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Wikidata weekly summary #292
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: 34th Chaos Communication Congress, 27-30 December, Leipzig, Germany. The Wikidata team will be there
 * WikiCite 2018
 * Get your vocabularies in Wikidata... so Europeana and others can get them
 * Moths and me
 * Quality and collaboration in Wikidata
 * The Tom Longboat Awards as Wikidata
 * GLOWing the extra mile
 * Seven translation tools you can use to work in multiple languages across Wikimedia projects


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New tool by YMS to help with vandalism fighting. Give it a try and catch some vandals?
 * Version 0.8.0 of the Wikidata Toolkit have been released. There is a short survey to figure out in which directions to move the library.
 * You can try the Wikidata fulltext search prototype and give feedback
 * You can also tell us what could be improved with the entity suggester
 * The Geo dashboard shows a map on the most used items in Wikipedia and co in a given category
 * Consultation on Blocking tools and improvements
 * New documentation page with information about publishing open data that we can use when talking to institutions about why they should publish their data openly
 * Cou can try the prototype to improve the term box and give feedback


 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: OpenSecrets organization ID, Oireachtas member ID, Environmental Register code (Estonia), geomorphological unit, Dictionnaire des peintres belges ID, Carnegie Museum of Art ID, Nintendo Game Store ID, National Gallery of Victoria artwork ID, National Gallery of Art artwork ID, Eldoblaje original actor ID, Eldoblaje dubbing actor ID, constraint scope, MAVISE company ID, MAVISE competent authority ID, MAVISE on-demand audiovisual service ID, MAVISE TV channel ID, appears in the form of, Indianapolis Museum of Art artwork ID, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston object ID, EMLO location ID, Hall of Light Amiga database ID, Sjukvårdsrådgivningen Category ID, tabular software version, USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame athlete ID, Buenos Aires legislator ID, Cinemagia actor ID, Cinemagia film ID
 * Query examples:
 * Map with radio telescopes around the world (source)
 * People born on the same day their mother died (source)
 * Largest first-level administrative subdivision by country (source)
 * Data sets released under a Creative Commons NoDerivatives license (source)
 * Type foundries and their typefaces (source)
 * Map of Christmas traditions (source)
 * Movies that are Christmas traditions (source)
 * Newest database reports: list of Christmas films


 * Development
 * Due to the Christmas and New Year's Eve holidays, no deployment will happen before January 3rd.
 * Monolingual language codes for Old French (fro) and Middle French (frm) added (T181823)
 * Finishing touches on storing statements on Forms
 * No longer checking constraints on the property example statements (T183267)
 * More work on caching constraint check results so we can roll out constraint checking for all logged in users


 * 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!

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 11:54, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #293
Here's your first Wikidata Weekly Summary of the year 2018 (Calendar: Gregorian)! 
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: Wikidata team and volunteers were at 34C3. Check the videos, the tweets, a new design made by Bleeptrack for a cake. Videos of Wikidata-related workshops will be published soon.
 * Upcoming: Cultural heritage Wikidata workshop in Prague, 13th January 2018
 * Using Scholia as Open Notebook Science tool to support literature searching


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New tool that allow users to fill labels and descriptions to Wikidata items en masse
 * Change on the editing interface: save becomes publish. Please help translating in your language and update documentation


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Minneapolis Institute of Art ID, CHGIS ID, Guardiana ID, Barnes Foundation ID, VOGRIPA ID, Rugby Canada ID, Ent'revues ID, World of Spectrum ID, Smithsonian American Art Museum ID, HATVP ID, Google Arts & Culture partner ID, Google Arts & Culture asset ID, Cairn journal ID, Canal-U channel ID, Conseil de Presse Luxembourg journalist ID, Historic Place Names of Wales ID, CIQUAL2017 ID, GEMS Code, Arquivo Arq ID, Argentine deputy ID, American Art Collaborative object ID


 * Query examples:
 * Landlocked countries bordering coastal countries (source)
 * Most common years of birth in Wikidata (source)
 * Map of lighthouses around the world (source)
 * Bubble chart showing countries with the highest number of children out of school in 2013 (source)
 * Playwright dead in 1947 (whose works are now in Public Domain) (source)


 * Development
 * Fixed a problem with references in history of items (T182767) Thanks to Matěj Suchánek who helped providing a workaround
 * Make statements on forms persistent for lexicographical data (T163724)
 * Fix a bug that removed the collapse button (T175492)
 * Remove cache constraint check results on purge (T182107)
 * Add sitelinks to hif.wiktionary (T180785)
 * Read constraint check results from cache and check freshness (T182106)
 * Re-label the "Save" links to "Publish" (T161367)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * 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!

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:43, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2018-02
 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
 * On Wikidata, the "" button when you edit is now called "". This means all Wikimedia wikis have now changed from "" to "". This is to help new editors understand what it does.
 * Some edits will get an automatic tag on all wikis. This will happen when making a page a redirect, blanking a page, removing almost all content, undoing an edit, or rolling back an edit. You can see the tags for example in the recent changes feed, article history, user contributions or on your watchlist. Some wikis had already marked edits like these in other ways.
 * Special:UnusedFiles shows files that have been uploaded but are not used. It will show a file that is not used on the wiki it has been uploaded to, even if the file is used on another wiki. The new Special:GloballyUnusedFiles page on Commons only shows files that are not used on any wiki.
 * Structured discussions now uses the 2017 wikitext editor instead of its old custom one. This will work with your preference for wikitext or visual editor. The documentation has been updated.

Problems
 * Older versions of the Chrome web browser on mobile devices may see the PDF download button, but it does not work. The developers are looking into the problem.
 * With the new filters in the recent changes, "" in "" did not work for "" between 13 December and 2 January. When you loaded the saved filter all other namespaces were excluded instead. This has now been fixed. If you made any changes to your saved filters between 13 December and 2 January, you need to save your filters with excluded namespaces again.
 * The latest version of Google Chrome broke how section links are shown in the address bar. You now see  instead of   even if MediaWiki did not encode it that way. This happened in early December. This problem has been solved. The fix will be in Chrome 64 (23 January) or Chrome 65 (6 March).
 * Octicons-tools.svg Some POST requests to the API took longer than usual in parts of December. This affected the Wikidata UI and some gadgets the most. It has now been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * Wikidata will be moved to its own database servers. This is because it is growing and needs more resources. Because of this you will be able to read but not edit Wikidata and the German Wikipedia between 06:00 and 06:30 UTC on 9 January. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. This includes editing the language links on other wikis.
 * The font size in the editing window will change slightly for some users. It will now look the same on all browsers and operating systems.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 January. It will be on all wikis from 11 January (calendar).
 * Octicons-tools.svg WikiEditor's ResourceLoader modules have been simplified to one: . All the other modules are now deprecated aliases and should be removed.

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 9 January at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * 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 10 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Wikidata weekly summary #294
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Jarekt
 * New request for comments: Changes to P2737 and P2738, Privacy and Living People


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: IRC office hour on January 30th - you can share ideas for topics to discuss
 * Call for papers for WikiIndaba is open
 * Scholarship applications for Wikimania are open
 * Registration is open for the Wikimedia hackathon
 * Paper submission deadline for Wiki Workshop (part of The Web Conference) is closing later this month
 * The Tom Longboat Awards as Wikidata - Mita Williams
 * Using the Semantic Web to Improve Knowledge of Translations - Karen Smith-Yoshimura (OCLC)
 * There is no deadline so every second is one: on anxiety, perfectionism, and Wikimedia projects by Léna
 * ''Up2date software versions for Wikidata by Michi


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata will be in read-only mode on January 9th from 06:00 to 06:30 UTC
 * The WikidataCon 2017 report has been published
 * Results of two research projects for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons have just been published:
 * Supporting Commons contributions by GLAM institutions: an overview of how cultural institutions contribute to Wikimedia Commons, and which issues they encounter there
 * Baseline Metrics for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons: an overview of measurable behaviors on Wikimedia Commons, against which the effectiveness of structured data can be measured in the future
 * You can start organizing an event for Wikidata's 6th birthday in October 2018
 * A short summary of the workshop with historians using Wikibase to collect data about the Illuminati has been published at Wikidata:FactGrid
 * How would the World look like if countries were as large as their Wikidata items are used across the Wikimedia projects?
 * New catalogs in Mix'n'match - for example Rolling Stone artist]
 * New tool: Hub


 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: MuBE Virtual ID, Basketball-Reference.com WNBA coach ID, Basketball-Reference.com NBA coach ID, Académie française member ID, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres member ID, Guide to North American Birds ID, title page number, Walters Art Museum ID, Minneapolis Institute of Art artwork ID, CHGIS ID, Guardiana ID, Barnes Foundation ID, VOGRIPA ID, Rugby Canada ID, Ent'revues ID, World of Spectrum ID, Smithsonian American Art Museum ID
 * Query examples:
 * Events starting in 2017 and ending in 2018, shortest duration first (source)
 * Newest database reports: days of 2018


 * Development
 * Tweaked the ranking of the results in the entity suggester
 * Finished persistently storing edits of statements on forms (T163724)
 * Cleaned up some of the hard-coded demo data on the demo system for lexicographical data
 * Working on diff support for Forms on Lexemes (T182424)
 * Prevented checking of constraints on "Wikidata property example" statements (T183267)
 * Added link to the property's talk page to the constraint violation dialog to guide people there to discuss the constraint if necessary (T164351)


 * 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!

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 20:34, 8 January 2018 (UTC)