidata to Improve the Medical Content on Wikipedia
 * Past: Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing) spoke about authority control in Wikidata (and sister projects) at the World Digital Library's Arab Peninsula Regional Group Symposium, organised in conjunction with the Qatar National Library, in Doha on 13 May. His slides, with an Arabic translation, will be online soon.
 * Past: Wikidata editing workshop at the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin
 * Past: Wikidata workshop for archivists of Catalan City of Justice
 * Upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Lyon
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Elections for the board of the Wikimedia Foundation are ongoing. Wikidata should be well represented among the voters. Go and vote!
 * Wikidata won another award by Land der Ideen! \o/ Thank you everyone who is making Wikidata awesome!
 * Dutch Wikipedia and French Wikisource now have the arbitrary access feature. Persian Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and Hebrew Wikipedia are following today. Italian Wikipedia and all remaining Wikisource projects are following on June 1st.
 * New manual for adding inventory numbers to paintings on Wikidata
 * English Wikipedia is running a bot to add authority control templates to many articles that are filled completely from Wikidata. Italian Wikipedia is doing so as well.
 * Wikidata won an Open Data award last year. Nominations for this year are open now. Who should win this year?
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources entry, vice-county
 * Development
 * Prepared for deployment of arbitrary access on more wikis
 * Graph extension will be enabled on Wikidata later today
 * Improvements to calendar handling
 * More work on RDF export for query service
 * Continued work on usage tracking and arbitrary access for multilingual wikis
 * Addshore investigated and started fixing abuse filter issues
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

Wikidata weekly summary #159
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 21:28, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * State of the Map US (OpenStreetMap's conference) in New York on 6-8 June
 * Wikimedia Hackathon 2015 in Lyon from 23-25 May. Some of the activities and outcomes:
 * Wikidata descriptions can be soon be edited in the Wikipedia iOS app.
 * A early preview of the official SPARQL endpoint for Wikidata has been created to query Wikidata. Remember that it is not stable and still beta. A short introduction to SPARQL can be found in Lucie's slides.
 * If you are not familiar with SPARQL yet, a tool has been created by Tpt and Bene* to generate SPARQL queries from natural language questions.
 * To do SPARQL queries from the command line, a command line tool was crafted by Marius.
 * The special page to query for badges is within reach.
 * A feedback session on the architecture of Wikibase was held.
 * We got a cool presentation by Maxime about inventaire.io.
 * We figured out the next steps to make Wikidata more mobile friendly.
 * Pilot on the Hungarian Wikipedia to show diagrams based on Wikidata in their articles on Spanish villages
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New command line tool for mapping SKOS to Wikidata (video)
 * The Wikidata Visualization Challenge is ending soon. Please submit your entries. The Wikidata Menu Challenge is also ending soon.
 * The number of videos about Wikidata is growing and there is now a category on Wikimedia Commons for these.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: lowest note, highest note, source website, Fauna Europaea ID, Danish urban area code, OpenPlaques plaque identifier, signatory, BNC identifier, different from
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Elections
 * Development
 * Got early preview of the primary SPARQL endpoint for Wikidata live
 * The Graph extension is now live on Wikidata
 * Arbitrary access is rolled out on fawiki, hewiki and enwikivoyage now
 * Busy with the hackathon (see above)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

Wikidata weekly summary #160
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 13:21, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * upcoming: State of the Map US
 * Visualizing history with automated event maps
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Final hours to make your vote count in the WMF board election
 * Now we have Q20000000 and P1900
 * Wikidata stats have been updated
 * Over 100 timeline of famous painters by Histropedia
 * WD-FIST can now take a manual item list and limit its search to JPEGs
 * Traveling this summer? Find items needing pictures around you with WikiShootMe
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: altered regulation leads to, posttranslational modification association with, gene substitution association with, gene inversion association with, gene insertion association with, gene duplication association with, deletion association with, increased expression in, decreased expression in, side effect, Commonwealth War Graves Commission person identifier, Australian Dictionary of Biography identifier, office held by head of state, FundRef registry name, Volcanic explosivity index, Spotify artist ID, BALaT person/organisation id, EAGLE id, Librivox author ID
 * Development
 * Recovering from hackathon
 * Prepared rollout of usage tracking and arbitrary access to more wikis
 * Testing of the query service
 * Fixed styling issues with entity selector
 * Worked more on Capiunto to make it easier to create good infoboxes
 * Worked on making broken values editable to fix them (this for example happens when a property is deleted but some values are left over)
 * Made entity id an optional parameter in mw.wikibase.label and mw.wikibase.description lua methods. (default to use connected item)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

Wikidata weekly summary #161
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 15:14, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * RfC on usage of Wikidata on German-language Wikipedia
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: Pigsonthewing and aude were at State of the Map US to talk about Wikidata/OpenStreetMap cooperation and more
 * Past: Lucie and Marius gave an intro to Wikidata at Gulaschprogrammiernacht in Karlsruhe (slides)
 * Upcoming: Office hour on IRC on 19th
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The English-language Wikipedia has decided to deprecate Persondata in favour of Wikidata.
 * New tool by Magnus to make it easier to add references
 * The results are in for the Wikimedia Foundation's board election. One name should sound familiar to you ;-)
 * Addshore created new maps of the geocoordinates on Wikidata. More coming.
 * Sylvain made an overview of the overlap in topics that the biggest Wikipedias have.
 * Wikidata has passed German Wikipedia in number of items with images (743850 dewp articles vs. 804885 items) - now only second to English-language Wikipedia.
 * Catalan Wikipedia is moving Taxon IDs to Wikidata.
 * Zolo did a comparison of English/French/German/Chinese and Cebuano Wikipedias in terms of main types of articles. Biographies were compared by period, nationality and occupation.
 * Connectivity statistics were updated.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: DMS V, Clinvar Accession Number, Vaccine Ontology ID, VIOLIN ID, vaccine for, participating team, first line, URI pattern for RDF resource, Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground identifier, Ministry of Education of Chile school ID
 * Newest gadgets: Mark as patrolled by User:Petr Matas
 * Development
 * Italian Wikipedia and all remaining Wikisource projects now have arbitrary access. The rollout will continue. The schedule for the next projects is at d:Wikidata:Arbitrary access.
 * The Content Translation tool now automatically connects translated articles to Wikidata. (Thanks Content Translation developers!) Previously translated but unconnected articles have been connected by a bot. (Thanks Amir!)
 * Code review of the extensions written by a team of students to improve the constraint reports and make it possible to automatically check our data against other databases. A first version will go live soon pending further codereview and fixes.
 * Two new methods have been added to the lua library provided by Wikibase:  and.
 * Further work on making unserializable values editable in the UI (This can happen for example if a property is deleted.)
 * Made the Wikidata JSON dumps available on Labs in the standard dumps location there (/public/dumps).
 * Worked on automatically creating a redirect when merging items via the API.
 * Rewrote the script that generates a map image based on geocoordinates in Wikidata. (Result see above.)
 * Released Wikibase DataModel 3.0
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

Wikidata weekly summary #162
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 12:08, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Should we have a Wikidata User Group?
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: Thanks to everyone who participated in the Menu Challenge which made Wikidata shine at A Taste of Stockholm. The live results are still up at https://wikimedia-sverige.github.io/tastydata.
 * Upcoming: Donostia-San Sebastián Wikidata Editathon
 * Upcoming: Ateliers Wikidata in Paris
 * News about Wikidata FIST
 * Review of the big interwiki link migration
 * Timeline of Christopher Lee films
 * Wikidata map - 19 months on
 * A challenge was raised to calculate the degrees of separation to Kevin Bacon. Already one routine has been produced, the next step is to use live data so that we can work on reducing the number of intermediary steps.
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * ViziData has been improved significantly
 * Wikidata Visualization Challenge winners announced: first prize to ViziData.
 * New paper: Peer-production system or collaborative ontology development effort: what is Wikidata?
 * Jura1 posted some data around property usage on items about people
 * Tpt is interning at Google now to free up more content from Freebase for us. He's adding more data to the Primary Sources Tool.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: street key, relief location map, location map, McCune-Reischauer romanization, conifers.org ID, Dyntaxa ID, Project Gutenberg ID, UN/LOCODE, Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire ID, DBCS ID, Animator.ru ID, MobyGames ID, stated as, PGCH ID
 * Development
 * Deployed arbitrary access on all Wikivoyage and Wikiquote projects and announced the next ones. See d:Wikidata:Arbitrary access for more.
 * More fine tuning on entity usage tracking (relevant for arbitrary access)
 * Fixed bug that sometimes allowed multiple properties to have the same label in a given language (T102148)
 * More work on automatically creating redirects when merging items
 * More code review of the Wikidata Quality extensions (improved constraint reports and checks against 3rd party databases). Starting to look good for a first deployment.
 * The sitelinks heading hierarchy changed and includes a “Site links” heading now that is only shown on mobile. This is a DOM change needed to make Wikidata work better on mobile.
 * Started working on having PHPCS coverage for the major Wikibase.git code base to find small code issues more easily
 * Prepared Wikibase.git for the DataModel 3.0 switch
 * Released Wikibase DataModel Serialization 1.4
 * Released Wikibase Internal Serialization 1.4
 * New releases of several DataValue components, including DataValues Number 0.5, DataValues JavaScript 0.7 and ValueView 0.14.5
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

Wikidata weekly summary #163
<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; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 11:35, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * German language Wikipedia closed its RfC on usage of Wikidata data. As a result Wikidata data can be used on the project as long as it happens through a template and it has a non-Wikimedia reference.
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: Office hour on IRC. We talked about cool things that happened around Wikidata over the past 3 months got an update on upcoming developments and Freebase and more. You can read the log.
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * en:South Pole Telescope is a nice example of an infobox completely filled from Wikidata.
 * Q20150617 was created on 2015-06-17
 * More data from Freebase have been added the Primary Sources Tool. There is also a page to help the mapping of Freebase properties.
 * Nice new manual for MixnMatch
 * The new nature.com/ontologies links to external ontologies and datasets; among them Wikidata.
 * National Gallery of Art and the J. Paul Getty Museum now have entries for all their paintings on Wikidata thanks to wiki project Sum of all Paintings
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: takeoff and landing capability, Discogs label ID, Discogs master ID, Discogs artist ID, Encyclopaedia Metallum band id, investor, second surname in Spanish name, CulturaItalia ID, BerlPap identifier, Mapillary id, National Library of Ireland authority
 * Newest WikiProjects: Cross Items Interwikis
 * Development
 * Made a small API breaking change to wbeditentity and wbgetclaims modules. Details can be seen in the commit message of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/217885/
 * Worked more on unit support
 * Fixed an issue where you'd sometimes select the wrong value when entering a statement unintentionally (T98471)
 * Switched the whole code base to make use of DataModel 3.0
 * The concept of “claims” no longer exists in Wikibase, as all places in the software work with statements. We are making this more and more explicit in the code.
 * The autoloading mechanism of the extension changed, see T100813
 * More work on getting the Wikibase Quality extensions ready for deployment. They'll improve constraint checking and provide checks against 3rd party databases.
 * Special:UnconnectedPages had to be reworked (thanks Amir!) because of huge performance issues. Because of this it loses some functionality (being able to specify where the list starts and limiting the list to pages that have local interwiki links). We're working on bringing functionality back without the performance penalty.
 * Bene* created a SPARQL abstraction layer for PHP called Asparagus: https://github.com/Benestar/asparagus
 * Enabled arbitrary access on arwiki, cawiki, eswiki, huwiki, kowiki, rowiki, ukwiki, viwiki, and usage tracking on dewiki, ruwiki, cswiki and all s3 wikis. (ruwiki and cswiki get arbitrary access on June 23)
 * Finishing work on improved handling “invalid” values and statements with deleted properties.
 * Small breaking DOM change: Wikibase no longer adds its own h1 tag but uses MediaWiki's default .firstHeading element. (T93534)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

Wikidata weekly summary #164
<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; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 18:15, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: Ateliers Wikidata
 * Upcoming: Wikimania. There will be several talks and workshops related to Wikidata. Say hi at the "Ask Us Anything" session for Wikidata if you're there.
 * Reductionism
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Which geographic areas do different Wikipedias cover? How does it compare to Wikidata? Markus has a beautiful answer
 * Wikiproject Molecular Biology and AskPlatypus are shortlisted for the OpenData Award \o/ This is the award Wikidata won last year.
 * Paper on vandalism on Wikidata. Lydia is in touch with them to figure out how to best use the insights for us.
 * Reasonator got some updates: it is now using external ID formatter URLs, has monolingual string support and better social network links
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: number of children, MovieMeter movie identifier, MovieMeter director ID, Foursquare venue ID, BoxRec ID, Biblioteca Nacional de Chile catalogue number, sortkey, properties for this type, patron, Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, Google Scholar ID, Dutch Senate person ID, Trismegistos ID, Wikisource index page
 * Newest External tools: Wikidata Compare
 * Showcase items: none. Yours next week?
 * Development
 * Jonas joined the team and Adam is back \o/
 * Deployed arbitrary access to ruwiki and cswiki
 * Machine readable versions (in various formats) of Wikibase entities will be advertised in their page heads as alternate link. (T96298)
 * Fixed property label on item pages not scrolling anymore (T94588)
 * More work on getting the Wikibase Quality extensions ready for release. The part doing constraint violation checks should go to test.wikidata.org next week. The part doing checks against 3rd party databases will still take a bit longer but is also shaping up nicely.
 * Made it possible to create items even when another user is mass-creating items (T103796)
 * Bene* worked more on making Wikidata work nicely on mobile
 * Fixed weird issue with cursor jumping around in sitelink input field (T103489)
 * Fixed an issue where it was not possible to edit a statement after you removed its only reference (T103603)
 * Lydia will be traveling for much of July. Expect her to be a bit less responsive during that time.
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Wikidata weekly summary #165
<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; John F. Lewis 21:16, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion about Atheism and the religion property.
 * Discussion about the Verifiability of data as a policy.
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Upcoming: Wikimania. There will be several talks and workshops related to Wikidata. Say hi at the "Ask Us Anything" session for Wikidata if you're there.
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * A new database report lists people categorized as dead in Wikipedia, but lacking Property:P570 (date of death). It's updated several times during the day. There are about 20 to 30 new entries each day. There is currently some backlog from the Arabic, Marathi, and Thai Wikipedias. Items updated first in Wikidata wont appear in the report. They are listed directly in Wikidata's recent deaths report.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: RSL editions, Open Hub ID, number of children, MovieMeter movie identifier, MovieMeter director ID
 * Development
 * Adam wrote a blog post on the improvement of the data after one year and GeneaWiki
 * After the next deployment, Special:ItemDisambiguation will match aliases and be case insensitive.
 * Improved details of matches in the entity suggester (wbsearchentities api module)
 * Deployed the WikibaseQuality and WikibaseQualityConstraints extensions to test.wikidata.org
 * Fixed the layout of long qualifier names
 * JSON dumps are now automatically copied to labs
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Wikidata weekly summary #166
<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; John F. Lewis 11:03, 12 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Slides on Primary Sources Tool and Wikidata introduction (in Spanish) for the Donostia-San Sebastián Wikidata Editathon
 * Presentation about Wikidata at the Axel Springer Hack Day 2015
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikiresearch looked into the coverage of the moon by geotags in Wikidata
 * Wikiresearch published a visualization of the relationship between nationality and occupation based on Wikidata's data
 * Which zoo has polar bears? Wikidata attempts to answer the question here. Work in progress.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: MCN code, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Anime News Network anime ID, Anime News Network manga ID, Anime News Network company ID, Anime News Network person ID, FSK film rating, PolSys ID, Righteous Among The Nations ID, USDA NDB number, lesarchivesduspectacle ID, INEGI locality identifier
 * Development
 * The Wikidata Quality extension (constraint reports per item) was deployed. You can now use d:Special:ConstraintReport to see the result for different items. This is for example the constraint report for the item cat (Q142).
 * 8 million additional statements from Freebase were made available through the Primary sources tool
 * Moving towards having a single edit button to edit references along with the value they belong to.
 * Bene continued working on phasing out the deprecated Entity superclass and making more entity types possible.
 * More work on phasing out a deprecated serializer implementation we still use in certain places.
 * Further work on the new RDF export.
 * PHPCS is now used on each change in Wikibase to ensure the code fulfils certain code quality standards.
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Wikidata weekly summary #167
<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; John F. Lewis 15:48, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Nikki
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Right now: Wikimania
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Magnus made some new tools:
 * list of scientists on Wikidata born after 1950 with no image, grouped by employer. Check your university!
 * list of scientists on Wikidata born after 1950 with no ORCID iD, grouped by employer. Ditto!
 * an InfoBitt replacement
 * a tool you can use to match up Wikipedia articles without an item to either an existing item or a create a new one if none exists
 * plus Mix'N'Match got new datasets you can help match up with Wikidata
 * P2000 was created.
 * Some presentations at Wikimania related to Wikidata have detailed slides online:
 * WikiProject Sum of All Paintings
 * Templates are dead! Long live templates!, technical presentation on the function and future of template syntax
 * Future of structured documents: VisualEditor, Citations and Wikidata, oh my!
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: CPDL ID, UNESCO language status, UCI code, Facebook Places ID, parliament.uk bio link, medical specialty, AllMusic composition ID, TeX string, Plazi ID, LPSN URL, species kept, Encyclopaedia Metallum artist ID, Delarge ID
 * New task forces: Linguistics
 * Development
 * Attending Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City right now, meeting awesome people that already use or want to know everything about Wikidata.
 * After the next deployment, redirects will be automatically created when merging items.
 * Special:UnconnectedPages can now be queried via the query API, thanks to Ladsgroup.
 * Migrating away from an older serializer to the DataModel Serialization component.
 * Worked on a new time parser that can parse formats like M/D/Y, Y M D and so on.
 * Fixed a bug where a value could not be edited when save failed.
 * Made the snak type, badge and rank selectors position themselves after resizing the browser window and introduced a possibility to collapse the sitelinks sections.
 * Worked on a change in editing to be able to edit a statement and it’s references in one step.
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Wikidata weekly summary #168
<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; John F. Lewis 23:50, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Successful request for adminship: Nikki
 * Open request for oversightership: Sjoerddebruin
 * Closed request for comments: Administrative divisions and populated places, Given names and surnames
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikidata, coming soon to a menu near you!
 * Past: Wikimania
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Upload of 4.2M new statements from Freebase in the Primary Sources tool.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: NALT id, Instagram username, Twitter username, Revised Romanisation, CPDL ID, UNESCO language status, UCI code, Facebook Places ID
 * Development
 * Continued migrating away from an older serializer to the DataModel Serialization component.
 * Released Wikibase DataModel Serialization 1.7.0
 * Depreacting the parameter ungroupedlist in the api modules GetClaims and GetEntities
 * Tweaking the sitelink input
 * Changing the display of item selector results
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
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 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Wikidata weekly summary #169
<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; John F. Lewis 19:29, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Open requests for Oversight: Sjoerddebruin
 * Enable Flow on Wikidata?
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Early version of a reconcile API for Wikidata by Magnus
 * PagePile: a new tool by Magnus
 * Mix-n-Match got a number of new catalogs and now shows a thin red line in front of a catalog that does not yet have a property on Wikidata
 * 1.700 biographical items without gender, but with image. Go go go!
 * Interested in art movements? Check out this
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: MoMA artwork id, Facebook ID, cuisine, Cooper-Hewitt Person ID, Exif make, Exif model, IPNI publication ID, ZooBank publication ID, ZooBank author ID, Catalogus Professorum Halensis, NALT id
 * Showcase items: László Krasznahorkai (Q512062)
 * Development
 * Minor fixes to property edit mode
 * Some fixes for the cucumber test errors
 * Released Wikibase DataModel 4.0
 * Released Wikibase DataModel Services 1.0
 * Continued work to migrate away from old serializers in Wikibase Lib to those in WikibaseDataModelSerialization.
 * Working on scripts for importing entities from another Wikibase instance (e.g. Wikidata), so that development instances can have some sample data.
 * Fixed the counting of references
 * Changed style of the Entitytermsview inputs
 * Entity Selector displays alias in brackets behind label
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Wikidata weekly summary #170
<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; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 18:20, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Successful request for oversight rights: Sjoerddebruin
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikimedia UK is organizing a Wikidata training session. You can sign up here.
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Talk pages on Wikidata can now be converted to use Flow. You can request migrating your talk page at d:Wikidata:Flow.
 * Mix-n-Match got a bunch of new catalogs for you to match up with Wikidata. Currently matching is happening at about 500 items per day. Pretty sweet :)
 * @happybirthdayauthors is a new Twitter account posting reading suggestions based on Wikidata data.
 * Arbitrary access is rolling out to a large number of wikis over the next two weeks.
 * Duplicity can help you match up unlinked Wikipedia articles to a Wikidata item.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Erdős number, worldfootball.net ID, AllMovie artist ID, Teuchos ID, isomeric SMILES, Catalogus Professorum Academiae Groninganae id, Hansard ID
 * Development
 * Made some small changes to the style of the edit warning and sitelinks so they are easier to notice and understand
 * Added error messages for Special:GoToLinkedPage and Special:ItemByTitle so you get a useful message in case no result is found
 * The Entity Selector now displays alias in brackets behind label
 * The number of entities loaded via the parser function and via Lua will be reported in the “Parser profiling data” (which can be found below a page preview or within the Html of a page)
 * Prepared for next rounds of arbitrary access rollout
 * Investigated growing lag of dispatching of changes to Wikipedia and co. We'll need to investigate further and change things so the lag between an edit on Wikidata and it being send to the Wikipedias and other projects is not too high.
 * Added the property ID to Special:ListProperties
 * Moved two extensions (Wikidata.org and WikimediaBadges) from Github to Gerrit. More will follow.
 * We'd like to drop a database table. Discussion is ongoing.
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Wikidata weekly summary #171
<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; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 11:03, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Reinforcement of data analysis before any modification of the DB
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * cooperation between free content projects
 * A case is made to concentrate our quality efforts on the differences between Wikidata and other sources
 * Ongoing: Several team members are attending the Chaos Communication Camp.
 * Upcoming: SmartDataConference
 * A Comparative Survey of DBpedia, Freebase, OpenCyc, Wikidata, and YAGO
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata needs your vote! It only takes a minute.
 * WikiProject Sum of all Paintings reached the milestone of 100.000 paintings. Congrats!
 * Arbitrary access is now available on another ~250 Wikipedias].
 * See d:Wikidata talk:Arbitrary access for two general use cases for arbitrary access on Wikipedia's regression testing of Wikidata-related modules and templates and testing infoboxes with Wikidata content.
 * List of articles on English Wikipedia without a Wikidata item (also works for other projects)
 * You have a bunch of names etc. and want to find Wikidata items with those labels/aliases? Try relabel!
 * SourcererBot is adding lots of references to existing statements on several thousand items.
 * Mix-n-Match has new catalogs including the National Library of Australia.
 * Deaths at Wikipedia are a series of reports comparing items at Wikidata with death-by-year-categories of Wikipedia. For the years since 2000, only about 15% of items at Wikidata lack d:Property:P570 (date of death).
 * 93% of items about people have a gender set now.
 * Want to make both Wikidata and Inventaire better? You can help by finding those books' authors.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Find A Grave cemetery ID, German cattle breed ID, Erdős number, worldfootball.net ID, AllMovie artist ID
 * Newest tools: Suggestor
 * Development
 * Rolled out arbitrary access to about 250 Wikipedias including German, French and Japanese. More to come in a few days.
 * Worked more on quantities. Looks like we'll have it on a demo system for you to try a first version within the next two weeks.
 * Bene* is joining us for a month as an intern. Welcome!
 * References are now hidden while loading the page, speeding up page load time
 * First commit to the ArticlePlaceholder extension
 * Expensive parser functions now count each entity only once
 * Released a new version of the DataModelServices component and started using it
 * Started working on phasing out the wb_entity_per_page table. It will be kept around and updated for some time to allow tool owners to migrate.
 * The Wikibase code base now fullfills all of MediaWiki’s PHPCS coding standards
 * Added property IDs to Special:ListProperties
 * Did a lot of bug triage on Phabricator
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Wikidata weekly summary #172
<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; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 12:35, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: SmartData conference
 * Paper: Reifying RDF: What Works Well With Wikidata?
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata made it into the top 10 of the Land der Ideen competition \o/ This means we're part of the final public voting starting on 9th of September. Thanks everyone who voted and spread the word.
 * Flow is being tested on selected talk pages.
 * New tool: Get new Wikidata items (now or before a given timestamp) as HTML or PagePile
 * New tool: Find Wikidata items without an image around a location, then find free images on Flickr taken nearby.
 * EventZoom.net extended with OpenStreetMap support, increasing the options for visualizing historical events from Wikidata.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Find A Grave cemetery ID, German cattle breed ID, Erdős number, worldfootball.net ID, AllMovie artist ID
 * Development
 * Soon the edit summary for edits through the API will also contain the automatic edit summary that you are used to for edits done through the website. The summary given by the API user will be appended to the automatic summary. (T97247)
 * Addressed performance issues in usage tracking updates and had to delay the latest round of rollouts because of it
 * Fixed a bug where suggestions would show up twice in item and property selectors (T109697)
 * Improved performance of the mw.wikibase.sitelink Lua method
 * More work done on Unit Selector widget
 * Started working on the ArticlePlaceholder extension
 * Made final changes so we can redirect mobile users to the mobile version by default
 * Evaluated the remaining steps to get the extension deployed that lets you do checks against 3rd party databases. Not much left it seems and we'll tackle that in one of the next sprints. Getting the new features deployed for the constraints checks will still take a bit longer.
 * More work on making the edit summaries in the watchlist on Wikipedia and co more meaningful
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
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 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Wikidata weekly summary #173
<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; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:43, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Merging relationship properties
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Removing use of Mediawiki’s API ‘rawmode’ in Wikibase
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New page: Wikidata:OpenStreetMap to facilitate cooperation with our colleagues at OpenStreetMap
 * Inventaire now shows links to ProjectGutenberg ebooks based on Wikidata data (example)
 * First version of units is ready for testing
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: ResearchGate ID, GitHub username, African Plant Database, LinkedIn personal profile, Project Gutenberg ebook ID, Category for pictures taken with camera, work period end, work period start, NASA biographical ID, Dictionary of Ulster Biography ID, United States Armed Forces service number, Colour Index International constitution ID, Avibase ID
 * Newest WikiProjects: Reasoning
 * Newest gadgets: List of missing pairs queries, DuplicateReferences
 * Newest External tools: Commons:Database reports/Cameras
 * Development
 * Lucie posted a sneak-peek of her work on the article placeholder extension
 * Optimized Wikidata for viewing on mobile devices. You will be redirected to m.wikidata.org automatically when using a mobile device soon the same way it already happens on Wikipedia. (Editing will only be possible via the special pages!)
 * Started working on a page to track how much Wikidata's data is used on each Wikimedia project
 * API breaking change coming soon
 * API custom summary will no longer override the autocomment (T97247)
 * Paging and sorting has been added to Special:ListProperties and it now also shows the IDs of the properties
 * Worked more on making the edit summaries on the client more meaningful and readable
 * Introduced a limit of 250 different entities that can be used on a page in the client via arbitrary access. The limit does not apply to convenience functions in lua, such as  which use a TermLookup instead of loading a full entity to get labels. (T93885)
 * Properties are now linked in the diff view (T105411)
 * Ricordisamoa made several improvements to special pages (eg T68744, T48248, T86647)
 * Fixed a bug that made aliases too prominent in entity selectors (T110021)
 * Fixed a bug that made entries show up twice in the entity selector (T109697)
 * Started working on a special page to list all pages on a wiki with a certain badge
 * Fixed remaining blockers for first rollout of unit support
 * Bene worked on a new feature for DuckDuckGo to show instant results from Wikidata on their site
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Wikidata weekly summary #174
<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; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:39, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikimedia Grafana graphs of Wikidata profiling information
 * Past: Wikimedia Science Conference (blog posts: Liberating Science Daily With, and To, Wikidata, Wikidata, Wikipedia, and #wikisci)
 * Past: Wikidata workshop in Rennes
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New date for the next Arbitrary access rollout has been set: 16th of September.
 * Support for units on Wikidata is coming on Wednesday (9th of September).
 * A new version of Kian has been released
 * The Wikidata Game has got a new mode: Books without author.
 * A new IEG proposal needs your review and support. You can also submit your own until the 29th of September.
 * >8K Fellows of the Royal Society have been added to mix’n’match
 * You can have a look at the spiffy new mobile view
 * Want to work with the data in Wikidata? There is a new release of the Wikidata Toolkit for you.
 * Your help is needed with the most important constraint violations.
 * A new noticeboard has been created to help with classification issues: d:Wikidata:Classification noticeboard
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Artsy artist, National Gallery of Victoria artist identifier, CITES Species+ ID
 * Development
 * Worked on search on the mobile site
 * Started working on automatically linking identifiers without a gadget and the new datatype for identifiers
 * We have a new Special page to query badges (finally!) After the next update it will be at Special:PagesWithBadges on Wikipedia and others
 * Fixed some of the remaining known issues with unit support to make it ready for rollout on Wednesday
 * Continued with making it possible to show meaningful edit summaries in the watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and others
 * Made change dispatching faster (This is what makes Wikipedia and others aware of changes happening on Wikidata)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Wikidata weekly summary #175
<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; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:21, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: Wikidata edit-a-thon at Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2015 in Estonia
 * Upcoming: Office hour on IRC, 23 September
 * Upcoming: Mobilizing Open Cultural Data, Helsinki, 2 October
 * Upcoming: Wikidata tutorial at SWAT4LS, December
 * Un-deleting 500,000 Wikidata items
 * Wikimania 2015 report by Multichill
 * DSS Wikidata Editathon
 * A simple way to write Wikidata bots
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Please vote for Wikidata to win the people's choice award of Land der Ideen (voting instructions)
 * We passed 70M statements.
 * Stalagmites and stalactites visualizes items without statements, items with statements, and deleted/redirected items by batches of 100,000 QIDs
 * Mix n Match is now available for mobile, has an improved automatic matching algorithm, got speed improvements and new catalogs were added like the National Gallery of Victoria, World Heritage Sites and CulturaItalia
 * The annual Wikipedia editing competition organized by the International Society for Computational Biology will include a Wikidata component this year for the first time.
 * Matched birth and death days seeks to investigate all pairs of humans (in various subsets) that appear to have the same birth dates and death dates. De-duplication underway!
 * You can now use the new special page Special:PagesWithBadges to see which articles on that project have a badge like "featured article".
 * New tool by Magnus to suggest links to Wikidata items while you type
 * Meta, MediaWiki, Wikispecies and Wikibooks will get (more) access to Wikidata soon
 * Wikidata now has an official SPARQL endpoint so you can query the data
 * announcement
 * examples
 * How US Presidents Died According to Wikidata
 * Wikidata now supports units
 * announcement
 * properties with units already created
 * Properties with units waiting for creation
 * example
 * Prototype database to store all Wikipedia references
 * Duplicity can show you how many (and which) articles on a Wikipedia are not connected to an item on Wikidata (example for frwp)
 * Magnus wrote a user script to let you edit Listeria-powered lists on Wikipedia directly
 * Musicpedia has been released in beta and is using data from Wikidata
 * New tool by Magnus to create a Commons creator page from a Wikidata item
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: length, elevation above sea level, orbital inclination, area, duration, height, width, wingspan, M x sin i, speed, watershed area, density, electrical conductivity, heat capacity, HMDB ID, depositor, luminosity, aspect ratio, HSDB ID, LIPID MAPS ID, KNApSAcK ID, NIAID ChemDB ID, Fusion enthalpy, mass
 * Development
 * Release of the query service and unit support (see above)
 * Made quantities not show URIs when editing a value but instead show the label
 * Worked on new datatype for identifiers to be able to split them from the other statements in the user interface, link them without the need for the authority control gadget and be able to link them in JSON/RDF
 * Worked more on making the edit summaries in the watchlist on Wikipedia and co more meaningful
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Wikidata weekly summary #176
<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; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 15:59, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: WikiCon in Dresden
 * Upcoming: office hour on IRC
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The grant proposal "StrepHit: Wikidata Statements Validation via References" is looking for endorsements
 * Wikidata and it's dumps are now described according to the DCAT-AP standard. You can add your language by translating the general and the Wikidata specific messages.
 * A follow-up to the Wikidata for research proposal has begun to be drafted by the University of Haifa and the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
 * Community page for the new SPARQL query service, including a subpage for interesting or illustrative queries, and a board for suggestions and discussions.
 * Wikibooks now has access to the data on Wikidata
 * English Wikipedia and a few more got arbitrary access
 * Mix'n'match got new catalogs including Open Library authors and AcademiaNet's excellent female authors
 * The LinkedWiki extension now supports Wikidata (demo)
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: FISA ID, Power of 10 athlete ID, Library of Congress JukeBox ID, CrunchBase organisation ID, CrunchBase person ID, CDD Public ID, Nikkaji, ZINC ID, Leadscope ID, M.49 code, BLDAM object ID, AcademiaNet, fabrication method, user manual link, pressure, temperature, speed of sound, internetmedicin.se ID, range, CDB Chemical ID, Mémoire des hommes, Fellow of the Royal Society, magnetic moment, thermal conductivity
 * Development
 * Started writing default Lua modules for the Article Placeholder
 * Excluded the Topic namespace from Special:UnconnectedPages
 * Fixed a bug where an item link on normal wiki pages was sometimes prepended by a label (in a random language)
 * Worked on the remaining blockers for redirecting users on mobile devices to the mobile version of the site
 * Fixed an issue where people had login issues when trying to connect an article to an item on the client
 * Worked on removing some more places that don't have language fallback yet
 * Worked more on making meaningful edit summaries show up in the client watchlist and recent changes
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Wikidata weekly summary #177
<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; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 17:21, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: IRC office hour (log with summary of past 3 months, OSM integration and more)
 * Upcoming: code.talks
 * Upcoming: Wikiconference USA
 * Wikidata-Items schnell auf der Kommandozeile nachschlagen? Mediawiki APIs hacken
 * A sea-change in science citation? The Wikipedia Science conference.
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Great collaboration between a group of Flemish museums and art collections and Wikidata
 * Wikidata timeline is another tool that gives you nice timelines based in Wikidata's data (examples: American Sitcoms, Wars, Meryl Streep)
 * Cool new tool by Magnus for dynamic list generation
 * nlwiki has made great progress in getting down the number of articles not connected to Wikidata
 * The Museum of Modern Art website now includes Wikidata IDs (example)
 * 50.79% of all #Wikidata items have none, one or two statements now. Next month it is likely to be less than half. Good progress!
 * Some more examples to get you started with Wikidata's query service: 1, 2, 3
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Membership, YerelNet village ID, prize money, radius, vapor pressure, kinematic viscosity, combustion enthalpy, vaporization enthalpy, NDF-RT ID, Half-Life, sublimation temperature, wing area, power output, Kunstindex Danmark artwork, decomposition point, RXNO Ontology, size of team at finish, size of team at start, boiling point, melting point, Banque de noms de lieux du Québec id, BC Geographical Names ID, substitute/deputy/replacement of office/officeholder, term length of office, image legend, co-driver, qualifies for, short author name, Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur ID
 * Development
 * You can now find the Wikibase ontology at http://wikiba.se/ontology
 * Special:UnconnectedPages will have a namespace filter
 * Worked on a small birthday present (One month left!) and party organizing (more info coming in the next days)
 * Language fallbacks will be shown also when adding a new statement, in qualifiers and references as well as for badges
 * Fixed a long-standing login issue when adding a new language link from Wikipedia and co (T50389)
 * Worked on RfC for multi-content revisions. This is groundwork for Commons support. (T107595)
 * More work on making meaningful edit summaries show up in the watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and co
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Wikidata weekly summary #178
<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; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 13:52, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: code.talks (slides on migrating Freebase to Wikidata)
 * Past: Wikidata:Mobilizing Open Cultural Data (videos, slides)
 * Upcoming: Wikidata's 3rd birthday. We will have a party and you should come! (announcement, program and other details, IMPORTANT: sign up so we know how many people to expect)
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * There are now almost 5000 articles in Czech Wikipedia which include an infobox without parameters, only with data from Wikidata.
 * Input request about editing Wikidata from clients like Wikipedia
 * Freebase to Wikidata: results of Tpt's internship have been published
 * Articles without a Wikidata item can now be filtered by category tree. (example for chemists on enwiki)
 * Wikidata:Units attempts to list available units and properties they can be used with
 * Constraint reports can now check if units are within a user defined list: e.g. report for mass (P2067)
 * WikiProject Economics needs more participants to organize all the new properties.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Georgian national system of romanization, Hepburn romanization, membership, YerelNet village ID, prize money, radius, vapor pressure, kinematic viscosity, combustion enthalpy, vaporization enthalpy, NDF-RT ID, half-life, sublimation temperature, wing area, power output, Kunstindex Danmark artwork, decomposition point, RXNO Ontology, size of team at finish, size of team at start, boiling point, melting point
 * Development
 * Changed the default RDF flavor to include all statements (T101837)
 * Started to work on creating new articles from scratch from the article placeholder
 * Continued work on the Lua libraries of the default Article Placeholder layout
 * Started the research on client editing with an input page
 * More work on making the mobile view fit for being enabled per default for mobile users
 * Changed our JavaScript coding style to be more in line with MediaWiki core’s
 * In edit mode, the label is now displayed for units instead of a URL
 * Added a new “YearMonthDay” date parser that supports many edge cases where all other date parsers fail
 * More work on passing full edit summaries to the client wikis.
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
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Wikidata weekly summary #179
<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; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 18:01, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: WikiCon USA (slides)
 * Ongoing: World Health Summit (slides)
 * Upcoming: ODI Summit with a session on the gene-related efforts on Wikidata
 * Don't forget to sign up if you are coming to Wikidata's third birthday party.
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Discussion has started on English WikiProject Football about using Wikidata for player squad templates (example) and player club history (example). Needs more input on best practices and commitment to update data.
 * A command line client to the SPARQL query service has been released
 * Query example: [http://demo.seco.tkk.fi/visu/#/?sparqlEndpoint=https:%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fbigdata%2Fnamespace%2Fwdq%2Fsparql&query=PREFIX%20wikibase:%20%3Chttp:%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20wd:%20%3Chttp:%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%20%0APREFIX%20wdt:%20%3Chttp:%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20rdfs:%20%3Chttp:%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2F01%2Frdf-schema%23%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20%3Fyear%20(COUNT%20(DISTINCT%20%3Fa)%20AS%20%3Fcount)%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Fa%20wdt:P735%20wd:Q18145837%20.%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%3Fa%20wdt:P569%20%3Fdate%20.%20%0A%20%20%20BIND(year(%3Fdate)%20AS%20%3Fyear)%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fyear%20ORDER%20BY%20%3Fyear&outputType=gchart&chartConfig=%7B%22containerId%22:%22chart%22,%22options%22:%7B%22hAxis%22:%7B%22useFormatFromData%22:false,%22viewWindow%22:%7B%22max%22:2000,%22min%22:1775%7D,%22minValue%22:1775,%22maxValue%22:2000,%22viewWindowMode%22:%22explicit%22,%22logScale%22:false,%22formatOptions%22:%7B%22source%22:%22inline%22,%22prefix%22:%22%22%7D,%22format%22:%220.%23%23%22,%22gridlines%22:%7B%22count%22:%228%22%7D,%22minorGridlines%22:%7B%22count%22:%224%22%7D%7D,%22title%22:%22%22,%22useFirstColumnAsDomain%22:true,%22vAxes%22:%5B%7B%22useFormatFromData%22:true,%22viewWindow%22:%7B%22max%22:null,%22min%22:null%7D,%22minValue%22:null,%22maxValue%22:null,%22logScale%22:false%7D,%7B%22useFormatFromData%22:true,%22viewWindow%22:%7B%22max%22:null,%22min%22:null%7D,%22minValue%22:null,%22maxValue%22:null,%22logScale%22:false%7D%5D,%22isStacked%22:false,%22animation%22:%7B%22duration%22:500%7D,%22booleanRole%22:%22certainty%22,%22legend%22:%22right%22,%22width%22:600,%22height%22:371,%22domainAxis%22:%7B%22direction%22:1%7D,%22series%22:%7B%220%22:%7B%22color%22:%22%23ff0000%22%7D%7D%7D,%22state%22:%7B%7D,%22view%22:%7B%7D,%22isDefaultVisualization%22:false,%22chartType%22:%22ColumnChart%22%7D popularity of the given name Adolf]
 * MoMa artists have been added to Mix'n'match
 * Books without authors on Wikidata are now down to 12.5K from 25K since drive began. You can help get it down even further.
 * Number of articles that are not connected to a Wikidata item on Catalan Wikipedia has been brought down significantly. How about yours?
 * This Month in GLAM has Wikidata coverage
 * Interested in British politics? WikiProject British Politicians has some stats to show where you can help out
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: median lethal dose, first aid measures, official symbol, units used for this property, external subproperty, external superproperty, volume for quantity, semi-major axis, cash, explosive velocity, torque, Max TDP, maximum thrust, metallicity, market capitalization, discharge, spectral line, decay width, gyromagnetic ratio, flux, household wealth, real gross domestic product growth rate, net worth, cruise speed, radial velocity, proper motion, parallax, longitude of ascending node, angular distance, position angle, relative to, SourceForge project, average shot length, Spotify track ID, Discogs release ID, Spotify album ID, minimum explosive concentration, upper flammable limit, lower flammable limit, dipole moment, electric charge, autoignition temperature, (average) gradient, production volume, students count, Soccerbase manager id, PSS-Archi architect id, Soccerbase player id, endangeredlanguages.com ID, NILF author id, C-SPAN identifier of a person, BiblioNet publisher identifier, BiblioNet author identifier, BiblioNet publication identifier, Wiki Loves Monuments ID, DLI, history of topic, ISO 9:1995, Finnish Ministers database ID, Finnish MP ID, Kansallisbiografia ID, ACM Classification Code (2012), solvent, solubility, drug used for treatment, medical condition treated
 * Development
 * You'll now get redirected to the mobile view automatically on mobile devices (example)
 * Made it possible to use more entities on a page via Lua without running into Lua's memory limit
 * Added the Article Placeholder extension’s results to the search result page (this is one of a few remaining blockers before we can put it on a testsystem for you to try out and give feedback)
 * Added option to create a new article from Article Placeholder
 * More work on the new datatype for properties
 * More work on making meaningful edit summaries on the client. Found a few remaining bugs during testing.
 * More work on a birthday present :D
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
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Wikidata weekly summary #180
<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; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 13:20, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * How many female scientists are there on Wikipedia? This time with SPARQL! (French)
 * Wikidata Enpoint SPARQL and the paintings of Goya Wikidata's SPARQL endpoint and the paintings of Goya (French)
 * Upcoming: 3rd Birthday \o/ (Please don't forget to register if you're coming to the party.)
 * More wrapups of Wikiconference USA including slides: ,
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Magnus overhauled the Wikidata Game! Sweeeeeet! Now includes one where you can match an author and a publication. And it has stats.
 * Mix'n'match got skyscrapers to match up for you.
 * Sitelinks and P569 compares various Wikipedias by the proportion of items with date of birth (Property:P569)
 * Catalan Wikipedia match up all of their articles to items on Wikidata. Congrats!
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: periapsis, apoapsis, Florentine musea catalogue ID, reason for deprecation
 * Development
 * Worked on adding auto-completion for item and property prefixes to the SPARQL query editor (so you can search by label when entering a query)
 * Wrote maintenance script for changing some properties from datatype string to upcoming datatype identifier
 * More work on birthday present
 * More work on the article placeholder to get it ready for a first demo
 * Prepared patch for also publishing JSON dumps with bzip2 compression
 * Further improved edit summaries we show on Wikipedia etc
 * Prepared for giving Wikispecies, Meta and Mediawiki access to the sitelinks on Wikidata on 20. of October
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
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 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Wikidata weekly summary #181
<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; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 18:25, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Derived properties, Are colors instance-of or subclass-of color
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Poof it works - using wikidata to build Wikipedia articles about genes
 * Wikidata, SPARQL and huskies (French)
 * Wikidata, SPARQL and elected dynasties (French)
 * The birth and death of German playwrights
 * Distributed stats
 * Past: Wikidata training at Wikimedia UK
 * Upcoming: Wikidata's 3rd birthday \o/ (on 29th)
 * Upcoming: SemWeb.Pro in Paris
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * There's a new Wikidata taxonomy browser
 * Meta, MediaWiki and Wikispecies now have access to sitelinks on Wikidata. Welcome to Wikidata, sisters!
 * Harvest templates. New tool to copy data from templates to Wikidata.
 * Number of articles that are not connected to a Wikidata item on Italian Wikipedia has been brought down significantly. How about yours?
 * The Wikidata Game now has a primary sources game and one to match Wikispecies pages to Wikidata items
 * The National Gallery of Arts was added to Mix'n'match
 * Some more query examples: Dracula movies and their actors, movies with links to videos
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Debrett's People of Today ID, maximum operating altitude, DfE URN, NGA artist id, life expectancy, Refseq Genome ID, argument of periapsis, periapsis
 * Development
 * ctrl-space now enables autocomplete for labels on http://query.wikidata.org . Should make it easier for you to find the right items and properties.
 * Worked on birthday present :)
 * From Monday on a bzip2 compressed version of the Wikidata json dumps will be published, along with the gzip compressed version.
 * Made it possible to get from the search results page to the article placeholder. This was one of the last holdups for a first demo version.
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
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 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Wikidata weekly summary #182
<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; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 15:55, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * How to add dates with undefined calendar (Julian or Gregorian)? is discussed on Project chat.
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikidata turned 3! The party doubled as the award ceremony for the Land der Ideen price. I love Wikidata because.jpg
 * Page with state of the project editorial, message from the development team and greetings
 * Images from the party
 * Denny and Erik look back at the beginning of the project - the other recordings are still being cut but you can already see the uncut stream here
 * Presents:
 * Three presents for Wikidata's third birthday from Amir including artificial intelligence to find vandalism!
 * Improved query.wikidata.org by the dev team
 * Preview of the Article Placeholder by Lucie (bachelor student of the dev team)
 * Special:Nearby by the dev team
 * Donation of CC World University & School (WUaS) to CC Wikidata to celebrate its 3rd birthday! by Scott_WUaS
 * Your name in Wikidata Morse code from TMg
 * Help organize the Wikidata related sessions at Wikimania 2016
 * Past: Open Access Week
 * Past: DINI Jahrestagung (slides)
 * Past: Tehran SFD (video)
 * Upcoming: ODI Summit
 * Upcoming: SWAT4LS
 * Modeling the social network of movie actors of the 1920s and 1930s with Wikidata
 * Looking for…science fiction movies on the Linked Data Cloud
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Italian Wikipedia matched up nearly all of their articles to items on Wikidata. Congrats!
 * Bene updated the Tours. Please help translate them here.
 * The Distributed Game now has a Kian module suggesting statements to add
 * Andrew made maps of missing images on Wikidata: South Africa, India, Australia, world
 * Nikki imported dates of birth and death for more than 40,000 persons from Japanese Wikipedia.
 * Example query: French people with an article on English Wikipedia but not French Wikipedia
 * Example query: paintings without dimension (add some?)
 * Example query: people or things born or created on the same day of the year as Wikidata
 * We passed 15M items.
 * Happy 10th anniversary to Semantic MediaWiki! We wouldn't be where we are today without you.
 * All 8,860 fellows of the Royal Society have been matched to Wikidata items
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Wikidata property sample, Emporis building complex ID, Orsay Museum artist ID, Politifact Personality Identifier, Fashion Model Directory ID, mix'n'match catalogue ID, ISOCAT id, draft, beam, ionization energy, ITU-T network identifier, mobile country code, frequency of event
 * Newest External tools: Top missing P31 by number of sitelinks list the items with most sitelinks lacking instance of or subclass of
 * Development
 * Worked on birthday presents (Special:Nearby, article placeholder demo system and improvements to query.wikidata.org)
 * Wes, Stas, Dan and James from the WMF came over to talk through current work around Wikidata and plans for the future
 * Further poked at editing references at the same time as rest of the statement
 * Investigated where we can push next to improve performance
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
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Wikidata weekly summary #183
<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; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:25, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Lakokat
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikidata/Wikibase Json Dump Reader
 * Wikidata project to tackle language barriers in scientific reserach
 * Semantic Cities
 * Q167545: Wikidata celebrated its third birthday
 * Slides from talk at UCSD on "Open biomedical knowledge using crowdsourcing and citizenscience"
 * Past: semwebpro (slides)
 * Past: ODI Summit
 * Past: MozFest (etherpad)
 * Upcoming: WikiConference Seoul
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * List of Wikipedia articles without an image where Wikidata has one
 * Want to use data from Wikidata to enrich data in your own application? S wrote a good start.
 * Commons misconceptions and how to avoid them by School of Data
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: charted in, Danish parish code, venous drainage, lymphatic drainage, CRIStin ID, arterial supply, periapsis date, price, uses, Groeningemuseum work PID, iTunes album ID, Austrian Parliament ID, ambitus, Member of the Hellenic Parliament ID, Magdeburger Biographisches Lexikon, UEFA player code, World Health Organisation International Nonproprietary Name, Heidelberg Academy for Sciences and Humanities member ID, Hederich article
 * Ever noticed ranks?
 * Development
 * Worked on the tests for the ArticlePlaceholder
 * Finished the create article button for the ArticlePlaceholder page
 * From Monday on a bzip2 compressed version of the beta Wikidata TTL dumps will be published along the gzip one
 * Getting close to make it possible to add the main value of a statement and its reference at the same time
 * Worked on adding a new section to item and property pages for identifiers
 * Did backend work for making identifiers useful in our machine-readable outputs (by actually linking them instead of just giving the identifier string) - more work needed
 * Fixed a bug where dates would have English months on non-English wikis (T116503)
 * Fixed a bug when editing labels on mobile (T117184)
 * Worked more on making search work on mobile
 * Worked on a fix for a visual glitch in the table of content on mobile (the box is bigger than its content)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
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 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Wikidata weekly summary #184
<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; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:04, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Successful request for adminship: Lakokat
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Upcoming: Wikimedia Conferentie Nederland
 * Upcoming: Ateliers Wikidata
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Callisto - a tool that shows places depicted in artworks
 * Qwery.me - an experiment for a simplified query service with SPARQL
 * Whitepaper exploring Wikidata for cultural institutions
 * Example query: real numbers with their approximate value
 * Pre-print: Centralizing content and distributing labor: a community model for curating the very long tail of microbial genomes
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: constraint, minimal lethal dose, PPP GDP per capita, NSDAP membership number (1925–1945), employment by economic sector, money supply, net profit, current account balance, genetic association, consumption rate
 * Newest WikiProjects: Education
 * Newest Database reports: Items without claims by site
 * Find Wikidata-only infoboxes in the Czech Wikipedia
 * Development
 * Added language fallback to Special:ConstraintReport
 * Fixed a bug that prevented undoing edits via the api (T101694)
 * Worked more on moving identifiers into their own section and linking them in the machine-readable export formats
 * Worked on making search suggestions work on mobile
 * Experimented with using icons instead of text for some of the actions in an item
 * Made a lot of progress on a good default layout for the ArticlePlaceholder
 * Nearly finished simultaneous editing of value and reference
 * Improved browser tests and fixed issues with them
 * Monthly Tasks
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November 2015
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Wikidata weekly summary #185
Wikidata weekly summary #114

<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; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 19:29, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Improve bot policy for data import and data modification
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Upcoming: Ubuntu Party, Paris
 * Upcoming: Wikidata editathon, National Library of Wales
 * More mixin’, more matches
 * Impact of Wikimania Mexico 2015 on Wikidata
 * Myanmar coordinates on Wikidata by Lockal & Widar
 * Tasty translations for the Taste of Stockholm food festival
 * Bachelor thesis about generating quiz questions from Wikidata
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Mix'n'match: new catalogs were added
 * Whitepaper for GLAM institutions wanting to work with Wikdiata
 * MediaWiki, Meta, Wikispecies and Wikinews will get access to the data on Wikidata on Dec. 2nd. (So far they only have access to sitelinks.)
 * What kind of information does Wikidata have? Jura made an overview for the types of statements we have.
 * You can now use SPARQL instead of WDQ for all Listeria bot-generated lists, on all wikis. See en:Template:Wikidata list
 * Alpha release of Wikipedia Gender Inequality Index (using data from Wikidata)
 * Query examples: all xkcd comics, English demonyms for countries
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Cycling Archives ID (team), Cycling Archives ID (race), antagonist muscle, ProCyclingStats ID (team), ProCyclingStats ID (race), GNS Unique Feature Identifier, mean anomaly, quantity buried, Swedish Olympic Committee athlete ID, article ID, general classification, aftershocks, elector, debut participant, call sign, constraint status, comment, min quantity, max quantity, max date, min date, relation, class, namespace, property, item, group by, exception to constraint, property constraint, minimal lethal dose
 * Development
 * Rolled out simultaneous editing of main part of the statement and reference
 * Did a clean-up of the statements section (removing some lines etc) and added icons for the actions on statements
 * Worked more on moving identifiers into their own section in item pages and having them linked properly in the exports
 * Work on improving ranking of search results on Wikidata
 * Decreased size of html of item pages
 * Adapted our code to some minor changes in the watchlist code in core
 * More work on making the search on mobile work
 * Made preparations for constraint definitions through statements on properties
 * Fixing size of table of content on mobile
 * Prevented merging of items which link to each other
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
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 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Wikidata weekly summary #186
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;"> <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:02, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Koavf
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: Wikipedia and Wikidata editathon (EditatónAlicia) in Mexico
 * Past: Wikimedia Conferentie Nederland
 * Past: Wikidata Editathon at the National Library of Wales
 * Past: Ubuntu Conference, Paris
 * Is Wikidata the new Rosetta Stone?
 * WordLift 3.0: A brief semantic story – part 1
 * Workshop i Wikidata
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Your help is needed with the most important constraint violations.
 * New daily report on Mix'n'match
 * Daily updated list of people who's birthday is today
 * French Wikisource is using images from Wikidata for their author page headers and more now (example)
 * New catalogs have been added to Mix'n'match
 * A new author language game has been added to the Wikidata distributed game.
 * Mix’n’match now creates a new, pre-filled Wikidata item when no matching one can be found (by humans!), where possible
 * Workflow sketch for the OA Signalling project
 * example of a Listeria list created from a SPARQL query
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Australian Stratigraphic Units Database ID, Roman agnomen, Roman cognomen, production code, NMHH film rating, time to altitude, online service, intended public, Roman nomen gentilicium, Roman praenomen, Classification of Instructional Programs code, UNESCO endangered language ID, has list, statistical unit, applies to taxon, number of graves, Speedskatingbase.eu ID, Stuttgart Database of Scientific Illustrators ID, period, YSO ID, Elonet movie ID, AGORHA event identifier, AGORHA work ID, playing range image, AGORHA person/institution ID, indigenous to, CESAR person ID, BoardGameGeek ID, Musopen composer ID, SFDb-identifier of group, SFDb-identifier of soundtrack, SFDb-identifier of company, SFDb movie ID, Norwegian organization number, Dictionary of Art Historians
 * Development
 * Worked on (and for now finished) a new, prettier layout for the ArticlePlaceholder-generated pages
 * Made improvements to page size by removing a lot of unneeded comments in the HTML
 * Worked more on putting identifiers into their own section and linking them properly without a gadget
 * Looked into making it possible to edit more languages without the labellister gadget
 * Worked on improving the ranking of search results on Special:Search
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Wikidata weekly summary #187
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;"> <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 15:49, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: Semantic Web Application and Tools 4 Life Science
 * notes
 * example queries
 * a few images
 * Ongoing: Wikidata for Beginners session at DISH 2015, Rotterdam, 8 December 2015
 * Upcoming: Wikidata pour la science
 * Upcoming: Workshop on "Wikidata as a platform for biocuration" at Biocuration 2016
 * Slides for talk "Building the sum of all human citations"
 * Op-ed in Signpost (Lydia is working on a piece to address some of the points)
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Closing in towards 1 million links between Commons categories and Wikidata article-type items -- 8,000 more by next week?
 * Help labeling edits to improve the vandalism detection on Wikidata
 * Open Science Prize is looking for cool ideas for Open Data and health. How about something awesome with Wikidata?
 * The Individual Engagement Grant for StrepHit has been accepted
 * Are you between 13 and 17? Join us for Google Code-in and do some Wikidata tasks with Wikimedia
 * We want your feedback on how to improve the process of showcasing Wikidata's best content
 * I dreamed of a perfect database - Wikidata? ;-)
 * Histropedia timeline of National Library of Wales
 * Wikinews, Wikispecies and MediaWiki now have access to the data on Wikidata. Do awesome things with it, sisters! Meta will follow on 15th.
 * Map of narrative locations in Denmark
 * Experimental REST API for Wikidata
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: deprecated in version, issued by, MediaWiki hooks used, superpartner of, has superpartner, natural abundance, Genius artist ID, ODIS ID, FAO risk status, conversion to SI base unit, Soccerway player ID, Sandbox-Property
 * Newest Database reports: WikiProject Movies/new films
 * Showcase items: Bertus Aafjes
 * Development
 * Polished the patch that adds icons to the item pages (for actions like edit, remove etc) and makes them cleaner. This will go live later today.
 * Worked more on a separate section for identifiers
 * Started working on the sorting of statements on the ArticlePlaceholder pages
 * Made it possible to use unknown language, no linguistic content and more as languages for the monolingual text datatype
 * Experimented more with improvements to the ranking on Special:Search
 * Worked on showing more languages in the in other languages box than the ones defined in your babel boxes
 * Small improvements to recent changes/watchlist integration on Wikipedia and co
 * Worked on making it possible to create a redirect over a deleted item
 * Worked on PHP7 support
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Wikidata weekly summary #188
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;"> <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 14:30, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikidata: knowledge from different points of view (Signpost op-ed on knowledge diversity and our thinking on data quality)
 * The Wikimedia Foundation Scholarships Program is now accepting applications for Wikimania 2016 (deadline: 09 January 2016 23:59 UTC)
 * Wikidata: A platform for data integration and dissemination for the life sciences and beyond received the prize for best paper at SWAT4LS. Congrats!
 * Past: 50 hours of Wikidata and Wikipedia editing at Museo Soumaya
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Over 16.000 people have contributed to Wikidata over the last month.
 * Wikidata Analyst, a tool to help comprehensively analyze the quality of Wikidata (announcement)
 * Overview of the current state of Sum of all Paintings and how you can help by Multichill
 * query.wikidata.org now more prominently shows example queries in case you missed them before, lets you filter and gives you a preview for them. Additionally you can click a little magnifying glass next to an item ID in a query result and explore it further.
 * WikiJourney now has a first release on the Play Store
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: JMDb film identifier, British Council artist ID, MLSSoccer.com ID, YouTube channel ID, image of function, MGI gene symbol, NCBI Locus tag, teaching method, OKPO ID, Ballotpedia ID, organisation directed from the office, office held by head of the organisation, Elonet actor ID, diameter, French diocesan architects ID, statement describes, CTHS person ID, Chemins de mémoire ID, Academic Tree ID, French Sculpture Census ID, deprecated in version, issued by
 * Query example: Which "Lincoln" was "Lincoln" named for?, [https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%20%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20rdfs%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2F01%2Frdf-schema%23%3E%0APREFIX%20p%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20pq%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fqualifier%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20v%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fstatement%2F%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fhigh%20%3Fhighl%20%3Fhigh_elevation%20%3Flow%20%3Flowl%20%3Flow_elevation%20%3Fspan%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ160016%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP610%20%3Fhigh%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP610%20%3Fhigh_statement%20.%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Fhigh%20wdt%3AP2044%20%3Fhigh_elevation%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%20%3Fhigh_statement%20pq%3AP2044%20%3Fhigh_elevation%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fhigh%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fhighl%20filter%20(lang(%3Fhighl)%20%3D%20%22en%22)%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1589%20%3Flow%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP1589%20%3Flow_statement%20.%0A%20%20%3Flow_statement%20pq%3AP2044%20%3Flow_elevation%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Flow%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Flowl%20filter%20(lang(%3Flowl)%20%3D%20%22en%22)%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND(%20%3Fhigh_elevation%20-%20%3Flow_elevation%20as%20%3Fspan%20)%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC(%3Fspan)%20DESC(%3Flow_elevation)%20DESC(%3Fhigh_elevation)%20%3Fhigh%20%3FitemLabel places by elevation span], people who died in 1945 (for upcoming 2016 public domain day)
 * Newest Database reports: List of films without article in Wikipedia of the same language
 * Development
 * Working on sorting of statement groups for the ArticlePlaceholder extension
 * Further work on a separate section for identifiers
 * Worked on properly linking identifiers in the exports
 * Removed a number of lines and boxes in the statement section to make it less busy
 * Made it possible to create a redirect over a deleted item without having to undelete it first
 * Further work on improving ranking on Special:Search
 * Making it possible to show and edit more languages for labels/descriptions/aliases than the ones defined in your babel boxes
 * Getting ready for the holidays :)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Wikidata weekly summary #189
Wikidata weekly summary #186

<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;"> <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 21:59, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Successful request for adminship: Eurodyne
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * World Health Summit yearbook for 2015
 * You can apply for a scholarship to attend Wikimania 2016 (deadline: January 9th)
 * Talk submissions for Wikimania 2016 are open. We'd love to see many Wikidata-related submissions. If you need help with your submission contact Lydia.
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Google has launched the Knowledge Graph Search API, replacing the deprecated Freebase API
 * Meta now has access to the data on Wikidata as well
 * Want to get an overview of the classes and properties on Wikidata? The Miga class and property browser was updated.
 * WikiBrowser - semantically browse Wikipedia with the help of Wikidata
 * WikiFamou.us lets you compare topics by popularity across languages with the help of Wikidata
 * Chronas is a history project linking Wikipedia and Wikidata with a chronological and cartographical view
 * Visiting some place for the holidays? Check out the items nearby.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Fashion Model Directory magazine ID, Fashion Model Directory designer ID, Artsy gene, WikiPathways ID, NII Article ID, set in period, short-term exposure limit, maximum peak exposure limit, ceiling exposure limit, time-weighted average exposure limit, Total assets, total expenditure, Six Degrees of Francis Bacon ID
 * Query example: [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Works%20created%20by%20females%20died%20in%201945%0APREFIX%20bd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bigdata.com%2Frdf%23%3E%0APREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0Aselect%20distinct%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FcreaLabel%20%3FworkLabel%20(year(%3Fdate)as%20%3Fyear)%0Awhere%20%7B%0A%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP170%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20P170%2Fcreator%0A%20UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP50%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%20%20%23%20P50%2Fauthor%0A%20%23UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP86%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%20%23%20P86%2Fcomposer%0A%20%23UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP87%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%20%23%20P87%2Flibrettist%0A%20%23UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP110%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%23%20P110%2Fillustrator%0A%20%23UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP655%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%23%20P655%2Ftranslator%0A%20%23UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP676%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%23%20P676%2Flyrics%20by%0A%20%0A%20%3Fcrea%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ6581072%20.%20%23%20P21%2Fsex%20or%20gender%20-%20Q6581072%2Ffemale%0A%20%3Fcrea%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Ftime0%20.%0A%20FILTER%20(%20%3Ftime0%20%3E%3D%20%221945-01-01T00%3A00%3A00Z%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%20%26%26%20%3Ftime0%20%3C%3D%20%221945-12-31T00%3A00%3A00Z%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%20)%20%23%20P570%2Fdate%20of%20death%20in%201945%0A%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP571%20%3Fdate%7D%20UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP577%20%3Fdate%20%7D%7D%20%23%20P571%2Finception%20-%20P571%2Fpublication%20date%0A%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20%3Fwork%0A%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%2Car%2Cbe%2Cbg%2Cbn%2Cca%2Ccs%2Cda%2Cde%2Cel%2Ces%2Cet%2Cfa%2Cfi%2Cfr%2Che%2Chi%2Chu%2Chy%2Cid%2Cit%2Cja%2Cjv%2Cko%2Cnb%2Cnl%2Ceo%2Cpa%2Cpl%2Cpt%2Cro%2Cru%2Csh%2Csk%2Csr%2Csv%2Csw%2Cte%2Cth%2Ctr%2Cuk%2Cyue%2Cvec%2Cvi%2Czh%22%20%23BabelRainbow%0A%20%7D%0A%7DORDER%20BY%20%3FcreaLabel%20%0A works created by females who died in 1945]
 * Development
 * <3 Thanks for being awesome. Enjoy the holidays :)
 * We will take the "in other projects"-sidebar out of beta features in January (T103102)
 * Making ranking information like label and statement counts available to the CirrusSearch index in order to improve ranking in search results (T110648)
 * Continued work on the identifier data type for identifiers like VIAF and ISBN so we can easily put them into a separate section in the items and properly link them in the exports (T95682, T121274)
 * Continued work on making external identifiers clickable links without the help of the authority control gadget (T95684)
 * Fixed a mistake in the set reference API documentation (259171)
 * More work on cleaning up the statement section (T121390)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Wikidata weekly summary #190
Wikidata weekly summary #186

<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;"> <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 14:07, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Ongoing: 32C3
 * Upcoming: Wikimedia Developer Summit
 * Upcoming: StrepHit IEG project kick-off seminar
 * Upcoming: Office hour on IRC
 * Upcoming: FOSDEM (Lucie will give a talk about the ArticlePlaceholder extension)
 * Registration and scholarship applications for the Wikimedia Hackathon in Israel are open
 * Don't forget your talk submissions for Wikimania 2016. Lydia can help if needed.
 * Getting CAS registry numbers out of WikiData
 * The quality of SMILES strings in Wikidata
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Paper: Wikidata: A platform for data integration and dissemination for the life sciences and beyond
 * The Wikidata for Research proposal has now been published in a journal
 * [//tools.wmflabs.org/pltools/addlingue/ New tool to turn string claims to monolingual claims]
 * Johl built a card game about German politicians using Wikidata
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: number of awards, Prosopographia Attica, Structurae person ID, stage classification, sports disciplines competed in, personal best, substrate of
 * Development
 * Some small bugfixes and tweaks.
 * Enjoying the holidays and editing on Wikidata. Hope you are too :)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Wikidata weekly summary #191
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;"> <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 21:50, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Successful request for adminship: Innocent bystander
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * The Reference Wars
 * Teaching machines to make your life easier – quality work on Wikidata
 * Wikidata references from Microdata
 * Building applications around Wikidata (a beer example)
 * From Freebase to Wikidata: the great migration has been accepted for the industry track of WWW2016
 * Gene Wiki and Wikidata: an overview of 2015
 * Past: 32C3 in Hamburg
 * Past: Wikimedia Developer Summit
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning
 * The deadline for submissions for Wikimania has been extended to 17th. Get your talk proposals in!
 * IUCN statuses have been removed from taxoboxes in Czech Wikipedia in order to display sourced Wikidata data. Check it out with Comodo dragon, lion, Siamese fighting fish or any of almost 3,000 articles.
 * Migrating identifier properties to new identifier datatype
 * Listeria lists can now show arbitrary SPARQL results
 * Mix'n'match has new catalogs like UNESCO's Atlas of languages in danger
 * Initial plans for MetaPipe, a collaborate metadata tool
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: BugGuide ID, elibrary.ru organisation ID, member of the deme, ComLaw ID, Persons of Ancient Athens, IBU biathlete identifier, Mackolik.com footballer ID, Australian National Shipwreck Database Shipwreck ID number, dblp identifier, Species Profile and Threats Database ID, KNAW past member identifier, nominee, GeoNames feature code, MAME ROM, Encyclopædia Britannica contributor identifier, Turkish Football Federation manager ID, Turkish Football Federation player ID, transfermarkt manager id, transfermarkt footballer id, metasubclass of, homoglyph, stage reached, conversion to standard unit, literal translation, transliteration, language, narrator, number of seasons, voltage, PORT person ID, Panarctic Flora ID, gender of a scientific name of a genus, J. Paul Getty Museum artist id, Thyssen-Bornemisza artist id, takeoff roll, expected completeness, RePEc Short-ID, grid global research id, Xeno-canto species ID, service ribbon image, Berlin cultural heritage ID, FIE identifier
 * Newest WikiProjects: Broadcasting
 * New feature/gadget requests: disambiguator tool, tool to move statements from one item to another
 * Development
 * Attending the Wikimedia Developer Summit
 * Are you a student looking for a thesis topic with impact? There might be some around Wikidata for you. Get in touch with Lydia if interested.
 * More work on moving identifiers to their own section and having a separate datatype for them
 * Fixed the problem where you could add links to non-existing files on Commons (T87263)
 * We're adding a "latest" link for the JSON dumps (T72247)
 * Fixed a bug in the monolingual text datatype when changing the language (T95419)
 * More work on making it possible to show all languages for a given item without the label lister gadget
 * Security review for the ArticlePlaceholder is done \o/
 * References in the ArticlePlaceholder are now shown more similar to how they are shown in a regular article (at the bottom)
 * SPARQL queries display directly when link to query.wikidata.org is opened
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Wikidata weekly summary #192
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;"> <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 11:21, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikipedia turned 15. Happy birthday, big sister!
 * Fifteen years ago, Wikipedia was a very different place: Magnus Manske
 * Wikipedia just turned 15 years old. Will it survive 15 more?
 * Slides for talk by Lucie and Adam at the birthday party in NYC
 * Doing research on Wikidata? Consider submitting to OpenSym.
 * Past: ODI summit (video of talk "Making every human gene accessible and linkable" by Andra Waagmeester)
 * Past: StrepHit IEG kick-off (video, slides)
 * Upcoming: ORCID outreach meeting
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Module:Cycling race generates a list of stages and winners for cycling races
 * Great use of the Listeria bot to create an artwork gallery
 * Wikidata-lang - library to get language code from a Wikidata item for a language
 * Live-stream of Wikidata edits by Magnus
 * Wikipedia tools for Google Spreadsheet now has a Wikidata function
 * Yair rand wrote a user script to experiment with how changes are shown in recent changes and watchlist
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Theatricalia person ID, Theatricalia theatre ID, Global Geoparks Network ID, judicial sentence, allcinema film identifier
 * Development
 * Students worked on new datatype to capture mathematical expressions (T67397)
 * Updated property suggester data to give you more up-to-date suggestions when adding new statements
 * Pages in the module namespace now also get interwiki links (T123234)
 * Reduced number of resource loader modules to improve performance (T123233)
 * Started experimenting with showing an image in the header area (T119493)
 * Fixed a bug where the query text would be moved off the screen on the query service website (T120196)
 * Worked on the remaining blocker for taking the in other projects sidebar out of beta. We need to link to the Commons category and not gallery for articles without frying the servers (T94989)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.