User talk:Mike Peel/Archive 25

Wikidata weekly summary #255
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Zolo
 * New request for comments: Proposed client side disambiguation page


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * The Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) helps unlock millions of connections between scholarly research, on WMF blog, by Dario Taborelli
 * Le canal de Nantes à Brest sur Wikidata (fr) by Édouard Hue
 * Comprende!, a quiz interface on top of MediaWiki/WikiBase by Magnus Manske
 * Next Wikidata meetup in Berlin: April 26th, 18:00 in WMDE's office


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Deadline for submitting a talk, workshop or roundtable for Wikimania is today, April 10th, at midnight (UTC)!
 * There's now also a #100wikidays challenge on Wikidata, aptly named #100wikidatadays! It is a personal challenge in which a person very significantly improves (at least) one Wikidata items per day, for 100 days in a row. There was already a version of the challenge on various Wikipedias, on Commons and on Wikisource - now on Wikidata as well. Participate and make Wikidata shine!
 * New filters for Recent Changes: the beta deployment is rescheduled on May 9th
 * Grant application to extend the work of John Commings at UNESCO
 * New MapRoulette challenges: Add missing Wikidata ids to cities and capitals on OpenStreetMap
 * You can be a candidate for the Wikimedia Foundation's board of trustees
 * Log of the last IRC office hour with Wikidata development team
 * Help us translating this short message in your language


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: TV Guide person ID, Deutsche Synchronkartei film ID, DLV athlete ID


 * Query examples:
 * Notable integers
 * Longest streets of Moscow
 * Top 20 of heaviest humans in Wikidata (source)
 * Timeline of Paris marathons (source)
 * Countries not involved in any world war (source)
 * People whose place of birth is named after them (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Figure skating
 * Newest external tools: Sistercities, an overview of sister cities of German cities on Wikipedia and Wikidata
 * Newest database reports: list of duos


 * Development
 * Preparing for making more ArticlePlaceholder indexable by search engines on Welsh Wikipedia (T162244)
 * Preparing the deployments of Cognate and geoshape data type
 * Lexemes: starting adding sections for forms and senses

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


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

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This Month in GLAM: March 2017
About This Month in GLAM · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 17:26, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

Please support the Sustainability Initiative!
Hi, Mike Peel! Please allow me to follow up on a project that was discussed at the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin a couple of weeks ago:

I am writing you to ask for your support for the Sustainability Initiative, which aims at reducing the environmental impact of the Wikimedia movement. Over the past two years, more than 250 Wikipedians from all over the world have come together to push the Wikimedia movement towards greater sustainability.

The Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation has recently passed a resolution stating that the Foundation is committed to seeking ways to reduce the impact of its activities on the environment. Now, we are working with the Wikimedia Foundation staff to have all Wikimedia servers run on renewable energy by 2019.

In order to demonstrate that this is an issue that the community really cares about, I would like to ask you to sign the project page as well. Thank you! --Gnom (talk) 15:55, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #256
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 

= Events/Press/Blogs =
 * Wikidata workshop in Paris, Friday, April 21st, about external tools
 * "Wikidata pour la science" training day in Paris, April 24th
 * Heritage in Flanders and Crowd-Sourced Projects - featuring Wikidata, Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap
 * The ACS Spring disclosures of 2017 #1 - about news drug compounds entering Wikidata

= Other Noteworthy Stuff =
 * Attention: Editing will be disabled during parts of April 19 and May 3, to allow a server switch
 * Wikidata description editing in the Wikipedia Android app to be deployed on several Wikipedias
 * More federated endpoints have been added (DBpedia, INSEE, UK Office for National Statistics...)
 * All UNESCO sites in Wikishootme
 * You can now cheat Stadt Fluss Land game with a query ;)
 * To be deployed on Monday, April 24th: new datatype for geoshapes and Cognate on Wiktionaries

= Did you know? =


 * Newest properties: type of reference, suicide rate, Italian Navy Lighthouses and Beacons ID, MyDramaList name ID, iTunes app ID, Wormbase Gene ID, Environment Ontology ID, route diagram, cinenacional.com person ID, Quebec municipalities geographical code, LombardiaBeniCulturali artwork ID, Soundtrack Collector ID, Rat Genome Database ID, FlyBase Gene ID, cinenacional.com movie ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali toponym ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali institution ID, Irish Rugby Football Union ID, Open Library subject ID, DBC author ID


 * Query examples:
 * The 500 most important paintings, according to Wikidata sitelinks (source)
 * The most important works in German by Wiki* articles (source)
 * Cities in France starting with the letter W (source)
 * Newest external tools: Wikinity displays a map of items near any given place
 * Newest database reports: list of anthology films

= Development =
 * More work on support for Forms and Lexemes (T160052)
 * Adding monolingual language code UMU (T160531)
 * Fixing a bug about Commons gallery and category (T161826)
 * Improving header image gadget (T160530)
 * Provide a special page to list all available badges (T114473)
 * Show supported data formats in Special:EntityData (T162870)
 * Track the number of identifier properties on an item (T114617)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #257
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * The Wikidata data model and your SPARQL queries by Bob DuCharme
 * Wikidata meetup in Berlin, Wednesday, April 26th in WMDE's office
 * Datensummit by OKFN, April 29th, in Berlin


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Editing will be disabled during parts of May 3rd, to allow a server switch
 * Deployed on Monday, April 24th: new datatype for geoshapes and Cognate on Wiktionaries


 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: PictoRight ID-Droit de suite, observing time available, MetaboLights Compound ID, Swiss Federal Archives ID, Boijmans artist ID, KVAB member ID, number of perpetrators, History of Modern Biomedicine ID, Tilastopaja male athlete ID, Red Bull athlete ID, Tilastopaja female athlete ID, National Track & Field Hall of Fame athlete ID, Caverphone, Cologne phonetics, Soundex, HappyCow restaurant ID, category for alumni of educational institution, Justia Patents company ID, Justia Patents inventor ID, daily patronage, patronage, tributary orientation, ZFIN gene ID, IAFD female-born performer ID, MyDramaList title ID, Israel Chess Federation player ID, LAWA waterbody ID
 * Query examples:
 * Place of birth of the candidates to French presidency since 1958 (source)
 * Oldest given names on Wikidata (source)
 * Cocktails and their ingredients (source)
 * Cities in UK named after a patron saint (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Wikiproject Terrorism
 * New template: d:Template:Film festivals


 * Development
 * Changing Special:NewProperty to not have a datatype selected by default (T138295)
 * Restoration of deleted items broken on Wikidata (T163144)
 * Making notifications when page is being connected to Wikidata ready to deploy (T110604)
 * Writing basic documentation for WikibaseMediaInfo extension (T159710)
 * Hiding header image gadget when sitelinks are floated below the statement section (T160530)
 * Making the "add" button display the "add Form" form (T162342)
 * Getting the datatype to link to tabular data sets on Commons ready to deploy (T160048)
 * Showing supported data formats in Special:EntityData (T162870)
 * Setting meta name="description" on article placeholders (T157466)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


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

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This Month in Education: [April 2017]
 This Month in Education  Volume 6 | Issue 3 | April 2017

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Wikidata weekly summary #258
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: FOSSnorth (Gothenburg), where Lydia gave a keynote about Wikidata
 * Past: Wikidata meetup in Berlin
 * Past: Datensummit in Berlin, organized by OKFN, where we introduced Wikidata and the query service
 * Combining Forces with the Wikipedia Universe - by Songkick, about their data donation
 * Introducing Wikimedian in Residence, Mr Andy Mabbett - by The History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Attention: Editing will be disabled for an hour on May 3rd, to allow a server switch
 * New filters for the Recent Changes will be deployed on May 9th. (more info)
 * new data type for tabular data to be deployed on May 15th
 * Try our new script that displays constraint violations on the item pages
 * Get involved in the movement strategy for Wikidata
 * Query the Mediawiki API with the Query Service? Give us your feedbacks
 * Documentation on using OpenRefine to match from a data set you have to items in Wikidata


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Canadian Coastguard Lighthouse ID, contributed to published work, Répertoire national des associations identifier, IPA number order, UNESCO Thesaurus ID, Athletics Australia athlete ID, GuideStar Israel organization ID, MobyGames developer ID, newspaper format, STW Thesaurus for Economics ID, Bollywood Hungama ID, last words, Reprezentacija ID, LoJ peak ID, Ishim ID, GINCO ID, VIVC grape variety ID, column, had as last meal, ADAGP artist ID, CONICET person ID, Medium username


 * Query examples:
 * 15415 people who died in 2016
 * Maps of statues of Jeanne d'Arc on a horse (source)
 * Families who’ve had the same occupation for five generations (source)
 * Couples of capitals more than 19,000 km away from each other (source)
 * A ten-persons “surname = given name” chain on Wikidata (source)
 * Newest database reports: list of newspapers by newspaper format


 * Development
 * Working on Lexeme support - specifically grammatical features of Forms of a Lexeme and statements on Forms
 * Finishing touches on a new notification type for Echo. This will notify the creator of an article when it has been connected to an item on Wikidata.
 * The new d:Special:AvailableBadges list all badges that can be used for sitelinks.
 * Discussed implementation plan for Multi Content Revisions which are a building block for structured data on Commons (T107595)
 * Worked on feedback for the constraints API and user script
 * Worked on database and access improvements to take load off a much-used database table

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


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

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2017). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Karanacs • Berean Hunter • GoldenRing • Dlohcierekim
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Gdr • Tyrenius • JYolkowski • Longhair • Master Thief Garrett • Aaron Brenneman • Laser brain • JzG • Dragons flight

Guideline and policy news
 * An RfC has clarified that user categories should be emptied upon deletion, but redlinked user categories should not be removed if re-added by the user.
 * Discussions are ongoing regarding proposed changes to the COI policy. Changes so far have included clarification that adding a link on a Wikipedia forum to a job posting is not a violation of the harassment policy.

Technical news
 * You can now see a list of all autoblocks at Special:AutoblockList.
 * There is a new tool for adding archives to dead links. Administrators are able to restrict other user's ability to use the tool, and have additional permissions when changing URL and domain data.
 * Administrators, bureaucrats and stewards can now set an expiry date when granting user rights. (discuss, permalink)

Miscellaneous
 * Following an RfC, the editing restrictions page is now split into a list of active restrictions and an archive of those that are old or on inactive accounts. Make sure to check both pages if searching for a restriction.

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Wikidata and Infobox
Referring to the use of Wikidata in infobox, I would like to know how you are achieving this in World Heritage Site Infobox. Please refer to the discussion. Jsamwrites (talk) 12:17, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #259
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Updating References for External Data


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Registration is open for the Celtic Knot Conference 2017 (July 6th, Edinburgh)
 * Pre-hackathon of the Wikimedia Hackathon, May 12th-14th in Prague
 * Wikimedia Hackathon 2017, May 19th-21st in Vienna. On site or remotely, you can join the Wikidata documentation sprint


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Vote in the board election (see also Voter guides and rationales
 * Sitelinks for the new Doteli Wikipedia (dtywiki) can be added
 * You can now track the number of identifier properties for an item
 * We provide weekly a new type of database dumps: nt truthy dumps
 * Wikipedia article-draft-generator developed by Pharos for Met Museum project
 * Schema.org proposes to encourage the use of Wikidata as a common entity base for the target of the sameAs relation


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: light sector, Wikidata SPARQL query equivalent, Canadian Coastguard Lighthouse ID, contributed to published work


 * Query examples:
 * All places (with coordinates) that gave its name to something (source)
 * Paintings depicting monkeys (source)
 * Artworks with presumably depicted persons (source)
 * Newest database reports: list of oldest lighthouses


 * Development
 * Worked more on support for lexicographical data (specifically support for lexicographic category and statements on forms)
 * Dealt with issues after the deployment of automatic interwiki links for Wiktionary
 * Worked on constraint violation user script based on your feedback (improving messages to make it more understandable, layout, etc)
 * Add support for the following new language codes for monolingual text properties: brx, chn, cop, gez, quc, kjh, nr (will become available in a few days)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


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

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This Month in GLAM: April 2017
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Wikidata in infoboxes
Hello, I have created a few wrappers with WikidataIB at Infobox deity/Wikidata, Infobox character/Wikidata and Infobox royalty/Wikidata. Can you please review them once? Thanks -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · [//tools.wmflabs.org/xtools-ec/?user=Capankajsmilyo&project=en.wikipedia.org count])  22:39, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Just to say that I've noticed this, and I'll get back to you about it soon. (If I don't, please prod me again!). Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 13:03, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #260
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Discussions
 * Development input: Client editing prototype


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: Pre-hackathon of the Wikimedia Hackathon, May 12th-14th in Prague (see a video of the Wikidata and SPARQL training)
 * Upcoming: Wikimedia Hackathon 2017, May 19th-21st in Vienna. On site or remotely, you can join the Wikidata documentation sprint
 * Upcoming: WikiCite, May 23rd-25th in Vienna
 * Next Wikidata meetup in Berlin: June 7th in WikiBÄR
 * You can still register for the Wikidata/election data hackathon in Ulm, Germany (June 23-25)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Discuss the movement strategy on Wikidata. The Cycle 2 started on May, 11.
 * WikidataCon: join the program committee and other teams!
 * TwoColConflict is now enabled on Wikidata
 * OSMgadget is a tool to help Wikipedia editors find objects in OpenStreetMap, and tag them with their Wikidata IDs
 * The OSM ↔ Wikidata matcher tool
 * Two language properties will be merged but the discussion still needs to go on
 * Tabular data files datatype is now enabled
 * The constraint table has been updated


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: NLL player ID, Italian Senate ID, ALPG golfer ID, Stereo Ve Mono artist ID, BioRxiv ID, narrower external class, Juwra.com ID, MLL player ID, Directorio Grierson ID, RANM member ID, Old Bailey Proceedings ID, Tumblr ID, Bmx-results.com rider ID, Israel Antiquities Authority ID, OlimpBase Chess Olympiad player ID, ESTC citation number, named by, Reactome pathway ID, NFF person profile ID, Chamber of Deputies of Italy ID, face value, Cinema ID, Digital Valencian Library author ID, copyright owner, Rallye-info.com driver or co-driver ID, V&A item ID, MotoGP racer ID, eWRC-results.com athlete ID, USATF athlete ID, Track and Field Statistics male athlete ID, Track and Field Statistics female athlete ID, Diamond League athlete ID


 * Query examples:
 * Paintings in the Louvre Museum, with heights and widths (source)
 * Chart of USA cities founded per year (source)
 * Country flags including a symbol of sun (source)
 * Birthplace of Spanish Queen Consorts (source)


 * Development
 * More work on Special:NewLexeme page (T164582)
 * Correctly compare time values on constraints (T164279)
 * Check wording of messages/constraint check results (T164354)
 * Creating grammatical features for Forms (T160525)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


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

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Template:Wikidata location map
Can we fix this template so it doesn't add entries to Database reports/Transclusions of deleted templates/1? We fixed this in Module:Location map by (1) Checking to see if the module exists/works, and then if that fails, (2) Checking to see if the template exists/works. It's important to try the module first, before trying the template, since the plan is to eventually have all the maps in module space. I could probably fix Wikidata location map, but it would probably take me longer, and you seem to be more familiar with the code. Thanks! Plastikspork <sub style="font-size: 60%">―Œ <sup style="margin-left:-3ex">(talk) 16:47, 13 May 2017 (UTC)
 * I think I fixed a typo. At least it doesn't look like I broke it.  But, you _should_ be able to merge all of this into Module:Location map to avoid duplicating the logic already in that module, and to get the look up order to be consistent.  Also, I had to fix 3.67 m Advanced Electro Optical System Telescope since the pin was outside of the box.  Let me know if there is anything I can do to help.  Thanks! Plastikspork <sub style="font-size: 60%">―Œ <sup style="margin-left:-3ex">(talk)  22:17, 13 May 2017 (UTC)
 * I created Template:Wikidata location map/sandbox which consolidates all the duplicate code, and uses the correct ifexist ordering for checking to see if the module/template exists. I think that rather than trapping errors, we should have an optional '|error=' for location map which would further reduce the code by allowing for the removal of the 'ifexist' checks. Frietjes (talk) 13:56, 14 May 2017 (UTC)
 * That's great, thank you! It's been a long day, so I'll reply in more detail another time, but these changes look great to me! Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 21:27, 14 May 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the comments and edits with this template. It's intended as a work-around to try to fetch both the coordinate and the choice of location map from Wikidata. Unfortunately, it's not working very well at the moment as (a) it's rather clumsily coded by me (it should be in Lua, ideally as you say in the main module, but I don't know Lua), and (b) it's not obvious which parameters we can use to reliably identify the correct location map to use. I started some discussions at Module talk:Location map and on Wikidata to try to ask for help to figure this out, but they didn't get very far. Ideally right now, some more work on figuring out the right properties to use, as well as improvements in the logic for how to find the right map, would be useful - although even better would be a way to figure out the right map just by using the coordinate. Also as others that might have an interest in this issue. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 15:26, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
 * it's definitely be possible to have Module:Location map tell you if the marker is outside of the map. in fact, the items sorted under 'O' in Category:Location maps with possible errors are maps with the marker outside of the map.  I could see passing a list of maps, and having Module:Location map use the first one with the pin inside the map.  then you could say provide a list like 'San Diego County, California#USA California#USA#Earth' and it would use the first "valid" map on the list. Frietjes (talk) 12:32, 18 May 2017 (UTC)
 * That would work - in that case we could return the results of multiple parameters with the values linked together as a as a hash-separated string for the module to take its pick of. Is there a way of getting something like that implemented? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 06:24, 19 May 2017 (UTC)

Infoboxes of observatories: add link-feature
Hi Mike, not long ago you have been going through a large number of observatory-articles, adding infoboxes and migrating data. I thought of an additional feature, namely the linkage of the observatory code given in the infobox. For example, observatory code "035" for Østervold Observatory would link to List of observatory codes, since that list is now an anchored table. What do you think? Apologies if that is of no concern to you,  R fassbind  – talk  10:37, 13 May 2017 (UTC)
 * done. Please check in some articles to make sure it is working correctly. It was previously linked to from "Code" rather than the number, so I've removed that link in preference for the more direct link. That means that the link won't appear on non-Wikidata values for the observatory code, though... Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 11:21, 13 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Great, thx! Yes the anchored-links to the referenced table are A.O.K. However, I wouldn't have removed  as both links have their own merit (one explains what an observatory code is, the other gives you the corresponding entry). Best,   R fassbind  – talk  11:30, 13 May 2017 (UTC)
 * follow-up.. especially because not all articles, e.g. City Observatory show a link on the code itself (as they are still hard-coded in the article),  R fassbind  – talk  11:35, 13 May 2017 (UTC)
 * I can add that link back in easily, but it seems like duplication to have two links to the same Wikipedia article? I could also enable it for non-Wikidata values, but I'm not sure if there are articles that have been hard-coded to include links or not (if there are, then it will be a mess). I'm happy to change this line as you want, though. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 11:37, 13 May 2017 (UTC)
 * I think that two links (lead section and a table-row entry, respectively) are rather complementary than redundant. I now see that City Observatory shows a link on "Code" again. So, to my best understanding, articles with Wikidata show the anchored link (only) while non-Wikidata article show the un-anchored link (only).
 * Going through the code-list, Isaac Roberts' Observatory, observatory code 001, does not even have an infobox, although there is even an image available on Wikicommons. From my point of view, there is only one thing to do: all observatory articles with an IAU/MPC code need to be updated/migrated on Wikidata. This might involve checking a guesstimated 200–500 observatory articles, but I think its worth the effort. What do you think? Best,  R fassbind  – talk  13:37, 13 May 2017 (UTC)
 * I think the one that you saw that still showed the code link was a cached copy. I've now added back the observatory code link to *all* articles, and the direct link appears when Wikidata values are shown (and is not shown when the code is not supplied through Wikidata).
 * I've been working through all telescope infoboxes to convert them entirely to Wikidata templates; I'm planning on continuing that with observatories at some point. So I think it's definitely worth the effort, and anything you can do here would be fantastic. :-) Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 14:02, 13 May 2017 (UTC)~

Contrary to, the template does not recognize parameter code at all (example edit). An observatory code of the IAU–MPC (as defined in List of observatory codes) can refer any "entity" that reports astrometric data to the MPC, which not only includes observatories/"observatory sites" but also (dedicated) telescopes and surveys/programs.

So could parameter code be added to and  as it is not recognize/documented by/for these templates? Otherwise I cannot cross-reference the observatory code to a large fraction of articles. R fassbind – talk  11:25, 16 May 2017 (UTC)
 * I've now added that parameter to Infobox telescope (including the local parameter and the Wikidata fetch). It seems to work OK for Large Binocular Telescope. Is there an example survey which has an observatory code? Would it not make more sense to use infobox telescope in those cases, if they are the work of dedicated telescopes? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 15:00, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Thx for adding code to Infobox telescope. For, there are several listed in (search keyword: "survey", finds 20 existing articles, most of them using the survey-template. In addition, there are also some (survey) articles such as Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, IRAS and Akari (satellite), that are using ). So, I don't think it would be a good idea to use the telescope instead of a the survey template. Not every survey uses a dedicated telescope, in fact, the countless surveys made from "Palomar" (see List of observatory codes, searching for "palomar") suggests otherwise.   R fassbind  – talk  16:41, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
 * OK, it's now added to Infobox astronomical survey - see e.g. Asiago-DLR Asteroid Survey. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 20:53, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Cool, Asiago-DLR Asteroid Survey is great, linking to List of observatory codes. Well done. Thank you.  R fassbind  – talk  11:04, 21 May 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #261
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 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: MisterSynergy, Queryzo, ChristianKl


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Wahlsalon (event Codefor.de about election data): Kickoff on May 24th in Berlin
 * Upcoming: Open Science: the National Plan and you meeting for Dutch researchers: May 29th in Delft, The Netherlands
 * Current: WikiCite, May 23rd-25th in Vienna
 * Current: Met Open Access Artworks Challenge (May 15th-June 30th) help improving the data about the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art!
 * Past: Wikimedia Hackathon 2017, May 19th-21st in Vienna
 * Paper: Becoming Wikidatians: evolution of participation in a collaborative structured knowledge base (Alessandro Piscopo, Christopher Phethean, Elena Simperl)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The extension RevisionSlider is now available by default on Wikidata. Try it on a talk or project page!
 * Check out some updates about the WikidataCon
 * We reached Q30,000,000! Help us improve it and make a showcase item out of it.
 * An additional 10k article placeholders on Welsh Wikipedia will be made indexable in search engines


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Unifrance person ID, Unifrance company ID, IECIC 2015 ID, Songkick venue ID, BVMC work ID, secretary general, Nature preserve in North Rhine-Westphalia ID, PIM authority ID, PASE Domesday place, PASE Domesday person ID, channel number, signed form, CETS no., final event, programming paradigm, Bridgeman artist ID, BDCYL authority ID, Clochers de France ID, Global Trade Item Number, Unifrance film ID, Base biographique AUTOR ID, NNL work ID


 * Query examples:
 * Websites but without an official website
 * Plants with associated emoji (source)
 * Languages ordered by number of speakers (source)
 * HMDB identifiers with more than one item (source)
 * Painters with a lot of identifiers on Wikidata, but few Wikipedia articles (source)
 * Buildings with the greatest numbers of elevators (source)
 * Map of female writers on Wikidata by birthplace- generated by SPARQL query (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Counter-Vandalism, WikiProject Documentation


 * Development
 * Participating to the Wikimedia hackathon 2017, having a lot of interesting talks with users, designers, developers...
 * Helping improving the documentation for the property constraints, the beginner documentation about Wikidata, how to install Wikibase
 * Rewriting most constraint violation messages to include more useful information (T164354, help update translations)
 * Working on a tree view for the Query Service (T152676)
 * Setting up a constraints development/testing wiki
 * Moving PropertySuggester extension from github to gerrit (T104309)
 * Working on performance of change dispatching so database of wikidata goes read-only in lower rate (T162557)
 * Reducing number of duplicates rows in our database table for labels, descriptions and aliases to make it faster (T163551)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


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

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