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Wikidata weekly summary #276
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Chandigarh, India - September 9-10
 * Doctoral Advisor or Medical Condition: Towards Entity-specific Rankings of Knowledge Base Properties, by Simon Razniewski et al.
 * ctj rdf: Part One, showing linking text minded data to Wikidata with SPARQL.
 * Creating parliament charts with Wikidata by Knut
 * The great Wikipedia bot-pocalypse by Aaron Halfaker on WMF's blog
 * When Westminster Was Wikified, by Luca Martinelli


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New admin: congrats to علاء
 * Open Library, the biggest resource of freely-licensed books, now links to Wikidata (through Reasonator) and to VIAF (example here; see "Wikidata" in the right-hand column).
 * With 200 attendees, the WikidataCon is now complete. Thanks all for your enthusiasm \o/ If you registered on the waitlist or submitted a talk, check your mailbox for more information.
 * The WikidataCon program will be released this week, and we will call for volunteers soon


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: THL Simplified Phonetic Transcription, Tibetan pinyin, Wylie transliteration, Australian Women's Register ID, iconographic symbol, slope, angle from vertical


 * Query examples:
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0A%23%20Carte%20des%20pays%20selon%20la%20ville%20de%20naissance%20du%20cr%C3%A9ateur%20de%20la%20peinture%20ayant%20le%20plus%20de%20liens%20Wikimedia%20%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fq%20%3FqLabel%20%3Fnb%20%3Fpays%20%3FpaysLabel%20%3Floc%20%3Fimage%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%09%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%09SELECT%20%28MAX%28%3Fnb%29%20AS%20%3Fnb%29%20%3Fpays%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fq%20%28wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%29%20wd%3AQ3305213%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fq%20wdt%3AP170%20%3Fcrea.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcrea%20wdt%3AP19%20%3Fvillenaissance%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fvillenaissance%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fpays.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fq%20wikibase%3Asitelinks%20%3Fnb%0A%09%09%7D%0A%09%09GROUP%20BY%20%3Fpays%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20HAVING%20%28%3Fnb%3E1%29%0A%09%09ORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fnb%29%0A%09%7D%0A%09%3Fq%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ3305213%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fq%20wdt%3AP170%20%3Fcrea.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fcrea%20wdt%3AP19%20%3Fvillenaissance%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fvillenaissance%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fpays.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%7B%3Fq%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fq%20wikibase%3Asitelinks%20%3Fnb%20.%0A%09%3Fpays%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Floc%20.%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20%23BabelRainbow%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22fr%2Cen%2Car%2Cbe%2Cbg%2Cbn%2Cca%2Ccs%2Cda%2Cde%2Cel%2Ces%2Cet%2Cfa%2Cfi%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%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%7D The most famous painting from each country] (source)
 * Ranking universities according to PageRank (source)
 * Actors who were casted in two different films with the same name (source)
 * Newest external tool: official map for Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 displays cultural heritage monuments worldwide, using Wikidata
 * Newest database reports: Mireille Darc filmography, given names by soundex


 * Development
 * Looked into all the things necessary to make it possible to store forms and senses on Lexeme pages.
 * Worked more on caching constraints checks results which is needed to enable constraints checks for all logged-in users (T173696)
 * Making progress on checking constraints also on qualifiers and references (T168532)
 * Removed language fallback hints for dialects to make the UI less cluttered for them and make it less necessary to enter labels and descriptions for them (T174318)
 * Fixed an issue that links to an item were not showing the label when it pointed to a redirect (T96553)
 * Unrecognized input in entity selectors will be highlighted in red (T170531)
 * Added language code fr-ca for monolingual text input (T151186)
 * Added an additional normalization for page titles when linking pages on Wiktionary via Cognate (T172987)
 * The API will not only output the hashes for qualifier snaks, but also for main snaks as well as references snaks (T174692). Note that hashes (other than IDs) are not meant to be stable identifiers, and should not be stored for a longer time.
 * Snak hashes will also appear as part of CSS classes in entity pages (T171725)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #277
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * RDFIO: extending Semantic MediaWiki for interoperable biomedical data management - Paper demonstrating interoperatility between WikiData and Semantic MediaWiki, among other things.
 * Données structurées, la puissance de Wikidata au service de Wikimedia Commons - French-language article by Rama about Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons.
 * Europeana is interested in linking its new Entity Collection to Wikidata, and will talk about this at the WikidataCon.
 * Upcoming (21.9.2017): "Wikidata as a linking hub for knowledge organization systems? Integrating an authority mapping into Wikidata and learning lessons for KOS mapping". Presentation by Joachim Neubert at the 17th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop, TPDL 2017 Conference, Thessaloniki (Greece)
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Zurich, one day dedicated to Wikidata and the Query Service in Zurich, Switzerland, September 14th
 * Upcoming: Monthly Wikidata meetup in Paris, France, September 15th
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Kolkata, India, September 16th and 17th
 * Past: Wikidata workshop in Chandigarh, India


 * WikidataCon
 * The program of the WikidataCon is now published on-wiki. You will find there a lot of different formats, topics and speakers, during the two days of the conference.
 * The official visuals have also be released! Check out the conference logo and the volunteers visual, both designed by Bleeptrack under CC-BY-SA.
 * The event is now complete, no more tickets available. The last tickets have been attributed to the first persons who registered on the waitlist. If some more seats get free because another attendee cancels participation, the next person on the waitlist will be informed.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Q39000000 was created
 * Wikidata passed 7 average statements per item
 * The ArticlePlaceholder is now deployed on Albanian Wikipedia


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: danskfilmogtv title ID, Billboard artist ID, Italian National Earthquake Center ID, Flemish organization for Immovable Heritage person ID, Foursquare username, The Times of India Topic ID, ROARMAP ID, WFD Chemical status, PagesJaunes ID, Christie's creator id, Google Play Music album ID, Google Play Music artist ID, Graphic character set global ID, cytogenetic location, category for employees of the organization, CNPS taxon ID, Familypedia person ID, LNH player ID, Alljudo athlete ID, Rivers.gov river ID


 * Query examples:
 * Places of education of the UK members of Parliament (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23Churches%2C%20with%20another%20church%20really%20close%20by%0A%0ASELECT%20%3Fchurch%20%3FchurchLabel%20%3Fchurchloc%20%3Fdist%20%3Fother%20%3FotherLabel%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20%3Fchurch%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ16970%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20this%20thing%20is%20a%20church%0A%20%20%3Fchurch%20wdt%3AP17%20wd%3AQ145%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20and%20it%27s%20in%20the%20UK%0A%20%20%3Fchurch%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fchurchloc%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20and%20it%20has%20a%20location%0A%20%20%3Fother%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ16970%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20another%20thing%20is%20also%20a%20church%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Aaround%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fother%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fotherloc%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Acenter%20%3Fchurchloc%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Aradius%20%220.025%22%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20and%20is%20pretty%20much%20exactly%20on%20the%20same%20spot%20%28%C2%B125m%29%0A%20%20%7D%20%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28STR%28%3Fchurch%29%20%3E%20STR%28%3Fother%29%29%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20filter%20so%20each%20pair%20only%20shows%20up%20once%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND%28geof%3Adistance%28%3Fchurchloc%2C%20%3Fotherloc%29%20as%20%3Fdist%29%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3Fdist Pairs of churches in the UK that are within 25 metres of each other] (source)
 * National parks in India (source)
 * Persons buried more than 13000 km away from their death place (warning: some errors needing correction)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject India
 * Newest user scripts: Overpass (adds a map showing features tagged, in OpenStreetMap, with the ID of the current Wikidata item, if any)


 * Development
 * The new Echo notification is now deployed on all wikis
 * Looked into further possible improvements for change dispatching
 * Worked on persistently storing edits in more parts of a Lexeme
 * Worked on getting expanded URIs for identifiers into the RDF exports (T121274)
 * Continued work on caching constraints results so we can roll it out for more users (T173696)
 * Fixing a bug that highlights input in value fields as not recognized when it shouldn't be (T175525)
 * Released version 2.1.0 of the [//github.com/wmde/WikibaseSerializationJavaScript Serialization JavaScript component] (T174011)
 * Released version 2.0.0 of the [//github.com/DataValues/DataValues DataValues base component] (T168681)
 * Released version 0.9.0 of the [//github.com/wmde/DataValuesJavaScript DataValues JavaScript component] (T172916)
 * Released version 0.8.6 of the [//github.com/DataValues/Time DataValues Time component] (T151088)

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
 * 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!

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:49, 11 September 2017 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #278
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Wahldaten Workshop 2017 – 30 September 2017 in Vienna, Austria
 * Upcoming: Wikimedia Research Showcase
 * Past: Wikidata workshop in Zurich (the slides of the speakers are linked on the page)
 * Past: GLAMhack Wikidata workshop in Lausanne (see the slides of the Query Service introduction)
 * Past: Wikidata workshop in Kolkata, India
 * Bridging real and fictional worlds in Wikidata, by Martin Poulter
 * Weekend at the Museum (of Brittany), by Envel Le Hir
 * Wiki Loves Monuments und Wikidata, by SW
 * The French Connection at the Wikimania 2017 Hackathon, by Envel Le Hir


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata ontology explorer: creates a tree of a class or property, shows common properties and statements
 * Join the mysterious group of Wikidata:Flashmob who improve labels, or summon them on an item
 * A breaking change to the wbcheckconstraints API output format was announced
 * Q40000000 was created
 * Improvements coming soon to Recent Changes
 * Several new catalogs in Mix'n'Match incl. Encyclopædia Britannica, National Gallery artists and ArtCyclopedia


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: United Nations Treaty Series Registration Number, Sefaria ID, ICD-10-CM, Encyclopedia of Australian Science ID, Indonesian Small Islands Directory ID, Cyworld ID, IPA Braille, category contains, Enciclopedia Italiana ID, United Nations Treaty Series Volume Number, National Criminal Justice ID, order of battle, Tyrolean Art Cadastre inventory ID, shelf life, UK Electoral Commission ID, LNB Pro A player ID, nLab ID, highest observed lifespan, Unicode hex codepoint, PACTOLS thesaurus ID, Bashkir encyclopedia (Russian version) ID, Bashkir encyclopedia (Bashkir version) ID


 * Query examples:
 * Algorithms and the problems they solve (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20map%20of%20Swiss%20items%20with%20article%20in%20exactly%20one%20of%20German-%2C%20French-%2C%20Italian-%2C%20and%20Romansh-language%20Wikipedias%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Ftitle%29%20AS%20%3FitemLabel%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Flocation%29%20AS%20%3Flocation%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Flanguage%29%20AS%20%3Flayer%29%20WITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%2a%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ39%20p%3AP1332%2Fpsv%3AP1332%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLatitude%20%3Fn%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP1333%2Fpsv%3AP1333%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLatitude%20%3Fs%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP1334%2Fpsv%3AP1334%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLongitude%20%3Fe%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP1335%2Fpsv%3AP1335%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLongitude%20%3Fw.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25switzerlandBoundingBox%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20VALUES%20%3Fwiki%20%7B%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fde.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Ffr.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fit.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Frm.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP17%20wd%3AQ39%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Flocation.%0A%20%20%3Farticle%20a%20schema%3AArticle%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fitem%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Fwiki%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3AinLanguage%20%3Flanguage%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3Aname%20%3Ftitle.%0A%20%20%23%20filter%20out%20some%20stray%20results%20that%20have%20country%20Switzerland%20but%20coordinates%20outside%20it%20%28e.%E2%80%AFg.%20rivers%29%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25switzerlandBoundingBox.%0A%20%20BIND%28geof%3Alatitude%28%3Flocation%29%20AS%20%3Flat%29%0A%20%20BIND%28geof%3Alongitude%28%3Flocation%29%20AS%20%3Flon%29%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3Fs%20%3C%3D%20%3Flat%20%26%26%20%3Flat%20%3C%3D%20%3Fn%20%26%26%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fw%20%3C%3D%20%3Flon%20%26%26%20%3Flon%20%3C%3D%20%3Fe%29%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%0AHAVING%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fwiki%29%20%3D%201%29 Swiss items with article in exactly one of German-, French-, Italian-, and Romansh-language Wikipedias] (source)
 * Popular gender-neutral given names (source)
 * Computer network protocols and their ports (source)
 * Software developers by number of software titles (source)
 * Spacecraft and what they were named after (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject property constraints


 * Development
 * Worked more on the constraints gadget in order to make it also qork for references and qualifiers
 * Made progress on persistently storing edits for the new Lexeme entity type (next to items and properties)
 * Worked on the RDF mapping for full URIs of external identifiers (T121274)

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
 * 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!

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:36, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

Bernina railway
Re this, it removed the map. What needs doing to get it back (apart from reverting your change)?.-- JohnBlackburne wordsdeeds 06:26, 21 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Oops, sorry, I've added it back. Cases like this where the topic crosses a border aren't supported by the Wikidata code, so it needs the maplocin to be specified for now, and I accidentally removed that along with the rest of the code. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 10:48, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

Thanks!
Hi Mike, thank you for your comments at my RfA. Your support is much appreciated! ansh 666 20:43, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 September 2017
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Wikidata weekly summary #279
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: Wikimedia Research Showcase - A Glimpse into Babel: An Analysis of Multilinguality in Wikidata
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop about the Austrian election data, September 30th, Vienna
 * Upcoming: The next IRC office hour will take place on November 14th, 19:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2) on the channel #wikimedia-office
 * Weekend at the Museum (of Brittany)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata's 5th birthday is about 1 month away. Time to think about birthday presents? ;-)
 * Siri shows more information based on Wikidata in iOS 11
 * 2 funding proposals are looking for comments and support: soweego and CrossWikiFact
 * Quick graph of the relation of the number of labels in a given language on Wikidata and the number of first language speakers of that language


 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: candidate number, maximal rate of climb, refine date, regular expression syntax, vocalized name, webcam page URL, Heritage Building in Finland ID, PatientLikeMe symptom ID, PatientLikeMe treatment ID, PatientLikeMe condition ID, Figshare author ID
 * Query examples: standards bodies by number of standards they are connected to (source)


 * Development
 * Rolled out more fine-grained usage tracking on Greek Wikipedia. This will lead to less irrelevant changes showing up in watchlist and recent changes on those projects. We're testing this on Greek Wikipedia to see if the solution we have scales before rolling it out further. (T151717)
 * Adding an API module to copy a statement from one item to another (T55619)
 * Working more on checking constraints also on qualifiers and references (T168532)
 * Added support for the Creator namespace to the constraints check for Commons links (T176062)
 * Fixed an error message on Special:GoToLinkedPage (T176327)
 * Finishing touches on including full URIs for external IDs in the RDF export (T121274)

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
 * 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!

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 20:52, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

Template:infobox journal
Moved to Template_talk:Infobox_journal. Mike Peel (talk) 00:40, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

RE: Maximum number of values to retrieve?
Hi Mike, I stumbled upon your question at Module talk:WikidataIB. You could simply use wikidata for that, using the singular command form :



By default, it takes the highest ranking claims. So in this case, using the plural  gives the same result:



Unless you provide the  flag:



Then you can also see the effect of the singular :



Cheers. thayts 💬  10:09, 30 September 2017 (UTC)
 * That's good to know, thanks! I'd prefer to keep using WikidataIB for this for now though, since it has extra parameters/functionality for infoboxes (e.g. suppressfields). Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 14:48, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

This Month in Education: September 2017
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Flowers
Hi Mike! Did you see the desert flower? Cheers, Johnbod (talk) 14:49, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – October 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2017). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Boing! said Zebedee • Ansh666 • Ad Orientem
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Tonywalton • AmiDaniel • Silence • BanyanTree • Magioladitis • Vanamonde93 • Mr.Z-man • Jdavidb • Jakec • Ram-Man • Yelyos • Kurt Shaped Box

Guideline and policy news
 * Following a successful proposal to create it, a new user right called "edit filter helper" is now assignable and revocable by administrators. The right allows non-administrators to view the details of private edit filters, but not to edit them.
 * Following a discussion about mass-application of ECP and how the need for logging and other details of an evolving consensus may have been missed by some administrators, a rough guide to extended confirmed protection has been written. This information page describes how the extended-confirmed aspects of the protection policy are currently being applied by administrators.

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Wikidata weekly summary #280
<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
 * Using Wikidata data, fixing wrong Wikipedia and Wikidata tags, by Mateusz Konieczny
 * One Knowledge Graph to Rule Them All? Analyzing the Differences Between DBpedia, YAGO, Wikidata & co
 * Modeling the Domain of Digital Preservation in Wikidata
 * Wikidata as a linking hub for knowledge organization systems? Integrating an authority mapping into Wikidata and learning lessons for KOS mappings (Paper and presentation), by Joachim Neubert, NKOS Workshop 2017 at TPDL
 * Knowledge exploration in public linked data ontologies


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


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


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


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

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Please stop your disruption
When an RfC is started to move an infobox back to a non-Wikidata version (with so far not a lot of participation, but only you defending your Wikidata version), it is highly disruptive to scramble to migrate as many infoboxes as possible to your preferred version, making it unnecessary harder to revert to the other version if that is the decision. Edits like [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hevsel_Gardens&diff=prev&oldid=803683585 this and the many others you have amde are a weak attempt to go for the "fait accompli" instead of having a decent, fundamental discussion. Please revert these edits and discuss the real issues. Fram (talk) 04:36, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

Infobox World Heritage Site
Several articles that use this template for sites in Mexico are now displaying a map of the US. Since you edited this today, I presume it is something you did. See Pinos (Zacatecas) for an example. <b style="color:#00FF00">MB</b> 03:53, 6 October 2017 (UTC)
 * It looks like this was due to vandalism that has been reverted. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 11:53, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: September 2017
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Wikidata weekly summary #281
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


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


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


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


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


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

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References in infoboxes
Re: Apparently infoboxes shouldn't include references, WP:INFOBOXREF says that a footnote isn't necessary if a fact is footnoted in the main text, but references in infoboxes are permitted in general and required in certain cases. So although the edit was correct, the edit comment risks misunderstanding.

Nonetheless, thanks for fixing. As a matter of curiosity, how, exactly, does one edit a statement on wikidata? At https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1827255 I see one edit link at the very top (to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:SetLabelDescriptionAliases/Q1827255/en) for the "Label, Description, and Aliases", and one for each of the numerous interwiki link boxes at the bottom (to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:SetSiteLink/Q1827255), but can't see how to update the individual statements.

I can see how to undo your edit, but (for example) what's the URL for editing Property:P729 of item Q1827255? 37.72.175.86 (talk) 01:34, 13 October 2017 (UTC)
 * On references in infoboxes: these can be shown from Wikidata, try using  in the article, but this was changed from the default to an option recently as apparently infoboxes shouldn't include references. You're right that that's not quite right, but it's a sore point with me at the moment, sorry.


 * On the edit links, are you using a mobile device to edit? If so, then I think editing statements is turned off in that interface (I don't know why). Please try switching to the desktop view, and you should have edit links next to each item. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 02:07, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

Roller Coaster Corporation of America
Hi Mike,

I think this is a Wikidata question, but I am really not sure, which is why I am asking you, rather than finding a relevant forum... I'm not actually sure what the appropriate forum would be.

I came across the article Roller Coaster Corporation of America. This defunct company has it's old website in the article's infobox, even though that address has been bought by someone else.

The website isn't in the infobox in the article's source. The wikidata item Q7361020 has the website, so I assume Wikipedia is pulling it from there.

The French Wikipedia also has the website, and has an "archive" link, which doesn't seem to work for me, but I have managed to find their old site on the Wayback machine. I think the French archive link was generated automatically when the link was added to the French Wikipedia

Not sure what the best thing to do is. Remove the URL from the wikidata object? Link to the (working) archive somehow from Wikidata? What do you think?

As an aside, the archive I link to above if from after the company folded... at least according to the article... but the archived text says "As the next millennium approaches", so I'm guessing it hadn't been updated for a while!

Yaris678 (talk) 03:38, 7 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I missed this earlier. It does look like it's being fetched from Wikidata, although that should be more clearly marked. I suspect the best thing to do is to update the URL on wikidata to the archived version, or add it as a second URL there and mark it as 'preferred' (use the little icons to the left of where you enter the URL). Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 02:10, 13 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks Mike. I haven't edited Wikidata before.  I've now done this.  I think that option makes the most sense.  Yaris678 (talk) 20:13, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #282
Wikidata weekly summary #282

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

Wikidata infobox error
Heya, I noticed that you made this edit to The Actor (painting) in June which is presumably what is presently causing the date-related errors in the infobox. The relevant data is on Q3041737 on Wikidata, but it looks like the template is having trouble with that. I'm not especially knowledgeable about this sort of thing, but I wanted to bring it to your attention since you might know what to do. Thanks. —Atvelonis (talk) 22:45, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
 * I've just had a look but I can't spot any errors. Are they still there, or might you have been viewing a cached version? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 22:55, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Ah, that would be it. Nevermind then! —Atvelonis (talk) 22:59, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Great. :) BTW, if you spot problems with wikidata infoboxes in the future, you can always locally override values as you would normally do. And I'm always happy to help debug them as needed. :-) Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 23:12, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

Semiautomatic WikiData editing
I know you've been working with WikiData for some time. Could you advise or direct me to a good resource for doing this? I'm trying to check and/or add a parameter to a template which draws from WikiData ( for all of its 42k transclusions) and I'm unsure how to proceed. Thanks. ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 17:01, 21 October 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm not too sure how to do this - most of the edits I've been making on wikidata have been manual/gamified. Perhaps have a look at d:Help:QuickStatements, or ask at d:Wikidata:Project chat. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 17:10, 21 October 2017 (UTC)

The Signpost: 23 October 2017
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