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This Month in Education: July 2018
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Wikidata weekly summary #324
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Bovlb
 * Closed request for comments: Association Football Matches


 * Events
 * Past: State of the Map, the OpenStreetMap equivalent of Wikimania, was held in Milan from 28-30 July. There were two meetups on interactions between Wikimedia and OSM, and Wikidata was mentioned in several sessions, including:
 * OpenStreetMap and Wikimedia:A Quick overview
 * Maps based on Wikidata queries
 * Wikimedia in disaster management and humanitarian aid: an overview
 * Incoming: Wikidata workshop in Harvard University, MA, USA, on August 8th


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Machine-Generated Knowledge Bases - harvesting tuples from news and scholarly corpora and releasing them as open data
 * Wired story on the above


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikibase quality constraints are now loaded into the Query Service and can be queried. Queries on property talk pages have been adapted.
 * Wikidata Toolkit 0.9 has been released
 * A list of Wikidata-related activities for coursework has been started at d:Wikidata:Wikidata curricula/Activities
 * We know have more than 10,000 Lexemes in Wikidata
 * A challenge about months of the year is running, you can create Lexemes with the ones in your language


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: derived from form, schematic, passive voice, registration district, expressed in, coefficient of friction, number of arrests, invasive to, microstructure, normalized Unicode character, number of works accessible online, Poisson's ratio, moisture absorption, number of platform faces, relative humidity
 * External identifiers: Auteurs en Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes ID, Eulalie ID, RedTube ID, Paris Faculty of Science professor ID, Literature Ireland ID, Livre et lecture en Bretagne ID, Paris Faculty of Letters professor ID (1909-1939), Paris Faculty of Letters professor ID (1809-1908), College de France professor ID (1909-1939), CICLIC author ID, INEPAC ID, La Vie des idées ID, Courrier international topic ID, CNRS ID, IDIH ID, Courrier international source ID, KLEKs ID, Interbibly author ID, Le Monde ID, MUSE journal ID, Institut culturel de Bretagne ID, Tebeosfera ID, CSDE Lynching Database ID, CRAN project, RubyGems gem, National Research Institute for Cultural Properties dead artist ID, Python Package Index project, Tebeosfera character ID, NooSFere author ID, NooSFere book ID, archINFORM ID (locations), CAGE code, EDb company ID, Indian census area code (2011), flight-report.com Airline identifier, Norwegian National Road DataBase ID, NATO Stock Number, QS World University ID, SMS Power identifier, Times Higher Education World University ID, Libris-URI, oric.org identifier, Artcyclopedia artist ID, Places of Worship Inventory ID, P5599


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: value is inherited from, Guss, Countries with high prevalence, chieseitaliane ID, legal status, Match Score, topic's subcategory, Covered by, Alexander–Briggs notation
 * External identifiers: U-Multirank University ID, Trove newspaper ID, Belvedere object ID, Aosdána ID, Chercheurs d'Asie ID, Evene ID, OpenMath ID, GLAMOS ID, Swimsuit ID, archINFORM ID (Schlagwörter), CMI ID, Featured Biographies ID, CNT ID, Comédie-Française ID, DOLF ID, Marvel character ID, FFF character ID, FFF author ID, National Cartoonists Society ID, Number World ID, legabasket.it coach ID, Black Ferns ID, WSO Online ID, IEEE standard, ITU-T Recommendation, ITU-R Recommendation, LOA ID, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade ID, Global Invasive Species Database ID, iTunes music video ID


 * Query examples:
 * minerals named after women (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20which%20genres%20are%20more%20likely%20to%20be%20in%20major%20key%2C%20which%20in%20minor%20key%2C%20which%20are%20about%20equally%20distributed%3F%0A%23%20note%3A%20some%20tonalities%20are%20neither%20major%20nor%20minor%2C%20e.%E2%80%AFg.%20Q211745%20atonality%0ASELECT%20%3Fgenre%20%3FgenreLabel%20%3Ftotal%20%3Fmajor%20%3Fminor%20%28%3Fmajor%20%2F%20%3Ftotal%20AS%20%3FmajorRatio%29%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Ftonality%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%5B%5D%20wdt%3AP826%20%3Ftonality.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25tonalities%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Ftonality%20%3FisMajor%20%3FisMinor%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25tonalities.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Ftonality%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FtonalityLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FtonalityLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20TODO%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fwiki%2FWikidata_talk%3AWikiProject_Music%23Items_for_major_and_minor_keys%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28STRENDS%28%3FtonalityLabel%2C%20%22%20major%22%29%20AS%20%3FisMajor%29%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28STRENDS%28%3FtonalityLabel%2C%20%22%20minor%22%29%20AS%20%3FisMinor%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25tonalitiesWithMode%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fgenre%20%3Ftonality%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fcomposition%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fcomposition%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ207628%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP136%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20%3Fgenre%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP826%20%3Ftonality.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fgenre%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ188451.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fgenre%20%3Ftonality%0A%7D%20AS%20%25genresAndTonalities%20WITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fgenre%20%28SUM%28%3Fcount%29%20AS%20%3Ftotal%29%20%28SUM%28IF%28%3FisMajor%2C%20%3Fcount%2C%200%29%29%20AS%20%3Fmajor%29%20%28SUM%28IF%28%3FisMinor%2C%20%3Fcount%2C%200%29%29%20AS%20%3Fminor%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25genresAndTonalities.%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25tonalitiesWithMode.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fgenre%0A%7D%20AS%20%25results%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25results.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Ftotal%29%20DESC%28%3Fmajor%29 Frequency of major and minor key tonalities per genre] (source)
 * Timeline of Writing Systems (source)
 * Nonprofit organizations and the software they develop (source)
 * Map of newspapers in Oregon (source)

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.
 * Development
 * Allow to show incoming links on the graph explorer dialog on WDQS (T197778)
 * Fulltext search for Lexemes and Forms (only in Lexeme namespace) has been merged (T196188)
 * We are now collecting click data when completion search on Wikidata is used (T196186) which would serve us to improve search relevancy
 * Fix a lot of issues with our test system (T200693)
 * Disallow merging of items that link to each other in references and qualifiers (T119614)
 * More work on merging Lexemes (T200884)
 * Provide useful HTML title for Lexemes (T195386)
 * Improve the validation and error message when a label, description or alias is too long (T145932, T200780)
 * Expose constraint violations to WDQS (T192567)
 * Add the possibility to download result of a query from the embed mode (T176797)
 * Get persistent editing of Senses done (T196270) (you can try it now on the beta system)
 * Work on edit summary of Senses (T196290)
 * Work on diffs of Senses (T196289)

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:33, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
 * 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!

Tech News: 2018-32
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Recent changes
 * Special:NewPages now has the OOUI look.

Problems
 * The MediaWiki version that was released two weeks ago was late to some Wikimedia wikis. This was because of bugs. It was on all wikis 30 July.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 August. It will be on all wikis from 9 August.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 7 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 8 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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This Month in GLAM: July 2018
About This Month in GLAM · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 05:09, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #325
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Bencemac


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Celtic Knot 2018 – How can Wikidata support minority language Wikipedias, by Delphine Dallison
 * The rise of Wikidata as a linked data source, by Karen Smith-Yoshimura on the OCLC Research blog
 * A global collection of astrolabes in linked open data, by Martin Poulter, University of Oxford. With the Museum of the History of Science which is part of the university, Martin is exploring a possible "Sum of all Astrolabes" project. This post is to promote the idea to researchers and GLAM staff.
 * Where do Mayors Come From: Querying Wikidata with Python and SPARQL, by Nikolai Janakiev


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * list of badged items without claims has a new format
 * Sitelinks for the new Santali Wikipedia (satwiki) can be added. Links to the new Chinese Wikiversity (zhwikiversity) can be made
 * The logs of (anonymized) SPARQL queries are now available
 * wikidata-edit now supports 'somevalue' and 'novalue' claims and qualifiers
 * thus, wikidata-cli now also supports 'somevalue' and 'novalue' claims and qualifiers
 * During Wikimania 2018, 25 people attended to a workshop about Lexicographical data. The results of this experience and the related tickets are summarized here.
 * New admin: Bovlb. Welcome on board!


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: station category, located in the ecclesiastical territorial entity, fatigue limit, type of water supply, pitting resistance equivalent number, Vietnamese reading
 * External identifiers: U-Multirank university ID, TCI destination ID, Chercheurs d'Asie ID, Trove newspaper ID, archINFORM keyword ID, DOLF ID, Split This Rock poet ID, OpenMath ID, chieseitaliane ID, legabasket.it ID, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade ID, Aosdána ID, CNT ID, Comédie-Française ID, Evene ID, LOA ID, FFF author ID, FFF character ID, Marvel character ID, National Cartoonists Society author ID, Global Invasive Species Database ID, WSO Online ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Prisoner count, relative to, Railway traffic side, code DGAC, Membro della squadra nazionale, linear thermal expansion coefficient, glass transition temperature, heat deflection temperature, compressive strength, bulk modulus, flexural modulus, flexural strength, shear modulus, shear strength, tear resistance, abrasion resistance, Vicat softening point, thermal diffusivity, chemical resistance, permeation, electrical resistivity, relative permittivity, relative permeability, dissipation factor, magnetic ordering, noun for other gender, combines lexemes, form is subject of, Airline Accounting Code, dummy value, identifier
 * External identifiers: iTunes music video ID, New Zealand Business Number, Brasseur ID, football.it female player ID, Gynopedia place ID, MuIS collection ID, CNL ID, RSL ID, LARB ID, Canal Académie ID, World Rugby Women's World Cup player ID, New Zealand Book Council ID, ANZL ID, Carthalia ID, TRBC, Theatrum ID, VGMdb product ID, Amphi-Theatrum ID, Persons of Indian Studies ID, National Humanities Medal ID, Expedia hotel ID, anime AniDB ID, creator AniDB ID, character AniDB ID, SR Nummer, identifiant Inventaire et Documentation du Patrimoine Culturel du Maroc, Exoplanet Data Explorer ID, Morse code, Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia ID, NASA Exoplanet Archive ID, France Musique ID, Académie française ID, Académie de Mâcon member ID, Académie de Montpellier member ID, Académie de Versailles member ID, Invasive Species Compendium Datasheet ID, MusicBrainz release ID, Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame ID, Cartooning for Peace ID, Savoirs ENS ID, Diffusion ENS ID, Quais du polar ID


 * Deleted properties: USGS-ANSS event page (P5089), Projeto Excelências ID (P2731)
 * Query examples:
 * Topics for which the English Wikipedia wikilinks to the University of Virginia but the corresponding Wikidata entry does not
 * Map of institutions where Canadian citizens got their PhD
 * Space probes that have their own Twitter accounts (source)
 * Newspapers in Wikidata with a recorded place of publication (source)
 * Countries whose capital city can be spelled out only using letters from the country's name (source)
 * Amara taxons and their Wikispecies link (source)
 * Things related to open access to research in Japan (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Humanitarian Wikidata


 * Development
 * More work on merging Lexemes (T198105)
 * Possibility to add statements to just created Forms (T201389)
 * Provide useful HTML title for Lexemes (T195386)
 * Remove a Sense (T196283)
 * View a referenced Sense (T196264)
 * Edit summaries for Senses (T196290)

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
 * 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) 14:09, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-33
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg CSS in templates can now be stored in a separate page on all wikis. This is called TemplateStyles. This is to make it easier to edit how templates look.

Changes later this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 14 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 15 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The developers are planning more ways to block users. This could be blocking someone from just a page or a namespace. You can read more. You can leave feedback on the talk page.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  17:53, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #326
<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;"> This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2018-08-20.


 * Events
 * Past: Wikimedia and IIIF, IIIF Community Call, August 15th. Including current use of Property:P2677 (relative position within image) and plans for Commons structured data.
 * Incoming: Wikidata Lab X in São Paulo, Brazil, September 17th


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Google Summer of Code:
 * GSoC ‘18: In 60 seconds: Prssanna Desai has been helping improve the Query Service
 * JOSM/Plugins/Wikipedia/GSoC 2018: 'Floscher' has been working to improve the Wikidata/Wikipedia-related functionality of the 'JOSM' editor for OpenStreetMap
 * Design Challenges in Named Entity Transliteration - a paper discussing "fundamental design challenges that impact the development of a multilingual state-of-the-art named entity transliteration system", with reference to Wikidata
 * Quicksilver: Training an #ML system to generate draft Wikipedia articles and Wikidata entries simultaneously, slides by John Bohannon and Vedant Dharnidharka


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * http://sciencestories.io/ - Using Wikidata to explore the scientific research of women - e.g. http://sciencestories.io/Q6376201
 * New version of JsonDumpReader, a tool for using JSON dumps from Wikidata or other Wikibase instances
 * WikiCite/Roadmap: a summary of the meetup at Wikimania 2018 and presentation of four possible ways forward for Wikicite
 * Wikidata Extractor: A tool to extract Wikidata IDs from OpenStreetMap, given an Overpass Turbo query
 * d:Wikidata:ScienceSource focus list/Main subject needed, ListeriaBot-generated workflow for main subject (P921)
 * New administrator: Bencemac. Welcome on board!
 * Wikidata Shape Expressions Inference tool announced
 * Gender gap in Wikidata: the tool Denelezh will be closed on October 31st


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: prisoner count, risk factor, railway traffic side, bulk modulus, compressive strength, glass transition temperature, linear thermal expansion coefficient, shear modulus, thermal diffusivity, relative permittivity, relative permeability, flexural strength, dissipation factor, electrical resistivity, flexural modulus, heat deflection temperature, tear resistance
 * External identifiers: football.it female player ID, Brasseur ID, Canal Académie ID, Persons of Indian Studies ID, Amphi-Theatrum ID, Theatrum ID, ANZL writer ID, Black Ferns ID, CNL author ID, IEEE standard, LARB contributor ID, New Zealand Book Council writer ID, PRELIB person ID, RSL author ID, World Rugby Women's World Cup player ID, Académie française prize winner ID, AniDB anime ID, Baidu ScholarID, AniDB character ID, AniDB creator ID, Exoplanet Data Explorer exoplanet ID, Expedia hotel ID, Carthalia ID, Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia exoplanet ID, France Musique person ID, iTunes music video ID, MuIS collection ID, National Humanities Medal winner ID, VGMdb product ID, Diffusion ENS ID, Académie de Montpellier member ID, Académie de Mâcon member ID, Académie de Versailles member ID, Savoirs ENS ID, Cartooning for Peace cartoonist ID, Quais du polar writer ID, NASA Exoplanet Archive exoplanet ID, Hoopla ID, iNaturalist observation ID, ITU-R Recommendation, New Zealand Business Number, ITU-T Recommendation, Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: BND ID, Status in the Red List of Threatened Species in the Czech Republic, set score, historical region, modified version, sample, end point, coordinate location GCJ02, bgm.tv identifier, bilibili ID, Moegirlpedia Chinese Article Entry, Academia URL, requires grammatical feature, Seed, peak Billboard chart position, number of weeks on the Billboard chart
 * External identifiers: Bibliopoche ID, La Lorraine des écrivains ID, Fandango movie id, So Foot ID, Indian Railways station code, Norwegian war refugees register ID, Index of Historic Collectors and Dealers of Cubism ID, Tasmanian Heritage Register ID, Basisklassifikation, LARB author ID, TPA ID, Revues littéraires ID, IMEC ID, Recours au poème ID, National Medal of Arts ID, PAM ID, Tor.com author, 2006 Commonwealth Games athlete ID, Boobpedia article


 * Deleted properties: NARA person ID (P1222), print run (P4877)
 * Query examples:
 * Federated query with Nobel.org: [https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0A%23Federated%20search%20Wikidata%20-%3E%20NobelPrice.org%0APREFIX%20nobel%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fdata.nobelprize.org%2Fterms%2F%3E%0A%20%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20(sample(%3Fplace)%20as%20%3Fplace)%20(sample(%3Fimg)%20as%20%3Fimg)%20%20%3FplaceLabel%20%3Fmotivation%20%3Farticle%20%3FNobelArticle%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Flaureate%20wdt%3AP2888%20%3Flaureate_nobel_uri%20.%20%20%0A%20%20FILTER%20(strStarts(str(%3Flaureate_nobel_uri)%2C%20%22http%3A%2F%2Fdata.nobelprize.org%2Fresource%2Flaureate%2F%22))%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%3Fplace%20wdt%3AP376%20wd%3AQ111%7D%20%23Mars%0A%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%3Fplace%20wdt%3AP376%20wd%3AQ405%7D%20%23Moon%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fplace%20wdt%3AP138%20%3Flaureate%20.%0A%20%20%23%20%3Fplace%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fgeo%20.%20%0A%20%20%3Fplace%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimg.%0A%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Farticle%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Flaureate%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%7D%0A%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%7B%3Flaureate%20wdt%3AP3188%20%3FNa%7D%0A%20%20BIND%20(URI(CONCAT(%22https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nobelprize.org%2Fnobel_prizes%2F%22%2C%3FNa%2C%22-facts.html%22))%20AS%20%3FNobelArticle)%0A%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fdata.nobelprize.org%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Flaureate_nobel_uri%20nobel%3AlaureateAward%20%2F%20nobel%3Amotivation%20%3Fmotivation%20.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20(lang(%3Fmotivation)%20%3D%20'en')%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%2Cde%2Cda%2Cnl%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%20Group%20by%20%20%3FplaceLabel%20%3Fmotivation%20%3Farticle%20%3FNobelArticle Places on Moon or Mars named after Nobel prize winners] (source)
 * Texts ranked by the number of languages in which they are available through Wikisource (adapted from source)
 * Map of places co-occurring with species or higher-order taxa as main subjects of publications (source)
 * Software titles and what they were inspired by (source)
 * Occupations of the accused witches in the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft database (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0A%0A%23Federated%20search%20Wikidata%20-%3E%20NobelPrice.org%0APREFIX%20nobel%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fdata.nobelprize.org%2Fterms%2F%3E%0A%20%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%20%3Fplace%20%3Fimg%20%20(sample(%3Ftwitter)%20AS%20%3Ftwitter)%20(sample(%3Foffweb)%20AS%20%3Foffweb)%20%3Fmotivation%20%3Farticle%20%3FNobelArticle%20%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Flaureate%20wdt%3AP2888%20%3Flaureate_nobel_uri%20.%20%20%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%3Flaureate%20wdt%3AP2002%20%3FtwitterID%7D%0A%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%3Flaureate%20wdt%3AP856%20%3Foffweb%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20FILTER%20(strStarts(str(%3Flaureate_nobel_uri)%2C%20%22http%3A%2F%2Fdata.nobelprize.org%2Fresource%2Flaureate%2F%22))%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Flaureate%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimg%7D%0A%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Farticle%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Flaureate%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%7D%0A%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%7B%3Flaureate%20wdt%3AP3188%20%3FNa%7D%0A%20%20BIND%20(URI(CONCAT(%22https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nobelprize.org%2Fnobel_prizes%2F%22%2C%3FNa%2C%22-facts.html%22))%20AS%20%3FNobelArticle)%0A%20%20BIND%20(URI(CONCAT(%22https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2F%22%2C%3FtwitterID))%20AS%20%3Ftwitter)%0A%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fdata.nobelprize.org%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Flaureate_nobel_uri%20nobel%3AlaureateAward%20%2F%20nobel%3Amotivation%20%3Fmotivation%20.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20(lang(%3Fmotivation)%20%3D%20'en')%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%2Cde%2Cda%2Cnl%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%20%20Group%20By%20%3Fplace%20%3Fimg%20%20%3Fmotivation%20%3Farticle%20%3FNobelArticle%20%3Fcoord22%0A Gallery of Nobel prizes winners (federated query)] (source)
 * Showcase items: Crawford


 * Development
 * Show Senses in WhatLinksHere (T200980)
 * Build ability to remove Senses (T196283)
 * Reference a Sense in a statement (T196263)
 * Improve the language code check for Lexemes (T198202)
 * Prepare item/property link formatter that uses cache instead of wb_terms DB table (T201831)
 * More work on merging Lexemes (T198104)
 * Showing the Lemma or Representation when Lexemes or Forms are mentioned in constraint reports (T195315)
 * Add new monolingual language codes: uga (Ugaritic), rar (Rarotongan), gmy (Mycenean Greek), mnw (Mon), mid (Modern Mandaic), haz (Hazaragi)
 * Fix a bug on the Query Service interface (T201951)
 * Add number of results in embed map view of the Query Service (T201908)

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
 * 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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Tech News: 2018-34
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Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 August. It will be on all wikis from 23 August (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 22 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The 2018 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 29 October. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 29 October to 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Legacy JavaScript global variables have been deprecated for seven years. They will soon be removed from all wikis. Gadgets and scripts that use them will stop working. You can test your community's gadgets on "group0" wikis. For example Test Wikipedia or mediawiki.org. The legacy JavaScript global variables are already disabled there. You can read the migration guide to fix old scripts.

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Wikidata weekly summary #327
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 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Abián
 * New request for comments: Adding short code for cryptocurrencies


 * Events
 * September 8, Zurich: Wikidata Zurich Hackathon a hacking event to code with and for Wikidata.
 * Wikidata IRC office hour: September 25th, from 18:00 to 19:00 (UTC+2, Berlin time), on the channel #wikimedia-office
 * October 23, Berlin: Workshop on how to use Wikidata in research contexts
 * October 26/27, The Hague: Wiki Techstorm


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Underwater Basket Weaving: Russian Writers and Their Professions According to Wikidata, by Galina Ryazanskaya, Alena Shchevyeva and Maria Suvorova
 * Strategic inclusion of library data from Sweden into Wikidata (in Swedish), by Axel Pettersson
 * Old but gold, three articles by Denny about design decisions that were made for Wikidata: Restricting the world, On truth and lies, A categorical imperative?


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Structured Data on Commons: A draft specification for using Depicts statements on Commons is up for community feedback.
 * It's possible to add somevalue and novalue using QuickStatements, and to use the tool on test.wikidata.org as well.
 * More properties can be searched using haswbstatement. This includes all properties with "external identifier", "string", "item", "property", "lexeme", "form" and "sense" datatypes, except published in (P1433) and cites (P2860). In addition you may make queries without a specified value.
 * The page creation and edit rate limit imposed in April will be removed in the next days. However, users who are not bots or administrators are throttled to 90 edits per minute (which was set up on all Wikimedia wikis in May).
 * These new languages are now supported for monolingual text strings: mid, mnw, gmy, rar, haz, uga. The language doesn't show up in the suggester, but you can save the statement and it will be stored properly.
 * Reminder: Wikidata's sixth birthday happens in two months. It's time to think about organizing a meetup with your local community, or preparing a gift (see the list of presents last year).
 * Lexicographical data: you can now try Senses on beta
 * 25% of the labeling campaign to improve the vandalism detection on Wikidata has been done. Please help by reviewing a few edits!


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: dummy value, airline accounting code, shear strength, sample, force, abrasion resistance, requires grammatical feature, Academia.edu profile URL
 * External identifiers: BND ID, Fandango movie ID, IDPCM ID, Bibliopoche author ID, Indian Railways station code, Invasive Species Compendium Datasheet ID, Transport Canada LID, La Lorraine des écrivains writer ID, Tasmanian Heritage Register ID, LARB author ID, Recours au poème ID, Revues Littéraires ID, IMEC ID, Tor.com author ID, 2006 Commonwealth Games athlete ID, TPA person ID, PAM ID, National Medal of Arts winner ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: ISO 15919 transliteration, U.P.C. Company Prefix, value is more specific than, peak position on chart, number of weeks on chart, Pietre della Memoria ID, editor-in-chief, image of interior, Osservatorio culturale del Cantone Ticino ID, periphrasis, OSI Model layer
 * External identifiers: Cineuropa movie id, Partis d'Arcadie ID, WSJP ID, Voetbalstats ID, Angelicum ID, PUSC ID, BasketballBundesliga ID, GreekBasketLeague ID, BSL ID, BSN ID, PLK ID, Historic Hotels of America ID, Historic Hotels Worldwide ID, Morse code, MPC body ID, Open Exoplanet Catalogue ID, KERIS School info, FBref ID, Pacific Coast Architecture Database person ID, Syndikat ID, CWA ID, NDB identifier, Petit Futé ID, DAV ID, ÖAV ID, SAC ID, PZS ID, ABMC ID, The Park Database ID, IMA ID, Directorio de Museos y Colecciones de España ID, Pakistan Railways station code, RBU athlete ID, RBU coach ID, Historic Hotels of Europe ID, Animator.ru person ID, Moviepilot.de film ID, CoinMarketCap cryptocurrency ID, Television Academy Foundation interviewee ID, Academia topic ID


 * Deleted properties: Heritage Building in Finland ID (P4237), patron (P1962)
 * Query examples:
 * Map of libraries in Austria (source)
 * Countries ranked by number of Wikidata-known people born there whose English version of the given name starts with Q or X (source)
 * List of Windows games released this year (source)
 * Countries with most citizens on Wikidata whose given name starts with X or Q (source)
 * People entered in the Dictionary of Welsh Biography by gender and birth location (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Invasive Species


 * Development
 * More work on merging Lexemes
 * More work on data types and edit summary for Senses
 * Improve qualifier suggestions using constraint definition (T201288)
 * Improve constraint property item suggestions for property constraint values (T199672)
 * Remove ratelimit from Wikidata for some groups again (T198396)

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
 * 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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Tech News: 2018-35
<section begin="technews-2018-W35"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * You can now see moved paragraphs in diffs in the mobile view. It also works on all languages in the desktop view.
 * Bureaucrats on all Wikimedia wikis can now remove the interface admin user right.

Problems
 * Some diffs show lines in the wrong order. The developers are working on fixing it.

Changes later this week
 * The message you see when you thank a user will change. This is to make it easier to understand.
 * AWB will stop adding  in the edit summary.  Instead it will add a tag that says.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Some abuse filter variables have changed. They are now easier to understand for non-experts. The old variables will still work but filter editors are encouraged to replace them with the new ones. You can find the list of changed variables on mediawiki.org. They have a note which says . An example is   which is now.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Abuse filters can now use how old a page is. The variable is.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 August. It will be on all wikis from 30 August (calendar).

Meetings Future changes
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 28 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.

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