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Books & Bytes - Issue 18
 The Wikipedia Library Books & Bytes

Issue 18, June–July 2016 by, Ocaasi, Samwalton9, UY Scuti, and Sadads

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 * New donations - Edinburgh University Press, American Psychological Association, Nomos (a German-language database), and more!
 * Spotlight: GLAM and Wikidata
 * TWL attends and presents at International Federation of Library Associations conference, meets with Association of Research Libraries
 * OCLC wins grant to train librarians on Wikimedia contribution

Precious anniversary
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:45, 1 September 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #225
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Remember that we would love to have your input about data quality on Wikidata and list generation on Wikipedia!
 * What would you like to organize for Wikidata's 4rth birthday?


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * “Ben Whishaw, Broadway, the RADA and Wikidata” (data integration in the era of semantic web) by Harmonia Amanda
 * Hands-on research about Wikidata: My time as a PhD student at Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. by Alessandro Piscopo
 * 3 tutorial videos about Wikidata: an intro to Wikidata, how to edit Wikidata and Wikidata Sparql Query Tutorial by Ewan McAndrew, Navino Evans and Sean McBirnie
 * Past: First Wikidata workshop in the Czech Republic, Pardubice – imported much open data related to the Czech Republic
 * Past: Lydia and Jens from the Wikidata team were at the QTcon to talk about Wikidata and applications (see the slides)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The events page is now up to date. You want to join or organise a meetup with other Wikidata editors? Keep an eye on this page!
 * 30K entries from Kindred Britain added in Mix’n’Match
 * Welsh Wikipedia includes Wikidata-based article placeholders, like this one
 * Wiki Loves Monuments started! You can help by improving the items about heritage buildings or use Wikishootme to find unpictured monuments
 * English Wikipedia now has a WikiProject Wikidata to coordinate integration with Wikidata. Why not start one for your local Wikipedia? Add it to Q20855878 if you do.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: parent peak, elCinema person ID, elCinema film ID, TripAdvisor ID, NSZL name authority ID, last line, Redalyc journal ID, NSW Flora ID, cine.gr film ID, CiNetMag film ID, Latindex ID, ALCUIN ID, EDRPOU code, Polish scientist ID, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ID, OpenDomesday person ID, Epguides ID, TOID, Code for China Reservoir Name, OpenDomesday settlement ID, DSSTOX substance identifier, ISzDb dub ID, ISzDb company ID, ISzDb person ID, does not have part, DistroWatch ID, FEI ID, ISzDb film ID, Peakbagger ID, Yelp ID, LdiF ID, Guardian topic ID


 * Query examples:
 * People convicted of regicide and their victims (source)
 * The most common birthday among US citizens (source)
 * Things named after Polish people (source)
 * Drama schools by number of students (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Average%20gestation%20period%20of%20genera%2C%20color-coded%20by%20order%0A%23defaultView%3ABubbleChart%0ASELECT%20%3Fgenus%20%28AVG%28%3Fperiod%29%20AS%20%3Fperiod%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Flabel%29%20AS%20%3FgenusLabel%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Frgb%29%20AS%20%3Frgb%29%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28%22en%22%20AS%20%3Flanguage%29.%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20find%20species%20with%20gestation%20period%20and%20convert%20to%20seconds%20%28SI%20base%20unit%29%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fspecies%20p%3AP3063%2Fpsv%3AP3063%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3FbasePeriod%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP2370%2Fpsv%3AP2370%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3FunitPeriod%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ11574%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%0A%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20convert%20back%20to%20days%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28%28%3FbasePeriod%20%2a%20%3FunitPeriod%29%2F%2860%2a60%2a24%29%20AS%20%3Fperiod%29.%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20find%20genus%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fspecies%20wdt%3AP171%2a%20%3Fgenus.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fgenus%20wdt%3AP105%20wd%3AQ34740.%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20find%20a%20good%20label%20%E2%80%93%20trivial%20name%2C%20else%20label%2C%20else%20%E2%80%9C%3Cno%20name%3E%E2%80%9D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fgenus%20wdt%3AP1843%20%3FtrivialName.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FtrivialName%29%20%3D%20%3Flanguage%29.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fgenus%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FgenusLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FgenusLabel%29%20%3D%20%3Flanguage%29.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28IF%28BOUND%28%3FtrivialName%29%2C%3FtrivialName%2CIF%28BOUND%28%3FgenusLabel%29%2C%3FgenusLabel%2C%22%3Cno%20name%3E%22%29%29%20AS%20%3Flabel%29.%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20find%20order%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fgenus%20wdt%3AP171%2a%20%3Forder.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Forder%20wdt%3AP105%20wd%3AQ36602.%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20choose%20%E2%80%9Crandom%20but%20deterministic%E2%80%9D%20color%20per%20order%3B%20you%20can%20play%20around%20with%20%22-%22%20%28can%20be%20any%20string%29%20to%20find%20a%20pleasing%20resulting%20color%20distribution%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28UCASE%28SUBSTR%28SHA256%28CONCAT%28%22-%22%2C%20STR%28%3Forder%29%29%29%2C%200%2C%206%29%29%20AS%20%3Frgb%29.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20add%20scale%0A%20%20%20%20VALUES%20%28%3Fgenus%20%3Fperiod%20%3Flabel%29%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%28wd%3AQ23387%207%20%22week%22%40en%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%28wd%3AQ5151%2030.436875%20%22month%22%40en%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%28wd%3AQ1643308%2091.310625%20%223%20months%22%40en%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%28wd%3AQ2269240%20182.62125%20%226%20months%22%40en%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%28wd%3AQ577%20365.2425%20%22year%22%40en%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28%22CCCCCC%22%20AS%20%3Frgb%29.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fgenus Average gestation period of genera] (source)
 * Sir Christopher Lee's filmography (with film directors) (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Armenia, Czech Republic


 * Development
 * RDF exports now contain page properties, this allows to query by number of statements or sitelinks (T129046)
 * Working on unit conversion for RDF exports (T117031)
 * Enabling Wikidata data access in user language deployed (T122670)
 * Information about usage of entities in other projects will be visible and reusable (T103091)
 * Pasting full entity URLs into suggesters will be possible (T117763)
 * Added meta descriptions to allow for better snippets in external search engines (T88475)
 * We replaced the old parser limit report (an HTML comment) with the new format (T143423)
 * Ongoing refactoring of the frontend JavaScript, this may break user scripts accessing private properties (T142694)

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

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:19, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #226
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Keynote by Lydia Pintscher at DBpedia conference, September 15th, Leipzig.
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop for beginners, September 16, Paris
 * Upcoming: Semantic MediaWiki Conference, September 28-30, Frankfurt
 * Upcoming: Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing) & Liam Wyatt (User:Wittylama) speaking about GLAM-Wiki (including Wikidata) in Warsaw, 19 October. Details tbc.
 * Upcoming: Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing) speaking & running workshop about Wikidata at SFK 16 ("Software Freedom Kosova Conference") in Pristina, 21-23 October.
 * Research on WikiProject Knowledge Organization Systems presented at 15th NKOS workshop at TPDL: Classification of Knowledge Organization Systems with Wikidata: Presentation and Paper.
 * Being a Volunteer Developer for Wikimedia projects: An Interview with Tpt
 * Sunday Query: The 200 Oldest Living French Actresses, query tutorial by Harmonia Amanda
 * How to prototype Wikidata entities (in French) by Poulpy


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * We have new graphic material to present Wikidata. Feel free to use these files in your slides/talks/documents :)
 * #SundayQuery on Twitter: every Sunday, you can ask for help or advice about SPARQL queries, how to build or fix it, some SPARQL-ninjas will be there to answer you!
 * Researcher? You can participate in the WSDM Cup 2017 challenge and improve Wikidata vandalism detection
 * How to build a query by Pigsonthewing
 * Wikipedia gets Map links and Geoshapes service using Wikidata


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Scottish Charity number, Rock Hall of Fame ID, has grammatical mood, Minnesota legislator ID, UGent Memorialis id, enclosure, event distance, Australian Classification, Runeberg book ID, Runeberg author ID, Crossref funder ID, Findsmiley ID, iNaturalist taxon ID, birthday, molecule conformation, repeals, United States Reports ID, CiNetMag person ID, YouTheater ID, elFilm person ID, elFilm film ID, EDb person ID, EDb film ID, SourehCinema person ID, SourehCinema film ID, OFDb ID


 * Query examples:
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Posthumous%20marriages%0ASELECT%20%3FaliveSpouse%20%3FaliveSpouseLabel%20%3FdeadSpouse%20%3FdeadSpouseLabel%20%3Fdeath%20%3Fmarriage%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20%23%20%3FaliveSpouse%20has%20spouse%20%3FdeadSpouse%2C%20with%20qualifier%20start%20time%3A%20%3Fmarriage%0A%20%20%3FaliveSpouse%20p%3AP26%20%5B%20ps%3AP26%20%3FdeadSpouse%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pqv%3AP580%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AtimeValue%20%3Fmarriage%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AtimePrecision%20%3FmarriagePrecision%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%23%20%3FdeadSpouse%20has%20date%20of%20death%20%3Fdeath%0A%20%20%3FdeadSpouse%20p%3AP570%2Fpsv%3AP570%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AtimeValue%20%3Fdeath%3B%0A%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AtimePrecision%20%3FdeathPrecision%0A%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%23%20%3Fdeath%20prior%20to%20%3Fmarriage%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3Fdeath%20%3C%20%3Fmarriage%29.%0A%20%20%23%20Optional%3A%20remove%20results%20with%20missing%20precision%20%E2%80%93%0A%20%20%23%20only%20include%20matches%20over%20a%20year%20apart%2C%20or%20where%20both%20statements%20are%20precise%20to%20the%20day%0A%20%20%23FILTER%28YEAR%28%3Fmarriage%29%20-%20YEAR%28%3Fdeath%29%20%3E%201%20%7C%7C%20%0A%20%20%23%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FmarriagePrecision%20%3D%2011%20%26%26%20%3FdeathPrecision%20%3D%2011%29.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fmarriage%20-%20%3Fdeath%29 Posthumous marriages] (source)
 * Communes of France with more than one railway station (source)
 * Languages and their grammatical cases they have in common (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20cocktail%20recipes%20on%20Wikidata%0ASELECT%20%3Fcocktail%20%3FcocktailLabel%20%28GROUP_CONCAT%28%3Fingredient%3B%20separator%3D%22%2C%20%22%29%20AS%20%3Fingredients%29%20%23%20concatenate%20all%20ingredients%20together%2C%20separated%20by%20comma%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20%23%20find%20a%20cocktail%0A%20%20%3Fcocktail%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ134768%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20get%20its%20material%20statement%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP186%20%3FmaterialStat.%0A%20%20%23%20get%20the%20statement%20value%20from%20the%20statement%0A%20%20%3FmaterialStat%20ps%3AP186%20%3Fmaterial.%0A%20%20%23%20get%20the%20material%E2%80%99s%20English%20label%0A%20%20%3Fmaterial%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FmaterialLabel.%0A%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FmaterialLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%0A%20%20%23%20assign%20label%20to%20solo%20ingredient%20variable%0A%20%20BIND%28%3FmaterialLabel%20AS%20%3FingredientSolo%29.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20for%20some%20reason%2C%20we%20have%20to%20get%20the%20material%20and%20materialLabel%20again%20%E2%80%93%20copy%2Bpasted%20from%20above%0A%20%20%20%20%3FmaterialStat%20ps%3AP186%20%3Fmaterial.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fmaterial%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FmaterialLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FmaterialLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20get%20the%20quantity%20value%20from%20the%20statement%20%28if%20present%29%0A%20%20%20%20%3FmaterialStat%20pqv%3AP1114%20%3FquantityValue.%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20get%20the%20actual%20quantity%20from%20the%20quantity%20value%0A%20%20%20%20%3FquantityValue%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3Fquantity.%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20assign%20quantity%20and%20material%20to%20ingredient%20with%20quantity%20variable%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28CONCAT%28STR%28%3Fquantity%29%2C%20%22%20%22%2C%20%3FmaterialLabel%29%20AS%20%3FingredientWithQuantity%29.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20same%20here%20for%20material%20and%20quantity%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FmaterialStat%20ps%3AP186%20%3Fmaterial.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fmaterial%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FmaterialLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FmaterialLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FmaterialStat%20pqv%3AP1114%20%3FquantityValue.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FquantityValue%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3Fquantity.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20get%20the%20unit%20from%20the%20quantity%20value%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FquantityValue%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20%3Funit.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20throw%20out%20the%20unit%20%E2%80%9C1%E2%80%9D%20%28no%20unit%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Funit%20%21%3D%20wd%3AQ199%29.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20get%20the%20unit%E2%80%99s%20English%20label%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Funit%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FunitLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FunitLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20assign%20quantity%2C%20unit%2C%20and%20material%20to%20ingredient%20with%20unit%20variable%20%20%28note%3A%20we%E2%80%99re%20not%20bothering%20with%20pluralization%20here%2C%20so%20it%20may%20sound%20a%20bit%20weird%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28CONCAT%28STR%28%3Fquantity%29%2C%20%22%20%22%2C%20%3FunitLabel%2C%20%22%20%22%2C%20%3FmaterialLabel%29%20AS%20%3FingredientWithUnit%29.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%23%20assign%20ingredient%20with%20unit%2C%20else%20ingredient%20with%20quantity%2C%20else%20just%20solo%20ingredient%20to%20ingredient%20variable%0A%20%20BIND%28COALESCE%28%3FingredientWithUnit%2C%20%3FingredientWithQuantity%2C%20%3FingredientSolo%29%20AS%20%3Fingredient%29.%0A%20%20%23%20get%20the%20cocktail%E2%80%99s%20English%20label%0A%20%20%3Fcocktail%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FcocktailLabel.%0A%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FcocktailLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%0A%7D%0A%23%20group%20by%20cocktail%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fcocktail%20%3FcocktailLabel%0A%23%20show%20most%20%E2%80%9Ccomplicated%E2%80%9D%20cocktails%20first%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28COUNT%28%3Fingredient%29%29 Cocktails recipes] (source)
 * People who died in the last seven days (source)
 * Places of birth of 20th century saints (source)
 * New templates:, . Please add labels in your own languages, and consider making a similar template for your country or region.


 * Development
 * Lowered relevance threshold for ArticlePlaceholder search results from 3 to 2 sitelinks (T144188)
 * Added 'otk' as an available language for monolingual text values (T137809)
 * Working on making it possible to paste partial URLs into the site selector (T144310)
 * A Grafana board now tracks general usage and error metrics of the Query Service UI
 * Made progress on showing editors on all Wikimedia projects which articles on their project use data from a given Wikidata item. We will also show in the page information (action=info) which items a given article uses. Also worked on showing which projects use a given item in the page information. (T103091)
 * Added meta information to the html header of item pages (T88475)
 * Made progress on making ArticlePlaceholders indexable for search engines (T144590)

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

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 10:17, 13 September 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #227
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * We're starting working on lexicographical data! Please read the proposal and give us your feedback :)
 * New request for comments: Merging male and female labels


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: State of the map, September 23 - 25, Brussels
 * Next Wikidata office hour: Tuesday September 27th, from 18:00 to 19:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2), in #wikimedia-office
 * Video of a SPARQL workshop (& materials) organized by Wikimedia Foundation's Discovery and Research teams
 * Slides of Lydia's keynote about Wikidata at the DBpedia conference 2016
 * Slides of Andreas Thalhammer about Unified PageRank for DBpedia and Wikidata
 * #SundayQuery: ask for help on queries every Sunday on Twitter! This week, a tutorial about surnames by Harmonia Amanda, and how to use SPARQL and Python to fix typographical errors by Ash Crow


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The Project Grants program is accepting proposals from September 12 to October 11 to fund new tools, research, offline outreach, online organizing and other experiments that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers.
 * The RevisionSlider is now available as a beta feature, try it to have a visual overview of your diffs.
 * You can also activate ORES the review tool to watch damaging edits more easily!
 * There's an infographic on the quality process in Wikidata you can use and edit.
 * You can also use and translate this new datamodel representation.
 * How to fix taxon common names with Pywikibot, tutorial by TweetsFactsAndQueries and Tobias1984.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Visual Novel Database ID, territory overlaps, Zaragoza monument ID, Patrimonio Web JCyL ID, uses property, Statoids ID, art director, offers view on, World Bridge Federation ID, Olympic.org ID, Cultural Heritage Armenia ID, Harasire ID, Sporthorse data ID, Allbreedpedigree ID, Webpedigrees ID, Horsetelex ID


 * Query examples:
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23Embassies%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%0A%09%28SAMPLE%28%3Fcountry_label%29%20as%20%3Fcountry%29%20%20%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fcity_label%29%20as%20%3Fcity%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Faddress%29%20as%20%3Faddress%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fcoordinates%29%20as%20%3Fcoordinates%29%0A%09%28SAMPLE%28%3Foperator_label%29%20as%20%3Foperator%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fphone%29%20as%20%3Fphone%29%20%20%20%20%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Femail%29%20as%20%3Femail%29%20%20%20%20%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fwebsite%29%20as%20%3Fwebsite%29%0A%09%28SAMPLE%28%3Ffacebook%29%20as%20%3Ffacebook%29%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Ftwitter%29%20as%20%3Ftwitter%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fimage%29%20as%20%3Fimage%29%20%20%20%20%20%3Fwikidata%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%09%3Fwikidata%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ3917681.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fwikidata%20wdt%3AP131%2a%2Fwdt%3AP17%20%3FcountryId.%20%3FcountryId%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fcountry_label.%20filter%20%28lang%28%3Fcountry_label%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fwikidata%20wdt%3AP131%20%3FcityId.%20%3FcityId%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fcity_label.%20filter%20%28lang%28%3Fcity_label%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fwikidata%20wdt%3AP969%20%3Faddress.%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fwikidata%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoordinates.%7D%0A%20%20%09OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fwikidata%20wdt%3AP137%20%3FoperatorId.%20%3FoperatorId%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Foperator_label.%20filter%20%28lang%28%3Foperator_label%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fwikidata%20wdt%3AP1329%20%3Fphone.%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fwikidata%20wdt%3AP968%20%3Femail.%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fwikidata%20wdt%3AP856%20%3Fwebsite.%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fwikidata%20wdt%3AP2013%20%3Ffacebook.%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fwikidata%20wdt%3AP2002%20%3Ftwitter.%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fwikidata%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage.%7D%0A%09SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7Bbd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%2Cru%2Cde%2Cfr%2Ces%22%7D%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fwikidata%20%3FwikidataLabel%20ORDER%20BY%20ASC%28%3Fcountry%29%20ASC%28%3Fcity%29%20ASC%28%3Foperator%29 Embassies] (source)
 * World map of water towers (source)
 * "Battles of the Middle Ages" without place or date (source)
 * Asteroids named after characters from works by Lewis Caroll (source)
 * Map of Austrian cultural heritage (source)
 * Statues in Paris depicting historical female figures (source)
 * Newest database reports: list of embassies


 * Development
 * We're working on entity usage on Wikimedia projects, check our different features
 * The Wikidata team attended and participated to a lot of conference these past days (WikiCon, ViewSource, DPpedia, SoCraTes, Write the doc) that's why we don't have many tasks to share with you this week :)

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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Please comment on Talk:Turkish military intervention in the Syrian Civil War
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Turkish military intervention in the Syrian Civil War. Legobot (talk) 04:27, 20 September 2016 (UTC)

Watchlist doesn't show earlier normal edits when hiding bot edits or minor edits
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T11790

Please see mw:User talk:Nemo bis, which was occasioned by a current thread at User talk:Sitush. Your name is in the Phabricator bug as proposing one of the solutions. If you feel inclined to comment, please do so at User talk:Sitush. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 18:21, 22 September 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #228
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) 21:32, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: WikiCon 2016
 * Past: OASPA conference (slides)
 * Past: State of the Map
 * Past: National Institute of Health: frontiers in data science lecture series (slides)
 * Upcoming: SMWCon
 * Upcoming: office hour on IRC
 * Blog post about Wikidata and data about Czech trees
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The query examples have been migrated from mediawiki.org to wikidata.org at d:Wikidata:SPARQL examples
 * HPI is doing a linked data engineering course online
 * TXT Werk is doing automatic entity recognition in text with the help of Wikidata. Previously only German was supported. English is now supported as well.
 * Andy has mapped most of the W3C's ontology for vCard to Wikidata properties.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Heritage Lighthouse of Canada ID, Heritage Railway Station of Canada ID, New General Catalogue ID, Vine user ID, data.gouv.fr ID, patient of, Ciné-Ressources person ID, Ciné-Ressources movie ID, UAI code, Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities ID, Northern Ireland charity number, charity number (Isle of Man), JewishGen Locality ID, Federal Heritage Buildings ID, USGS earthquake id, league points system, INA video ID, GS1 Manufacturer code, Last.FM music ID, IMIS person ID, innervates, innervated by, Nobel prize ID, Marburger Professorenkatalog ID, TAXREF ID, VKontakte username, Czech National Bibliography book ID, WSJ topic ID, FANTOIR code, OpenCitations bibliographic resource ID
 * Query examples: taxonomy of squirrels (source), good or featured articles about people on Wikipedia but with no picture on Wikidata (source), Nordic Cross flags (source)
 * Development
 * mnc (for Manchu) will soon be available as a language code for monolingual text values (T137808)
 * Worked on foreign EntityIds in order to be able to use Wikidata's items and properties on Commons in the future (T145516, T146030, T146274)
 * More work on usage tracking UI (T145965, T143148, T145189, T144923)
 * RFC discussion about Multi-Content-Revisions - another big blocker for structured data on Commons (E273)
 * Ran a bot to mark dates that need a check of their calendar model (T105100)
 * Getting unit conversion into the query service soon. We'll start with units for length and then expand based on feedback. (T117032)
 * Working on extension to automatically link pages between languages on Wiktionary (T145412)
 * Added the value that is responsible for an error in the error message so it can be found and fixed more easily (T144303)
 * Working on fix for issue with extremely large or small date values in RDF (T146356)
 * Expanding references again in diffs (T129836)
 * Unbroke CopyReferences gadget. More work is needed. (T142203)
 * Fixed issue with 2 search suggestion boxes showing up instead of 1 (T119492)
 * Worked on improving the query service documentation (T133052)
 * 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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Wikidata weekly summary #229
<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;">
 * 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.


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 * 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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Wikidata weekly summary #230
<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;">


 * 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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Editing News #3—2016
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Did you know?

Did you know that you can easily re-arrange columns and rows in the visual editor?



Select a cell in the column or row that you want to move. Click the arrow at the start of that row or column to open the dropdown menu (shown). Choose either "Move before" or "Move after" to move the column, or "Move above" or "Move below" to move the row.

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 mainly worked on a new wikitext editor. They have also released some small features and the new map editing tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the list of work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, releasing the 2017 wikitext editor as a beta feature, and improving language support.

Recent changes

 * You can now set text as small or big.
 * Invisible templates have been shown as a puzzle icon. Now, the name of the invisible template is displayed next to the puzzle icon.  A similar feature will display the first part of hidden HTML comments.
 * Categories are displayed at the bottom of each page. If you click on the categories, the dialog for editing categories will open.
 * At many wikis, you can now add maps to pages. Go to the Insert menu and choose the "Maps" item. The Discovery department are adding more features to this area, like geoshapes. You can read more on MediaWiki.org.
 * The "Save" button now says "Save page" when you create a page, and "Save changes" when you change an existing page. In the future, the "" button will say "".  This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems.  More information is available on Meta.
 * Image galleries now use a visual mode for editing. You can see thumbnails of the images, add new files, remove unwanted images, rearrange the images by dragging and dropping, and add captions for each image.  Use the "Options" tab to set the gallery's display mode, image sizes, and add a title for the gallery.

Future changes
The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining 10 "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next month. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect several languages, including Thai, Burmese and Aramaic.

The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. The 2017 wikitext editor will look like the visual editor and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices in October 2016. You can read about this project in a general status update on the Wikimedia mailing list.

Let's work together
Do you teach new editors how to use the visual editor? Did you help set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki? Have you written or imported TemplateData for your most important citation templates? Would you be willing to help new editors and small communities with the visual editor? Please sign up for the new VisualEditor Community Taskforce. If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:19, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 October 2016
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Festschrift
Do we need a Category:Festschrifts or Festschriften ? -- Orange Mike &#124;  Talk  00:05, 13 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Such a lovely concept :) Hmm, Festschriften is used throughout the English article, so that would be the logical category name. It seems a reasonable topic for a category - though I'm still recovering from a nasty cold acquired at the conference, so grain of salt... Quiddity (talk) 03:50, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #231
<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) 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

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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

<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; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 10:37, 24 October 2016 (UTC)