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Wikidata weekly summary #422
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Closed request for comments: Disallow merging into newer entity


 * Events
 * Past: Wikidata Wochenende 2020 (in German)
 * Introduction to Wikidata (video)
 * Introduction to SPARQL (video)
 * Past: Cultural heritage webinar, Science Museum group. (presentations and videos)
 * Past: Wikidata Query Service exercise (in Chinese) (video)
 * Past: Wikidata in Toronto webinar with Alex Jung (video)
 * Past: Writing Wikidata queries workshop, part of the Small Wikis Toolkit series (video recording)
 * Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikibase office hour, Query Service special, July 21st at 16:00 UTC (18:00 CEST)
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Merrilee Proffitt, Chris Cyr, and Rob Fernandez on a project to surface library holdings to indicate possible notability for persons, June 30th. Agenda
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #19, July 5
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Parliament of Ghana contest, July 1st


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Lexemes in Wikidata: 2020 status, by Finn Årup Nielsen
 * Upcoming video: Live Wikidata editing #10 - with guest: YouTube, Facebook


 * Tool of the week
 * The Sourcerer edit game suggests some sources that could fit to a claim and helps people adding references easily.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikibase Live sessions is coming back with the first call about Data Modeling in the context of Libraries happening on Thursday, July 2nd at 1600 UTC.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: funder, intended subject of deprecated statement, Democracy Index, principal investigator, file page offset, strike tone, applies to name of value, entry receptor, estimated value, media franchise, Dewey Decimal Classification (works and editions), Library of Congress Classification (works and editions), Universal Decimal Classification (works and editions), Regensburg Classification (works and editions), study type, number of branches, references work, tradition or theory, Dowker-Thistlethwaite notation, qualifier for this property, gloss quote, use with property value, use with qualifier, prompt when missing, offset from vertical
 * External identifiers: Noovie person ID, NTB ID, sobory.ru ID, Philadelphia Museum of Art person ID, WorldFootball.net stadium ID, National Football Teams.com match ID, EU-Football.info stadium ID, Canadian Football League player ID, cadastral municipality number in Austria, Monasteries in the Netherlands until 1800 ID, Indonesian intangible cultural heritage, Australian Classification ID, Dansk litteraturs historie ID, DLive game ID, MuseScore artist ID, Uffizi artwork ID, MNBAQ artist ID, Cimetières de France ID, Dansk Biografisk Leksikon ID, SIUSA archival fonds ID, Odeon ID, WikiTrek ID, Nomor Pokok Wajib Pajak, Spotify songwriter ID, NVE Elvenett elvID, Proleksis enciklopedija ID, Singapore Infopedia ID, vglist video game ID, Veldkruus ID, BitterDB compound ID, Helsinki persistent building ID Ratu, SIUSA archive producer family ID, SIUSA archive producer organization ID, Museum of Family History ID, Deku Deals ID, Thesaurus Sozialwissenschaften ID, GCatholic person ID, Legacy.com person ID, Econlib ID, UNBIS Thesaurus ID, Web of Science ID, Encyclopedia Tatarica (tt) Online ID, Criminological Thesaurus ID, Crossref journal ID, Duden ID, Encyclopedia Tatarica (ru) Online ID, Directory of Afrocubanas ID, Emmys person ID, finalesrugby.fr ID, Goodreads work ID, locality number in Austria, IDU person ID, Gramophone composer ID, Foreign war churchyards in Norway ID, Riksdagen person guid, GCatholic diocese ID, PMSA ID, BBK (library and bibliographic classification), Rate Your Music release ID, QUDT quantity kind ID, Unique Property Reference Number


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: FIBA Hall of Fame, Vmusic.bg artist ID, black-and-white photograph, Gujin Tushu Jicheng link, version control system, provisions, sleeping capacity, floor area, twin town sign, floor material, intended background color, is exception to constraint, prohibits, permits, Kunya, jour équivalent dans le calendrier correspondant, context of death, inverse agonist of, seatwidth, external error, set in environment, property constraint for Commons, Dowker-Thistlethwaite name, Localised title, DOI formatter, Open Data portal, subscribed by, Knot Atlas identifier, theorised by, Knotilus identifier, KnotInfo identifier, sorting weight, character designer, image set, taxon synonym string
 * External identifiers: SPOnG game ID, Bundesinventar der historischen Verkehrswege der Schweiz (IVS), Legacy.com newspaper ID, Opera Online opera house ID, Opera Online performer ID, Opera Online conductor ID, KKBox track ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts album ID, Qobuz album ID 2, AZLyrics.com song ID, BBFC ID, FIPRESCI person ID, KBpedia ID, BWFpara.tournamentsoftware.com player ID, Maitron des fusillés ID, TheFreeDictionary medical term ID, Spanish Olympic Committee athlete ID, Naturvårdsverket Amenity ID, Supreme Court of Sweden case number, Econlib person ID, NUKAT (non-VIAF) ID, Reposcope ID, People's Representative Council of Indonesia ID, PPN ID, Oxford Bibliographies ID, Grove Art Online ID, Maniadb artist ID, Maniadb album ID, Swiss Timber Bridges, PO ID, Wikipedia Library partner ID, InciWeb, HLTV ID, Les roses cultivées à l'Haÿ en 1902 ID, Swedish Riksdag document, Church of Jesus Christ missionary ID, Church of Jesus Christ pioneer ID, Nauvoo community project ID, Dignity Memorial person ID, Oberwolfach mathematician ID, Unique Street Reference Number, TlF ID, identifiant lobbywatch.ch d'un parlementaire, identifiant Manioc livre, Bibliothèque Digital des Caraïbes, identifiant Manioc périodique, AlloCiné theater ID


 * Query examples:
 * Timeline of U.S. Presidents
 * List of MPs currently in the Sveriges riksdag (Source)
 * Map showing people buried in Père Lachaise by place of birth (Source)
 * Existing named trees in the world (Source)
 * Artworks depicting things related to a fairy tale (Source)
 * Newest database reports: no statements/enwiki


 * Development
 * It is now possible to search for EntitySchema pages using a shortcut “E:”, similar to “P:” for Properties and “L:” for Lexemes. For example: E:E10 or E:kakapo. T245529
 * Continued working on the first version of Federation, which will allow other Wikibase installations to use Wikidata's Properties - getting closer to a first testable version
 * More work on consistency of user interface components
 * Finalizing the click-dummy for the first version of the Query Builder so we can start testing it with some editors soon and get feedback.
 * Continuing to investigate how to improve our APIs and other ways to improve access to the data in Wikidata for programmers
 * Discussed the future of the Wikidata Query Service and ideas for next steps we can take to make it scale better. Guillaume will join the next office hour to talk about it.
 * More work on clearer separation of Wikibase repository and Wikibase client code in order to improve maintainability

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:01, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * 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!

Administrators' newsletter – July 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2020).

Administrator changes
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Interface administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * A request for comment is in progress to remove the T2 (template that misrepresents established policy) speedy deletion criterion.

Technical news
 * Protection templates on mainspace pages are now automatically added by User:MusikBot II (BRFA).

Arbitration
 * Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold an RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. The RfC has been posted at Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC and is open to comments from the community.
 * The Medicine case was closed, with a remedy authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for all discussions about pharmaceutical drug prices and pricing and for edits adding, changing, or removing pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing from articles.

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I know was a bit pissed off yesterday
But please don't change that many pages that fast, because there are reasons for using that extra parameter, and it was clear in my opinion that you could never have known that at 6 pages per minute. I also spend 20 minutes checking the villages A-G in Suriname and French Guiana which was frustrating as well. KittenKlub (talk) 18:50, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I was checking them as I went, the speed was due to semi-automation. I'll go slower in the future. Apologies for where I got them wrong, I'm checking the reverts when I see them, and I'm happy to double-check any cases you want - and to help create new categories on Commons as well. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 18:54, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
 * BTW, with, commons:Category:Albina, Suriname has commons:Category:Bigiston as a subcategory, do both really need to be linked to in the article? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 18:56, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
 * It is better explained at Marowijne District. That whole area is tribal (and therefore autonomous ) But the capital was founded by a European, and is therefore NOT tribal and part of the regular government. The problem is that the Albina resort is very big and happens to contain a cluster of villages (arranged per tribe / maternal lineage) who are tribal. The real problem is that an article for Bigiston is just a paragraph, because that's all you'll find about what 200 people living in a village without internet. Therefore Bigiston is mentioned at the District as a village, but has been added to the resort to prevent super stubs which will remain stub for decades. KittenKlub (talk) 19:06, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Are you sure there isn't enough for a separate article? There seems to be a reasonably lengthy description of the village in "Winti practices in Bigiston" (currently a reference in the article). It may be short, but I don't think it would be a super-stub. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 19:24, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Actually you are right. There's much more in the article, but I am sometimes lazy as well. Also my experience with submitting unfamiliar articles isn't that great. Luckily that reference is English, but I have had AfDs because somebody refused to accept clearly notable pages (because there is no English info... and tons of non-English info) and that happened to others as well, so I am someitmes reluctant to submit something if it is too small. KittenKlub (talk) 19:35, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

Bigiston Indeed there was more than enough material for an article after all. KittenKlub (talk) 08:36, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Very nice - well done! Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 11:30, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Misplaced commons category
You edited several of the articles I started about forts in Portugal for the reason of "Misplaced Commons Category". If they were misplaced why not correctly place them instead of deleting the link? Thanks. Roundtheworld (talk) 18:48, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
 * 'Misplaced' as in the link doesn't match the article, not misplaced in the article. I try to correct the links whenever I can, but I haven't found matching commons categories for the ones I've been removing them from - can you help find/create them? Thanks. 18:50, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I don't understand your reasoning. Most of the articles you edited are about forts that, collectively, make up what are known as the Lines of Torres Vedras. The link was to the Commons Category for the Lines of Torres Vedras. So I think the link perfectly well matches the articles. Roundtheworld (talk) 10:15, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
 * They should have individual categories, like commons:Category:Forte de São Vicente. I can help set those up if you want, looking in commons:Category:Lines of Torres Vedras there's a number of photos but the forts are all mixed together there. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 11:29, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
 * OK, I've worked through Category:Lines of Torres Vedras and commons:Category:Lines of Torres Vedras to create individual Commons categories and to link to them from the articles, how do they look? Did I miss any articles or photos? Also, I see that most of the photos were by yourself, thank you for uploading them to Commons! Did you take any additional photos of each fort that you could also upload, please, to get a better feeling for the places? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 18:35, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
 * . Many thanks. I've created a couple more categories and moved the files from commons:Category:Lines of Torres Vedras. I'll see what I can find on my phone for additional photos although it might be difficult to sort out one fort from another!Roundtheworld (talk) 07:27, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #423
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events
 * Past: Wikidata Parliament of Ghana contest launch (replay)
 * Upcoming: Biohackathon 2020 Barcelona 2020 November 9th - 13th The accepted wikidata related proposal: Knowledge graphs and wikidata subsetting
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #20, July 12
 * Upcoming: Celtic Knot conference, July 9-10, including several sessions about Wikidata, a Wikidata helpdesk


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Why Ariadne uses Getty AAT over Wikidata
 * Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #10 - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Ptable displays the periodic table automatically extracted from information provided by Wikidata; it also provides a check that all the elements are there with some basic properties. Additional pages provide charts of the nuclides under different criteria such as half-life. Each element or nuclide is linked to its Wikidata item for more information or to edit if necessary.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Abstract Wikipedia was approved.
 * OpenRefine 3.4 beta 2 was released.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: Open Data portal, theorised by, DOI formatter, set in environment, academic appointment
 * External identifiers: House Divided ID, thefreedictionary medical term ID, People's Representative Council of Indonesia ID, Grove Art Online ID, Supreme Court of Sweden case number, KBpedia ID, Swedish Environmental Protection Agency OBJECTID, Oxford Bibliographies ID, Swiss Timber Bridges ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: taxon synonym string, PM20 subject code, PM20 geo code, number of downloads, Interactive element, course, Zoning symbol, vanDerWaalsConstant, has pattern
 * External identifiers: AlloCiné theater ID, Cistercian Biography Online ID, Pitchfork artist ID, Archive Of Our Own tag, Austrian encyclopedia of music online, Swiss Tunnel ID, ANZSRC 2020 FoR ID, CPJF ID, TripAdvisor ID 2, Wien Kulturgut: Kunstwerke im öffentlichen Raum ID, public transport stop, Homebrew formula name, Offizielle Deutsche Charts song ID, British Museum object ID, ToS;DR service numerical identifier, code EHESS d'une commune, IAPH code, ProtonDB video game ID


 * Query examples:
 * France has a new Prime Minister: see the list of all ministers in French history (very long scroll). If you want to know more, see this notebook
 * Open data portals in Wikidata (using the newly created property Open Data portal (P8402))
 * Objects that are named after people on Wikidata (Source)


 * Development
 * More work on the consistent design system (Phabricator board)
 * More work on decoupling the different Wikibase extensions from each other
 * Proposal to stop registering WikibaseLib as a separate extension
 * Polishing the first step of Federation (using Wikidata's Properties in another Wikibase installation) (incl. preventing users from selecting a federated property with a non-supported data type (T252012) and preventing users from accessing Special:NewProperty when federation is enabled (T255576) and viewing a list of all properties when federation is enabled (T246339))
 * Continuing research and interviews around the topic of making it easier to access Wikidata's data for programmers
 * Doing first testing of mockups and prototypes of the first version of the Query Builder - coding can start soon
 * Convert a few properties from string to external identifier: Linguasphere code (P1396), KOATUU identifier (P1077) and ISIN (P946)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:19, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * 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!

John Hardy (MP)
Hi. I see that you removed the Commons Category link from the above article, but please would you kindly let me know why? Is it because the images in that category are not of John Hardy MP? It would help me to know this, as I would then need to check that the sculpture images in that category are correctly categorised. Thank you. Storye book (talk) 09:13, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Update. Further to the above, I think I see what the problem was: a family category which had been misunderstood to be representative of one member of that family. I have reorganised that category on Commons into an umbrella category with subcategories for the individuals. I have requested user:Jarekt to sort out the associated Wikidata template as I do not have the skills to do that. Please kindly check that you are happy with this, and let me know if there is any remaining problem. Thank you. Storye book (talk) 09:54, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes, that was it, thanks for reorganising the category. I've tweaked the commonscat templates here, and added the sitelinks, the infobox will be automatically added in a day or so. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 10:44, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Storye book (talk) 12:37, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

Cochrane Update
Hi Mike, I hope that you are keeping well. I noticed that there were no updates posted for June or July 2020 on the update bot. Is the bot working alright? Our volunteers have been really getting through the updates. If I can help with anything to check on the bot please let me know! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Cochrane_update Thanks. Jenny JenOttawa (talk) 18:03, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
 * It's returning a warning 'The regex search timed out', not sure if that's the cause of this. I'll look into it. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 18:22, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you for offering to looking into it. The archive appears to have worked at least! JenOttawa (talk) 18:24, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
 * It looks like pubmed have changed their website (including the URLs), so the old way of finding the ID of the new article no longer works. I'm reworking the code now, not sure how long it will take. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 16:51, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I think the new code is working, can you double-check the updates it is identifying please? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 17:58, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi Mike, thank you for fixing this. I checked and the updates look to be working well and the bot is populating the page with new Updates Needed. I really appreciate you taking the time to fix the code for this project. Take good care! JenOttawa (talk) 15:30, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary!
 Happy Adminship Anniversary! Have a very Peel happy adminship anniversary on your special day!

Best wishes, CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 19:10, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

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Date precision
There is a potential for an error when comparing because the  function can return an empty string. I've created Template:Date precision to encapsulate the #invoke and trap the empty string, replacing it with 0 by default, although that can be changed by supplying the template with a second unnamed parameter:


 * No qid:  →
 * No qid, default set to 99:  →
 * No qid:  →
 * No qid, default set to 99:  →

Testing for precision can be done like this, and the default output can be changed by assigning the default a large number: Compare with:
 * No qid:  →
 * No qid, default set to 99:  →
 * No qid:  →
 * No qid, default set to 99:  →

See if it's any use to you. I know about "yet another template to export", but it might still be the cleanest way of avoiding errors on some pages. --RexxS (talk) 19:33, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Any chance that could be built into WikidataIB, like checkBlacklist, so the value to check can be passed to the function and a True/False (or equivalent) returned for use in an #if function? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 19:38, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
 * But do you want to check bigger, equal or less than ? --RexxS (talk) 19:49, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I expect that most uses would be 'more precise than'. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 19:50, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Hmmz - I dunno. I think it's more flexible to let the template do the test. How about if I modify getDatePrecision to take a default value that is returned when the Wikidata is invalid? Then the function could be set to 0 or 99 or whatever in those cases? Or should I simply assume it always wants a numeric value, never nil? --RexxS (talk) 19:56, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
 * That would work, just return 0 precision if there's no value set. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 20:01, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Okay, that's done.  will return 0 instead of nil if the data is invalid. I've set it so that you can supply a second unnamed parameter to change that 0 to any other number for invalid data, but that probably won't be used much, if ever. --RexxS (talk) 20:15, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #424
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: New co-facilitator introductions and tools for editathons, 14 July. Agenda
 * Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #12, 18 July Facebook, YouTube
 * Past: Celtic Knot Wikimedia language conference, online, July 9-10. Videos, documentation and slides of sessions are accessible from the program page.


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Using OpenRefine with Wikidata for the first time, by Addshore
 * Using Wikidata in Mathematica and Wolfram, by Toni Schindler
 * Fostering the presence of museums on Wikipedia and Wikidata, by Debora Lopomo
 * Extending the Met’s reach with Wikidata, by Jennie Choi
 * Wikidata-related videos from the Celtic Knot Conference:
 * Wikidata and how you can use it to support minority languages (Mohammed Sadat)
 * Wikidata-powered infoboxes (Pau Cabot)
 * Hands-on Wikidata and lexicographical data (Nicolas Vigneron and Léa Lacroix)
 * FAIR linguistic data thanks to norm data – Wikidata as part of the research project VerbaAlpina (Christina Mutter)
 * Sámi placenames on Wikidata (Jon Harald Søby)
 * Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - Wikidata editing #11 Facebook, YouTube
 * Video: Introducing the Wikidata powered Dictionary of Welsh Biography timeline (Jason Evans), YouTube
 * Video: Diving into Wikidata workshop (Will Kent), YouTube
 * Video: Linked data for libraries with Wikibase, Infrastructure track (Jens Ohlig), YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * DragNDrop.js makes it possible to show a Wikipedia article and drag items to Wikidata.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * GQIS can now render results from a Wikidata SPARQL query with a new plugin.
 * New feature in V for Wikipedia that uses Wikidata identifiers to direct users to their favorite streaming app.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: Dowker-Thistlethwaite name
 * External identifiers: AlloCiné theater ID, Maniadb artist ID, Group Properties wiki ID, Oberwolfach mathematician ID, Archive Of Our Own tag, GameBanana video game ID, Spanish Olympic Committee athlete ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Image link, numeric ID, peak bagging classification, vanDerWaalsConstantA, vanDerWaalsConstantB, road name formatter, road number formatter, Medical Service, Ofsted inspection rating, OpenStreetMap numeric user ID, traffic sign template image, Vietnamese middle name
 * External identifiers: Wiki Loves Earth Ukraine identifier, OHM Relation ID, Filmstarts title ID, UK Research and Innovation person ID, SmallGroup ID, Personendatenbank Germania Sacra ID, SAH Archipedia building ID, SAH Archipedia architect ID, Our Campaigns candidate ID, VPE railway line ID, Churches in Limburg, The Draft Review ID, ANZSCO 2013 ID, ANZSOC ID, ASCRG ID, Encyclopédie berbère, 雑誌コード, OpenStreetMap user name, National Registry of Exonerations Case ID, Svenska Akademiens Ordbok ID, QLD Biota ID, Australian Weed ID


 * Query examples:
 * Illustrated Basque word of the day for children
 * Oldest UK MPs at the time of election (Source)
 * Map of archives in Wikidata (Source)


 * Development
 * Continued building out documentation for Federated Properties (phabricator:T255651) and making interface improvements to the first stage of the feature (incl. phabricator:T246886, changes to special pages that interact with both Items/Properties, and phabricator:T255581, changes to Special:ListDataTypes when federation is enabled)
 * More work on the consistent design system
 * More work on decoupling the different Wikibase extensions from each other to make development easier
 * Finalizing research and interviews to better understand what could be improved in the way developers access Wikidata's data (APIs, SPARQL)
 * Testing the first prototype of the Simple Query Builder with some editors to get final input before coding starts
 * Sorting of language links on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects was broken (presumably by a change in MediaWiki core). A fix is being worked on. (phabricator:T257625)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * 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 · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:27, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #425
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: General semi protection for all property pages


 * Events
 * Upcoming: The First Wikidata Workshop: Second Call for Papers. Papers due: August 10, 2020 | Workshop date: October 29, 2020
 * Upcoming: next Wikidata office hour, July 21st at 16:00 UTC (18:00 CEST) in the Wikidata Telegram group. Query Service special with guests from WMF Search Team.
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XXIV: Posicionamento digital relativo with Ederporto - July 23 17:00 UTC (14:00 BRT). In this technical training, we'll study the possibilities and functionalities of relative digital positioning in images and do practical activities on this topic using historical photographs of the city of São Paulo. The event will be held in Portuguese. Join us!
 * Upcoming video: July 21 - Wikipedia Weekly Network - Entity Schemas and Shape Expressions (ShEx) Facebook YouTube
 * Upcoming video: July 25 - Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #13 Facebook YouTube
 * Upcoming: Kidok-Workshop, online workshop about church building data. In German, non-native users welcome. Currently looking for a date in the upcoming week and people to help!
 * Upcoming video: Beyond Wikipedia - Knowledge that even a computer can understand. July 22, 2020 at 17:00 UTC. In this talk, Zbyszko Papierski will present Wikidata Query Service as one way that developers can interact with Wikidata.


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities botany pilot using Wikidata QIDs
 * Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #11 Facebook, YouTube
 * Video: Wikispore Day, including an interview of Denny Vrandečić about Abstract Wikipedia at 34'00
 * Video: Merging elements on Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
 * Video: Wikibase Ecosystem - taking Wikidata further (by Lydia Pintscher), YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * User:Frettie/consistency_check_add.js check consistency and add missing relations of a Wikidata object like father/son...


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Breaking change: removing special pageterms behavior on repo wikis, use entityterms instead (relevant for people using pageterms submodule of the query API module on Wikibase repository wikis)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: version control system, interactive elements, course, peak bagging classification, public transport stop, descriptive solubility, applies if regular expression matches, energy consumption per transaction, content partnership category, Van Der Waals Constant a, Van Der Waals Constant b
 * External identifiers: Spanish Olympic Committee athlete ID, EHESS ID of a French commune, OpenHistoricalMap relation ID, IAPH code, Knot Atlas identifier, Knotinfo identifier, Swiss Tunnel ID, Wien Kulturgut: Kunstwerke im öffentlichen Raum ID, Österreichisches Musiklexikon Online ID, Swedish Riksdag document ID, Artprice artist ID, AnyDecentMusic album ID, SAH Archipedia architect ID, Personendatenbank Germania Sacra ID, Cistercian Biography Online ID, Digital Library of the Caribbean ID, Homebrew formula name, Our Campaigns candidate ID, UK Research and Innovation person ID, Unique Street Reference Number, Benerail station ID, Churches in Limburg, Vmusic.bg artist ID, US Quaternary Fault ID, ASCRG 2016 ID, ANZSOC 2011 ID, ANZSCO 2013 ID, Political Graveyard politician ID, SAH Archipedia building ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: BTI Status Index, BTI Governance Index, lyricsmule, number of majors offered, nationality (cultural identity), image of view, web interface software
 * External identifiers: Native Plants Database ID, Český hudební slovník osob a institucí ID, OpenCritic critic ID, DATAtourisme ID, ASCCEG 2019 ID, AHECC 2017 ID, ANZSIC 2006 ID, Unsplash User ID, South Africa EMIS code, Denkmaldatenbank Thurgau ID, HLTV Player ID, HLTV Team ID, SÚKL code, Nomenclature de tous les noms de rosiers, Science Fiction Awards Database author id, Fototeka person ID, Henrik Ibsen skrifter ID


 * Query examples:
 * Painters in Wikidata with the surname Ruiz (Source)
 * Cities with female mayor (Source)
 * MPs in the current UK parliament with identified mythical ancestors (Source)
 * Indian subcontinent rail lines (Source)
 * List of countries by age of the head of government (Source)
 * Cities of the United States between 100,000 and 600,000 inhabitants with the counties and states they are located in (Source)
 * Newest database reports: list of 1000, 2000 (without statements) and 10000 (filtered) random items


 * Development
 * More work on the consistent design system
 * More work on decoupling the different Wikibase extensions from each other to make development easier:
 * load WikibaseClient through the JSON file (T257435),
 * decoupling Client from Lib/Repo in the JavaScript code (T256054),
 * reduce the uses of Repo classes (T255885, T255882)
 * Move all the special pages (T257444), API modules (T257443) and hooks (T257445) from the PHP entry point to the JSON file
 * Merge the registration of WikibaseLib into the Repo and Client extensions (phab:T257432) and merge WikibaseView into Repo (phab:T258043)
 * Prepare the first development phase for the Simple Query Builder
 * Reference game: run a scraper, work on a dashboard that will gives an overview of the potential references that have already been judged in the game
 * Fix a bug related to maximum limit of search results (phab:T256885)
 * Resolve some configuration issues regarding Entity Sources (phab:T254315)
 * Federated Properties:
 * Changes to special pages that interact with both items/properties when federation is enabled (phab:T246886)
 * Changes to Special:ListDatatypes when federation is enabled (phab:T255581)
 * Add new monolingual language codes: mic (Miꞌkmaq), gil (Kiribati)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * 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 #426
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events
 * The Wikidata track of the LD4 conference on Linked Data in Libraries takes place on Thursday 30 and Friday 31 July. Free, upon registration.
 * Seeking feedback on a possible WikiCite@Wikidata's 8th Birthday online conference; and what content/format/timing preferences you have. Please respond to this short survey. [Privacy policy: https://w.wiki/XfN]
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Liam Wyatt on WikiCite and its future plans, ways to get involved, and discussions that are happening in the community, 28 July. Agenda
 * Past: Wikidata and Wikibase office hour with a focus on the Query Service, July 21st. Notes of the discussions
 * Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #14, August 1 Facebook YouTube
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #23, August 2


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Croiser des données avec OpenRefine by Ash_Crow (in French, how to match data from inside and outside Wikidata with Open Refine)
 * "OBA: An Ontology-Based Framework for Creating REST APIs for Knowledge Graphs"
 * Library’s linked-data project gets new grant. "Known as Linked Data for Production, the project is part of a long-term collaboration among Cornell University Library, Stanford Libraries and the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa. Through linked data, information about books and other items in library records will be enhanced by related information from external online sources". By Jose Beduya
 * Wikidata Training Workshop 1, by Canadian Arts Presenting Association
 * Part 1 - Introduction to Wikidata - YouTube (En, Fr)
 * Part 2 - Usage of Wikidata - YouTube (En, Fr)
 * Part 3 - Components of a Wikidata item - YouTube (En, Fr)
 * Video: Wikidata Lab XXIV on relative digital positioning (in Portuguese). YouTube
 * Video: Women Writers in Review: Integrating special collections into Wikidata. YouTube
 * Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - Entity Schemas and Shape Expressions (ShEx) Facebook YouTube
 * Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #13 Facebook YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * We would love suggestions for tools to include in this section of the weekly summary. Please add your suggestions directly under Status updates/Next#Backlog after checking that the tool isn't already listed.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikimedia Commons Query Service (WCQS) launches in Beta. This SPARQL endpoint for Structured Data on Commons can federate with Wikidata's Query Service. (Announcement & discussion)
 * A new OpenRefine reconciliation service for Wikidata is available. Add it in OpenRefine with  or by replacing   by any other Wikimedia language code.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: pertainym, BTI Governance Index, BTI Status Index, Ofsted inspection rating, distribution map of taxon
 * External identifiers: Wiki-Rennes ID, Queensland Biota ID, Australian Weed ID, Encyclopedie berbere ID, Japanese magazine code, Lobbywatch.ch ID of a member of parliament, IVS ID, Svenska Akademiens Ordbok ID, National Registry of Exonerations Case ID, Described and Captioned Media Program producer ID, Český hudební slovník osob a institucí ID, PM20 geo code, PM20 subject code, DATAtourisme ID, OpenCritic critic ID, ASCCEG 2019 ID, SmallGroup ID, ANZSIC 2006 ID, AHECC 2017 ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: booking URL, member of lexicon, screen (display) resolution, in pixels, Size comparison diagram, Butcher tableau, related laws and regulations, Water area
 * External identifiers: Archive Site Trinity College Cambridge ID, WISAARD ID, Jisho word id, UK Research and Innovation organisation ID, Opta football player ID, Opta football team ID, Opta football competition ID, Power plant operating licence (Turkey), Árvore de Interesse Público ID, MinDat taxon ID, Dizionario Biografico dei Protestanti in Italia ID, Twitter topics numeric ID, People Australia ID


 * Query examples:
 * People who have returned to being their country’s head of government after the longest gap (Source)
 * Number of MPs elected to the Swedish parliament for each election back to 1970 (Source)


 * Development
 * Changed the size of image previews to 1024 in the gallery view of the query service to avoid some images not loading sometimes (T258241)
 * Added an actual space between the entity title and the name of the fallback language (if any), so that the fallback language isn't selected anymore when double-clicking the entity title for copying (T256857)
 * Fixed the directionality of text pieces in placeholders that mix LTR and RTL (T253812)
 * Continued work on first pieces of design system to make coding new features easier in the future
 * Continued untangling the code of Wikibase Client and Wikibase Repo to make it easier to develop on them
 * Finished first piece of research on how to make it easier to access Wikidata's data for programmers - more work to be done
 * Preparing to start coding on the Query Builder to make it easier to create queries without having to know SPARQL
 * Finished running the scraper that gets potential new references for unreferenced statements and preparing it for publishing

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * 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 – August 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2020). Administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Keegan • Opabinia regalis • Premeditated Chaos

Guideline and policy news
 * There is an open request for comment to decide whether to increase the minimum duration a sanction discussion has to remain open (currently 24 hours).
 * Speedy deletion criterion T2 (template that misrepresents established policy) has been repealed following a request for comment.
 * Speedy deletion criterion X2 (pages created by the content translation tool) has been repealed following a discussion.
 * There is a proposal to restrict proposed deletion to confirmed users.

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Wikidata weekly summary #427
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 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Wiki13


 * Events
 * Upcoming: Search Platform Office Hours—August 5th, 2020. This event will be an occasion to talk about the Query Service.
 * Upcoming: Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #15, August 8 Facebook, YouTube
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #24, August 9


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Wikidata track at the 2020 LD4 Conference on Linked Data in Libraries:
 * (30 July) Wikidata Tutorial: Intro to the Basics (by User:Gamaliel)
 * (30 July) Advanced Wikidata Tools and Concepts: More Than Just P's and Q's (by User:Mahir256)
 * (30 July) Developing a Wikidata Project (by User:Will (Wiki Ed))
 * (31 July) VanderBot: Using a Python script to create and update researcher items in Wikidata (by User:Baskaufs)
 * (31 July) No bricks without clay: outcomes from the Stanford Wikidata Working Group (by User:Arcadialib)
 * (31 July) LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour: Adding References to Wikidata (by User:Chicagohil)
 * Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #14 Facebook YouTube
 * Video: Lexemes in Wikidata - structured lexicographical data for everyone (by Lydia Pintscher), YouTube
 * Video: Wikidata presentation (in Turkish), YouTube
 * Why You Should Do NLP Beyond English - Nice article giving some context about why it matters to have Lexemes in Wikidata in many different languages


 * Tool of the week
 * SQID allows you to analyse, browse and query Wikidata. SQID is inspired by Magnus Manske's Reasonator, but focuses on prominently featuring information about Wikidata classes and properties.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: height of center of mass, road number formatter, Vietnamese middle name, heraldic attitude, traffic sign template image
 * External identifiers: Tree of Public Interest ID, Denkmaldatenbank Thurgau ID, DSSTOX compound identifier, South Africa EMIS code, Archive Site Trinity College Cambridge ID, WISAARD resource ID, Gateway to Research organisation ID, SÚKL code, Science Fiction Awards Database author ID, Power plant operating licence (Turkey)


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: certified as, number of stages, convergence rate, step count, Alternative form, view, version type for works, advertisement copy
 * External identifiers: LibraryThing series identifier, Swiss Industrial Heritage ID, TOPCMB ID, Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus ID, Sports-Reference.com college basketball school ID, SAT-matrikulo, Signal number, BHF author ID, BHF magazine ID, SPLC Group ID, SPLC Individual ID, Open Civic Data Division Identifiers, RKD thesaurus ID, TCLF ID, Presence compositrices ID of composer, Presence compositrices ID of work


 * Query examples:
 * Properties and the number of constraint definition statements on them - there are quite a few with 0 constraint definitions
 * a graph of MPs and parties in the Swedish Parliament and with whom they worked together with to create motions 2018 SPOILER: >95% is just with people in the same party
 * Wealthiest queer people on Wikidata (Source)
 * Bubble chart showing the winners of the FA Cup (Source)
 * Map of parks in Oslo missing images on Wikidata (Source)
 * Commons queries:
 * Orienteerers:  (source, at 53:45)
 * Animal hugs:  (source)


 * Development
 * The last week was our quarterly prototyping week. We worked on the following projects. None of them are ready for prime-time yet but we'll continue with them.
 * Slices: We've had a lot of requests for accessing dumps of a smaller part of Wikidata's data since rarely anyone needs the complete data in Wikidata. The tricky part is figuring out which part is needed and if any of that can be generalized. We looked into for example how to make dump generation faster so we could potentially produce more smaller dumps that only cover a part of Wikidata's data, either thematically (e.g. humans) or by type of data (e.g. only statements and English labels and aliases but not sitelinks or descriptions).
 * REST API: As part of our effort to make it easier to access Wikidata's data for programmers we looked into a REST API. We tried to see if we could cover the existing action API modules in a REST API. We could. We'll take this as input for our ongoing API work now.
 * Improving quality ratings through ORES: ORES can judge the quality of an Item automatically. It is currently not very good at it however. We tried a few things to make it more accurate and found some easy wins we'll probably make happen in the next weeks.
 * Query manipulator: One of the ways we could potentially improve the load situation of the Wikidata Query Service is by automatically analyzing and then redirecting a bunch of queries to other systems that are more suitable for that particular type of query. The nice thing about that would be that the person/program sending the query wouldn't have to care about it but it'd be done automagically for them. We tried to build such a system and the results look very promising but more work/experimenting is needed, especially together with the WMF Search team.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * 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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