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Wikidata weekly summary #250
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * International Open Data Day was on Saturday, 4 March (tweets about Wikidata)
 * Wikidata documentation sprint during the Wikimedia hackathon (May 19-21): We need your help to improve Wikidata help pages!
 * Getting to know Wikidata (from Bob DuCharme, author of the book "learning SPARQL")
 * Tutorial to mashup Wikidata and government data with Dataiku DSS and Palladio (fr)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Library of Congress updated their inventory of Format Description Documents to include Wikidata URIs
 * Surfacing Wikidata objects with coordinates to match them with OSM
 * The Wikiproject Welcome has been created to work on welcoming the new editors, feel free to participate


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: FIH player ID, seed dispersal, number of works, inflorescence, minimum wavelength of electromagnetic sensitivity, maximum wavelength of electromagnetic sensitivity, Eurovision Song Contest song ID, Ghetto Encyclopedia ID, category for value same as Wikidata, MOOMA artist ID, PhilPapers record, Serbia cadastral municipality ID, next higher rank, next lower rank, New Zealand Heritage List number, Serbia municipality ID, Eu-football.info player ID, CEV player ID, USHMM Holocaust Encyclopedia ID, USCG Lighthouse ID, Commons maps category, public key fingerprint


 * Query examples:
 * Countries with similar populations (source)
 * Items that have "feminist art" as a value (source)
 * Books, incipits, concatenating a sentence to the incipit (source and inspiration)
 * Paintings by Vermeer depicting maps (source)
 * Painters sorted by the number of Wikipedia articles about their works (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Fashion


 * Development
 * Finishing touches on the new geo shape data type. It is available on the first test wiki now (T57549).
 * SetLabel, SetDescription, SetAliases, SetLabelDescriptionAliases, SetSiteLink have been migrated to ooUI. Thanks, Ricordisamoa! (T48248)
 * Making progress on integrating the new Lexeme entity type with the wbeditentity API (T155699).

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) 14:34, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-10
 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 search on English, French, Hebrew and Greek wikis and find words even if you forget the diacritics. It also works if you use diacritics in your search but the wiki doesn't.
 * When you use the mobile view and click on a link to an article in another language you will see that article in the mobile view. Previously it changed to the desktop view.

Problems
 * Some watchlist gadgets didn't work for a period of time last week. This has now been fixed.
 * Admins who click on "mass delete" on a user's Special:Contributions will be taken directly to a list pages created by that user. It has worked like this before, but not lately.

Changes this week
 * The way you switch between wikitext and the visual editors in the desktop view has changed. It is now a drop-down menu. This is the same as in the mobile view.
 * The "flag the edit in the abuse log" checkbox will be removed from the abuse filter interface. This is because the edits are always flagged in the abuse log.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 March. It will be on all wikis from 9 March (calendar).

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 7 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Clarification
 * The 2017/09 issue of Tech News mentioned 3D file formats you can soon upload to Commons. The AMF format will be available later.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  23:23, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2017-11
 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 this week
 * You will be able to show references from  tags in more than one column on your wiki. This is the list of footnotes for the sources in the article. How many columns you see will depend on how big your screen is. On some wikis, some templates already do this. Templates that use   tags will need to be updated, and then later the change can happen for all reference lists.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 March. It will be on all wikis from 16 March (calendar).

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 14 March at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Some old web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis in the future. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can upgrade to a newer version.
 * Octicons-tools.svg CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  15:25, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #251
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Ladies that FOSS, March 15th, 18:00, Berlin. Meetup dedicated to women who want to start coding for Wikidata, Mediawiki or other open source software
 * Wikidata workshop in Manchester, March 17th, 10:00, at the Manchester Central Library (information)
 * Wikidata workshop in Paris, March 17th, 20:30. More questions about SPARQL and the Query Service (information and registration)
 * Would you like to attend to a Wikidata meetup in Berlin? You can choose the next date!
 * Wizards, Muggles and Wikidata: The Room of Requirements for structured knowledge by Jens Ohlig, John Cummings and Navino Evans
 * Wikidata for winners (in Economics) by Martin Poulter
 * Des Successions à Wikidata : vers un réseau social des philosophes antiques ? (fr) by Pierre-Carl Langlais


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Do you want to help watching the recent changes? Have a look at this useful collection of links by YMS
 * Watch the gender gap on Wikipedia and Wikidata with this tool by Envlh
 * Play Stadt, Fluss, Land with Wikidata! (by Knut)
 * Deadline for submitting a presentation for Wikimania 2017 is March 30th: discuss about ideas or ask for help
 * WMF is hiring a program manager, a product manager and a community liaison to work on the structured data project on Commons


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: pole position, MIMO instrument ID, openMLOL author ID, IPv4 range, Iditarod musher ID, SAHRA heritage site ID, DOCOMOMO Ibérico ID, average space complexity, best-case space complexity, worst-case space complexity, average performance, best-case performance, worst-case performance, Shoftim BeIsrael judge ID, KMDb documentary ID, Google Maps CID, Israel Football Association player ID, SSRN author ID, Wildflowers of Israel ID, World Rugby Sevens Series ID, number of subscribers, ITU/ISO/IEC object identifier


 * Query examples:
 * List of female bioinformaticians/computational biologists (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20most%20gender-imbalanced%20occupations%20in%20%3Fcountry%20citizens%0ASELECT%20%3FoccupationLabel%20%3Fwomen%20%3Fmen%20WITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Foccupation%20%28SUM%28%3Fwoman%29%20AS%20%3Fwomen%29%20%28SUM%28%3Fman%29%20AS%20%3Fmen%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28wd%3AQ30%20AS%20%3Fcountry%29.%20%23%20substitute%20country%20of%20your%20choice%20here%20%28remove%20the%20Q30%2C%20hit%20Ctrl%2BSpace%20and%20start%20typing%20the%20country%20name%2C%20select%20the%20right%20one%20from%20the%20suggestions%20with%20the%20arrow%20keys%20and%20insert%20it%20with%20Enter%29%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP27%20%3Fcountry%3B%20%23%20remove%20this%20to%20search%20world-wide%20%E2%80%93%20results%20in%20query%20timeout%20unless%20you%20reduce%20the%20dataset%20in%20some%20other%20fashion%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP106%2Fps%3AP106%20%3Foccupation.%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ6581097.%20BIND%281%20AS%20%3Fman%29.%20%7D%20UNION%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ2449503.%20BIND%281%20AS%20%3Fman%29.%20%7D%20UNION%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ6581072.%20BIND%281%20AS%20%3Fwoman%29.%20%7D%20UNION%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ1052281.%20BIND%281%20AS%20%3Fwoman%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20TODO%20consider%20how%20to%20count%20P21%3A%20Q48270%20%28genderqueer%29%20and%20Q1097630%20%28intersex%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Foccupation%0A%7D%20AS%20%25results%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25results.%20%23%20subquery%20as%20optimization%3A%20don%E2%80%99t%20make%20the%20label%20service%20fetch%20labels%20for%20every%20%3Fperson%20in%20the%20subquery%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%0A%20%20%23%20divide%20%3Fvariable%2B1%20instead%20of%20%3Fvariable%20to%20avoid%20division%20by%20zero%0A%20%20%23%20%28unfortunately%2C%20we%20can%E2%80%99t%20use%20ABS%28LOG%28x%2Fy%29%29%20instead%20of%20the%20IF%28%29%20because%20SPARQL%20has%20no%20LOG%20function%29%0A%20%20DESC%28IF%28%3Fwomen%20%3E%20%3Fmen%2C%20%28%3Fwomen%2B1%29%2F%28%3Fmen%2B1%29%2C%20%28%3Fmen%2B1%29%2F%28%3Fwomen%2B1%29%29%29%0A%20%20%23%20if%20the%20ratio%20is%20the%20same%2C%20show%20results%20with%20more%20people%20in%20total%20first%0A%20%20DESC%28%3Fwomen%2B%3Fmen%29 Most gender-imbalanced occupations in US citizens] (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20awards%20received%20by%20more%20women%20than%20men%0ASELECT%20%3Faward%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Flabel%29%20AS%20%3FawardLabel%29%20%3Fwomen%20%3Fmen%20WITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Faward%20%28SUM%28%3Fwoman%29%20AS%20%3Fwomen%29%20%28SUM%28%3Fman%29%20AS%20%3Fmen%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP166%2Fps%3AP166%20%3Faward.%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ6581097.%20BIND%281%20AS%20%3Fman%29.%20%7D%20UNION%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ2449503.%20BIND%281%20AS%20%3Fman%29.%20%7D%20UNION%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ6581072.%20BIND%281%20AS%20%3Fwoman%29.%20%7D%20UNION%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ1052281.%20BIND%281%20AS%20%3Fwoman%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Faward%0A%20%20HAVING%28%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20more%20women%20than%20men%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwomen%20%3E%20%3Fmen%20%26%26%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20but%20exclude%20women-only%20awards%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fmen%20%3E%200%0A%20%20%29%0A%7D%20AS%20%25results%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25results.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Faward%20wdt%3AP1448%20%3FofficialName.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Faward%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FenLabel.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FenLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Faward%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FanyLabel.%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND%28COALESCE%28%3FofficialName%2C%20%3FenLabel%2C%20%3FanyLabel%29%20AS%20%3Flabel%29.%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Faward%20%3Fwomen%20%3Fmen%0AORDER%20BY%20STR%28%3FawardLabel%29 Awards received by more women than men] (source)
 * Transgender characters played by trangender actors/actresses (source)
 * The most famous astronomical objects in Solar System according to Wikipedia sitelinks (source)
 * Natural arches around the globe (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Board Games
 * Newest external tools: official first release of WikidataIntegrator


 * Development
 * Converted undo/restore interface to use OOUI. You can test it here (T134643).
 * Fixed an other rounding issue on geo coordinates (T158772).
 * Added thumbnail images to the Wikimedia Commons suggester (T160319).
 * Continued working on introducing Lexeme entity type.
 * Finishing federation prototype.
 * We are going to change all snak, reference, and qualifier hashes with the planned DataModel 7.0 release. If you are a tool developer, make sure you do not persist hashes, and never use them to request edits to entities. Statement IDs are safe (T157965).
 * Removed unnecessary CSS on ooui special pages (T159702)
 * Allowed example queries to be searched for SPARQL commands (T154768)
 * Converted Wikibase interface for undoing/restoring a revision to OOUI (T134643)
 * Converted image header user script to gadget (T159929)
 * Started writing spec for technical data model for Wiktionary support (T150785)
 * Worked on providing API for constraint check (T102757)

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 - proposals needing attention
 * 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) 15:27, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

Weekly Summary #252
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin on March 31st
 * Upcoming: Datensummit in Berlin, April 29th. We're looking for Wikidata editors to help :)
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop in Rennes, March 22nd
 * A successful Wikidatathon about women's history in Puri, India
 * Wikidata as information source to support the Dutch elections
 * Quora: Adding Locations via Wikidata
 * Quora: Identifying Topics about People
 * How to quickly generate word analogy datasets with Wikidata by Finn Arup Nielsen


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Deadline for submitting a presentation for Wikimania 2017 is March 30th: discuss about ideas or ask for help
 * SWAT4LS 2016 poster Linking Wikidata to the Semantic Web
 * Mix’n’match interface update


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: FFA ID, European Athletics ID, All-Athletics.com ID


 * Query examples:
 * Gallery of authors of scientific articles that have been published on this day of the year (source)
 * Scholarly articles that have Wikipedia articles about them (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0A%23%20Faux%20Vermeer%20%0A%23%20Genre%2Fp136%20%3A%20faux%2FQ1400612%20%0A%23%20Cr%C3%A9ateur%2Fp170%20avec%20qualificateur%20d%27apr%C3%A8s%2FP1777%20Vermeer%2Fwd%3AQ41264%0ASELECT%20distinct%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fdate%20%28GROUP_CONCAT%28distinct%20%3FcreaLb%3B%20separator%3D%22%20-%20%22%29%20as%20%3Fcreateur%29%20%3Fimg%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP136%20wd%3AQ1400612%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP170%20%3Fcrea%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimg%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP170%20%5B%20pq%3AP1777%20wd%3AQ41264%20%5D%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP571%20%3Fdeclarationdate%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20MINUS%20%7B%3Fdeclarationdate%20pq%3AP1319%20%3Fpasavant%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20MINUS%20%7B%3Fdeclarationdate%20pq%3AP1480%20wd%3AQ5727902%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fdeclarationdate%20ps%3AP571%20%3Fdateunique%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%20%28year%28%3Fdateunique%29%20AS%20%3Fdate%29%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20MINUS%20%7B%3Fdeclarationdate%20pq%3AP1319%20%3Fpasavant%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fdeclarationdate%20pq%3AP1480%20wd%3AQ5727902.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fdeclarationdate%20ps%3AP571%20%3Fdateunique%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%20%28CONCAT%28%22c.%22%2CSTR%28year%28%3Fdateunique%29%29%29%20AS%20%3Fdate%29%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fdeclarationdate%20pq%3AP1319%20%3Fpasavant%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fdeclarationdate%20pq%3AP1326%20%3Fpasapres.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%20%28CONCAT%28STR%28year%28%3Fpasavant%29%29%2C%22-%22%2CSTR%28year%28%3Fpasapres%29%29%29%20AS%20%3Fdate%29%7D%0A%20%20%3Fcrea%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FcreaLb%20.%20filter%20%28lang%28%3FcreaLb%29%20%3D%20%22fr%22%29%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7Bbd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22fr%22%7D%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fdate%20%3Fimg%20 False Vermeer works] (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AGraph%0APREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20gas%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bigdata.com%2Frdf%2Fgas%23%3E%0A%0Aselect%20%3Fauthor%20%3FauthorLabel%20%3Fwork%20%3FworkLabel%20where%20%7B%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20select%20%3Fwork%20%3Fauthor%20where%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20service%20gas%3Aservice%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20gas%3Aprogram%20gas%3AgasClass%20%22com.bigdata.rdf.graph.analytics.BFS%22%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20gas%3Ain%20wd%3AQ173746%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20gas%3Atarget%20wd%3AQ25975509%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20gas%3AtraversalDirection%20%22Undirected%22%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20gas%3Aout%20%3Fwork%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20gas%3Aout1%20%3Fdepth%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20gas%3Aout2%20%3Fpredecessor%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20gas%3AlinkType%20wdt%3AP50%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20gas%3AmaxIterations%2012%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20gas%3AmaxVisited%202000%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fwork%20wdt%3AP50%20%3Fauthor%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20union%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bind%28wd%3AQ25975509%20as%20%3Fwork%29%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwork%20wdt%3AP50%20%3Fauthor%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20 From Natalie Portman to Paul Erdös graph] (source)


 * Development
 * Fixing a bug on the save button (T159244)
 * Fixing a bug with the link to the Query Service on an ember query (T156013)
 * More work on Federation (T157442, T158169)
 * Fixing a bug on geoformats (T158772)
 * Fixing a bug on the treemap view (T160320) Thanks EdouardHue for the patch!
 * More groundwork on Lexemes (T157791)
 * Show thumbnails in commons suggester (T160319)
 * Fixing a bug on coordinate (T153429)
 * Applying WikimediaUI color palette to Wikibase (T151194)
 * Writing spec for technical data model for Wiktionary support (T150785)
 * Working on providing API for constraint check (T102757)

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 - proposals needing attention
 * 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: 2017-12
 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  button now says   or   on the Wikimedia wikis except for Wikipedias and Wikinewses. This change will come to Wikipedias later. The point is to make it more clear that the edit will change the page immediately.   is when you save a new page and   when you edit an existing page.
 * DMOZ no longer works. Templates that use DMOZ can be redirected to archive.org or another mirror. DMOZ has been removed from the RelatedSites extension on Wikivoyage.
 * You can see monthly page views when you click on  in the sidebar. Developers can also get monthly page views through the API.
 * The Linter extension is now on smaller Wikimedia wikis. It helps editors find some wikitext errors so they can be fixed. It will come to other Wikimedia wikis later. The extension will be able to find more errors later.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The MediaWiki-Vagrant portable development environment has been updated to use Debian Jessie. This means local development and testing will be more like on the majority of Wikimedia production servers.

Problems
 * On 15 March some interwiki links to other languages were not correctly sorted. This has been fixed. If you still see pages where the interwiki links are not sorted as they should be, they should be fixed automatically with time or you can edit the page and save it without changing anything. If this doesn't work, please report it.

Changes this week
 * When you edit with the visual editor, you will be able to switch the direction you write in from right-to-left to left-to-right as you are editing. This is especially important for editors who edit in languages that write from right to left. You can do this with a tool in the editing menu. You can also use the keyboard shortcut + +  on PCs or  + +  on Macs.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 March. It will be on all wikis from 23 March (calendar).

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 21 March at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Paywall source / Garson
But the source doesn't mention anything about Garson! Govvy (talk) 23:39, 22 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Govvy, I'm assuming this is about Willie Garson? You are correct that the first paragraph doesn't. Do you have evidence that the whole source doesn't mention him? Stuartyeates (talk) 23:49, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Nope, but the source voids out because it's behind a paywall, the first paragraph doesn't mention him and it fails to deliver. These paywall sources aren't good for wikipedia. Govvy (talk) 23:58, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Please read WP:PAYWALL. Stuartyeates (talk) 00:01, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #253
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;"> This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-03-27.


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, Friday, March 31st at 19:30 in Neukölln
 * Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, April 5th, 16:00 UTC, on
 * A tool to estimate gender gap on Wikidata and Wikipedia (source)
 * (fr) Odonymie rennaise : que nous apprend Wikidata sur les noms des voies de Rennes ? (source)
 * Wikidata's excellent sample SPARQL queries by Bob DuCharme
 * 10 steps to integrate CIViCdb with other public data in Wikidata


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * RFC: Wikidata → OSM lookup table
 * Participate to the definition of the Wikimedia movement's strategy
 * The deadline for Wikimania talks submission has been extended to April 10th (check what we're planning around Wikidata)
 * Conceptual documentation for the Lexemes and examples (feel free to help translating)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: FI WarSampo army unit ID, KMRB film rating, FI WarSampo person ID, film script, volcano observatory, BoF person ID, Bivouac.com pass ID, Elle.fr person ID, Evidence & Conclusion Ontology ID, Parks.it ID, YerelNET district ID, The Numbers movie ID, S2A3 Biographical Database ID, Mapa place ID, Tax-exempt heritage asset ID, TV Guide show ID, original film format, Launchpad.net project ID, INEGI municipality ID, Safsal coach ID, Safsal player ID, Star Wars Databank ID, autonomous system number, Bureau of Meteorology station ID, Flora of Israel plant ID, Dictionary of Sydney ID, IPv6 routing prefix, rate of fire, Art Renewal Center ID, AnimeCons.com ID, Telegram username, BNA author ID, danskefilm silent film ID, danskefilm person ID, danskefilm film ID, CiteSeerX ID, Christie's work ID, Artnet artist ID, has active ingredient, active ingredient in, negative allosteric modulator of, positive allosteric modulator of, antisense inhibitor of, inhibitor of, disrupting agent for, blocker of, antagonist of, agonist of, activator of, PeakFinder ID, It's Rugby ID, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain Book ID


 * Query examples:
 * Time zones that are more than 12 hours away from UTC (source)
 * Countries which have the same name as their capital in their official language (source)
 * Roman amphitheatres on Wikidata (source)
 * Sluices on canals in Bretagne (France) (source)
 * Newest database reports: film scripts
 * Showcase items: Wressle Castle (Q8037764)


 * Development
 * Fixing a bug that prevented users to edit descriptions in some non-latin alphabets (T161263)
 * Worked on Special:NewLexeme which will be used to create new Lexemes for supporting lexicographical data (T157973)
 * Aligned some more colors with Wikimedia color palete (T151194)
 * Added more autocompletion for the Wikidata Query Service (T150950)
 * Started working on support for Forms of words in the UI for supporting lexicographical data (T160520)

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 - proposals needing attention
 * 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: 2017-13
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Recent changes
 * When you edit with the visual editor, you can see a visual diff as well as a wikitext diff when you review your changes.

Problems
 * Special:AllPages was disabled for two days due to some performance issues. It is back, but the filter for redirects is gone as the cause of the performance problem. It still needs to be fixed.

Changes this week
 * New filters for Recent changes will be released on Portuguese and Polish Wikipedias and MediaWikiwiki on March 28. Other wikis will get it progressively. The new filters include filtering, highlighting and, on certain wikis, user intent prediction.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from March 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from March 29. It will be on all wikis from March 30 (calendar).

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Wikidata weekly summary #254
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Grenoble (France), April 4th (more info)
 * Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, April 5th, 16:00 UTC, on
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in London (UK), April 8th (more info)
 * Bunhill Fields: Wikimedia, gamification and richer media content
 * Biocuration 2017
 * Talk: Repurpos.us: A fully open and expandable drug repurposing portal by Sebastian Burgstaller-Muehlbacher, PhD
 * Poster: Best practices for data provenance in Wikidata by Gregory S. Stupp et al.
 * Poster: Using Shape Expressions (ShEx) to model, validate and curate Wikidata by Andra Waagmeester et al.
 * Five years ago, the development of Wikidata started


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Attention: Editing will be disabled during parts of April 19 and May 3, to allow a server switch
 * New filters for the Recent Changes will be deployed on April 11. (more info)
 * Data donation: Songkick have donated a datafile with 155K of their Songkick artist ID (P3478). ~45K are already matched, and the rest are in Mix'n'Match, awaiting your kind attention.
 * Query Service: you can now create a template to explain what your query is doing
 * new data type for geographical shapes will be enabled on April 24th
 * Several CC0 databases are now federated with the Query Service endpoint


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: located in present-day administrative territorial entity, Human Phenotype Ontology ID, slope rating, Tab4u artist ID, Tab4u song ID, United States Public Law, Pinterest username, Mendeley person ID, RTC film rating, diaspora, Europeana Fashion Vocabulary ID, object has role, CueTracker player ID, Publons author ID, wears, JSTOR topic ID, Welsh Rugby Union player ID, United States Statutes at Large citation, VTJ-PRT building ID, Ethnologue language status, rules for classification, Bangla Movie Database ID, Flanders Arts Institute venue ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of the megaliths of the World, coloured by type (showing some nice paterns, source)
 * French people without a gender (source)
 * Eldest members of noble families (source)
 * Map of places with population “zero” (0) (source)


 * External Tools News
 * wikidata-cli
 * new command: wd summary
 * improved support for custom Wikibase instances
 * wikidata-edit:
 * new function: remove claim
 * improved support for custom Wikibase instances
 * wikidata-sdk:
 * new function: simplify.entity
 * major documentation restructuration
 * wikidata-filter:
 * new filter criteria: sitelinks. Example of a query that times out on the SPARQL endpoint but that is now possible with wikidata-filter: Get all entities with a Chinese and a French Wikipedia article, keeping only id, labels, and sitelinks matching those languages
 * Monumental: brand new app for displaying heritage data


 * Development
 * A warm welcome to our new intern, Lucas Werkmeister! You may now him for his work on queries as WikidataFacts. He will work in the team for the next months.
 * Attending to Wikimedia Conference, talking with Wikidata and Wiktionary users
 * Improving performance on Special:Entities pages (T161631)
 * Tracking the number of identifier properties on an item in page_props (T114617)
 * More work on Senses (T161523) and Forms (T160524)
 * Improving the autocompletions of Query Service (T150950)

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 - proposals needing attention
 * 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: 2017-14
<section begin="technews-2017-W14"/> 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  button now says   or   on most Wikipedias. The point is to make it more clear that the edit will change the page immediately.   is when you save a new page and   when you edit an existing page.
 * The tracking category    : is now added when a template loop is found. A template loop is for example when a template tries to use a second template that uses the first template.
 * English Wikipedia now has cookie blocks. It will come to more wikis in the future. This is an extension to the autoblock system so when a user is blocked, the next time they visit the wiki a cookie will be set. This means that even if the user switches accounts and to a new IP address the cookie will block them again.

Problems
 * Wikidata descriptions, aliases and labels that used some characters could not be saved. This has now been fixed.

Changes this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 April. It will be on all wikis from 6 April (calendar).

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 4 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * You can join the next office hour with the Wikidata team. The meeting will be on 5 April at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * New filters for Recent changes will come to Wikidata and Persian, Dutch, Russian, Turkish, Czech and Hebrew Wikipedia on 11 April. The new filters include filtering, highlighting and user intent prediction. User intent prediction means the filter tries to help editors determine if the edit was made in good faith or not. Other wikis will get it later.

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Takapu Valley
I wrote an article on Takapu Valley which is one of the official suburbs of Wellington City, as you can see from the template at the bottom of the article (though like Makara Beach which is somewhat larger, it has only a small population on one road). Hence I think they each deserve their own article. Hugo999 (talk) 11:00, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi Hugo999, I've lived in Wellington most of my life and never heard of it, but apparently google maps has. At the end of the day this is a question of sources and I'm not sure the sources are there to be honest, but I'll not take it to AfD immediately. Stuartyeates (talk) 23:08, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
 * I would argue that official suburbs have inherent notability. Not all cities have them defined (e.g. suburbs or their boundaries aren't defined in Christchurch), but Wellington does.  Schwede 66  00:40, 4 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Is there a source for 'official suburbs' ? Stuartyeates (talk) 00:42, 4 April 2017 (UTC)
 * The 2013 census made Takapu an area unit. That's not the same as 'official suburb' but does suggest there is a community. Also, the growth in population of over 30% since the 2006 census seems quite impressive.- gadfium 01:20, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

Pinging @User:Schwede66, @User:Grutness and @User:Calvin Hogg as editors of Template:Suburbs of Wellington City, which appears to be the source of the claim that 'Takapu Valley' is an 'official suburb' Stuartyeates (talk) 03:53, 5 April 2017 (UTC)


 * The same map is hosted by Wellington City Council.  Schwede 66  05:09, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
 * That's a great map. It's also a primary source and thus not suitable for claims that these are 'official suburbs.' Stuartyeates (talk) 09:41, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Huh? Who else, other than a district or city council, would you expect to define official suburbs?  Schwede 66  18:15, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Well, the electoral commission and NZ Post have their own systems to start with, but that's not the point: a primary source is a primary source. Stuartyeates (talk) 21:12, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

What about this as a source? Grutness...<small style="color:#008822;">wha?  00:33, 6 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Isn't that the census block? It includes most of tawa, unlike the WCC area. Stuartyeates (talk) 00:51, 6 April 2017 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 21
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Wikidata weekly summary #255
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Zolo
 * New request for comments: Proposed client side disambiguation page


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * The Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) helps unlock millions of connections between scholarly research, on WMF blog, by Dario Taborelli
 * Le canal de Nantes à Brest sur Wikidata (fr) by Édouard Hue
 * Comprende!, a quiz interface on top of MediaWiki/WikiBase by Magnus Manske
 * Next Wikidata meetup in Berlin: April 26th, 18:00 in WMDE's office


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Deadline for submitting a talk, workshop or roundtable for Wikimania is today, April 10th, at midnight (UTC)!
 * There's now also a #100wikidays challenge on Wikidata, aptly named #100wikidatadays! It is a personal challenge in which a person very significantly improves (at least) one Wikidata items per day, for 100 days in a row. There was already a version of the challenge on various Wikipedias, on Commons and on Wikisource - now on Wikidata as well. Participate and make Wikidata shine!
 * New filters for Recent Changes: the beta deployment is rescheduled on May 9th
 * Grant application to extend the work of John Commings at UNESCO
 * New MapRoulette challenges: Add missing Wikidata ids to cities and capitals on OpenStreetMap
 * You can be a candidate for the Wikimedia Foundation's board of trustees
 * Log of the last IRC office hour with Wikidata development team
 * Help us translating this short message in your language


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: TV Guide person ID, Deutsche Synchronkartei film ID, DLV athlete ID


 * Query examples:
 * Notable integers
 * Longest streets of Moscow
 * Top 20 of heaviest humans in Wikidata (source)
 * Timeline of Paris marathons (source)
 * Countries not involved in any world war (source)
 * People whose place of birth is named after them (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Figure skating
 * Newest external tools: Sistercities, an overview of sister cities of German cities on Wikipedia and Wikidata
 * Newest database reports: list of duos


 * Development
 * Preparing for making more ArticlePlaceholder indexable by search engines on Welsh Wikipedia (T162244)
 * Preparing the deployments of Cognate and geoshape data type
 * Lexemes: starting adding sections for forms and senses

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 - proposals needing attention
 * 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: 2017-15
<section begin="technews-2017-W15"/> 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
 * Octicons-tools.svg Tidy is going to be replaced with an HTML5 parsing algorithm. Bad HTML in wikitext would cause problems on a number of wikis. There is now a ParserMigration extension on all wikis that you can use to help clean this up. You can read more about how you can use it.

Changes this week
 * Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis from this week. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can upgrade to a newer version.
 * New filters for Recent changes will come to Wikidata and Persian, Russian, Turkish and French Wikipedia on 11 April. The schedule has been changed to fix the user intent prediction filters for some wikis. User intent prediction means the filter tries to make it easier for editors to determine if the edit was made in good faith or not. Other wikis will get it later.
 * The list of special characters in the wikitext editor and the visual editor will now have a group of Canadian Aboriginal characters.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 April. It will be on all wikis from 13 April (calendar).

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 11 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April and 3 May. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this.
 * RevisionSlider will change how you move between revisions. This will be available on the test wiki from 11 April. It will come to other wikis later if users like the change. You can test it and give feedback.

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This Month in GLAM: March 2017
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Tech News: 2017-16
<section begin="technews-2017-W16"/> 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 add  to the end of the URL on Wikimedia wikis to disable your personal CSS and JavaScript. Example:  . This means you can test if a problem is because of your user scripts or gadgets without uninstalling them.
 * You can now see a list of all autoblocks on Special:AutoblockList.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Wikiversity and Wikinews logos are now shown directly from the configuration and not from . If you want to change logo or have an anniversary logo, see how to request a configuration change. This is how it already works for other projects. They can request logo changes the same way.

Problems
 * Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this. This will also happen on 3 May.

Changes this week
 * There is no new Mediawiki version this week. This is because of the data centre test.

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 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * stats.wikimedia.org will be replaced. You can see the new prototype. You can leave feedback on this change.
 * Page Previews will be turned on for logged-out users on a large number of wikis in May. It could be postponed and happen later. Page Previews shows readers a short part of a linked article when they rest their mouse pointer on the link. This is to help them understand what it is about without leaving the article they are reading. Page Previews used to be called Hovercards. Users who have tested the feature can give feedback.
 * Octicons-tools.svg From next week, user scripts using very old deprecated wikibits functions will show errors. These functions have not worked since 2013. You should fix or disable broken scripts. You can see examples of how to upgrade scripts.

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Wikidata weekly summary #256
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">

Events/Press/Blogs

 * Wikidata workshop in Paris, Friday, April 21st, about external tools
 * "Wikidata pour la science" training day in Paris, April 24th
 * Heritage in Flanders and Crowd-Sourced Projects - featuring Wikidata, Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap
 * The ACS Spring disclosures of 2017 #1 - about news drug compounds entering Wikidata

Other Noteworthy Stuff

 * Attention: Editing will be disabled during parts of April 19 and May 3, to allow a server switch
 * Wikidata description editing in the Wikipedia Android app to be deployed on several Wikipedias
 * More federated endpoints have been added (DBpedia, INSEE, UK Office for National Statistics...)
 * All UNESCO sites in Wikishootme
 * You can now cheat Stadt Fluss Land game with a query ;)
 * To be deployed on Monday, April 24th: new datatype for geoshapes and Cognate on Wiktionaries

Did you know?

 * Newest properties: type of reference, suicide rate, Italian Navy Lighthouses and Beacons ID, MyDramaList name ID, iTunes app ID, Wormbase Gene ID, Environment Ontology ID, route diagram, cinenacional.com person ID, Quebec municipalities geographical code, LombardiaBeniCulturali artwork ID, Soundtrack Collector ID, Rat Genome Database ID, FlyBase Gene ID, cinenacional.com movie ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali toponym ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali institution ID, Irish Rugby Football Union ID, Open Library subject ID, DBC author ID


 * Query examples:
 * The 500 most important paintings, according to Wikidata sitelinks (source)
 * The most important works in German by Wiki* articles (source)
 * Cities in France starting with the letter W (source)
 * Newest external tools: Wikinity displays a map of items near any given place
 * Newest database reports: list of anthology films

Development

 * More work on support for Forms and Lexemes (T160052)
 * Adding monolingual language code UMU (T160531)
 * Fixing a bug about Commons gallery and category (T161826)
 * Improving header image gadget (T160530)
 * Provide a special page to list all available badges (T114473)
 * Show supported data formats in Special:EntityData (T162870)
 * Track the number of identifier properties on an item (T114617)

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 - proposals needing attention
 * 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 #257
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 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * The Wikidata data model and your SPARQL queries by Bob DuCharme
 * Wikidata meetup in Berlin, Wednesday, April 26th in WMDE's office
 * Datensummit by OKFN, April 29th, in Berlin


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Editing will be disabled during parts of May 3rd, to allow a server switch
 * Deployed on Monday, April 24th: new datatype for geoshapes and Cognate on Wiktionaries


 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: PictoRight ID-Droit de suite, observing time available, MetaboLights Compound ID, Swiss Federal Archives ID, Boijmans artist ID, KVAB member ID, number of perpetrators, History of Modern Biomedicine ID, Tilastopaja male athlete ID, Red Bull athlete ID, Tilastopaja female athlete ID, National Track & Field Hall of Fame athlete ID, Caverphone, Cologne phonetics, Soundex, HappyCow restaurant ID, category for alumni of educational institution, Justia Patents company ID, Justia Patents inventor ID, daily patronage, patronage, tributary orientation, ZFIN gene ID, IAFD female-born performer ID, MyDramaList title ID, Israel Chess Federation player ID, LAWA waterbody ID
 * Query examples:
 * Place of birth of the candidates to French presidency since 1958 (source)
 * Oldest given names on Wikidata (source)
 * Cocktails and their ingredients (source)
 * Cities in UK named after a patron saint (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Wikiproject Terrorism
 * New template: d:Template:Film festivals


 * Development
 * Changing Special:NewProperty to not have a datatype selected by default (T138295)
 * Restoration of deleted items broken on Wikidata (T163144)
 * Making notifications when page is being connected to Wikidata ready to deploy (T110604)
 * Writing basic documentation for WikibaseMediaInfo extension (T159710)
 * Hiding header image gadget when sitelinks are floated below the statement section (T160530)
 * Making the "add" button display the "add Form" form (T162342)
 * Getting the datatype to link to tabular data sets on Commons ready to deploy (T160048)
 * Showing supported data formats in Special:EntityData (T162870)
 * Setting meta name="description" on article placeholders (T157466)

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 - proposals needing attention
 * 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: 2017-17
<section begin="technews-2017-W17"/> 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
 * New filters for recent changes are now available as a beta feature on most wikis. You can turn it on in your preferences. Remaining wikis will have the new filters on 9 May.
 * When administrators, bureaucrats and stewards make a user a member of a user group they can now set an expiry date. A user group is for example "administrators" or "bots". This means that they can give someone user rights for a limited time. This is similar to how blocks and page protections can be limited in time. Special:UserRights will have new options for this. You can read more about user groups.

Problems
 * Since the data centre test last week the content translation tool has been disabled. This is because of a database problem. It will be back as soon as the problem has been solved.

Changes this week
 * The GuidedTour extension will be enabled on all wikis. This is a tool to explain to new users how to edit.
 * Wiktionary will handle interlanguage links in a new way. The Cognate extension will automatically link pages with the same title between Wiktionaries. For this to work all old interlanguage links have to be removed. You can read more about this.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 April. It will be on all wikis from 27 April (calendar).

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 25 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Tech News: 2017-18
<section begin="technews-2017-W18"/> 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 content translation tool works again. It was turned off because of a database problem.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Scripts using very old deprecated wikibits functions show errors. These functions have not worked since 2013. You should fix or disable broken scripts. You can see examples of how to upgrade scripts. This is the same thing as Tech News wrote about in issue 2017/16. You need to add  block for your scripts also, or add   dependency in gadget ResourceLoader section in MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition.

Problems
 * Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 3 May. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this.

Changes this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week. This is because of the data centre test.

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 2 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * All Wikimedia wikis will have cookie blocks from May 8. This is an extension to the autoblock system so when a user is blocked, the next time they visit the wiki a cookie will be set. This means that even if the user switches accounts and to a new IP address the cookie will block them again.
 * The,   and   buttons will look slightly different. This is to fit with the OOUI look. Users can test scripts, gadgets and so on to see if they work with the new interface by adding   to the URL.

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Wikidata weekly summary #258
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: FOSSnorth (Gothenburg), where Lydia gave a keynote about Wikidata
 * Past: Wikidata meetup in Berlin
 * Past: Datensummit in Berlin, organized by OKFN, where we introduced Wikidata and the query service
 * Combining Forces with the Wikipedia Universe - by Songkick, about their data donation
 * Introducing Wikimedian in Residence, Mr Andy Mabbett - by The History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Attention: Editing will be disabled for an hour on May 3rd, to allow a server switch
 * New filters for the Recent Changes will be deployed on May 9th. (more info)
 * new data type for tabular data to be deployed on May 15th
 * Try our new script that displays constraint violations on the item pages
 * Get involved in the movement strategy for Wikidata
 * Query the Mediawiki API with the Query Service? Give us your feedbacks
 * Documentation on using OpenRefine to match from a data set you have to items in Wikidata


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Canadian Coastguard Lighthouse ID, contributed to published work, Répertoire national des associations identifier, IPA number order, UNESCO Thesaurus ID, Athletics Australia athlete ID, GuideStar Israel organization ID, MobyGames developer ID, newspaper format, STW Thesaurus for Economics ID, Bollywood Hungama ID, last words, Reprezentacija ID, LoJ peak ID, Ishim ID, GINCO ID, VIVC grape variety ID, column, had as last meal, ADAGP artist ID, CONICET person ID, Medium username


 * Query examples:
 * 15415 people who died in 2016
 * Maps of statues of Jeanne d'Arc on a horse (source)
 * Families who’ve had the same occupation for five generations (source)
 * Couples of capitals more than 19,000 km away from each other (source)
 * A ten-persons “surname = given name” chain on Wikidata (source)
 * Newest database reports: list of newspapers by newspaper format


 * Development
 * Working on Lexeme support - specifically grammatical features of Forms of a Lexeme and statements on Forms
 * Finishing touches on a new notification type for Echo. This will notify the creator of an article when it has been connected to an item on Wikidata.
 * The new d:Special:AvailableBadges list all badges that can be used for sitelinks.
 * Discussed implementation plan for Multi Content Revisions which are a building block for structured data on Commons (T107595)
 * Worked on feedback for the constraints API and user script
 * Worked on database and access improvements to take load off a much-used database table

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 - proposals needing attention
 * 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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New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (May 2017)
Hello Wikimedians! The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for free, full-access, accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:


 * American Psychiatric Association – Psychiatry books and journals
 * Bloomsbury – Who's Who, Drama Online, Berg Fashion Library, and Whitaker's
 * Gaudeamus – Finnish humanities and social sciences
 * Ympäristö-lehti – The Finnish Environment Institute's Ympäristö-lehti magazine

Expansions
 * Gale – Biography In Context database added
 * Adam Matthew – all 53 databases now available

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including Project MUSE, EBSCO, Taylor & Francis and Newspaperarchive.com.

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today! --The Wikipedia Library Team 18:52, 2 May 2017 (UTC)


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Wikidata weekly summary #259
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Updating References for External Data


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Registration is open for the Celtic Knot Conference 2017 (July 6th, Edinburgh)
 * Pre-hackathon of the Wikimedia Hackathon, May 12th-14th in Prague
 * Wikimedia Hackathon 2017, May 19th-21st in Vienna. On site or remotely, you can join the Wikidata documentation sprint


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Vote in the board election (see also Voter guides and rationales
 * Sitelinks for the new Doteli Wikipedia (dtywiki) can be added
 * You can now track the number of identifier properties for an item
 * We provide weekly a new type of database dumps: nt truthy dumps
 * Wikipedia article-draft-generator developed by Pharos for Met Museum project
 * Schema.org proposes to encourage the use of Wikidata as a common entity base for the target of the sameAs relation


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: light sector, Wikidata SPARQL query equivalent, Canadian Coastguard Lighthouse ID, contributed to published work


 * Query examples:
 * All places (with coordinates) that gave its name to something (source)
 * Paintings depicting monkeys (source)
 * Artworks with presumably depicted persons (source)
 * Newest database reports: list of oldest lighthouses


 * Development
 * Worked more on support for lexicographical data (specifically support for lexicographic category and statements on forms)
 * Dealt with issues after the deployment of automatic interwiki links for Wiktionary
 * Worked on constraint violation user script based on your feedback (improving messages to make it more understandable, layout, etc)
 * Add support for the following new language codes for monolingual text properties: brx, chn, cop, gez, quc, kjh, nr (will become available in a few days)

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 - proposals needing attention
 * 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: 2017-19
<section begin="technews-2017-W19"/> 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 users have a problem with the watchlist. Some changes in categories make the watchlist a blank page. The developers are working on this. Until this is fixed you can try some things that have helped other editors if you have this problem. You can turn on  in your watchlist preferences. You can turn off   in your watchlist preferences. You can remove problematic categories from Special:EditWatchlist/raw.
 * There was a problem with the visual editor for several days. You could not save edits that triggered a CAPTCHA. This would for example be when a new user added external links in references. This was fixed on 2 May.

Changes this week
 * When you edit you can switch between the visual editor and the wikitext editor. This works if the wiki you edit has the visual editor. The menu will now say  and   instead of   and  . This is because it was confusing when the menu said you could switch to the editor you were already using.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 May. It will be on all wikis from 11 May (calendar).

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 9 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * You will be able to get a notification when a page you created is connected to a Wikidata item. This will come to Wikivoyage on 9 May. If there are no problems it will come to most Wikipedias on 30 May. It will come to other projects and English, French and German Wikipedia later in the summer. It will be opt-in for existing users and opt-out for new users.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Markup that looks like code for language variants might need to be fixed. If  is used in transclusions or web addresses it has to be escaped appropriately. You can use   for transclusions and   in web addresses. A transclusion could for example be when you use   in a template:  . This is because of some code fixes to the preprocessor and affects all wikis.

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Learning Quarterly: May 2017
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This Month in GLAM: April 2017
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Wikidata weekly summary #260
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Discussions
 * Development input: Client editing prototype


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: Pre-hackathon of the Wikimedia Hackathon, May 12th-14th in Prague (see a video of the Wikidata and SPARQL training)
 * Upcoming: Wikimedia Hackathon 2017, May 19th-21st in Vienna. On site or remotely, you can join the Wikidata documentation sprint
 * Upcoming: WikiCite, May 23rd-25th in Vienna
 * Next Wikidata meetup in Berlin: June 7th in WikiBÄR
 * You can still register for the Wikidata/election data hackathon in Ulm, Germany (June 23-25)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Discuss the movement strategy on Wikidata. The Cycle 2 started on May, 11.
 * WikidataCon: join the program committee and other teams!
 * TwoColConflict is now enabled on Wikidata
 * OSMgadget is a tool to help Wikipedia editors find objects in OpenStreetMap, and tag them with their Wikidata IDs
 * The OSM ↔ Wikidata matcher tool
 * Two language properties will be merged but the discussion still needs to go on
 * Tabular data files datatype is now enabled
 * The constraint table has been updated


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: NLL player ID, Italian Senate ID, ALPG golfer ID, Stereo Ve Mono artist ID, BioRxiv ID, narrower external class, Juwra.com ID, MLL player ID, Directorio Grierson ID, RANM member ID, Old Bailey Proceedings ID, Tumblr ID, Bmx-results.com rider ID, Israel Antiquities Authority ID, OlimpBase Chess Olympiad player ID, ESTC citation number, named by, Reactome pathway ID, NFF person profile ID, Chamber of Deputies of Italy ID, face value, Cinema ID, Digital Valencian Library author ID, copyright owner, Rallye-info.com driver or co-driver ID, V&A item ID, MotoGP racer ID, eWRC-results.com athlete ID, USATF athlete ID, Track and Field Statistics male athlete ID, Track and Field Statistics female athlete ID, Diamond League athlete ID


 * Query examples:
 * Paintings in the Louvre Museum, with heights and widths (source)
 * Chart of USA cities founded per year (source)
 * Country flags including a symbol of sun (source)
 * Birthplace of Spanish Queen Consorts (source)


 * Development
 * More work on Special:NewLexeme page (T164582)
 * Correctly compare time values on constraints (T164279)
 * Check wording of messages/constraint check results (T164354)
 * Creating grammatical features for Forms (T160525)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Help adding missing statements to properties
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
 * 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: 2017-20
<section begin="technews-2017-W20"/> 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 ISBNs to automatically generate citations in the visual editor. This works on wikis that have enabled Citoid.
 * The Two Column Edit Conflict View is available as a beta feature on all wikis. It is a new interface for the edit conflict resolution page.

Problems
 * The  library does not load automatically any more. Your Special:MyPage/common.js may use it. If you have technical problems that started a couple of weeks ago you can try adding   as the first line in the file and   as a last one. Tech News wrote about this in the 2017/18 issue.

Changes this week
 * The RevisionSlider extension will be a default feature on all wikis. RevisionSlider is an easier way to move between changes in the page history. It has been a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia and a beta feature on all wikis. You will be able to turn it off in your preferences.
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes
 * Administrators will soon be able to search through deleted pages.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Markup that looks like code for language variants might need to be fixed. Tech News wrote about this last week. If   is used in transclusions or web addresses it has to be escaped appropriately. You can use   for transclusions and   in web addresses. This is because of some code fixes to the preprocessor and affects all wikis. You can now see the full list of wikis with this problem and help fix them to avoid that things break later this month. You might find false positives. You can read more about what to fix.

Older unreported changes
 * Your Meta user page is shown on all wikis where you don't have a local user page. You can now add the magic word  to your Meta user page to stop this.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2017-W20"/> 21:48, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

New Page Review - Newsletter No.4
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Tech News: 2017-21
<section begin="technews-2017-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.

Changes this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 May. It will be on all wikis from 25 May (calendar).
 * Octicons-tools.svg There will be a  tag around HTML from the MediaWiki wikitext parser. Gadgets with code that does not follow recommendations could have problems with this. You can report new problems you think are related to this.

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Wikidata weekly summary #261
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: MisterSynergy, Queryzo, ChristianKl


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Wahlsalon (event Codefor.de about election data): Kickoff on May 24th in Berlin
 * Upcoming: Open Science: the National Plan and you meeting for Dutch researchers: May 29th in Delft, The Netherlands
 * Current: WikiCite, May 23rd-25th in Vienna
 * Current: Met Open Access Artworks Challenge (May 15th-June 30th) help improving the data about the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art!
 * Past: Wikimedia Hackathon 2017, May 19th-21st in Vienna
 * Paper: Becoming Wikidatians: evolution of participation in a collaborative structured knowledge base (Alessandro Piscopo, Christopher Phethean, Elena Simperl)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The extension RevisionSlider is now available by default on Wikidata. Try it on a talk or project page!
 * Check out some updates about the WikidataCon
 * We reached Q30,000,000! Help us improve it and make a showcase item out of it.
 * An additional 10k article placeholders on Welsh Wikipedia will be made indexable in search engines


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Unifrance person ID, Unifrance company ID, IECIC 2015 ID, Songkick venue ID, BVMC work ID, secretary general, Nature preserve in North Rhine-Westphalia ID, PIM authority ID, PASE Domesday place, PASE Domesday person ID, channel number, signed form, CETS no., final event, programming paradigm, Bridgeman artist ID, BDCYL authority ID, Clochers de France ID, Global Trade Item Number, Unifrance film ID, Base biographique AUTOR ID, NNL work ID


 * Query examples:
 * Websites but without an official website
 * Plants with associated emoji (source)
 * Languages ordered by number of speakers (source)
 * HMDB identifiers with more than one item (source)
 * Painters with a lot of identifiers on Wikidata, but few Wikipedia articles (source)
 * Buildings with the greatest numbers of elevators (source)
 * Map of female writers on Wikidata by birthplace- generated by SPARQL query (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Counter-Vandalism, WikiProject Documentation


 * Development
 * Participating to the Wikimedia hackathon 2017, having a lot of interesting talks with users, designers, developers...
 * Helping improving the documentation for the property constraints, the beginner documentation about Wikidata, how to install Wikibase
 * Rewriting most constraint violation messages to include more useful information (T164354, help update translations)
 * Working on a tree view for the Query Service (T152676)
 * Setting up a constraints development/testing wiki
 * Moving PropertySuggester extension from github to gerrit (T104309)
 * Working on performance of change dispatching so database of wikidata goes read-only in lower rate (T162557)
 * Reducing number of duplicates rows in our database table for labels, descriptions and aliases to make it faster (T163551)

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 - proposals needing attention
 * 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 #262
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Discussions
 * Closed request for adminship: MisterSynergy, Queryzo, ChristianKl (all successful)
 * New request for comments: Allow the creation of links to redirects in Wikidata


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: WikiCite, May 23rd-25th in Vienna. Documentation will be available soon, in the meantime you can check on Twitter and the video streams to see what happened
 * Six degrees on Wikidata, by Andrew Gray
 * Some statistics on scholarly data in Wikidata, by Finn Årup Nielsen
 * Wikidata for librarians, by Dan Scott


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Eurowings app uses Wikidata
 * Are you searching for geolocations of Wikipedia articles on the OSM map? Alex-7 created a web app.
 * Breaking change: sitelink encoding changing in RDF export/WDQS


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Filmweb.pl ID, racon signal, Vitaskrá ID, SSB urban settlement number, Austrian Textbook ID, EKATTE place ID, members have occupation, National Library Board Singapore ID, SHARE Catalogue author ID, Sequence Ontology ID, supports programming language, subreddit, sports league level, TA98 Latin term, Misjonsarkiv person ID, Unifrance person ID, Unifrance company ID, IECIC 2015 ID, Songkick venue ID, BVMC work ID, secretary general, nature preserve in North Rhine-Westphalia ID, PIM authority ID, PASE Domesday place, PASE Domesday person ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of subreddits associated to a place on Earth (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23TEMPLATE%3D%7B%20%22template%22%3A%20%22potential%20reviewers%20for%20papers%20in%20%3Ffield%22%2C%20%22variables%22%3A%20%7B%20%22%3Ffield%22%3A%20%7B%20%22query%22%3A%20%22SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fid%20WHERE%20%7B%20%3Fid%20wdt%3AP2578%20%5B%5D.%20%7D%22%20%7D%20%7D%20%7D%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Freviewer%20%3FreviewerLabel%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fwebsite%29%20AS%20%3Fwebsite%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Forcid%29%20AS%20%3Forcid%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Ftwitter%29%20AS%20%3Ftwitter%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20BIND%28wd%3AQ21198%20AS%20%3Ffield%29.%0A%20%20%3FsubField%20wdt%3AP279%2a%20%3Ffield.%0A%20%20%3Freviewer%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5.%0A%20%20MINUS%20%7B%20%3Freviewer%20wdt%3AP570%20%5B%5D.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fwork%20wdt%3AP50%20%3Freviewer%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP577%20%3FworkDate.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3FworkDate%20%3E%20%28NOW%28%29%20-%20%22P5Y%22%5E%5Exsd%3Aduration%29%29.%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Fwork%20wdt%3AP921%20%3FsubField.%20%7D%20UNION%20%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Freviewer%20wdt%3AP101%20%3FsubField.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Freviewer%20wdt%3AP856%20%3Fwebsite.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Freviewer%20wdt%3AP496%20%3Forcid_.%20BIND%28IRI%28CONCAT%28%22https%3A%2F%2Forcid.org%2F%22%2C%20%3Forcid_%29%29%20AS%20%3Forcid%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Freviewer%20wdt%3AP2002%20%3Ftwitter_.%20BIND%28IRI%28CONCAT%28%22https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2F%22%2C%20%3Ftwitter_%29%29%20AS%20%3Ftwitter%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Freviewer%20%3FreviewerLabel%0AORDER%20BY%20RAND%28%29 Potential reviewers for papers in computer science] (source)
 * Paintings with 'portrait' in the name that lack P180 / depicts (source)
 * Publications and presentations about WikiCite (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Zika Corpus
 * Newest external tools: Wikidata to CSV
 * Newest database reports: Roger Moore filmography


 * Development
 * Attending WikiCite
 * Showing badges on other projects (T73887)
 * Improving label tracking (T151717)
 * Working more on statements on forms in order to support lexicographical data

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 - proposals needing attention
 * 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: 2017-22
<section begin="technews-2017-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.

Problems
 * Last week’s MediaWiki version was rolled back from some wikis because of a problem. This means planned changes did not happen.

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 30 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * You will be able to control who can notify you on the Wikimedia wikis. You will have a user blacklist. When you add a user to the blacklist you will not get a notification when they mention you. You can test this on Beta Wikipedia. You can read more and give feedback on Meta.

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Tech News: 2017-23
<section begin="technews-2017-W23"/> 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 see new files on Special:NewFiles. You can now pick which dates you want to see files from.
 * When you read Wikipedia on a mobile device the first paragraph now comes before the infobox.
 * You can now remove navigation elements from your results when you search. This could for example be part of an infobox that is only there to help you find the previous or next article.
 * New users on Wikivoyages and Wikipedias (except French, English and German) now get a notification when a page they created is connected to Wikidata. Other wikis will get it 13 June.

Problems
 * The MediaWiki version from two weeks ago was rolled back. It was fixed late last week. Changes that were planned to go out last week did not happen.

Changes this week
 * Wikimedia wikis can show fewer links to articles in other languages. This is to make it easier to find the languages likely to be useful to the reader or editor. Everyone can still click to see the full list. Logged-in users who use the compact language links will see languages they have in their Babel box on their user page in the first, shorter list. You can turn the compact language list off or on in your preferences.
 * You can choose what dates to look at when you look at a user's contributions.
 * When you click on your watchlist in the mobile view you get a list of all pages in the watchlist instead of the latest changes to them. Logged-in users with at least ten edits will now get the latest changes instead.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 June. It will be on all wikis from 8 June (calendar).
 * Octicons-tools.svg String comparisons in Scribunto modules are now always done case-insensitively by byte order. Before they were sometimes in a case-sensitive US-English collation order. This could break some modules.

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 6 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The 2006 wikitext editor will be removed the week of 27 June. This is the old toolbar with small square blue buttons. You can see a picture of it. 0.03% of active Wikimedia editors use this old tool. They will not see a toolbar at all.
 * Wikimedia wikis use OCG to create PDFs. The OCG code has a lot of problems and will stop working. It has to be replaced. An alternative is Electron. You can tell the developers what you need the PDF service to be able to do. Electron already works on German Wikipedia. It will be on English Wikipedia later this week so you can test it there too.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Architecture Committee will change and get a new name. You can read and comment on the draft that describes the new committee.

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Wikidata weekly summary #263
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Discussions
 * Open request for bureaucrat: Lymantria


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, June 7th, 18:00, in the WikiBÄR local room
 * Upcoming: An introduction to Wikidata for GLAMs, Berlin, June 9th (more info in German)
 * Upcoming: Hackathon cartographie des logiciels libres in Paris on June 10th
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop during HackZurich, September 14th (registration opening on June 9th)
 * Wikidata, WikiCite, and the "bibliography of life" by Rod Page (Q7356570)
 * MySociety (Q10851773) are publishing a "five part series examining how to use Wikidata to answer the question: 'What is the gender breakdown of heads of government across the world?'".
 * Help us find the offices of heads of governments across the world!
 * Help us to show who fills the role of head of government on Wikidata
 * Linking back in the other direction
 * Check that the data is consistent
 * Wikicite 2017, and the 7 features Wikidata needs most


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Breaking change: "wb_entity_per_page" table will not be updated and replicated on ToolLabs anymore
 * Data donation: following WikiCite, our friends at DBLP (Q1224715) have begun to donate data, with >4,800 values in the first batch, including >1,300 DBLP ID (P2456) plus assorted aliases, and values for VIAF ID (P214), GND ID (P227), ORCID iD (P496), ACM Digital Library author ID (P864), zbMATH author ID (P1556), & Google Scholar ID (P1960).
 * Sitelinks of Wiktionary will be enabled on June 20th


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: reviewed by, Hungarian NGO ID, PLU Code, Latvian Protected Nature Territory ID, Google Scholar paper ID, DNCI musical work ID, Cullum number, Pinakothek artist ID, ADW taxon ID, DFB datacenter player ID, danskefilm TV series ID, danskefilm animated film ID, dimension, USL player ID, The Arabidopsis Information Resource Accession, Ustream username, SlideShare username, Vimeo username, Australian Statistical Geography 2011 ID, Giphy username, Semantic Scholar author ID, Semantic Scholar paper ID, GDP (PPP), RKY national built heritage environment ID, Early Aviators people ID, DBS ID, overrules, Bavarikon ID, shield image, official Facebook page, WFD Ecological status, Latvian Protected Nature Territory URL


 * Query examples:
 * Number of citizens with “blood type” statements per country (source)
 * Works with most citations (running time 20-45s) (source)
 * Female recipients of the Palme d'Or award (source)
 * Timeline of albums by Manu Chao and Mano Negra (source)
 * Female given names ending in "o" (source)
 * Newest external tools: Wikidata Diff (compares two items; proof-of-concept, doesn't yet include qualifiers, etc.), Wikidata Recent Changes livestream
 * Newest database reports: list of items with the property "has fruit type"


 * Development
 * Removing some config variables (T93773)
 * Fixing a conflict with Language Converter (T166429)
 * Showing badges in the sidebar (T73887)
 * Fixing a bug on Query Service (T166762)
 * Adjusting code reading from wb_terms (T162673)
 * Adding an accesskey to the undo button (T165078)
 * Fixing preferences settings for the new Echo notification (T166657)
 * Adding Rangi language (lag) to Wikidata (T161983)
 * Working on moving PropertySuggester extension from github to gerrit (T104309)
 * More work on usage tracking (T151717)
 * More work on Lexemes (T157974)
 * More work on statements (T165480)
 * More work on constraints (T167107)

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!

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The Signpost: 9 June 2017
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This Month in GLAM: May 2017
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Wikidata weekly summary #264
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Discussions
 * Discussion: Convert UBERON ID to external-id


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Query Service workshop in Berlin, June 28th
 * Querying OSM + Wikidata from a single RDF database intro (YouTube video) by Yuri Astrakhan
 * The Role of Librarians in Wikidata and WikiCite, by Katie Mika
 * MySociety (Q10851773) have now completed publishing a "five part series examining how to use Wikidata to answer the question: 'What is the gender breakdown of heads of government across the world?'". Here is the full set:
 * Help us find the offices of heads of governments across the world!
 * Help us to show who fills the role of head of government on Wikidata
 * Linking back in the other direction
 * Check that the data is consistent
 * Conclusion: So, what is the gender breakdown of heads of government?


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The call for submissions for the WikidataCon program is now open! Submit your projects to share your experience with the community until July 31st
 * You can also apply for a scholarship for the WikidataCon
 * Breaking change: improving the schema of wb_terms table
 * Wikidata Diff, a tool to compare the basic properties (no qualifiers/ ranks, yet) of two Wikidata items
 * OSM ↔ Wikidata matcher, new tool for OpenStreetMap mappers, to match objects in OSM to Wikidata items, using the wikidata= tag in OSM
 * Announcement & guide


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: EspritBleu athlete ID, J.League manager ID, Sandbox-Geographic shape, SIMC place ID, Sandbox-Tabular data, therapeutic area, emulates, ESBL athlete ID, Rock.com.ar album ID, Rock.com.ar artist ID, Rock.com.ar biography ID, Danish List of Lights and Fog signals ID, South Australian Heritage Register Database ID, field of view, Shironet song ID, Shironet artist ID, Mastodon address, reviewed by, Hungarian NGO ID, PLU Code, Latvian Protected Nature Territory ID, Google Scholar paper ID, DNCI work ID, Cullum number, Pinakothek artist ID


 * Query examples:
 * Coordinates of parallels and meridians according to Wikidata (source)
 * Uses of the property "IPv6 routing prefix" (source)
 * Non-politician jobs that UK Prime Ministers had (source)
 * Newest external tools: matching things in OSM with Wikidata (more information)
 * Newest database reports: new people gallery


 * Development
 * Updating wording re associated Wikidata item following move (T158842)
 * More work on Forms (T163723)
 * Fixing rank icon (T85388)
 * Add monolingual code fkv (T167259)
 * Add monolingual code lag (T161983)
 * More work on property constraints (T167126)
 * Script for populating term_full_entity_id column in wb_terms table (T162533)
 * Full support for wikibase edits in enhanced changes format (T46874)
 * Adding Lua function to get Wikibase entity by site link (T74815)
 * New datatype for referencing Lexemes (T165578)

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!

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Tech News: 2017-24
<section begin="technews-2017-W24"/> 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
 * Some wikis have the larger and brighter OOjs UI edit page buttons. When you write an edit summary there you can now see how many bytes you have left before the summary is too long.
 * When you search on Wikipedia you can now find pages on other Wikimedia projects that could be relevant. You see them next to the search results.

Changes this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 June. It will be on all wikis from 15 June (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 13 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * You will soon be able to get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account. You can test this on the test wiki. This will only work if they fail to log in to your account.
 * Wikimedia wikis use OCG to create PDFs. The OCG code has a lot of problems and will stop working. It has to be replaced. An alternative is Electron. You can tell the developers what you need the PDF service to be able to do. Electron now works on all Wikimedia projects.
 * Administrators can soon search for deleted page titles and find results that are similar to what they searched for. Today the search only finds pages that are exactly the same as what you search for. This is to make it easier to find pages when you don't know the exact title. Administrators on Arabic, Catalan, English, Persian, German, Italian, Polish, and Russian Wikipedia and on mediawiki.org can test this by adding  to the end of the web address when looking at Special:Undelete.

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Wikidata weekly summary #265
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Discussions
 * New requests for comments:
 * How would you state the number of (rooms, restaurants, suites) in a hotel?
 * Findagrave removed as a source for information


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Hackathon about election data in Ulm, Germany, June 23-25th
 * Upcoming: Peer-to-peer Wikidata workshop 2017, June 24th, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic
 * Upcoming: Query Service workshop in Berlin, June 28th, 18:00, in WMDE's office
 * Upcoming: IRC office hour, June 28th, at 20:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2), on the channel
 * Wikidata as authority linking hub (PDF). Presentation by Joachim Neubert (ZBW) and Jakob Voß (GBV) at ELAG 2017 conference in Athens
 * Facto Post newsletter, first issue and comments on Wikidata at Project chat. Contains a number of blog links, particularly about WikiCite.


 * WikidataCon
 * Registration is now open! Check the information and fill the form to register.
 * Let's build the program by proposing a project until July 31st
 * Due the necessary time for people to get visas (about 3 months), we changed the deadline for the scholarship applications. You can apply for a scholarship before July 16th. We will then make sure that the applicants receive a response on July 25th.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * We have reached 500,000,000 edits.
 * You can now query the Mediawiki API from the Query Service (documentation)
 * Your feedback is still welcome on the prototype for editing Wikidata from Wikipedia
 * beaTunes 5’s new Album Info pane is powered by Wikidata


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Zemereshet song ID, Zemereshet artist ID, identifier shared with, CONI athlete ID, CIS Chinese Athletes Database ID, COSR athlete ID, MOB athlete ID, COA athlete ID, Team USA athlete ID, ČOV athlete ID, LTOK athlete ID, COB athlete ID, Irish National Monument ID, FINESS medical facility ID, Irish Sites and Monuments Record ID, NZOC athlete ID, Norwegian List of Lights ID, Team Canada athlete ID, Deutsche Olympiamannschaft athlete ID, Academia.edu institutional ID, Ukrainian regulations base ID


 * Query examples:
 * Gallery of monsters of the Japanese folklore
 * Lang by number of label (with quarry.wmflabs.org)
 * The 10 smallest countries with some kind of urban rail transit system (source)
 * Occupations with highest rate of deaths by homicide (source)
 * Software titles ranked by number of readable file formats (source)
 * Newest external tools: Causegraph, a tool to visualize and analyze cause/influence relationships using Wikidata


 * Development
 * Improvements to Wikidata Query Service UI
 * Continued work on importing property constraints from statements (T102759)
 * Started to add support for Senses of Lexeme entities (T160053)
 * More experimenting with the new front-end framework
 * Added RDF mapping for "tabular data" data type (T167951)

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!

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Tech News: 2017-25
<section begin="technews-2017-W25"/> 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
 * ORES had some problems on 13 June between 16:00 and 19:40 UTC. It has now been fixed.

Changes this week
 * has to be rebooted. This will probably happen on 21 June. It may be postponed. Some tools use this to get the recent changes feed. They will not work when it is down.
 * Octicons-tools.svg  will be an entry point for machine-readable page data.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 June. It will be on all wikis from 22 June (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 20 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. You can now see how the TemplateStyles extension works on Beta Labs.

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Books and Bytes - Issue 22
<div style = "color: #936c29; font-size: 4em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif"> The Wikipedia Library <span style="font-size: 2em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif">Books & Bytes

Issue 22, April-May 2017

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 * New and expanded research accounts
 * Global branches update
 * Spotlight: OCLC Partnership
 * Bytes in brief

The Signpost: 23 June 2017
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10:24:47, 23 June 2017 review of submission by Henne3
Hi Stuartyeates, thanks for taking a look at my submission! I've dug out all the articles I could find from Irish online magazines which get significant coverage in Ireland and among the Irish abroad. Some Berlin-based sources as well, one English-speaking and one radio piece in German. Do you think a re-submit would be successful now?


 * I won't be approving the article in it's current state. Not even close, sorry. Stuartyeates (talk) 04:43, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

This is to inform you that an attempt is being made to overturn an RfC that you commented on
This is to inform you that an attempt is being made to overturn an RfC that you commented on (2 RfCs, actually, one less than six months ago and another a year ago). The new RfC is at:

Village pump (policy)

Specifically, it asks that "religion = none" be allowed in the infobox.

The first RfC that this new RfC is trying to overturn is:


 * 15 June 2015 RfC: RfC: Religion infobox entries for individuals that have no religion.

The result of that RfC was "unambiguously in favour of omitting the parameter altogether for 'none' " and despite the RfC title, additionally found that "There's no obvious reason why this would not apply to historical or fictional characters, institutions etc.", and that nonreligions listed in the religion entry should be removed when found "in any article".

The second RfC that this new RfC is trying to overturn is:


 * 31 December 2015 RfC: RfC: Religion in infoboxes.

The result of that RfC was that the "in all Wikipedia articles, without exception, nonreligions should not be listed in the Religion= parameter of the infobox.".

Note: I am informing everyone who commented on the above RfCs, whether they supported or opposed the final consensus. --Guy Macon (talk) 04:22, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #266
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Rennes, June 26th
 * Upcoming: Query Service workshop in Berlin, June 28th, 18:00, in WMDE's office
 * Upcoming: IRC office hour, June 28th, at 20:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2), on the channel
 * Past: Hackathon about election data in Ulm, June 23-25 (some documentation in German)
 * Building communities of knowledge with Wikidata, by Benjamin Good of the 'Gene Wiki' project
 * ORCID Mania (in response to this call for a tool to automate the addition of ORCID iDs to Wikidata)
 * I use Wikidata for multilingual names, by MySociety's 'EveryPoliticianBot'
 * Resource discovery and Wikidata
 * Where the streets have known names - Academic paper on OSM & Wikidata
 * Extracting scientists from Wikipedia - Academic paper
 * ¿Sabes cómo usar la base de datos Wikidata? (es) by the Cervantes virtual library
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * What are your favorite tools using Wikidata?
 * Wiktionary sitelinks have been enabled on Wikidata
 * New Wikidata Game: Wikidata Guessr guess the locations of random Wikidata items
 * OpenRefine 2.7 has been released, including the Wikidata Reconcile service
 * Nice graphics about Wikidata and the Query Service (in German) by Bleeptrack
 * New data donation by Giphy. Some help needed to match the catalogue
 * Some help needed to map the UNESCO Atlas of World Languages in Danger and the Glottolog catalogue


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Irish National Inventory of Architectural Heritage ID, MyAnimeList manga ID, MyAnimeList anime ID, MyAnimeList character ID, MyAnimeList people ID, HFC NPS unit ID, image captured with, Biodiversity Heritage Library creator ID, number of houses, Theatres Trust Database ID, SKIP code, Pizmonet ID, WorldSBK.com racer identifier, Czech Monument Catalogue Number, FFN swimmer ID, Wikia wiki ID


 * Query examples:
 * BubbleChart of Metal band by country (source)
 * Viennese composers and their compositions by tonality (source)
 * Most prolific authors of scientific articles on Wikidata, who are still alive, without ORCID (source)
 * Average age of members of the Landtag of Thuringia (source)
 * Newest external tools: VizQuery


 * Development
 * Creating a separate section for constraint statements (example)
 * Adding client-side hooks for saving and removing statements (T167870)
 * More work on constraints checks (T168629)
 * Enabling Wikidata edits in the enhanced recent changes and watchlist on clients (T46874)
 * Updating constraint check user script and propose to make it a gadget (T167625)
 * Creating Special:PageData as a canonical entry point for machine readable page data (T163923)
 * Working on editable Glosses on Senses (non-persistent) (T165567)
 * Setting up federation on mediainfo test system (T163119)

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!

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Tech News: 2017-26
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Recent changes
 * The <inputbox> has a new  parameter. You can add values like  . It will add that to the user's search query.

Changes this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 June. It will be on all wikis from 29 June (calendar).
 * Users will be able to choose whether they want to see Wikidata changes in enhanced watchlist/recent changes. Previously, this was disabled for everyone.

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 27 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * You can join the next WMF Language team office hour, an open session to talk about Wikimedia Language projects. The meeting will be on 27 June at 13:00 UTC.

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Proposed deletion of MENALIB


The article MENALIB has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "Fails Notability (media) and Notability (websites)"

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Jeff5102 (talk) 07:18, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #267
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Discussions
 * New request for comment: When multiple sources are cited for a fact, should IMDB be deleted as one of them when used


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: IRC office hour (read the full log here)
 * Past: Online Wikidata workshop in French (Wikipédia:Soirées Wiki en ligne)
 * Upcoming: Wikidata and SPARQL workshop and Celtic Knot Conference in Edinburgh
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop during the Africa Open Data Conference, in Accra, Ghana, July 17-21
 * A Wikidata workshop conducted in Bangalore
 * Blog report about the second Wikidata workshop in the Czech Republic (in Czech)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Join the Cycle 3 of the Wikimedia Movement Strategy discussions, and debate about the challenges identified by the research
 * Sitelinks for the new Kabiye Wikipedia (kbpwiki) can be added
 * We reached Q31000000
 * a dataset of 48,000 English questions have been mapped to Wikidata
 * New Mix’n’match catalog: Irish National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
 * COH Challenge: in July, add pictures from the Connected Open Heritage in Wikidata
 * We asked the followers of the Wikidata Twitter account if they know about SPARQL
 * The constraint check script has been turned into a gadget, and other news
 * Platypus has started to learn Spanish
 * WikidataCon: We reached 100 registrations, the event is complete for now. More tickets will be released in September. You can still register on the waitlist.
 * WikidataCon scholarships applications are open until July 16th
 * MySociety is hiring a community manager to work on EveryPolitician with Wikidata and SPARQL


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: parliamentary group, metrically compatible typeface, BVMC place id, MuseScore ID, RePEc institute ID, Principal Galaxies Catalogue ID, Australian Standard Geographic Classification 2006 ID, Australian Statistical Geography 2016 ID, checksum, Irish Grid Reference, Biodiversity Repository ID, Global Terrorism Database ID


 * Query examples:
 * Place of birth of the authors on Wikimammenn, the breton Wikisource
 * First names of current French members of Parliament (source)
 * Timeline of the births of current members of the French National Assembly (source)
 * Family tree of Harry Potter characters (source)
 * Map of mountains located in the Basque Country (source)
 * Items with higher number of child statements than number of children (source)
 * Pictures of Pharaos (source)
 * Map of departemental archives in France (source)
 * Newest gadgets: Units converter converts from 20 currencies to a selected currency. Converts metric units (mass, dimensions, area, temperature, speed) to/from United States units. The currency amounts are inflation adjusted if data is available.


 * Development
 * Worked more on support for lexicographical data and Wiktionary. The focus was on creating a necessary new datatype to link to Lexemes as well as making Glosses and statements on Glosses editable.
 * Getting ready to migrate the constraints definitions from templates on the property talk page to statements on the property.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

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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!

Tech News: 2017-27
<section begin="technews-2017-W27"/> 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
 * There was a problem with maps on Wikimedia wikis that used <mapframe> when you clicked on the link to another map service. Open Street Map or Google Maps are examples of other map services. If you had marked a place on the map the marker would not be in the same place on the other map service. It was in the middle of the map. This has now been fixed.

Changes this week
 * Very old and inactive unpublished translations in the Content Translation database will be removed. This is because of technical maintenance. If you have not worked on a translation after 1 January 2016 you will lose it after 6 July. If you want to keep the unfinished translation you need to open it before 6 July with the Content Translation tool. You can continue working on it later. Translations that were started or have been worked on after 1 January 2016 will not be affected.
 * There is no new Mediawiki version this week.
 * Octicons-tools.svg EventStreams is a new way to show activity on Wikimedia wikis. It works with the recent changes feed. It will do more things later. It will replace RCStream. Tools that use RCStream should move to EventStreams before 7 July. Tech News wrote about this in the 2017/07 issue.

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Wikidata weekly summary #268
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 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Africa Open Data Conference in Accra, including a Wikidata editathon on July 17th
 * Past: Celtic Knot Conference, Edinburgh, including several presentations related to Wikidata (tweets about Wikidata during the conference)
 * Past: WikiWomenCamp (including a Wikidata presentation by Harmonia Amanda)
 * A visual exploration of musical bands on Wikidata, by RAW Graphs team


 * WikidataCon
 * Last days of the scholarship process! If you need to be funded for the WikidataCon, please fill the form before July 16th
 * Which discussions, workshops, demos should be covered during the WikidataCon?


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * We have some real Meta data!
 * The StrepHit team has submitted an official uplift proposal for the primary sources tool
 * Migration of constraint definitions to property statements around July 12th
 * Sitelinks for the new Atikamekw Wikipedia (atjwiki) can be added
 * Citation management tool Zotero can now read data from Wikidata, and can write data from other sources to Wikidata via QuickStatements. See Wikidata:Zotero for details.
 * New step towards structured data for Commons is now available
 * One week after Q31000000 we have Q32000000


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: PalDat plant ID, openAIP ID, Ontario Heritage Act Register ID, NLS Geographic Names Place ID, NLS-FI Geographic Name ID, National Record of the Historic Environment ID, JewAge person ID, INSPIRE ID, ADK member ID, FRED time-series ID, danskfilmogtv person, danskefilm TV Christmas calendar, Crunchyroll ID, URN-NBN, Gedbas genealogy person ID, Framalibre ID, Finnish archaeological heritage ID, EGF rating, Carnegie Hall agent ID, assets under management, Atlas of Hillforts ID, dissertation submitted to


 * Query examples:
 * Scientific articles from PubMed that mention what version of STATA was used (source)
 * 1000 places in UK that have no label in Welsh (source)
 * Wikivoyage banners for French municipalities (source)
 * Paintings with musical instruments from Spain or related to Spain (source)
 * Images of things or persons in Wikidata with a Github account (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fperson%20%3FpersonLabel%20%0A%28SAMPLE%28%3Fbirth_date%29%20as%20%3Fbirth_date%29%20%0A%28SAMPLE%28%3Fdeath_date%20%29%20as%20%3Fdeath_date%20%29%20%0A%28SAMPLE%28%3Fbirth_place_label%20%29%20as%20%3Fbirth_place_label%20%29%20%0A%28SAMPLE%28%3Fbirth_place_coords%20%29%20as%20%3Fbirth_place_coords%20%29%20%0A%28SAMPLE%28%3Fimage%20%29%20as%20%3Fimage%20%29%20%0A%28SAMPLE%28%3Fcountry%20%29%20as%20%3Fcountry%29%20%0A%28COUNT%28%3Farticle%29%20as%20%3Frank%29%0AWHERE%20%0A%7B%09%20%0A%20%20%09%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP69%20wd%3AQ160302%20.%0A%09%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%20.%0A%20%20%09%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ6581072%20.%0A%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20%7D%0A%20%20%09OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20%7D%0A%09OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fbirth_date%20%7D%0A%20%20%09OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP27%20%3FcountryItem%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FcountryItem%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fcountry%20filter%20%28lang%28%3Fcountry%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%09OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP19%20%3Fbirth_place%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fbirth_place%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fbirth_place_coords%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fbirth_place%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fbirth_place_label%20filter%20%28%20lang%28%3Fbirth_place_label%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%20%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%09OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdeath_date%20%7D%20%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Farticle%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fperson%7D%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%0A%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7Bbd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%7D%0A%0A%20%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fperson%20%3FpersonLabel%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Frank%29 Map of birthplaces of women who were educated in Edinburgh university] (source)
 * Newest database reports: reports with items that only have a P641-statement (sport)


 * Development
 * Search results will not only show labels but also descriptions with language fallbacks (362215). Thanks to Matěj Suchánek!
 * Fixed link to the file description page in the Image Header gadget (T169558)
 * Forms of the Lexeme are multi-variant (T165575)
 * Preparing a demonstration of referencing Forms and Sense of a Lexeme in statements (T169716)
 * Property constraint definitions will be migrated to statements (T169647, Project chat)
 * Implemented “Format” constraint (T102752, help page)

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!

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Tech News: 2017-28
<section begin="technews-2017-W28"/> 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
 * There are sometimes links to pages about the same thing on other Wikimedia projects. A Wikipedia article about Berlin can link to the Wikivoyage guide or Wiktionary entry about Berlin. You can now see when that page has a badge. A badge could be the star that shows that an article is a featured article.

Changes this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (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 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Mobile users will be able to edit Wikipedia without JavaScript. This will make it possible to edit the wikis from older mobile phones. This will probably happen on 18 July for most wikis.
 * We will not use Tidy on Wikimedia wikis in the future. It will be replaced by June 2018. It could be earlier. Editors will need to fix pages that could break. You can read the simplified instructions for editors.

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This Month in GLAM: June 2017
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New Page Reviewer Newsletter
Hello, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Backlog update: Technology update:
 * The new page backlog is currently at 18,511 pages. We have worked hard to decrease from over 22,000, but more hard work is needed! Please consider reviewing even just a few pages a a day.
 * Some editors are committing to work specifically on patrolling new pages on 15 July. If you have not reviewed new pages in a while, this might be a good time to be involved. Please remember that quality of patrolling is more important than quantity, that the speedy deletion criteria should be followed strictly, and that ovetagging for minor issues should be avoided.
 * Several requests have been put into Phabractor to increase usability of the New Pages Feed and the Page Curation toolbar. For more details or to suggest improvements go to Page Curation/Suggested improvements
 * The tutorial has been updated to include links to the following useful userscripts. If you were not aware of them, they could be useful in your efforts reviewing new pages:
 * User:Lourdes/PageCuration.js adds a link to the new pages feed and page curation toolbar to your top toolbar on Wikipedia
 * User:The Earwig/copyvios.js adds a link in your side toolbox that will run the current page through

General project update:
 * Following discussion at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers, New pages patrol/Noticeboard has been marked as historical. Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers is currently the most active central discussion forum for the New Page Patrol project. To keep up to date on the most recent discussions you can add it to your watchlist or visit it periodically.

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The Signpost: 15 July 2017
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Wikidata weekly summary #269
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: talk about Wikidata at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing by Lydia
 * Past: Wikidata hackathon during Africa Open Data Conference in Accra
 * Upcoming: Café OpenStreetMap e Wikidata, July 22nd, in São Paulo, Brazil
 * Report of the workshop about election data (in German)
 * Integrating Wikidata and other linked data sources – Federated SPARQL queries, on The SuLab


 * WikidataCon
 * The scholarship process is now closed. Recipients will be informed around July 25th.
 * You can still suggest ideas for the program, or submit a project until July 31st. The program of the conference is made by the attendees, only what you bring will be in there :)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * We now have a page describing our use of RDF
 * We now have Q33000000
 * The database reports about items without statements are updated again. English Wikipedia is up at 4.8% (from 4.6%). Dutch Wikipedia remains low at 0.8%.
 * Check out some improvements to the Query Service, and a new prototype for the Query Helper
 * New Wikidata maps with a comparison between October 2016 and July 2017
 * Help improving Wikidata documentation during the Wikimania hackathon


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: NPSN Indonesian school ID, EmbassyPages.com ID, ESEC person ID, Titan ID, Who's Who in France biography ID, French National Assembly ID


 * Query examples:
 * Graph of operating systems (source)
 * Couples of Members of Parliament in UK (source)
 * People who have the same person listed as both their parent and their child (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0A%0APREFIX%20lgdo%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Flinkedgeodata.org%2Fontology%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20geo%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.opengis.net%2Font%2Fgeosparql%23%3E%0APREFIX%20geom%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fgeovocab.org%2Fgeometry%23%3E%0APREFIX%20bif%3A%20%3Cbif%3A%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20%3FrailwayThing%20%3Fgeometry%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Flabel%29%20AS%20%3Flabel%29%20%3Flayer%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Flinkedgeodata.org%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3FrailwayThing%20a%20lgdo%3ARailwayThing%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20geom%3Ageometry%20%5B%20geo%3AasWKT%20%3Fgeometry%20%5D.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28bif%3Ast_intersects%28%3Fgeometry%2C%20bif%3Ast_point%2813.383333%2C%2052.516667%29%2C%200.1%29%29%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FrailwayThing%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Flabel.%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FrailwayThing%20a%20lgdo%3ASubway.%20BIND%28%22subway%22%40en%20AS%20%3Fsubway%29%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FrailwayThing%20a%20lgdo%3ARail.%20BIND%28%22rail%22%40en%20AS%20%3Frail%29%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FrailwayThing%20a%20lgdo%3ALightRail.%20BIND%28%22light%20rail%22%40en%20AS%20%3Flightrail%29%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FrailwayThing%20a%20lgdo%3ATramway.%20BIND%28%22tramway%22%40en%20AS%20%3Ftramway%29%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FrailwayThing%20a%20lgdo%3APlatform.%20BIND%28%22platform%22%40en%20AS%20%3Fplatform%29%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FrailwayThing%20a%20lgdo%3AAbandonedRailway.%20BIND%28%22abandoned%20railway%22%40en%20AS%20%3Fabandoned%29%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FrailwayThing%20a%20lgdo%3AHistoricThing.%20BIND%28%22historic%22%40en%20AS%20%3Fhistoric%29%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND%28COALESCE%28%3Fsubway%2C%20%3Flightrail%2C%20%3Frail%2C%20%3Ftramway%2C%20%3Fplatform%2C%20%3Fabandoned%2C%20%3Fhistoric%2C%20%22other%22%40en%29%20AS%20%3Flayer%29%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3FrailwayThing%20%3Fgeometry%20%3Flayer Map of “railway things” in Berlin, as classified by LinkedGeoData.org] (source)
 * Map of discovery locations of the objects stored in the Musée Saint-Raymond (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fstation%20%3FstationLabel%20%3Fpicture%20%28SAMPLE%28%3FpictureCategory%29%20AS%20%3FpictureCategory%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20hint%3AQuery%20hint%3Aoptimizer%20%22None%22.%0A%0A%20%20%23%20get%20metro%20stations%20in%20germany%0A%20%20%3Fstation%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ928830%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP17%20wd%3AQ183%20.%0A%0A%20%20%23%20and%20pictures%20of%20them%0A%20%20%3Fstation%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fpicture%20.%0A%0A%20%20%23%20build%20commons%20urls%0A%20%20BIND%28STRAFTER%28str%28%3Fpicture%29%2C%20%22Special%3AFilePath%2F%22%29%20AS%20%3Ffilename%29%0A%20%20BIND%28wikibase%3AdecodeUri%28CONCAT%28%22File%3A%22%2C%20%3Ffilename%29%29%20AS%20%3Ffile%29%0A%0A%20%20%23%20and%20ask%20commons%20for%20the%20categories%20the%20pictures%20are%20in%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Amwapi%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Aapi%20%22Categories%22.%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Aendpoint%20%22commons.wikipedia.org%22.%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20mwapi%3Atitles%20%3Ffile.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FpictureCategory%20wikibase%3AapiOutput%20mwapi%3Acategory.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20%23%20and%20only%20get%20those%20with%20a%20Public%20Domain%20category%0A%20%20FILTER%28STRSTARTS%28%3FpictureCategory%2C%20%22Category%3APD-%22%29%29%0A%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22de%2C%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fstation%20%3FstationLabel%20%3Fpicture%0ALIMIT%20100 metro stations in Germany with public domain images on Commons] (source)
 * UK Members of Parliament who are born out of the UK (source)


 * Development
 * Preparing Lexemes demo for Wikimania
 * Fixing links to non-entity namespaces (T169221) (thanks to Matěj Suchánek!)
 * Tracking labels of quantity units in parser and Lua functions (T170167) (thanks to Matěj Suchánek!)
 * Fixing checking of constraints on deprecated statements (T170391)
 * Improving the Query Service UI (T170279)
 * Improving wbsearchentities (T103875)
 * Removing links from printable version (T87108)
 * Adding customizable fallback to Special:GoToLinkedPage (T166473)

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!

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Tech News: 2017-29
<section begin="technews-2017-W29"/> 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
 * "Wikimedia Labs" is now called "Cloud VPS". "Wikimedia Tool Labs" is now called "Wikimedia Toolforge". This is to help clarify the purpose of these services.

Problems
 * On some pages, the Table of Contents is not being shown. It will normally appear if you edit the page again. Investigation is currently ongoing.

Changes this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 July. It will be on all wikis from 20 July (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 18 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is: Migrate to HTML5 section ids. The meeting will be on 19 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Page Previews, currently a Beta Feature, will be enabled for logged-out users for all remaining Wikipedias (with the exception of English and German) the week of 24 July. An A/B test will be run on English Wikipedia to collect data before approaching the community for further discussion.

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Wikidata weekly summary #270
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Wikidata SPARQL workshop, July 25th in Rennes (France)
 * Upcoming: Ladies that FOSS, July 26th in Berlin
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Montreal, August 14th (in French). We're looking for trainers!
 * Using Wikidata as an open, community-maintained database of biomedical knowledge, by Andrew Su


 * WikidataCon
 * You can submit projects for the program until July 31st. See the list of ideas, existing submissions, and submit!
 * Special tickets for scholarship recipients will be released on July 25th. The last 50 tickets will be released on September 1st.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * wbEntity config variable will be deprecated
 * Scores in ORES will be more accurate
 * A new version of the Query Helper will be deployed
 * Sitelinks for the new Dinka Wikipedia (dinwiki) have been added
 * On Wikidata:Usability and usefulness you can see an overview of the work done by the UX people in the Wikidata team on usability
 * There's a brand new newsletter about Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons. You can subscribe to receive next updates.
 * Ma Commune Wikipédia is a website developed by Wikimedia France to give information about the state of the Wikipedia articles for every French municipality and encourage people to edit the Wikimedia projects. It uses Wikidata to identify the communes.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Patrimonioculturale-ER ID, linguistic typology, annual energy output, USHMM person ID, Cinema Treasures ID


 * Query examples:
 * Properties with most “statement disputed by” qualifiers (source)
 * Last meals of people (source)
 * Colors on national flags (source)
 * images of all winners of Free Software Foundation's Free Software Awards (source)
 * lib.reviews now allows searching Wikidata directly to choose subjects to review. (more info)


 * Development
 * The  JavaScript variable will not miss elements any more but contain empty arrays instead (365604). Please check if this affects your scripts, and have a look at the   hook as a possible replacement.
 * Fire-fighting dispatch backlog: T171263.
 * Slowly making progress on wb_terms migration to full entity IDs: T114903.
 * Constraint statements have been enabled (announcement).
 * Distinguish between non-mandatory and mandatory constraints: T164254.
 * Work on supporting unit conversion for more units: T168582

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!

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Tech News: 2017-30
<section begin="technews-2017-W30"/> 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
 * Octicons-tools.svg CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. This will make it easier to make templates look good on mobile devices. This now works on mediawiki.org and Wikitech. It will come to more wikis later.
 * Octicons-tools.svg  modifier class is deprecated and has been removed.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * It will be possible to restrict who can send you notifications on a wiki. This new feature will accessible in your preferences, in the Notifications tab, on Wednesday, July 26. Please see the documentation.

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 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the Wikimedia Foundation July 2017 Metrics & Activities Meeting. The meeting is about how Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement are perceived and understood by the world. The meeting will be on at 19:00 (UTC). See the agenda and how to join.

Future changes
 * New Filters for Edit Review, at the moment available as a Beta feature, will be released by default for the Recent Changes in September.

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Wikidata weekly summary #271
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Wikimania is coming! Check out all the things related to Wikidata
 * Upcoming: Wikidata hackathon during Repository Fringe 2017, in Edinburgh, August 4th
 * Data Partnerships with Wikidata: beaTunes (version in German)
 * Wikidata visualizes SMILES strings with John Mayfield's CDK Depict
 * Freedom versus Standardization: Structured Data Generation in a Peer Production Community


 * WikidataCon
 * Today is the very last day to submit projects in the program! (deadline: July 31th)
 * You can also subscribe to the existing submissions to show your interest and support your favorites


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * wbsearchentities with ElasticSearch test
 * Quantities with units are now supported in the new QuickStatements.
 * Property talk pages now include queries for items with the property and most sitelinks, statements or identifiers.
 * We now have Q34000000
 * Wikidata Constraint Violations tool visualizes changes in constraint violations for last few weeks. Some of constraints produce millions of violations (marked as red).


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: maximum age, WIGOS station ID


 * Query examples:
 * Which White House chief of staff had the shortest tenure? (source)
 * Total number of sister city statements per country (source)
 * Pictures of tube stations in London (source)
 * Works created with the software Maya (source)
 * Do I cite works from Nobel Prize winners? (source)
 * ...or do Nobel prize winners cite me? (source)
 * Timeline of Humanitarian personality of the year (source)
 * New feature/gadget requests: Gadget for changing property


 * Development
 * Added Special:NewItem to Special:SpecialPages (T169456) Thanks to Matěj Suchánek
 * Making possible to check constraints on qualifiers and references (T168532)
 * Working on showing non-mandatory and mandatory constraints differently (T164254)
 * Improving Special:PagesWithProp for Wikidata use cases (T66950)
 * Doing last polishing on the Lexeme entity type and cleaning up the demo data for the demo at Wikimania
 * Improving the dispatching of changes to Wikipedia and co to cope with the increased demand that lead to delays in Wikidata changes showing up in Wikipedia watchlist and recent changes

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!

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Tech News: 2017-31
<section begin="technews-2017-W31"/> 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 pages show the error . This problem happens on pages with a Lua module that uses Wikidata. The developers are working on fixing the problem. You can fix a page by opening it for editing and then saving without changing anything.
 * Wikidata and German Wikipedia could not be edited for an hour on 28 July. You can read why and how we could avoid it in the future in the incident report.

Changes later this week
 * Some wikis already have the larger and brighter OOjs UI edit page buttons. All remaining wikis except Commons will have these from 1 August.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 August. It will be on all wikis from 3 August (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 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The default font in the edit window will soon change for some users. Instead of using the browser default it will be monospace. Users can change this in their preferences. This should only change this for some users on Macs and iOS devices.

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The Signpost: 5 August 2017
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This Month in GLAM: July 2017
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Wikidata weekly summary #272
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Wikimania hackathon and documentation sprint, August 9-10, Montreal
 * Upcoming: Wikimania, August 10-13, Montreal. Check out all the things related to Wikidata
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in French, August 14, Montreal


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * w:en:Category:Articles with infoboxes completely from Wikidata has now more than 1000 articles
 * Wikidata passed 6 average statements per item


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: offset, File format magic numbers, game mechanics, weather history, conjugate base, conjugate acid, Atheneum museum ID, Atheneum person ID, Atheneum artwork ID, Finnish List of Lights ID, RIWAQ Registry of Historic Buildings in Palestine ID, Gatehouse Gazetteer place ID, energy storage capacity, National Assembly of Nigeria ID, Treasury of Lives ID, muzzle velocity, WIGOS station ID


 * Query examples:
 * Timeline of the programming languages created in the past 10 years (source)
 * Countries where no european language has official or national status (source)
 * Gallery of Star Trek characters (source)
 * Timeline of female medieval writers (source)
 * Newest script: moveClaim.js allows moving claims across items. Try it and give feedback to Matěj Suchánek
 * Newest external tools: d3-sparql allows you to query a SPARQL endpoint and get the data in a d3js-useful format


 * Development
 * Released version 2.0.0 of the DataValues base component.
 * Released the DataValues Interfaces component in version 0.2.3.
 * Released the ValueView component in version 0.20.0
 * Fixed a problem with suggestions of P279 (T169060)
 * Preparing everything for Wikimania and the hackathon

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!

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Tech News: 2017-32
<section begin="technews-2017-W32"/> 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 see which Wikipedia language versions are read in a specific country. This tool is called Wikipedia Views Visualized.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Architecture Committee is now the Wikimedia Technical Committee. You can read the charter.

Problems
 * You can get an email when a page on your watchlist was edited. You can choose not to get emails for minor edits. There is a bug that means that you then don't get an email when someone does a normal edit after a minor edit. The developers are working on fixing this. Until it has been fixed you can activate "" at the bottom of "" in your preferences if you want to.
 * The thanks button sometimes didn't work for mobile users. This was because of a new bug and has now been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 August. It will be on all wikis from 10 August (calendar).

Future changes
 * Editors and readers who still use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP will not be able to use Wikipedia. Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP can't connect securely to the wikis. When we allow them to do so it means that we get less security for everyone else. If you use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP you can install Firefox 52 ESR instead. Around 0.1% of the traffic to the Wikimedia wikis comes from Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP.
 * Links to sections on Wikipedia don't work well in languages that don't use the Latin script. The URL in the address bar in your browser shows Latin characters like  instead of the section heading in the wiki's language. Links to sections in non-Latin scripts will be in the script of that wiki in the future. This will happen in the next few months.
 * Wiki pages printed by the web browser "Print" function will have an updated style. This new style will be similar to the when you download a page as PDF. It will be better at showing tables, infoboxes and headings.

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Thank you for all your help!

 * Thanks, Giantflightlessbirds. Some of the things I promised to do following up from this are currently paused, since I have a peer review paper due by the end of the month and getting it into shape is taking a while. Stuartyeates (talk) 09:48, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #273
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Discussions
 * Restrict merging rights to autoconfirmed users
 * Change "Nearby" link to list items nearby the item?
 * New request for comments: P31 or P279 for geo-objects


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Wikifying Westminster: Wikidata workshop around UK political data, August 19th, London
 * Past: Wikimania, Wikimedia hackathon. A lot of things happened during these events, reports and news should be published in the next days.
 * Exploring the world with Wikidata and OpenStreetMap, by Mapbox
 * Enriching catalogue pages in Evergreen with Wikidata by Dan Scott
 * Why data partners should link their vocabulary to Wikidata: a new case study on Europeana blog


 * Wikimania
 * You can try the demo system for lexicographical data
 * Talk: Structured Commons: what changes are coming? by Sandra Fauconnier
 * Talk: New Frontier: Using Wikidata on Commons by Jarekt
 * List of wishes during the "Wikidata pink pony session"
 * Talk: the (Wiki)data (R)evolution, by Lydia Pintscher
 * Talk: Wikidata and performing arts by Beat Estermann during Wikimania
 * Talk: How to use Wikidata in infoboxes (panel)
 * New template: A fully automated template system was presented: Oh!WTFs
 * Talk: WikiCite: Citations needed for the sum of all human knowledge
 * Notes about the Wikispecies & Wikidata session
 * Documents to organize a Wikidata translathon: level 1, level 2, level 3 (by Kvardek_du) and the translathon tool (by Envel)
 * Talk: Sum of all paintings is just the start, by Multichill


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Share your feedback on the draft strategic direction, a basis on which strategic plans will be built.
 * Wikidata reached Q36000000. The number of items has been increased by 20% in less than three months


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: YCBA agent ID, IEDB Epitope ID, Dagens Næringsliv topic ID, Georgian National Register of Monuments ID, CODECS ID, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum ID, magnification, AUR package, Michelin Voyages ID, Michelin Restaurants ID, WeRelate person ID, autores.ar id, MEG ID, Czech Registration ID, separator, National Forest Foundation ID


 * Query examples:
 * Most-depicted musical instruments (source)
 * People who died in 2017 without a French label (source)
 * Moar goats (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Goats, WikiProject Torture
 * Newest external tools: WD edits stats counting edits mades on a certain dataset between two dates

Most of the team was at Wikimania, talking to people, getting meaningful input from the editors, giving talks, hacking around :)
 * Development

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!

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Tech News: 2017-33
<section begin="technews-2017-W33"/> 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
 * Bureaucrats can now set users as confirmed. Previously only stewards could do this on most wikis. Nothing will change for wikis that have previously decided to let administrators set users as confirmed.

Problems
 * The symbols in the language list that show that an article is good or featured in that language doesn't work. Links to the Commons category in the sidebar doesn't work either. The developers are working on fixing it.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 August. It will be on all wikis from 17 August (calendar).

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Speedy deletion nomination of William Magee Hunter


Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice to inform you that a tag has been placed on William Magee Hunter requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

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Speedy deletion nomination of William Magee Hunter


A tag has been placed on William Magee Hunter requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a real person or group of people, but it does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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Wikidata weekly summary #274
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 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Open Source Ladies, meetup for women who want to start coding for Mediawiki and other open source projects, August 22nd, Berlin
 * Data Partnerships in Wikidata: Project Durchblick with Humboldt University by Jens Ohlig (in German)
 * What do Wikidata and Wikipedia have in common? An analysis of their use of external references by Alessandro Piscoppo et al.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New documentation page: How to use Wikidata data on Wikimedia projects (feel free to help improving it)
 * The growth of items continues: we have Q37000000 and even Q37500000; Scientific article (Q13442814) becomes the most used Wikidata item (source)
 * More than 80K locations in Belgium added to Mix'n'Match


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: World Heritage Tentative List ID, eParks unit ID


 * Query examples:
 * Surnames, similar to Muller, according to Cologne phonetics, Caverphone and Soundex algorithms
 * Shortest streets in Moscow
 * A timeline of theologians with a connection to Berlin (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3ATimeline%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Ft%20%3FppLabel%20%3FvalueLabel%20%3FrrLabel%20%20%3Fimage%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20%7Bwd%3AQ9711%20%3Fprop%20%3Ft%20FILTER%20%28datatype%28%3Ft%29%3Dxsd%3AdateTime%29%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fvalue%20wikibase%3AdirectClaim%20%3Fprop.%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20wd%3AQ9711%20%3Fq%20%3Fstatement%20%20FILTER%20regex%20%28STR%28%3Fq%29%2C%22prop%2FP%22%29%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fstatement%20%3Fp%20%3Ft%20FILTER%20regex%20%28STR%28%3Fp%29%2C%20%22prop%2Fqualifier%2FP%22%29%20FILTER%20%28datatype%28%3Ft%29%3Dxsd%3AdateTime%29%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fstatement%20%3Fr%20%3Fvalue%20FILTER%20regex%20%28STR%28%3Fr%29%2C%22prop%2Fstatement%2F%22%29%20.%0A%20%20%20BIND%28IRI%28CONCAT%28CONCAT%28SUBSTR%28STR%28%3Fr%29%2C1%2C29%29%2C%22direct%2F%22%29%2CSUBSTR%28STR%28%3Fr%29%2C40%29%29%29%20as%20%3Frprop%29%20%20%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20wikibase%3AdirectClaim%20%3Frprop%20.%20%20%0A%20%20%20BIND%28IRI%28CONCAT%28CONCAT%28SUBSTR%28STR%28%3Fp%29%2C1%2C29%29%2C%22direct%2F%22%29%2CSUBSTR%28STR%28%3Fp%29%2C40%29%29%29%20as%20%3Fpprop%29%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fpp%20%20wikibase%3AdirectClaim%20%3Fpprop%20.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fvalue%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20wd%3AQ9711%20wdt%3AP800%20%3Fvalue%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fvalue%20%3Fprop%20%3Ft%20FILTER%20%28datatype%28%3Ft%29%3Dxsd%3AdateTime%29%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20wikibase%3AdirectClaim%20wdt%3AP800%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fpp%20wikibase%3AdirectClaim%20%3Fprop.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fvalue%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3Ft Timeline of the life of Honoré de Balzac] (source)
 * Twin cities of places in South Africa (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20UK%20parliaments%20with%20count%20of%20Johns%20and%20count%20of%20women%0A%23defaultView%3ALineChart%0ASELECT%20%3Fdate%20%3Fcount%20%3Flabel%20WITH%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20all%20MPs%20with%20their%20associated%20parliament%0A%20%20SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fmp%20%3Fparliament%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fmp%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5.%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20new%20data%20model%3A%20position%20held%20%E2%80%93%20Member%20of%20the%20nth%20Parliament%20of%20the%20United%20Kingdom%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fmp%20p%3AP39%2Fps%3AP39%20%3Fposition.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fposition%20wdt%3AP279%20wd%3AQ16707842%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP279%2Fpq%3AP2937%7Cwdt%3AP2937%20%3Fparliament.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20old%20data%20model%3A%20member%20of%20%E2%80%93%20nth%20Parliament%20of%20the%20United%20Kingdom%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fmp%20p%3AP463%2Fps%3AP463%20%3Fparliament.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fparliament%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ21094819.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25MPsWithParliament%20WITH%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20count%20of%20Johns%20in%20each%20parliament%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fparliament%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fmp%29%20AS%20%3Fjohns%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25MPsWithParliament.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fmp%20wdt%3AP735%20wd%3AQ4925477.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fparliament%0A%7D%20AS%20%25johns%20WITH%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20count%20of%20women%20in%20each%20parliament%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fparliament%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fmp%29%20AS%20%3Fwomen%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25MPsWithParliament.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fmp%20wdt%3AP21%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ6581072.%20%23%20%28P279%2a%3A%20include%20transgender%20females%20%E2%80%93%20non%20yet%2C%20but%20will%20probably%20happen%20in%20the%20future%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fparliament%0A%7D%20AS%20%25women%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20get%20%3Fjohns%20and%20%3Fwomen%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25johns.%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25women.%0A%20%20%23%20fan%20out%20single%20result%0A%20%20%23%20%3Fparliament%20%3Fjohns%20%3Fwomen%0A%20%20%23%20into%20two%20results%0A%20%20%23%20%3Fparliament%20%22Johns%22%20%3Fjohns%0A%20%20%23%20%3Fparliament%20%22women%22%20%3Fwomen%0A%20%20%23%20so%20the%20line%20chart%20works%0A%20%20VALUES%20%3Flabel%20%7B%20%22Johns%22%40en%20%22women%22%40en%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND%28IF%28%3Flabel%20%3D%20%22Johns%22%40en%2C%20%3Fjohns%2C%20%3Fwomen%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%0A%20%20%23%20get%20parliament%20date%20for%20the%20chart%0A%20%20%3Fparliament%20wdt%3AP571%7Cwdt%3AP580%20%3Fdate.%0A%20%20%23%20add%20labels%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%3Fdate 51st UK parliament (1992) was the first one with more women than Johns] (source)
 * All places that are named "earth" in at least one language (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Parliaments


 * Development
 * Working on making constraints work on qualifiers and references (T168532)
 * Working on making it easier to see when input in property or value fields is not recognized/wrong (T170531)
 * Added new language codes (eya, fuf, ood, pjt, yap, zun) for use in monolingual text values
 * Fixed an issue with badges not being shown next to interwiki links on Wikipedia and co (T172592)
 * Worked on showing labels when linking to a redirect (T96553)
 * Worked on making change dispatching to Wikipedia and co work better so changes made on Wikidata show up there in a reasonable time. There were issues because of significantly increased edit activity on Wikidata.

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!

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Tech News: 2017-34
<section begin="technews-2017-W34"/> 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 test the new Timeless skin on the test wiki and mediawiki.org. You can turn it on in your preferences. You can report bugs in Phabricator. It will come to more wikis soon.
 * Your watchlist can now have the option to unwatch pages. You have to turn this on in your preferences.
 * If a table has several columns you can often choose which column you want to use to sort the table. This has not worked for some columns for readers who have used Firefox or Safari. This has now been fixed.
 * The RelatedArticles extension has shown related pages on Wikivoyages. You will now see the related pages at the end of the article together with an image. Previously the links were in the sidebar. Wikis that want this extension can request it on Phabricator.

Changes later this week
 * Videos will now be played in the WebM format in all browsers. Previously some browsers used Ogg Theora (.ogv). If you use Safari, Internet Explorer or Edge you may see slower playback speed at high resolutions. Instead we will get better quality and smaller file size. You can still upload video as Ogg files. They are automatically converted to WebM. This doesn't affect Ogg audio files.
 * The default font in the edit window will change for some users this week. Instead of using the browser default, it will be monospace. Users can change this in their preferences. This should only change this for some users on Macs and iOS devices.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 August. It will be on all wikis from 24 August (calendar).

Meetings
 * 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 23 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * 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 22 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Books and Bytes - Issue 23
<div style = "color: #936c29; font-size: 4em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif"> The Wikipedia Library <span style="font-size: 2em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif">Books & Bytes

Issue 23, June-July 2017

<div style = "margin-top: 1.5em; border: 3px solid #ae8c55; border-radius: .5em; padding: 1em 1.5em; font-size: .9em"> Chinese, Arabic and Yoruba versions of Books & Bytes are now available in meta! Read the full newsletter Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:03, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Library card
 * User Group update
 * Global branches update
 * Spotlight: Combating misinformation, fake news, and censorship
 * Bytes in brief

New Page Reviewer Newsletter
Hello, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Backlog update: Technology update: General project update: If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, go here. TonyBallioni (talk) 20:33, 24 August 2017 (UTC)
 * The new page backlog is currently at 16,991 pages. We have worked hard to decrease from over 22,000, but more hard work is needed! Please consider reviewing even just a few pages a a day.
 * has created a NPP browser in WMF Labs that allows you to search new unreviewed pages using keywords and categories.
 * The Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech team is working with the community to implement the autoconfirmed article creation trial. The trial is currently set to start on 7 September 2017, pending final approval of the technical features.
 * Please remember to focus on the quality of review: correct tagging of articles and not tagbombing are important. Searching for potential copyright violations is also important, and it can be aided by Earwig's Copyvio Detector, which can be added to your toolbar for ease of use with this user script.
 * To keep up with the latest conversation on New Pages Patrol or to ask questions, you can go to Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers and add it to your watchlist.

Learning Quarterly: August 2017
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Wikidata weekly summary #275
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: علاء
 * New request for comments: How to capture negative results in Wikidata?
 * Comment about approach on items about pages in cebwiki created by Lsjbot
 * Comment about whether to have a "Wikimedia username" property


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: WikiArabia, in Cairo, Egypt, on 23-25 October. They're looking for a volunteer to give a Wikidata workshop. Please contact them if you're interested!
 * A Glimpse into Babel: An Analysis of Multilinguality in Wikidata, by Lucie-Aimée Kaffee et al. (Q37859976)
 * The Gene Wiki: Using Wikipedia and Wikidata to organize biomedical knowledge August Wikimedia Research Showcase (second half), presented by Andrew Su, about how GeneWiki is using Wikidata. Video on YouTube
 * Citation.js: Endpoint on RunKit shows a demo REST API to convert Wikidata entries into BibTeX, Bib.TXT, citations, and CSL-JSON.
 * Video of 3 Wikimania 2017 sessions: Wikidata Revolution, Performing arts in Wikidata, and Sum of all paintings. Others videos can be found on Andrew's channel.


 * WikidataCon
 * The organization team is still looking for sponsors to support the event and provide even more awesome stuff to the attendees. If your company can support the WikidataCon, please get in touch with Lydia.
 * Seeing the enthusiasm of the community for the WikidataCon, we raised our attendees limit from 150 to 200 persons. The last tickets will be released on September 1st. People who registered on the waitlist will be notified when a ticket is available.
 * The program committee is currently reviewing and organizing the submissions. We will contact the speakers soon, and publish the program in the beginning of September (around 6th).
 * We're looking for a keynote speaker who could bring an external point of view on ontologies. If you know interesting people, feel free to help


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Q38000000 was created
 * Language fallback indicators hidden on variant fallback languages


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: National Natural Landmarks site ID, GujLit Book ID, GujLit Person ID, tabular population, Beazley Archive Pottery Database ID, Finnish National Gallery person ID, effective firing range, Patreon person ID, Wikimedia username, Instagram location ID, America's Byways road ID


 * Query examples:
 * number of persons per QID (using P735=Q4925477) (source)
 * QID milestones by date
 * Timeline for biochemist and Nobel Laureate Hans Adolf Krebs (source)
 * Canadian actors who twice played a US president (source)
 * Duration of Steven Spielberg's films (source)
 * Newest external tools: Metaphacts, a feature to search in Wikidata via Alexa


 * Development
 * Worked on fixing the technical glitch in the UI (T173543)
 * Did polishing on the Constraint Checks gadget (for example T173738)
 * Worked on caching constraints checks results which is needed to enable constraints checks for all logged-in users (T173696)
 * Made progress on checking constraints also on qualifiers and references (T168532)
 * Worked more on making it easier to see when input in a property or value input field is not recognized (T170531)
 * Fighting with load issues in the job queue (T173710)
 * Looking into not showing language fallback hints for dialects to make the UI less cluttered for them and make it less necessary to enter labels and descriptions for them (T174318)
 * Wrapping up our experiments with the new front-end technologies

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

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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!

Tech News: 2017-35
<section begin="technews-2017-W35"/> 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
 * Syntax highlighting is now a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. It will come to right-to-left wikis later. This beta feature is based on CodeMirror.
 * You will now get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device or IP address that have logged in to your account before you will be notified after five failed attempts. You can turn this off or choose to get an email notification in your preferences. You can also turn on to get an email when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address.

Problems
 * Some pages show the error . This problem happens on pages with a Lua module that use Wikidata. This has now been fixed and no new pages will get this problem. You still need to fix pages that were broken before and still show the error message. You can see how on this page.

Changes later this week
 * You can block users from sending you notifications.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 August. It will be on all wikis from 31 August (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 29 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the next meeting with the Technical Committee. The topic this week is Migrate to HTML5 section ids. The meeting will be on 30 August at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * In the future you will have global preferences. This means you could set something in your preferences to work in the same way on all wikis. You will not be forced to use global preferences. The developers are now asking if editors need exceptions. This is where you want to use global settings on almost all wikis, but have some wikis where you want it to work in a different way. If you want this you need to tell the developers now. You can do so on the talk page.
 * New filters for edit review is a beta feature to improve recent changes pages. It will work on watchlists from 5 September.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The jQuery library will be upgraded to version 3 in September 2017. Wikis can ask on Phabricator to get it early, so they can help find and solve problems now.

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