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Wikidata weekly summary #340
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Referencing websites: how do we store the website title?, Many surname items had been un merged because of failure to communicate.


 * Events
 * Past: women editathon in Mexico City, November 24th
 * Past: Wikidata "Train the trainers" workshop in Berlin, November 23th-25th
 * Running: WikiCite 2018, November 27th-29th, Berkeley, California, USA. Some livestream will be provided on Youtube
 * Upcoming: Wikidata "Train the trainers" workshop in Vienna, November 30th-December 2nd
 * Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, with a focus on Open Refine, January 15th


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Wikidata-related videos during GLAMwiki conference:
 * Wikidata — What's new - Jens Ohlig
 * A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners - Asaf Bartov
 * SPARQL workshop - Maarten Dammers
 * Engaging GLAM institutions with Wikidata - Sharing Experiences and Techniques - Andrew Lih
 * Sum of all Paintings and Open Data - Maarten Dammers
 * Wikidata’s role in metadata creation and reuse workflows in libraries - Michelle Futornick
 * Open your structured GLAM data with Wikibase — install your own instance of the technology behind Wikidata - Jens Ohlig
 * Impact and potential of structured data on Wikimedia projects for the GLAM sector - Sandra Fauconnier
 * Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons - Introduction and panel of Wikimedia pilots
 * Introduction to Wikidata in 7min by Asaf Bartov
 * Introduction to Wikidata by Lydia Pintscher in 20min, during Shani Evenstein's university course about Wikidata


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata Senses (documentation), new tool by User:Vesihiisi to add senses to lexemes
 * The Swedish National Heritage Board has started working on a project, related to Structured Data on Commons, that focuses on ways to feed back improved (crowdsourced) metadata to cultural institutions who contribute media files to Wikimedia Commons.
 * Please alert your GLAM partners to a new survey about crowdsourcing, metadata and Wikimedia Commons, which informs the research for this project!
 * Scribe, a project to support under-resourced Wikipedias based on Wikidata's content, has been proposed for a grant
 * Tool to convert Wikibase JSON to RDF without storing it in a repository
 * Call for paper for the data quality workshop in Berlin on January 18th. Open until December 3rd


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: running mate, research site, quotes work
 * External identifiers: World Poker Tour player ID, GLAMOS glacier ID, Academy Awards Database nominee ID, ANICA ID, National Portrait Gallery (United States) object ID, r-hockey.ru person ID, Sotheby's Museum Network ID, MNAV artist ID, Google News publication ID, ALCA author ID, Atlas of Florida Plants ID, BoardGeekGame game publisher ID, Invasive Plant Atlas of the United States ID, Luding game publisher ID, NAS ID, Depósito Legal ID, Corpus typographique français ID, British Executions ID, Bantu Lexical Reconstructions ID, Welsh Book Trade Info ID, System16 identifier, Académie d'Arles member ID, Sega Saturn game ID, Bitraga author ID, TWAS Fellow ID, Bitraga work ID, Cal-IPC ID, EUNIS ID, Dimensions Author ID, Dimensions Publication ID, Dimensions Source ID, Disney A to Z ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: language use, has variant, has version, rationale text, HABS ID, Wikia Article URL, CNPJ
 * External identifiers: AJOL ID, Microsoft Academic Source ID, GameFAQs company ID, BDFA player ID, Sabinet ID, NSW State Archives and Records Authority Agency ID, Guida al fumetto italiano ID, Bygdeband location, OeBL 1815-1950 ID, Badtaste ID, Badgames ID, defined term ID, Wikia Article ID, Female mexican soccer players ID, Geolex ID, OBV editions, BBC News topic id, member of the Portuguese parliament ID


 * Query examples:
 * Place and century of discovery of the archaeological objects of St Raymond museum (France) (source)
 * Location of city halls in Spain (source)
 * Timeline of famous pirates (source)
 * Authors who are the most cited in Nature Chemistry (source)
 * Scholarly articles published about Wikidata (adapted from here)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23The%20world's%20tallest%20200%20mountains%2C%20and%20if%2Fwhen%20they%20were%20first%20climbed.%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fmountain%20%3FmountainLabel%20(sample(%3Fheight)%20as%20%3Fheight)%20(year(%3Fdate)%20as%20%3Fyear)%20(sample(%3Flocation)%20as%20%3Flocation)%20%3Flayer%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20%3Fmountain%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ8502%20.%20%23%20Everything%20that's%20a%20mountain%0A%20%20%3Fmountain%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Flocation%20.%20%23%20and%20has%20a%20coordinate%0A%20%20%3Fmountain%20p%3AP2044%20%3Fheightstatement%20.%20%23%20and%20has%20a%20height-statement%0A%20%20%3Fheightstatement%20psv%3AP2044%20%3FPSVStatement.%20%23%20normalised%20height%20statement%0A%20%20%3FPSVStatement%20wikibase%3AquantityNormalized%20%3Fanother_statement%20.%0A%20%20%3Fanother_statement%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3Fheight.%23%20height%20-%20phew!%0A%20%20FILTER(%3Fheight%20%3E%206000)%20%23%20only%20the%20tallest%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fmountain%20p%3AP793%20%3Fevent%20.%20%23%20and%20within%20that%20%22significant%20event%22%20statement%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fevent%20ps%3AP793%20wd%3AQ1194369%20.%20%23%20continued...%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fevent%20pq%3AP585%20%3Fdate%20.%20%23it%20has%20a%20%22point%20in%20time%22%20qualifier%20statement.%0A%20%20%20%20bind%20(%22Climbed%22%20as%20%3Flayer)%20%23%20this%20seems%20to%20be%20what%20we%20need%20to%20get%20colour%20labels%20-%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%23%20ie%20if%20it%20falls%20in%20the%20optional%20group%20of%20%22was%20first%20summited%22%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%23%20then%20bind%20to%20a%20new%20layer%2C%20otherwise%20no%20special%20layer%0A%20%20%7D%20%0ASERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0Agroup%20by%20%3Fmountain%20%3FmountainLabel%20%3Fdate%20%3Flayer%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%20(%3Fheight)%0ALIMIT%20200 The world's 200 tallest mountains, and whether Wikidata knows they've been climbed] (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Kākāpō, WikiProject Scholia
 * Newest database reports: Fugger


 * Development
 * Fix an error when entering an incomplete filename (T199420)
 * Fix the unreadable references for unpriviledged users (T186006)
 * Create new page properties for number of Forms and Senses of a Lexeme (T199611)
 * Adapt the API to efficiently format large numbers of entity IDs (T207484)
 * Switch "save" to "publish" in the Lexeme interface (T203354)
 * Fix a bug showing outdated link formats in the history of Lexemes (T208423)
 * Add Special:MergeLexemes to Special:SpecialPages (T204397)
 * Add Wikipedia link in the other projects sidebar of Wikisource (T180303, thanks to Tpt)
 * Work on displaying the language of the gloss with the language name, both in reading and editing mode (T203457, T209931)
 * More work on improving the interface of the termbox on mobile

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 · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 11:39, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

Christophe Szpajdel
Good day Mr. Mabbett. I would like to get your opinion on the creation of an article for Christophe Szpajdel. I see that you have added interlinks on Vision Éternel's article on several occasions, even though there is currently no page for Christophe Szpajdel. According to this Wikipedia article (Red link), the rule seems to be that one adds a red link if he truly believes that an article deserves to be created for such a topic/person. Since you created this red link, I wanted to find out if you indeed believe that Christophe Szpajdel is worthy of having his own Wikipedia article created, and if so, do I have your support in creating one? -WikiGuruWanaB (talk) 19:10, 27 November 2018 (UTC)


 * Given the ongoing problems with your editing at Vision Éternel, it would be better if you refrained from creating any new article, until you have become more familiar with our polices on verifiability, neutrality and reliable sources. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:00, 27 November 2018 (UTC)


 * I really appreciate your feedback Mr. Mabbett. I'm willing to learn and adapt to Wikipedia's strict guidelines, but as a human being, making mistakes is part of learning. I'm really doing my best to improve every article that I read on Wikipedia. I've never created a Wikipedia page before so this will certainly be another learning curve for me and I'm sure that I will make some mistakes. It would mean a lot to me if you'd show me no favoritism with editing and correcting the page that I plan to create for Christophe Szpajdel, as I truly value your feedback and contributions. So I do look forward to working together on making that page better and I am very happy that you deemed it important enough for creation on Wikipedia (because I have been a long-time fan of Christophe Szpajdel's illustrations).-WikiGuruWanaB (talk) 18:13, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

Category:Geobox usage tracking for deprecated types
Is there a reason you retagged this page for deletion? I left a note in my edit summary AND pinged you in a post explaining why the page is still needed... -- Zack mann  (Talk to me/What I been doing) 22:39, 29 November 2018 (UTC)


 * Unintentional; sorry. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:08, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 1 December 2018
 * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:47, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

Thank you ...
... for article quality improvements in November! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:29, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2018). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Al Ameer son • Randykitty • Spartaz
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Boson • Daniel J. Leivick • Efe • Esanchez7587 • Fred Bauder • Garzo • Martijn Hoekstra • Orangemike

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svgk Chan

Guideline and policy news
 * Following a request for comment, the Mediation Committee is now closed and will no longer be accepting case requests.
 * A request for comment is in progress to determine whether members of the Bot Approvals Group should satisfy activity requirements in order to remain in that role.
 * A request for comment is in progress regarding whether to change the administrator inactivity policy, such that administrators "who have made no logged administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped". Currently, the policy states that administrators "who have made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped".
 * A proposal has been made to temporarily restrict editing of the Main Page to interface administrators in order to mitigate the impact of compromised accounts.

Technical news
 * Administrators and bureaucrats can no longer unblock themselves unless they placed the block initially. This change has been implemented globally. See also this ongoing village pump discussion (permalink).
 * To complement the aforementioned change, blocked administrators will soon have the ability to block the administrator that placed their block to mitigate the possibility of a compromised administrator account blocking all other active administrators.
 * Since deployment of Partial blocks on Test Wikipedia, several bugs were identified. Most of them are now fixed. Administrators are encouraged to test the new deployment and report new bugs on Phabricator or leave feedback on the Project's talk page. You can request administrator access on the Test Wiki here.

Arbitration
 * Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 3 December 2018. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.

Miscellaneous
 * In late November, an attacker compromised multiple accounts, including at least four administrator accounts, and used them to vandalize Wikipedia. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. Sharing the same password across multiple websites makes your account vulnerable, especially if your password was used on a website that suffered a data breach. As these incidents have shown, these concerns are not pure fantasies.
 * Wikipedia policy requires administrators to have strong passwords. To further reinforce security, administrators should also consider enabling two-factor authentication. A committed identity can be used to verify that you are the true account owner in the event that your account is compromised and/or you are unable to log in.

Obituaries
 * (Raymond Arritt) passed away on 14 November 2018. Boris joined Wikipedia as on 8 May 2006 and was an administrator from 30 July 2007 to 2 June 2008.

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Tech News: 2018-49
 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
 * Admins will not be able to unblock themselves if they are blocked by someone other than themselves. This is because it can cause damage if someone else takes over an admin account and other admins can't block them. If this is a problem for your community you can report it on Phabricator. You can also ask questions on Meta. There is a discussion on Phabricator about how to solve this if two admins fight with each other on a small wiki.
 * Small SVG images are now bigger when you see them in MediaViewer.
 * You can go to a section from the edit summary by clicking on the section name. Before this you had to click on the arrow.
 * When you jumped to a footnote that was referenced several times in an article it could be difficult to see where you were in the text. Now there are jump marks and highlights to help you find your way back.

Changes later this week Meetings
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
 * 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 December at 16:00 (UTC) and at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  16:12, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #341
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: How to handle heat treating as a qualifier for material properties ?
 * New development input: Identify problems with adding new languages into Wikidata


 * Events
 * Upcoming: "Researcher meets Curator", with a subquestion: "What are the consequences of collecting born digital sources, working with digital network analysis and engaging with linked open data initiatives such as Wikidata", in Maastricht on 22 March 2019. Call for papers
 * Upcoming: Advanced Wikidata Training in India, December 15-16
 * Past: "Wikibase: configure, customize, and collaborate" workshop at SWIB 18 in Bonn, Germany on November 26, 2018. Workshop materials
 * Past: EveryPolitician event to identify political data sources for Wikidata in Madrid, Spain, on December 1, 2018.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Author Disambiguator (github source), new tool by d:User:ArthurPSmith (based on SourceMD) for linking author items to their works.
 * OpenRefine 3.1 was released
 * New API module to format multiple entity IDs
 * You can now access the number of Forms and Senses of Lexemes through API and special page


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: reference has role, tautomer of, eponymous category, language style, ratified by, funding scheme
 * External identifiers: GameFAQs company ID, AJOL journal ID, LEGO set ID, BDFA player ID, Sabinet journal ID, NSW State Archives and Records Authority Agency ID, Bygdeband location ID, Austrian Biographical Encylopedia ID, Badtaste ID, Badgames ID, Mexican female soccer players ID, member of the Portuguese parliament ID, BBC News topic ID, OBV editions ID, Geolex ID, CNPJ, Defined Term ID, Guida al Fumetto Italiano ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: gained independence from, nachgewiesen mittels, measured by (KPI), OpenTrials ID, administrated by the administrative territorial entity, level of description, stored as lexeme, taxon author citation, Astronomical coordinates, catchphrase, real estate developer, Danske Taler speaker
 * External identifiers: TrENSmissions person ID, LIGA profile, SEINet ID, BIBSYS work ID, Jewish Museum Berlin person ID, UK Parliament Identifier, HAER ID, Vesti.kz person ID, Genius album ID, Genius song ID, TASS reference, DIR3 ID, NooSFere story ID, L'Encyclopédie philosophique ID, RegiowikiAT ID, Discord Store game SKU, kohanimeregister, ARLLFB member ID, ARB person ID, Biographie nationale de Belgique ID, protected area authority ID, Flora of Wisconsin ID, identifiant Monument aux morts


 * Query examples:
 * Timeline of early Western movies (source)
 * Species represented in the exhibition "Espèces en voies d'illumination" in the natural history museum of Paris (source)
 * Properties most used to describe cats in Wikidata (source)
 * List of UK embassies (source)
 * Map of places of residence for accused witches in Scotland with a layer for occupations (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
 * Add Lexeme to Wikibase's ontology.owl (T195368)
 * Prepare to drop change_tag.ct_tag column (T194163)
 * Create Federated Wikibase instance on Beta Commons (T204748)
 * More work on preparing a new termbox for the mobile version of Wikidata


 * 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 · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 13:35, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Des Helmore
Alex Shih (talk) 00:03, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Clairmarais aerodrome
Mifter (talk) 12:02, 8 December 2018 (UTC)

Good one! I put it on P:DE and gave precious to your co-writer. Happy to have the lead hook in the same set, Tönet, ihr Pauken!, which they shall do today ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:23, 8 December 2018 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLII, December 2018
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Wikidata weekly summary #342
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Scholarly articles that are book reviews


 * Events
 * Past: SWAT4HCLS in Antwerp Belgium December 3:
 * Wikibase tutorial
 * "Wikidata as an intuitive resource towards semantic data modeling in data FAIRification" short paper
 * "WikiCite, Wikidata, and Scholia: Linking Publications to Topics" (demo /food/ aspect)
 * Past: Workshop "Wikidata - what is that and why it's relevant in the field of geospatial information technologies?"? at Latvia's Geospatial Information Technology (GIT) conference (slides)
 * Past: Introduction to Wikidata for Wikipedians in Stokholm, Sweden, December 4th
 * Upcoming: Introduction to Wikidata for Wikipedians in Göteborg, Sweden, December 10th


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * "Detailed depictions with IIIF, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons" by Martin Poulter, Bodleian Digital Library blog
 * Report of the GNDCon in the Kurier (in German)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * iD, the default OSM editor at openstreetmap.org has recently had an update which pulls data from Wikidata.
 * WikidataCon 2019, the conference for open data enthusiasts, will take place on 25-26 October 2019 in Berlin
 * Miniature map will be displayed for coordinate properties
 * New passwords requirements will apply on all wikis to new accounts and privileged accounts starting on December 13th
 * New grant request by MySociety: Wikidata post-election updating toolkit


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: award rationale, heat treating, copyright status, level of description
 * External identifiers: SEINet ID, LIGA profile, BIBSYS work ID, UK Parliament identifier, Jewish Museum Berlin person ID, Vesti.kz person ID, Genius album ID, Genius song ID, TASS reference, OpenTrials ID, NooSFere story ID, DIR3 ID, L'Encyclopédie philosophique ID, TrENSmissions person ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: creator, WordLift ID, Specific age inside fictional universe, type of rear suspensions, type of front suspensions, ride height, approach angle, departure angle, Drag coefficient, related category, SinemaTürk person ID, SinemaTürk film ID, Nombre annuel de passagers
 * External identifiers: BDEL ID, ZVR, NARA record group number, MMLO, IEC database ID commemorative monument of Catalonia, Meteorological Service of Canada climate ID, PomBase systematic ID, Volksbund ID, iTunes music movie ID, Paris Musées ID, Beachsoccer.ru player ID, BSRussia player ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of fountains in Zürich (source)
 * Timeline of famous bryologists (source)
 * Percentage of people member of the Swedish church per Church parish (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3FcountryLabel%20(GROUP_CONCAT(%3FgenreLabel%3B%20SEPARATOR%3D%22%2C%20%22)%20AS%20%3Fgenres)%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20for%20every%20country%2C%20find%20the%20maximum%20number%20of%20performers%20for%20some%20genre%0A%20%20%7B%20SELECT%20%3Fcountry%20(MAX(%3FgenrePerformers)%20AS%20%3FmaxPerformers)%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20for%20every%20country%20and%20genre%2C%20find%20the%20maximum%20number%20of%20performers%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fcountry%20(MAX(COUNT(DISTINCT%20%3Fperformer))%20AS%20%3FgenrePerformers)%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fgenre%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ188451%20%3B%20%20%23%20is-a%20musical%20genre%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5Ewdt%3AP136%20%3Fperformer%20%3B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20genre%20of%20performer%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%7B%20%3Fperformer%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ215380%20%7D%20UNION%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20performer%20is-a%20band%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Fperformer%20((wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*)%7Cwdt%3AP106)%20wd%3AQ639669%20%7D%7D%20%20%23%20%E2%80%A6%20or%20a%20musician%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fperformer%20(wdt%3AP27%7Cwdt%3AP495)%2Fwdt%3AP131*%20%3Fcountry%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20performer%20originating%20in%2Fcitizen%20of%20country%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcountry%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ3624078%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%23%20country%20is%20a%20sovereign%20state%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fcountry%20%3Fgenre%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fcountry%20%7D%0A%20%20%23%20for%20every%20country%20and%20genre%2C%20find%20the%20number%20of%20performers%0A%20%20%7B%20SELECT%20%3Fcountry%20%3Fgenre%20%3FgenreLabel%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20(COUNT(DISTINCT%20%3Fperformer)%20AS%20%3Fperformers)%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fgenre%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ188451%20%3B%20%20%23%20is-a%20musical%20genre%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5Ewdt%3AP136%20%3Fperformer%20%3B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20genre%20of%20performer%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FgenreLabel%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20also%20fetch%20the%20label%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER(LANG(%3FgenreLabel)%20%3D%20%22en%22)%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%7B%20%3Fperformer%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ215380%20%7D%20UNION%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20performer%20is-a%20band%0A%20%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Fperformer%20((wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*)%7Cwdt%3AP106)%20wd%3AQ639669%20%7D%7D%20%20%23%20%E2%80%A6%20or%20a%20musician%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fperformer%20(wdt%3AP27%7Cwdt%3AP495)%20%3Fcountry%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20performer%20originating%20in%2Fcitizen%20of%20country%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fcountry%20%3Fgenre%20%3FgenreLabel%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20FILTER(%3Fperformers%20%3D%20%3FmaxPerformers)%20%20%23%20keep%20only%20those%20combinations%20of%20country%20and%20genre%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%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20where%20the%20number%20of%20performers%20is%20maximal%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3FcountryLabel%20ORDER%20BY%20%3FcountryLabel Musical genres with the most bands and musicians on Wikidata, per sovereign country of origin/citizenship] (source)


 * Development
 * We are now showing the language name instead of the language code of a Gloss (T203457, T209931)
 * We added a Page property for easier programmatic access to the number of Senses and Forms of a Lexeme (T199611)
 * The code samples in the query service have been improved (T207749, thanks abian!)
 * We're working on tracking how often the different Lua functions that Wikibase provides are used in the Wikimedia project to see how that changes over time (T191416)
 * We worked on and fixed a security incident related to blocking (T210953)
 * We are continuing to bring the termbox (showing labels, descriptions, aliases) to mobile viewers

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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Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 December. It will be on all wikis from 13 December (calendar).

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 * 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 12 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * New accounts will need passwords that are at least 8 characters long. Admins, interface admins, bureaucrats, oversighters, CentralNotice admins, global renamers, check users, stewards and some other user groups will need passwords that are at least 10 characters long. This is because an attacker could cause damage to the wikis if they took over these accounts.
 * When you hover over a footnote it will show you the reference as a pop-up. This is so you don't have to jump down to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will happen in 2019. Some wikis already have gadgets that do this. You will be able to turn it off.

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This Month in GLAM: November 2018
About This Month in GLAM · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 05:56, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

Page splitting/shortening
Hi, I see you're interested in splitting and shortening the very lengthy pages that have made it onto Special:LongPages, which I certainly welcome. Do you have any experience with cutting down these articles? Cheers. Onetwothreeip (talk) 00:52, 6 December 2018 (UTC) Onetwothreeip (talk) 23:13, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, why? Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 00:12, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I'd like to know what pages you've split, that's why. Onetwothreeip (talk) 22:15, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Link to my edits in sig. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:37, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I did have a look through that, you make a lot of edits though so it's hard to find. Onetwothreeip (talk) 00:41, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

2018 Strasbourg shooting
You hard and high-quality work is much appreciated. Rama (talk) 12:31, 12 December 2018 (UTC)