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Wikidata weekly summary #414
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: A meta item namespace (Mxxx) for structured data about Wikidata


 * Events
 * Competition for the International Museum Day is about improving data about museums in Austria, France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland on Wikidata, from 3 May 2020 to 18 May 2020, more information on Museum Day 2020/Wikidata Competition
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Alex Jung on Wikidata and Wikipedia Infoboxes, 05 May. Agenda
 * Upcoming: live SPARQL queries in French by Vigneron, Tuesday May 5 at 20:00 CEST (UTC+2)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing: YouTube
 * Art+Feminism Office Hours: Introduction to Editing Wikidata: YouTube
 * Webinar on why and how to contribute to Wikipedia and Wikidata? (in French): YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * ProWD explores completeness for entities and classes.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * MachtSinn, a tool that allows you to easily add Senses to Lexemes, has lately been improved significantly
 * 33,000 values of British Museum person or institution ID (d:Property:P1711) now have a useful target again. After their being mostly inoperative for several years, the new British Museum website now has information pages matching these values, with links to related objects. (Example). To work around bug T112081, a script by Andrew Gray is going through the items making null edits to update the relevant URLs.
 * Outdated copy of wb_terms has been dropped on April 29th


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: COVIDWHO ID, Sicilian Regional Assembly ID, Sicilian Regional Assembly numeric ID, Accademia delle Scienze di Torino ID, Republic of Korea Parliamentarian Society ID, NKAA ID, MémorialGenWeb monument ID, History Colorado ID, SciProfiles ID, Bibliotheca Augustana author ID, CONI honoured ID, DGHS facility code, Diels-Kranz ID, DPVweb ID, Maryland's National Register Properties ID, Encyclopaedia Metallum label ID, WhatDoTheyKnow organisation ID, FactGrid item ID, Heritage Gateway ID, RPPS ID, Priset of Archidiecezja Gdańska ID, Sejm-Wielki.pl profile ID, Extratime.ie player ID, Slovak Registration ID, Infames Romani ID, Itch.io developer profile, Oregon Historic Sites Database ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Ex-libris, tabular case data, Geneanet URL(s), transitivity, Compatible with
 * External identifiers: DPE school code, identifiant Prix de Lausanne, CDAPNC author ID, identificativo Giunta regionale della Sicilia, Goodreads work ID, Wikilengua, BeWeb cultural institution ID, Anagrafe Istituti Culturali Ecclesiastici ID, Group Properties wiki ID, House Divided ID, Southwest Harbor Public Library item, Gitabitan.net ID, The Conversation author ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of countries receiving the Nobel peace prize (Source)
 * Map of geolocated Argentine libraries (Source)
 * Recipes that include garlic (Source)
 * Images of postcards from the catalog of the Regional bibliography of Saxony (Source)
 * French municipalities which have the property "archived by" (P485) for the departmental archives of Bouches-du-Rhône (Source)
 * Municipalities with less than 5,000 inhabitants in the Basque Country (Source)
 * People born in Wales who became head of government in Wales or overseas (Source)
 * Average stardate of Star Trek episodes (Source)
 * Municipalities in mainland France with more than 50,000 inhabitants (Source)
 * Graph showing direct ancestral lines linking Boris Johnson and George I, and Jesus and Abraham (Source)
 * Photos by Carlton Watkins with their collection (Source)
 * Works from Louvre Museum whose inventory number begins with an S (Source)
 * Works from the Islamic arts department of Louvre Museum (Source)
 * Map of artists with place of their birth on Wikidata (Source)
 * Location and image of the cathedrals of Paris (Source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23With%20pictures%0A%0A%23died%20in%20Treblinka%20Q152010%20%28none%29%0A%23died%20in%20Sobibor%20Q152658%20%28none%29%0A%23died%20in%20Auschwitz-Birkenau%20Q7341%0A%23died%20in%20Theresienstadt%20%0A%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fpic%20%3Fdatedied%20%3FplacediedLabel%20%3Fplacedied%20%3Fchild%20%3FchildLabel%20%3Fownedby%20%3FownedbyLabel%20%3Fdepicts%20%3FdepictsLabel%20%3Fdepictedby%20%3FdepictedbyLabel%20%3FcountryLabel%20%3Fownerof%20%3FownerofLabel%20%3Fspouse%20%3Femployer%20%3FemployerLabel%20%3FspouseLabel%20%3Fmother%20%3FmotherLabel%20%3Ffather%20%3FfatherLabel%20%3Fsibling%20%3FsiblingLabel%20%3Finvestby%20%3FinvestbyLabel%20%3Fsigperson%20%3FsigpersonLabel%20%3Fparty%20%3FpartyLabel%20%3Fpartner%20%3FpartnerLabel%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP106%20wd%3AQ1792450.%7D%20UNION%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ1007870.%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP106%20wd%3AQ173950.%7D%20UNION%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP921%20wd%3AQ328376.%7D%20UNION%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP106%20wd%3AQ10732476.%7D%20UNION%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP106%20wd%3AQ446966.%7D%20UNION%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP106%20wd%3AQ22132694.%7D%20UNION%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP106%20wd%3AQ674426.%7D%0A%0A%0ASERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP20%20wd%3AQ7341.%7D%20UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP20%20wd%3AQ160175.%7D%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fpic.%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP127%20%3Fownedby.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdatedied.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP20%20%3Fplacedied.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP180%20%3Fdepicts.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP921%20%3Fplunder.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1830%20%3Fownerof.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP108%20%3Femployer.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fbirth.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP40%20%3Fchild.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP214%20%3FVIAF_ID.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP19%20%3Fplace_birth.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP244%20%3FLibrary_of_Congress_authority_ID.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP227%20%3FGND_ID.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP245%20%3FULAN_ID.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP26%20%3Fspouse.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP27%20%3Fcountry.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP3342%20%3Fsigperson.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP102%20%3Fparty.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1327%20%3Fpartner.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1840%20%3Finvestby.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP25%20%3Fmother.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP22%20%3Ffather.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP3373%20%3Fsibling.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1299%20%3Fdepictedby.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP39%20%3Fposition.%20%7D%0A%23%20FILTER%20%28YEAR%28%3Fbirth%29%20%3D%201860%20%26amp%3B%26amp%3B%20YEAR%28%3Fbirth%29%20%26lt%3B%3D%201990%29%0AFILTER%20%28YEAR%28%3Fdatedied%29%20%3E%3D%201933%20%29%0A%7D%0ALIMIT%2020000 Jewish art collectors and dealers who were murdered in Nazi concentration camps] (Source)
 * Newest database reports: Notable descedents of Mayflower passengers


 * Development
 * Add monolingual language codes rm-rumgr, rm-surmiran, rm-sursilv, rm-sutsilv, rm-vallader, rm-puter (T222426)
 * More work on the test system for federated properties
 * More work on displaying statements with federated properties (T246606)
 * Bridge: more work on generic error screens (T241126)
 * Bridge: warn the user that they are about to edit anonymously (T246676)
 * Work on a Wikidata distributed game for automated finding of references
 * Automated finding references: build a scraper, simple value matching, item analyzer
 * Have the focus on field when adding new element on Sense (T203461)
 * Add more properties to the PageImages list (T249811)
 * Use strict types everywhere in Wikibase (T251382)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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 * Monthly Tasks
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 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

Tech News: 2020-19
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * Some wikis will be on read-only for a few minutes on 5 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.
 * Some wikis will be on read-only for a few minutes on 7 May. This will also affect CentralAuth. This can for example affect global renames, password changes, changing or confirming your email address and logging in to new wikis. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.

Changes later this week
 * You can get a notification when someone links to a page you created. You can soon turn these notifications off for individual pages.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 May. It will be on all wikis from 7 May (calendar).

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This Month in Education: April 2020
About This Month in Education · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · For the team: Romaine 10:45, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

Disambiguation pages
Hello, SS49. When you moved Philadelphia Fever to a new title and then changed the old title into a disambiguation page, you may not have been aware of WP:FIXDABLINKS, which says:
 * When creating disambiguation pages, fix all resulting mis-directed links.
 * Before moving an article to a qualified name (in order to create a disambiguation page at the base name, to move an existing disambiguation page to that name, or to redirect that name to a disambiguation page), click on What links here to find all of the incoming links. Repair all of those incoming links to use the new article name.

It would be a great help if you would check the other Wikipedia articles that contain links to "Philadelphia Fever" and fix them to take readers to the correct article. Thanks. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 10:29, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
 * , Thanks for reminding me. I will do my best to fix links to disambiguation page in such moves. Thanks again for the message. ~SS49~   {talk}  12:43, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

Courtesy notification
This is a courtesy notification that I have closed your appeal with the consensus for the ban to remain in place at this time. -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 17:43, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

Requested moves/Technical requests
Hi, just letting you know when you perform a move at Requested moves/Technical requests, you need to clear the request. There is no bot that does it. Otherwise, someone will just go and possibly best case scenario waste time looking into it, or worst case scenario perform a swap and then have to undo everything. You can look at the page to see how to perform a move as a page mover or admin. Thanks. Sir Joseph (talk) 14:41, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi, I just started to move pages at TR couple of days ago. I thought bot will clear the request. My fault. Thanks for the information. ~SS49~   {talk}  14:52, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
 * , No problem, and just letting you know, that what I do, is I clear the request right away, because several times in the past I've had my script and someone else's script interfere and it caused major hassles to resolve. Sir Joseph (talk) 14:56, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #415
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events
 * Past: Remote Wikimedia Hackathon, May 9-10 (see the showcase replay and the description of projects). Several Wikidata-related sessions took place:
 * Working on Wikidata Lexeme Forms tool by Lucas Werkmeister: Part 1, Part 2
 * Wikidata: Figure skating workflow, starting from scratch (installing and configuring everything on a new computer) by Harmonia Amanda: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
 * Past: Wikidata local school gathering was organised by Wikidata Taiwan. Link to Event page and dashboard
 * Upcoming: Live SPARQL queries session in French about Lexemes by Vigneron, May 12th at 20:00 CEST
 * Upcoming: Live Wikidata editing about video games by JeanFred, May 13th at 19:30 CEST


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Webinar introducing Wikidata and adding  tags into OpenStreetMap objects for OpenStreetMap contributors in the Philippines (in English and Tagalog): YouTube
 * Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Mark Graham from the Internet Archive
 * Part 1 - Meet the Archive: YouTube
 * Part 2 - The IA & Wikimedia: YouTube
 * Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Lydia Pintscher from Wikimedia Deutschland
 * Part 1 - Wikidata - current state: YouTube
 * Part 2 - Wikibase & Lexemes: YouTube
 * Part 3 - Shape Expressions & Schemas: YouTube
 * How to create external identifiers on Wikidata (in Italian): YouTube
 * Open Data and Wikidata training (in Mandarin Chinese): YouTube
 * Bandaid: using Wikidata to generate band names


 * Tool of the week
 * WikidataExtract extracts schemas (shape expressions) from Wikidata entities


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata:WikiProject Authority control/VIAF linking to multiple items has been created: most of the items listed probably need merging - have a look!
 * New tool: universal almanac based on Wikidata by Alexander Doria
 * A proposal for a new Wikiproject Wikilambda that allows creating multilingual content in Wikidata that can be used in all Wikipedias. Signatures of support are needed and discussion and questions are welcomed!
 * V1 of Wikidata Bridge is almost ready to be tested on Catalan Wikipedia


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: general property-based URL formatter, hardiness of plant, hardiness zone, ex-libris, voting system, supported metadata, tabular case data, Gazette of India notification
 * External identifiers: motorsportstats.com team ID, Canadiana NCF ID, Indian Railways train number, SNCF Station Identifier, South African Company Registration Number, DART-Europe thesis ID, DoME exhibition ID, DPE school code, Epistemonikos ID, Lexikon der Filmbegriffe ID, National Library of Israel J9U ID, UK Modern House Index architect ID, UK Modern House Index building ID, Joconde technique ID, PragerU presenter ID, regional government of Sicily ID, Anagrafe Istituti Culturali Ecclesiastici ID, BeWeb cultural institution ID, ACUM work ID, Reta Vortaro ID, Mozilla Developer Network article


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: social media followers, Gobbledygook, forearm length, number of stepchildren, number of adopted children, CV, axe, banned in
 * External identifiers: NMMA built heritage ID, NMMA antiquities ID, Super Mario Wiki ID, Philadelphia Museum of Art person ID, Archaeology in Greece Online place ID, iDAI.gazetteer ID, iDAI.chronontology ID, identifiant SILL d'un logiciel, Lower Austrian Castle ID, Naturdenkmal-ID Landkreis Oberspreewald-Lausitz, Bookogs credit ID, Bookogs work ID, Bookogs book ID, GMC membership number, Bibliography of the History of Slovakia ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali author ID, Augustins de l'Assomption ID, ASUT ID, Niden INE


 * Query examples:
 * Films claimed to pass the Bechdel test with less than 2 female cast members in Wikidata
 * African-American librarians in Wikidata that don't have Wikipedia articles (Source)
 * Magicians with known precise birth date (Source)
 * Sheffield Shield cricket players and the number of states they have played in (Source)
 * Number of Twitter followers of scientists at Dutch universities (Source)
 * Former United Kingdom Parliament MP's still living (by first election) (Source)
 * Number of paintings in National Gallery with artist and gender (Source)
 * Nearby table tennis tables to public spaces for the Wiki Explorer Android application (Source)
 * Map of Ramsar sites in France (Source)
 * Highest software version numbers recorded on Wikidata (Source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Speed skating, Witches


 * Development
 * Display statements with federated properties (T246606)
 * Federated properties: fix a bug that caused some properties to not appear in search results (T252024)
 * Wikidata Bridge: more work on error messages
 * Prevent Wikibase schema updaters to modify database directly (T249598)
 * Write a technical RFC about site-wide edit rate limiting (T247459)
 * Fix an issue on Wikibase: property names are missing when rendering (T247196)
 * More work on automated references

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:26, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

This Month in GLAM: April 2020
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Tech News: 2020-20
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * Everyone can now import photos from Flickr to Commons with the UploadWizard. Before this only autopatrollers on Commons could import photos from Flickr.

Problems
 * Commons will be on read-only for a few minutes on 12 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.
 * Several wikis including Wikidata will be on read-only for a few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 May. It will be on all wikis from 14 May (calendar).

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg JavaScript scripts and gadgets can no longer check multiple keys at once via  or  . You can use   or   to check one at a time instead.

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Growth team newsletter #13
Welcome to the thirteenth newsletter from the Growth team!

The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.

Join the conversation: structured tasks
We are looking for community input on a new project to make it easy for newcomers to make real article edits.

In our previous newsletter, we talked about the productive edits coming from the newcomer tasks feature. Those good results have continued: about 900 newcomers made over 5,000 suggested edits so far. We've learned that newcomers are interested in receiving suggested edits.

Now, we are thinking about how to supply them a feed of easy edits that will help more of them be successful quickly. We have a new idea called "structured tasks". This would aim to break down edits into steps that are easy for newcomers and easy on mobile devices.

In the past, certain kinds of editing tasks have been structured. For instance, adding categories through HotCat. Now, we are thinking about how to structure the editing of articles. The goal is to allow newcomers can make large content additions, especially from their mobile devices.

Please visit the project page and respond to the discussion questions listed on the talk page. You are welcome to show this project to others in your community. You can help by translating the materials to your language so that more voices can join in. We will be having this conversation until June 18.

Expanding to more wikis
We have expanded to six new wikis, and are looking for more interested communities.

In the last two months, we deployed Growth features to six new wikis: Ukrainian, Serbian, Hungarian, Armenian, and Basque Wikipedias, and French Wiktionary. Newcomers from these wikis have already contributed over 600 edits through Growth features.

We want to expand to more wikis in the coming months, and we are looking for interested communities. French Wikipedia already agreed and will be the next one to join the experiment. We will contact several other wikis in the coming weeks to offer them to participate.

Do you think the Growth Team features would be a good addition to your wiki? Please see this translatable summary of Growth features. You can share with your communities and start a discussion. Then, please contact us to begin the process!

Other updates


Work continues on improving newcomer tasks and the homepage.


 * In March, we deployed an upgrade to the topic matching in newcomer tasks. The current version offers 39 different topics using new ORES models.
 * In April, we completed an A/B test of two homepage configurations. We learned that more newcomers will attempt suggested edits if the module is made more prominent. We are implementing those learnings in our next test.  See the full results here.
 * We are currently working on guidance for newcomer tasks. It will use the help panel to guide newcomers through completing easy edits.
 * Our next step is to create new configurations of the homepage. The goal is to encourage more newcomers to begin doing suggested edits.

As usual, we are still welcoming your feedback and questions about our features. Please contact us on the project talk page!

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Wikidata weekly summary #416
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Date in Wikidata not properly translated in Wikipedia table, Disallow merging into newer entity


 * Events
 * Upcoming: WikidataLab XXXIII: Wiki-Education and Data Literacy with Shani Evenstein - May 21st 1pm - 7pm (UTC). Organized by Wiki Movement Brazil User Group, the training will be held in English this time! Join us remotely!
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: João Alexandre Peschanski on Wikidata + Education projects he has worked on in Brazil, 19 May. Agenda
 * Upcoming: Indian scientists datathon by WikiProject India. May 22nd to 24th, IST.
 * Past: Live SPARQL queries session in French about Lexemes by Vigneron, May 12th at 20:00 CEST
 * Past: Live Wikidata editing about video games by JeanFred (replay), May 13th at 19:30 CEST


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * WhatDoTheyKnow in Wikidata (blog post)
 * How to use the Wikidata Query Service (in Italian): YouTube
 * Introduction to Wikidata and data modeling: YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * WikidataTrust.jsP updates the interface with the contributors to each statement, label, description and sitelink. It is similar to the “blame” tool on text-based wikis.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Update about the Wikidata 8th birthday events regarding the COVID19 situation
 * The Wikimedia movement strategy recommendations have been published
 * Read-only time for Wikidata on Tuesday 19th May at 05:00 AM UTC for 15 minutes due to upgrade and restart of services. Services targeting Wikidata may not work during the meantime.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: tilt, curriculum vitae
 * External identifiers: The Conversation author ID, SILL ID of a software, LombardiaBeniCulturali artwork author ID, Bookogs work ID, Gitabitan.net ID, Arlington Cemetery person ID, CDAPNC author ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: selma'o, originated from individual of taxon, media franchise, préposition, Edible parts, local time, langue fille, langue mère, langue sœur, banned in
 * External identifiers: LiederNet author ID, LiederNet composer ID, LiederNet text ID, LiederNet song cycle ID, Colon Classification, Wyoming SHPO ID, norsk fangeregister person ID, K-Scholar ID, Wiener Wohnen ID, MDAH's HRI ID, National Register Database, Louisiana ID, RI National Register Search ID, MACRIS ID, Mod DB mod ID, GameBanana video game ID, NexusMods video game ID, BaGLAMa GID, Arkansas Register of Historic Places ID, Mediaqueer.ca Artist ID, Mediaqueer.ca Movie ID, SNES central game ID, CTHS author ID, correspondent of, Liszt Academy Lexikon person ID, 500 Queer Scientists profile, WorldFootball.net stadium ID, Worlds Without End author ID, Goodreads work ID, FlashScore.com player ID, National Football Teams.com match ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali architecture author ID, Origin game ID, Ubisoft Store game ID, LGBT Danmark dictionary ID, Book Marks ID


 * Deleted properties: P727
 * Query examples:
 * Recommended units of measurement listed in the SI Brochure (9th, concise edition) (Source)
 * Border with which all the municipalities of the Basque Country share (Source)
 * Map of hospitals (blue) and health centers (green) of Argentina (Source)
 * Best snipers of the world by number of victims of killer (Source)
 * Plans and photographs of the restoration works of cathedrals in the 19th century contained in the French National Archives) (Source)
 * Map of railways stations in France (Source)
 * List of African countries with their current leaders and their ages (Source)
 * Point in time of Advisor and Student relationships for professions mathematician and computer scientist (Source)
 * Drawings with an image that depicts a ship (Source)
 * Map of National parks in Sweden (Source)
 * US States with an A (Source)


 * Development
 * In the query service, variable names with non-“Latin” characters (e. g.,  ) can now be used more easily. (T227952)
 * Wikidata Bridge: more work on error messages and warnings (T246676, T247250, T244361)
 * Federated properties: display statements made with deleted properties (T250785)
 * More work on fixing error messages on Wikidata's edit interface (T247690)
 * Form grammatical features: connect labels and inputs (T198703)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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Tech News: 2020-21
<section begin="technews-2020-W21"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * If you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to your email address. You need to know your email address or your username. You can choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This is a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for. This is now available on all Wikimedia wikis.

Problems
 * There is a bug that creates problems for iPhone users with iOS 13 and Safari. If you use an iPhone to read or edit Wikipedia and see bugs on the mobile site you can report them.
 * Several wikis including Wikidata will be on read-only for a few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.

Changes later this week
 * The Wikipedia app for Android can let users add depicts on Commons. The beta version used computer-aided tagging. This was removed to get more specific depicts.
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes
 * Graphs will be rendered in the reader's browser. This will use Javascript. Graphs will hopefully work better for everyone who uses Javascript. It will not work for users who don't use Javascript. This will not affect diagrams in image files.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Some CSS for the skins has been simplified. This affects ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,   and  . They will have to remove  . You will have to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. This is so we can use HTML5.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Some CSS for the Vector skin has been changed. This affects ,  ,  ,   and  . They can no longer use  . You might need to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. See how.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2020-W21"/> 17:19, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-22
<section begin="technews-2020-W22"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week
 * The visual editor will now work in the Modern skin. The changes that needed to happen for this to work could cause problems for some scripts or gadgets.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 26. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 27. It will be on all wikis from May 28 (calendar).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2020-W22"/> 14:18, 25 May 2020 (UTC)