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Wikidata weekly summary #234
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 

Thanks to everyone who celebrated the birthday by organizing or attending to an event, letting a message on Wikidata or on the social networks, writing a story or creating a present!
 * Fourth birthday: thank you!

Here's the list of the birthday presents from the community and development team:
 * d:Template:User Wikidata birthday 2016 (Pigsonthewing)
 * A new version of the map showing all the Wikidata items with geolocalisation (Addshore)
 * Wikidata's 4th birthday logo (Incabell)
 * A new release of the Wikipedia and Wikidata Tools for Google Spreadsheets add-on has made working with Wikidata a lot easier for Google Sheets users. (Tomayac)
 * A guide to SPARQL and the Wikidata Query Service (TweetsFactsAndQueries)
 * Four new types of charts for the Query Service: line chart, bar chart, scatter chart and area chart! Read more and try examples in the documentation (Jonas)
 * , a new parser function is currently in development with better features: try it here! (Thiemo, Wikidata dev team and volunteers)
 * Search field added in Scholia, a tool to create scholarship profiles (fnielsen)
 * Technical documentation about Wikibase for PHP and JS scripts (Ladsgroup and Jonas)
 * new feature for the graph view in the Query Service: it can now browse the properties of items. see in the video (Jonas)
 * graph builder tool for the query service to create and export graphs (demo video) (Jonas, [[d:user:Smalyshev (WMF)|Smalyshev)
 * d:Module:PropertyPath and d:Template:Show Path Items (TomT0m)
 * Everything is connected, a knowledge game based on Wikidata and Commons (list of levels) (Denny)


 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Editing descriptions from Wikipedia Android app


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Histropedia: “The power of data visualisation combined with free knowledge” on WMF's blog
 * Presenting the Wikidata Human Gender Indicators by Max Klein
 * How the world’s first Wikidata Visiting Scholar created linked open data for five thousand works of art on WMF's blog


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Music in Canada at 150 Wikipedia Project, a multifaceted campaign to increase the amount and quality of content about Canadian music in Wikipedia and Wikidata
 * 400,000,000th edit was made.
 * The average amount of statements per item became higher than five and is still growing.
 * Wikidata entities usage on Wikimedia projects


 * 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:
 * Continents on Wikidata (All eleven of them) (source)
 * Sluices on the river "Vilaine" in Brittany (source)
 * Countries with most cities named after saints (source)
 * Disney characters who share name with their actors (source)
 * 204 items that cite themselves (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20statements%20with%20two%20references%20where%20one%20source%20cites%20the%20other%0ASELECT%20%3Fsubject%20%3FsubjectLabel%20%3FpropertyLabel%20%3FobjectLabel%20%3Fsource1Label%20%3Fsource2Label%0AWITH%20%7B%20%23%20subquery%20that%20actually%20finds%20the%20statements%20and%20sources%20%28written%20as%20named%20subquery%20to%20ensure%20it%E2%80%99s%20only%20run%20once%2C%20independently%20of%20the%20rest%20of%20the%20query%3B%20see%20https%3A%2F%2Fwiki.blazegraph.com%2Fwiki%2Findex.php%2FNamedSubquery%29%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fstatement%20%3Fsource1%20%3Fsource2%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fstatement%20prov%3AwasDerivedFrom%2Fpr%3AP248%20%3Fsource1%2C%20%3Fsource2.%20%23%20statement%20has%20two%20%E2%80%9Cstated%20in%E2%80%9D%20references%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fsource1%20wdt%3AP2860%20%3Fsource2.%20%23%20first%20source%20cites%20the%20second%20one%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Fsource1%20%21%3D%20%3Fsource2%29.%20%23%20apparently%20some%20items%20cite%20themselves%3F%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25results%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25results.%0A%20%20%23%20auxiliary%20query%20to%20find%20the%20subject%2C%20property%20and%20object%20of%20the%20statement%2C%20as%20well%20as%20labels%0A%20%20%3Fsubject%20%3Fp%20%3Fstatement.%0A%20%20%3Fstatement%20%3Fps%20%3Fobject.%0A%20%20%3Fproperty%20a%20wikibase%3AProperty%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3Aclaim%20%3Fp%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AstatementProperty%20%3Fps.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D Statements with two references where one source cites the other] (source)


 * Development
 * Stable interface policy update
 * More work on federation in order to be able to use Wikidata's items and properties to describe media files on Wikimedia Commons in the future (T149580)
 * Worked on first version of Lexeme entity type (T148139)
 * Worked more on linking values in Lua and the property parser function instead of just returning the label (T142940) You can test it here: https://de.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Statements
 * Improved map layer colors in the query service (T148022)
 * Improved size of map markers in the query service (T148496)
 * Upcoming: quantity changes
 * Worked more on automated sitelinks for Wiktionary (T987) Test system is coming in the next days.

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) 15:08, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-45
 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
 * Victoria Coleman is the new Chief technology officer for the Wikimedia Foundation.
 * First release candidate for MediaWiki 1.28 is now available.
 * Octicons-tools.svg for MediaWiki branches and extensions switched from targeting a specific branch to using.
 * Section numbers in Table of Contents boxes will use grey to improve readability.

Changes this week
 * The 2016 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 7 November.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 8th. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 9th. It will be on all wikis from November 10th (calendar).
 * Special:ActiveUsers will allow users groups selection.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 8 November 2016 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are Image Thumbnail API and allow SVG files uploaded on MediaWiki to have XHTML namespaces. The meeting will be on 9 November at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * RevisionSlider will be enabled by default on all beta wikis, on testwiki, testwiki2, mediawikiwiki and de.wikipedia.org.
 * Upcoming holidays will impact deployments. The schedule has been published.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  23:01, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

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