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Wikidata weekly summary #211
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) 18:24, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Standards for property proposal discussions, Semi-automatic Addition of References to Wikidata Statements
 * Import of Wiki Loves Monuments database
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: WikiCite (including links to documentation etherpads)
 * interview with Open Science Radio
 * Past: Gulaschprogrammiernacht (video)
 * Ben Whishaw, Broadway, La Rada et WWikidata
 * Meet TED’s Wikipedians-in-Residence
 * Orte, die mit 'ow' oder 'itz' enden
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff [[File:Facilitating the use of Wikidata in Wikimedia projects with a user-centered design approach.pdf|thumb]]
 * Charlie published her thesis about editing Wikidata directly from Wikipedia and co
 * Learning pattern about using data of Wikipedia and Wikidata in Google spreadsheet
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Library of the National Congress of Argentina ID, Minitel, SureChEMBL ID, type of unit for this property, property usage tracking category, PubChem BioAssay ID (AID), time in space, tourist office, miRBase mature miRNA ID, miRBase pre-miRNA ID, record or record progression, has role, Molenecho's ID, Hollandsche Molen ID, Band number, OpenCritic ID, Nederlandse Molendatabase ID, Catalogus Professorum Academiae Rheno-Traiectinae ID, Leidse Hoogleraren ID, cites, X-SAMPA Code, KLOV ID, WWE.com superstar ID, EU Surface Water Body Code, VAT-rate, disease burden, electrical plug type, emergency phone number, payment types accepted, iTunes artist ID
 * Query examples: Fictional universes with most fictional planets (source), main subject of West Wing episodes (source), places with free wifi (source), citation network of paper about Zika (source), taxons and what they are named after (source), billionaires (source), animals that were executed (source), chemical elements and their isotopes by number of neutrons (min/max) (source), popes with children (source), birthplaces of astronauts (source)
 * Development
 * Worked on fix for issue with language fallback in main part of header (T135714)
 * More work on support for Commons - main focus right now is on making it possible to actually store a new entity without jumping through hoops
 * Fixing a bug in Internet Explorer with prevents editing (T136543)
 * Worked on more blockers for next deployment of the ArticlePlaceholder (T135624)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Wikidata weekly summary #212
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) 14:28, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Upcoming: OpenData.ch
 * Upcoming: HackHPI
 * Upcoming: ELAG
 * Documentation of the outcomes of WikiCite
 * Wikidata showing chemical properties with references
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * SQID now also shows references for statements and received a whole bunch of other nice features
 * wikidata-cli now has a wdsparql command to work with SPARQL from the command line
 * It seems we already have almost 0.4% of the current population of Finland on Wikidata.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: exact match, reserve number (Canada), Shakeosphere person ID, mains voltage, HKMDb film ID, relegated, promoted, NIOSHTIC-2 ID
 * Query examples: body of water with the most watercourses ending in it (source), French communes with names ending in ac (source), birthplaces of Europeana280 artists (source), popular eye colors (source)
 * Development
 * Fixed the bug where the language selector in Special:NewItem doesn't recognize certain languages (T115792)
 * Fixed issues that prevented editing in Internet Explorer (T136543)
 * Added new visualization to the query service to visualize graphs like family trees. It is now deployed yet but will come soon.
 * Worked on new visualization for the query service to visualize results with data on different dimensions
 * Improved build and deploy process for the query service. The site should load faster now.
 * Improved the formatting of dates and more in the query service.
 * More fixes to get ArticlePlaceholder ready for the second round of wikis
 * Worked on a fix for the issue where sometimes an old label is shown in the main header of an item (T135714)
 * 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!
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 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 June. It will be on all wikis from 9 June (calendar).

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