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Wikidata weekly summary #203
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.  Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 08:57, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press SparQL - Wikidata - École de Bibliothécaires Documentalistes - 2016-04-04.pdf
 * Upcoming: WWW 2016
 * Upcoming: WikiCite 2016
 * Past: Wikimedia hackathon.
 * Some of the things that were worked on (but are not finished yet):
 * Easier referencing like it is done in VisualEditor
 * Data imports including National Library of Israel
 * Getting the ArticlePlaceholder ready for deployment on the first small Wikipedias
 * Updated maps of the geocoordinates in Wikidata (Adam will publish a blog post with them soon)
 * Improvements for Librarybase
 * Automated language links for Wiktionary
 * Cleanup of existing data import tools
 * partial group photo
 * Objetos culturales y metadatos: hacia la liberación de datos en Wikidata
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Lucie published her thesis about supporting small Wikipedias through article placeholders based on Wikidata [[File:Generating Article Placeholders from Wikidata for Wikipedia - Increasing Access to Free and Open Knowledge.pdf|thumb|Lucie's thesis: Generating Article Placeholders from Wikidata for Wikipedia - Increasing Access to Free and Open Knowledge]]
 * This article from Russian Wikipedia is generated only with Lua Module and Listeria, based on its Wikidata item.
 * If you're into Wikidata, GLAM and Facebook there is now a Facebook group for you.
 * There are 4 new games to help with the migration of the Persondata template on English Wikipedia.
 * There was a huge increase in the number of qualifiers over the last 2 weeks. It went from 2.6 to 3.7 Million due to additions of qualifiers for evidence codes on human and mouse proteins.
 * Interested in seeing Wikidata training sessions at Wikimania? Add yourself to interested attendees for the sessions.
 * PetScan now has item creator functionality.
 * The catalog of the National Library of Israel has been added to Mix'n'match
 * Great examples on French and Russian Wikipedia for infobox based on Wikidata: fr:Andrew Tanenbaum, ru:Таненбаум, Эндрю and references based on Wikidata: fr:Trappeur, ru:Доказательство с нулевым разглашением
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: dataset distribution, file format, protocol, URL, CricketArchive player ID, ESPNcricinfo player ID, FIG gymnast identifier, type locality, ISU figure skater identifier, New York Times Semantic Concept: Descriptor, New York Times Semantic Concept: Location, New York Times Semantic Concept: Organization, New York Times Semantic Concept: Person, BARTOC ID, Box Office Mojo person ID, NDL JPNO, Opensecrets Identifier, Basketball-Reference.com NBA player ID, Kijkwijzer rating, Bekker Number, is verso of, is recto of, author of afterword, author of foreword, Russiancinema.ru film ID, relative position within image, rating certificate ID, reply to
 * Newest WikiProjects: Historical Place
 * Query examples: phrases, Redewendungen, most commons eponyms
 * Development
 * 4 years ago we started coding on Wikidata. What a ride it has been and continues to be. <3 to everyone who is a part of it.
 * We are going to make a change to the RDF format for geocoordinates.
 * Here is a preview of geospatial search on the query service.
 * The query service now has bubble charts as a visualization option (example)
 * Busy at the Wikimedia hackathon.
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Policy change
I think you're asking for trouble by making that change. You might ask or  to do it for you.--v/r - TP 04:34, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

archiving Talk:Causality
Dear Editor Pigsonthewing, thank you for attending to archiving of Talk:Causality. Sorry to say, there is a problem. Important live talk comments have been archived prematurely, and antediluvian and undated old comments still remain on the page. This is a serious problem.

I think the best move would be to restore all posts less than a year old, and to archive all earlier ones. I don't know if that is feasible? The undated ones can be difficult to deal with.Chjoaygame (talk) 01:05, 8 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Before archiving, the page was 188,845 bytes long. That's far, far too big, and makes the page difficult for some people to read, and for others to edit. The archiving is now set so that any section which has been edited in the last 30 days remains on the page, so no "live talk comments" are archived. Indeed, the most recent comment archived was made over two months ago. Undated comments should have Unsigned appended - I've done some, so you can see how it works; as a result, they should be archived within a few hours. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:40, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

Ted talk template
Nice work on the TED talk!! Thanks for this. Not sure I am allowed to use it, but it's there for future generations I suppose. Jane (talk) 19:13, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks. You can certainly use it to replace bare links, which I have also been doing; though I have an open request for a bot to do so en mass. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:32, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Wow that would be really cool! And thanks for letting me know about the link replacement. We just had another art collection here in the Netherlands (Boijmans) update their website and they changed all the links. Jane (talk) 07:09, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

Church of Christ the Saviour, Pristina
I restored my revision on account of "regime" being a loaded term, but then I rewrote the passage choosing different language entirely. Concerning the question of "sources" using the term, I opened a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Words to watch which has had little feedback but is nonetheless open (not pushed into archive yet). I welcome your opinion as I do everyone's though I'd also ask you to consider the points made in the discussion; I was also involved in a related discussion at Talk:Apostrof where you'll see I provided sources that the term is loaded if used as a label and not for its primary meaning. --OJ (talk) 15:31, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
 * So you did. Stop edit warring, and use the article talk page, as requested. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:37, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-15
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Recent changes
 * The visual editor can generate wikicode with image options in your language. Examples of image options are "thumb" or "left". You can ask to change to options in your language in Phabricator.
 * Wiktionaries and Wikisources can now use the visual editor. It is an opt-in beta feature. It still needs development to work better with these projects.
 * ORES is using new models. Tools that use ORES' predictions can behave strangely. ORES also has a new API.
 * The visual editor now supports classical Greek characters.

Problems
 * There was a bug when you used keyboard arrows in templates in the visual editor. This has now been fixed.

Changes this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 April. It will be on all wikis from 14 April (calendar).
 * The wikipedia.org portal will get many small bug fixes and improvements. Most will be for the search box and suggested results that were added in March.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are improving transclusion of templates for Parsoid and balanced templates. The meeting will be on 13 April at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 19 April and 21 April. This will start at 14:00 UTC and last for 15 to 30 minutes.

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Wikidata weekly summary #204
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.  Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 10:58, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Discussion
 * Splitting a property to limit formatter URLs to one per property: Authority_control#DE-ISIL
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: digikult.se
 * Upcoming: IRC office hour
 * Upcoming: FOSSCOMM
 * A week of looking at women
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Document with lots of useful links around Wikidata for workshops etc
 * Nice list of species with sounds linked on Wikidata
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: typeface/font, disjoint union of, union of, Biographical Directory of Federal Judges id, UNZ journal identifier, UNZ author identifier, Persée journal ID, Persée author ID, Projeto Excelências ID, ISSF ID, Badminton World Federation ID, CageMatch worker ID, United World Wrestling ID, UIPM ID, GOG application ID, Deezer track ID, Deezer album ID, Deezer artist ID, Encyclopaedia Metallum release ID, embed URL, Hungarian-style transcription, lowest-observed-adverse-effect level, no-observed-adverse-effect level, collage image, elected in, sectional view, median lethal concentration, minimal lethal concentration, Cycling Quotient identifier (cyclist, woman), Cycling Quotient identifier (women races), Karate Records ID, EIDR identifier, British Film Institute identifier
 * Query examples: women with most sitelinks and no image born in 1921 or later, what is depicted in artwork, most eponymous mathematicians
 * Showcase items: Iron Man (film)
 * Development
 * Lucie successfully defended her thesis about the ArticlePlaceholder. Congrats!
 * Worked more on the first version of the user interface for structured data for multimedia files
 * Worked on simplifying input of queries for people who do not know SPARQL
 * Improved localizability of the sitelink and reference counters
 * Allow input and output of localized dates with precision smaller than years (T95532 and T127820)
 * More string properties have been converted to external id ones, so that we have over 850 external id properties now
 * Experimenting with Citoid support for Wikidata to make it easier to add complete references in the way Visual Editor does it
 * Improved performance of sticky property labels (T103485)
 * Released [//github.com/wmde/DataValuesJavascript DataValues JavaScript 0.8.1]
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

This Month in GLAM: March 2016
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Books & Bytes - Issue 16
 The Wikipedia Library Books & Bytes

Issue 16, February-March 2016 by ,

 Read the full newsletter The Interior via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:17, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
 * New donations - science, humanities, and video resources
 * Using hashtags in edit summaries - a great way to track a project
 * A new cite archive template, a new coordinator, plus conference and Visiting Scholar updates
 * Metrics for the Wikipedia Library's last three months

Hi from the Potteries
hello. Zapb8 (talk) 10:49, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

Hello
Hi Andy, thanks for teaching us about Wikipedia. Bluehanakawa (talk) 10:49, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

HelloAndy
can you buy me a beer. Franfoy (talk) 10:49, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

Hi from Unleash
Hello. Amjames08 (talk) 10:50, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

Hi Andy
Really enjoying this Andy. Glenn Jame23 (talk) 10:50, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

New: Template:Authorid
Hi Andy. You might want to check out a template I have made along the lines of what we previously discussed, useful for Orcid as well as various other database. Take a look and tell me what you think. To accommodate it within the citation templates I am going to propose a authorN-id parameter. Would you like to join me in that? ~ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk)
 * I'm happy to participate in discussions. That said, please change the parameter names to match those in, for example Authority control. And please apply Abbr to the abbreviations you have used in the display. The template also needs tracking categories, like those used by . Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:22, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the suggestions. I'm still working on the categories and such (this is my first ever template!); will take Authority control as a guide. Though I am thinking of holding off a little bit until I am more certain of how stable the template is. But two questions. 1) Re abbreviations, you are suggesting that (e.g.) ORICD should be spelled out? My thinking is that the template documentation is not a general article, so if any editor is not familiar with an abbreviation or such linking to the proper article should suffice. No? 2) I don't believe there is any problem adding the longer names for parameters. I should like to retain the shorter versions. Is there any problem with that? (Ideally I'd like to have parameters work with the minimum characters sufficient to distinguish them, but this doesn't seem to be an option here. So I am okay with duplication.) ~ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 22:44, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 1) No, I'm saying "O" should be marked as an abbreviation of "ORCID", etc. 2) Longer names should be used, for consistency, and for clarity. Also, there should be non-linking character (even if only a thin-space) between "o" and "s" in you example). Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:10, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I put in hair-spaces. As to abbreviations: would a table showing each parameter with the database accessed be sufficient? I am reluctant to not having the single-character parameter names (in the context of this template I think they are clear enough). Is there any objection to retaining those in addition to having the longer named parameters? ~ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 18:33, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I don't understand just how you want to apply {abbr}. You said in the display. Do you mean in the documentation? Or something like o? ~ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 22:55, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
 * The latter. (No need to ping editors on their own talk pages, BTW) Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:11, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, but I was wondering if you had overlooked this. Okay, I think I understand about the {abbr/tooltip} thing, and will attempt to add that. ~ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk)

Okay, I can use some help. Adding abbr to authorid generates extraneous, non-visible characters, which citation objects to with error messages. So I jiggered the 'v' option (only) in authorid to use abbr/sandbox, and in the latter started stripping everything down. Checking authorid/testcases, 'v' gives no problems (and works), while 'g' shows the problem using abbr. The problem seems to come from the '#tag'. Any suggestions as to what I should do next? ~ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 22:55, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I think the non-visible character error will go away over the weekend when the citation module is updated, specifically this madness.


 * Current Citation template:


 * Next week's Citation template:


 * Can you hold on for a couple of days? Apologies for butting in if I am misinterpreting your message above. – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:00, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you. The superscript characters need to be made non-printing, as they'll serve no function on paper.  Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:44, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Sure, no problem. Will that actually remove the non-visible characters (which I suspect come from "#tag"), or just suppress the error message?
 * Andy: Would adding 'class="noprint"' to the span suffice? Or should I use noprint? ~ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 20:30, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I think the class alone would do it; but I'm no expert. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:48, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Well, I got "noprint" to co-exist with "plainlinks", and in my test case (Leech River Fault; see "Fairchild") the link goes away in the "printable" version. But still shows up in the pdf. I don't know if that is fixable. ~ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 21:39, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I don't know how it works; I just know that the error message is gone. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:18, 16 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, it seems to work fine now. Thanks for whatever you did. I've pulled the testing modifications and put the template into production form. ~ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 20:29, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #205
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.  Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 15:19, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Discussion
 * Closed request for comments: Reforming the property creation process, Improve bot policy for data import and data modification
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: office hour on IRC (log)
 * Past: ISB2016 (slides)
 * Past: WWW2016 - Freebase to Wikidata migration (slides)
 * Past: CUNY Wikidata intro (slides)
 * National Library of Wales: Our Wikidata Visiting Scholar
 * New TSRI Project Helps Researchers Build a Biomedical Knowledgebase
 * Yle <3 Wikidata - using Wikidata for concept tagging
 * Other noteworthy stuff
 * ArticlePlaceholder is going live on the first small Wikipedias on May 11th and could use your help
 * Wikimedia Commons will get the arbitrary access feature on April 26th
 * The Europeana Art History Challenge has started
 * Magnus made a handy user-script for duplicating items, for when a new item has similar property values to an existing one. See for instance, this set of edits for a second version of an artwork.
 * Listeria now has a status page
 * PetScan has now the option "Has no statements" to find items without statements for a category at Wikipedia (sample: en:Category:United States geography stubs) or an entire language version (sample: "sowiki").
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: production statistics, DNZB, PASE name, this zoological name is coordinate with, Australian Geological Provinces Database Identifier, Tate artist identifier, ResearchGate institute ID
 * Newest WikiProjects: d:Wikidata:WikiProject Museums
 * Query examples: items named after their shape, recent events, assemblies by number of seats, characters portrayed by most actors
 * Development
 * Query results for the query service are now cached by default for 60 seconds (T126730)
 * Finishing touches on easier input of geocoordinates and dates (sneak peek)
 * Finishing touches on easier manipulation of SPARQL queries (sneak peel - should go live later today)
 * Significantly reduced the write access to the database to make sure we're not frying the poor servers unnecessarily
 * Getting ArticlePlaceholder ready for first deployment
 * More work on first prototype for structured data support for Wikimedia Commons
 * Cleaned up icons for selecting rank and value type
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Tech News: 2016-16
<section begin="technews-2016-W16"/> 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 filter Special:Log in more detail. You can filter different imports and new users.
 * You can use Telnet to read Wikimedia wikis.
 * MediaWiki wikis can handle bigger file uploads. The new limit is 4 GB.

Changes this week
 * Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 19 April and 21 April. This will start at 14:00 UTC and last for 15 to 30 minutes.
 * There is no new Mediawiki version this week. This is because of the data center test.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on April 19 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is shadow namespaces. The meeting will be on 20 April at 21:30 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2016-W16"/> 20:40, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 8
Newsletter • March / April 2016

This month:

Transclude article requests anywhere on Wikipedia

In the last issue of the WikiProject X Newsletter, I discussed the upcoming Wikipedia Requests system: a central database for outstanding work on Wikipedia. I am pleased to announce Wikipedia Requests is live! Its purpose is to supplement automatically generated lists, such as those from SuggestBot, Reports bot, or Wikidata. It is currently being demonstrated on WikiProject Occupational Safety and Health (which I work on as part of my NIOSH duties) and WikiProject Women scientists.

Adding a request is as simple as filling out a form. Just go to the Add form to add your request. Adding sources will help ensure that your request is fulfilled more quickly. And when a request is fulfilled, simply click "mark as complete" and it will be removed from all the lists it's on. All at the click of a button! (If anyone is concerned, all actions are logged.)

With this new service is a template to transclude these requests: Wikipedia Requests. It's simple to use: add the template to a page, specifying,  , or  , and the list will be transcluded. For example, for requests having to do with all living people, just do. Use these lists on WikiProjects but also for edit-a-thons where you want a convenient list of things to do on hand. Give it a shot!

Help us build our list!

The value of Wikipedia Requests comes from being a centralized database. The long work to migrating individual lists into this combined list is slowly underway. As of writing, we have 883 open tasks logged in Wikipedia Requests. We need your help building this list.

If you know of a list of missing articles, or of outstanding tasks for existing articles, that you would like to migrate to this new system, head on over to Wikipedia Requests and help out. Doing this will help put your list in front of more eyes—more than just your own WikiProject.

An open database means new tools

WikiProject X maintains a database that associates article talk pages (and draft talk pages) with WikiProjects. This database powers many of the reports that Reports bot generates. However, until very recently, this database was not made available to others who might find its data useful. It's only common sense to open up the database and let others build tools with it.

And indeed: Citation Hunt, the game to add citations to Wikipedia, now lets you filter by WikiProject, using the data from our database.

Are you a tool developer interested in using this? Here are some details: the database resides on Tool Labs with the name. The table that associates WikiProjects with articles and drafts is called. Pages are stored by talk page title but in the future this should change. Have fun!

On the horizon


 * The work on the CollaborationKit extension continues. The extension will initially focus on reducing template and Lua bloat on WikiProjects (especially our WPX UI demonstration projects), and will from there create custom interfaces for creating and maintaining WikiProjects.
 * The WikiCite meeting will be in Berlin in May. The goal of the meeting is to figure out how to build a bibliographic database for use on the Wikimedia projects. This fits in quite nicely with WikiProject X's work: we want to make it easier for people to find things to work on, and with a powerful, open bibliographic database, we can build recommendations for sources. This feature was requested by the Wikipedia Library back in September, and this meeting is a major next step. We look forward to seeing what comes out of this meeting.

Until next time,

Harej (talk) 01:29, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

Impact
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:36, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 April 2016
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Wikidata weekly summary #206
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;"> <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 20:42, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Writing a bachelor's thesis at Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
 * Europeana Art History Challenge begins
 * TED is partnering with the Wikimedia community to add “ideas worth spreading” to Wikimedia projects
 * Wikidata meets world literature
 * Centralizing content and distributing labor: a community model for curating the very long tail of microbial genomes (conference poster)
 * Past: Wikimedia Conference
 * Other noteworthy stuff
 * SQUID: a new class and property browser for Wikidata (background info)
 * Wikidata Graph Builder now can visualize graphs with different node sizes. See for instance, types of artists with number of people, occupied with each subclass item
 * List of items that have English, German, and French sitselinks, but no statements
 * List of articles on English Wikipedia with a video where the corresponding item has no video
 * Listeria bot (the one generating lists on Wikipedia based on Wikidata data) will now begin auto-replacing simple WDQ queries with SPARQL ones
 * Magnus is looking for a designer to help with a logo for PetScan
 * Arbitrary access for Wikimedia Commons is coming as planned on the 26th
 * Wikidata surpassed English Wikipedia in items/articles using files from Wikimedia Commons
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Danish listed buildings case ID, Models.com client ID, Race time, IAT diver ID, IAT weightlifter ID, IAT triathlete ID, FIS snowboarder ID, FIS Nordic combined skier ID, FIS ski jumper ID, FIS freestyle skier ID, FIS cross-country skier ID, FIS alpine skier ID, D-U-N-S, source of income, budget, BNE journal ID, JudoInside.com ID, ISO 4063 process number, blue-style.com ID, Wrestlingdata person id, Danish protected area ID, Skyscraper Center building complex ID, Research Papers in Economics Series handle, NUTTAB Food Identifier, AUSNUT Food Identifier, CNC film rating, EIRIN film rating, exploitation visa number, production date, Dictionary of Canadian Biography ID, New Zealand Organisms Register ID, Roller Coaster Database ID, Photographers' Identities Catalog ID, PRONOM software identifier, PRONOM file format identifier, Filmiroda rating
 * Newest WikiProjects: Olympics
 * Query examples: songs with longest melody (source), subjects with most art dedicated to them (source), versions of The Scream (source)
 * Development
 * There will be some maintenance on the query service in a few hours
 * Redesigned the rank selector as well as snak type selector icons (T129033, 283968)
 * The snak type selector icon also has a tooltip now (283945)
 * The term table header row as well as language column will now be marked as  instead of   (283395)
 * Fixed an issue with newline characters in quantity values (T110728)
 * Fixed the month-precision time parser ignoring the minus in "January -150" (T132441)
 * Continued working on diffing and patching support for new entity types (T132442)
 * Continued working on support for creating entities of new types as part of the work for Wikimedia Commons support (T132964)
 * Rolled out a little query explanation field to query.wikidata.org to help you better understand a query if you don't understand SPARQL well
 * Fixed a bug where the map wouldn't show in the visualization of a query result (T132669)
 * Fixed issues with the duplicate references gadget (T131920)
 * Added basic support for more languages to the query service (T132756)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Tech News: 2016-17
<section begin="technews-2016-W17"/> 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
 * Wikimedia tested a new data center last week. This meant that the wikis could be read but not edited for 45 minutes on April 19 and for 20 minutes on April 21.
 * When the data center was tested, new edits were not shown in the recent changes log for 20 minutes. They are in the logs now. You can read more about how to find the edits.
 * Unread notifications were sometimes counted incorrectly. This has now been fixed.

Changes this week
 * Wikimedia Commons will have better access to Wikidata. They can use data from any page on Wikidata on any page on Commons. This will happen on April 26.
 * It will be easier to choose if you want to watch files you have uploaded with the upload wizard.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 26. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 27. It will be on all wikis from April 28 (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on April 26 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The "" button when you edit will be called "Publish" instead. This is to help new editors understand what it does. It already works like this on some wikis.

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Mires and Bogs
Hey there, Pig on Wing:

I saw the template you placed on Mire regarding the conflict with bog. The link to the talk page archive seems to have been removed, making the conversation difficult to follow... Do you want the mire article to retain the tag? If so, can you restore some kind of link to a conversation that editor can pursue? (not that you deleted one! Only that one would be useful!). THANK YOU! KDS 4444 Talk  10:34, 28 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Done. Please de-colour your sig, per MOS:COLOUR. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:38, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Okay. I didn't realize it was bothersome, but I certainly understand (although it doesn't look like MOS:COLOUR gives any direction or even suggestions on the use of colors in signatures other than to assist the color-blind and on tables— do you think it should, perhaps?).  KDS4444 (talk) 20:05, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXI, April 2016
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Alkan
Hi, thanks for adding the auto-archive to Charles-Valentin Alkan, but it somehow seems to have archived the more recent comments and left behind those of several years ago - any way of correcting this? Best, --Smerus (talk) 10:17, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
 * The bot does not archive undated comments. I've applied some fixes, using Unsigned; this should all be resolved the next time the bot passes by. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:56, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Brill, very many thanks!.--Smerus (talk) 20:09, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

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