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Wikidata weekly summary #229
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Expanding Wikidata’s Parenthood Information by 178%, or How To Mine Relation Cardinalities, by Paramita Mirza, Simon Razniewski and Werner Nutt (Q27038095)
 * Extracting Scientists from Wikipedia, by Gustaf Harari Ekenstierna and Victor Shu-Ming Lam (Q27037451)
 * Comparison of Wikidata and DBpedia projects as spatial data sources (cs), by Jan Macura (Q27042632)
 * Wikidata challenge to take on language obstacles in medical analysis on Warriors Planet
 * The Wikidata scholarly profile page on Finn Årup Nielsen's blog
 * Wikidata as a digital preservation knowledgebase on Open Preservation Foundation


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * We need you for Wikidata's birthday! Organize an event or tell us your story about Wikidata
 * Item Q27000000 was created, about Stakihnúkur, a hill in Iceland
 * Log of our last office hour discussion
 * The first WikiCite newsletter has been published
 * You can help a research project to understand the use of the SPARQL query service


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: OKPD2 code of the good or service, OKP ID of the good or service, OKP Code, OKVED 2 code of the economic activity, OKPD code of the good or service, OKVED 1.1 code of the economic activity, SIC code, Catholic Encyclopedia ID, NBN System Key, trunk prefix, KU Leuven person ID, PhilPapers publication, PhilPapers topic, Library of Congress Cultural Heritage Organizations, PhilPapers profile, PhilPapers author, Mediaarts-DB ID, SCAR Composite Gazetteer, South Dakota legislator ID, Schläfli symbol, Cultural Heritage Kosovo ID, HAS member ID, Corporate Number (Japan), NAICS code, List of lights id, Nationalencyklopedin Online ID, NYT topic ID, KvK company ID, Encyclopædia Universalis Online ID, Auñamendi ID, Dictionary of Swedish National Biography, ClassInd rating, SIRET number, Onisep occupation ID, Indian census area code, ISAN


 * Query examples:
 * Most populous commune of France whose name begins by a certain letter (source)
 * Works mentioning #Wikidata properties (source)
 * Places where people born in Brittany died (source)
 * trees grown from seeds that went around the Moon (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Virtual Twins
 * Newest external tools: Free Software Directory plugin with a bot
 * Newest database reports: list of articles with "uses property" (P3176)


 * Development
 * Worked more on making it possible to use Wikidata items and properties to make statements about multimedia files on Commons in the future
 * Adding a list of items used in an article to the edit page on Wikipedia and co (T144921)
 * More work on automated language links for Wiktionary (T145412)
 * Improve the way to count and display the number of items on the main page (T144687)
 * Solved a bug on the gadget DuplicateReferences (T146318)
 * Clicking on the desired property while adding a new Statement didn't focus the value input. That has been fixed (T144037).
 * Made it possible to use the  and   protocols in URL data types (T146692)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * 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!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help merge items of people with the same name and dates.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

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Tech News: 2016-40
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 October. It will be on all wikis from 6 October (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 4 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg Tidy will be replaced. Instead the HTML 5 parsing algorithm will be used to clean up bad HTML in wikitext. This would cause problems on a number of wikis. They need to be fixed first.


 * will not work on Wikivoyage after 24 October. You should use  instead. If you need help to fix this before 24 October you should ask for it as soon as possible.

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The Bugle: Issue CXXVI, October 2016
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) 14:17, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

JStuStudios
can you look at the hCard problems in JStuStudios? from the edit history, it is asserted that there is no existing infobox which can be used on this article. Frietjes (talk) 17:39, 7 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Infobox comedian specifically has options - and a copyable blank - for groups, which includes duos. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:45, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
 * good idea, but unlikely that will find that acceptable. Frietjes (talk) 17:53, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Then use WP:DR; starting with the article talk page. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:06, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

Second opinion on a template
Hey Andy, could I get your thoughts on Checkboxes and Switch templates? On the one hand a "See also" would suffice, but having a sidebar is a bit more obvious. Cheers, Primefac (talk) 02:42, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Possibly relevant. – Jonesey95 (talk) 02:57, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
 * , in this particular instance, I'm not sure it is (which is why I didn't feel it relevant to mention); they've been dicking about in the template space recently, but other than a few poorly-named moves there haven't been any major CIR issues (just "why did you create this...?" issues). Primefac (talk) 03:23, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I agree that a "see also" would suffice. Why not Tfd it? Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:44, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I was planning on it if you agreed with me. I've been entrenched in monitoring/fixing the user's template contributions so I was concerned I might be overly biased/judgmental. Primefac (talk) 00:56, 8 October 2016 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #230
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * During the British wildlife edit-a-thon 2016, attendees added bird sounds from Europeana Sounds to Wikidata and over 60 Wikipedias
 * Past: WikiConference in San Diego, USA
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop by Wikimedia Nederland, October 20, Utrecht
 * Wikidata & Wikipedia edit-athon about Ramon Llull by Amical Wikimedia (ca)
 * A Natural Language Query Engine without Machine Learning, on A Young Programmer's blog
 * The Wikimedia Foundation will now directly fund basic expenses for Wikidata software development, on WMF blog
 * People buried on cemetery and if they have a picture of the grave or not by Magnus Sälgö
 * Sunday Query : où meurent les Bretons ? (fr) by Ash_Crow
 * Charts and data about Brexit & US Elections, by Hector Perez


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Proposition for upgrading the default copyright license for Wikimedia projects to CC-by-SA 4.0 (does not affect the structured data part of Wikidata, which uses CC0).
 * 3 Wikidata-related projects will be funded by WMF grants : Librarybase, Lua module and WikiFactMine
 * Query service analysis: What kind of things are people doing with WDQS? and Who are our WDQS users and where are they from?
 * chemical compounds in Wikipedia and Wikidata, talk by Sebastian Burgstaller
 * PetScan tool past half a million queries since April (source)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: KANTL member ID, Angel List ID, storyboard artist, content deliverer, Actorenregister ID, Zeri image ID, compulsory education (maximum age), compulsory education (minimum age), Fotografen.nl ID, PORT organization URL, Flickr user ID, LocFDD ID, MySpace ID, radix, base, has anatomical branch, anatomical branch of, points awarded, intangible cultural heritage status, LiveJournal ID, Queensland place ID, Cave E-Cadastre ID, Property proposal discussion, optimum viable temperature, maximum viable temperature, minimum viable temperature


 * Query examples:
 * Chemistry Nobel prizes through time (source)
 * Former countries without continent (P30) (source)
 * Rivers without any mouth specified (source)
 * Interesting items near you (source)
 * Newest external tools: new Wikidata game, Alias Candidates (by MagnusManske)
 * Newest database reports: List of embassies has now summaries by host country and by country represented


 * Development
 * The property talk namespace now has subpages enabled (T146271)
 * More work on automated sitelinks for Wiktionary (T987)
 * More work on federation for Commons in order to be able to use Wikidata's items and properties there (T76007)
 * Adding entity usage information in action=edit on Wikipedia and co (T144921)
 * Working on making it possible to get formatted values back on the client. With this we will for example link the value to a Wikipedia article where possible. (T142940)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * 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!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

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Tech News: 2016-41
 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 show Special:RecentChanges on a page by using . You can now use tag filters by using.
 * The notification badge is coloured if you have notifications. When you check the notification the badge will now turn grey on all wikis instead of just the local one.
 * Colours used in the Wikimedia wikis' main interface changed slightly. This is to make them easier to see for readers and editors with reduced eyesight.

Changes this week
 * Hidden HTML comments will be more visible when you edit with the visual editor.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 October. It will be on all wikis from 13 October (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 11 October 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 is CREDITS files. The meeting will be on 12 October at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Language converter syntax will soon no longer work inside external links. Wikitext like  must be replaced. You will have to write   instead. This only affects languages with Language Converter enabled. Examples of such languages are Chinese and Serbian.

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Invite to the African Destubathon
Hi. You may be interested in participating in the African Destubathon which starts on October 15. Africa currently has over 37,000 stubs and badly needs a quality improvement editathon/contest to flesh out basic stubs. There are proposed substantial prizes to give to editors who do the most geography, wildlife and women articles, and planned smaller prizes for doing to most destubs for each of the 55 African countries, so should be enjoyable! Even if contests aren't your thing we would be grateful if you could consider destubbing a few African wildlife articles during the drive to help the cause and help reduce the massive 37,000 + stub count, of which many are rated high importance. If you're interested in competing or just loosely contributing any article related to a topic you often work on, please add your name to the Contestants/participants section. Might be a good way to work on fleshing out articles you've long been meaning to target and get rewarded for it! Diversity of work from a lot of people will make this that bit more special. Thanks. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 04:57, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: September 2016
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Tech News: 2016-42
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * There is a new newsletter from the Collaboration team at the Wikimedia Foundation. It will have more details about for example Flow and notifications. You can read the first issue.

Problems
 * Some users got a warning about Wikipedia's security certificate last week. This was because of a problem GlobalSign had. This has now been fixed. Only a small number of users got the warning.
 * Editors couldn't edit semi-protected pages in the Wikipedia app for Android. This has now been fixed in the beta version.

Changes this week
 * There will be no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes
 * The Editing Department are working on a new wikitext editor. It will have tools that are in the visual editor but not in the wikitext editor today. You can read more about this. This is an early plan and things can change. The old wikitext editor will still exist.

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Wikidata weekly summary #231
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.  <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) 21:56, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Upcoming: Connected Data London meetup with Navino Evans
 * Upcoming: Andy Mabbett & Liam Wyatt speaking about GLAM-Wiki (including Wikidata) at Muzeum Cyfrowe in Warsaw, 19 October.
 * Upcoming: Andy Mabbett speaking about Wikidata & running a GLAM-Wiki workshop at SFK 16 ("Software Freedom Kosova Conference") in Pristina, 21-23 October.
 * Past: CCBWIKI
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * World Spider Catalog has been added to Mix'n'match
 * Mix’n’match can now limit auto-matches to instances of a specific item and its subclasses
 * Sitelinks for the new Livvi-Karelian Wikipedia (olowiki) can be added
 * There is now a "userbox" for Wikidatans wishing to mark Wikidata's fourth birthday on their user pages
 * myMuseum was created at the hack4heritage hackathon and won a prize
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: DRÚSOP ID, code, encoding, BALaT image ID, DocCheck Flexikon De ID, DocCheck Flexikon En ID, biography at the Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Cellosaurus ID, World Spider Catalog ID, Squash Info ID, MSC ID, Yahoo! Japan Talent Database ID, Bandcamp artist ID, French National Assembly Lobbyist ID, BanQ author ID, statistical leader, Sandbox-Monolingual text II
 * Query examples:
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20First%20Nobel%20Prize%20winner%20born%20after%20Alfred%20Nobel%E2%80%99s%20death%0A%23%20Nobel%20Prize%20data%20seems%20to%20be%20a%20bit%20messy%20right%20now%2C%20so%20we%20cover%20three%20different%20ways%20to%20represent%20%E2%80%9Cawardee%20got%20prize%20on%20date%20X%E2%80%9D%20%E2%80%93%20hopefully%20that%E2%80%99s%20enough%E2%80%A6%0ASELECT%20%3Fawardee%20%3FawardeeLabel%20%3FawardeeBorn%20%3Fawarded%20%3FprizeLabel%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20wd%3AQ23810%20wdt%3AP570%20%3FnobelDied.%0A%20%20%3Fawardee%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP569%20%3FawardeeBorn.%0A%20%20%3Fprize%20wdt%3AP279%20wd%3AQ7191.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3FawardeeBorn%20%3E%20%3FnobelDied%29.%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20awardee%20has%20award%20received%3A%20nobel%20prize%20with%20point%20in%20time%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fawardee%20p%3AP166%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP166%2Fwdt%3AP31%3F%20%3Fprize%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP585%20%3Fawarded%0A%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20nobel%20prize%20has%20winner%3A%20awardee%20with%20point%20in%20time%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fprize%20p%3AP1346%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP1346%20%3Fawardee%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP585%20%3Fawarded%0A%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20awardee%20has%20award%20received%3A%20%3Cyear%3E%20nobel%20prize%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fawardee%20wdt%3AP166%20%3FyearPrize.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FyearPrize%20wdt%3AP31%20%3Fprize%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP585%20%3Fawarded.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3Fawarded%0ALIMIT%201 first Nobel Prize winner who was born after Alfred Nobel’s death] (source)
 * streets in Paris named after doctors (source)
 * international land tripoints (source)
 * national flags depicting stars or constellations (source)
 * national flags with inscriptions (source)
 * people who died the furthest away from where they were born (source)
 * closest pairs of capitals (of UN member states, <500km) (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20People%20who%20received%20military%20decorations%20from%20two%20different%20countries%0ASELECT%0A%3Fperson%20%3FpersonLabel%0A%28SAMPLE%28CONCAT%28%3Faward1Label%2C%20%22%20%28%22%2C%20%3Fcountry1Label%2C%20%22%29%22%29%29%20AS%20%3FfirstAward%29%0A%28SAMPLE%28CONCAT%28%3Faward2Label%2C%20%22%20%28%22%2C%20%3Fcountry2Label%2C%20%22%29%22%29%29%20AS%20%3FsecondAward%29%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP166%20%3Faward1%2C%20%3Faward2.%0A%20%20wd%3AQ1788716%20%5E%28wdt%3AP31%7Cwdt%3AP279%29%2a%20%3Faward1%2C%20%3Faward2.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3Faward1%20%21%3D%20%3Faward2%29.%0A%20%20%3Faward1%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fcountry1.%0A%20%20%3Faward2%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fcountry2.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3Fcountry1%20%21%3D%20%3Fcountry2%29.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%28%3Fcountry1%20%21%3D%20wd%3AQ159%20%7C%7C%20%3Fcountry2%20%21%3D%20wd%3AQ15180%29%20%26%26%20%28%3Fcountry1%20%21%3D%20wd%3AQ15180%20%7C%7C%20%3Fcountry2%20%21%3D%20wd%3AQ159%29%29.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FpersonLabel.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FpersonLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Faward1%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Faward1Label.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3Faward1Label%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Faward2%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Faward2Label.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3Faward2Label%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fcountry1%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fcountry1Label.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3Fcountry1Label%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fcountry2%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fcountry2Label.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3Fcountry2Label%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fperson%20%3FpersonLabel%0ALIMIT%2050 people who received military decorations from two different countries] (source)
 * volcanoes and earthquakes (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fratio%20%28COUNT%28%3Fitem%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ3305213%20.%0A%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP2048%2Fpsv%3AP2048%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3FbaseHeight%3B%0A%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP2370%2Fpsv%3AP2370%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3FunitHeight%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ11573%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%0A%20%20%20%20%5D%0A%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20BIND%28%3FbaseHeight%20%2a%20%3FunitHeight%20AS%20%3Fheight%29.%0A%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP2049%2Fpsv%3AP2049%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3FbaseWidth%3B%0A%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP2370%2Fpsv%3AP2370%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3FunitWidth%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ11573%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%0A%20%20%20%20%5D%0A%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20BIND%28%3FbaseWidth%20%2a%20%3FunitWidth%20AS%20%3Fwidth%29.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20BIND%28%3Fheight%20%2F%20%3Fwidth%20AS%20%3Fr%29%20.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20BIND%28IF%28%3Fr%3C0.5%2C%22%3C%200.5%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fr%3C0.6%2C%220.5%20-%200.6%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fr%3C0.7%2C%220.6%20-%200.7%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fr%3C0.8%2C%220.7%20-%200.8%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fr%3C0.9%2C%220.8%20-%200.9%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fr%3C1.0%2C%220.9%20-%201.0%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fr%3C1.1%2C%221.0%20-%201.1%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fr%3C1.2%2C%221.1%20-%201.2%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fr%3C1.3%2C%221.2%20-%201.3%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fr%3C1.4%2C%221.3%20-%201.4%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fr%3C1.5%2C%221.4%20-%201.5%22%2C%20%22%3E%201.5%22%29%29%29%29%29%29%29%29%29%29%29%20AS%20%3Fratio%29%20.%0A%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fratio%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29%0A height/width ratios of paintings] (source)
 * birthplaces of Members of the European Parliament (source)
 * birthplaces of US Senators (source)
 * New template: d:Template:Poland properties. Please add labels in your own languages, and consider making a similar template for your country or region.
 * Development
 * Worked further on automatic linking of pages between Wiktionary language editions
 * Worked further on making it possible to use Wikidata's items and properties to describe files on Commons
 * Reviewed error messages and made them easier to understand
 * Added tooltips in some places in the UI to make them more understandable (e.g. ranks, special values)
 * Made the loading animation clearer in embedded query results (T148042)
 * Making it possible to paste the full URL of an image on Commons into image properties (T147917)
 * Worked on a small birthday present
 * Fixed run button not being reenabled after some queries (T147114)
 * More work on better parser function and Lua functions that return formatted values (T142940)
 * Undoing the last edit to an item will now show a undo summary, not a restore one (T147631) Thanks Matěj!
 * Lule Sami and Pite Sami are now supported languages in Wikidata (T146707)
 * Brainstormed about how to make it easier to write queries without knowing SPARQL
 * Fixed a bug with spaces in language codes in queries (T147729)
 * 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!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Wikidata property migration
Hey Andy. The last two templates listed for Wikidata property migration don't have anything for the bot to remove. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 02:48, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #232
<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;"> Wikidata celebrates its 4th anniversary on October 29th. Around this date, a lot of events will happen online and offline.
 * Wikidata's birthday is coming!

Birthday events

Editors all around the world organize meetups to celebrate the birthday. You can join one of them or create an event in your own town!
 * San Francisco (USA), October 26th
 * Torino (Italy), October 26th
 * Tokyo (Japan), October 28th
 * Paris (France), October 29th
 * Utrecht (NL), October 29th
 * Berlin (Germany), November 4th
 * Rennes (France), November 5th

Online

A lot of surprises, stories and presents will be shared between October 29th and November 4th. Check the project chat or the mailing-list every day to see what happens!

You can also participate by posting a story (more info here), a tweet with #WikidataBirthday, let a message or a present on the birthday page.

If you're participating to Wikidata's birthday, you can add this template to your user page.


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Wikidata workshops in Paris : every month, Wikimédia France and editors organize a workshop about Wikidata and related tools. Check out the schedule
 * Upcoming: Ladies that FOSS October 29th in Berlin, organized by Lucie and Julia from the Wikidata team


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * WikiCite 2016 report


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Third-party formatter URL, Open Media Database film ID, broadcast by, musical conductor, Student register of the University of Helsinki 1640–1852 ID, Belgian Senate person ID, Flemish Parliament person ID, DRÚSOP ID


 * Query examples:
 * places of birth of living US senators (compare with last week's)
 * Wikidata map of filming locations (source)
 * Streets in Paris named after a physician (source)
 * Moons of trans-Neptunian objects (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Chess


 * Development
 * Fixed a rounding error in the geo coordinate formatter (see [//github.com/DataValues/Geo/pull/78 GitHub]). Thanks, 0x686578!
 * Improvements to technical error messages, e.g. "illegal value" when editing a Commons media statement (T141880).
 * Continued working on a new parser function to get rich, formatted statements.
 * Continued working on making entity usage information visible to users.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * 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!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

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Tech News: 2016-43
<section begin="technews-2016-W43"/> 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
 * The abuse filters had a problem and caught too many edits. 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 October 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from October 26. It will be on all wikis from October 27 (calendar).
 * The "Search" text in the search box will show the name of the project. For example, on Wikipedia it will say "Search Wikipedia".
 * About a dozen wikis now have numerical sorting in categories. If your wiki wants numerical sorting in categories you can ask for it.
 * Some wikis that want numerical sorting in categories can also ask to use UCA to sort categories. The biggest difference is that characters with diacritics will be sorted together. For example, for most languages Ä will be sorted with A instead of at the end of the alphabet. This is not true for languages that have Ä as a character in their alphabet. Wikis that already use UCA are listed on Meta. Languages that can use UCA are listed on MediaWiki.org. You can test it.

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Timelines
There was an RFC not to allow timelines in articles. Is there a way to find them all, or at least count how many we have? Perhaps a query with "timeline" appearing as a section header "==Timeline==". --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 20:14, 18 October 2016 (UTC)


 * What a silly idea. Where was this RfC? I don't recall seeing it announced on Cent, for example. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 05:21, 19 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Biography for the closed RFC. I am trying to get more people to respond at Wikipedia talk:Timeline. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 14:57, 19 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Can you help me find the articles with timelines so I can delete them, you responded then I never heard from you again. Also how do I make a category appear on the talk page? Category:Articles containing timelines. You did not respond at WP:Timelines so you seem to have no objections to removing all the timelines. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 22:57, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I responded here, saying "What a silly idea". Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:53, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I was hoping you would defend them at the new discussion. Since the !vote is to remove them, and no one objected to removing the one at Albert Einstein, how do I find them in the raw text. How can I search for "==timeline==" and "==chronology==" in the unformatted text? --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 15:25, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
 * If you agree that it is silly to delete them, then please speak up at the current debate. Silence means you agree with the current policy. Just 6 people responded to the RFC which led to the deletion order. Or help me find them so they can be deleted. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 01:33, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

Template:Infobox person
Can you change the language: Remove the requirement that parents be "independently notable" (blue-linked) or "particularly relevant" for the "parent" field at Template talk:Infobox person? --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 00:34, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
 * What stops you from doing so? Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:39, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Give me admin rights and I will do it. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 20:54, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I am not a admin. However, the template's documentation is not protected. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:29, 26 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks! --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 00:37, 31 October 2016 (UTC)