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Wikidata weekly summary #278
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Wahldaten Workshop 2017 – 30 September 2017 in Vienna, Austria
 * Upcoming: Wikimedia Research Showcase
 * Past: Wikidata workshop in Zurich (the slides of the speakers are linked on the page)
 * Past: GLAMhack Wikidata workshop in Lausanne (see the slides of the Query Service introduction)
 * Past: Wikidata workshop in Kolkata, India
 * Bridging real and fictional worlds in Wikidata, by Martin Poulter
 * Weekend at the Museum (of Brittany), by Envel Le Hir
 * Wiki Loves Monuments und Wikidata, by SW
 * The French Connection at the Wikimania 2017 Hackathon, by Envel Le Hir


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata ontology explorer: creates a tree of a class or property, shows common properties and statements
 * Join the mysterious group of Wikidata:Flashmob who improve labels, or summon them on an item
 * A breaking change to the wbcheckconstraints API output format was announced
 * Q40000000 was created
 * Improvements coming soon to Recent Changes
 * Several new catalogs in Mix'n'Match incl. Encyclopædia Britannica, National Gallery artists and ArtCyclopedia


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: United Nations Treaty Series Registration Number, Sefaria ID, ICD-10-CM, Encyclopedia of Australian Science ID, Indonesian Small Islands Directory ID, Cyworld ID, IPA Braille, category contains, Enciclopedia Italiana ID, United Nations Treaty Series Volume Number, National Criminal Justice ID, order of battle, Tyrolean Art Cadastre inventory ID, shelf life, UK Electoral Commission ID, LNB Pro A player ID, nLab ID, highest observed lifespan, Unicode hex codepoint, PACTOLS thesaurus ID, Bashkir encyclopedia (Russian version) ID, Bashkir encyclopedia (Bashkir version) ID


 * Query examples:
 * Algorithms and the problems they solve (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20map%20of%20Swiss%20items%20with%20article%20in%20exactly%20one%20of%20German-%2C%20French-%2C%20Italian-%2C%20and%20Romansh-language%20Wikipedias%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Ftitle%29%20AS%20%3FitemLabel%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Flocation%29%20AS%20%3Flocation%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Flanguage%29%20AS%20%3Flayer%29%20WITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%2a%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ39%20p%3AP1332%2Fpsv%3AP1332%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLatitude%20%3Fn%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP1333%2Fpsv%3AP1333%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLatitude%20%3Fs%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP1334%2Fpsv%3AP1334%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLongitude%20%3Fe%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP1335%2Fpsv%3AP1335%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLongitude%20%3Fw.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25switzerlandBoundingBox%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20VALUES%20%3Fwiki%20%7B%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fde.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Ffr.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fit.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Frm.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP17%20wd%3AQ39%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Flocation.%0A%20%20%3Farticle%20a%20schema%3AArticle%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fitem%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Fwiki%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3AinLanguage%20%3Flanguage%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3Aname%20%3Ftitle.%0A%20%20%23%20filter%20out%20some%20stray%20results%20that%20have%20country%20Switzerland%20but%20coordinates%20outside%20it%20%28e.%E2%80%AFg.%20rivers%29%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25switzerlandBoundingBox.%0A%20%20BIND%28geof%3Alatitude%28%3Flocation%29%20AS%20%3Flat%29%0A%20%20BIND%28geof%3Alongitude%28%3Flocation%29%20AS%20%3Flon%29%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3Fs%20%3C%3D%20%3Flat%20%26%26%20%3Flat%20%3C%3D%20%3Fn%20%26%26%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fw%20%3C%3D%20%3Flon%20%26%26%20%3Flon%20%3C%3D%20%3Fe%29%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%0AHAVING%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fwiki%29%20%3D%201%29 Swiss items with article in exactly one of German-, French-, Italian-, and Romansh-language Wikipedias] (source)
 * Popular gender-neutral given names (source)
 * Computer network protocols and their ports (source)
 * Software developers by number of software titles (source)
 * Spacecraft and what they were named after (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject property constraints


 * Development
 * Worked more on the constraints gadget in order to make it also qork for references and qualifiers
 * Made progress on persistently storing edits for the new Lexeme entity type (next to items and properties)
 * Worked on the RDF mapping for full URIs of external identifiers (T121274)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:36, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 September 2017
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Wikidata weekly summary #279
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: Wikimedia Research Showcase - A Glimpse into Babel: An Analysis of Multilinguality in Wikidata
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop about the Austrian election data, September 30th, Vienna
 * Upcoming: The next IRC office hour will take place on November 14th, 19:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2) on the channel #wikimedia-office
 * Weekend at the Museum (of Brittany)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata's 5th birthday is about 1 month away. Time to think about birthday presents? ;-)
 * Siri shows more information based on Wikidata in iOS 11
 * 2 funding proposals are looking for comments and support: soweego and CrossWikiFact
 * Quick graph of the relation of the number of labels in a given language on Wikidata and the number of first language speakers of that language


 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: candidate number, maximal rate of climb, refine date, regular expression syntax, vocalized name, webcam page URL, Heritage Building in Finland ID, PatientLikeMe symptom ID, PatientLikeMe treatment ID, PatientLikeMe condition ID, Figshare author ID
 * Query examples: standards bodies by number of standards they are connected to (source)


 * Development
 * Rolled out more fine-grained usage tracking on Greek Wikipedia. This will lead to less irrelevant changes showing up in watchlist and recent changes on those projects. We're testing this on Greek Wikipedia to see if the solution we have scales before rolling it out further. (T151717)
 * Adding an API module to copy a statement from one item to another (T55619)
 * Working more on checking constraints also on qualifiers and references (T168532)
 * Added support for the Creator namespace to the constraints check for Commons links (T176062)
 * Fixed an error message on Special:GoToLinkedPage (T176327)
 * Finishing touches on including full URIs for external IDs in the RDF export (T121274)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 20:52, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #280
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Using Wikidata data, fixing wrong Wikipedia and Wikidata tags, by Mateusz Konieczny
 * One Knowledge Graph to Rule Them All? Analyzing the Differences Between DBpedia, YAGO, Wikidata & co
 * Modeling the Domain of Digital Preservation in Wikidata
 * Wikidata as a linking hub for knowledge organization systems? Integrating an authority mapping into Wikidata and learning lessons for KOS mappings (Paper and presentation), by Joachim Neubert, NKOS Workshop 2017 at TPDL
 * Knowledge exploration in public linked data ontologies


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The ArticlePlaceholder has been enabled on Bengali Wikipedia (example)
 * There is a new page with information around Wikidata:Wikidata in Wikimedia projects. You can help expand and improve it.
 * New Wikidata Game to help you evaluate merge candidates based on projectmerge.
 * A reading tip from Spinster (not mentioning Wikidata, but interesting general background knowledge): Indigenous peoples and responsible data: an introductory reading list from responsibledata.io
 * Where's Wally (aka Waldo)? Right here on Wikidata, of course!
 * Wikidata passed 8 average statements per item
 * Statement 300.000.000 was created
 * 20 million edits were done in September 2017


 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: TSE number, defined daily dose, Vincoli in Rete ID, The Black Book ID, Tagesschau election ID, LfD-HB object ID, cultural heritage monument in Serbia ID, Bavarian monument authority ID
 * Query examples: What exists in the "... as a service" genre? (source)


 * Development
 * Added a css class to values that link to redirects so they can more easily be identified by editors who want that for maintenance work (T70567) Thanks Matej!
 * Continued work on persistent editing of forms as part of the work to support lexicographical data (T173742, T173744)
 * Finishing touches on adding full URIs for external identifiers to our RDF export so we're good citizens of the semantic web (T121274)
 * Added a new  Lua function in addition to the existing , that returns all statements regardless of their rank (T176124)
 * Looking into an issue where unwanted email notifications are being sent (T174794)
 * Released version 2.1.1 of the base DataValues component


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 17:53, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #281
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October (sold out)
 * We will have two exciting keynotes. The first keynote speaker is Fabian M. Suchanek, professor at Télécom Paris Tech University, working on the knowledge base YAGO. The second keynote speaker is Michael Kreil, datajournalist working on the project Data Sciences and Stories.
 * Please volunteer for some tasks at the conference if you are attending.
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop at XLDB, October 12th, Clermont-Ferrand, France
 * Rebuild the map of famous artwork with Wikidata by Poulpy (in French)
 * Research libraries and Wikimedia: A shared commitment to diversity, open knowledge, and community participation


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * There is now a good start for documentation for QuickStatements. Feel free to help improve it!
 * New Mix’n’match mode to show just the entries with multiple matches (example)


 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Lega Pallavolo Serie A player ID, KNAU ID, PfaF id, YouTube Playlist ID, Wheelchair ITF player ID, VBL player ID, MIL-STD-2525 Symbol Identification Code, stellar rotational velocity, readership, PROSPERO ID, PM20 folder ID, possessed by spirit, panorama view, official app, LFH player ID, UK National Fruit Collection ID, Riigikogu ID, Nominis saint ID, Theses.fr person ID, Nominis given name ID, LUMIERE director ID, LUMIERE film ID, LNV player ID, International Standard Text Code, hydrological order number, FCI rider ID, Daum movie ID, Cinémathèque québécoise work identifier, Japanese Database of National important cultural properties, Tunisian geographic code, New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission ID, DPLA subject ID, rating, Daum TV series ID, half maximal effective concentration, half maximal inhibitory concentration (IC50), Landtag of Liechtenstein ID, Bavarian geotope ID, Reddit user name, LinkedIn company ID, THW Kiel player ID, Footoféminin.fr player ID, FFVoile sailor ID, NPB player ID, Lega Pallavolo Serie A Femminile player ID, Gallica ID, National Museums of Japan e-museum ID, Spanish "Boletín Oficial del Estado" ID, Banglapedia (English version) ID, Banglapedia (Bengali version) ID, number of constituencies, All-Russian Mathematical Portal ID
 * Query examples:
 * Women who won the Nobel Prize in Physics (source)
 * For each award, percentage of women who received it (source)
 * Intelligent personal assistants described in Wikidata (source)
 * Units of measurement named after German people (source)
 * Buildings constructed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Delhi Metro
 * Newest database reports: television series by camera setup


 * Development
 * Breaking change: "wb_entity_per_page" table will not be updated and replicated on ToolLabs anymore
 * A  Lua function will be added (T173262)
 * The  Lua function will accept a second parameter with the global identifier of a wiki (e.g. "enwiki") to link to (T142903)
 * Had to temporarily turn off showing Wikidata's changes on Commons and Russian Wikipedia because of database issues. We're working on turning it back on.
 * Continued work on persistently storing edits to Forms on Lexemes
 * Finishing work on checking constraints on qualifiers and references with the constraint checks gadget
 * Fixed a bug where notification emails for Wikidata changes were sent when they shouldn't have been (T174794)
 * Full URIs for external identifiers will soon be in the RDF export (T121274)


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 20:27, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #282
Wikidata weekly summary #282

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.  Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 21:39, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Association Football Matches
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Upcoming: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October (sold out)
 * If you organize a local event for the Wikidata birthday, feel free to add it on the events page and the birthday page
 * A blog post describing Textes d'affiches, a tool using Wikidata to show movies and the works they are adapted from, developed during a hackathon at the national French library (by Shonagon, in French)
 * Slides of the presentation "Wikidata Query Service: The State of the Engine" by Stas Malyshev
 * Slides of the presentation "Wikidata and structured data initiatives at Wikimedia. Current trends and priorities" by Dario Taborelli
 * Wikidata as a linking hub for knowledge organization systems? Integrating an authority mapping into Wikidata and learning lessons for KOS mappings by Joachim Neubert
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * If you are interested in Structured Data on Commons, and helping out as a Wikidata contributor, please consider joining the new Structured Commons community focus group!
 * Participate to the Global Legislative Openness Week with MySociety and organize a Wikidata workshop in your country, from 20th to 30th November 2017
 * Inventaire now has a News section where you can follow ongoing discussions and developments of the project
 * wikidata-cli added bot support and new commands (wd search, wd aliases, wd add-alias, wd remove-alias, wd set-alias)
 * wikidata-edit added bot edits support and new functions (alias.add, alias.remove, alias.set)
 * HarvestTemplates has a new collaboration platform
 * You can now use reCh to patrol items from your PagePile
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Women's Sports Foundation ID, Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame ID, North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame ID, New Mexico Sports Hall of Fame ID, National Trust Collections ID, Infopatrimônio ID, KBO pitcher ID, KBO hitter ID, Cairn author ID, Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame ID, Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame ID, Kansas Sports Hall of Fame ID, Hawai‘i Sports Hall of Fame ID, Georgia Sports Hall of Fame ID, DSMHOF athlete ID, ASHOF athlete ID, ExecutedToday ID, Monumentos de São Paulo ID, gravsted.dk ID, Dutch lost building register ID, Musikverket person ID, Megalithic Portal ID, PROSITE documentation ID, Search formatter URL, nominated by, BillionGraves cemetery ID, Cravo Albin artist ID, salinity, Lotsawa House Indian author ID, Lotsawa House Tibetan author ID, Florida Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, T4T35 megalith ID, excavation director, QEdu ID, WBPLN author ID, Store norske leksikon ID, synodic period, PubsHistory pub ID, Organization ID on Radio Radicale, LOINC ID, digitised page from Lloyd's Register of Ships from 1930 to 1945, Lloyd's Register Ship ID, IDESCAT territorial code in Catalonia, Heritage Conservation District of Ontario ID, GenBank Assembly accession, Deutsche Synchronkartei actor-ID, Department of Education and Skills roll number, contains, Wikimedia template, Brueckenweb id, BHL bibliography ID, BFI-Filmography person ID, APA phoneme code, combination classification, young rider classification, best sprinter classification, best combative classification, mountains classification, Elite Prospects staff ID, Scottish Sports HoF athlete ID, GARD rare disease ID, kinship equivalent in SPARQL at Wikidata, SwimSwam ID, SpeedskatingResults.com speed skater ID, musée de Bretagne identifiant collections ID, camera setup, FOIH taxon ID, FOIH decree types ID, FOIH event types ID, FOIH value types ID, FOIH heritage types ID, FOIH periods ID, FOIH styles and cultures ID, FOIH materials ID
 * Query examples:
 * Flags with more than 5 stars (source)
 * Timeline of programming languages (source)
 * Female scientists sorted by number of citations of their work (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Women
 * Newest database reports: Jean Rochefort Filmography
 * Development
 * Continued working on persistently storing edits on Lexeme pages (specifically Forms)
 * Dealt with issues caused by too many edits being injected into recent changes on Commons and Russian Wikipedia
 * Constraint checks will also be done on qualifiers and references (T176863)
 * Fixed a regression with the focus not automatically being set after a property was selected (T177485)
 * Full URIs for external identifiers will soon be in the RDF export (T121274)
 * The secondary  table got removed now (T140890)
 * The secondary  table does have a   column now (T167114)
 * Released version 4.0.0 of the [//github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModelJavaScript Wikibase DataModel JavaScript library] as a pure NPM package with no MediaWiki dependency (T177476)
 * Released version 3.0.0 of the [//github.com/wmde/WikibaseSerializationJavaScript Wikibase Serialization JavaScript library] as a pure NPM package with no MediaWiki dependency (T177613)
 * Released version 0.10.0 of the [//github.com/wmde/DataValuesJavaScript DataValues JavaScript library] as a pure NPM package with no MediaWiki dependency (T177232)
 * 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!

The Signpost: 23 October 2017
<div class="hlist" style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:36, 23 October 2017 (UTC)