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Wikidata weekly summary #409
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events
 * Today: Edit tools for Wikidata, on-line workshop in Polish, access link, March 30, 17:00 GMT (7pm Warsaw time)
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #7, April 5
 * Upcoming: Wikidata for beginners, April 1
 * Upcoming: Wiki Workshop, researchers forum (fully remote), on April 21. More information, registration
 * Upcoming: The Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference will take place fully remotely in July 2020. Call for submissions with remote formats is open until April 30th.
 * Upcoming: the Wikidata Wochenende (previously in Ulm) will take place fully remote on June 12-14


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Video: How can Wikimedia projects help fight the pandemic, by Susanna Ånäs
 * Investigating Software Usage in the Social Sciences: A Knowledge Graph Approach ("we linked the entities of the knowledge graph to other knowledge bases such as the Microsoft Academic Knowledge Graph, the Software Ontology, and Wikidata")
 * Wikidata Queries around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and pandemic (free eBook)
 * Video: Live SPARQL editing in French by Vigneron
 * Video: Live editing in English by Ainali and Abbe98: Youtube, Twitch, Periscope, Facebook


 * Tool of the week
 * IdentifierInput: when adding identifiers, it lets you paste the full URL, and extracts the ID part


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * About Wikidata dumps:
 * No second XML dump in March
 * RDF and JSON dumps generation is broken (no new dump since March 11th, fix in progress)
 * Wikidata knowledge imbalance dashboard - Alpha release
 * Internet Archive has launched a National Emergency Library and would like to work together with WikiCite
 * wb_terms migration: a temporary table has been created, the current wb_terms table will be emptied on April 6th (more details)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: generational suffix, LiverTox likelihood score, size designation, perpetrator, victim
 * External identifiers: IGCD game ID, Kickstarter project ID, Gram.pl game ID, Kooora/Goalzz player ID, RFI Musique artist ID, VideoGamer.com game ID, Nobel Laureate API ID, VGMRips system ID, VGMRips company ID, GameRevolution game ID, PIV Online ID, Movie Review Query Engine ID, VcBA ID, m3db.com film ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Chinese Clinical Trial Registry identifier, donated to, number of hospitalized cases, number of home cases, ARK formatter, Filceolaire, viability on surface, entry receptor, birth rate
 * External identifiers: SAN archive producer ID, SAR ancestor ID, National Catalog of Hospitals ID, Pinakes copyist or possessor ID, Frankfurter Personenlexikon ID, Encyklopedia Solidarności ID, Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters author ID, identifiant Geneastar, Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters work ID, Women of Scotland ID, Women of Scotland subject ID, World Biographical Information System ID, COTREX trail ID, Natural Atlas ID, Apache Project ID, Amazon Prime Video ID, Archival Resource Key, UM-BBD compound ID, BitterDB Compound ID, FooDB compound ID, ModelSEED compound ID, Hopital.fr ID, BookBrainz publisher ID, Macdonald Dictionary ID, FHF hospital group ID, FHF establishment ID, Ameli ID, Pascal et Francis ID, Retronews ID, Elephind.com, What Do They Know organisation ID, Papers Past, Internetowy Polski Słownik Biograficzny ID, I-Revues ID, BDSP ID


 * Query examples:
 * People born more than a year after one of their parents
 * UK MPs who were born after their father's death (source)
 * National flags representing mountains (source)
 * Map of Umgebindehäuser (Upper Lusatian houses) (source)
 * Map of megaliths in Morbihan (Bretagne) (source)


 * Development
 * Fix an issue with the Wikidata dumps (T248612)
 * Migrate to and read from new store for item terms (T219123)
 * Create wb_terms_no_longer_updated to ease the transition to the new tables
 * Bridge: improve the rendering of references (T238661)
 * More work on editing references (T240333)
 * Continue setting up a test system to work on federated properties
 * More research on suggesting references

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) 15:22, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Create a scraper for Mix'n'match from the catalogue list.
 * 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!

This Month in Education: March 2020
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Tech News: 2020-14
 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
 * The beta version of the Wikipedia app for Android can now help users add tags on Commons. These tags are called depicts.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 April. It will be on all wikis from 2 April (calendar).

Future changes
 * The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. The current beta feature will become the video player for everyone. The old player will be removed.
 * There is a project to make templates easier to use. The next few weeks the developers will present ideas on the project page. You can watch that page if you are interested in giving feedback.

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Relevance of Image on Qantas page.
Hi There, I see you think that there is a need for a picture of a QANTAS 747-400ER on the page. I do not believe that it is relevant as the 747 isn't being retired, it was a rumor. The Facts are QANTAS isn't retiring The 747 therefore this is a random irrelevant picture.--Life200BC (talk) 01:43, 31 March 2020 (UTC)


 * There is a discussion on the article's talk page. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:04, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Ok cool. Thanks for your help. --Life200BC (talk) 10:27, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
 * [ec] I also note that you made eight reverts to that page in the space of under 24 hours. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:29, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes, I know i was crucified by an administrator for that. I was attempting to stop people spreading fake news on an encyclopedic page. Furthermore, I apologise if I may have seemed agressive in my removal of your image, as I can see how you may have thought that it was relavent. --Life200BC (talk) 10:41, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
 * There was no "fake news". You have yet to restore the image. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:43, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
 * You've also referred, on your talk page, to my edits as "vandalism". That's an outrageous slur. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:46, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
 * The caption was speculative and not supported by a reliable source. I also don't believe that the image is relevant to the page. However, if this does turn out to be the last commercial flight of a QANTAS 747, it maybe relevant in the QANTAS history page. Vandalism was not referring to your additional image, it was to the people constantly removing the 747 from fleet statistics, your edit made it clear that it was speculation, however Wikipedia is not a place for speculation--Life200BC (talk) 10:54, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
 * I've already refuted your first and final point in the discussion on the article's talk page, to which I referred you above. My edits were among those that the administrator warned - mildly, not "crucified" - you about reverting; you responded with your reference to vandalism. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:58, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

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

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Cabayi • Lee Vilenski
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Boing! said Zebedee
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Jonny-mt • MarkGallagher • PeaceNT
 * Pictogram voting rename.png →

Bureaucrat changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg SilkTork • WereSpielChequers

CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg NativeForeigner

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Someguy1221
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Daniel Case

Guideline and policy news
 * There is an ongoing request for comment to streamline the source deprecation and blacklisting process.

Technical news
 * There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.

Arbitration
 * Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold a Arbcom RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. A draft RfC has been posted at Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC (Draft) and not open to comments from the community yet. Interested editors can comment on the RfC itself on its talk page.

Miscellaneous
 * The WMF has begun a pilot report of the pages most visited through various social media platforms to help with anti-vandalism and anti-disinformation efforts. The report is updated daily and will be available through the end of May.

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Ceawlin Thynn, 8th Marquess of Bath
With the death of the 7th Marquess, Ceawlin Thynn becomes the 8th Marquess of Bath. Article really needs a decent infobox, similar to that on his father's article. Can you fix this? Mjroots (talk) 12:15, 5 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Seems to be done already. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:16, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

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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Handbook of COVID-19 Prevention and Treatment
Hello there. Can I enlist your help? The Handbook of COVID-19 Prevention and Treatment is threatened with deletion. I think it is a worthwhile wikipedia page, and would like your help to save it. Thanks in advance for your time, and thanks for your contribution to Coronavirus Tech Handbook Magnovvig (talk) 18:12, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

Desktop improvements prototype
, Pigsonthewing!

Thanks for taking the time to participate in the user feedback round for our desktop improvements prototype. This feedback is super valuable to us and is currently being used to determine our next steps. We have published a report gathering the main takeaways from the feedback and highlighting the changes we’ll make based on this feedback. Please take a look and give us your thoughts on the talk page of the report. To learn more about the project overall and the other features we’re planning on building in the future, check out the main project page.

SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 17:59, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: March 2020
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Happy Easter
or: the resurrection of loving-kindness --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:43, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXVIII, April 2020
The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here. If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 05:21, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

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.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  15:30, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

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)

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Hard to say how impressed I am by the list of his works! Which one would you recommend for a composition article? One of those written "in memory", perhaps? ... cantata Song of Songs? ... one of the Blake-inspired works? - He'd deserve it. - I need to interrupt work on his article, - the All-CAPs in the recordings need to go, and more references added (teaching, conductors ...). Anybody can do that ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:06, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
 * I regret that I'm not familiar with his works; something I intend to rectify. I have a browser plugin that makes it easy to fix text case issues, so that's done. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:21, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I'll look myself then, perhaps "Compositions based on Blake". - Can you add one of the sources in Russian to the article, for his death? I can't tell which. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:59, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Seems to have been done already. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:58, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes, seen. - I managed a bit more, but now really need a break ;) - a bit chilling: not only was he born the same day (2 Nov) as a composer you met, also composed a piece with the same title, "Between Scilla and Charybdis", one for string orchestra, the other for string quartet. I'd love o get rid of the "laundry list" of conductors, by integrating them to where music is performed, - another day, probably. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:19, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Another thing they have in common: a favourable CD review by Hubert Culot. Feel free to add prose from it, and a concert review. Bedtime for me. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:55, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
 * I decided on his Triple Concerto No. 2 for violin, harp and double bass, to be written on 22 April, the birthday of a double bass player I know well, pictured in an ext link here. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:58, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

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 * Because no-one has nominated them for merging. You can do that. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:32, 20 April 2020 (UTC)