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Wikidata weekly summary #326
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.  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
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

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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You'd better be busy
So you went past my house this afternoon and didn't drop in to say hello. --RexxS (talk) 23:29, 21 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Last week, with nephews and parents in tow. I had half expected to see you in costume, in one of the cottages.  Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 00:43, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
 * The only job they wanted me for was as a fossil in the coal mine. --RexxS (talk) 10:02, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
 * The only job they wanted me for was as a fossil in the coal mine. --RexxS (talk) 10:02, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

Category:Animals and plants named after David Attenborough has been nominated for discussion
Category:Animals and plants named after David Attenborough, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. DexDor(talk) 19:35, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Agent
Template:Agent has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. &thinsp;&mdash; Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs)&thinsp; 03:36, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

Ponte Morandi - viaduct vs bridge
I've had to revert this again twice today. You may wish to opine on the talk page. Thryduulf (talk) 14:11, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 29
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Issue 29, June – July 2018  Hindi, Italian and French versions of Books & Bytes are now available in meta!
 * New partners
 * Economic & Political Weekly–10 accounts
 * Wikimania
 * Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
 * Global branches update
 * Bytes in brief

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DYK nomination of Thomas Hawker (British Army officer)
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Wikidata weekly summary #327
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * 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
 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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The Signpost: 30 August 2018
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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 12
Newsletter • August 2018

This month: WikiProject X: The resumption

Work has resumed on WikiProject X and CollaborationKit, backed by a successfully funded Project Grant. For more information on the current status and planned work, please see this month's issue of the newsletter!

-— Isarra ༆ 22:24, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

Thank you ...
... for improving article quality in August! - Did you know that I heard the symphony again that marked my blackest day on Wikipedia, 5 years ago? In much better mood. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:13, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for September 2
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Administrators' newsletter – September 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2018). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg None
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Asterion • Crisco 1492 • KF • Kudpung • Liz • Randykitty • Spartaz
 * Pictogram voting rename.png →

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Amorymeltzer • Mr. Stradivarius • MusikAnimal • MSGJ • TheDJ • Xaosflux

Guideline and policy news
 * Following a "stop-gap" discussion, six users have temporarily been made interface administrators while discussion is ongoing for a more permanent process for assigning the permission. Interface administrators are now the only editors allowed to edit sitewide CSS and JavaScript pages, as well as CSS/JS pages in another user's userspace. Previously, all administrators had this ability. The right can be granted and revoked by bureaucrats.

Technical news
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * Abuse filters can now use how old a page is. The variable is.

Arbitration
 * The Arbitration Committee has resolved to perform a round of Checkuser and Oversight appointments. The usernames of all applicants will be shared with the Functionaries team, and they will be requested to assist in the vetting process. The deadline to submit an application is 23:59 UTC, 12 September, and the candidates that move forward will be published on-wiki for community comments on 18 September.

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Tech News: 2018-36
 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
 * There is a new user right for users who can edit CSS and JavaScript for the entire wiki. Before this all admins could edit CSS and JavaScript. This was a security risk. This group is called interface administrators. Administrators can delete user CSS and JavaScript pages.
 * There will be an A/B test on the Wikipedia mobile website. It starts this week. It tests how we show templates that show information about an article. The test will last two weeks.
 * You can now use different CSS rules for different skins when you edit templates. This is because of TemplateStyles.
 * in ORES is now called.
 * When you get a new message on your talk page you get a yellow message in the toolbar. The preference to show or not show this has been removed.

Problems
 * UploadWizard had problems with campaigns. Users could not upload files. This has now been fixed.
 * You can get a notification when a link is made to a page you created. This has not worked since June. It was fixed last week.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 September. It will be on all wikis from 6 September (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 5 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The Wikimedia Foundation Readers department will work on advanced mobile editing. You can read more about this and other things they plan to work on over the next year. You can also see the presentation.
 * The RelatedSites extension will be removed from Wikivoyage.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Unused projects on the Wikimedia Cloud virtual private server will be removed. This will happen in October. Projects can be marked if they are being used.

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Wikidata weekly summary #328
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 * Events
 * 3-5 September, Bologna: Workshop on Open Citations, with several WikiCite-related talks and an associated hackathon
 * 8 September, Zurich, Switzerland: Wikidata Hackathon
 * September and early October: Andy Mabbett is touring Australia for a series of open-science and GLAM Wiki-focused talks, workshops, and meetups.
 * 23 October 2018, Berlin: Workshop How can I use Wikidata for my research?
 * Applications are invited for WikiCite 2018 (27-29 November in Berkeley)
 * Registration is now open for PIDapalooza 2019 in Dublin, Ireland on 23-24 January.


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Many faces of Wikibase: Cataloging the history of the Illuminati


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New admin: Abián. Welcome onboard!
 * Better suggestions for constraint values on properties
 * Wikidata now has 100 million qualifiers on statements
 * A proposal comes forth to use Wikidata Qs as permanent IDs for OpenStreetMap. See the discussion.
 * A Stanford University announces a Wikimedian in Residence position focused on Library metadata and Wikidata: see the announcement on Wikidata-l
 * SourceMD and ORCIDator have been merged and can now be run in batch mode (announcement by Magnus Manske)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: ideographic description sequences, editor-in-chief, image of interior
 * External identifiers: WSJP ID, Turkish Basketball Super League ID, Greek Basket League ID, Polish Basketball League ID, Basketball Bundesliga ID, Baloncesto Superior Nacional ID, Pietre della Memoria ID, Partis d'Arcadie ID, Angelicum author ID, bgm.tv subject identifier, bilibili ID, Historic Hotels of America ID, Historic Hotels Worldwide ID, Minor Planet Center body ID, Moegirlpedia Chinese Article Entry, Open Exoplanet Catalogue exoplanet ID, PUSC author ID, So Foot ID, Voetbalstats player ID, SR Number, KERIS school ID, Pacific Coast Architecture Database person ID, Directorate General of Civil Aeronautics (Mexico) code, CWA writer ID, Basisklassifikation, ASIN, FBref player ID, Syndikat writer ID, EU RCN, ABMC person ID, DAV hut ID, PZS hut ID, ÖAV hut ID, Petit Futé site ID, SAC ID, NDB identifier for airport beacons, Directorio de Museos y Colecciones de España ID, IMA museum ID, The Park Database ID, Osservatorio culturale del Cantone Ticino ID, Animator.ru person ID, RBU athlete ID, RBU coach ID, Television Academy Foundation interviewee ID, Historic Hotels of Europe ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Cryptocurrency Symbol, Cooperative Patent Classification, usage example, described in Wikimedia article, beer color, beer bitterness
 * External identifiers: DBUnico ID, EU participant ID, WorldofVolley ID, Skijumping.pl ID, Arnet Miner author ID, Cranach Digital Archive Kunstwerk ID, DSV ID, The Gymternet ID, Ski Jumping Hill Archive ID, cpcrulez, e621, AustLII ID, NooSFere series ID, IGDB game ID, IGDB platform ID, IGDB person ID, Dobry słownik ID, Twitch channel ID, OlympicChannel athlete ID, Académie de Marseille member ID, Film Indonesia ID, BGCI Garden ID, International Mathematical Olympiad participant ID


 * Query examples:
 * License of an image on Commons, while Structured Commons is in the making (source)
 * Gallery of Gods and other deities
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23defaultView%3AMap%7B%22hide%22%3A%20%5B%22%3Flocation%22%2C%20%22%3Flayer%22%5D%7D%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Flocation%20%3Flayer%20%3FnearestitemLabel%20%3Fnearestitem%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fbookcase%20%3Flocation1%20(MIN(%3Fdistance)%20AS%20%3FminDistance)%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fbookcase%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ294297%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Flocation1%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP131%20wd%3AQ1741.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Flibrary%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ28564%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Flocation2%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP131%20wd%3AQ1741.%0A%20%20%20%20BIND(geof%3Adistance(%3Flocation1%2C%20%3Flocation2)%20AS%20%3Fdistance)%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fbookcase%20%3Flocation1%0A%7D%20AS%20%25bookcasesWithDistance%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fbookcase%20%3Flocation1%20%3Flibrary%20%3Flocation2%20%3Fdistance%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25bookcasesWithDistance.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Flibrary%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ28564%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Flocation2%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP131%20wd%3AQ1741.%0A%20%20%20%20BIND(geof%3Adistance(%3Flocation1%2C%20%3Flocation2)%20AS%20%3Fdistance)%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER(%3Fdistance%20%3D%20%3FminDistance)%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25bookcasesWithLibraries%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25bookcasesWithLibraries.%0A%20%20VALUES%20%3Fswitch%20%7B%20true%20false%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND(IF(%3Fswitch%2C%20%22B%C3%BCcherschrank%22%40de%2C%20%22Bibliothek%22%40de)%20AS%20%3Flayer)%0A%20%20BIND(IF(%3Fswitch%2C%20%3Fbookcase%2C%20%3Flibrary)%20AS%20%3Fitem)%0A%20%20BIND(IF(%3Fswitch%2C%20%3Flocation1%2C%20%3Flocation2)%20AS%20%3Flocation)%0A%20%20BIND(IF(%3Fswitch%2C%20%3Flibrary%2C%20%3Fbookcase)%20AS%20%3Fnearestitem)%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%2Cde%22.%20%7D%0A%7D Closest library for each public bookcase in Vienna] (source)
 * Line chart of Human Development Index over time for a set of countries (source)
 * Newest database reports: people by Erdős number and number of works in Wikidata


 * Development
 * Final polishing on first version of Senses support for Lexemes. (T201000, T202729, T198036, T203334)
 * Continued work on merging Lexemes. Merging via the SpecialPage is done and will be rolled out soon. Merging via the API is still being worked on. (T189129)
 * Long Lemmas in Lexemes look bad because they are not flowing to the next line and instead break the layout. Working on a fix. (T195367)
 * Improving the validity of the HTML of the Lexeme headers. (T196228)
 * Worked on showing the Lemma(s) or Representation(s) when Lexemes or Forms are mentioned in constraint reports. (T195315)
 * Got a new beta feature ready for deployment that will improve the suggestions for properties like sex/gender by first suggesting the values defined in the one-of constraint. (T202712)

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!

<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 · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 08:15, 4 September 2018 (UTC)