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Wikidata weekly summary #308
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events
 * Role of Wikimedia in the era of Open Science, Barcelona, April 16th (slides of Andy Mabbett's keynote)
 * Wikidata meetup in Berlin, April 20th. Please sign up if you want to attend (the meetup takes place in the venue of the Wikimedia Conference)
 * Wikidata workshop in Paris, April 20th
 * Wikidata for science workshop in Paris, April 23rd
 * Wikidata meetup in Zürich, April 25th


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Writing a Wikidata Query: Discovering Women Writers from North Africa by Alex Stinson


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * GLAM wiki Conference (November 2018 in Tel Aviv): you can now apply for a scholarship. You can still make submissions for the program until end of April.
 * Lua function to get Wikibase entity by site link: mw.wikibase.getEntityIdForTitle (thanks Tpt!) (ticket)
 * FactGrid
 * Should OpenStreetMap use Wikibase to store data on tags? (Discussion on OSM wiki)
 * Prop explorer UI can now be translated using Tool Translate.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: talk show guest, GHS hazard pictogram, GHS hazard statement, GHS precautionary statement, number of abstentions, number of spoilt votes, number of blank votes, International Classification for Standards, towards, supervisory board member
 * External identifiers: Researchmap ID, Animated Knots ID, Filmweb.pl film ID, Filmweb.pl person ID, National Library of Korea Identifier (KRNLK), Lambiek Comiclopedia ID, AmphibiaWeb Species ID, Plants of the World online ID, FOGIS ID, Authorea author ID, Rosetta Code ID, Church of Sweden ID, Harvard designation, UMAC ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: French standard sizes for oil paintings, operating temperature, non-operating temperature, reference value, ILI ID, Portable Game Notation, SNOMED CT identifier, Mercalli intensity, fault type, fault, areas affected
 * External identifiers: IRMNG taxon ID, e-teatr.pl ID, World of Physics identifier, Kunstenpunt people, DOAB publisher ID, aviation-safety.net ID, IAFD company ID, JAAF ID, Athletics Canada ID, Russian Athletics ID, Polish Athletics Federation ID, Römpp online ID, Pschyrembel Online ID, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy ID, ISC event, USGS-ANSS event page, HanCinema drama, ARRS race ID, hpip
 * Barely used properties created >3 months:
 * National Film Board of Canada movie ID (P4606), AUSNUT 2011–13 Food Group ID (P4618), squadron embarked (P4624), trophy awarded (P4622), EK number (P4627), premiere type (P4634), identity of object in context (P4626), photosphere image (P4640), FoodEx2 code (P4637), Estonian Football Association team ID (P4639)


 * Query examples:
 * Longest chain of mutual murders (source)
 * 6 couples killed each other (source)
 * All things named after Leonardo da Vinci (source)
 * German municipality pairs with the name pattern -ing/-ingen (source)
 * Timeline of early silent movies produced before 1900 (source)
 * French citizens with at least 5 Wikipedia pages but not in French (source)
 * Newest database reports: family names by soundex, définitions de ville


 * Development
 * Disable Senses in the API for the initial version of the WikibaseLexeme extension (T187198)
 * Create a new data type to allow linking to Forms (T165579)
 * Fix a bug happening when editing a Form (T187215)
 * Enforce permission checks when editing Lexeme (T189480)
 * Make not possible to remove the last lemma (T189185)
 * Make not possible to move a Lexeme (T189481)
 * Implement “Units” constraint (T164372)
 * More work on the possibility to pick an item's parent in Lua (T179155)
 * Show a thumbnail for image/video/audio properties in statements (T46727)
 * Add “no bounds” constraint (T170610)
 * Make the “difference within range” constraint not requiring “item requires claim” constraint (T185480)
 * New Lua function to test for validity of Wikidata entity IDs (T143970)
 * Include checksums in dumps (T190457)

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.


 * 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!

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Tech News: 2018-16
 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
 * Profiling statistics for an abuse filter tell how often edits match the filter. The statistics for the abuse filters were reset after 10000 actions. Wikis can now decide to reset it more or less often. They can file a phabricator task to do so.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Abuse filters will now treat integers and floats more precisely. For example, 5/2 was rounded down to 2 but will now be 2.5 and 2*4 will be the integer 8 and not the floating-point number 8.0. Division values are the only ones changed. For the rest only strict comparisons ( and  ) will be affected leaving the values unchanged.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 April. It will be on all wikis from 19 April (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 17 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The new PDF renderer could not create PDFs from books. Books are in this case collections of pages on a Wikimedia wiki. PediaPress will take over development of the books-to-PDF function.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Pywikibot will no longer support Python 2.7.2 and 2.7.3.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Volunteer developers can fill out the Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey. The last day is April 22 (UTC). This is a third-party service survey. See the privacy statement.

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Tech News: 2018-17
 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
 * All Wikipedias now have Page Previews.
 * The iOS and Android apps now have synced reading lists. This means you can save articles to a private list that can be seen on your other devices if you use the apps.
 * The icons in the 2010 wikitext editor have changed.
 * The visual editor and the 2017 wikitext ask you to write an edit summary after you press . This button now also shows an ellipsis. This is to show that pressing   is not the last step.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 April. It will be on all wikis from 26 April (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 24 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 25 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * will come to most Wikipedias in May. This means that you can put interactive maps in the articles. Nine Wikipedias that use a strict version of flagged revisions will not get this feature in May.
 * The rollback function could change. This was a German community request. All editors with rollback rights can leave feedback on the proposed solution. The last day to leave feedback is 4 May (UTC).

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Wikidata weekly summary #309
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events
 * Past: Wikimedia Conference in Berlin
 * Wikidata meetup
 * how to train new Wikidata trainers
 * Structured Data on Commons and GLAM pilots session
 * Wikibase workshop in Antwerp, Belgium, April 23-25
 * WikiWorkshop, a forum bringing together researchers exploring all aspects the Wikimedia projects, in Lyon, April 24th. Seven papers related to Wikidata will be presented.
 * Wikidata meetup in Zurich, Switzerland, April 25th
 * DDJ Monaco: Wikidata for digital Journalists; Open-Source-Treffen: SPARQL-Workshop, Munich, April 25 and 27


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Old Periodicals, a New Datatype and Spiderfied Query Results in Wikidata by Simon Cobb (National Library of Wales)
 * Wikimedia and The Met: A Shared Digital Vision by Katherine Maher and Loic Tallon


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata:Tools has been reorganized and updated, thanks to Pasleim! Feel free to help keeping this page up to date.
 * Wikidata:List of properties has also been reorganized and updated.
 * Lexicographical data on Wikidata will start at the end of May. Some property proposals are already discussed
 * A rate limit for edits and page creation has been set up
 * Please give feedback on a first proposal on GLAM metadata and ontology mapping for Structured Data on Commons. This feedback round runs until 4 May.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: fastest lap, cabinet, patronym or matronym for this person, modified version of, unit symbol, wind speed, operating temperature, non-operating temperature, service life, French standard size for oil paintings, boiler pressure, presented in
 * External identifiers: IRMNG taxon ID, Handball Bundesliga ID, e-teatr.pl ID, DOAB publisher ID, ILI ID, World of Physics identifier, Flanders Arts Institute person ID, JAAF ID, Polish Athletics Federation ID, Römpp online ID, Russian Athletics ID, Athletics Canada ID, NVE lake ID, Norsk biografisk leksikon ID, Norsk kunstnerleksikon ID, Store medisinske leksikon ID, Adult Film Database film ID, Yahoo Answers category, Pschyrembel Online ID, FIPS string code for US states, FIPS numeric code for US states, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy ID, USGS-ANSS event page, ARRS race ID, HanCinema drama ID, ISC event ID, road number (Estonia), Heritage of Portuguese Influence ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Commercialized from, synonym, translation, antonym, demonym of, item for this sense, pronunciation variety, grammatical gender, grammatical number, etymology, person, areas affected, award category, nature of statement, donation platform, has grammatical gender, has grammatical person, Phonetic pronunciation, medical finding model, landmass, accessed from, research measurement, hyperonym, hyponym, meronym, holonym, troponym
 * External identifiers: Swedish Literature Bank, Logainm ID, Wikipedia glossary entry, Réunion des musées nationaux id, Il mondo dei doppiatori ID, FIS speed skier ID, cryptocurrency address, New Zealand Gazetteer ID, Bridge number, HanCinema film, Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures ID


 * Scarcely used properties created >3 months:
 * Indian Financial System Code (P4635), RCR number (P4645), partition type identifier (P4654), partition table type (P4653), Wiki Aves bird ID (P4664), Buenos Aires legislator ID (P4667), Sjukvårdsrådgivningen Category ID (P4670), tabular software version (P4669), constraint scope (P4680), GEMS Code (P4695)
 * Query examples:
 * Historical monuments in Wales (source)
 * Software titles ranked by the number of dependencies listed for them (source)
 * National parks around the world (source)
 * Narrative locations of TV series and episodes (source)
 * Newest database reports: Sports equipment: balls

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.
 * Development
 * Track the number of constraints by type (T191891)
 * Include thumbnails in image statements (T46727)
 * Install Query Service on Factgrid (T189863)
 * Page creation and edit rates (T184948)
 * Implement unit constraint (T164372)
 * Implement no bounds constraint (T170610)
 * Started working on the constraint violation type to restrict to indicate that certain properties can only be used on items or lexemes (T164744)
 * Creating a Docker container for QuickStatements (T192079)
 * Removed hardcoded demo data in Wikibase Lexeme (T188899)
 * New data type for linking to Forms (T165579)


 * 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!

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Wikidata weekly summary #310
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events
 * Past:
 * Wikibase workshop in Antwerp, Belgium, April 23-25
 * Phabricator workboard
 * Wikibase registry
 * WikiWorkshop, a forum bringing together researchers exploring all aspects of the Wikimedia projects
 * Wikidata meetup in Zurich, Switzerland, April 25th
 * DDJ Monaco: Wikidata for digital Journalists; Open-Source-Treffen: SPARQL-Workshop, Munich, April 25 and 27
 * Daten in Wikidata einbringen (Bringing data into Wikidata) - Hands-on tutorial within the DINI KIM Workshop 2018
 * Upcoming:
 * Wikidata workshop in Köln, Germany, on May 5th and 6th
 * Wikidata workshop in Vienna, Austria, on May 5th
 * Wikidata workshop in Pardubice, Czech Republic, on May 5th


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New badge available for sitelinks: good list
 * Sitelinks for the new Ingush Wikipedia (inhwiki) can be added
 * Support for the second new Gorontalo Wikipedia (gorwiki) is here
 * Articles of the third new Lingua Franca Nova Wikipedia (lfnwiki) may be connected
 * A Wikidata Telegram group has been created by volunteers
 * Constraint Summary script is showing the total amount of constraints reports on the top of an item page
 * Contexto is a Wordpress plugin displaying Wikidata info in a hovercard. See demo, you can also let feedback to the developer
 * Sixth months before Wikidata's sixth birthday: you can organize a local event


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: fault, member of the crew of, nature of statement
 * External identifiers: Logainm ID, IAFD film ID, Il mondo dei doppiatori ID, Réunion des musées nationaux ID, Swedish Literature Bank AuthorID, FIS speed skier ID, New Zealand Gazetteer place ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: crop, date of first attestation, place of first attestation, Wikidata property example for lexemes, Wikidata property example for forms, Wikidata property example for senses, false-friend, demonym (Lexeme), Allaboutjazz musician ID, homonym, paronym, streetViewUrl, constraint, WikiCFP eventID, WikiCFP conference series ID, Mascot of, program committee member, applies to name, values for this type, items for this type, Maintained by Wikiproject, Amateur Radio Callsign
 * External identifiers: Ontario public library ID, Italian School ID, TFRRS athlete ID, Linux Game Database properties, Swedish Literature Bank book ID, ICAA film catalogue ID, Stepwell Atlas ID, OnsOranje player ID, OnsOranje tournament ID, OnsOranje match ID


 * Infrequently used properties created >3 months:
 * Historic Place Names of Wales ID (P4697), American Art Collaborative object ID (P4692), Arquivo Arq ID (P4694), Argentine deputy ID (P4693), HATVP person ID (P4703), Ent'revues ID (P4706), VOGRIPA ID (P4708), Rugby Canada ID (P4707), title page number (P4714), Conseil de Presse Luxembourg journalist ID (P4698)
 * Query examples:
 * Timeline of Wikibase instances and WikidataCon events (federated query)
 * User-friendly list of news articles by Kim Wall, as linked from the German and English Wikipedia (based on work of fnielsen)
 * Places of birth of the European Parliament members (source)
 * Obelisks in Rome (source)
 * Artists from Cameroon and their places of birth (source)
 * Place of birth of people with an ORCID ID (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Metro%20stations%20in%20Milano%20by%20date%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%7B%22layer%22%3A%22%3FdateBin%22%7D%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fcoord%20%3Fimage%20%3FminDate%20%3FdateBin%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20BIND%28%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%28YEAR%28%3FminDate%29%29%20%3C%201970%2C%20%22%3C%201970%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%28YEAR%28%3FminDate%29%29%20%3C%201980%2C%20%221970%20-%201979%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%28YEAR%28%3FminDate%29%29%20%3C%201990%2C%20%221980%20-%201989%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%28YEAR%28%3FminDate%29%29%20%3C%202000%2C%20%221990%20-%201999%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%28YEAR%28%3FminDate%29%29%20%3C%202010%2C%20%222000%20-%202009%22%2C%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%222010%2B%22%29%29%29%29%29%20%0A%20%20%20AS%20%3FdateBin%29%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%28MIN%28%3Fdate%29%20AS%20%3FminDate%29%20%3Fcoord%20%3Fimage%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP361%20wd%3AQ735559.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoord.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage.%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1619%20%3Fd1.%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP571%20%3Fd2.%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28IF%28BOUND%28%3Fd1%29%2C%20%3Fd1%2C%20%3Fd2%29%20AS%20%3Fdate%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%20%3Fcoord%20%3Fimage%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FminDate History of Milano metro stations on a map] (source)
 * Number of versions, editions and translations by language of work (source)

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.
 * Development
 * More work on the internal API for Wikibase-Lexeme (T190906)
 * Fix some errors happening when editing Lexemes (T192766, T192264)
 * Use language code validation for forms representations (T193010, T193011)
 * Add badge for good lists to Wikidata (T190976)
 * Fix bugs regarding the thumbnails on media statements (T192910, T192601, T192869)
 * Investigate on dispatch lag problems (T193349)
 * Fix a bug on the watchlist on Wikipedia (T192673)


 * 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!

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Tech News: 2018-18
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * The parameter for unpatrolled edits in recent changes filters changed name. You might need to update saved filters and links.

Problems
 * Octicons-tools.svg We are migrating wikis from Tidy to Remex. Because of a bug the 250 wikis which do not yet use Remex were switched on 23 April. This is two months early. This meant that pages with broken wikitext showed wrongly to readers. The bug was undone the next day. You can help fix broken wikitext to avoid this problem when your wiki switches. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. You can follow the process on Phabricator.

Changes later this week
 * You will be able use CodeMirror in the 2017 wikitext editor on all wikis. CodeMirror helps with syntax highlighting. It has previously been a beta feature and only available on wikis with scripts that are written from left to right.
 * When an administrator blocks someone they will have a calendar they can use to choose when the block ends. This is to make it easier to pick a specific date.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can soon turn on the Performance Inspector in the section in your preferences. It shows information about the performance of pages. This could be the size of modules in the page, how many CSS selectors are defined on the page and how many are used, or the size of the images on the page. This tool is intended to help editors fix pages that load slowly.
 * Octicons-tools.svg There is a new abuse filter function called . You can use it to check if its first argument is equal  to any of the following ones. For example you can use it to check if the page's namespace is amongst a given set of values in a more compact way than you could earlier. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 May. It will be on all wikis from 3 May (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 1 May at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 2 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The Wikimedia Cloud Services team is working on a new project called Toolhub. The goal is to make it easier for Wikimedians to discover software tools they can use. You can leave feedback on the talk page or email jhare@undefinedwikimedia.org to leave private feedback.
 * Octicons-tools.svg All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in all namespaces will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 2 May. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Wikibooks wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch on 9 May. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018.

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Wikidata weekly summary #311
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 * Discussions
 * New request for comments:
 * Sort identifier statements on items that are instances of human
 * Make "developer" and "programmer" properties clearer


 * Events
 * Wikidata and GLAM workshop day in the context of the EuropeanaTech Conference, Rotterdam, Monday 14 May 2018
 * Wikidata access methods, slides by Dan Scott


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * More than 850 living people' articles from the English Wikipedia which have date of death or place of death on their Wikidata item: manual checks needed. You can also check Category:P570 missing in Wikipedia
 * Florian will be improving Wikidata support in the Wikipedia plugin for OpenStreetMap's JOSM editor, for the Google Summer of Code 2018
 * Prssanna Desai will work on improvements for the Query Service during Google Summer of Code


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: Deutsche Bahn station category, has grammatical gender, has grammatical person, Wikimedia outline, assistant director, island of location, possible medical findings, suggests the existence of, has evaluation, evaluation of, greater than, less than
 * External identifiers: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures ID, Behind The Voice Actors character ID, HanCinema film ID, Italian School ID, Directory of Open Access Journals ID, LGDB game ID, LGDB emulator ID, LGDB tool ID, LGDB engine ID, TFRRS athlete ID, All About Jazz musician ID, Ontario public library ID, Swedish Literature Bank book ID, WikiCFP event ID, WikiCFP conference series ID, ICAA film catalogue ID, Stepwell Atlas ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: IMDA rating, is program committee member of, officialized by, KAVI rating, topographic map, child monotypic taxon, Köppens klimaklassifisering, Möllendorff transliteration, attested, geographic center, season of club or team, sports competition competed at, factorizsation, coastline, forest cover, vehicles per capita, audio transcription
 * External identifiers: e-MEC entry, Norwegian war sailor register ship ID, Thesaurus For Graphic Materials, GNOME Wiki ID, Israel Film Fund ID, The New Fund for Cinema and Television (Israel) ID, Cinema Project ID, Chinese Political Elites Database ID, Israeli Movie Testimonial Database Person ID, Israeli Movie Testimonial Database Movie ID, JMA Seismic Intensity Database ID, Portale della Canzone italiana IDs, Trustpilot company ID, Ester ID, Dictionary of Swedish Translators


 * Properties lacking use created > 3 months:
 * Sign@l journal ID (P4726), INRAN Italian Food ID (P4729), produced sound (P4733), IBM code page ID (P4734), IBM graphic character global ID (P4736), Line Music album ID (P4748), Line Music artist ID (P4747), is proceedings from (P4745), National Historic Ships certificate no. (P4750), Manus Online ID (P4752)
 * Deleted properties: Réunion des musées nationaux ID (P5100)
 * Query examples:
 * Map of birth places of authors in the Portuguese Wikisource
 * Video games that are set in the Star Wars Expanded Universe by game mode (source)
 * Timeline of Programming Languages (source)
 * Timeline of people named Karl born in Karlsruhe (source)


 * Development
 * Allow continuing Wikidata entity dumps (T193688)
 * Make sure Wikidata entity dump scripts run for a short amount of time (T190513)
 * Add monolingual language code shy (T184783)
 * More work on preparing QuickStatements to be run by other parties (T193606, T192079, T192365)
 * Expand references with constraint violations (T177970)
 * Improving validation of Form representations on WikibaseLexeme (T193011)
 * Fixing a bug that replaces a representation by another (T192264)
 * Enable finding forms using wbsearchentities API (T191981)

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Wikidata weekly summary #312
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 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Adminor


 * Events
 * Past: GLAM forum in Yerevan, Armenia, 10-12 May 2018
 * slides for 'What is Wikidata: How can GLAMs work with Wikidata?' presentation by Andy Mabbett
 * A Wikidata workshop was given by Liam Wyatt and appeared at the national Armenian television
 * Wikidata workshop day at GLAMwiki conference in Rotterdam, May 14th
 * Wikidata workshop in Paris, May 18th
 * Next Wikidata IRC office hour: May 29th at 18:00 (UTC+2, Berlin time) on the channel #wikimedia-office


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Wikidata: a platform for your library’s linked open data by Stacy Allison-Cassin & Dan Scott, in the journal Code4Lib (also posted on Reddit)
 * Enriching Reconciled Data with OpenRefine, by Karen Hwang


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New feature for the Query Service: check the location of the browser
 * New monolingual code available: shy (Shawiya)
 * You can have a look at the draft for the RDF mapping of Wikibase Lexeme
 * New feature for the Query Service: check the location of the browser


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: item for this sense, season of club or team, Möllendorff transliteration, geographic center, coastline
 * External identifiers: none


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: IGAC rating, taxon described in publication, jockey, Norsk fjordkatalog-ID, Wikidata:Dataset Imports, toponym
 * External identifiers: Bugs! artist ID, Bugs! album ID, KKBOX artist ID, KKBOX album ID, Norsk pop- og rockleksikon ID, Odnoklassniki profile ID, Kunstenpunt organisations, Rockipedia artist ID, Rockipedia album ID, Rockipedia label ID, Rockipedia area ID, Norsk historisk leksikon ID, Univ-droit jurist ID, Relationship Science profile ID, D&B Hoovers company profile, Victorian Heritage Register ID, CIVICUS Monitor country entry, FloraCatalana ID


 * Underused properties created >3 months:
 * Songwriters Hall of Fame ID (P4757), V Live channel ID (P4756), MONA ID (P4758), Harvard botanical journal ID (P4754), Images d'Art artwork ID (P4761), has boundary (P4777), lot number (P4775), Arcade artwork ID (P4764), biological phase (P4774), crates.io ID (P4763)
 * Query examples:
 * Museums near you (source)
 * Places near you that are the subject of publications (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3Fs%20%3FsLabel%20%3Fcoor%20%3Foperator%20%3FoperatorLabel%20%3Fimage%20%3Flayer%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fs%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ7075%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP17%20wd%3AQ145%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoor%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP137%20%3Foperator%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fs%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20VALUES%20%3Foperator%20%7B%20wd%3AQ319761%20wd%3AQ790029%20wd%3AQ5038449%20wd%3AQ1035745%20wd%3AQ7375001%20wd%3AQ1420500%20wd%3AQ1971174%20wd%3AQ3400501%20wd%3AQ4923796%20wd%3AQ4966533%20wd%3AQ5016926%20wd%3AQ5038400%20wd%3AQ5043224%20wd%3AQ5064127%20wd%3AQ5166758%20wd%3AQ5256629%20wd%3AQ16837157%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ5623821%20wd%3AQ6083890%20wd%3AQ16997658%20wd%3AQ6901162%20wd%3AQ6984500%20wd%3AQ16998902%20wd%3AQ7161994%20wd%3AQ7236943%20wd%3AQ7321391%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%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ5123523%20wd%3AQ6980600%20wd%3AQ7825688%20wd%3AQ1954765%20wd%3AQ2046319%20wd%3AQ3112646%20wd%3AQ5142752%20wd%3AQ7592929%20wd%3AQ6820686%20wd%3AQ7161992%20wd%3AQ5142753%20wd%3AQ5590045%20wd%3AQ16891916%20wd%3AQ5142762%20wd%3AQ5038488%20wd%3AQ20713648%20wd%3AQ4966531%20wd%3AQ17986585%20wd%3AQ16890510%20wd%3AQ7909538%20wd%3AQ8038115%20wd%3AQ4898241%20wd%3AQ4667178%20wd%3AQ4761763%20wd%3AQ5038490%20wd%3AQ5197211%20wd%3AQ30287465%20wd%3AQ18343995%20wd%3AQ17018314%20wd%3AQ7373981%20wd%3AQ18358583%20%7D%0A%0A%20%0A%20%0ASERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FoperatorLabel%20%3FsLabel%0A%0A%0A%0A Map of libraries in Wales] (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Italian%20cities%20with%20a%20population%20of%205k%2B%20and%201%2B%20kindergarten%28s%29%0A%23%20Colors%20represent%20the%20number%20of%20kindergartens%20per%20per%2010%2C000%20inhabitants%20%28see%20layer%20legend%29%0A%23%20Query%20by%20Andrea%20Mignone%20%40i_m_andrea%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%7B%22layer%22%3A%22%3FratioBin%22%2C%20%22rgb%22%3A%22%3Frgb%22%7D%0ASELECT%20%3Fcity%20%3FcityLabel%20%3Fcoord%20%3FratioBin%20%3Frgb%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20BIND%28%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fratio%20%3C%202%2C%20%22%3C%202%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fratio%20%3C%203%2C%20%22%5B2%3B3%29%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fratio%20%3C%204%2C%20%22%5B3%3B4%29%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fratio%20%3C%205%2C%20%22%5B4%3B5%29%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%225%2B%22%29%29%29%29%0A%20%20AS%20%3FratioBin%29%0A%20%20%0A%20%20BIND%28%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fratio%20%3C%202%2C%20%220072E5%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fratio%20%3C%203%2C%20%222F58AB%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fratio%20%3C%204%2C%20%225F3F72%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fratio%20%3C%205%2C%20%228F2539%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%22BF0C00%22%29%29%29%29%0A%20%20AS%20%3Frgb%29%0A%20%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fcity%20%3Fcoord%20%28count%28%3Fitem%29%2a10000%2F%3Fpop%20as%20%3Fratio%29%0A%20%20%20%20WHERE%20%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP5114%20%3Fid%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ126807%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP131%20%3Fcity%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcity%20wdt%3AP1082%20%3Fpop%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcity%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoord%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20%3Fcity%20wdt%3AP1376%20%3Fplace.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20%3Fplace%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ15089.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20group%20by%20%3Fcity%20%3Fpop%20%3Fcoord%20%0A%20%20%20%20having%20%28%3Fpop%20%3E%3D%205000%29%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20order%20by%20asc%28%3Fratio%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%7D Map of schools in Italy] (source)
 * List of TeX/LaTeX commands for special characters (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FcountryLabel%20%3Farea%20%3Fpopulation%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ10864048%20%3B%20%23%20first-level%20subdivision%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fcountry%20%3B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20country%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP2046%2Fpsv%3AP2046%20%5B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20area%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3FbaseArea%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP2370%2Fpsv%3AP2370%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3FunitArea%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ25343%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP1082%20%3Fpopulation%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20population%0A%0A%20%20BIND%28ROUND%28%3FbaseArea%20%2a%20%3FunitArea%20%2F%201000000%29%20AS%20%3Farea%29%20.%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28%20%3Farea%20%3E%3D%20400000%20%29%0A%0A%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP576%20%3Fx%20%7D%20%20%20%20%23%20filter%20dissolved%20subdivisions%0A%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Fcountry%20wdt%3AP576%20%3Fx%20%7D%20%23%20filter%20dissolved%20countries%0A%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Farea%29 Largest first-level country subdivisions (i.e. larger than 400,000 km²)] (source)


 * Development
 * Fix the bug where changes in the watchlist and Recent Changes on Wikipedia should have been shown but were not (T192673)
 * Clarify error message for the merge API (T180296)
 * Add violation type to restrict which entity types a property can be used (T164744)
 * Added a constraint to blacklist values for a property (T183092)
 * Fix a bug showing the wrong alias in the edit summary when editing an alias (T190492)
 * Fix some bugs related to displaying thumbnails in statements (T193880, T192667, T193499)
 * Continue looking into dispatch issues (T194602)
 * Working on adding an integer constraint (T167989)
 * Preparing to deploy WikibaseLexeme extension on Wikimedia cluster (T168260)
 * Making sure that the form ID counter is preserved when clearing the lexeme via the API (T192264)
 * Applying the same validation to the language code of the Lemma and the representation (T191504)

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 * 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!

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Wikidata weekly summary #313
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 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Addshore, Pintoch
 * New request for comments: How to manage software versions, Improving Wikidata documentation for different types of user
 * Closed request for comments: Privacy and Living People


 * Events
 * Past: Europeana Tech Conference (including a lot of Wikidata workshops and discussions)
 * Past:Wikimedia Hackathon 2018, 18-20 May in Barcelona
 * Check the hashtag #wmhack on Twitter to see what has been worked on regarding Wikidata
 * List of the projects that have been demoed during the showcase
 * Next Wikidata IRC office hour: May 29th at 18:00 (UTC+2, Berlin time) on the channel #wikimedia-office


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * A look back at the first Federated-Wikibase-Workshop
 * Martin Poulter gave a TEDxBathUniversity talk about Wikidata
 * The Joint Roadmap for Open Science Tools (JROST) has been launched; Wikidata is represented by the Wikimedia Foundation
 * "Translating a blog post into structured data" Martin Poulter, the Bodleian Digital Library blog


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * A bunch of new constraint types were recently added
 * A Request for comments on improving Wikidata documentation for different types of user
 * We have deprecated units used for this property (P2237). Please update any tool which uses this property to use the new API before it gets deleted.
 * EditGroups is a new tool that lets you review, discuss and revert entire edit groups made by various tools.
 * PictureThis! Is a new tool integrated to WikiShootMe! that allows you to choose an item and upload a picture of it


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: IGAC rating, KAVI rating, established from medical condition, vehicles per capita (1000), applies to name, Wikipedia glossary entry
 * External identifiers: Chinese Political Elites Database ID, amateur radio callsign, Bugs! album ID, Bugs! artist ID, Cinema Project (Israel) ID, Dictionary of Swedish Translators ID, e-MEC entry, Ester ID, Israel Film Fund ID, KKBOX album ID, KKBOX artist ID, Norwegian war sailor register ship-ID, OnsOranje match ID, OnsOranje player ID, The New Fund for Cinema and Television (Israel) ID, Thesaurus For Graphic Materials ID, Trustpilot company ID, OnsOranje tournament ID, Odnoklassniki profile ID, Flanders Arts Institute organisation ID, Norsk pop- og rockleksikon ID, Norwegian historical lexicon ID, Norwegian fjord catalog ID, Rockipedia album ID, Rockipedia artist ID, Rockipedia area ID, Rockipedia label ID, Univ-droit jurist ID, KIT Linked Open Numbers ID, Victorian Heritage Register ID, FloraCatalana ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: animal water well, World Rugby Ranking, Schulsprengel, dedicated object, conjugation class, word stem, visible by means of, Production website, software version of, Japanese pitch accent, reading pattern of kanji, has conjugation class, stroke count, radical, grade of kanji, Party coalition, Naturdenkmal ID, ISO 3950 code, software version, software developer
 * External identifiers: Eurohockey.com club ID, Namuwiki, Daum Encyclopedia, Melon song ID, Sistema de Información Cultural, African Studies Thesaurus ID, nwhl.zone player ID, YouPorn ID, Pornhub ID, NWSL player ID, eBird hotspot ID, British Library system number, Flickr tag, Sveriges Dödbok, BAG Openbare ruimte ID, BAG Pand ID, SpectraBase Compound ID, Carnegie Hall event ID, Carnegie Hall work ID, Armenian National Academy of Sciences ID, Armenian Cinema ID, Armenian Parliamentary ID, National Gallery of Armenia work ID, Spyur ID, OlimpBase Women's Chess Olympiad player ID, GONIAT author ID, GONIAT taxon ID, GONIAT paper ID, GONIAT place ID


 * Dormant properties created >3 months:
 * USA Rugby player ID (P4778), MYmovies name ID (P4785), CiNii author ID (articles) (P4787), Who's Who UK ID (P4789), uses data storage type (P4788), Basketball-Reference.com NBL player ID (P4796), Basketball-Reference.com referee ID (P4795), PARES ID (P4813), BWSA ID (P4811), LoC and MARC vocabularies ID (P4801)
 * Query examples:
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Most%20populous%20first-level%20country%20subdivisions%20without%20legislatures%20%0A%23%20from%20%5B%5Bd%3AProperty_talk%3AP194%23Most_populous_first-level_subdivisions_without_legislature%5D%5D%0A%23%20Based%20on%20%22Largest%20first-level%20country%20subdivisions%22%20at%20https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FPoulpyWP%2Fstatus%2F994669235296133129%0A%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FcountryLabel%20%3Farea%20%3Fpopulation%20%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ10864048%20%3B%20%23%20first-level%20subdivision%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fcountry%20%3B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20country%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP2046%2Fpsv%3AP2046%20%5B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20area%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3FbaseArea%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP2370%2Fpsv%3AP2370%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3FunitArea%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ25343%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP1082%20%3Fpopulation%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20population%0A%0A%20%20BIND%28ROUND%28%3FbaseArea%20%2a%20%3FunitArea%20%2F%201000000%29%20AS%20%3Farea%29%20.%0A%0A%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP194%20%5B%5D%20%7D%20%20%23%20without%20legislature%0A%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP576%20%5B%5D%20%7D%20%20%20%20%23%20filter%20dissolved%20subdivisions%0A%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Fcountry%20wdt%3AP576%20%5B%5D%20%7D%20%23%20filter%20dissolved%20countries%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fpopulation%29%0ALIMIT%20500 Most populous first-level country subdivisions without legislatures] (source)
 * Prisoners of Conscience by place of birth (source)
 * Photos of railway stations from Latvia and Estonia (source)
 * Map of items near me that have a label in Catalan but not in French (source)
 * Places of residence of accused Scottish witches (source)
 * Poets whose fathers were lawyers (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Sustainable Development, Wikipedia Sources
 * Newest database reports: list of English Wikipedia outline articles, US states

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.
 * Development
 * Hackathon!
 * Work on adding “integer” constraint (T167989)
 * Fix a bug expanding the references with a constraint violation (T193669)
 * Add a "mis" code language to enable uncoded languages in Wikibase Lexeme (T194754)
 * Improve the different language fields in the interface of editing a Lexeme (T191504)
 * Finish work to edit Forms via the web API (T190906)
 * Include special Lexeme IDs (T187060)


 * 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!

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Tech News: 2018-22
<section begin="technews-2018-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.

Recent changes
 * You can now use global preferences on most wikis. This means you can set preferences for all wikis at the same time. Before this you had to change them on each individual wiki. Global preferences will come to the Wikipedias later this week.
 * It is now easier for blocked mobile users to see why they were blocked.
 * Wikidata now supports lexicographical data. This helps describe words.
 * There is now a checkbox on Special:ListUsers to let you see only users in temporary user groups.
 * Some rare invisible Unicode characters have recently been banned from page titles. This includes soft hyphens (U+00AD) and left-to-right (U+2066) and right-to-left (U+2067) isolate markers. Existing pages with these characters will soon be moved by a script.
 * Octicons-tools.svg There's a new Wikimedia Foundation team to support the Wikimedia technical communities. It's called the Technical Engagement team. Most of the team members did similar work in other teams before this.

Problems
 * Some translatable pages are showing old translations instead of latest ones. The cause of this issue has been fixed. We will update all pages automatically to show the latest translations.

Changes later this week
 * There will be a new special page named PasswordPolicies. This page gives information about the password rules for each user group on that wiki.
 * A new way to see moved paragraphs in diffs is coming to most wikis. This is to make it easier to find the moved paragraphs and the changes in them.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 May. It will be on all wikis from 31 May (calendar).
 * Octicons-tools.svg Wikis can enable Citoid to provide automatic reference look-up in the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. This is complex. The tool will now disable itself if the configuration isn't correct. It has warned about this in the JavaScript console since February. Check that your wiki is configured correctly. You can ask for help if you need it.

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Wikidata weekly summary #314
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 * Discussions
 * Closed request for adminship: Pintoch, Addshore (both successful)
 * New request for comments: Why do we have an item for dogs and another one for Canis lupus familiaris?


 * Events
 * IRC office hour, on May 29th at 18:00 (UTC+2, Berlin time), on the IRC channel #wikimedia-office. Special topic: Lexemes on Wikidata


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Paper on Cellosaurus, with mappings to Wikidata, by Amos Bairoch
 * Blog post from Galder Gonzalez announcing the Lexemes (in Basque)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Ongoing: On 24 May, there was a significant outage affecting Wikidata and sister projects that use Wikidata. As a result, some features of are temporarily disabled: Wikidata's property suggester, Lua modules and parser functions calling by label instead of ID, search for the ArticlePlaceholder. We apologize for the inconvenience, we're working to get them back as soon as possible. For technical details, see: T195520 & Incident documentation/20180524-wikidata.
 * As announced last week, the “integer” constraint type and the “separators” parameter for the “single value” and “single best value” constraint types are now supported in WikibaseQualityConstraints.
 * Lexicographical data is now available on Wikidata! Check the announcement for more details. Feel free to try adding words and give feedback
 * Structured Data on Commons has designs for displaying and using multilingual captions on the file page. Feedback is welcome on the talk page.
 * You can try the new Drag&Drop gadget developed by Yarl and give feedback
 * The European Commission announces a review of the Database Directive.
 * OpenRefine 3.0 beta was released. You can get an overview of the new Wikidata-related features with tutorials and videos.
 * TextRazor is a web service which analyses text and identifies the entities and concepts discussed, giving the corresponding Wikidata QIDs.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: grammatical gender, conjugation class, word stem, Sandbox-Lexeme, Sandbox-Form, synonym, derived from, Wikidata property example for lexemes, Wikidata property example for forms, officialized by, Wikidata dataset import page, output method, IMDA rating, adapted by, topographic map, date of commercialization, stroke count, has conjugation class
 * External identifiers: CIVICUS Monitor country entry, Relationship Science organization ID, JMA Seismic Intensity Database ID, Eurohockey.com club ID, Daum Encyclopedia ID, Melon song ID, ASC Leiden Thesaurus ID, British Library system number, eBird hotspot ID, BAG public space ID, BAG building ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Vocalized form, display technology, compound of, Chromosome number, Vietnamese character reading pattern, fanqie, evokes, homograph lexeme, homograph form, prime factor, classifier, Accomplice, Slavic Alphabet, signum
 * External identifiers: BMRB ID, ICSC ID, Baidu Baike ID, Tree of Life Web Project ID, Argentine biography deputy ID, B.R.A.H.M.S. ID, Chromosome numbers of the flora of Germany database ID, Filmow ID, Cité de la musique ID, Giant Bomb ID, OpenCorporates corporate grouping, Artists in Canada record number, RollDaBeats ID, Songfacts ID, ARWU ID


 * Properties not really used, created >3 months:
 * Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture control number (P4814), Amtrak station code (P4803), make-up artist (P4805), sets environment variable (P4809), Technical Element Score (P4815), Rugby Australia ID (P4799), TORA ID (P4820), Panoptikum identifier (P4818), Cour des comptes magistrate ID (P4821), La Poste personality ID (P4822)
 * Query examples:
 * Map of places of birth of Liverpool's football players (source)
 * Areas of Malaysia states (source)
 * People and the distance between their place of birth and place of death (source)
 * Grammatical cases of languages (source)


 * Development
 * Deployed and activate WikibaseLexeme on wikidata.org so you can now store the first lexicographical data on Wikidata (T191457)
 * Fixing the encoding issues on labels of items linked on Lexemes (T195470, T195359)
 * Fixed an issue that was preventing adding Forms and Lexemes in statements (T195402)
 * Suppressed the browser's autocomplete that covers WikibaseLexeme's suggestion on Special:NewLexeme (T195383, T191526)
 * Worked on a bug about representation overwriting other representation with the same language code (T193636)
 * Changed title of the field of a lemma language to make it less likely for people to add a translation as a second Lemma (T193603)
 * Working on the RDF mapping of WikibaseLexeme (T160260)
 * Working on implementing fulltext search for Lexemes (T189739)
 * Working on showing Lemmas for linked Lexemes instead of just their ID on special pages like Special:AllPages (T195382)
 * Fixing issues that happened after dropping an index from the wb_terms table (T194270, T195642, T195611)
 * Made constraint check result appear directly after adding a new statement (T194247)
 * Working on looking up entities by external identifiers on Special:Search (T99899)
 * Added Docker image to Wikibase website (T189936)
 * Added WikibaseImport script to Docker images to make it easier for people to start their own Wikibase install with some data imported from Wikidata (T192080)

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.


 * 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!

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