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Wikidata weekly summary #513
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * The next Wikibase live session is 15:00 UTC on Thursday 31st March 2022 (17:00 Berlin time). What are you working on around Wikibase? You're welcome to come and share your project with the community.
 * Live Wikidata editing on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, March 29 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
 * ArtandFeminism 2022 editathon by Achiri Bitamsimli. Theme: Add Dagbani labels and descriptions of female lawyers in West Africa. Date: April 1st, 2022 - March 8th, 2022. Location: Tamale College of Education, Ghana. Time: 9:00am — 9:00pm UTC. Register.
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #77 - YouTube, Facebook, April 2nd at 18:00 UTC
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #102, April 3rd at 12.00 UTC
 * Cultural Venues Datathon: April 25 - May 2, 2022. This online editing event is organized by the Canadian Association for the Performing Arts, LaCogency and many partners, with support from Wikimedia Foundation Alliances Fund. Guided editing sessions will be facilitated in English and in French.
 * The Celtic Knot Conference, dedicated to underrepresented languages on the Wikimedia projects, with a focus on Wikidata, will take place online and onsite on July 1-2, 2022.
 * Ongoing:
 * Wikimedia Indonesia's Datathon program under 2022 Wiki Women's Month started on March 18th 18:00 UTC+7 and will last until March 25th 23:59 UTC+7. 70+ users enrollled. Page.
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #35, Water
 * Past:
 * Two Wikidata Training (Kelas Wikidata) on 2022 Wiki Women's Month were held online on March 12th and 13th.
 * Data Reuse Days. For a recap of the event:
 * a selection of sessions are recorded, you can find the videos here or below
 * speakers will progressively add their slides in this Commons category
 * all notes and Q&A of sessions are archived here: Wikidata:Events/Data Reuse Days 2022/Outcomes/notes


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Lexicographical Data for Language Learners: The Wikidata-based App Scribe
 * Inaugural Wikidata Fellows announced, Wikimedia Australia
 * Wikidata’s lexemes sparked this librarian’s interest
 * Actress-singers and actor-singers: do actresses become singers and singers become actors? fact checking an intuition using Wikidata
 * Building a Web of Knowledge Through Wikidata
 * Presentations
 * LOTUS, Beyond drug discovery: Breaking the boundaries of natural products information, at the Spring 2022 meeting
 * Papers
 * "Exploratory Methods for Relation Discovery in Archival Data" - a holistic approach to discover relations in art historical communities and enrich historians’ biographies and archival descriptions, based on Wikidata
 * Videos
 * DataReuseDays 2022 concluded. (see past events above for a full list of the recorded sessions)
 * A simple demonstration of search using QAnswer software for the disability wikibase knowledge graph - YouTube
 * FAIR and Open multilingual clinical trials in Wikidata - YouTube
 * Using Mix'n'match (in Italian) - YouTube
 * A Triangular Connection Libraries' Wikidata projects on names, collections and users - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Scribe is a keyboard extension based on lexicographical data that can help users remember grammar rules (see blogpost above).
 * WorldlEH is a wordle clone in Basque.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Status update about what was achieved for each of the Wikibase related 2021 development goals has been published: Wikidata:Development plan/archive2021/status updates
 * Call for Mentors: Wiki Mentor Africa is a mentorship project for tool creators/contributors. Interested to become a mentor (experienced tool creators/contributors), please visit this  page!
 * Wikidata now has over 1,600,000,000 edits! The milestone edit was made by Ruky Wunpini.
 * The Dutch National Library has a new website with more info on their use of the Wikimedia Projects including their work with Wikidata.
 * 2 months paid internship vacancy is available for Wikimedia Indonesia technology division. Registration is open until March 27th. Announcement.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: documentation files at
 * External identifiers: SINGULART artist ID, eBru ID, ICCROM authority ID, Legal entity registered by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic ID, Rekhta book ID, ILO code, reddoorz hotel ID, Naver VIBE video ID, SberZvuk artist ID, Italian Women Writers ID, RBC company ID, Madrean Discovery Expeditions Flora Database ID, Madrean Discovery Expeditions Fauna Database ID, Encyclopedia of Transbaikalia ID, Encyclopedia of Transbaikalia person ID, Booking.com numeric ID, Agoda hotel numeric ID, Australian Reptile Online Database ID, RSPA modern authors ID, RSPA ancient authors ID, 1905.com film ID, Leafsnap ID, ImagesDéfense ID, TASS Encyclopedia person ID, TASS Encyclopedia country ID, TASS Encyclopedia tag ID, WIPO Pearl term ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: maintains consistent linking to, ocupante de / occupant of
 * External identifiers: World of Waterfalls ID, New IDU properties, My World@Mail.Ru ID, BillionGraves grave ID, Archivio Storico Intesa Sanpaolo, GEMET ID, Enciclopedia del Novecento ID, Trovo ID, Invasive.org species ID, ihg Hotel ID, Monoskop article ID, Le Monde journalist ID, Libération journalist ID, Le Parisien journalist ID, Les Échos journalist ID, L'Humanité journalist ID, L'Opinion journalist ID, Le Figaro journalist ID, Présent author ID, Aldiwan poet ID, Aldiwan poem ID, International Jewish Cemetery Project ID


 * Query examples:
 * Wikidata knowledge graph of Elizabeth Keckley, dressmaker to U.S. First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln (source)
 * Women who served as defense ministers in various countries (source)
 * UK MPs who had paired names (e.g. Owen Thomas / Thomas Owen) (source)
 * List of properties associated with items that are class/subclass of File Format (source)
 * Table frequency of properties used in instances of public libraries


 * Development
 * [Significant Change]: wbsearchentities changed to explicitly return display terms and matched term
 * Lexicographical data: Working on the lookup for language and lexical category and displaying potential errors during Lexeme creation
 * Improved the API response of the wbsearchentities endpoint by adding the language to the labels and descriptions in the API response (T104344)
 * Data Reuse Days: Second and final week - organized, attended and held a few sessions incl. bug triage hour and pink pony session
 * REST API: Continuing work on getting the the data of an Item, we almost have filtering of the data returned by the API and basic error handling is in place. Next up: not returning the data if the client already has the most recent data, and authentication

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
 * 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: 2022-13
 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 simple new Wikimedia Commons upload tool available for macOS users, Sunflower.

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The Bugle: Issue CLXXVII, March 2022
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Wikidata weekly summary #514
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot: APSbot 4: Task/s: Regularly create organizations from the Research Organization Registry (ROR - https://ror.org/) that are missing in Wikidata.


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Adam Schiff (University of Washington), Tyler Rogers (San Diego State University), Julia Gilmore (University of Toronto) on documenting buildings on academic campuses. Agenda with call link, April 5.
 * Wikimedia Research Office Hours April 5, 2022
 * Wikidata items about theatre and dance productions, April 6 (in French). The same workshop will be offered in English on May 4.
 * Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—April 6th, 2022. Date: Wednesday, April 6th, 2022 Time: 15:00-16:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PDT / 11:00-12:00 EDT / 16:00-17:00 WAT / 17:00-18:00 CEST Etherpad
 * Art+Feminism Community Hours. Theme: Add your Event Data to Wikidata. April 9 at 2pm UTC!
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #36, Family
 * Past: Wikibase live session (March 2022) log


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Property exploration: How do I learn more about properties on Wikidata?
 * UCSC Ph.D. students dive deep into engineering open-domain dialogue AI with the support of industry partners. "...aims to develop a better system for entity linking, the connection of entities like “Lebron James” or “the Earth” to their various meanings in an existing database of knowledge – in this case, Wikidata..."
 * Highlighting linked data projects. "...Cornell University Library, Stanford Libraries, and the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa are engaging in the grant-funded Linked Data for Production project. Broadly, the project uses linked data to show patrons information from outside sources (such as Wikidata) and build longer, more nuanced links between resources".
 * Videos
 * The Share-VDE project and its relationship with Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
 * Create a Wikidata page from scratch (in French) - YouTube
 * Clinical Trials, Wikidata and Systems Biology (in Portuguese) - YouTube
 * New WikidataCon 2021 videos uploaded on YouTube
 * Your favorite interface gadgets on Wikidata
 * Wikidata Query Service scaling challenges
 * Decolonizing Wikidata: Q&A session
 * Wikidata et l’écosystème de données ouvertes liées pour les arts de la scène (in French)
 * Respectfully representing Indigenous knowledge in Wikidata
 * Other
 * FAIR cookbook's recipe "How to Register a Dataset with Wikidata"
 * OpenRefine will soon hold its two-yearly survey again. Who wants to help translate the survey to their language? It will take around 45 minutes. There are already translations underway in Spanish and Dutch. Contact User:SFauconnier if you want to help!


 * Tool of the week
 * Kyrksok.se is an app about Swedish churches based on Wikidata.
 * QAnswer is a question answering system based on Wikidata and other projects. Who was the first to create liquid helium? Try it!


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata Query Service scaling update, March 2022 is now available.
 * WDQS backend alternatives paper with shortlist of options have been published.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: cantilever sign, supports qualifier, APE code
 * External identifiers: Australian Reptile Online Database ID, RSPA modern authors ID, RSPA ancient authors ID, 1905.com film ID, Leafsnap ID, ImagesDéfense ID, TASS Encyclopedia person ID, TASS Encyclopedia country ID, TASS Encyclopedia tag ID, WIPO Pearl term ID, Arizona State Legislators: Then & Now ID, db.narb.by ID, Kayak hotel ID, Melon music video ID, Evil Angel movie ID, ACE Repertory publisher ID, World of Waterfalls ID, IxTheo authority ID, BillionGraves grave ID, eSbírky institution ID, Enciclopedia del Novecento ID, Zotero ID, My World@Mail.Ru ID, KSH code (historical), traveloka activities ID, Virginia Tech Dendrology Factsheets ID, SPLC group ID, GuideStar India Organisations-ID, Encyclopedia of China ID (Third Edition), tiket to-do ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: oeconym, ISCED Attainment, Per capita income
 * External identifiers: Invasive.org species ID, ihg Hotel ID, Monoskop article ID, Le Monde journalist ID, Libération journalist ID, Le Parisien journalist ID, Les Échos journalist ID, L'Humanité journalist ID, L'Opinion journalist ID, Le Figaro journalist ID, Présent author ID, Aldiwan poet ID, Aldiwan poem ID, International Jewish Cemetery Project ID, AccessScience ID, IPU Chamber ID, COL taxon ID, deckenmalerei.eu ID, C-SPAN Person Numeric ID, SRSLY person ID, 100 Years of Alaska's Legislature Bio ID, Indiana State Historical Marker Program numeric ID, Beatport track ID, EIA plant ID, EIA utility ID, Speleologi del passato ID, HuijiWiki article ID, Encyclopedia of Cacti species ID


 * Query examples:
 * Long swedish / german nouns in Wikidata (source)
 * Texts which have Wikisource links in English and French (source)


 * Development
 * Lexicographical data: Continued work on the new Special:NewLexeme page and focused on displaying sensible error messages if an error occurs during Lexeme creation. We're also working on adding a dropdown for the language variant.
 * REST API: Continued work on conditional requests and authorization
 * Made use of the new fields added in the wbsearchentities API and added language information to the markup of entity searches that you see when editing a statement or searching with the little searchbox at the top of the page on Wikidata. Now these search results should make a bit more sense to people who use screen readers.

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
 * 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: 2022-14
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * For a few days last week, edits that were suggested to newcomers were not tagged in the feed. This bug has been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2022).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Firefly • Sdrqaz
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Ad Orientem
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Geschichte • Ryan Postlethwaite • Sabine's Sunbird • Wassupwestcoast



Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Evad37

Guideline and policy news
 * An RfC is open proposing a change to the minimum activity requirements for administrators.

Technical news
 * Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have the  and   rights. This means that those in the Researcher user group and Checkusers who are not administrators can now access Special:RevisionDelete. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators.
 * When viewing deleted revisions or diffs on Special:Undelete a back link to the undelete page for the associated page is now present.

Arbitration
 * has been updated to reflect current practice following a motion.
 * A arbitration case regarding Skepticism and coordinated editing has been closed.
 * A arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been opened.

Miscellaneous
 * Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines has closed, and the results were that 56.98% of voters supported the guidelines. The results of this vote mean the Wikimedia Foundation Board will now review the guidelines.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:13, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

Andriy Khlyvnyuk
As I was attempting to move the article about Andriy Khlyvnyuk, my keyboard stopped working after I accidentally changed it to Andriy K. Is there anything you can do to move it to his actual name? Zvig47 (talk) 20:42, 7 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Andriy Khlyvnyuk already exists, so sadly no. Please ask on WP:AN.

Pink Floyd reuniting
As multiple reliable sources such as this one have just announced Pink Floyd reforming, you might want to keep an eye on the core articles. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  17:01, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Also, if you've got a mo, I don't suppose you'd be able to address the two [better source needed] tags in Pink Floyd discography? I've tried to do a search but everywhere I look seems to have copied Wikipedia in the first place. Ritchie333 <sup style="color:#7F007F">(talk) <sup style="color:#7F007F">(cont)  13:08, 8 April 2022 (UTC)

"Hey, Hey, Rise Up!" Credits do not need to be sourced per the logic of MOS:ALBUM
Hi. Per what MOS:ALBUM says—which certainly would apply to songs as well if we don't have to do it for albums—credits do not need to be sourced. The album itself is considered the source (i.e. the liner notes). In this case, the single also has digital liner notes, and it's not considered appropriate to link to Spotify, Apple Music and other webstores selling products per WP:AFFILIATE, so I didn't. I don't see how simple details about the song are contentious—you made previous reference to Spotify in edit summaries on this article, and I said I took the writers and producers from Spotify as well. Also, if this is even a concern, why did you only remove Andriy Khlyvnyuk but not Gilmour or Stephan Charnetskii? They're not sourced or mentioned in the prose as writers either. I suppose if you don't accept even this, a citation using Template:Cite AV media notes could be added.  Ss  112   21:57, 7 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Gilmour and Charnetskii are both cited to the Guardian piece, among others. There is no free pass for uncited material in MOS:ALBUM. In viewing the Spotify web page I see no writer credits, let alone one for Khlyvnyuk. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:16, 8 April 2022 (UTC)


 * To add to what Andy said, a while back the studio information on the Obscured by Clouds infobox got changed to something factually incorrect by a series of Chinese whispers; with proper sourcing, this is less likely to happen. <b style="color:#7F007F">Ritchie333</b> <sup style="color:#7F007F">(talk) <sup style="color:#7F007F">(cont)  13:10, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Pigsonthewing, you cannot view credits on Spotify by simply going to the web browser version of Spotify. It's a Spotify app feature. On the app, click on the three dots to the right of the song. Select "show credits". There it has David Gilmour, Andriy Khlyvnyuk and Stepan Charnetskii listed as writers. I didn't just invent this—I told you how to access the source and even cited the liner notes as a compromise. MOS:ALBUM states: "Track listings can be sourced to liner notes (WP:PRIMARY) as a definitive WP:VERIFIABLE source without the usual WP:SECONDARY sourcing requirements of most Wikipedia content. This is generally assumed and does not need explicit citation in most cases." (WP:TRACKLIST). Then, the section WP:PERSONNEL: "it is generally assumed that a personnel section is sourced from the liner notes". I also don't know this is now a "traditional" credit considering that's not what Spotify states. I don't see how the Obscured by Clouds example is relevant. This is not "Chinese whispers", it's from a source, which I then even cited on the article. I never disputed that in cases where there is contention, it's good to cite a source, which is what I did here.  Ss   112   13:25, 8 April 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #515
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 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Stang (RfP scheduled to end after 14 April 2022 12:18 UTC)
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * Botcrux 10. Task/s: Change publication date (P577) of scientific articles from "1 January YYYY" to just "YYYY".
 * Pi bot 25. Task/s: Wikidata:Properties for deletion maintenance


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #104, April 17th at 12.00 UTC
 * The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, April 20th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
 * April 26, Ghent, Belgium: public OpenRefine data cleaning workshop and meet&greet with the OpenRefine team, including preview of Structured Data on Commons functionalities. Physical event, free, sign up via this link.
 * Wiki Workshop 2022 - Registration open! The event is virtually held on April 25, 12:00-18:30 UTC
 * April 22nd - 24th, from Wiki Mentor Africa, A three days workshop on Linking biodiversity data through wikidata using Webaps and jupyter notebooks to attend, | register here
 * May 5th: Wikidata Bug Triage Hour, open discussion. Come with your favorite Phabricator task and we will improve its description together.
 * DigAMus goes Wikidata workshop: make digital projects in museums visible and findable. April 29, 3-5 p.m. TIB Open Science Lab. Register here.
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #37, Numbers


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Smithsonian Libraries and Archives & Wikidata: Chinese Ancestor Portrait Project
 * Browsing FactGrid with the FactGrid Viewer
 * Papers
 * A formalization of one of the main claims of “Cortex reorganization of Xenopus laevis eggs in strong static magnetic fields” by Mietchen et al. 2005 (uses Wikidata identifiers for statements)
 * A formalization of one of the main claims of “Creative Commons licenses and the non-commercial condition: Implications for the re-use of biodiversity information” by Hagedorn et al. 2011 (uses Wikidata identifiers for statements)
 * Videos
 * Wikidata Query Service Tutorial in Tunisian by Houcemeddine Turki (WikiConference RU 2021 - Part 1, Part 2)
 * Live Coding - PyORCIDAtor, integrating ORCID with Wikidata - YouTube
 * How to add location coordinates to Wikidata Items (in Dagbani) - YouTube
 * Bundestag + Wikidata = Open Parliament TV (in German) - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Glitter another R package to write SPARQL queries and query Wikidata and other SPARQL endpoints. This package provides a domain specific language to write queries directly from R.
 * Conzept is a topic-exploration tool based on Wikidata and other information sources.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The Wikidata MOOC (online course) has been developed by Wikimedia France, involving several French-speaking Wikidata editors. The first version of the course will start on April 26 (in French only - registration here)
 * OpenRefine is running a short survey to learn about user needs and expectations for the new Structured Data on Commons extension for OpenRefine, which is in the process of being developed. If you upload files to Wikimedia Commons and/or edit structured data there, please help by filling in the survey!
 * Wikibase cloud update (April): the closed beta of Wikibase.cloud is planned to start in mid-April. If you want to apply for closed beta access, please register with this form.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: APE code, maintains linking to, academic calendar type, taxonomic treatment, co-applicant, applicant, P10604, notable role
 * External identifiers: traveloka activities ID, Virginia Tech Dendrology Factsheets ID, SPLC group ID, GuideStar India Organisations ID, Encyclopedia of China ID (Third Edition), tiket to-do ID, Speleologi del passato ID, L'Humanité journalist ID, L'Opinion journalist ID, Le Monde journalist ID, Le Figaro journalist ID, Le Parisien journalist ID, Les Échos journalist ID, Libération journalist ID, Intesa Sanpaolo Historical Archive Map ID, Monoskop article ID, IDU foreign theatre ID, IDU theatre building ID, IDU theatrical ensemble ID, Cameroun COG, Author ID from the Modern Discussion website, SRSLY person ID, FAOTERM ID, Catalogue of Life ID, Trovo ID, IFPI GTIN, MangaDex title ID, All.Rugby club ID, traveloka restaurant ID, maPZS trails/locations ID, Kinowiki ID, marriott hotel ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia person ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia place ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia topic ID, HarperCollins product ID, Atlas of Cultural Heritage Calabria cultural place ID, XJustiz registration court ID, Atlante Beni Culturali Calabria item ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: является автором художественной выставки, shoe color, government debt-to-GDP ratio, National Historical Museums of Sweden object ID, class of property value, has group, name of victim, Tracks featured in work, smb.museum digital ID
 * External identifiers: HuijiWiki article ID, Encyclopedia of Cacti species ID, bebyggelseområdeskod i Sverige, Israeli Opera site person id, FISH Archaeological Objects Thesaurus Identifier, Musik und Gender im Internet ID, IRIS Piedmont IDs, Slovak Olympic athlete ID, MINEDEX, Library of the Haskala ID


 * Query examples:
 * Most popular Chess openings (by number of sitelinks) (source)
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 * Wikimedia affiliates on social media (source)
 * Listed viaducts in the UK (source)
 * Pages linked to the University of Clermont according to the number of articles on Wikimedia projects (source)
 * Which languages share a word for the same thing (visualized as a tree map). e.g. planet (source)


 * Development
 * Lexicographical data: Continued work on the new Special:NewLexeme page. We worked on displaying error messages and inferring the spelling variant from the language. We also looked into the non-JavaScript version of the page.
 * REST API: Worked on conditional requests (do not return data the client already has) and authorization.

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
 * 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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Miocene
What's with the edits to Miocene? I honestly came here expecting to find a vandalism-only username, but you seem to be a legitimate contributing editor -- except for those edits. Is it possible someone has hacked your username? --Kent G. Budge (talk) 14:05, 14 April 2022 (UTC)


 * If my edits are - in your view - so bad, how come you are unable to say what you believe to be wrong with them? See also DNRNE. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:25, 14 April 2022 (UTC)


 * I see what you were doing now, and it's fine. Apologies for misreading -- I thought you had replaced specific age ranges with a generic "millions of years", which looked very much like vandalism. I see now that the age ranges are intact; you've merely removed the repeated "Ma" and added an explanation to the table header, which is fine. Apologies again. --Kent G. Budge (talk) 14:52, 14 April 2022 (UTC)