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Resurrected Outline of cuisines
See Talk:Outline of cuisines for details. The Transhumanist 07:26, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 2
For this month's issue...

Making sense of a lot of data.

Work on our prototype will begin imminently. In the meantime, we have to understand what exactly we're working with. To this end, we generated a list of 71 WikiProjects, based on those brought up on our Stories page and those who had signed up for pilot testing. For those projects where people told stories, we coded statements within those stories to figure out what trends there were in these stories. This approach allowed us to figure out what Wikipedians thought of WikiProjects in a very organic way, with very little by way of a structure. (Compare this to a structured interview, where specific questions are asked and answered.) This analysis was done on 29 stories. Codes were generally classified as "benefits" (positive contributions made by a WikiProject to the editing experience) and "obstacles" (issues posed by WikiProjects, broadly speaking). Codes were generated as I went along, ensuring that codes were as close to the original data as possible. Duplicate appearances of a code for a given WikiProject were removed.

We found 52 "benefit" statements encoded and 34 "obstacle" statements. The most common benefit statement referring to the project's active discussion and participation, followed by statements referring to a project's capacity to guide editor activity, while the most common obstacles made reference to low participation and significant burdens on the part of the project maintainers and leaders. This gives us a sense of WikiProjects' big strength: they bring people together, and can be frustrating to editors when they fail to do so. Meanwhile, it is indeed very difficult to bring editors together on a common interest; in the absence of a highly motivated core of organizers, the technical infrastructure simply isn't there.

We wanted to pair this qualitative study with quantitative analysis of a WikiProject and its "universe" of pages, discussions, templates, and categories. To this end I wrote a script called ProjAnalysis which will, for a given WikiProject page (e.g. WikiProject Star Trek) and WikiProject talk-page tag (e.g. Template:WikiProject Star Trek), will give you a list of usernames of people who edited within the WikiProject's space (the project page itself, its talk page, and subpages), and within the WikiProject's scope (the pages tagged by that WikiProject, excluding the WikiProject space pages). The output is an exhaustive list of usernames. We ran the script to analyze our test batch of WikiProjects for edits between March 1, 2014 and February 28, 2015, and we subjected them to further analysis to only include those who made 10+ edits to pages in the projects' scope, those who made 4+ edits to the projects' space, and those who made 10+ edits to pages in scope but not 4+ edits to pages in the projects' space. This latter metric gives us an idea of who is active in a certain subject area of Wikipedia, yet who isn't actively engaging on the WikiProject's pages. This information will help us prioritize WikiProjects for pilot testing, and the ProjAnalysis script in general may have future life as an application that can be used by Wikipedians to learn about who is in their community.

Complementing the above two studies are a design analysis, which summarizes the structure of the different WikiProject spaces in our test batch, and the comprehensive census of bots and tools used to maintain WikiProjects, which will be finished soon. With all of this information, we will have a game plan in place! We hope to begin working with specific WikiProjects soon.

As a couple of asides...


 * Database Reports has existed for several years on Wikipedia to the satisfaction of many, but many of the reports stopped running when the Toolserver was shut off in 2014. However, there is good news: the weekly New WikiProjects and WikiProjects by Changes reports are back, with potential future reports in the future.
 * WikiProject X has an outpost on Wikidata! Check it out. It's not widely publicized, but we are interested in using Wikidata as a potential repository for metadata about WikiProjects, especially for WikiProjects that exist on multiple Wikimedia projects and language editions.

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Harej (talk) 01:43, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 4
Newsletter • May/June 2015

Hello friends! We have been hard at work these past two months. For this report:

The directory is live!

For the first time, we are happy to bring you an exhaustive, comprehensive WikiProject Directory. This directory endeavors to list every single WikiProject on the English Wikipedia, including those that don't participate in article assessment. In constructing the broadest possible definition, we have come up with a list of approximately 2,600 WikiProjects. The directory tracks activity statistics on the WikiProject's pages, and, for where it's available, statistics on the number of articles tracked by the WikiProject and the number of editors active on those articles. Complementing the directory are description pages for each project, listing usernames of people active on the WikiProject pages and the articles in the WikiProject's scope. This will help Wikipedians interested in a subject find each other, whether to seek feedback on an article or to revive an old project. (There is an opt-out option.) We have also come up with listings of related WikiProjects, listing the ten most relevant WikiProjects based on what articles they have in common. We would like to promote WikiProjects as interconnected systems, rather than isolated silos.

A tremendous amount of work went into preparing this directory. WikiProjects do not consistently categorize their pages, meaning we had to develop our own index to match WikiProjects with the articles in their scope. We also had to make some adjustments to how WikiProjects were categorized; indeed, I personally have racked up a few hundred edits re-categorizing WikiProjects. There remains more work to be done to make the WikiProject directory truly useful. In the meantime, take a look and feel free to leave feedback at the WikiProject X talk page.

Stuff in the works!

What have we been working on?


 * A new design template—This has been in the works for a while, of course. But our goal is to design something that is useful and cleanly presented on all browsers and at all screen resolutions while working within the confines of what MediaWiki has to offer. Additionally, we are working on designs for the sub-components featured on the main project page.
 * A new WikiProject talk page banner in Lua—Work has begun on implementing the WikiProject banner in Lua. The goal is to create a banner template that can be usable by any WikiProject in lieu of having its own template. Work has slowed down for now to focus on higher priority items, but we are interested in your thoughts on how we could go about creating a more useful project banner. We have a draft module on Test Wikipedia, with a demonstration.
 * New discussion reports—We have over 4.8 million articles on the English Wikipedia, and almost as many talk pages as well. But what happens when someone posts on a talk page? What if no one is watching that talk page? We are currently testing out a system for an automatically-updating new discussions list, like RFC for WikiProjects. We currently have five test pages up for the WikiProjects on cannabis, cognitive science, evolutionary biology, and Ghana.
 * SuggestBot for WikiProjects—We have asked the maintainer of SuggestBot to make some minor adjustments to SuggestBot that will allow it to post regular reports to those WikiProjects that ask for them. Stay tuned!
 * Semi-automated article assessment—Using the new revision scoring service and another system currently under development, WikiProjects will be getting a new tool to facilitate the article assessment process by providing article quality/importance predictions for articles yet to be assessed. Aside from helping WikiProjects get through their backlogs, the goal is to help WikiProjects with collecting metrics and triaging their work. Semi-automation of this process will help achieve consistent results and keep the process running smoothly, as automation does on other parts of Wikipedia.

Want us to work on any other tools? Interested in volunteering? Leave a note on our talk page.

The WikiProject watchers report is back!

The database report which lists WikiProjects according to the number of watchers (i.e., people that have the project on their watchlist), is back! The report stopped being updated a year ago, following the deactivation of the Toolserver, but a replacement report has been generated.

Until next time, Harej (talk) 22:20, 17 June 2015 (UTC)


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Flow survey
[moved to User talk:Quiddity (WMF). -- Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 17:48, 16 August 2015 (UTC) ]

Essay templates
I have proposed two templates at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Essays/Templates, and would appreciate comments. Because no one seems to have noticed, I have chosen to notify several editors who have edited the project page. --  01:19, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Color
Hi Quiddity. I would like to ask for your advice. There's a Wikitable in my Sandbox, but it seems I have been having problems about choosing the right color for the job. I think the color for Piano 2 hands, Piano 4 hands, Two pianos 4 hands, Stage music, Trio, Organ, and Orchestra with solo instrument are ok, but the others look too intense. I believe pastel colors might have a better effect. Maybe you could suggest something, thanks ! Krenakarore TK 22:41, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Hey Krenakarore. Hmmm, looking at User:Krenakarore/sandbox (permalink) I'd first ask what system(s) or software or sites you're currently using to get the color codes?
 * (Also, just of curiosity (I'm happy to be asked this!) I'd also ask why you chose/found me? I haven't touched WP:Accessibility or similar in years! I recognize your username, but I can't place where from... >.< sorry!)
 * AFAIK, http://colorbrewer2.org/ is the best tool for generating schemes that are safe for visually-impaired readers. Click the "diverging" radiobutton, and then from the "Number of data classes" dropdown and select "11". Then click the checkbox for "colorblind safe". Add black (or mix schemes) to get the number of available colors up to the 12 you need.
 * HTH. Quiddity (talk) 07:39, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Aha! There are three 12-color colorblindsafe schemes, at http://www.sron.nl/~pault/colourschemes.pdf (pages 4, 7, 10). :D Quiddity (talk) 07:48, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Wikiproject Numismatics. That gray color was too strong, remember ? List of colors: A–F. I pick up the colors I need through my eyemometer ! I need more than that Quiddity, I need your magic :) ! I need you to choose the colors to replace those which are not ok. Could you my friend ?! Krenakarore  TK 13:07, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I do plan to get back to this, but haven't had time, yet. Much sleep now. Quiddity (talk) 06:42, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi! Sorry I didn't back to this sooner. :<
 * I've now whipped together a table, with 2 alternative palettes that are both colorblind-friendly (confirm here). Pick one of those palettes (cannot mix them), and then it's just a case of using the search&replace wizard to change the colors in your sandbox. Hope that helps! Let me know. :) Quiddity (talk) 01:38, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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Wikidata weekly summary #186
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) 16:02, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Koavf
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: Wikipedia and Wikidata editathon (EditatónAlicia) in Mexico
 * Past: Wikimedia Conferentie Nederland
 * Past: Wikidata Editathon at the National Library of Wales
 * Past: Ubuntu Conference, Paris
 * Is Wikidata the new Rosetta Stone?
 * WordLift 3.0: A brief semantic story – part 1
 * Workshop i Wikidata
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Your help is needed with the most important constraint violations.
 * New daily report on Mix'n'match
 * Daily updated list of people who's birthday is today
 * French Wikisource is using images from Wikidata for their author page headers and more now (example)
 * New catalogs have been added to Mix'n'match
 * A new author language game has been added to the Wikidata distributed game.
 * Mix’n’match now creates a new, pre-filled Wikidata item when no matching one can be found (by humans!), where possible
 * Workflow sketch for the OA Signalling project
 * example of a Listeria list created from a SPARQL query
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Australian Stratigraphic Units Database ID, Roman agnomen, Roman cognomen, production code, NMHH film rating, time to altitude, online service, intended public, Roman nomen gentilicium, Roman praenomen, Classification of Instructional Programs code, UNESCO endangered language ID, has list, statistical unit, applies to taxon, number of graves, Speedskatingbase.eu ID, Stuttgart Database of Scientific Illustrators ID, period, YSO ID, Elonet movie ID, AGORHA event identifier, AGORHA work ID, playing range image, AGORHA person/institution ID, indigenous to, CESAR person ID, BoardGameGeek ID, Musopen composer ID, SFDb-identifier of group, SFDb-identifier of soundtrack, SFDb-identifier of company, SFDb movie ID, Norwegian organization number, Dictionary of Art Historians
 * Development
 * Worked on (and for now finished) a new, prettier layout for the ArticlePlaceholder-generated pages
 * Made improvements to page size by removing a lot of unneeded comments in the HTML
 * Worked more on putting identifiers into their own section and linking them properly without a gadget
 * Looked into making it possible to edit more languages without the labellister gadget
 * Worked on improving the ranking of search results on Special:Search
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
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 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

test ping User:Zonthrep Quiddity (talk) 01:18, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #187
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) 15:48, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: Semantic Web Application and Tools 4 Life Science
 * notes
 * example queries
 * a few images
 * Ongoing: Wikidata for Beginners session at DISH 2015, Rotterdam, 8 December 2015
 * Upcoming: Wikidata pour la science
 * Upcoming: Workshop on "Wikidata as a platform for biocuration" at Biocuration 2016
 * Slides for talk "Building the sum of all human citations"
 * Op-ed in Signpost (Lydia is working on a piece to address some of the points)
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Closing in towards 1 million links between Commons categories and Wikidata article-type items -- 8,000 more by next week?
 * Help labeling edits to improve the vandalism detection on Wikidata
 * Open Science Prize is looking for cool ideas for Open Data and health. How about something awesome with Wikidata?
 * The Individual Engagement Grant for StrepHit has been accepted
 * Are you between 13 and 17? Join us for Google Code-in and do some Wikidata tasks with Wikimedia
 * We want your feedback on how to improve the process of showcasing Wikidata's best content
 * I dreamed of a perfect database - Wikidata? ;-)
 * Histropedia timeline of National Library of Wales
 * Wikinews, Wikispecies and MediaWiki now have access to the data on Wikidata. Do awesome things with it, sisters! Meta will follow on 15th.
 * Map of narrative locations in Denmark
 * Experimental REST API for Wikidata
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: deprecated in version, issued by, MediaWiki hooks used, superpartner of, has superpartner, natural abundance, Genius artist ID, ODIS ID, FAO risk status, conversion to SI base unit, Soccerway player ID, Sandbox-Property
 * Newest Database reports: WikiProject Movies/new films
 * Showcase items: Bertus Aafjes
 * Development
 * Polished the patch that adds icons to the item pages (for actions like edit, remove etc) and makes them cleaner. This will go live later today.
 * Worked more on a separate section for identifiers
 * Started working on the sorting of statements on the ArticlePlaceholder pages
 * Made it possible to use unknown language, no linguistic content and more as languages for the monolingual text datatype
 * Experimented more with improvements to the ranking on Special:Search
 * Worked on showing more languages in the in other languages box than the ones defined in your babel boxes
 * Small improvements to recent changes/watchlist integration on Wikipedia and co
 * Worked on making it possible to create a redirect over a deleted item
 * Worked on PHP7 support
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
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Books and Bytes - Issue 14
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Issue 14, October-November 2015 by, , ,

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 * New donations - Gale, Brill, plus Finnish and Farsi resources
 * Open Access Week recap, and DOIs, Wikipedia, and scholarly citations
 * Spotlight: 1Lib1Ref - a citation drive for librarians

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Wikidata weekly summary #188
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) 14:30, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikidata: knowledge from different points of view (Signpost op-ed on knowledge diversity and our thinking on data quality)
 * The Wikimedia Foundation Scholarships Program is now accepting applications for Wikimania 2016 (deadline: 09 January 2016 23:59 UTC)
 * Wikidata: A platform for data integration and dissemination for the life sciences and beyond received the prize for best paper at SWAT4LS. Congrats!
 * Past: 50 hours of Wikidata and Wikipedia editing at Museo Soumaya
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Over 16.000 people have contributed to Wikidata over the last month.
 * Wikidata Analyst, a tool to help comprehensively analyze the quality of Wikidata (announcement)
 * Overview of the current state of Sum of all Paintings and how you can help by Multichill
 * query.wikidata.org now more prominently shows example queries in case you missed them before, lets you filter and gives you a preview for them. Additionally you can click a little magnifying glass next to an item ID in a query result and explore it further.
 * WikiJourney now has a first release on the Play Store
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: JMDb film identifier, British Council artist ID, MLSSoccer.com ID, YouTube channel ID, image of function, MGI gene symbol, NCBI Locus tag, teaching method, OKPO ID, Ballotpedia ID, organisation directed from the office, office held by head of the organisation, Elonet actor ID, diameter, French diocesan architects ID, statement describes, CTHS person ID, Chemins de mémoire ID, Academic Tree ID, French Sculpture Census ID, deprecated in version, issued by
 * Query example: Which "Lincoln" was "Lincoln" named for?, [https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%20%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20rdfs%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2F01%2Frdf-schema%23%3E%0APREFIX%20p%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20pq%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fqualifier%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20v%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fstatement%2F%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fhigh%20%3Fhighl%20%3Fhigh_elevation%20%3Flow%20%3Flowl%20%3Flow_elevation%20%3Fspan%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ160016%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP610%20%3Fhigh%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP610%20%3Fhigh_statement%20.%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Fhigh%20wdt%3AP2044%20%3Fhigh_elevation%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%20%3Fhigh_statement%20pq%3AP2044%20%3Fhigh_elevation%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fhigh%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fhighl%20filter%20(lang(%3Fhighl)%20%3D%20%22en%22)%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1589%20%3Flow%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP1589%20%3Flow_statement%20.%0A%20%20%3Flow_statement%20pq%3AP2044%20%3Flow_elevation%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Flow%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Flowl%20filter%20(lang(%3Flowl)%20%3D%20%22en%22)%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND(%20%3Fhigh_elevation%20-%20%3Flow_elevation%20as%20%3Fspan%20)%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC(%3Fspan)%20DESC(%3Flow_elevation)%20DESC(%3Fhigh_elevation)%20%3Fhigh%20%3FitemLabel places by elevation span], people who died in 1945 (for upcoming 2016 public domain day)
 * Newest Database reports: List of films without article in Wikipedia of the same language
 * Development
 * Working on sorting of statement groups for the ArticlePlaceholder extension
 * Further work on a separate section for identifiers
 * Worked on properly linking identifiers in the exports
 * Removed a number of lines and boxes in the statement section to make it less busy
 * Made it possible to create a redirect over a deleted item without having to undelete it first
 * Further work on improving ranking on Special:Search
 * Making it possible to show and edit more languages for labels/descriptions/aliases than the ones defined in your babel boxes
 * Getting ready for the holidays :)
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Wikidata weekly summary #189
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 * Discussions
 * Successful request for adminship: Eurodyne
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * World Health Summit yearbook for 2015
 * You can apply for a scholarship to attend Wikimania 2016 (deadline: January 9th)
 * Talk submissions for Wikimania 2016 are open. We'd love to see many Wikidata-related submissions. If you need help with your submission contact Lydia.
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Google has launched the Knowledge Graph Search API, replacing the deprecated Freebase API
 * Meta now has access to the data on Wikidata as well
 * Want to get an overview of the classes and properties on Wikidata? The Miga class and property browser was updated.
 * WikiBrowser - semantically browse Wikipedia with the help of Wikidata
 * WikiFamou.us lets you compare topics by popularity across languages with the help of Wikidata
 * Chronas is a history project linking Wikipedia and Wikidata with a chronological and cartographical view
 * Visiting some place for the holidays? Check out the items nearby.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Fashion Model Directory magazine ID, Fashion Model Directory designer ID, Artsy gene, WikiPathways ID, NII Article ID, set in period, short-term exposure limit, maximum peak exposure limit, ceiling exposure limit, time-weighted average exposure limit, Total assets, total expenditure, Six Degrees of Francis Bacon ID
 * Query example: [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Works%20created%20by%20females%20died%20in%201945%0APREFIX%20bd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bigdata.com%2Frdf%23%3E%0APREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0Aselect%20distinct%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FcreaLabel%20%3FworkLabel%20(year(%3Fdate)as%20%3Fyear)%0Awhere%20%7B%0A%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP170%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20P170%2Fcreator%0A%20UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP50%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%20%20%23%20P50%2Fauthor%0A%20%23UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP86%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%20%23%20P86%2Fcomposer%0A%20%23UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP87%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%20%23%20P87%2Flibrettist%0A%20%23UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP110%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%23%20P110%2Fillustrator%0A%20%23UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP655%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%23%20P655%2Ftranslator%0A%20%23UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP676%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%23%20P676%2Flyrics%20by%0A%20%0A%20%3Fcrea%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ6581072%20.%20%23%20P21%2Fsex%20or%20gender%20-%20Q6581072%2Ffemale%0A%20%3Fcrea%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Ftime0%20.%0A%20FILTER%20(%20%3Ftime0%20%3E%3D%20%221945-01-01T00%3A00%3A00Z%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%20%26%26%20%3Ftime0%20%3C%3D%20%221945-12-31T00%3A00%3A00Z%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%20)%20%23%20P570%2Fdate%20of%20death%20in%201945%0A%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP571%20%3Fdate%7D%20UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP577%20%3Fdate%20%7D%7D%20%23%20P571%2Finception%20-%20P571%2Fpublication%20date%0A%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20%3Fwork%0A%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%2Car%2Cbe%2Cbg%2Cbn%2Cca%2Ccs%2Cda%2Cde%2Cel%2Ces%2Cet%2Cfa%2Cfi%2Cfr%2Che%2Chi%2Chu%2Chy%2Cid%2Cit%2Cja%2Cjv%2Cko%2Cnb%2Cnl%2Ceo%2Cpa%2Cpl%2Cpt%2Cro%2Cru%2Csh%2Csk%2Csr%2Csv%2Csw%2Cte%2Cth%2Ctr%2Cuk%2Cyue%2Cvec%2Cvi%2Czh%22%20%23BabelRainbow%0A%20%7D%0A%7DORDER%20BY%20%3FcreaLabel%20%0A works created by females who died in 1945]
 * Development
 * <3 Thanks for being awesome. Enjoy the holidays :)
 * We will take the "in other projects"-sidebar out of beta features in January (T103102)
 * Making ranking information like label and statement counts available to the CirrusSearch index in order to improve ranking in search results (T110648)
 * Continued work on the identifier data type for identifiers like VIAF and ISBN so we can easily put them into a separate section in the items and properly link them in the exports (T95682, T121274)
 * Continued work on making external identifiers clickable links without the help of the authority control gadget (T95684)
 * Fixed a mistake in the set reference API documentation (259171)
 * More work on cleaning up the statement section (T121390)
 * Monthly Tasks
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 * 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.

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VisualEditor News #6—2015
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Did you know?

A new, simpler system for editing will offer a single Edit button. Once the page has opened, you can switch back and forth between visual and wikitext editing.

If you prefer having separate edit buttons, then you can set that option in your preferences, either in a pop-up dialog the next time you open the visual editor, or by going to Special:Preferences and choosing the setting that you want: The current plan is for the default setting to have the Edit button open the editing environment you used most recently. You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has fixed many bugs and expanded the mathematics formula tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for languages such as Japanese and Arabic, and providing rich-media tools for formulæ, charts, galleries and uploading.

Recent improvements
You can switch from the wikitext editor to the visual editor after you start editing.

The LaTeX mathematics formula editor has been significantly expanded. (T118616) You can see the formula as you change the LaTeX code. You can click buttons to insert the correct LaTeX code for many symbols.

Future changes
The single edit tab project will combine the "" and "" tabs into a single "" tab, like the system already used on the mobile website. (T102398) Initially, the "" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time. Your last editing choice will be stored as a cookie for logged-out users and as an account preference for logged-in editors. Logged-in editors will be able to set a default editor in the tab of Special:Preferences in the drop-down menu about "".

The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the following Wikipedias in early 2016: Amharic, Buginese, Min Dong, Cree, Manx, Hakka, Armenian, Georgian, Pontic, Serbo-Croatian, Tigrinya, Mingrelian, Zhuang, and Min Nan. (T116523) Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. The developers would like to know how well it works. Please tell them what kind of computer, web browser, and keyboard you are using.

In 2016, the feedback pages for the visual editor on many Wikipedias will be redirected to mediawiki.org. (T92661)

Testing opportunities
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 * Please try the new system for the single edit tab on test2.wikipedia.org. You can edit while logged out to see how it works for logged-out editors, or you can create a separate account to be able to set your account's preferences.  Please share your thoughts about the single edit tab system at the feedback topic on mediawiki.org or sign up for formal user research (type "single edit tab" in the question about other areas you're interested in).  The new system has not been finalized, and your feedback can affect the outcome.  The team particularly wants your thoughts about the options in Special:Preferences. The current choices in Special:Preferences are:
 * , and
 * .  (This is the current state for people using the visual editor. None of these options will be visible if you have disabled the visual editor in your preferences at that wiki.)
 * Can you read and type in Korean or Japanese? Language engineer David Chan needs people who know which tools people use to type in some languages. If you speak Japanese or Korean, you can help him test support for these languages. Please see the instructions at VisualEditor/IME Testing if you can help, and report it on Phabricator (Korean - Japanese) or on Wikipedia (Korean - [//jp.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ビジュアルエディター/フィードバック/IME Japanese]).
 * .  (This is the current state for people using the visual editor. None of these options will be visible if you have disabled the visual editor in your preferences at that wiki.)
 * Can you read and type in Korean or Japanese? Language engineer David Chan needs people who know which tools people use to type in some languages. If you speak Japanese or Korean, you can help him test support for these languages. Please see the instructions at VisualEditor/IME Testing if you can help, and report it on Phabricator (Korean - Japanese) or on Wikipedia (Korean - [//jp.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ビジュアルエディター/フィードバック/IME Japanese]).

Whatamidoing (WMF), 00:54, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #190
Wikidata weekly summary #186

<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) 14:07, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Ongoing: 32C3
 * Upcoming: Wikimedia Developer Summit
 * Upcoming: StrepHit IEG project kick-off seminar
 * Upcoming: Office hour on IRC
 * Upcoming: FOSDEM (Lucie will give a talk about the ArticlePlaceholder extension)
 * Registration and scholarship applications for the Wikimedia Hackathon in Israel are open
 * Don't forget your talk submissions for Wikimania 2016. Lydia can help if needed.
 * Getting CAS registry numbers out of WikiData
 * The quality of SMILES strings in Wikidata
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Paper: Wikidata: A platform for data integration and dissemination for the life sciences and beyond
 * The Wikidata for Research proposal has now been published in a journal
 * [//tools.wmflabs.org/pltools/addlingue/ New tool to turn string claims to monolingual claims]
 * Johl built a card game about German politicians using Wikidata
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: number of awards, Prosopographia Attica, Structurae person ID, stage classification, sports disciplines competed in, personal best, substrate of
 * Development
 * Some small bugfixes and tweaks.
 * Enjoying the holidays and editing on Wikidata. Hope you are too :)
 * 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.

Thanks and another question
Dear Quiddity,

Thanks for your help at User talk:PleaseStand/User info. As you suggested, I've removed the code at Simple English Wikipedia and English Wikipedia and moved it instead to m:User:Msannakoval/global.js. It seems to be working just fine on all projects checked. Thank you!

Another question: At simple:User:Msannakoval/common.js, I still have the importscript code for Metadata gadget from User:Pyrospirit/metadata.js. That page says the code has moved to MediaWiki:Gadget-metadata.js. But there's a lot of code there! Am I supposed to add it all? And if so, should I do so at m:User:Msannakoval/global.js or must it be done project by project, for example, here on English and at Simple, etc.?

Thanks so much for all your help. It's much appreciated. :) Msannakoval (talk) 12:01, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
 * The metadata script/gadget won't work at Simple at all, because they don't use the same talkpage banner "quality assessment" system that Enwiki does.
 * The gadget works, simply by reading the templates at the top of talkpages, e.g. at talk:monkey it reads  and thus it labels the article monkey as "A start-class article". Whereas simple:talk:monkey doesn't have any quality-assessment at all - that system isn't used there (afaik, and I checked a few recent FA articles to make sure). This is a 'brute-force' way of dealing with it, and has no caching, so couldn't be turned on for everyone (e.g. IPs).
 * In the future, hopefully T124749 et al will make a more scalable and performant solution, which will then also be more easily adopted by other languages/wikis, and integrated more easily into other tools. HTH! Quiddity (talk) 22:26, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Quiddity, for explaining. I understand. It's disappointing. But given the much smaller size of Simple, it's not surprising. Would be great if one day this functionality were built into all Wikipedias by default. All the best, Msannakoval (talk) 10:53, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

MfD nomination of User:Quiddity/List of imaginary soundtracks
User:Quiddity/List of imaginary soundtracks, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Quiddity/List of imaginary soundtracks and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes ( ~ ). You are free to edit the content of User:Quiddity/List of imaginary soundtracks during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Legacypac (talk) 20:41, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 April 2016
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Books & Bytes - Issue 16
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Issue 16, February-March 2016 by ,

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 * 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

Wikidata weekly summary #205
<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) 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.

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)

Please comment on Talk:Siouxsie and the Banshees
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Editor of the Week&thinsp;: nominations needed!
The Editor of the Week initiative has been recognizing editors since 2013 for their hard work and dedication. Editing Wikipedia can be disheartening and tedious at times; the weekly Editor of the Week award lets its recipients know that their positive behaviour and collaborative spirit is appreciated. The response from the honorees has been enthusiastic and thankful.

The list of nominees is running short, and so new nominations are needed for consideration. Have you come across someone in your editing circle who deserves a pat on the back for improving article prose regularly, making it easier to understand? Or perhaps someone has stepped in to mediate a contentious dispute, and did an excellent job. Do you know someone who hasn't received many accolades and is deserving of greater renown? Is there an editor who does lots of little tasks well, such as cleaning up citations?

Please help us thank editors who display sustained patterns of excellence, working tirelessly in the background out of the spotlight, by submitting your nomination for Editor of the Week today!

Sent on behalf of <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black">Buster Seven  <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black"> Talk  for the Editor of the Week initiative by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:18, 22 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!
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Wikidata weekly summary #207
<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) 15:03, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Wikidata, a stable source for disambiguation items?
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Find, Prioritize, and Recommend: An article recommendation system to fill knowledge gaps across Wikipedia
 * Upcoming: CSVconf
 * Upcoming: Open Tech Summit
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Commons now has arbitrary access
 * Work on ORES to make vandalism fighting easier is progressing well. "Damaging" and "goodfaith" models for Wikidata are now online.
 * Wikimind
 * New coverage maps have been created (see thumbnails)
 * We have new images you can use to indicate your website/app/service is using data from Wikidata. (2 of the files have a problem still. We're working on a fix and will reupload.) Wikidata stamp.png
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Loop ID, sound power, 3DMet ID, locality or place, Index Hepaticarum ID, clearance, ASF KID Cave Tag Number, power consumed, net tonnage, connects with, Czech neighbourhood ID code, longest span, aerodrome reference point, Mercalli intensity scale
 * Category reports on without claims by site now link to PetScan's fast "has no statements"-option. A report for your preferred Wikipedia can be added.
 * Query examples: software with most versions (source), oldest software (source), map of U1 stations in Berlin (source)
 * Development
 * Created the first MediaInfo entity through the API (screenshot, a bit more background)
 * Substantially reduced server load for item and property displaying (T132662)
 * There are currently some issues with the order of latitude/longitude inn coordinates in the query service map visualization. It will be fixed tonight.
 * Removed unsupported  and   parameters from the   JavaScript module. This may break user JavaScript calling   (T119856).
 * Worked on new flyers for institutions that want to cooperate with Wikidata and developers wanting to use our data (will be published on Commons once they're done)
 * Moved forward with internationalization of the query service interface (not on translatewiki.net yet but being worked on)
 * Worked on making it possible to extend SPARQL queries in simplified natural language version. It will also no longer add query prefixes when editing the query. Those are not live yet.
 * Fixed a bug where admins got a blank page when trying to view deleted revisions (T132645)
 * Investigating issues with bad suggestions for properties when adding new statements (T132839)
 * 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.

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Wikidata weekly summary #208
<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) 15:21, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: OpenTechSummit Mining the knowledge of the world with Wikidata.pdf
 * Past: CSVConf
 * Past: Subscribe7 (slides)
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Our Main Page now has a section for popular items to show you what is trending on Wikidata based on several people editing an item over the last few days
 * More constraint templates now generate SPARQL links
 * Europeana Art History Challenge is still going on until the end of the month
 * Freebase has been shut down
 * Wikiversity now has access to the data on Wikidata as well
 * The 24,000,000th item was created: Q24000000
 * The ArticlePlaceholder will go live on the first Wikipedias on Wednesday (Esperanto, Haitian Creole, Neapolitan Wikipedia)
 * Quora: Why isn't Wikimedia Commons using structured data via Wikidata?
 * Newest trend on Twitter: annotating books with Wikidata statements ;-)
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: flower color, Megogo ID, via, Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature ID, Belgian Football ID, by-product of, by-product, cardinality of this set, Yandex.Music album ID, Sherdog ID, appears in the heritage monument list, HowLongToBeat identifier, ESR station code, P-number, mouthpiece, MathWorld identifier, PGA Tour ID, LPGA Tour ID, Australasian Pollen and Spore Atlas Code, wavelength, molar volume, vibration, goratings ID, International Sailing Federation ID, Wikidata time precision, fleet or registration number, FIVB beach volleyball player ID, Beach Volleyball Database ID, BVMC person ID
 * Query examples: most frequent occupations without a label in a given language, map of places of birth of economists (source), map of all the paintings for which we know a location with the count per location (source), [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Finds%20authors%20who%20have%20published%20scientific%20articles%20together%2C%0A%23%20but%20whose%20Erd%C5%91s%20numbers%20are%20more%20than%20one%20apart.%0A%23%20These%20would%20appear%20to%20violate%20the%20definition%20of%20the%20Erd%C5%91s%20number.%0A%0ASELECT%0A%23%20Q%23s%0A%3Fpaper%0A%3Fauthor1%0A%3Fauthor2%0A%23%20title%20%28either%20from%20title%20statement%20or%20label%29%0A%28IF%28BOUND%28%3Ftitle%29%2C%20%3Ftitle%2C%20%3FpaperLabel%29%20AS%20%3Ftitle%29%0A%23%20author%20labels%20%28should%20be%20names%29%20and%20their%20Erd%C5%91s%20numbers%0A%3Fauthor1Label%0A%3Ferd%C5%91s1%0A%3Fauthor2Label%0A%3Ferd%C5%91s2%0A%23%20distance%20between%20Erd%C5%91s%20numbers%0A%3Fdistance%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20%23%20paper%2C%20instance%20of%20or%20subclass%20of%20scientific%20article%3B%20also%20has%20two%20authors%0A%20%20%3Fpaper%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ13442814%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP50%20%3Fauthor1%2C%20%3Fauthor2.%0A%20%20%23%20if%20it%20has%20a%20title%2C%20we%E2%80%99ll%20grab%20that%20as%20well%2C%20but%20it%E2%80%99s%20also%20okay%20if%20there%E2%80%99s%20no%20title%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fpaper%20wdt%3AP1476%20%3Ftitle.%20%7D%0A%20%20%23%20grab%20Erd%C5%91s%20numbers%20of%20the%20two%20authors%0A%20%20%3Fauthor1%20wdt%3AP2021%20%3Ferd%C5%91s1.%0A%20%20%3Fauthor2%20wdt%3AP2021%20%3Ferd%C5%91s2.%0A%20%20%23%20introduce%20a%20new%20variable%20for%20the%20difference%20of%20the%20Erd%C5%91s%20numbers%0A%20%20BIND%28%3Ferd%C5%91s2%20-%20%3Ferd%C5%91s1%20AS%20%3Fdistance%29.%0A%20%20%23%20select%20those%20cases%20where%20the%20distance%20is%20%3E%201%0A%20%20%23%20%28note%3A%20by%20*not*%20taking%20the%20absolute%20value%20of%20the%20distance%2C%20we%20avoid%20getting%20duplicated%20cases%20because%20the%20author%20variables%20might%20be%20swapped%29%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3Fdistance%20%3E%201%29.%0A%20%20%23%20get%20*Label%20variables%20automagically%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0A%23%20sort%20by%20distance%20first%20%28descending%29%2C%20then%20by%20first%20author%2C%20then%20by%20second%20author%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fdistance%29%20%3Fauthor1Label%20%3Fauthor2Label scientists who have worked together but whose Erdős numbers don’t reflect that] (source), members of the French National Assembly born out of France (source), mathematical proofs (source), items that depict most things (source)
 * Development
 * Finished remaining blockers for deploying the ArticlePlaceholder on the first Wikipedias
 * More work on initial Commons prototype
 * Further work on textual representation of SPARQL queries to allow you to read/edit more of an existing query without having to touch SPARQL
 * Show label instead of URI for globes in coordinate diffs - thanks Ricordisamoa! (T110193)
 * Improve recent changes entries formatting on Wikipedia and co (T52893)
 * No longer showing a restore link for inaccessible revdel'ed entity revisions - thanks Matěj! (T55496)
 * Investigated and worked around issues with the suggestions for new statements - needs more work (T132839)
 * 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.