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Wikidata weekly summary #410
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Should we create new properties for beaches?


 * Events
 * Upcoming: Wikidata office hour, April 7th at 18:00 UTC+2, on the Wikidata Telegram channel
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Google Sheets add-on, Author Disambiguator Tool, 07 April. Agenda
 * Upcoming: live SPARQL queries in French by Vigneron, April 8 at 20:00 CEST
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #8, April 12
 * Upcoming: Wikidata for Beginners (German, Remoted via Zoom), May 3
 * Ongoing: WikiGap Challenge until April 8th
 * Ongoing: covid-19 virtual biohackathon until April 11th. Information on how to participate. Instructions to participate are on the github wiki and join #wikidata room. Several Wikidata-related topics are currently presented, such as: COVID-19 Global Dashboard, sync the ICTV Virus classification and Nomenclature with Wikidata, federate between Wikidata and NextProt, use wikibase to align between (bio)schema.org and Wikidata.


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Signpost special report: Wikipedia on COVID-19: what we publish and why it matters — with mentions of COVID-related Wikidata activities
 * Denny Vrandecic published a proposal that suggests some extensions to Wikidata, and also a wholly new project, Wikilambda.
 * ScienceGuide's The COVID-19 pandemic stresses the societal importance of open science mentions WikiProject COVID-19
 * SPARC*Europe mentions the WikiProject COVID-19 in Overnight, COVID-19 heightens the need for Open Science post
 * Video: Live SPARQL queries in English by WikidataFacts
 * Video: Live SPARQL queries in French by Vigneron


 * Tool of the week
 * Scholia highlights the scholarly data in Wikidata, including scholarly works, projects, topics, and individual researchers, including their relationships and statistics. It encourages further enrichment of Wikidata through links on the "missing" pages.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New tool: ShExStatements to generate Shape Expressions from CSV (more details)
 * Job opportunity: Science Museum, London. Research Developer, "using computational techniques to create links between the SMG collection and Wikidata at scale" (deadline: 19 April).
 * New tool: Wikidata Complete uses machine learning algorithms to read Wikipedia, identify facts and import them into Wikidata after manual check (blog post)
 * schema.org announced an extension to allow for special announcements with regards to COVID-19. The way to identify the topic as per the example? By using the Wikidata Q-Identifier, Q81068910: Structured data for special announcements
 * Interactive map showing the spread of COVID-19, updated daily with data from Wikidata.
 * wb_terms table will be emptied today
 * Your feedback is welcome on two projects to improve the queries and lists workflows


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: organized response related to outbreak, Latvian transcription, country of registry, number of hospitalized cases, ARK formatter, symbol of
 * External identifiers: m3db.com person ID, Filmfront person ID, SIUSA archive conservator ID, National Register of Historic Monuments in Bosnia and Herzegovina ID, RPGamer game ID, DR music artist ID, PC Games Database.de game ID, ELAR ID, Frankfurter Personenlexikon ID, Women of Scotland memorial ID, Women of Scotland subject ID, Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters author ID, MusicBrainz genre ID, Latvian unified registration number, Amazon Prime Video ID, VGMRips composer ID, Apache Project ID, coinop.org game ID, Glassdoor company ID, AGROVOC ID, Ameli ID, BookBrainz publisher ID, Chinese Clinical Trial Registry identifier, CIRIS author ID, Colecovision Addict ID, Macdonald Dictionary ID, ToposText place ID, ToposText person ID, ToposText work ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: located in the statistical territorial entity, formatter for periodical, CSS Color name
 * External identifiers: JournalTOCs ID, EZB ID, MUSE article ID, Paperity journal ID, Paperity article ID, Flora del Cono Sur Darwinion, MxM xref, Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada ID, TED speaker numeric ID, Sejm-Wielki.pl profile ID


 * Query examples:
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20target%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2FQ84263196%3E%20%23%20Replace%20Q84263196%20%28COVID-19%29with%20Wikidata%20ID%20of%20your%20concept%20of%20interest%2C%20e.g.%20Q202864%20%28Zika%20virus%29%20%0A%0A%23%20%23defaultView%3AGraph%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fcited_country%20%3Fcited_countryLabel%20%3Fcited_flag%20%3Fciting_country%20%3Fciting_countryLabel%20%3Fciting_flag%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fcited_country%20%3Fciting_country%20%28COUNT%28%3Fciting_country%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%0A%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%20%20%20%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fciting_work%20wdt%3AP50%20%3Fciting_author%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fciting_work%20wdt%3AP921%20target%3A%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fcited_work%20wdt%3AP921%20target%3A%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fciting_work%20wdt%3AP2860%20%3Fcited_work%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fcited_work%20wdt%3AP50%20%3Fcited_author%20.%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28%3Fciting_work%20%21%3D%20%3Fcited_work%29%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fciting_work%20wdt%3AP50%20%3Fauthor%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fciting_work%20wdt%3AP2860%20%3Fcited_work%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcited_work%20%20wdt%3AP50%20%3Fauthor%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fciting_author%20%28wdt%3AP108%7Cwdt%3AP1416%29%20%3Fciting_organization%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fcited_author%20%28wdt%3AP108%7Cwdt%3AP1416%29%20%3Fcited_organization%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fcited_organization%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fcited_country.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fciting_organization%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fciting_country.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28%3Fciting_country%20%21%3D%20%3Fcited_country%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fcited_country%20%3Fciting_country%0A%20%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29%0A%20%20LIMIT%2030%20%23%20Adjust%20number%20of%20connections%20to%20display%0A%7D%20AS%20%25results%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25results%0A%20%20%3Fcited_country%20wdt%3AP163%20%2F%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fcited_flag%20.%20%0A%20%20%3Fciting_country%20wdt%3AP163%20%2F%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fciting_flag%20.%20%0A%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%7D%0A Country-level citation graph for #COVID19] (source)
 * Movies from artfilm.ch in free access (source)
 * Topic co-occurrence graph in the SARS-CoV-2 & #COVID19 literature (source)
 * Fibulas in Musée Saint-Raymond with date, material, location of discovery


 * Development
 * Working on a first prototype for automated finding references (board)
 * Bridge: improve rendering of references (T238661)
 * Only send incremental changes through the API (T230343)
 * Adding a screen allowing people to go edit the references on Wikidata (T240333)
 * Reducing the size of the extra Javascript that the user has to download for Bridge (T228857)

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 &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:30, 6 April 2020 (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: 2020-15
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * There was a problem with user pages not being shown properly on desktop. This was because of a bug. It will soon be fixed.

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

Future changes
 * MediaWiki will use a newer version of Unicode. Some characters that did not have an upper case equivalent before do now. Titles beginning with one of these characters will be moved. A list of these titles can be seen on Phabricator. The titles will be renamed by the user . This will start on 13 April 2020. You can rename them before this if you wish and the new title can be different from the one the script would rename it to.

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Tech News: 2020-16
 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 use the  search word on all Wikipedias. It searches articles by topic.
 * You can see wiki tools in the new Tools Gallery.
 * You can see edits from the Wikimedia Cloud Services in a new dashboard.
 * When you use filters on a history page you sometimes don't see any edits. There is a text explaining this now. Before it was just empty.
 * There is a new Wikimedia Technical Blog.

Problems
 * There was a problem with the Wikidata database last week. Some wikis went down for twenty minutes. Wikidata and other projects showed error messages. Interwiki links were not shown, some tools did not work and other problems. Some of this was fixed quickly. The developers are working on fixing the rest.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 15. It will be on all wikis from April 16 (calendar).

Future changes
 * Some graphs have not worked on mobile. This will soon be fixed.
 * The article tab on talk pages of redirects links to the target of the redirect. It could link to the redirect page itself instead. You can leave feedback on this.
 * For pages using syntax highlighting, the use of the deprecated  tag, as well as the use of the deprecated   parameter, will add tracking categories.

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Wikidata weekly summary #411
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * CheckUser nominations: Sotiale, Jasper Deng, Romaine


 * Events
 * Ongoing: Wikidata Lab XXII on the Wikidata Wikiproject COVID-19, April 14, 1pm UTC, remote, in English. Event page
 * Upcoming: live SPARQL queries in French by Vigneron, Tuesday April 14 at 20:00 CEST (UTC+2)
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #9, April 19
 * Past: Wikidata and Wikibase office hour, April 7, on Telegram. Notes of the discussion
 * Past: Wikidata topic at the virtual biohackathon. Mid-term updates final presentations (Wikidata report starts at 1:17:40)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata, a case report (new preprint about virus info (strains, genes, proteins), ShEx, and SPARQL)
 * Multilingual enrichment of disease biomedical ontologies ("We look at the coverage of two biomedical ontologies focusing on diseases with respect to Wikidata for 9 European languages")
 * Wikidata and the bibliography of life in the time of coronavirus
 * Video: Editing Wikidata and creating a property proposal: YouTube, Facebook, Periscope


 * Tool of the week
 * COVID19 Dashboard is a Wikidata-powered one-stop information/visualization service for COVID19-related topics such as COVID19's outbreak map, deaths, symptoms, taxonomy, and publications.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * A database breakage, also affecting connected sister projects such as Wikipedia, on April 6, 11pm UTC. A fix has been deployed and no data has been lost. However, issues related to sitelinks and bots creating duplicates can still occur.
 * You're welcome to give feedback on ideas of improvements for the Query Service interface
 * The development team is working on automated finding of references, feel free to give feedback on the first batch
 * ZFOURGE UDS 19909 (Q90000000) - our ninety-millionth item, about a galaxy - was created on 10 April.
 * For the first time, a Wikipedia list article populated entirely from Wikidata, and built using Listeria, has been granted "featured" status, on the Portuguese Wikipedia (video on YouTube).
 * ListeriaBot blocked pending review on English Wikipedia.
 * A Telegram group has been created for discussions about Wikidata in German
 * Comment on QID Emoji proposal until April 20th


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: donations, network bands, bus, recommended unit of measurement, CSS color keyword
 * External identifiers: BDSP ID, CAB ID, Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity ID, Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters work ID, ScreenScraper group ID, The Cover Project game ID, FHF establishment ID, FHF hospital group ID, elibrary.ru person ID, Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon ID, WBIS ID, Spanish National Catalog of Hospitals ID, Visit Tuscany ID, URL on Nintendo eShop, Curran Index contributor ID, ODMP person ID, GameTDB game ID, Elephind.com ID, EZB ID, GameReactor game ID, Archival Resource Key, EcuRed article, Geneastar person ID, Encyklopedia Solidarności ID, Pinakes copyist or possessor ID, Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada ID, I-Revues ID, JournalTOCs ID, MUSE article ID, NASA active astronaut ID - DO NOT USE, Paperity article ID, Paperity journal ID, SAN archive producer ID, SOCAN work number, Papers Past ID, Pascal et Francis ID, Retronews ID, COTREX trail ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: ACUM work ID, appendix, Wikisource index page, Unicode character, Arlington Cemetery person ID, Eigentümerhistorie, quantification instruction, language level, Included in curricula, Order number, ShEx available at URL, dialect of (computer language), file page offset, station service succession
 * External identifiers: Seoul Information Disclosure Plaza management number, Wikiparques ID, NKAA ID, Described and Captioned Media Program producer ID, Provenio ID, Encyclopedia of Brno Person ID, RPPS ID, South African Company Registration Number, Sicilian Regional Assembly ID, Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis ID, SNCF station identifier, Benerail station identifier, Indian Railways train number, Soccerdonna coach ID, DLL Catalog IDs, MDN, Psocodea Species File ID, Slovak Registration ID, Swedish Glaciers, Club Identifier Netherlands Handball Association, Encyclopaedia Metallum label ID, UK Modern House Index building ID, UK Modern House Index architect ID, CPAN person, FactGrid item ID, FactGrid property ID, Texas Historic Sites Atlas ID


 * Query examples:
 * Names of countries without letter "a" (source)
 * Infectious diseases and their number of cases (source)
 * Map of mountain huts in Bulgaria (source)
 * Schema examples: pandemic (E184), preprint (E185), Macromolecular complex (E186), hospital (E187), 2020 coronavirus pandemic local outbreaks (E188), clinical trial (E189), Lockdown (E190), lockdown part of the 2019-2020 coronavirus disease pandemic (E191), virus taxon (E192), Preprint server (E193), Complex Portal entity (E194), contact tracing app (E195)


 * Development
 * Move wb_terms data in cloud replicas to wb_terms_no_longer_updated (T248592)
 * Rebuild wb_items_per_site, after incident where wb_items_per_site was dropped (T249596)
 * Purge / Reject client pages that were cached in parser cache during the incident (T249595)
 * More work on Automated finding references
 * More work on federated properties: create and save a statement with federated properties
 * Bridge: improve the generic error screen (T241126) and on save (T248087)

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 &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 13:23, 14 April 2020 (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!

Wikidata weekly summary #412
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: How to model curricula and link them to educational resources?, Need comment on English item label and foreign language proper noun, Merging 2 items
 * Ongoing CheckUser nominations: Sotiale, Jasper Deng, Romaine


 * Events
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Wikidata Schemas, 21 April. Agenda
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #10, April 26
 * Past Wikidata Lab XXII - Wikiproject COVID-19 (video in English)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Open data and COVID-19: Wikipedia as an informational resource during the pandemic (Wikidata being also mentioned as a source for the research)
 * Videos:
 * Commons image uploading and Wikidata: YouTube
 * A call to action directed at the audience of the Weekly Debrief to edit Wikidata YouTube
 * Propose new identifiers on Wikidata (in Italian) YouTube
 * The Map of Libraries on Wikidata (in Spanish) YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Ordia generates statistics from Wikidata lexeme information, and through the "Text to Lexemes" feature allows linking a document to the associated lexemes, and highlighting missing lexemes that can be added.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * First step of blank node deprecation in WDQS & Wikibase RDF model: introducing the new function
 * The tool wikidata-filter was renamed wikibase-dump-filter, to better reflect that it can be used with dumps from any Wikibase instance
 * LexData – a python library to edit Lexicographical data – has been released in a major new version.
 * The ImageHeader gadget, which had been broken since February, was fixed.
 * Wikidata Lexeme Forms now supports Hebrew nouns
 * New tool: Anagram generator based on Wikidata names


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: eligible award recipient
 * External identifiers: Wikiparques ID, Encyclopedia of Brno Person ID, FooDB compound ID, Forest Stewardship Council Certificate Code, HASC


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: IDU general item ID, CONI honoured ID, parliament seats, electoral system, same transportation stop on the other side of the road, string instrument handedness, Canadiana Name Authorities in French ID, defines curriculum, clinitalregister.eu
 * External identifiers: Encyclopedia of České Budějovice ID, DPVweb ID, IDU theatre ID, Ternopil Encyclopedia ID, ROKPS ID, Aberdeen Built Ships ID, Bibliotheca Augustana author ID, Diels-Kranz ID, IDU theatre name ID (2), Oregon Historic Sites Database ID, Infames Romani ID, Accademia delle Scienze di Torino ID, Heritage Gateway ID, Il Sole 24 Ore ID, identifiant monument MémorialGenWeb, Extratime.ie player ID, DGHS facility code, WikiTrek ID, Itch.io developper profile


 * Deleted properties: P134 (has dialect), P1432 (B-side)
 * Query examples:
 * Women with cats in paintings (Source)
 * Films by Peter Mettler available free on VOD (Source)
 * Films broadcast on VOD by artfilm.ch sorted by Director and Date (Source)
 * Swiss films listed by date and duration per minutes (Source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FitemDescription%20%3Fosm%20%3Fceremonial%20%3FceremonialLabel%20%3FceremonialDescription%20%3Fceremonialosm%20%3Fadministrative%20%3FadministrativeLabel%20%3FadministrativeDescription%20%3Fadministrativeosm%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ1138494.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20wd%3AP402%20wdt%3AP1630%20%3Fformatterurl%20.%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP402%20%3Fosmid%20.%20BIND%28IRI%28REPLACE%28%3Fosmid%2C%20%27%5E%28.%2B%29%24%27%2C%20%3Fformatterurl%29%29%20AS%20%3Fosm%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1889%20%3Fceremonial.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fceremonial%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ180673%20.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20wd%3AP402%20wdt%3AP1630%20%3Fformatterurl%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fceremonial%20p%3AP402%20%3Fceremonialstatement.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fceremonialstatement%20ps%3AP402%20%3Fceremonialosmid%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fceremonialstatement%20pq%3AP518%20wd%3AQ180673%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28IRI%28REPLACE%28%3Fceremonialosmid%2C%20%27%5E%28.%2B%29%24%27%2C%20%3Fformatterurl%29%29%20AS%20%3Fceremonialosm%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20wd%3AP402%20wdt%3AP1630%20%3Fformatterurl%20.%20%3Fceremonial%20wdt%3AP402%20%3Fceremonialosmid%20.%20BIND%28IRI%28REPLACE%28%3Fceremonialosmid%2C%20%27%5E%28.%2B%29%24%27%2C%20%3Fformatterurl%29%29%20AS%20%3Fceremonialosm%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1889%20%3Fadministrative.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fadministrative%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ643815%20.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20wd%3AP402%20wdt%3AP1630%20%3Fformatterurl%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fadministrative%20p%3AP402%20%3Fadministrativestatement.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fadministrativestatement%20ps%3AP402%20%3Fadministrativeosmid%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fadministrativestatement%20pq%3AP518%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ643815%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28IRI%28REPLACE%28%3Fadministrativeosmid%2C%20%27%5E%28.%2B%29%24%27%2C%20%3Fformatterurl%29%29%20AS%20%3Fadministrativeosm%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20wd%3AP402%20wdt%3AP1630%20%3Fformatterurl%20.%20%3Fadministrative%20wdt%3AP402%20%3Fadministrativeosmid%20.%20BIND%28IRI%28REPLACE%28%3Fadministrativeosmid%2C%20%27%5E%28.%2B%29%24%27%2C%20%3Fformatterurl%29%29%20AS%20%3Fadministrativeosm%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20%28%3FitemLabel%29%0ALIMIT%2049 Counties in England] (Source)
 * Programming Languages, Year of creation and Image of inventor(Source)
 * Map of Antonine Wall items on Wikidata (Source)
 * Map of Hospitals in Buenos Aires on Spanish Wikipedia (Source)
 * Map of Michelin starred restaurants in Switzerland (Source)
 * English civil parishes on Wikidata with OSM relation ID (Source)
 * Collections in Louvre with an image on Wikimedia Commons (Source)
 * Chief Mousers(Source)
 * Books about Semantics (Source)
 * Danish COVID-19 research projects(Source)
 * Newest database reports: Lincoln (disambiguation page)


 * Development
 * Prototyping week: the Wikidata team at Wikimedia Germany spent one week working on some quick experiements. The projects developed during this week are not necessarily going to be added to the maintained codebase. Among those projects:
 * try to use GraphQL for the API providing access to Wikibase/Wikidata data
 * allow to programmatically access different configuration variables of a Wikibase instance to make it easier for tools to built on top of it
 * investigate ranking for Items to order them by their relevance in a query result
 * com up with a workflows for editing statements linking to other Items in the Wikidata Bridge
 * identify how to improve Wikidata's accessibility
 * create design system components to continue improving consistency

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 &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:14, 20 April 2020 (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.
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Tech News: 2020-17
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Wikidata weekly summary #413
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 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Udder balm
 * CheckUser nomination: علاء


 * Events
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #11, May 3
 * Upcoming: Live editing of Wikidata, May 2 18:00 (UTC) YouTube, Facebook


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Wiki Workshop 2020: Report
 * Editing food items and querying glaciers: YouTube and Facebook
 * Interactions between VIAF and Wikidata (in Italian) YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * zotkat's exporter for Zotero (a software to manage bibliographic data) allows you to export bibliographies to the QuickStatements format. It is helpful to easily create bibliographical entries, especially as Zotero can read metadata about works from dozens of other websites, and can thus be used as intermediary.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata now includes more than seven million people (it has doubled since July 2017), also: project chat discussion
 * Nobelprize.org has now redesigned its website so that Wikipedia can link to it easier using the Wikidata Property Nobel Laureate API ID (P8024) (more information)
 * The use of Listeria to generate basic charts (pie, area, line, bar) with d:Template:Graph:Chart, see d:Template:Wikidata list
 * Mohammed Sadat joined the Wikidata team as community communications manager for Wikidata and Wikibase


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: tournament format, dialect of computer language, located in the statistical territorial entity
 * External identifiers: ModelSEED compound ID, UM-BBD compound ID, DLL Catalog author ID, DLL Catalog work ID, CPAN author ID, Fandango performer ID, Club Identifier Netherlands Handball Association, Forest Stewardship Council License Code, IDU theatre company ID, Internetowy Polski Słownik Biograficzny ID, Texas Historic Sites Atlas ID, Swedish Glaciers ID, Soccerdonna coach ID, Encyclopedia of České Budějovice ID, Il Sole 24 Ore ID, Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis ID, Moravian Lives ID, motorsportstats.com driver ID, motorsportstats.com series ID, motorsportstats.com venue ID, SAR ancestor ID, Ternopil Encyclopedia ID, Psocodea Species File ID, SkiMo Stats ID, National-Football-Teams.com club ID, re:publica speaker ID, Provenio ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: nerve origin, 法令番号, interpretation, DoME exhibition ID
 * External identifiers: dbchgk, COVIDWHO ID, History Colorado ID, Maryland's National Register Properties ID, Epistemonikos ID, National Library of Israel J9U ID, Lexikon der Filmbegriffe ID, Dart thesis, DPE school code


 * Query examples:
 * Pairs of lakes named after a couple
 * The longest river that feeds into another river (Source)
 * Longest rivers that do not feed into a sea or ocean (Source)
 * Map showing things in Wikidata that are located on or next to the River Thames (Source)
 * Defining formulas of physical and other quantities (Source)
 * TreeMap visualising the 12 times table (Source)
 * Map of the "Leipzig University Villages" (Source)
 * There are now more than 7 million people on Wikidata (Source)
 * Recently published works on COVID-19 (Source)
 * Welsh hospitals, health centres, doctors surgeries and temporary Covid19 hospitals (Source)
 * Newest database reports: measures of gobbledygook


 * Development
 * More work on error screens for the Bridge
 * Use updated data for the Bridge (T240223)
 * Display statements made with federated properties on item pages (T246606)
 * Automated references: normalizing data that the extractor gets out of HTML pages (T249004)
 * Create a distributed game so people can vet references easily (T248997)
 * Cleanup rows from wb_items_per_site (T249613)
 * Don't suggest initial uppercase in mobile termbox (T241978)
 * Have the focus on field when adding new element on Sense (T203461)

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.

<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; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:28, 27 April 2020 (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.
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