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Wikidata weekly summary #348
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events
 * Past: Workshop on Data Quality Management in Wikidata, 18 January, Berlin. You can check the collaborative documentation
 * Keynote by Amrapali Zaveri (video)
 * Keynote by Daniel Mietchen (slides, video)
 * Upcoming: free software workshop (including Wikidata) in Lyon, France, January 23rd
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Côte d'Ivoire, February 9th
 * Upcoming: Library data camp, a training for librairies about open data and Wikidata, Manchester, UK, March 11th


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: WordLift ID, official color, member category, located at street address, charter URL, works in collection
 * External identifiers: Crew united title ID, Genius album numeric ID, Genius song numeric ID, Litchfield Ledger ID, Microsoft Academic ID, Bahamut Gamer's Community ACG Database, Bunkacho Media Art Database (Development Version): Animation Database, Bunkacho Media Art Database (Development Version): Comic Database, REDIZO, Archives of Maryland Biographical Series ID, Interpol WOA artwork ID, Online Catalog of Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal ID, MAMVP artwork ID, Psyl'list species ID, VectorBase taxonomy ID, iTunes TV season ID, Hungarian public thesaurus ID, TV Spielfilm film ID, Viperson ID, Krugosvet article, biathlon.com.ua person ID, RBU person ID, sportufo.ru person ID, Skiresort.info ID, Educational Institution Identification Number, U-DISE code, AISHE code


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: inverse label, tussenvoegsel, Linked to profession, chassis, Swedish Organization Number, COOL species ID, Trading name, funk channel ID, personal pronoun
 * External identifiers: Skimap.org ID, Gault et Millau ID, ID theatreonline.com, Swiss Films, Dizionario di Storia Treccani ID, Romanian Soccer player ID, sports.md athlete ID, iTunes movie ID, iTunes book ID, vodnimlyny.cz ID, Smarthistory ID, World Cube Association ID, CORE (Connecting Repositories) ID, GEOFON earthquake ID, LevskiSofia.info player ID, LevskiSofia.info coach ID, Homosaurus identifier, DIZIE ID, identificador Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música


 * Query examples:
 * Images of exoplanets (source)
 * Types of protected historical objects in Loire-Atlantique, France (source)
 * Common long words in scholarly article titles (source)
 * Timeline of writing systems and alphabets (source)
 * Image grid of synthesizers produced by ARP Instruments (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Data Quality


 * Development
 * Fixed a small bug that we introduced with editing badges on wd.org (T213998)
 * Finished collecting data about the user of the termbox (T211015)
 * Fixed an i18n message (T206416)
 * Created some maintenance scripts for creating and approving oauth consumers (T211568)
 * Checked for possible data coruptions due to an issue with change tags (T213281)
 * Fixed an issue with restoring merge revisions in Lexeme (T204041)
 * Configured WikibaseQualityConstraints on test.wikidata (T209922)
 * Turned on the new entity id formatting for properties (T201838)
 * Continued work on glosses, displaying the language name also in edit mode (T209931)
 * Starting investigating on Shape Expressions
 * Mobile termbox: showing language, description and aliases (T207150)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


 * 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) 16:06, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #349
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Open requests for adminship: Deror avi, Wildly boy


 * Events
 * February 19th: Wikidata meetup in London - Facebook event
 * Incoming: Wikidata Lab XII in São Paulo, Brazil, February 14th.


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Making Wikidata visible, by Martin Poulter on Bodleian Digital Library's blog
 * How to query Wikidata using R, by Envel Le Hir
 * Inventory of the Cleveland Museum of Art images, by Magnus Manske


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * There is now a tool to validate mappings between Wikidata and external RDF vocabularies done with the properties equivalent property and equivalent class.
 * Topic matcher, a tool to help you adding a "main topic" or "depicts" statement to items about streets, articles, painting, etc.
 * Editing Wikidata - Swedish Cuisine by JanAinali on Twitch
 * City-Country-Shapes visualization based on Wikidata: how many of a country's largest cities do you need to put on a map to be able to recognise the country?


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: ELNET ID, iTunes book ID, iTunes movie ID, Romanian Soccer player ID, Skimap ID, sports.md athlete ID, Gault et Millau ID, Theatreonline.com ID, Dizionario di Storia Treccani ID, Smarthistory ID, vodnimlyny.cz ID, World Cube Association ID, COOL species ID, CORE ID, LevskiSofia.info coach ID, LevskiSofia.info player ID, Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música ID, JORFSearch organization ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: journal series, has alt-text, has lyrics, day of regular release, CBFC rating, full work on commons
 * External identifiers: sport-strana.ru article ID, football.odessa.ua person ID, NMSRCP reference number, AKB48 member ID, TV Spielfilm Series ID, MCULE ID, Global Species ID, Georgian National Filmography ID, Bureau van Dijk Orbis company ID, Bureau van Dijk Orbis person ID, Musicbrainz Event ID, ManualsLib brand ID, LGD local body code, Hymnary hymnal ID, Hymnary tune ID, Hymnary instance ID, Getty Images ID, Amsterdam code


 * Query examples:
 * Things depicted in the collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Ashmolean Museum (source)
 * Stradivari(us) instruments (source)
 * Rivers whose names in Spanish start with "Guad" (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Protected areas in Germany


 * Development
 * Started development on Shape Expressions
 * Termbox: show an expanded-by-default section for the user's preferred languages (T211865)
 * Provide visualization LUA usage on a dashboard (T211768)
 * Fixed issues with sense ID wrapping (T210502)
 * Background work to support the deployment of the next pieces for Structured Data on Commons

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


 * 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) 16:00, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #350
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events
 * Next Wikidata workshop/meetup in Paris: February 15th
 * Next Wikidata meetup in Berlin: March 12th
 * The conference grant proposal for WikidataCon was submitted and could use endorsements.


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * „Eisberg voraus!“ – Sächsische Landeskunde mit SXRM, Wikisource und Wikidata by Jens Bemme (in German)
 * Linking the OLAC Video Game Vocabulary with Wikidata by Tracy Hoffmann and Peter Chan
 * Adam blogged about how to update an existing Wikibase docker instance


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Got some time? SpeedPatrolling, a tool to simplify patrolling of recent changes on Wikidata (documentation), has been announced and you can use it to help fight vandalism.
 * Got some time? Match some streets and the humans they are named after.
 * Got some time? Help link OpenStreetMap and Wikidata Items with the new OSM <-> Wikidata matcher.
 * Wikidata Query Service now has over 7 billion triples.


 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: affiliation string, RightsStatement status according to source website, trading name, Alexander–Briggs notation
 * External identifiers: DIZIE ID, football.odessa.ua person ID, sport-strana.ru article ID, Homosaurus ID, funk channel ID, GEOFON earthquake ID, Georgian National Filmography ID, infosport.ru person ID, ManualsLib brand ID, MusicBrainz event ID, LGD local body code, HAER ID, Hymnary hymnal ID, Hymnary instance ID, Hymnary tune ID, Global Species ID, Amsterdam code
 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: does not have quality (2), Den Digitale Byport-ID, expression of, calendar feed url, Total goals in career, Strepsiptera database species ID, Brentidae of the world species ID, Illustrated catalog of Tessaratomidae species ID, WBCHSE code
 * External identifiers: Douban Book ID, Douban Musician ID, Douban Author ID, Douban Music ID, Douban Drama ID, Douban Game ID, Douban Read Author ID, Douban Read eBook ID, Douban Site Name, Douban Username, Zhihu username, Bilibili user ID, QQ number, Bilibili video ID, Bilibili bangumi ID, Bilibili tag ID, Mtime movie ID, Mtime people ID, Dictionary of Anhui Writers ID, Fuzhou Architecture Heritage ID, Eventa Servo ID, Rocks Backpages author ID, Rocks Backpages artist ID, Rocks Backpages publication ID, Hulu movie ID, Hulu series ID, Democracy Club ID, ISA ID, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Schutzgebiete-ID, DALFAN ID, GameFAQs franchise ID, CABB player ID, castingvideos ID, Bildarchiv, Herder-Institut, IEEEXplore document ID, IEEEXplore author ID, Antarctica NZ Digital Asset Manager, Pacific Coast Architecture Database building ID, Twitter user ID, Australian Antarctic Data Center, Enciclopedia delle donne ID
 * Deleted properties: P1112 (Pokédex number)
 * Query examples:
 * Common topics of publications by people affiliated with a given organization
 * World __ days and other awareness days in calendar order (Source)
 * timeline of writing systems (source)
 * family tree of Donald Duck (source)
 * Common long words in titles of scholarly articles (source)
 * schools of magic by number of students (source)


 * Development
 * Making progress towards first showable version of basic Shape Expression support
 * Layout polishing for the mobile termbox (the box that shows labels, desctiptions and aliases) and continuing work on the "in more languages" and "all entered languages" sections in it
 * Added tracking for the number of Senses and Forms to our graph for tracking the number of Items, Properties and Lexemes
 * Worked more on making it easier to set up Quickstatements in other Wikibase instances
 * Preventing an entity to redirect to itself (T214919)
 * Working on making Federation (reusing Wikidata's Items and Properties to make statements) work for Wikimedia Commons to get the rollout of the next stage (support for depicts statements) unstuck
 * Fixed an issue with adding sitelinks from Commons (T213975)
 * Fixing Cognate support for yue Wiktionary (T214400)


 * 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) 21:33, 4 February 2019 (UTC)