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Tech News: 2017-31
 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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Talk page stalkers - any of you use PGP?
A question -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 19:26, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Well, yes, I use GNU Privacy Guard for signing email and encrypting backup data stored in the cloud. I use Hushmail for much of my email messaging, as it uses OpenPGP for encryption/decryption. I have a GnuPG add-on for my local email system, Thunderbird. There are few PGP users generally, so I find I can't use PGP much for general emails. I tend to use the Signal messaging app more often for secure communications, both text and voice. Geoff &#124; Who, me? 22:00, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Interesting.. I used to use it heavily but ended up losing keys and the such. I recently created a new key (0xB66DB2C1) solely for this account, am I correct in thinking this would be a good way for proving ownership of the account should I get compromised (encrypting a message with the private key)? -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 13:54, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Category:Wikipedians who use PGP. — xaosflux  Talk 01:27, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
 * I should have guessed... you got me there -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 13:54, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
 * PGP? No, I use the Central Line. But thanks for asking :p &mdash;  fortuna  velut luna  14:00, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Mind your fingers, mind your toes, watch the doors, they're gonna close. -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 14:21, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

I believe I use PGP but to be completely honest I'm not sure. It has me baffled that I don't know. Dinah In Wonderland 14:09, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

Regarding "proving ownership" with PGP. Here is what you can do:
 * 1) Post your PUBLIC KEY (not just the index/hash value of it)
 * 2) Make a posting that is SIGNED by your PUBLIC KEY
 * That will show that you are in control of the PRIVATE key and can be verified by anyone. In the future, you can prove that you have access to the same private key that you have access to now (that presumably you have kept secure) by creating a new message and signing it again.  That new message will be able to be verified again by anyone with the ORIGINAL public key you posted. —  xaosflux  Talk 14:18, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
 * ENCRYPTING a message is not the way to do this - the SIGNING is how you do it. For example, look at the "ownership" statement on User:Fluxbot. — xaosflux  Talk 14:18, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Ahhh, thank you - I'll do that :)  -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 14:23, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

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This Month in GLAM: July 2017
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Wikidata weekly summary #272
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * 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
 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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G13 Eligibility Notice
The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly. Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:00, 9 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Draft:Phillip Allen Hall III Filmography
 * Draft:Phillip Allen Hall III Filmography

Request of removal of permission to use Twinkle for Adamgerber80
Requests for permissions leads me to Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents, which I have no access to. Could you please post the following notice on behalf of me (as Adamgerber80's rollback right was approved by you)? Thank you! --146.96.252.3 (talk) 05:20, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

Recently I added some material, well sourced (except a mistake: I mismemorized the year 1973 as 1968), to Kingdom of Sikkim, which was subsequently reverted by Adamgerber80 with a threat to block me. His edit and threat were subsequently reverted by another user (which was to my surprise, years ago it would just leave there).

It would be a happy ending but later I realized Adamgerber80 do not at all think he has done anything wrong and questioned Kautilya3's right to "undo issued warnings". He attributed the issue to "ones which have a history of pushing their agenda", which he later clarified that it has nothing to do with "this particular case": I agree with your point that we should retain editors but not ones which have a history of pushing their agenda

As he insinuated my behaviour were the reason of the conflict while I have never added anything unsourced or done any vandalism in WIkipedia, I intervened into and told him even if he believes that a small part of my edit withour source, he could just undo the small part and ask for a reference about it, instead of undo all valid edits and issue a threat. Unfortunately, he didn't agree to change his "approach", using his word.

I believe, if more than 1~2 percent of rollback from a user are false positive with false warning, granting him rollback right would do more harm than good, as Twinkle rollbacks and warnings give inexperienced users a facade that his edit might be reverted by an admin and he might be warned by an admin (thus more people would refrain from editing Wikipedia). Plus, without Twinkle, one can still undo edits, leave messages, etc. Also, I have noticed that this is not the first time Adamgerber80 has done a disputed rollback within the eight months he has rollback rights (see his talk page). For all of those reason above, I request a removal of Adamgerber80's Twinkle permission. --146.96.252.3 (talk) 05:20, 8 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Hi, Please have a look at User_talk:Adamgerber80 and the edits in question. I believe the editor above is misrepresenting facts to suit his/her narrative. I would be more than happy to clarify any of the rationale behind above mentioned edits or any other edits by me in the past (That is if you feel one is required). Thanks and sorry for bothering you. Adamgerber80 (talk) 16:08, 8 August 2017 (UTC)


 * He will not be responsible to cancel any permissions from you. Instead, he will transfer this problem to the incident notice board and you will receive a notice then. There, everyone will look into the case and I believe they'll not just listen to one user and judge your behaviour. People will look into everything, include your ur entire user talk page (not just that section), my user history and yours. So relax. --146.96.252.3 (talk) 19:09, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility Notice
The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly. Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:00, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Draft:Antoine Wagner

Only if you have free time...
Hello There'sNoTime. Hope all is well. If you could undelete Clark Stacey, I'll try and add a paragraph or two (but really, only if you have free time; I actually don't mind either way). See you around.  Lourdes  14:18, 11 August 2017 (UTC)
 * All restored best of luck!  -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 14:20, 11 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks and cheers :)  Lourdes  14:22, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

OS
This edit related a user with their own IP. --Kostas20142 (talk) 17:46, 11 August 2017 (UTC)
 * That they did, and WP:OS does state that it can be used to hide the IP data of editors who accidentally logged out, but given you reverted the edit and didn't attempt to follow up with the IP (asking if they meant to edit logged out) I can't imagine you've contacted OS.. Perhaps you should contact the IP first -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 17:53, 11 August 2017 (UTC)
 * It was the first ever edit from this IP (and the only one), and all this just looked accidental to me. And due to the request, A real name was also related with this very address (which is nonpublic information). Anyways maybe you are right.--Kostas20142 (talk) 18:07, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

How to get KRYGA Music wiki page retrieved?
Hello,

I created KRYGA Music page, and it got deleted. Can you give me some advice on how to edit it and make the page approved and public? Thank you so much! EmergencyRoomAgency (talk) 15:15, 13 August 2017 (UTC)Emergency Room Agency 8/13/2017
 * Please read the notability requirements. If you have any questions about how Wikipedia works, the place to ask is at the Tea House. -- Alexf(talk) 15:50, 13 August 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #273
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * 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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Chandra Nandini
I already put the source in my description. Thanks. TheNewSMG (talk) 09:15, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Well unfortunately that link doesn't work for me, and it can't be considered a reliable source - do you think you could find a mention of it in news outlet?  -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 09:18, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

Ok, on to it. TheNewSMG (talk) 09:19, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

Here: http://www.india.com/showbiz/star-parivaar-awards-2017-winners-list-karan-patel-divyanka-tripathi-dahiya-nakuul-mehta-wins-the-most-prestigious-award-2178739/ TheNewSMG (talk) 09:20, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Without delving upon whether the information is sourced; the problem is the non-independency of the awards as I already wrote in the article talk page.. Winged Blades Godric 09:25, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
 * --Also as aptly mentioned at Star Parivaar Awards--it is an accolade by Star Plus to promote own programmes and characters. Winged Blades Godric 09:33, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

The awards are notable to the show because it revolves around the 2 main characters. TheNewSMG (talk) 09:28, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

If you are doing this just because you do not like the show then please stop. TheNewSMG (talk) 09:32, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

All popular Hindi TV shows on Wikipedia have the awards mentioned in the article. For example, Jodha Akbar, Siya Ke Ram, and Chakravartin Ashoka Samrat all have the respective awards mentioned so why not mention Chandra Nandini awards?? Thank you. TheNewSMG (talk) 09:37, 14 August 2017 (UTC)


 * That's a good source to start with  I think this conversation would be better had at Talk:Chandra_Nandini  -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 09:39, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-33
 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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Active admin needed
Would you mind taking care of the IP on my talk page? I see you are active in the Recent Changes log.  Eve rgr een Fir  (talk) 06:46, 15 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you! Greatly appreciated.  Eve rgr een Fir  (talk) 06:49, 15 August 2017 (UTC)
 * No worries - just nuking your talk page history, and I've popped two days of semi-protection on it to bore them. Anything else I can do to help? -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 06:51, 15 August 2017 (UTC)
 * That's plenty, thank you! As amusing as the affirmations are, the semi protection is appreciated. Sometimes so much validation is a bit tiring. Thank you for the quick block. I do appreciate it! :)  Eve rgr een Fir  (talk) 06:56, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

The Rambling Man
Didn't you tell me on my talk page a few days ago that his removal of 3rd-party comments was inappropriate? If he's going to follow me around undoing things I do, maybe I should look in to an IBAN. And I know I shouldn't assume malicious intent, but it does seem queer those things he's done, especially since whenever I ask him to stop doing them, his answer is, "Shut up! You're going to get banned very soon!". BTW, I am here because TRM apparently doesn't want me talking about him and/or to you on his own page. p b  p  20:32, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
 * In answer to what you said on TRM's page while I was here, the answer to, "Do I really think that?" is "Yes". p  b  p  20:33, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
 * And what is it with his 'tude? His airs suggest that I'm somebody horrendously beneath him.  I'm hardly the first to be rubbed the wrong way on that one.  p  b  p  20:36, 14 August 2017 (UTC)


 * It was inappropriate, but then again it's in that same grey area where people believe it's inappropriate to template a regular - regardless of TRM's, yours or my own opinion on DTTR, I think the best thing anyone can do on Wikipedia in these sorts of situations is step well away from the editor, and get stuck into something else. You're welcome to pursue a formal IBAN, but it's just more drama than this website is worth imho.. -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 20:37, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
 * I know Wikipedia's a big place, but that dude has his fingers in a lot of pots. Especially some of the very important ones.  I feel like he's betting on me starting some discussion where he can counter with his "Ban PBP" BS, so I'm going to hold off on the IBAN proposal until he does something else egregious.  p  b  p  20:42, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
 * By all means don't hold off. I will fully support an IBAN.  Let me know when you request it and I'll pop by to add my unwavering and indefinite support.  The Rambling Man (talk) 20:45, 14 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Let me ask this: I am still interested in participating in ITNC from time to time. I may be again interested in participating in 2017 or other RYs when something important comes up.  (These interests are not TRM-related and ebb and flow with what's happening in the world).  An IBAN doesn't forbid me from completely desisting from those places, does it?  p  b  p  20:50, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Here's what I'd like in an IBAN:
 * TRM and I can't undo each other in any space.
 * TRM and I can't post on each other's talk pages.
 * TRM and I can't start discussions on the other's conduct
 * Am I missing anything? p  b  p  20:50, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Traditional IBAN covers all that, and you can't pick-and-choose. I'm happy to do that, whoever gets to a thread first can comment, otherwise it's blockville, as I discovered earlier this year.  You won't be banned from participating, but you will be banned from commenting on any thread I start or any comment I make on any other thread.  Ditto me to you.  I'm extremely happy with that.  After you. The Rambling Man (talk) 20:53, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
 * ^ What TRM said, though formally requesting it is just taking Wikipedia a little too seriously eh? -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 20:59, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

Re: What are you doing?
Just block me again now, I don't have time fixing the portal. I think South Park is higher then Family Guy based on the pageviews report. My edits were autistic when I got blocked for excessive uploads, mainly my edits to Courage the Cowardly Dog was a huge mistake. JJ98 (Talk) 20:39, 14 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Are you alright? I'd recommend taking a bit of a break from Wikipedia if it's stressing you out! Would you like to be blocked to enforce a break?  -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 20:46, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

I need an admin
There'sNoTime, since there is no active admin checking my case I want you to take a look at Sockpuppet investigations/Snowsleeping and determine the case whether the 2 accounts that I suspected are sockpuppets of Snowsleeping. Thanks. TheNewSMG (talk) 11:11, 15 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Hmm, I can see some overlap, but I think it's not enough to duck block them. I'd recommend waiting for a clerk to endorse a checkuser -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 11:26, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

Ok, thank you very much! I believe though that this case needs a checkuser. TheNewSMG (talk) 11:33, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

WP:WRONGVERSION
Hi. I see that you have protected the userpage. However, it's the WP:WRONGVERSION. Please restore the version before the edit war began. Kingsindian &#9821; &#9818; 13:53, 15 August 2017 (UTC)
 * The Wrong Version is biased, nationalistic, libellous, inaccurate and a disgrace to Wikipedia in general. There are no reports of a sysop ever having protected the "right" version.  -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 14:00, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

The Devil's Advocate
I see you've full-protected TDA's user page - but it's now at the blanked version. Would you mind if I reverted it to how TDA left it? GoldenRing (talk) 13:54, 15 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Sure! I only protected it because the edit warring was getting a bit silly  -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 14:01, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

Revert of autoedit
Note that anyone who has this script installed, will get 0 support from me on VPT. There is a big difference between "'does something" vs works correctly. This script has not been properly mainyained in 10 years (older than an iphone) and probably constitues a security problem for its users due its usage of eval. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 14:37, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

Battle of Haldighati
Hi There'sNoTime, I am wanting to arrive at a consensus on this article. I have already put my claim at Talk:Battle of Haldighati on what I disagree with that is on the article. I want you to see if you agree with my claim. Thanks. TheNewSMG (talk) 14:43, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

Private edit filter
Is there any way for a lowly user like me to view the results of the edit filter you just created/modified, short of requesting to become an WP:EFM myself? I'm really interested in adding cases to the LTA. ☆ Bri (talk) 16:07, 17 August 2017 (UTC)
 * I've emailed you relating to this message -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 17:06, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

Update
Since you have protected the page Islamic terrorism in Europe (2014–present), could you please update the "List of attacks" section to show the recent attack on Barcelona. Thanks. Darius robin (talk) 11:56, 18 August 2017 (UTC)
 * I've unprotected the page, seeing as that was primarily what the dispute was about - in my opinion, the admin who fully protects an article due to a content dispute should not make any changes relating to that dispute -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 12:16, 18 August 2017 (UTC)

Re-pinged at Talk:Robert Hardy
Hello again. You are re-pinged at Talk:Robert Hardy. --George Ho (talk) 23:57, 18 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Responded, thank you -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 08:49, 19 August 2017 (UTC)

University of Phoenix
I have an issue with Nihlus Kryik's use of rollback. I deleted critism and lawsuit sections under the University of Phoenix, because we as editors seem to have a double standard. There are major universities that have far greater sins and crimes against them, but yet these sections do not exist and should and until these are added to other universities one should not be the "whipping boy" for editors.

This was clearly not vandalism and Nihlus Kryik extremely abused their roll back authority.Ballastrae (talk) 13:13, 19 August 2017 (UTC)

There is clearly nothing here about rapes investigations etc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baylor_University

nor anything about raping children and/or the lack of leadership here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_State_University

I can add site after site, but you get my pointBallastrae (talk) 13:13, 19 August 2017 (UTC) Ballastrae (talk) 13:14, 19 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Edit warring and removing content for a stupid reason like not holding up the same standards for other universities (and putting shit like We can do this all day!!!!!!!!!!! in your edit summary) and then telling an admin is a really bad idea. Blocked for 31 hours. No abuse of rollback (though in the future, please don't continually revert, and instead let an admin know so we can block them quicker)  -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 13:20, 19 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Pennsylvania State University. That? You can't just constantly remove something from an article because you don't like it or because WP:OTHERTHINGSEXIST or don't exist. Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point. The preferred course of action would be to add the information that is missing, not disrupting other articles to prove something. —  nihlus kryik   ( talk ) 13:18, 19 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Will do. I've seen admins bite at the lack of four warnings before though on AIV. — nihlus kryik   ( talk ) 13:21, 19 August 2017 (UTC)
 * It happens, and you were working through the warnings very well - in this case I think you did fine sometimes however you may find that an editor hits 3RR before you work through all the warnings. In that case, a report to WP:ANEW or even just a message on an admin's talk will bring a quicker resolution to the disruption  -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 13:25, 19 August 2017 (UTC)

User:72.198.49.108
Hi There'sNoTime, would you please take care of this harassing editor? User:SahabAliwadia warned this IP on his/her talk page for making disruptive edits to Tomorrow's Pioneers and then this IP did the same thing by falsely accusing SahabAliwadia of disruptive edits on his talk page. SahabAliwadia and I both warned this IP for falsely accusing people of disruptive edits/harrassment on the IP's talk page. Once again he falsely accused both SahabAliwadia and me on our talk pages for harrasing/falsely accusing people of disruptive edits. I find it funny that after all of this the IP claims that him/her did not make the edits and the IP was being used by someone else AND he expects us to believe his crap. It is getting really annoying. Thanks. TheNewSMG (talk) 02:34, 20 August 2017 (UTC)
 * You are right user. He warned me once again saying to tell him what he did wrong knowing what he did and, and, and when he was blocked for 3 months, he once again warned this user in his talk page saying that he will block him and he is happy for that. Please administrator, block him indefinitely and revoke his talk page access.  SahabAli  wadia  07:47, 20 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi, I see the IP has been blocked - we don't block IP addresses indefinitely as they are often shared between lots of people, and it could stop a good editor from being able to contribute. I will keep an eye on the IP for you -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 10:48, 21 August 2017 (UTC)
 * But he is also blocked in past (see this), but no improvement can be seen by me.  SahabAli wadia  11:01, 21 August 2017 (UTC)

User:SahabAliwadia is correct this IP has been blocked several times before but no improvement. Right now this IP is editing my warning content and making it look like he is warning me. When I warned him that he will lose his talk page access he said the same thing back to me. So far, SahabAliwadia and I warned once again that if the IP continues his behavior he will lose access to edit his talk page. Please revoke talk page access and ban him indefinitely. Check User talk:72.198.49.108 (history too) for all information. Thanks. TheNewSMG (talk) 11:48, 21 August 2017 (UTC)

Just curious but did you block User:72.198.49.108 from editing their talk page because it has been 3 hours since he has not responded to my warning. Thanks. TheNewSMG (talk) 17:11, 21 August 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #274
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * 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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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.

ANI thread for your radar
Since you're agreeing to mentor User:Mark0880, you should probably be aware of this thread he just opened at ANI. only (talk) 22:31, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

Thanks guys. I shouldve sent this over, yes. Thank you only. Mark0880 (talk) 22:47, 23 August 2017 (UTC)Mark0880

A barnstar for you!

 * well thank you, I appreciate that is there anything I can help you with?  -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 20:49, 24 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Not really - was dealing with an old troublemaker recently, one that you had also tried to help out with me a couple of years ago. Brought you to mind, so I thought I'd say hello.   Scr ★ pIron IV 12:21, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

IP 72.198.49.108 block evasion
It is clear that IP 72.198.49.108 is evading their block using the IP98.191.196.7.

One article, America at a Crossroads, is a clear indicator that IP72.198 = IP98.191
 * IP72.198.49.108 edit
 * IP98.191.196.7 edit
 * IP98.191.196.7 edit

And there are more similar edits. Azadbeh, Racism in Saudi Arabia, Beliefs and ideology of Osama bin Laden, just to name a few articles I have found. Both IPs call editors that have reverted them, vandals, socks, etc. --Kansas Bear (talk) 01:42, 27 August 2017 (UTC)

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!

ACTRIAL
Hi. The trial goes live in only 5 days. I can't see a reply from you confirming that you would be able to make the interface changes. This is only a few minutes work, but we need to have an admin lined up to it. Could you please let us know. Thanks. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 22:38, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2017). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Nakon • Scott
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Sverdrup • Thespian • Elockid • James086 • Ffirehorse • Celestianpower • Boing! said Zebedee

Guideline and policy news
 * ACTRIAL, a research experiment that restricts article creation to autoconfirmed users, will begin on September 7. It will run for six months. You can learn more about the research specifics at meta:Research:Autoconfirmed article creation trial, while Wikipedia talk:Autoconfirmed article creation trial is probably the best venue for general discussion.
 * Following an RfC, WP:G13 speedy deletion criterion now applies to any page in the draftspace that has not been edited in six months. There is a bot-generated report, updated daily, to help identify potentially qualifying drafts that have not been submitted through articles for creation.

Technical news
 * You will now get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device that has logged into your account before, you will be notified after five failed attempts. You can also set in your preferences to get an email when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address, which may be encouraged for admins and accounts with sensitive permissions.
 * Syntax highlighting is now available as a beta feature (more info). This may assist administrators and template editors when dealing with intricate syntax of high-risk templates and system messages.
 * In your notification preferences, you can now block specific users from pinging you. This functionality will soon be available for Special:EmailUser as well.

Arbitration
 * Applications for CheckUser and Oversight are being accepted by the Arbitration Committee until September 12. Community discussion of the candidates will begin on September 18.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:35, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

Hi
I kept trying to add a request for unprotection to the protection modification request page but for some reason I kept being disallowed by some edit filter nonsense? I don't know why, but I saw you are an admin, so I was wondering if you can help me. Here is what I was trying to post on the request page:

Grenada has been semiprotected for more than 4 years, for no good reason. There was not any unusual or egregious level of abuse back in 2013 when it was protected, and I don't see how an article like that would warrant indefinite protection. Can you please remove the protection, at least to see if there is a problem? 192.31.106.34 (talk) 13:16, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi IP, just dealing with something and then I will take a look at this for you. That, or a friendly talk page watcher will help you out  -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 13:21, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
 * of no earthly use to either of you; but that does seem a rather excessive protection. Odd, to say the least. &mdash; fortuna  velut luna  13:34, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
 * as the operative admin in... 2013 :D &mdash; fortuna  velut luna  13:36, 30 August 2017 (UTC)

Banned IP vandal is back
You just banned 220.122.179.191 and he is back with a new IP – 81.106.240.17. – Sabbatino (talk) 08:10, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Already blocked  -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 08:18, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

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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Wikidata weekly summary #276
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 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Chandigarh, India - September 9-10
 * Doctoral Advisor or Medical Condition: Towards Entity-specific Rankings of Knowledge Base Properties, by Simon Razniewski et al.
 * ctj rdf: Part One, showing linking text minded data to Wikidata with SPARQL.
 * Creating parliament charts with Wikidata by Knut
 * The great Wikipedia bot-pocalypse by Aaron Halfaker on WMF's blog
 * When Westminster Was Wikified, by Luca Martinelli


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New admin: congrats to علاء
 * Open Library, the biggest resource of freely-licensed books, now links to Wikidata (through Reasonator) and to VIAF (example here; see "Wikidata" in the right-hand column).
 * With 200 attendees, the WikidataCon is now complete. Thanks all for your enthusiasm \o/ If you registered on the waitlist or submitted a talk, check your mailbox for more information.
 * The WikidataCon program will be released this week, and we will call for volunteers soon


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: THL Simplified Phonetic Transcription, Tibetan pinyin, Wylie transliteration, Australian Women's Register ID, iconographic symbol, slope, angle from vertical


 * Query examples:
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0A%23%20Carte%20des%20pays%20selon%20la%20ville%20de%20naissance%20du%20cr%C3%A9ateur%20de%20la%20peinture%20ayant%20le%20plus%20de%20liens%20Wikimedia%20%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fq%20%3FqLabel%20%3Fnb%20%3Fpays%20%3FpaysLabel%20%3Floc%20%3Fimage%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%09%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%09SELECT%20%28MAX%28%3Fnb%29%20AS%20%3Fnb%29%20%3Fpays%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fq%20%28wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%29%20wd%3AQ3305213%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fq%20wdt%3AP170%20%3Fcrea.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcrea%20wdt%3AP19%20%3Fvillenaissance%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fvillenaissance%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fpays.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fq%20wikibase%3Asitelinks%20%3Fnb%0A%09%09%7D%0A%09%09GROUP%20BY%20%3Fpays%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20HAVING%20%28%3Fnb%3E1%29%0A%09%09ORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fnb%29%0A%09%7D%0A%09%3Fq%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ3305213%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fq%20wdt%3AP170%20%3Fcrea.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fcrea%20wdt%3AP19%20%3Fvillenaissance%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fvillenaissance%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fpays.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%7B%3Fq%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fq%20wikibase%3Asitelinks%20%3Fnb%20.%0A%09%3Fpays%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Floc%20.%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20%23BabelRainbow%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22fr%2Cen%2Car%2Cbe%2Cbg%2Cbn%2Cca%2Ccs%2Cda%2Cde%2Cel%2Ces%2Cet%2Cfa%2Cfi%2Che%2Chi%2Chu%2Chy%2Cid%2Cit%2Cja%2Cjv%2Cko%2Cnb%2Cnl%2Ceo%2Cpa%2Cpl%2Cpt%2Cro%2Cru%2Csh%2Csk%2Csr%2Csv%2Csw%2Cte%2Cth%2Ctr%2Cuk%2Cyue%2Cvec%2Cvi%2Czh%22.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%7D The most famous painting from each country] (source)
 * Ranking universities according to PageRank (source)
 * Actors who were casted in two different films with the same name (source)
 * Newest external tool: official map for Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 displays cultural heritage monuments worldwide, using Wikidata
 * Newest database reports: Mireille Darc filmography, given names by soundex


 * Development
 * Looked into all the things necessary to make it possible to store forms and senses on Lexeme pages.
 * Worked more on caching constraints checks results which is needed to enable constraints checks for all logged-in users (T173696)
 * Making progress on checking constraints also on qualifiers and references (T168532)
 * Removed 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)
 * Fixed an issue that links to an item were not showing the label when it pointed to a redirect (T96553)
 * Unrecognized input in entity selectors will be highlighted in red (T170531)
 * Added language code fr-ca for monolingual text input (T151186)
 * Added an additional normalization for page titles when linking pages on Wiktionary via Cognate (T172987)
 * The API will not only output the hashes for qualifier snaks, but also for main snaks as well as references snaks (T174692). Note that hashes (other than IDs) are not meant to be stable identifiers, and should not be stored for a longer time.
 * Snak hashes will also appear as part of CSS classes in entity pages (T171725)

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: 2017-36
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Tech News
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Recent changes
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Changes later this week
 * New filters for edit review is a beta feature to improve recent changes pages. It will work on watchlists from 5 September.
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Request for ease in protection
Dear admin,

The Wiki page on "Bilal Akbar" relates to a serving General officer and present Chief of General Staff in the Pakistan Army.

I understand that the page was repeatedly vandalised and certain people went against community standards to misuse their authorities. There are certain entries or rather allegations of human rights violations attributed to the said General officer.

I request you to please allow me to remove the false allegations from the page or you may remove them. Allegations hurled against the officer, when cross-checked from their original sources, do not implicitly refer to him by name, nor do they provide incriminating evidence of his past record having engaged in such violent activities.

I will be grateful and obliged to your kind assistance.

With regards, Zedman — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zedmanpk (talk • contribs) 10:51, 7 September 2017 (UTC)


 * I'm interested in how a brand new user's first edit is to request edits to an article they've never edited.. Which statements don't you agree with? Do you agree that the Human Rights Watch is a reliable source of information (namely, https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/05/06/pakistan-independently-investigate-aftab-ahmads-death)? -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 17:15, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

Response
Dear There'sNoTime,

My request may not carry weight, as such, since I am indeed a new user. Human Rights Watch (HRW) is certainly a credible forum but my point of contention is that the user "Rameezraja001" who inserted these details in the first place did so out of political motives and bias. I probed his editorial contributions and found that he has made entries in favour of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), a Karachi-based political party which has direct conflict of interests / issues with the Pakistan Army.

This is similar to someone from, say, the Democrat lobby making entries critical of Republican President Donald Trump. But beyond that, to give a separate heading under "Torture" beside the name of a serving General officer is objectionable. I represent the institution which he belongs to that is why I placed this polite request before you.

I would be very grateful if you oblige.

With kind regards, Zedmanpk — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zedmanpk (talk • contribs) 05:02, 8 September 2017 (UTC)

The Signpost: 6 September 2017
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G13 Eligibility Notice
The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly. Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:00, 7 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Draft:Fourth-party logistics
 * Draft:Fourth-party logistics

User talk:Agroasiatractors
You may wish to revoke talk page access.--Cahk (talk) 08:41, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Done, thanks :) -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 08:44, 6 September 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #277
<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
 * RDFIO: extending Semantic MediaWiki for interoperable biomedical data management - Paper demonstrating interoperatility between WikiData and Semantic MediaWiki, among other things.
 * Données structurées, la puissance de Wikidata au service de Wikimedia Commons - French-language article by Rama about Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons.
 * Europeana is interested in linking its new Entity Collection to Wikidata, and will talk about this at the WikidataCon.
 * Upcoming (21.9.2017): "Wikidata as a linking hub for knowledge organization systems? Integrating an authority mapping into Wikidata and learning lessons for KOS mapping". Presentation by Joachim Neubert at the 17th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop, TPDL 2017 Conference, Thessaloniki (Greece)
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Zurich, one day dedicated to Wikidata and the Query Service in Zurich, Switzerland, September 14th
 * Upcoming: Monthly Wikidata meetup in Paris, France, September 15th
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Kolkata, India, September 16th and 17th
 * Past: Wikidata workshop in Chandigarh, India


 * WikidataCon
 * The program of the WikidataCon is now published on-wiki. You will find there a lot of different formats, topics and speakers, during the two days of the conference.
 * The official visuals have also be released! Check out the conference logo and the volunteers visual, both designed by Bleeptrack under CC-BY-SA.
 * The event is now complete, no more tickets available. The last tickets have been attributed to the first persons who registered on the waitlist. If some more seats get free because another attendee cancels participation, the next person on the waitlist will be informed.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Q39000000 was created
 * Wikidata passed 7 average statements per item
 * The ArticlePlaceholder is now deployed on Albanian Wikipedia


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: danskfilmogtv title ID, Billboard artist ID, Italian National Earthquake Center ID, Flemish organization for Immovable Heritage person ID, Foursquare username, The Times of India Topic ID, ROARMAP ID, WFD Chemical status, PagesJaunes ID, Christie's creator id, Google Play Music album ID, Google Play Music artist ID, Graphic character set global ID, cytogenetic location, category for employees of the organization, CNPS taxon ID, Familypedia person ID, LNH player ID, Alljudo athlete ID, Rivers.gov river ID


 * Query examples:
 * Places of education of the UK members of Parliament (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23Churches%2C%20with%20another%20church%20really%20close%20by%0A%0ASELECT%20%3Fchurch%20%3FchurchLabel%20%3Fchurchloc%20%3Fdist%20%3Fother%20%3FotherLabel%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20%3Fchurch%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ16970%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20this%20thing%20is%20a%20church%0A%20%20%3Fchurch%20wdt%3AP17%20wd%3AQ145%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20and%20it%27s%20in%20the%20UK%0A%20%20%3Fchurch%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fchurchloc%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20and%20it%20has%20a%20location%0A%20%20%3Fother%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ16970%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20another%20thing%20is%20also%20a%20church%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Aaround%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fother%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fotherloc%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Acenter%20%3Fchurchloc%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Aradius%20%220.025%22%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20and%20is%20pretty%20much%20exactly%20on%20the%20same%20spot%20%28%C2%B125m%29%0A%20%20%7D%20%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28STR%28%3Fchurch%29%20%3E%20STR%28%3Fother%29%29%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20filter%20so%20each%20pair%20only%20shows%20up%20once%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND%28geof%3Adistance%28%3Fchurchloc%2C%20%3Fotherloc%29%20as%20%3Fdist%29%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3Fdist Pairs of churches in the UK that are within 25 metres of each other] (source)
 * National parks in India (source)
 * Persons buried more than 13000 km away from their death place (warning: some errors needing correction)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject India
 * Newest user scripts: Overpass (adds a map showing features tagged, in OpenStreetMap, with the ID of the current Wikidata item, if any)


 * Development
 * The new Echo notification is now deployed on all wikis
 * Looked into further possible improvements for change dispatching
 * Worked on persistently storing edits in more parts of a Lexeme
 * Worked on getting expanded URIs for identifiers into the RDF exports (T121274)
 * Continued work on caching constraints results so we can roll it out for more users (T173696)
 * Fixing a bug that highlights input in value fields as not recognized when it shouldn't be (T175525)
 * Released version 2.1.0 of the [//github.com/wmde/WikibaseSerializationJavaScript Serialization JavaScript component] (T174011)
 * Released version 2.0.0 of the [//github.com/DataValues/DataValues DataValues base component] (T168681)
 * Released version 0.9.0 of the [//github.com/wmde/DataValuesJavaScript DataValues JavaScript component] (T172916)
 * Released version 0.8.6 of the [//github.com/DataValues/Time DataValues Time component] (T151088)

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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"Regarding NSEL case"
I would like to bring your attention towards this page once again. Its content has been reversed a couple of times by Nimrodindia and CMshah in the past few days without adherence to the consensus building exercise. The reference links shared by the former user are as old as 2013 as stated by Michaeltibbs which have been modified as per the case’s progression under the judiciary. If I may say so, this is an example of blatant ignorance to Wikipedia’s norms. I request you to look into the matter and suggest a way forward so as to put an end to these edit wars and gain neutrality on the page. Thank you. Anrdshr (talk) 18:12, 11 September 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-37
<section begin="technews-2017-W37"/> 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 get a notification when a page you created is connected to a Wikidata item. You can choose to get these notifications in your preferences. Some wikis already had this option. It is now available on all wikis.
 * The Newsletter extension is now on mediawiki.org. The newsletter extension is for newsletters where you can subscribe by getting a notification when a new issue has been published. It will come to more wikis later.
 * The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. There is now a new high-priority category: . This usually affects templates with horizontal lists. You can read more about using Linter and the Tidy whitespace bug.

Problems
 * Tech News 2017/36 reported about new filters for edit review coming to watchlists. This was planned to happen last week. It will happen next week instead.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 September. It will be on all wikis from 14 September (calendar).
 * Octicons-tools.svg OOjs UI will be updated. This could affect some icons. You can read more about the changes.

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 13 September 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 12 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * You can't use OCG to create PDFs after 1 October. This is because of technical problems. You can use Electron instead. Most PDFs are already created with Electron. Electron will get missing features before 1 October. You can create books but they will not have all planned features until November or December. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
 * New filters for edit review are available now on recent changes as a beta feature. Some of those filters and other features will be deployed as default features in the coming weeks. Users will be able to opt out in their preferences.

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This Month in GLAM: August 2017
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Invitation to Admin confidence survey
Hello,

Beginning in September 2017, the Wikimedia Foundation Anti-harassment tool team will be conducting a survey to gauge how well tools, training, and information exists to assist English Wikipedia administrators in recognizing and mitigating things like sockpuppetry, vandalism, and harassment.

The survey should only take 5 minutes, and your individual response will not be made public. This survey will be integral for our team to determine how to better support administrators.

To take the survey sign up here and we will send you a link to the form.

We really appreciate your input!

Please let us know if you wish to opt-out of all massmessage mailings from the Anti-harassment tools team.

For the Anti-harassment tools team, SPoore (WMF), Community Advocate, Community health initiative (talk) 20:56, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

WL
Thought the WL notice was good, was there opposition? — xaosflux  Talk 17:57, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Disregard, saw the complaint on the talk page. — xaosflux  Talk 17:58, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-38
<section begin="technews-2017-W38"/> 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 contributions from an IP range at Special:Contributions. Before you could only see contributions from single IP addresses. Some older contributions from IP ranges could be missing at first because it will take some time to add them.
 * Flow has been re-scoped to become Structured Discussions and the development has restarted. Phabricator projects and repositories have been renamed.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 September. It will be on all wikis from 21 September (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 19 September at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * We are replacing Tidy on Wikimedia wikis. Editors need to fix pages that could break. You can read the simplified instructions for editors. Some wikis have already switched. If your wiki would like to switch to the new format now, you can file a task.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2017-W38"/> 15:32, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #278
<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 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!

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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) 02:16, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
 * The new page backlog is currently at 14304 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 day.
 * Currently there are 532 pages in the backlog that were created by non-autoconfirmed users before WP:ACTRIAL. The NPP project is undertaking a drive to clear these pages from the backlog before they hit the 90 day Google index point. Please consider reviewing a few today!
 * The Wikimedia Foundation is currently working on creating a new filter for page curation that will allow new page patrollers to filter by extended confirmed status. For more information see: 
 * On 14 September 2017 the English Wikipedia began the autoconfirmed article creation trial. For a six month period, creation of articles in the mainspace of the English Wikipedia will be restricted to users with autoconfirmed status. New users who attempt article creation will now be redirected to a newly designed landing page.
 * Before clicking on a reference or external link while reviewing a page, please be careful that the site looks trustworthy. If you have a question about the safety of clicking on a link, it is better not to click on it.
 * 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.

G13 Eligibility Notice
The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly. Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:00, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Draft:Softing

A barnstar for you!

 * Thanks for this, and thank you for taking ACTRIAL under your wing. Here's hoping it makes for a successful experiment -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 14:54, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

69.118.237.203


Thank you for blocking this IP address. However, did you happen to notice the block log for this IP? It has had a very significant/long history of abusive edits, and I don't think a short block is gonna stop them for very long at all... Thanks. 2601:1C0:103:D067:D8D0:E389:CEE5:2C15 (talk) 07:15, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm not necessarily disagreeing with the shorter block, I just think that other admins would have done it differently. That's all. 2601:1C0:103:D7EB:D8D0:E389:CEE5:2C15 (talk) 07:47, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Quite right, thanks for pointing it out! Sorry I've not corrected it sooner, these darn errors... -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 08:21, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

Messi
He has made a further edit after your warning. Kind regards <b style="font-family:arial"><b style="color:brown">Chocolate</b></b><b style="font-family:arial"><b style="color:green">Rabbit</b></b> 15:57, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 September 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) 01:20, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

Thanks!
Hi There'sNoTime, thank you for your comments at my RfA. Your support is much appreciated! Cheers, ansh 666 19:02, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Hey no worries, I don't even mind being called someone else Take it slow, be open to criticism and suggestions and don't burn yourself out  -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 20:25, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility Notice
The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly. Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:01, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Draft:Mission Learning Foundation
 * Draft:People's Cube
 * Draft:The Music House for Children

-

 * Thank you  it's not all glitz and glam  -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 14:39, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-39
<section begin="technews-2017-W39"/> 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
 * Wikitext syntax highlighting is a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. This beta feature is based on CodeMirror. You can now search through the entire article with +  or  +  when you edit. Before it just searched through a part of the article. The developers are also fixing a couple of other bugs.
 * Administrators on wikis that use Structured Discussions as a beta feature or by default can now create and move Structured Discussions boards. Structured Discussions was previously called Flow.

Changes later this week
 * You 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. For security reasons you will soon get an email by default when someone tries to log in to your account and when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address. This can be turned off in your preferences.
 * Users with extremely old browsers (for example Netscape 2–4, released from 1995–1997) which do not support Unicode will no longer be able to edit. They should try to install a new browser.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 September. It will be on all wikis from 28 September. (calendar).

Meetings Future changes
 * 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 27 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.


 * The Wikimedia Foundation Readers department has proposed changing the mobile website. You can read more on mediawiki.org. This would be a big change.
 * You can't use OCG to create PDFs after 1 October. This is because of technical problems. You can still create PDFs. Tech News 2017/37 said the function to create PDFs from books would still work. It is now clear it will not work for the next few months. The developers are working on fixing this. You can read more on mediawiki.org.

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Wikidata weekly summary #279
<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: 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!

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Thanks for the barnstar!
Thank you! It's always great to get a chance to tell a wider audience about the projects and clear up a few misconceptions along the way. --Slashme (talk) 17:52, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

A beer for you!

 * So far so good.. -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 14:00, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

Self Block Request
I would like to be blocked for 5 days to get away from arguments. <mark style="background:Black"> Bobherry  Talk   Edits  15:02, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 15:13, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

Global Collaboration products newsletter: 2017-09
Latest news from the Wikimedia Global Collaboration team, about Notifications, Structured Discussions, Edit Review Improvements and Content translation. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?
 * This newsletter is the first for the Global Collaboration team!
 * Global Collaboration team formed in July by merging the Language and Collaboration teams of the Wikimedia Foundation. The team is part of the Contributors department.
 * The newsletter now includes updates about Content translation. The Global Collaboration team now have an extended report (in English), with more information and data about the different projects we take care of.
 * Due to vacations and Wikimania, no newsletter has been written in August.
 * Octicons-star.svg Major changes, with possibly an important impact on the wikis, are now marked with the star icon in the newsletter. Let us know if you like it.

Edit Review Improvements [ More information • Help pages ]

Recent changes
 * Octicons-star.svg Filters for Recent Changes will be deployed by default on all wikis.
 * Some features for Recent Changes remain on Beta. See the list.
 * The initial deployment was scheduled for September 26. It has been postponed after October 3 for performance issues.
 * The filters for Watchlists, as a Beta feature, have been deployed as a Beta feature on Sept. 19.
 * "User registration" and "experience level" groups have been unified. It is now possible to select only actions from logged-out users or from logged-in users.

Content translation [ More information • Help pages ]

Recent changes
 * Delete action on the list of translations is now more reachable. Now it's possible to open it on click, and easier as well, because active area is bigger.
 * Content Translation language selector is restyled to be more compact.

Future changes
 * The translation editor of Content Translation will be replaced by the visual editor. Work is ongoing.

Notifications [ More information • Help pages ]

Recent changes
 * For users who don't use JavaScript, a button has been added to Special:Notifications to mark all their notifications as read.
 * It is now possible to restrict who can send you notifications.

Structured Discussions [ More information • Help pages ]

Recent changes
 * Octicons-star.svg Flow has been re-scoped to become Structured Discussions and the development has restarted. Phabricator projects and repositories have been renamed.
 * Administrators on wikis that use Structured Discussions as a beta feature or by default can now create and move Structured Discussions boards.
 * Translation icon cropped.svg Structured Discussions' help pages have been updated. Translations may require updates as well.

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European Society for Quality Research
The speedy was contested by two editors on the talk page. It was deleted without response, discussion or AfD. Do you decide and not the community? And what's the rush? -- Green  C  15:02, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for getting in touch - I saw no credible claim of significance in the article, which made the tagged A7 valid. Devoid any encyclopedic value, the page was just a cheap way of taking a shot at a company. I honestly couldn't care less than the article content was all negative, as Wikipedia contains neutral fact. I don't believe the tagged G10 was overly valid. The arguments on the talk page did not negate the valid A7, and attempted to address issues which didn't even exist ("It's not a copyvio and the material sourced does verify"). That all being said, I prefer to see content kept on Wikipedia than deleted, and I will happily restore the content to draftspace to be worked on. As for what's the rush, please refer to WP:SPEEDY which states "administrators have broad consensus to bypass deletion discussion, at their discretion, and immediately delete Wikipedia pages" -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 15:12, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Ok thanks for the explanation and offer to take to Draft as I think the issues raised might be addressable. I don't have a copy of the original article. -- Green  C  15:14, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your understanding - I've restored the article to Draft:European Society for Quality Research. Thank you for your contributions!  -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 15:17, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

Andrea Iervolino
I am a brave WP:AFC reviewer and would like to accept Draft:Andrea Iervolino. You create protected this topic back in July. Can you please allow this? ~Kvng (talk) 17:40, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Go forth and bravely accept! -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 17:45, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

Creating temptation
Hello little admin. I see you have created a. Please don't put temptation in Bishzilla's way. Has practically given up eating editors! <b style="font-family:comic sans ms;font-size:125%;color:#0FF">bishzilla</b> <i style="color:#E0E;font-size:175%;">  ROA R R! !</i> 09:52, 29 September 2017 (UTC).
 * Never struck me as being the type to give up! I say keep trying, you'll make it one day  -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 12:46, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
 * No no, wish to resist addiction to eating delicious little editors. Bishzilla joined twelve-step program, make good progress. Great will-power when not too hungry! <b style="font-family:comic sans ms;font-size:125%;color:#0FF">bishzilla</b> <i style="color:#E0E;font-size:175%;">  ROA R R! !</i> 13:53, 29 September 2017 (UTC).

Administrators' newsletter – October 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2017). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Boing! said Zebedee • Ansh666 • Ad Orientem
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Tonywalton • AmiDaniel • Silence • BanyanTree • Magioladitis • Vanamonde93 • Mr.Z-man • Jdavidb • Jakec • Ram-Man • Yelyos • Kurt Shaped Box

Guideline and policy news
 * Following a successful proposal to create it, a new user right called "edit filter helper" is now assignable and revocable by administrators. The right allows non-administrators to view the details of private edit filters, but not to edit them.
 * Following a discussion about mass-application of ECP and how the need for logging and other details of an evolving consensus may have been missed by some administrators, a rough guide to extended confirmed protection has been written. This information page describes how the extended-confirmed aspects of the protection policy are currently being applied by administrators.

Technical news
 * You can now search for IP ranges at Special:Contributions. Some log pages and Special:DeletedContributions are not yet supported. Wildcards (e.g. 192.168.0.*) are also not supported, but the popular contribsrange gadget will continue to work.

Arbitration
 * Community consultation on the 2017 candidates for CheckUser and Oversight has concluded. The Arbitration Committee will appoint successful candidates by October 11.
 * A request for comment is open regarding the structure, rules, and procedures of the December 2017 Arbitration Committee election, and how to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.

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Wikidata weekly summary #280
<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
 * 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!

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Tech News: 2017-40
<section begin="technews-2017-W40"/> 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 preload features in the visual editor. This means you can create links to create new pages and some text will already be in the edit window when someone clicks on it.

Changes later this week
 * If you have turned on "" you will now get the 2017 wikitext editor. Before this you had to turn it on manually even though it is a beta feature.
 * Special:Block and Special:Unblock will get the OOUI look.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The jQuery library will be upgraded to version 3 on all Wiktionary wikis from 2 October. It will be on all non-Wikipedia wikis from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October (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 3 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * A new feature called Reading Lists are coming to the Wikipedia mobile apps. First it will be in the Android version. Reading Lists are a private user preference where you can see lists of articles on multiple devices. You can give feedback on this feature.
 * The search function has used fallback languages for language analysis. This means a language could be analysed with the grammar of a completely unrelated language to find related words. This will be removed from most wikis the week starting with 9 October. You can read more and give feedback.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2017-W40"/> 23:25, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

Lexi Temkin moved to draftspace
With due regards to the earlier thread, I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of " " before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please do the needful.Warm regards:) Winged Blades of Godric On leave 08:33, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

Hey
I have decided to mess with your draft, hope you don't mind ;-) To be honest, I feel the minor outburst was completely reasonable. I hope one day we can work to address and resolve the divide between editor/admin and content creator/maintenance workers. Warm regards, Alex ShihTalk 12:04, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Not a problem at all It's on my list to try to create that at some point. I don't see a divide, but many do, which is a shame  -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 07:14, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

Draft:Nextiva
Hello There'sNoTime, I am an Articles for Creation volunteer, and I would like to approve Draft:Nextiva. ISince the article seems to have been created before and has been page-protected, I’m unable to move it there. Would you be willing to do it? I appreciate it! --1990&#39;sguy (talk) 02:10, 4 October 2017 (UTC)
 * I've removed the page protection, so you should now be able to move the article  -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 07:13, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

A note..
Hi,

Greetings:).With due consideration to the recent chain of events, I don't feel Lexi Temkin passes WP:GNG or as such any WP:SNG as of yet. Will you be comfortable with me draftifying it?Regards:) Winged Blades of Godric On leave 08:25, 4 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Sure thing, I believe the notable research she co-lead passes the low-bar of WP:GNG, but I'd much rather continue to work on it in draftspace than it getting AfD'd (I'm not entirely confident it'd survive AfD in its current state!) -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 08:28, 4 October 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅-Many thanks! Anyways, I will be keeping a watch on your 28-day mission to see if I can help out on any issue. Winged Blades of Godric On leave 08:35, 4 October 2017 (UTC)
 * At any case, consider me as one of those who truly hope that the Maintanence-workers vs Content-Creaters divide fizzles out real soon. Winged Blades of Godric On leave 08:38, 4 October 2017 (UTC)


 * I was actually going to talk to you about this too, while PROF is not an exclusionary standard to the GNG, in practice we don't consider people who don't pass PROF to pass the GNG unless it is for something other than their academic work (it can be related, though, for example: someone who has taken their academic research and written a pop-science book that gets great reviews in the NYT). If you want ideas on articles to write for your 28 days, I might be able to think of some depending on your interests. I'm boring though, so they'll likely be less interesting than what you'd have thought up :) TonyBallioni (talk) 13:12, 4 October 2017 (UTC)
 * I've got to say, it's interesting looking at these policies from this side of the fence - I consider myself to have a detailed understanding of our notability policies (heck, wouldn't be an admin otherwise) but the difference is I know them from the point of view of deleting ("does this article meet a criteria for deleting"). I can see that the predisposition to delete isn't helpful, and that in fact there really shouldn't be any "fence" to be on either side of.. I'd appreciate some suggestions - so far I've been looking at the WiR redlist and grabbing ones which have a few links to possible references. I'll admit, I did start writing Lexi Temkin before looking at notability, oops!  -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 13:24, 4 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Well, my first comment is that while I get the challenge it might be easier and more benefit for the encyclopedia to go to a stub category you are interested in, find a pre-2010 article that is in dire need of repair, and bring it to DYK and then GA (if it were me, I'd pick something like Papal conclave, May 1555).If you want to create articles, probably one of the easiest ways to do it is find someone in the Dictionary of National Biography that looks interesting and write on them. They are automatically notable per WP:ANYBIO, and should be somewhat easy to get a non-stub article there. I can't find if there is a list of DNB entries on Wikipedia right now. I know we have lists of the Canadian version at Template:Dictionary of Canadian Biography, which I've been going through and creating articles on academics and educators. TonyBallioni (talk) 13:52, 4 October 2017 (UTC)
 * A couple of the WiR redlisted articles are in the ODNB, so I'll look at them. The whole 28 day thing is a personal challenge given how much I struggle with finishing a writing project (blog posts, university papers, my dissertation!) but I will definitely have a look at improving some stubs Thanks for the pointers   -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 14:00, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

Filter 642
Hi TNT. Shouldn't that be [\s_-] ¿ -- zzuuzz (talk) 17:43, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Checking for a whitespace character there does make a bit more sense ;) -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 18:47, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

Protection
please protect in semi-protection and 3 days. MarkSewath (talk) 08:18, 6 October 2017 (UTC)
 * At the moment I'm leaving the page unprotected for a WP:BEANS reason ;-) -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 08:19, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

. User:Pkbwcgs/sandbox needs admin help
so help it.

--86.163.56.182 (talk) 14:59, 6 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Assuming you're logged out, the only "help" that page needed was the reverting of your edits. Please leave their draft alone unless you're going to constructively improve it  -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 15:02, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

Transonic
Aww... And I was just about to explain to the IP the difference between subsonic (<0.75 mach), transonic (0.75-1.0 mach) and supersonic (>1.0 mach). E.g. 747-8 has a max mach of 0.91 which is transonic, not supersonic. Mr rnddude (talk) 15:16, 6 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Isn't Wikipedia brilliant - transonic lead me to Prandtl–Glauert singularity which caused me to click through to Singularity (mathematics) and now I'm stuck into Removable singularitys. Suffice to say, I have no idea what I'm reading but it looks impressive... -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 15:22, 6 October 2017 (UTC)
 * If I wasn't working on Heinkel He 112 right now, I would be doing the same thing and going to the same places and having the same lack of clue of what I'm looking at. Indeed, nowhere else on Earth can you start at Porridge and end up at Philosophy just by clicking the first wikilink on every new article. It took a while, but, I got there. Mr rnddude (talk) 15:33, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for the barnstar :-)
Thanks for the barnstar! And I appreciate your suggestion to withdraw my RfA. I have learned a lot about the "behind-the-scenes" work that admins (and countless others) do here. And learning is, after all, such an important part of our encyclopedia. I look forward to continue to contribute towards documenting and maintaining the sum of all knowledge. = paul2520 (talk) 14:56, 7 October 2017 (UTC)
 * No problem Indeed it is, and if you ever have any questions, please feel free to leave a message or email me. I look forward to your future RfA!  -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 19:14, 7 October 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thank you  -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 19:13, 7 October 2017 (UTC)

Concerning your username

 * And indeed there will be time
 * For the yellow smoke that slides along the street,
 * Rubbing its back upon the window panes;
 * There will be time, there will be time
 * To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
 * There will be time to murder and create,
 * And time for all the works and days of hands
 * That lift and drop a question on your plate;
 * Time for you and time for me,
 * And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
 * And for a hundred visions and revisions,
 * Before the taking of a toast and tea.
 * Bishonen &#124; talk 23:34, 7 October 2017 (UTC).


 * How lovely
 * Do I dare
 * Disturb the universe?
 * In a minute there is time
 * For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
 * -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 23:51, 7 October 2017 (UTC)

There's no time
... I hate to go to the Great Dismal Swamp, because I'd like to write articles. I have been on the receiving end of restrictions, as you may know. It's humiliating to have to ask for mercy, in other words, to appeal. (I was too proud to appeal for two years.) If you have little time: just make that block a fixed time. If you have more time: look for my name on Joe's talk page. I hate to repeat Precious when he's blocked, and it may happen again this month. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:34, 8 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi Gerda, thank you for your message and for the level-headed approach you bring to difficult situations such as this. I'm genuinely torn in this case, on one hand you have incivility which makes Wikipedia a difficult place to work (and I'm not talking about what is and isn't a personal attack) but on the other the very real fact that I jumped on the report very quickly. The feeling I get at the thread is one which makes me feel foolish for rushing in, but one which supports the idea of something needing to be done. I see the user has been warned and asked to cool off multiple times, and we've escalated up block durations to hopefully try to encourage a change of behaviour.. What is left to do?
 * Joefromrandb has contributed greatly to Wikipedia, but with an attitude I cannot ignore. To me, there's no ratio of incivility to content which makes behaviour like that justifiable. Please don't get me wrong, I want a resolution here and the restriction ended as soon as possible - I'd unblock immediately if Joefromrandb put their hands up and committed to continue working here without these little outbursts, just as many of our amazing content contributors, such as yourself, manage on a daily basis. As always, I'm open to comment and criticism - if you were in my shoes, what would you do? -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 07:47, 8 October 2017 (UTC)


 * I thought you'd at least read my first thought, about how humiliating it is to expect someone to "put their hands up" and say "I commit to continue working here without these little outbursts". If you have little time, just follow the link from my last comment on his page. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:03, 8 October 2017 (UTC)


 * I can quite happily stop and see when I've mucked up, and admit to it - that shouldn't be humiliating. I saw the link to this post -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 08:08, 8 October 2017 (UTC)


 * If you can happily stop, then do it. - (ec:) About being in your shoes: hard. I am not an admin, and never want to be one. I wrote my little questionaire (which could be subtitled: Do you really think a block is good for Wikipedia?) for a reason. Next time someone makes a report as this one: ignore ignore ignore. I said already above what I'd do if I was you, now that you are already in this mess: make the block a fixed time. Life is too short. (My questions about blocking came up discussing with Kevin, DYK?) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:15, 8 October 2017 (UTC)
 * A joke, as a token of thanks (from the time when we had DM and Pfennig): Auntie to little Peter: "If you don't use that dirty word again, I give you 10 Pfennig." Peter, in expectation: "I know a word for 50 Pfennig." --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:24, 8 October 2017 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: September 2017
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Wikidata weekly summary #281
<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: 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!

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Tech News: 2017-41
<section begin="technews-2017-W41"/> 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 number of active users listed by  and on Special:Statistics will now only include Wikidata edits as activity on Wikidata and not on other wikis too.
 * Previously you could create wiki links starting with two colons. Now you need to use one colon. :File:X.jpg now has to be File:X.jpg . There is now a new Linter category. You can see a list on Special:Linterrors/multi-colon-escape. The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. You can read more about using Linter.

Problems
 * You will not be able to edit or upload files to Commons for around 30 minutes on 11 October. This will start at 06:00 UTC. This is because of work to let Commons show 3D models.

Changes later this week
 * The font in the edit window is monospace by default. Today you can change preferences to another font family or use "the browser default" instead of monospace. Switching to the browser default has only changed the font on Macs. The option to use browser default will be removed this week.
 * If you want to print a page or make a PDF of a page you can do so in the side menu. The way the pages look when you do this will change. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 October. It will be on all wikis from 12 October (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 10 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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hi
hi im new what do i do on here i want to help and be a admin one day thanks Ateenageboy (talk) 13:12, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia! To begin with, I'd recommend you complete this training (it won't take too long, and you can do it in parts). Once you've done that, taking the Wikipedia Adventure will teach you important elements of interacting with other editors. Once you've got all that done, drop by my talk page again and I'll run through how you can help remove vandalism and we'll look at getting you the rollback permission  -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 13:56, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
 * cool thanks bro Ateenageboy (talk) 16:53, 10 October 2017 (UTC)

Well done
Just saw this on your userpage and I have to admit that it made me crack up (or should I say, "quack up"? ;) )...in a library. Well done! --TheSandDoctor (talk) 16:46, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

You were mentioned
Don't know if you have the page watchlisted, but pings aren't working and your presence was requested at User_talk:Amirshahat. Cheers, Primefac (talk) 13:23, 14 October 2017 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility Notice
The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly. Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:00, 15 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Draft:Atlantic Horns

The ANI about a block
Hello There'sNoTime. If another admin were to try to close the thread about Joefromrandb right now, WP:ANI they would probably have to say there is no consensus for the block. I figure that there are about 10 people in favor, 7 against and 9 who say that the block was too quick. Ironically, this leaves us uncertain how the 'too quick' people would have voted on the merits. Since the thread has been open more than a week a further shift of opinion seems unlikely. You might choose to just to lift the block and then leave any further action to ANI. In this way you could take yourself out of the loop. I take no position on the block myself. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 04:33, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Good idea, done so -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 06:23, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
 * EdJohnston, I wanted to send you a thank-you-click for this, but the "cabal approved" was in its way ;) - You are a member of the cabal by what you do, will repeat it tomorrow (I try to tell only one a day). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:42, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the unblock. Could you find a short message for Joe, beyond the edit summary? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:47, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-42
<section begin="technews-2017-W42"/> 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
 * When you edit a template with the visual editor it follows the template's  configuration on how to save it. You can now change the format in more powerful ways if your wiki wants it.
 * The TwoColConflict extension is a new way to solve edit conflicts. It makes it easier to copy and paste the relevant text to the text field. It has been a beta feature for the last five months. You can now try out the new interface on a page where you will actually get simulated edit conflicts. You can give feedback to the developers.

Problems
 * There is a problem with recent changes pages and your watchlist that show a large number of pages. Until it is fixed, Wikidata edits will not be shown on recent changes or in your watchlist on Commons or Russian Wikipedia. If necessary, Wikidata edits will be removed from all wikis.
 * Notifications are not working for some actions. For example some users don't get a notification when they are mentioned. The developers are working on fixing this.
 * Users on some wikis could not change their preferences. This has now been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * Editors and readers who still use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP will not be able to use Wikipedia from 17 October. 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.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 October. It will be on all wikis from 19 October (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 17 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Wikidata weekly summary #282
Wikidata weekly summary #282

<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;"> <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report · Unsubscribe · 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!

Talkback
His competency at welcoming new users is too good to be comfortable:) Winged Blades of Godric On leave 16:50, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Godric is just a cry wolf, can't believe that people like him are allowed to edit here.--Biografer (talk) 17:12, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

No barnstar, just words
Just dropping by because of this: I am here to express my admiration for your courage and accountability in the administrative actions you take, which takes a lot of character and I respect you both as a fellow editor and administrator. The attacks against you were simply unfair, especially when you are making these calls in the interest of the community. Warm regards, Alex ShihTalk 06:49, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

Don't fret. There's a proclivity these days to jump all over just about anything like this, it'll soon be yesterday's news. The Rambling Man (talk) 06:52, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

October 2017
<mark style="background:Silver"> Bobherry  Talk   Edits  12:59, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
 * ? -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 14:49, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

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) 17:47, 21 October 2017 (UTC)
 * The new page backlog is currently at 12,878 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 day.
 * We have successfully cleared the backlog of pages created by non-confirmed accounts before ACTRIAL. Thank you to everyone who participated in that drive.
 * Primefac has created a script that will assist in requesting revision deletion for copyright violations that are often found in new pages. For more information see User:Primefac/revdel.
 * The Article Wizard has been updated and simplified to match the layout style of the new user landing page. If you have not yet seen it, take a look.
 * 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.

Formatting of Pages of Singapore MRT Lines
Hello.

I seek your assistance regarding the article guidelines of certain pages on the Singapore MRT network.

A few months ago, some users started adding an excessive amount (in my opinion) of unnecessary colours into tables and articles. They evidently cite the reason as to closely mimic the style of the local transport, which feature station codes in ovals. As I had been on hiatus, I did not notice it until recently. See links for examples.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_MRT_Line#Stations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_MRT_Line#Stations

Having maintained the pages for many years, I find this absolutely unnecessary as it clutters up the articles. I seem to recall reading guidelines that stipulate the use of colours in articles, but unfortunately, I am unable to find it and cite it in my discussions with Irobotboy. Attempting to remove the coloured codes only result in him adding them back. I have already posted a message to his talkpage but he evidently responded on another user's page. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:1.02_editor#Stations_for_Downtown_Line) I therefore replied to his query but he has not answered. As I had already "reverted" his edits twice, I find myself unable to respond to his latest activities without involving myself in an edit war.

I seek your opinion on the matter. This is without precedent as I have been unable to find examples of any other metro network utilizing station codes.

Thank you

Seloloving (talk) 13:12, 17 October 2017 (UTC)


 * One place which mentions colour in articles is WP:Manual of Style/Text formatting, which I referred to in various edit summaries on these articles, and in  to User_talk:Irobotboy. - David Biddulph (talk) 11:27, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #283
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<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;"> <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 08:54, 24 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: Zugang Gestalten (slides by multichill)
 * Past: Coding Da Vinci (slides by Jonas)
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Birthday Tokyo, 27 October from 12:00 to 14:00 in Roppongi Hills
 * Upcoming: WikiArabia 2017, Cairo, Egypt, 23-25 October
 * Upcoming: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October (sold out)
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Birthday Seoul, 29 October from 15:00 to 18:00
 * Upcoming: Biographical Data in a Digital World 2017 6-7 November 2017 (in cooperation with Wikimedia Austria)
 * COOL-WD: A Completeness Tool for Wikidata (tool website)
 * Provenance Information in a Collaborative Knowledge Graph: an Evaluation of Wikidata External References
 * Question Answering Benchmarks for Wikidata
 * Using Word Embeddings for Search in Linked Data with Ontodia (tool website)
 * Unlocking the human potential of Wikidata
 * Textes d’Affiches, des films à lire sur Gallica
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * If you have a present or organize an event for the Wikidata's fifth birthday, feel free to add link and pictures here
 * New version of the Alexa skill for Wikidata by metaphacts
 * Nice short gif tutorial for writing a Wikidata query
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Ontario Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Quora username, Women's Basketball Hall of Fame ID, Baseball Almanac ID, sports.ru player ID, Opera Vivra singer ID, Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame ID, NLBPA ID, MusicBrainz recording ID, caliber, Women's Collegiate Tennis Hall of Fame ID, Museus.br ID, Memória Globo, Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural ID, Canada's Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, International Paralympic Committee athlete ID, Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum athlete ID, BrainInfo ID (hierarchical), NeuroNames ID (plain mode), Anvisa drug ID, BC Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, TheSports.org athlete ID, mapping relation type, Science Museum people ID, Mappy place ID, update method, Virginia Sports Hall of Fame ID, Missouri Sports Hall of Fame ID, DAMIT asteroid ID, Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, LFB player ID, Soccerdonna player ID, Sandrart.net artwork ID, youth wing
 * Query examples:
 * Average age of members of the 19th German Bundestag (source)
 * Mountains in CH by height (topographic prominence) (source)
 * Mountains in CH by height (elevation above sea level) (source)
 * Monuments in Berlin for which Berlin cultural heritage ID and geolocation are known in Wikidata (source)
 * Initial characters of names of free software (source)
 * Initial characters of names of nonfree software (source)
 * First World Heritage site per country (source)
 * Newest database reports: list of kinship types
 * Development
 * Query Service throttling has been tweaked, to block a type of abusive client
 * Adding diff support for Lexeme-related edits
 * More work on checking constraints on qualifiers and references (T168532)
 * Now caching constraints results to make it ready for rollout for more users
 * Continued work on more fine-grained usage tracking so we better know which parts of an item is used on an article on Wikipedia and the other sister projects
 * Improved the way Wikidata changes are shown in watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and Co so they are more in-line with the other changes (T48329, T50684) Thanks Matej!
 * Released the [//github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModel Wikibase DataModel] component in version 7.2.0 (T177486)
 * 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!

Wikidata weekly summary #284
<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: Defining account creators


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: WikiArabia 2017, Cairo, Egypt, 23-25 October
 * Past: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October. You can find the slides, notes and video recordings for most of the sessions
 * Past: Wikidata's fifth birthday in Tokyo, Seoul, Munich
 * Upcoming: Using Wikidata to create a multi-lingual multi-dialectal dictionary for Arabic dialects in the 14th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2017), Yasmine Hammamet, Tunisia, 30 October-3 November.
 * Upcoming : Wikidata and Wiki Loves Monuments editathon in Berlin, 24-26 November (in German). We're looking for trainers to explain the basic use of QuickStatements, Open Refine and Mix'n'Match. If you want to join, please contact MB-one


 * Wikidata's birthday
 * The fifth anniversary of Wikidata was celebrated, as every year, with a lot of presents, events and stories. You can find an overview on the birthday page.
 * Birthday presents
 * Search index now contains statements with and  . These can be used to influence search rankings and in the future also for matching.
 * inventaire.io CC0 Wikidata-ready NDJSON and TTL dumps are now accessible at dumps.inventaire.io
 * You can now move claims to new items with moveClaim.js. You can do so by typing "new".
 * Prefix search on Wikidata (wbsearchentities API) now is using ElasticSearch as backend. This should improve search quality and also is more flexible and tunable.
 * Wikidata becomes a proper citizen of the linked open data web
 * graves.wiki – visualization of grave locations stored in Wikidata
 * Wikidata Concepts Monitor (WDCM) - Wikidata semantic topics and usage statistics
 * Happy Birthday to You, Dear Wikidata – recording and improvisation (Lucas Werkmeister)
 * You can now create items from the command-line
 * Crochet your own cute structured data bee to express your appreciation for structured data in the Wikimedia movement! And ask her/him/it to join the.
 * Wikidata Query Service UI: Geoshapes from Commons are now displayed in the Map view: [https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23defaultView%3AMap%0A%23%20constituencies%20for%20the%20election%20to%20the%20German%20Bundestag%202017%2C%20with%20winning%20candidate%20and%20party%0ASELECT%20%3Fdistrict%20%3FdistrictLabel%20%3FdistrictNumber%20%3Fmdb%20%3FmdbLabel%20%3Fparty%20%3FpartyLabelCONF%20%28%3FpartyLabel%20AS%20%3Flayer%29%20%3FvotesPercentage%20%3Frgb%20%3Fshape%20%3FsanityCheckMdb%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20find%20districts%20with%20shape%0A%20%20%3Fdistrict%20wdt%3AP3896%20%3Fshape%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20successful%20candidate%20for%2019th%20German%20Bundestag%20with%20party%20and%20%25%20votes%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP991%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP991%20%3Fmdb%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP2937%20wd%3AQ30579723%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP1268%20%3Fparty%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pqv%3AP1111%20%5B%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3FvotesPercentage%3B%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ11229%20%5D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20district%20number%20in%202017%20Bundestag%20constituencies%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP528%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP528%20%3FdistrictNumberString%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP972%20wd%3AQ26971257%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%23%20turn%20string%20district%20number%20into%20integer%0A%20%20BIND%28xsd%3Ainteger%28%3FdistrictNumberString%29%20AS%20%3FdistrictNumber%29%0A%20%20%23%20sanity%20check%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fmdb%20p%3AP39%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP39%20wd%3AQ1939555%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP2937%20wd%3AQ30579723%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP768%20%3Fdistrict%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP4100%20%3Fparty%0A%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28true%20AS%20%3FsanityCheckMdb%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%23%20find%20original%20color%20of%20party%0A%20%20%3Fparty%20wdt%3AP462%3F%2Fwdt%3AP465%20%3FrgbOriginal.%0A%20%20%23%20fade%20color%20depending%20on%20%25%20votes%2C%20knowing%20that%20the%20original%20colors%20are%20only%20composed%20of%20FF%2C%2080%2C%2000%3A%20shift%2080%20to%20A0%20or%20C0%2C%20and%2000%20to%2040%20or%2080%0A%20%20%23%20%28using%20separate%20calls%20to%20replace%20R%2C%20G%2C%20and%20B%20components%20so%20that%20the%20replacements%20are%20aligned%20to%20them%29%0A%20%20BIND%28IF%28%3FvotesPercentage%20%3E%3D%20%28100%2F2%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FrgbOriginal%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3FvotesPercentage%20%3E%3D%20%28100%2F3%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28%3FrgbOriginal%2C%20%2280%28..%29%28..%29%22%2C%20%22A0%241%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%2980%28..%29%22%2C%20%22%241A0%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%29%28..%2980%22%2C%20%22%241%242A0%22%29%2C%20%2200%28..%29%28..%29%22%2C%20%2240%241%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%2900%28..%29%22%2C%20%22%24140%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%29%28..%2900%22%2C%20%22%241%24240%22%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28%3FrgbOriginal%2C%20%2280%28..%29%28..%29%22%2C%20%22C0%241%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%2980%28..%29%22%2C%20%22%241C0%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%29%28..%2980%22%2C%20%22%241%242C0%22%29%2C%20%2200%28..%29%28..%29%22%2C%20%2280%241%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%2900%28..%29%22%2C%20%22%24180%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%29%28..%2900%22%2C%20%22%241%24280%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%29%20AS%20%3Frgb%29%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fdistrict%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FdistrictLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fparty%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FpartyLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fmdb%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FmdbLabel.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FdistrictNumber Constituencies for the election to the German Bundestag 2017, with winning candidate and party]
 * Wikidata Query Service UI: The query service now shows you code examples for how to use your query in many programming languages (example query)
 * [//www.johl.io/dungeonofknowledge/ Dungeon of Knowledge] ([//github.com/johl/dungeonofknowledge source]), a roguelike game where you explore a dungeon full of bits of Wikidata wisdom
 * Simple WD an experiment of a simple frontend API on top of Wikidata using JSON-LD and schema.org.
 * mapview widget/user script on Wikidata
 * Images fragments for an item depicted on several artworks
 * Histropedia Query Timeline tool - Demo of cool new features launched today for WikidataCon
 * Q42395533 - the first item about a notable item!
 * SQID now suggests statements that we are missing (example page, log in to see suggestions) -- more on WikiProject_Reasoning soon
 * From labs VM to Wikibase Query Service in 2 minutes (using Docker images and docker-compose)
 * Stories and reflections
 * Wishes for the year to come, by Tpt
 * Happy Birthday Wikidata! by the Gene Wiki Team
 * Some random thoughts on the occasion of Wikidata's fifth birthday, by PKM
 * Wishes and a personal story, by Spinster
 * Happy Birthday, Wikidata by RolandUnger from Wikivoyage
 * Happy Birthday, Wikidata by Katherine Maher
 * Two years of Wikidata experience from ArthurPSmith
 * Happy Birthday wishes from Wikimedia Deutschland
 * Message from the development team


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Biblioteca Nacional de México ID, MNCARS artist ID, BFI Film and TV ID, FPB rating, The Coptic Library ID, snap package, LesBiographies.com ID, Indian Foundation for Butterflies ID, AKL Online Artist ID, Google Doodle, New York City Parks Monument ID, Pro14 player ID, implementation of, GACS ID, Y-DNA Haplogroup, mtDNA haplogroup, mandates, Portuguese lighthouse ID, U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame athlete ID, Sportbox.ru ID, VNDB ID, Videolectures ID, New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame ID, rfpl.org player ID, Panthéon des sports du Québec ID, Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee ID, New Brunswick Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Ontario Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Quora username, Women's Basketball Hall of Fame ID


 * Query examples:
 * Organic acids with images (source)
 * People who are their father's father (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0A%23%20constituencies%20for%20the%20election%20to%20the%20German%20Bundestag%202017%2C%20with%20winning%20candidate%20and%20party%0ASELECT%20%3Fdistrict%20%3FdistrictLabel%20%3FdistrictNumber%20%3Fmdb%20%3FmdbLabel%20%3Fparty%20%3FpartyLabelCONF%20%28%3FpartyLabel%20AS%20%3Flayer%29%20%3FvotesPercentage%20%3Frgb%20%3Fshape%20%3FsanityCheckMdb%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20find%20districts%20with%20shape%0A%20%20%3Fdistrict%20wdt%3AP3896%20%3Fshape%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20successful%20candidate%20for%2019th%20German%20Bundestag%20with%20party%20and%20%25%20votes%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP991%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP991%20%3Fmdb%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP2937%20wd%3AQ30579723%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP1268%20%3Fparty%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pqv%3AP1111%20%5B%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3FvotesPercentage%3B%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ11229%20%5D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20district%20number%20in%202017%20Bundestag%20constituencies%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP528%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP528%20%3FdistrictNumberString%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP972%20wd%3AQ26971257%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%23%20turn%20string%20district%20number%20into%20integer%0A%20%20BIND%28xsd%3Ainteger%28%3FdistrictNumberString%29%20AS%20%3FdistrictNumber%29%0A%20%20%23%20sanity%20check%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fmdb%20p%3AP39%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP39%20wd%3AQ1939555%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP2937%20wd%3AQ30579723%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP768%20%3Fdistrict%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP4100%20%3Fparty%0A%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28true%20AS%20%3FsanityCheckMdb%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%23%20find%20original%20color%20of%20party%0A%20%20%3Fparty%20wdt%3AP462%3F%2Fwdt%3AP465%20%3FrgbOriginal.%0A%20%20%23%20fade%20color%20depending%20on%20%25%20votes%2C%20knowing%20that%20the%20original%20colors%20are%20only%20composed%20of%20FF%2C%2080%2C%2000%3A%20shift%2080%20to%20A0%20or%20C0%2C%20and%2000%20to%2040%20or%2080%0A%20%20%23%20%28using%20separate%20calls%20to%20replace%20R%2C%20G%2C%20and%20B%20components%20so%20that%20the%20replacements%20are%20aligned%20to%20them%29%0A%20%20BIND%28IF%28%3FvotesPercentage%20%3E%3D%20%28100%2F2%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FrgbOriginal%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3FvotesPercentage%20%3E%3D%20%28100%2F3%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28%3FrgbOriginal%2C%20%2280%28..%29%28..%29%22%2C%20%22A0%241%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%2980%28..%29%22%2C%20%22%241A0%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%29%28..%2980%22%2C%20%22%241%242A0%22%29%2C%20%2200%28..%29%28..%29%22%2C%20%2240%241%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%2900%28..%29%22%2C%20%22%24140%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%29%28..%2900%22%2C%20%22%241%24240%22%29%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28REPLACE%28%3FrgbOriginal%2C%20%2280%28..%29%28..%29%22%2C%20%22C0%241%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%2980%28..%29%22%2C%20%22%241C0%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%29%28..%2980%22%2C%20%22%241%242C0%22%29%2C%20%2200%28..%29%28..%29%22%2C%20%2280%241%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%2900%28..%29%22%2C%20%22%24180%242%22%29%2C%20%22%28..%29%28..%2900%22%2C%20%22%241%24280%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%29%20AS%20%3Frgb%29%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fdistrict%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FdistrictLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fparty%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FpartyLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fmdb%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FmdbLabel.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FdistrictNumber 2017 German federal election results by district with geoshapes and color depending on the % of votes] (source)
 * Cities with most first performances of works (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 Count of women Vs. guys names “John” in the UK parliament] (source)
 * Percentage of popes who died in Rome (source)
 * First sites registered at Unesco for each country (source)


 * Development
 * Continued working on persistent storage of edits on Lexeme pages
 * Fixed an encoding problem in the SVG download of query results in the query service (T178564)
 * Fixed a problem with change dispatching changes to Wikipedia and co, that sometimes lead to single wikis falling way behind. (T179060)
 * Added full URIs for external identifiers to the RDF export
 * You can leave feedback on how improved fulltext search result page should look like

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: 2017-44
<section begin="technews-2017-W44"/> 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 block users from emailing you through the Wikimedia wikis.

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 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 November. It will be on all wikis from 2 November (calendar).

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OTRS query
I'm trying to do some OTRS cleanup.

As brief background, DGG locked a number of tickets, and in some cases began a discussion with the customer. In some cases, he has not begun a discussion with the customer. As you know, he is now very active with Arbcom, and unable to devote enough time to OTRS tickets. In cases where DGG initiated a discussion I am taking them over. In the case of ticket:2016021510020372, you are the only agent involved. Would you be willing to do an update? It has been some time, so it may be worth starting with a question whether the issue is still open in their minds.-- S Philbrick (Talk)  17:14, 28 October 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm currently taking some time away from Wikipedia/OTRS etc., so I would recommend asking someone else. Apologies -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 17:17, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

Seeking advice...
Hi. You mentioned I could reach out any time with questions, so here I am. A user has been editing Michael Lovell to add the "worst university president" award. Them and I have been in discussion here. As the latest discussion comes from a new IP address, it looks like there have been three IP addresses involved, but seem to be the same person.

Am I wrong in my arguments that this "award" should not be included in the article? I was hoping someone else who watches the page might weigh-in, but that hasn't happened yet. The reference they provide looks to be a blog/editorial, and not a reliable source (please help me understand if I am wrong).

Their latest comment calls me "a subordinate of Michael Lovell" (I am not). Should I reply to the comment? Should I give them one more chance before requesting an admin to protect the page? Or am I wrong, and this "award" should be included?

Oh, and I just realized now that Lovell was considered a runner-up - so he didn't really receive the "award" to begin with. = paul2520 (talk) 18:10, 28 October 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm currently taking some time away from Wikipedia etc., so I would recommend asking someone else. Apologies -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 17:17, 29 October 2017 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the reply. Enjoy your time off. = paul2520 (talk) 17:21, 29 October 2017 (UTC)
 * I dropped a line on the article talk page. -Ad Orientem (talk) 20:39, 29 October 2017 (UTC)


 * Thank you, . I really appreciate you weighing-in. And nice to learn about talk page stalkers. = paul2520 (talk) 21:17, 29 October 2017 (UTC)
 * NP. -Ad Orientem (talk) 21:24, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

Halloween cheer!
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Happy Halloween!

Hello There&#39;sNoTime: Thanks for all of your contributions to improve Wikipedia, and have a happy and enjoyable Halloween!   –  Linguist un Eins uno 18:44, 31 October 2017 (UTC) Send Halloween cheer by adding {{subst:Happy Halloween}} to user talk pages with a friendly message.


 * Thank you! -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 19:52, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

If this is wrong......
Earlier you placed a semi on The Shield article here, a user removed it here while adding more inaccurate info, I went and restored your previous edit here. If my restoring of this is wrong please let me know, Thanks <b style="color:Red">Chris "WarMachineWildThing" </b> <font color="Blue">Talk to me 22:18, 23 October 2017 (UTC)
 * All good!  -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 08:56, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

The semi you placed on The Shield article expires on Nov 6 I believe. Can that be extended? Because if the whole Kurt Angle/Shield member false info thing wasnt bad enough now there is this. I suspect there will be edits in mass to the Shield article and it will either because an edit war with editors and IPs or worse someone is gonna get 3RR trying to end the nonsense. Per current consensus If you look at the talk page under Kurt Angle you will see where several folks said No to Angle being a member which him being added over and over by IPs is what started the semi protect because it's false information, he replaced an ill member for one night. Now HHH replaced the same ill member for one night overseas and Im afraid once the semi is lifted it will be the same thing all over again for this HHH nonsense. <b style="color:Red">Chris "WarMachineWildThing" </b> <font color="Blue">Talk to me 00:40, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Hmm, I'm not the biggest fan of extending a protection without seeing if the article can be edited constructively, but I can see where you're coming from. I'll have a look at the situation. It may be worth allowing the protection to lapse, but taking a stance of re-protecting at the first instance of disruption? -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 11:39, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Works for me. <b style="color:Red">Chris "WarMachineWildThing" </b> <font color="Blue">Talk to me 11:48, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

1 Novemeber
(in response to message left on my talk page) Hey thanks for letting me know, and will do. Also on a side note what sort of permissions can i request that will aid me in stopping vandalism or protecting pages constantly being vandalised thanks JoshuaLawlerWiki (talk) 09:08, 1 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi, first off I would recommend going through the Wikipedia Adventure, which is an interactive tutorial. After you've completed that, we can have a look at permissions such as rollback and how to correctly deal with vandalism -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 09:11, 1 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Ok sure thing, I will check it out! Thanks JoshuaLawlerWiki (talk) 09:19, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2017). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Longhair • Megalibrarygirl • TonyBallioni • Vanamonde93
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Allen3 • Eluchil404 • Arthur Rubin • Bencherlite

Technical news
 * The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team is creating an "Interaction Timeline" tool that intends to assist administrators in resolving user conduct disputes. Feedback on the concept may be posted on the talk page.
 * A new function is now available to edit filter managers that will make it easier to look for multiple strings containing spoofed text.

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 * Following a request for comment,, and  will serve as the Electoral Commission for the 2017 ArbCom Elections.

Obituaries
 * The Wikipedia community has recently learned that (William Allen Peckham) passed away on December 30, 2016, the same day as . Allen began editing in 2005 and became an administrator that same year.

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Wikidata weekly summary #285
<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: Obaid Raza


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Wikidata, a rapidly growing global hub, turns five on WMF's blog by Andrew Lih and Robert Fernandez
 * Locating IMDB IDs of movies in the Internet Archive using Wikidata, by Petter Reinholdtsen
 * Mix-n-Match: Large Catalogs, by Magnus Manske


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * If you want to review what happened during the WikidataCon, here is the list of all the sessions, with slides, notes and videos, when available
 * Release of wikidata-edit v2.0.0: brings qualifiers and references support, and a few breaking changes. See changelogs
 * Release of wikidata-cli v5.0.0: brings qualifiers and references support, multi-entity summary|label|description|description requests, a new `edit-item` command, and a few breaking changes. See changelogs


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Barbarian R.C. id, Barbarian F.C. id, Isidore ID, Team GB athlete ID, HOC athlete ID, COAM architect ID, Camera Decision ID, Google Play developer ID, INDUCKS miniseries ID, INDUCKS issue ID, INDUCKS story ID, INDUCKS publisher ID, INDUCKS creator ID, INDUCKS publication ID, INDUCKS character ID, Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Accused witch ID, Humble Store ID, Australian Baseball League player ID, European Fencing Confederation athlete ID, IBHOF boxer ID, Melon artist ID, Czech Jockey Club horse ID, Rush Parliamentary Archive ID, British Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association ID, IGHOF athlete ID, Mountain Bike Hall of Fame inductee ID, Twitch game ID, Unified Astronomy Thesaurus ID, Ecole des chartes thesis abstract ID, Rugby League Project player ID, Canadian Ski Hall of Fame inductee ID, Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame inductee ID, World Golf Hall of Fame player ID, Kaitai Struct format gallery ID, Diccionario biográfico español ID, Dutch Cemetery in Chinsurah ID, Discography of American Historical Recordings ID, Internet Off-Broadway Database ID, Coinage of the Roman Republic Online ID, Argentine Chamber of Deputies ID, Argentine Senate member ID, Thibaudeau classification, Scoresway handball person ID, HAL author ID, Shirat Nashim person ID, cash back, Minimum Spend Bonus, reward program, grace period, reward, Card Network, mean age, hydraulic head


 * Query examples:
 * endemic moths of New Zealand with images in Wikidata (source)
 * Images of people commemorated by plaques in Jena, Germany (source)
 * Paintings located in Le Louvre without pictures on Wikidata, with the location in the museum (source)
 * Persons who will have their work in public domain in 2018 in Denmark, with their occupations (source)
 * Political parties by ideology in a tree view (source)
 * Organic acids with pictures (source)
 * Levels of education in France, from kindergarten to high school, with their US equivalents (source)
 * Horses drawn on hills in the UK (source)
 * Frequency of “retrieved” dates in Wikidata references (source)
 * Newest database reports: completeness of family relation properties

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
 * Development
 * query service UI improvements (Ided10bb8c8, I3c6ec22a15, Ieb6e561563, I9a526fc8b4, Ib4ea273ab1
 * proposed changes to HTML around statements – feedback welcome!
 * Finished diff support for lexeme T178757
 * Refactoring PropertySuggester-python for better maintainability and performance (T179664)
 * JavaScript libraries used by Wikibase have been integrated as submodules into Wikibase's git repository (T177087)
 * Git repository of the Wikibase JavaScript API has been moved. Check your settings! (T178226)


 * 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.
 * The Cebuano and Swedish wikis have a lot of bot-created content which is unconnected to other wiki articles. A good way to tackle that problem is by checking constraint violations for property GeoNames ID.
 * Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2017-45
<section begin="technews-2017-W45"/> 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 will no longer see the patrol log on Special:Log unless you specifically select it.

Changes later this week
 * The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 6 November. You can post proposals from 19:00 UTC and until November 19.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 November. It will be on all wikis from 9 November (calendar).

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Future changes
 * URLs that link to sections on Wikimedia wikis with non-Latin scripts have looked like this:  instead of  . This will soon be fixed. Old links will still work.

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Help for AfD Previsouly you saved the article about [] from PROD. Now it got back into AfD, can you contribute to save the page. Bwjones88 (talk) 03:41, 7 November 2017 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: October 2017
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Wikidata weekly summary #286
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 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: IRC office hour, November 14th, 19:00 (UTC+2) in the channel #wikimedia-office
 * Review of the WikidataCon by Sean McBirnie (Histropedia)
 * Blogpost on workflow co-documentation with community members during the WikidataCon, by Jan Dittrich
 * Completeness and the Age of Abundance of free tools, in Basque language, by Theklan
 * Report about the first WikidataCon in Hungarian language, by Texaner
 * Report of the WikidataCon 2017 in German, by MB-one
 * Visualising Wikidata on Interactive Timelines using HistropediaJS by Sean McBirnie
 * Wikidata: A growing community behind open data by John Samuel
 * Report about the 2017 WikidataCon in Polish, by Yarl
 * Report about WikidataCon 2017 for WMAM community in Armenian, by Kareyac
 * WikidataCon - my résumé by Ahoerstemeier


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata training material and sample SPARQL queries by Geertivp
 * A new version of Unicode CLDR was released, including data about languages from Wikidata
 * research article where Wikidata is used to unify metabolite identifiers: WikiPathways


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: vertical depth, describes a project that uses, National Monuments of Namibia Site Reference, CycleBase cyclist ID, California Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Formal Public Identifier, IAFD male performer ID, IWRP athlete ID, Wimbledon player ID, Snooker.org ID, albedo, family relationship degree, World Snooker athlete ID, Microsoft Store artist ID, NACE code, Xenopus Anatomical Ontology ID


 * Query examples:
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3ATimeline%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Ft%20%3Fvalue%20%20%3FvalueLabel%20%3FrrLabel%20%20%3Frr%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fimage%29%20as%20%3Fimg%29%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20VALUES%20%3Fperson%20%7Bwd%3AQ1512%7D%0A%20%20%7B%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdeath%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20%3Fprop%20%3Ft%20FILTER%20%28datatype%28%3Ft%29%3Dxsd%3AdateTime%29%20FILTER%20%28%3Ft%20%3C%3D%20%3Fdeath%29%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fvalue%20wikibase%3AdirectClaim%20%3Fprop.%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20%3Fq%20%3Fstatement%20%20FILTER%20regex%20%28STR%28%3Fq%29%2C%22prop%2FP%22%29%20.%20%23exclude%20P%3AdescribedBy%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdeath%20.%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%20FILTER%20%28%3Ft%20%3C%3D%20%3Fdeath%29.%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%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20wikibase%3AdirectClaim%20%3Frprop%20.%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fvalue%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%20%7B%20%23%20author%20of%20%2F%20creator%20of%0A%20%20%20%3Fvalue%20wdt%3AP50%7Cwdt%3AP98%7Cwdt%3AP655%7Cwdt%3AP1773%7Cwdt%3AP170%20%3Fperson%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdeath%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fbirth%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fvalue%20wdt%3AP571%7Cwdt%3AP577%20%3Ft%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28%28%3Ft%20%3C%3D%20%3Fdeath%29%26%26%28%3Ft%20%3E%3D%20%3Fbirth%29%29%20%0A%20%20%20%23FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fvalue%20wdt%3AP629%20%3Fx%20%7D%20%0A%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP800%20%3Fvalue%20%7D%20.%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fvalue%20wdt%3AP1433%20%3Frr%20.%7D%20%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fvalue%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%20%23Notable%20Works%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP800%20%3Frr%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdeath%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fbirth%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20%20wdt%3AP577%7Cwdt%3AP571%7Cwdt%3AP1191%20%3Ft%20FILTER%20%28%28%3Ft%20%3C%3D%20%3Fdeath%29%26%26%28%3Ft%20%3E%3D%20%3Fbirth%29%29.%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Frr%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20UNION%20%23discoverer%20or%20inventor%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20wdt%3AP61%20%3Fperson%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdeath%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fbirth%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20wdt%3AP575%7Cwdt%3AP571%7Cwdt%3AP585%20%3Ft%20FILTER%20%28%28%3Ft%20%3C%3D%20%3Fdeath%29%26%26%28%3Ft%20%3E%3D%20%3Fbirth%29%29.%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Frr%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20UNION%20%23architect%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20wdt%3AP84%20%3Fperson%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdeath%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fbirth%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20wdt%3AP571%7Cwdt%3AP1619%20%3Ft%20FILTER%20%28%28%3Ft%20%3C%3D%20%3Fdeath%29%26%26%28%3Ft%20%3E%3D%20%3Fbirth%29%29.%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Frr%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%20%23composer%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20wdt%3AP86%20%3Fperson%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdeath%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fbirth%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20wdt%3AP571%7Cwdt%3AP1191%7Cwdt%3AP577%20%3Ft%20FILTER%20%28%28%3Ft%20%3C%3D%20%3Fdeath%29%26%26%28%3Ft%20%3E%3D%20%3Fbirth%29%29.%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Frr%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%2C%20fr%2C%20de%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Ft%20%3Fvalue%20%3Frr%20%3FrrLabel%20%3FvalueLabel%0AORDER%20BY%20%3Ft%0A%20 Timeline of the works of Robert Louis Stevenson] (source)
 * Canals within 800 kilometres of Glasgow (source)
 * File systems by developer, date, and OS (source)
 * Map of metro stations of Bilbao (source)
 * Highest point of each department of France (source)
 * Newest database reports: properties count by datatype, Mayflower voyage participants, film archives

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
 * Development
 * Fixed a series of smaller regressions after switching to Cirrus based search backend (T179045, T179061, T179130)
 * Latitudes, longitudes, as well as coordinate precisions have accidentally been exported to RDF as xsd:decimal, and are going to be exported as xsd:double soon (T179228)
 * Continue on refactoring PropertySuggester-python for better maintainability and performance (T179664)
 * Make AffectedPagesFinder take DESCRIPTION_USAGE into account (T176417)
 * Add  area where gadgets and user scripts can safely add indicators instead of directly appending to the value (T95403, d:WD:PC)
 * Accessing  will trigger a deprecation warning, gadgets and user script should use the   hook instead (T169771)
 * Work on caching constraint check results (T179849) and indicating that they are cached (T179844)
 * Work on JSON-LD support in the Purtle library used for exports (379669)


 * 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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Mayestron (rapper)
Hello, I am Chris I just want to recreate the page called Mayestron (rapper) which you deleted on the 22 February, 2017. The article was created by Papamayani which is now already banned on Wikipedia. I just contact you because the page told me, if I want to recreate it, I need first contact you, that why I contacted you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chrislogan (talk • contribs) 09:22, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I'd recommend creating a draft first -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 14:28, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-46
<section begin="technews-2017-W46"/> 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 later this week
 * The diff you see when you compare two different versions of a page has changed on MediaWiki.org and the test wiki. This is to make it easier to find a text change in a moved paragraph. It will hopefully soon come to more wikis. You can report bugs in Phabricator.
 * A new user group on Commons will be able to upload MP3 files. The plan is to have this user group from 17 November.
 * Wikis using Flagged Revisions will get the New filters for Edit Review by default on the recent changes pages. It will be possible to opt-out in user preferences.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 November. It will be on all wikis from 16 November (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 15 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Support for uploading and viewing 3D models is coming soon to Wikimedia Commons. The feature will support the .STL file format. You can see an example on the test wiki.

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Talk pages
What is the best way to make other users agree with you on a talk page discussion? DBZFan30 (talk) 02:14, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Well? Aren't you going to respond? DBZFan30 (talk) 14:21, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Excuse me? -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 14:21, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
 * There's no way to make other users agree with you. If you're looking to force people to agree with you on a point, you're contributing to the wrong project -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 14:23, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

Spartan Race
Today I came across User:Jkxyz/Spartan race, a copy of the article now at Spartan Race that you created for dispute resolution back around the start of 2016. The editor whose userspace you created this in has been blocked for legal threats and generally abusive behaviour, and it's likely that this form of the article contains BLP violations. Do you know of any good reason to keep the draft? Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 13:54, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you for checking with me, but no, I see no reason to keep it -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 14:01, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Okay just one more question: do you happen to know where this dispute resolution discussion occurred? I can't find it in the DRN archives. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 14:15, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm looking through my archives now, as I have a feeling at least some of it occurred on my talk page -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 14:35, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for checking, but I've elected to go in a different direction. I'll have a better look at the draft later to see if there's anything useful and then I think it should probably go through MfD. Cheers. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 16:01, 15 November 2017 (UTC)

User:GünniX1
You blocked. I think they might be related to the account. -- Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 14:38, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the heads-up, I'm working my way through these one by one -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 14:39, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I think it might be worth you looking at User_talk:Spartaz. The accounts might not be related to these but they are still troublesome. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 11:55, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

the template hack is spreading...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Lebowski

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python_and_the_Holy_Grail

unsure where else. since you dealt with one page before, thought i'd tell you.

peace

out.

5.145.141.155 (talk) 14:42, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
 * A quick purge of those pages sorts it out, but thank you for letting me know -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 14:43, 15 November 2017 (UTC)

Roysandytei unblock request
Hi, please see this unblock request and accompanying discussion at User talk:Owula kpakpo. Thanks. TJRC (talk) 22:09, 16 November 2017 (UTC)
 * ....And I just saw that you're already involved in that discussion, so you can probably ignore this notification. TJRC (talk) 22:16, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-47
<section begin="technews-2017-W47"/> 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
 * If you use the Chrome web browser on Android you can see a download icon on the mobile website. You can download a formatted PDF. It will work in other mobile browsers in the future.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The abuse filter now has a function called . You can use it to store matches from regular expressions – one of each capturing group. You can read more in Phabricator.

Problems
 * Last week's MediaWiki version didn't come to all Wikipedias because of a database crash. It will be on all wikis on 20 November.

Changes later this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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 21 November at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 22 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Language converter syntax will no longer work inside external links. Wikitext like  must be replaced. You will have to write   instead. This only affects languages with Language Converter enabled. Examples of such languages are Chinese and Serbian. This will happen next week.

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Wikidata weekly summary #287
Wikidata weekly summary #287 Global message delivery/Targets/Wikidata

<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
 * Monolingual language code creation process


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: IRC office hour (log)
 * Past: Wikidata Lab II, a workshop to teach users how to create lists using Wikidata in São Paulo (images from the event)
 * Upcoming: IRC office hour about Structured Data on Commons, November 21, 18:00 UTC in the channel #wikimedia-office
 * Upcoming: WLM-Wikidata-Editathon 2017 in Berlin, November 24-26
 * Upcoming: Wiki4MediaFreedom edit-a-thon - II edition (with Wikidata track) in Sofia, November 27
 * Upcoming: Wikidata-Hackathon at WikiMUC in Munich, November 30
 * WikidataCon 2017
 * Fünf Jahre Wikidata at Chaosradio
 * "Turning a historical book into a data set"
 * "Creating Wikipedia articles from research data"


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New tool by Magnus: Wikidata SPARQL Recent Changes - get diffs for all items matching a SPARQL query, for a date range
 * New tool by Magnus: WD edit stats - get edit stats for all items matching a SPARQL query
 * Wikidata coverage for 'place' in OpenStreetMap (as of October 2017)
 * OpenRefine 2.8 was released. Adding columns from Wikidata and importing Wikitables is now possible. Let's write tutorials for it.
 * Mix'n'match now shows for a catalog which user originally imported it and if it is updated regularly (example)
 * A breaking change to the wbcheckconstraints API output format was announced


 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: CGF athlete ID, OKS athlete ID, Gymn Forum athlete ID, sexually homologous with, Tennis Temple player ID, has listed ingredient, World of O athlete ID, HOO athlete ID, IBTrACS cyclone ID, Collective Biographies of Women ID, Snooker Database player ID, Spider Ontology ID, EThOS thesis ID, EUTA theatre ID, EUTA person ID, Czech Street ID, Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Trial ID, ChinesePosters artist ID, Bangladesh administrative division code, Douban movie ID, REGINE water system number, UK Parliament thesaurus ID, ABA bird ID, MuIS ID, Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Person ID, Vermont Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Alaska Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Radio Radicale person ID, SUNCAT ID, payload mass, Melon album ID, ctext work ID, Mémoire du cyclisme cyclist ID, Prisma ID, Africultures person ID, Africultures movie ID, Scottish Cemetery Kolkata ID
 * Query examples:
 * List of subclasses of Matrices
 * Works of art in which the artists depicts their spouse (source)
 * locations Van Gogh depicted in his paintings (source)
 * Gender split of past Google Doodles (source)
 * Newest database reports: expeditions


 * Development
 * Fixed Commons media suggester not loading all preview thumbnails (T160528)
 * RDF exports can handle entity references to foreign Wikibase repositories now, needed for Structured Data on Commons (T161592)
 * Worked on making statements on Forms editable and persistent (T163724)
 * Worked on fine-grained usage tracking in Wikibase' Lua library (T172914)
 * Worked on caching constraint check results (T179849) and indicating when constraint check results are cached (T179844)
 * Wikibase code base does not use Composer class autoloading any more (T180067) as another step towards getting rid of our own build process and being more in line with the rest of Wikimedia


 * 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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Global Collaboration products newsletter: 2017-11
Latest news from the Wikimedia Global Collaboration team, about Notifications, Structured discussions, Edit Review Improvements and Content translation. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?
 * The Global collaboration report for October is now available.
 * All wikis now have the Filters for edit review as the default system on Recent Changes page.

Edit Review Improvements [ More information • Help pages ]

Most recent changes
 * Comments_font_awesome.svg Filters for Watchlists are still on Beta. Please try them and give feedback before we release it for all users!
 * Shortcuts to filter Namespaces and Tags are now more visible.
 * Discovery of the search bar has been improved.
 * If the Recent Changes page or the Watchlist fails to load or is time-outed, a message is now displayed.
 * The bookmark icon for creating a "Saved filter" is now grayed when it is not possible to save. Before it was not visible. Bookmarking is unavailable when, for example, the current filter set is already saved.

Future changes
 * Live updates on Recent changes will be moved out of beta and into the standard feature set by the end of the year.
 * Extension:Translate filters for RecentChanges are going to be integrated to the new filters.
 * Automatic edit summaries will be filtered as tags.

Content translation [ More information • Help pages ]

Recent changes
 * List items (suggested items and in-progress/published translations) layout restyled to prevent overflows on small screen sizes.
 * Search results for new translation dialog are now embedded, instead of being displayed in floating menu. Search results remain displayed when tabbed out and can be closed using ESC key.
 * Missing pages are no longer shown when there is no match for search query. Message informing that there are no results is displayed instead.
 * Embedded search results enabled to provide users with more translation opportunities. Articles user recently edited (in currently selected source language wiki) are surfaced when there is no input in search bar, with additional info if article is missing in user's currently selected target language.
 * Long suggestion descriptions are limited to three lines, and the rest is truncated, which is indicated by ellipsis.
 * Chart data representing user translation statistics in now showing all the months since user's first published translation. Months that went without translation are now displayed in chart as well.
 * A loading indicator is shown while suggestions are loading.
 * Button to discard dialog is now shown through the whole process of selecting article to translate.

Notifications [ More information • Help pages ]

Recent changes
 * Edit-user-talk notifications are now expandable.

Structured Discussions [ More information • Help pages ]

Future changes
 * Some work is ongoing to store Structured Discussions contents from HTML to wikitext. That change will allow some specific templates and magic words to work properly on Structured Discussions.
 * Some tests are conducted in order to prepare the rewriting of Structured Discussions' interface. That rewriting will have no visible impact on users but it will ease future changes.

Other projects
 * Compact Language Links has been deployed on German Wikipedia.

Collaboration team's newsletter prepared by the Global Collaboration team and posted by bot • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 15:35, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

Dear There'sNoTime,
please reconsider your block of User:Roysandytei. See here: Administrators' noticeboard. --Gereon K. (talk) 07:12, 22 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I've replied at the AN post and unblocked the user pending a review of the findings -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 08:02, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 November 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) 02:40, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #288
<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: start time / end time vs. publication date of 1st / last episode
 * Proposal to add some order and structure to the various bibliographic corpora we currently have in Wikidata (mailing list post)


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: IRC office hour about Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons. You can read the log on meta.
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Prague, December 1st
 * Well structured political data for the whole world: impossible utopia, or Wikidata at its best?
 * Spatial-based Topic Modelling using Wikidata Knowledge Base (in Wikidata as Q43662744)
 * Cleaning BNF identifier in Wikidata by Envlh (in French)
 * Monitoring changes to Wikidata pages of your interest by Egon Willighagen


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Sandra is co-ordinating an inventory of crucial volunteer tools for Wikimedia Commons, GLAM, and structured data in general. You can provide input and prioritize your favorite tools in this Google spreadsheet.
 * Q43649390 is an item about our concept of "QID"s
 * OpenRefine 2.8 was released. Adding columns from Wikidata and importing Wikitables is now possible.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: type foundry, Accademia della Crusca ID, first appearance, USGHOF athlete ID, Kulturelles Erbe Köln object ID, Städel Museum artist ID, Berlinische Galerie artist ID, Tidal video ID, Tidal track ID, Tidal album ID, Tidal artist ID, HTML entity, Norwegian historical register of persons ID, Merchant Category Code, SS KL Auschwitz Garrison ID, West Australian Football League player ID, Wikidata project, BPH journal ID, SNCZI-IPE reservoir ID, BTO five-letter code, awarded for period, electoral district number, Art Museum of Estonia artwork ID, Art Museum of Estonia artist ID, Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame ID, Basketball-Reference.com WNBA ID, National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame ID, IJF ID, SNCZI-IPE dam ID, Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame ID, FAI ID, Canada Games ID, ICRC PoW ID, RA Collections ID, mountain range, Everyone Remembered ID, CNRS research group ID, ARLIMA ID


 * Query examples:
 * People who were Time Person of the Year in two consecutive years (source)
 * Fictional characters “said to be the same as” other fictional characters from the same fictional universe (source)
 * Map of places of birth of deceased sociologists (source)
 * Map of libraries in India (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3Ftrain_station%20%3Fcoordinate_location%20%3Flayer%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22eu%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Ftrain_station%20%28wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%29%20wd%3AQ719456.%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Ftrain_station%20wdt%3AP361%20wd%3AQ10862037.%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Ftrain_station%20wdt%3AP361%20wd%3AQ123955.%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Ftrain_station%20wdt%3AP361%20wd%3AQ149274.%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Ftrain_station%20wdt%3AP361%20wd%3AQ2946410.%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Ftrain_station%20wdt%3AP81%20wd%3AQ43283383.%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Ftrain_station%20wdt%3AP361%20wd%3AQ3239365.%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Ftrain_station%20wdt%3AP81%20wd%3AQ43283518.%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Ftrain_station%20wdt%3AP81%20wd%3AQ43325427.%20%7D%0A%20%20MINUS%20%7B%20%3Ftrain_station%20%28wdt%3AP131%2Fwdt%3AP131%29%20wd%3AQ55180.%20%7D%0A%20%20MINUS%20%7B%20%3Ftrain_station%20%28wdt%3AP131%2Fwdt%3AP131%29%20wd%3AQ55271.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Ftrain_station%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoordinate_location.%0A%20%20%3Ftrain_station%20wdt%3AP81%20%3Fconnecting_line.%0A%20%20MINUS%20%7B%20%3Fconnecting_line%20wdt%3AP81%20wd%3AQ5852245.%20%7D%0A%20%20MINUS%20%7B%20%3Fconnecting_line%20wdt%3AP81%20wd%3AQ801991.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fconnecting_line%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Flayer.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%28LANG%28%3Flayer%29%29%20%3D%20%22eu%22%29%0A%7D Train and subway stations in Basque Country] (source)
 * Newest database reports: Decameron editions and translations


 * Development
 * Result views in the Wikidata Query Service UI can now be configured with options (T155973, Special:Diff/580233265/596922582)
 * Worked more on introducing the concept of sub.entities in the APIs in order to make edits to Forms persistent
 * Worked on edit summaries for edits to Forms

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: 2017-48
<section begin="technews-2017-W48"/> 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 advanced search function beta feature on mediawiki.org. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. It will come to German and Arabic Wikipedia this week. It will come to more wikis later.
 * You can now upload large files with the Internet Archive upload tool. Previously you could not upload files larger than 100 MB.
 * You can now use the Timeless skin on all wikis. You can choose skins in Special:Preferences#Appearance.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 November. It will be on all wikis from 30 November (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 28 November at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
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How dare you???
All of you remove my post again n again. Then??? I just added all Channels name under Zee in ZMCL page. Cuty Pie Sweetu (talk) 14:24, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Calm down, take a moment away from Wikipedia, and then nicely talk to  -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 14:26, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

File:Robert Hardy Rex Features.jpg listed for discussion
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The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly. Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:00, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Draft:Claro Energy Private Limited

Ave Fenix ​Pictures
Hi, I'm an employee of Ave Fenix ​​Pictures, a few months ago you deleted the article Ave Fenix ​​Pictures since it had been created by an editor who worked outside the Wikipedia rules. We think that hiring an editor would be the best option because we do not know how to edit the platform, but we had no idea that the editor worked without following the rules. I want to know if there is any possibility that we propose a draft of the article, to put it to your consideration, we know that we can not edit ourselves directly. Can we have that possibility? We could do a translation of the Spanish version. Thank you..Michael.j.schwartz (talk) 04:08, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi, thanks for getting in contact. I would first advise you to read through our FAQ for organisations (FAQ/Organizations). It would indeed be possible for you to work on a draft, and I would suggest you do this through the article wizard. If you have any further questions, The Teahouse will be happy to help -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 12:10, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog
Cheers. <b style="color:#060">7&amp;6=thirteen</b> (<b style="color:#000">☎</b>) 20:55, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

Tomo 557755
Hi There'sNoTime,

A few weeks back you deleted the article "Moxie (composer)". Looking at the deletion criteria listed, I believe that in its previous state the deletion of the article was fair. I'm still a novice when it comes to article creation and editing on Wikipedia.

But I think with some more research, article comparison, checking of Wikipedias guidelines and editing, I can get better and make the article acceptable.

Is any possibility that you can access the Wiki markup/Wikicode of the removed article and send it to me? I'm happy to start from scratch on the article if need be but if the Wiki markup/Wikicode still exists somewhere it would be handy to have to start my revisions and editing upon.

Thanks for your time There'sNoTime :)

Tomo 557755 (talk) 10:01, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Hey, thanks for getting in touch - I've restored the content to the draft Draft:Moxie (composer) where you can continue to work on it. Once you're ready to submit it for review (using WP:AFC), add the code  to the top of the page  -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 10:14, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

Great! Thanks for that There'sNoTime! Have a great day!

Tomo 557755 (talk) 10:34, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

Notice of noticeboard discussion
There is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. 159.122.86.43 (talk) 21:42, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
 * 159.122, good spot, thank you for holding me accountable to my actions. Was indeed a muck up. tpw et al., thread -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 22:05, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility Notice
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 * Draft:FREEPLUS Inc.

Nipun Jaswal Page Restoration
Dear Admin,

Few months ago, you deleted a page called "Nipun Jaswal" due to non notability of the author or his books which was a fair decision. However, as the time passed by the author is now listed in google with his books. Do you think a restore is possible? I can try editing the page if you agree. Thanks--Rafiq Marbaros (talk) 08:31, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Perhaps - could you link to the article I deleted? (Nipun Jaswal has never existed it appears) -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 22:32, 2 December 2017 (UTC)


 * this is the message i get opening the page, your link is correct... "10:06, 5 August 2017 There'sNoTime (talk | contribs) deleted page Nipun Jaswal (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nipun Jaswal (XFDcloser))"--Rafiq Marbaros (talk) 04:34, 3 December 2017 (UTC)


 * I must have manually looked up the title, and then copy/pasted for the link - anywho, I have restored it to Draft:Nipun Jaswal for you to work on. Please submit it through WP:AFC when you're ready -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 09:41, 3 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Thank you so much, i ll work on itRafiq Marbaros (talk) 17:48, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

You've got mail!
Mahveotm (talk) 20:22, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Got it, just reviewing now -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 20:40, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2017). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Joe Roe
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg JzG
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Ericorbit • Perceval • Thingg • Tristanb • Violetriga

Guideline and policy news
 * Following a request for comment, a new section has been added to the username policy which disallows usernames containing emoji, emoticons or otherwise "decorative" usernames, and usernames that use any non-language symbols. Administrators should discuss issues related to these types of usernames before blocking.

Technical news
 * Wikimedians are now invited to vote on the proposals in the 2017 Community Wishlist Survey on Meta Wiki until 10 December 2017. In particular, there is a section of the survey regarding new tools for administrators and for anti-harassment.
 * A new function is available to edit filter managers which can be used to store matches from regular expressions.

Arbitration
 * Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is open until Sunday 23:59, 10 December 2017 (UTC). There are 12 candidates running for 8 vacant seats.

Miscellaneous
 * Over the last few months, several users have reported backlogs that require administrator attention at WP:ANI, with the most common backlogs showing up on WP:SPI, WP:AIV and WP:RFPP. It is requested that all administrators take some time during this month to help clear backlogs wherever possible. It should be noted that AIV reports are not always valid; however, they still need to be cleared, which may include needing to remind users on what qualifies as vandalism.
 * The Wikimedia Foundation Community health initiative is conducting a survey for English Wikipedia contributors on their experience and satisfaction level with Administrator’s Noticeboard/Incidents. This survey will be integral to gathering information about how this noticeboard works (i.e. which problems it deals with well and which problems it struggles with). If you would like to take this survey, please sign up on this page, and a link for the survey will be emailed to you via Special:EmailUser.

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Tech News: 2017-49
<section begin="technews-2017-W49"/> 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
 * It is now possible to upload MP3 files to Commons. Only users with MP3 file upload rights can upload MP3 files.
 * You can now use live updates for recent changes if you use the new filters. This feature updates the filtered recent changes every three seconds when you activate it.
 * There is an experimental onion service for Wikimedia projects.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 December. It will be on all wikis from 7 December (calendar).
 * Very old versions of the Opera Web browser are no longer supported. This means that technical development will not be tested to make sure it works with those Opera versions. Use Opera 15 or above or another browser if you have problems.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Almost 170 wikis with no high-priority errors in Linter categories will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. A few larger wikis such as German and Italian Wikipedia will also make this switch. It will happen on 5 December. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018.

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 5 December at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey will decide what the Community Tech team will work on next year. You can vote for wishes on the survey page until 10 December. You can see what has happened to last year's wishes on the 2016 results page.
 * The Community Liaisons team at the Wikimedia Foundation is looking for active tech ambassadors. This is to make sure the Wikimedia communities get all the information they need about new features and can be involved in the technical development.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2017-W49"/> 17:51, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #289
<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: Using the Digital to Engage Archival Radio Collections: Part II (Wikidata Workshop), Washington, D.C., November 2, 2017 with Andrew Lih and Alex Stinson
 * Past: Wikidata Clinic (slides) in Washington, D.C., December 1, 2017, with Andrew Lih and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
 * Past: Wikikonference in Prague with a Wikidata workshop in Czech and a introduction of Wikidata and its community
 * Wikipedia Weekly audio podcast coverage of Wikidata:
 * Episode 126 - Introduction to Wikidata, with Andrew Lih and Rob Fernandez
 * Episode 127 - WikidataCon 2017 roundtable discussion, with Andrew Lih, Liam Wyatt, Stacy Allison-Cassin, Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, Rob Fernandez
 * Wikidata as authority linking hub: Connecting RePEc and GND researcher identifiers by Joachim Neubert
 * Importing data into Wikidata - Current challenges and ideas future development by Navino Evans
 * The Wikidata map in November 2017 and what changed during the last four months, by Addshore


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * You can now vote for your favorite proposals on the Community Wishlist Survey. The voting phase is open until December 10th.
 * If you run any functionality on Wikimedia sites that uses queries to the Wikidata Query Service, please add it here (more information)
 * The 600,000,000th edit has been made.
 * The first content made specifically for Wikimedia projects in space has been added to Wikidata (see Close encounters of the Wikipedia kind)
 * The Aaron Swartz Fellowship at OSA, Budapest, Hungary, is open for applications (deadline Dec. 31). The second focus area of the fellowship may be of interest to Wikidata folks.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: set designer, Swedish Musical Heritage composer ID, National Film Board of Canada movie ID, South Dakota Sports Hall of Fame ID, World Rugby Hall of Fame ID, Microsoft Store album ID, date of burial or cremation, Lives of WWI ID, polymer of, monomer of, FAPESP researcher ID, FAPESP institution ID, NIOSH Publication Number, post town, arXiv author ID, CPE athlete ID, Mountain Project ID, National Inventory of Canadian Military Memorials ID, Atomic Heritage Foundation ID, Dreadnought Project page, IWGA athlete ID, Argentinian Historic Heritage ID


 * Query examples:
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3ATimeline%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Ft%20%3Fvalue%20%20%3FvalueLabel%20%3FrrLabel%20%20%3Frr%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fimage%29%20as%20%3Fimg%29%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20VALUES%20%3Fperson%20%7Bwd%3AQ1512%7D%0A%20%20%7B%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdeath%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20%3Fprop%20%3Ft%20FILTER%20%28datatype%28%3Ft%29%3Dxsd%3AdateTime%29%20FILTER%20%28%3Ft%20%3C%3D%20%3Fdeath%29%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fvalue%20wikibase%3AdirectClaim%20%3Fprop.%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20%3Fq%20%3Fstatement%20%20FILTER%20regex%20%28STR%28%3Fq%29%2C%22prop%2FP%22%29%20.%20%23exclude%20P%3AdescribedBy%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdeath%20.%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%20FILTER%20%28%3Ft%20%3C%3D%20%3Fdeath%29.%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%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20wikibase%3AdirectClaim%20%3Frprop%20.%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fvalue%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%20%7B%20%23%20author%20of%20%2F%20creator%20of%0A%20%20%20%3Fvalue%20wdt%3AP50%7Cwdt%3AP98%7Cwdt%3AP655%7Cwdt%3AP1773%7Cwdt%3AP170%20%3Fperson%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdeath%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fvalue%20wdt%3AP571%7Cwdt%3AP577%20%3Ft%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28%3Ft%20%3C%3D%20%3Fdeath%29%20%0A%20%20%20%23FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fvalue%20wdt%3AP629%20%3Fx%20%7D%20%0A%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP800%20%3Fvalue%20%7D%20.%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fvalue%20wdt%3AP1433%20%3Frr%20.%7D%20%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fvalue%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%20%23Notable%20Works%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP800%20%3Frr%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdeath%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fbirth%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20%20wdt%3AP577%7Cwdt%3AP571%7Cwdt%3AP1191%20%3Ft%20FILTER%20%28%28%3Ft%20%3C%3D%20%3Fdeath%29%26%26%28%3Ft%20%3E%3D%20%3Fbirth%29%29.%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Frr%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20UNION%20%23discoverer%20or%20inventor%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20wdt%3AP61%20%3Fperson%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdeath%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fbirth%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20wdt%3AP575%7Cwdt%3AP571%7Cwdt%3AP585%20%3Ft%20FILTER%20%28%28%3Ft%20%3C%3D%20%3Fdeath%29%26%26%28%3Ft%20%3E%3D%20%3Fbirth%29%29.%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Frr%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20UNION%20%23architect%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20wdt%3AP84%20%3Fperson%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdeath%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fbirth%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20wdt%3AP571%7Cwdt%3AP1619%20%3Ft%20FILTER%20%28%28%3Ft%20%3C%3D%20%3Fdeath%29%26%26%28%3Ft%20%3E%3D%20%3Fbirth%29%29.%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Frr%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%20%23composer%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20wdt%3AP86%20%3Fperson%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdeath%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fbirth%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20wdt%3AP571%7Cwdt%3AP1191%7Cwdt%3AP577%20%3Ft%20FILTER%20%28%28%3Ft%20%3C%3D%20%3Fdeath%29%26%26%28%3Ft%20%3E%3D%20%3Fbirth%29%29.%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Frr%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%2C%20fr%2C%20de%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Ft%20%3Fvalue%20%3Frr%20%3FrrLabel%20%3FvalueLabel%0AORDER%20BY%20%3Ft%0A%20 Timeline for the writer Robert Louis Stephenson] (source)
 * Movies with Bud Spencer and Terence Hill (source)
 * Photographers born before the inception of the earliest photograph (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Stolpersteine, Jasmerah
 * Newest database reports: Q5 with identical P18


 * Development
 * Wikidata will get dedicated database resources, and go read-only for 30 minutes on 9th January 2018 (T181645)
 * There were no RDF dumps last week due to problems generating them, investigation is still going on (T181385)
 * Improved the threshold for ORES on Wikidata (T180450)
 * Working on fixing a regression after a change in MediaWiki core that makes edit links show up on diff pages (T181807)
 * More work on persistent editing of statements on Forms of a Lexeme (specifically T180467)
 * Improved size of the diff that we sent to Wikipedia and co for changes happening on Wikidata. This is one more needed step towards only showing meaningful edits in the watchlists and recent changes there. (T113468)

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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Banned User
User:Cuty Pie Sweetu, a user you banned temporarily is back to his edit warring using an IP address. --Xzinger (talk) 04:37, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
 * IP hasn't edited for a couple of days, and it may be dynamic - if you see anything again though, please feel free to poke me. Thanks for keeping an eye out! -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 22:33, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Cuty Pie Sweetu used that IP to circumvent the temporary ban imposed on him for edit waring. Isn't circumventing a violation of the ban? Morever he is back to adding that long list of television stations even though a template with the same channel list is present on that article.--Xzinger (talk) 03:40, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Adminerversary
<div class="boilerplate metadata" id="SCOTW" style="background-color:#E6E6FA;border: 1px solid #7D00B3; margin: 0.5em; padding: 0.5em;width:90%;float:center"> Happy Adminship Anniversary! Have a very happy adminship anniversary on your special day! Best wishes, Dat GuyTalkContribs 16:39, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Why thank you -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 18:02, 4 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Couple days belated, but happy adminervary (adminversary? )! --TheSandDoctor (talk) 06:09, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: November 2017
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Wikidata weekly summary #290
<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
 * Incoming: Wikidata workshop in Rennes, France, December 12th
 * Incoming:Next Structured Commons IRC office hour will be on Tuesday, February 13, 2018, at 18:00 UTC.
 * Past: Tech-talk about knowledge technologies, featuring Wikidata, DBpedia, and Histropedia at Jakarta Digital Valley, Jakarta, Indonesia on Dec 8, 2017. Slides are available at Slideshare link.
 * My vision of a possible strategy. How could we change Wikidata’s core infrastructure to be able to scale better in the future? by ChristianKl.
 * Using WikiData as a multi-lingual multi-dialectal dictionary for Arabic dialects - conference paper
 * WikiCite 2017 report by Dario Taborelli and the organization team


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Structured Data on Commons: Participate in this survey to help the team understand which tools and functionalities are most important to the Commons and Wikidata communities
 * QuickStatements now has a CSV-like import function (under "import commands")
 * wikidata-cli now support dynamic SPARQL requests using JS files
 * New wikidata-sdk function: wdk.getSitelinkUrl, a function to easily build URLs from Wikidata API sitelinks data
 * Musik Lovers (de) is a project created during Coding da Vinci 2017 and reuses data from Wikidata about composers played in the Koncerthaus of Berlin


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: premiere type, name of the character role, Bechdel Test Movie List ID, Iowa Sports Hall of Fame ID, DORIS ID, Online Books Page author ID, ICTV virus genome composition, EK number, identity of object in context, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston object ID, squadron embarked, South Australian Football Hall of Fame inductee ID, trophy awarded, Württembergische Kirchengeschichte person ID, Merkelstiftung person ID, National Library of Brazil ID, AUSNUT 2011–13 Food Group ID, DVV player ID, UniProt journal ID, WAFL FootyFacts ID, watershed, Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ID, LKL player ID, LACMA ID, Art Institute of Chicago artwork ID, Queensland Australian Football Hall of Fame inductee ID


 * Query examples:
 * Place of birth of author with pages on the French Wikisource (source)
 * Number of movies passing or failing the Bechdel test by year (source)
 * 100 of the earliest 1000 works created by women on Wikidata with an image on Commons (source)
 * Chemical entities, whom discovered them, and when (source)
 * Sister-city and twin-city relationships of the largest cities (source)
 * Cast age at date of film publication (source)
 * Male saints that are the most used to name French cities after them (source)


 * Development
 * Add anchors to Special:ListDatatypes (T181371)
 * Data Types library has been integrated to Wikibase (T180454)
 * Investigate on the slow problems encountered on Wikidata (T182322)

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: 2017-50
<section begin="technews-2017-W50"/> 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
 * URLs that link to sections on Wikimedia wikis with non-Latin scripts have looked like this:  instead of  . This has now been fixed on all wikis. Old links will still work.
 * A new tag marks edits where a redirect was created or removed. This still works when the editor writes something else in the edit summary. You can see the tags for example in the recent changes feed, article history, user contributions or on your watchlist.
 * If you use Chrome on Android, you can now use the print to PDF button to create a PDF of an article.
 * Filter by number of edits or filter by time range have been grouped on a same menu on the recent changes page if you use the new filters. The "" link is now more prominent.
 * Some of the web fonts that were provided by the Universal Language Selector extension are being removed. This is to reduce the load time on pages. The web fonts were added many years ago to help users read text in scripts which did not have fonts or had broken fonts. This is not the case any more. You can check the status page for a list of all web fonts and whether they are currently being used and especially for special requirements.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 December. It will be on all wikis from 14 December (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 12 December at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * You can discuss new or improved blocking tools with the Wikimedia Foundation Anti-Harassment Tools team. They will work on building better blocking tools. Leave comments on the talk page.

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

Backlog update: Outreach and Invitations:
 * The new page backlog is currently at 12713 pages. Please consider reviewing even just a few pages each day! If everyone helps out, it will really put a dent in the backlog.
 * Currently the backlog stretches back to March and some pages in the backlog have passed the 90 day Google index point. Please consider reviewing some of them!
 * If you know other editors with a good understanding of Wikipedia policy, invite them to join NPP by dropping the invitation template on their talk page with: . Adding more qualified reviewers will help with keeping the backlog manageable.

New Year New Page Review Drive
 * A backlog drive is planned for the start of the year, beginning on January 1st and running until the end of the month. Unique prizes will be given in tiers for both the total number of reviews made, as well as the longest 'streak' maintained.
 * Note: quality reviewing is extremely important, please do not sacrifice quality for quantity.

General project update: If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, go here. —  TonyBallioni (talk) 20:27, 12 December 2017 (UTC) 
 * ACTRIAL has resulted in a significant increase in the quality of new submissions, with noticeably fewer CSD, PROD, and BLPPROD candidates in the new page feed. However, the majority of the backlog still dates back to before ACTRIAL started, so consider reviewing articles from the middle or back of the backlog.
 * The NPP Browser can help you quickly find articles with topics that you prefer to review from within the backlog.
 * 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.

The Signpost: 18 December 2017
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G13 Eligibility Notice
The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly. Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:00, 18 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Draft:LagHub

Global Collaboration products newsletter: 2017-12
Latest news from the Wikimedia Global Collaboration team, about Notifications, Structured discussions, Edit Review Improvements and Content translation. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?
 * The last Global collaboration details report is now available (in English).

Edit Review Improvements [ More information • Help pages ]


 * Octicons-star.svg The filters are now deployed as a default feature on all wikis on RecentChanges and RecentChangesLinked pages.
 * The filters are still available as a Beta feature on all wikis on Watchlists. Please try them!
 * LiveUpdates have been deployed as a default feature for all wikis.
 * On wikis using Extension:Translate, translated messages can now be filtered. System messages can be filtered as well, on all wikis.
 * "" link is now more prominent, to invite users to use that native feature to update the list of results.
 * Pagination and time period selectors are now combined and located on the right on left-to-right wikis.
 * When a user wanted to click outside of the filter menu to close it, it was possible to click on "revert" link by accident. It is not possible anymore.
 * It is now possible to filter the following events using the Tags menu: Making a page a redirect, Changing redirect target, Changing an existing redirect into a non-redirect, Blanking of the page, Removing more than 90% of a page content, Rolling back an edit.
 * Some design improvements have been done to Related Changes page to integrate the new filters.
 * "Save current filter settings" menu and legend overlapped the results. This is now fixed.
 * Some small design improvements have been done.

Content translation [ More information • Help pages ]


 * Now Content Translation prevents source and target language to be set to same language.
 * The dialog for selecting article to translate is standardized. It introduces a new component that is used for the selected page on both the "New translation" dialog and the "Suggested pages" list.
 * More space is given to the language filter, to increase responsiveness and show more language names without truncation.
 * While searching for a new page to translate, duplicates are not shown anymore for user search input.
 * Various PHP warnings and JavaScript errors have been fixed.

Structured discussions [ More information • Help pages ]


 * It is now possible to use Special:Nuke on hidden Structured discussion topics.
 * The Reply button is not active anymore until something is typed.

Miscellaneous
 * For wikis that use ORES, preferences for ORES have been rationalized in Special:Preferences, on Recent Changes tab and Watchlist tab.
 * ORES will be deployed on Simple English Wikipedia. That wiki will be able to use the Prediction filters.

Collaboration team's newsletter prepared by the Global Collaboration team and posted by bot • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 14:31, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #291
<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: Mapping and improving the data import process


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Introduction to Wikidata for local OpenStreetMap community & others, Riga, Latvia, December 19th
 * Upcoming: 34th Chaos Communication Congress, 27-30 December, Leipzig, Germany. The Wikidata team will be there
 * Wikidata in Collections: Building a Universal Language for Connecting GLAM Catalogs
 * A purposeful #strategy for #Wikidata
 * WikidataCon: Giving more people more access to more knowledge by Peter Kraker
 * Review of the Global Legislative Openness Week by MySociety


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * A script to add links to Wikidata on Twitter by Envlh
 * Resolver can now open an item in tools/third-party sites listed on Q43649390#3303, using the  attribute - for example https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/resolver.php?prop=P496&value=0000-0003-4402-5296&project=scholia
 * New edition of the Structured Data on Commons newsletter


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Wiki Aves bird ID, DACS ID, SAN ID, reservoir, CPDOC ID, Musée d'Orsay artwork ID, Coflein ID, The Numbers person ID, Wikimedia import URL, Flathub ID, partition type identifier, partition table type, ESCO Occupation ID, Welsh assembly ID, BSD Portal athlete ID, identity of subject in context, location of first performance, representation of, RCR number, ESCO skill ID, Philadelphia Museum of Art ID, Colorado Sports Hall of Fame ID, Welsh Chapels ID, photosphere image, Estonian Football Association team ID, The Peerage person ID, FoodEx2 code, Sherpa Juliet ID, Indian Financial System Code


 * Query examples:
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20this%20query%20identifies%20the%20date-weekday%20cominations%20for%20when%20disasters%20happened%0A%23%20eg%20%22Tuesday%2012th%22%0A%23%20original%20by%20Mat%C4%9Bj%20Such%C3%A1nek%20%26%20Larske%20-%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fwiki%2FWikidata%3ARequest_a_query%23Disasters_starting_on_Friday_13%0A%0ASELECT%20%28%3Fq%20AS%20%3FDate%29%20%28SUM%28%3Fmon%29%20AS%20%3FMon%29%20%28SUM%28%3Ftue%29%20AS%20%3FTue%29%20%28SUM%28%3Fwed%29%20AS%20%3FWed%29%20%28SUM%28%3Fthu%29%20AS%20%3FThu%29%20%28SUM%28%3Ffri%29%20AS%20%3FFri%29%20%28SUM%28%3Fsat%29%20AS%20%3FSat%29%20%28SUM%28%3Fsun%29%20AS%20%3FSun%29%20%20%28COUNT%28%3Fstart_time%29%20AS%20%3FTot%29%20%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%7B%20%0A%20%20%3Fdisaster%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ3839081%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP580%20%3Fstart_time_stm%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20find%20the%20date%20multi-day%20disasters%20started%0A%20%20%3Fstart_time_stm%20ps%3AP580%20%3Fstart_time%20.%0A%20%20%3Fstart_time_stm%20psv%3AP580%20%3Fstart_time_node%20.%0A%20%20%3Fstart_time_node%20wikibase%3AtimePrecision%20%3Ftp%20.%20FILTER%28%3Ftp%3D11%29%20%0A%20%7D%0A%20UNION%20%0A%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fdisaster%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ3839081%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP585%20%3Fstart_time_stm%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20find%20all%20those%20which%20have%20%22point%20in%20time%22%20%28ie%20one-day%20events%29%0A%20%20%3Fstart_time_stm%20ps%3AP585%20%3Fstart_time%20.%0A%20%20%3Fstart_time_stm%20psv%3AP585%20%3Fstart_time_node%20.%0A%20%20%3Fstart_time_node%20wikibase%3AtimePrecision%20%3Ftp%20.%20FILTER%28%3Ftp%3D11%29%20%0A%20%7D%0A%20%20%23%20this%20beautiful%20bit%20of%20code%20finds%20all%20the%20relevant%20days%20of%20the%20week%0A%20%20%23%20using%20https%3A%2F%2Fcs.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FAlgoritmus_pro_v%25C3%25BDpo%25C4%258Det_dne_v_t%25C3%25BDdnu%23Zeller%25C5%25AFv_algoritmus%0A%20%20BIND%28%20DAY%28%20%3Fstart_time%20%29%20AS%20%3Fq%20%29%20.%0A%20%20BIND%28%20MONTH%28%20%3Fstart_time%20%29%20%2B%20IF%28%20MONTH%28%20%3Fstart_time%20%29%20%3C%203%2C%2012%2C%200%20%29%20AS%20%3Fm%20%29%20.%0A%20%20BIND%28%20YEAR%28%20%3Fstart_time%20%29%20-%20IF%28%20MONTH%28%20%3Fstart_time%20%29%20%3C%203%2C%201%2C%200%20%29%20AS%20%3F_year%20%29%20.%0A%20%20BIND%28%20%3F_year%20-%20FLOOR%28%20%3F_year%20%2F%20100%20%29%20%2a%20100%20AS%20%3FK%20%29%20.%20%23%20modulo%0A%20%20BIND%28%20FLOOR%28%20YEAR%28%20%3Fstart_time%20%29%20%2F%20100%20%29%20AS%20%3FJ%20%29%20.%0A%20%20BIND%28%20%3Fq%20%2B%20FLOOR%28%2013%20%2a%20%28%20%3Fm%20%2B%201%20%29%20%2F%205%20%29%20%2B%20%3FK%20%2B%20FLOOR%28%20%3FK%20%2F%204%20%29%20%2B%20FLOOR%28%20%3FJ%20%2F%204%20%29%20-%202%20%2a%20%3FJ%20AS%20%3F_h%20%29%20.%0A%20%20BIND%28%20%3F_h%20-%20FLOOR%28%20%3F_h%20%2F%207%20%29%20%2a%207%20AS%20%3Fweekday%29%20.%20%23%20modulo%2C%200%20is%20Saturday%0A%20%20BIND%28IF%28%3Fweekday%3D2%2C1%2C0%29%20AS%20%3Fmon%29%0A%20%20BIND%28IF%28%3Fweekday%3D3%2C1%2C0%29%20AS%20%3Ftue%29%0A%20%20BIND%28IF%28%3Fweekday%3D4%2C1%2C0%29%20AS%20%3Fwed%29%0A%20%20BIND%28IF%28%3Fweekday%3D5%2C1%2C0%29%20AS%20%3Fthu%29%0A%20%20BIND%28IF%28%3Fweekday%3D6%2C1%2C0%29%20AS%20%3Ffri%29%0A%20%20BIND%28IF%28%3Fweekday%3D0%2C1%2C0%29%20AS%20%3Fsat%29%0A%20%20BIND%28IF%28%3Fweekday%3D1%2C1%2C0%29%20AS%20%3Fsun%29%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fq%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FDate Number of disasters by date and day of the week] (source)
 * Map with buildings by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer (source)
 * Properties most used for “no value” statements/qualifiers/references (source)
 * Scientific papers with an animal credited as co-author (source)
 * Image grid of what different cryptocurrencies are named after (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Narration
 * Newest database reports: Brigata del Decameron


 * Development
 * Additional languages for monolingual values got approved by the language committee: ami (Amis), bnn (Bunun), fos (Siraya), ppu (Papora / Hoanya), pwn (Paiwan), pyu (Puyuma), ssf (Thao), trv (Seediq / Taroko), uun (Pazeh) (see 374052, T144272)
 * More work on caching constraint results so we can enable the constraints checks for all logged-in users by default
 * Fixed a bug when edit links showed up in diff views (T181807)
 * Final step towards being able to store statements on Forms of a Lexeme
 * Disabled RDF support for Lexemes as the mapping isn't defined yet (T182660)
 * Adding some more smart tracking for Lua usage so we better know which properties from an item are used on a Wikipedia article even when the whole item is loaded (T179923)

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: 2017-51
<section begin="technews-2017-W51"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News
 * Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 8 January 2018.

Problems
 * When you import a page from another wiki the usernames of the users who edited the article on the wiki you imported it from are shown in the article history. This should link to the users on the original wiki. A script to fix this caused problems for Wikidata and German Wikipedia. It also created a large number of SUL accounts on wikis where editors had never edited.
 * Some bot owners got email about their bots logging in from a new computer. If this is from one or a couple of wikis, you can turn these messages off in your preferences on those wikis until the problem has been solved. If not, you can report more about the problem in Phabricator.

Changes later this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week. There will be no new MediaWiki version next week either.

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 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Files on Commons will have structured metadata in the future. The developers are now looking for examples of different kinds of metadata to make sure they are aware of them when they build prototypes for structured data on Commons. You can read more and help by giving examples of interesting media files.
 * The Structured Commons team are making sure Commons work with structured data. If you regularly contribute to Commons and Wikidata you can answer a survey that helps the team prioritise the tools that are important for the Commons and Wikidata communities. The survey ends on 22 December. You can read more on Commons. You can also help the team decide on better names for "captions" and "descriptions". This ends on 3 January 2018.
 * The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey has now ended. You can see the results. They decide what the Community Tech team will work on next year.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2017-W51"/> 15:27, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

A Florida IHOP for you

 * IHOPe for IHOP -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 14:25, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * I'm good at all the "everything"s - "messing up everything", "utterly ruining everything", "losing everything"...... -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 14:26, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

deleted sandbox jazz re:freshed
hi there, im new to wikipedia i believe you deleted my sandbox page for copyright violation - the copyright material was actually from my website and written by me... is there any way to get the deleted text back? i (foolishly) composed the post in wikipedia and will now have to rewrite the whole thing again... :( adam Jazzrefreshed (talk) 00:21, 17 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi Adam, I'll email over the content of your draft to you - please don't re-add it to Wikipedia just yet. The message I left on your user page has some helpful links in regard to copyright, so I'd recommend having a read through of those. Let me know if I can help! -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 00:27, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

thank you so much - your email has not come through tho... ive been having a few issues with my emails could you email it to adamrocked@hotmail.com instead please thank you for your support adam Jazzrefreshed (talk) 23:32, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

Merry Christmas
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 * style="font-size: x-large; padding: 2px 2px 0 2px; height: 1.5em;" | Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2018!
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'''Hello There&#39;sNoTime, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion Sending you a heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2018. May you and your family have a Happy, Safe and Prosperous New Year! Happy editing, --Cameron11598 (Talk) 05:18, 25 December 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #292
<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: 34th Chaos Communication Congress, 27-30 December, Leipzig, Germany. The Wikidata team will be there
 * WikiCite 2018
 * Get your vocabularies in Wikidata... so Europeana and others can get them
 * Moths and me
 * Quality and collaboration in Wikidata
 * The Tom Longboat Awards as Wikidata
 * GLOWing the extra mile
 * Seven translation tools you can use to work in multiple languages across Wikimedia projects


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


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


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


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

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Ave Fenix Pictures
Hello, a few days ago I wrote to you to see the possibility of publishing an article of Ave Fenix Pictures, which was previously deleted because it was uploaded by a banned user - my message and your answer are in your file, 27th and 28th of November -. I have the article in my Sandbox, could you check it? (Note since my publication was archived I did not know if I should contact you again. My apologies as I do not have experience in these cases). It is a translation of the Spanish version, with some phrases that I have added, I have even changed a link that in the Spanish version is broken. Could you publish it yourself, or another editor, if you think it's appropriate? Thanks! Michael.j.schwartz (talk) 06:08, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I've moved the page to Draft:Ave Fenix Pictures and submitted it for review -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 08:00, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

Yo Ho Ho
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 Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  is wishing you Seasons Greetings! Whether you celebrate your hemisphere's Solstice or Christmas, Diwali, Hogmanay, Hanukkah, Lenaia, Festivus or even the Saturnalia, this is a special time of year for almost everyone!

Spread the holiday cheer by adding ~ to your friends' talk pages.

 Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  20:54, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
 * you too WSC! Hope you've had a great 2017! Always nice to hear from my RfA nom  -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 20:56, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks yes, an interesting year, though I've not been so active at RFA!  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  22:18, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Hopefully a good interesting year - and please do be more active at RfA, there's plenty of people we can throw under the bus induct into the admin corp! -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 22:25, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

Happy holidays!
<div style="border-style:solid; border-color:#D7000B; background-color:#F6F0F7; border-width:2px; padding:0.5em 0.5em 0 0.5em;" class="plainlinks"> Happy Holidays!   Hello There'sNoTime! Hope you have a great Christmas, New Year, or whatever you celebrate! RileyBugz 会話投稿記録 23:34, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks, hope you have a nice festive period too! For what its worth, I celebrate Yule -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 00:05, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!
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– Miles Edgeworth Happy Xmas is wishing you a Merry Christmas! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Happy New Year!

Spread the cheer by adding {{subst:Xmas2}} to their talk page with a friendly message.
 * Merry Christmas to you too! -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 15:20, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

Merry Christmas !!!
<div style="; float: left; margin-top: 3px; background-color: #FC9; border: 1px solid #8888aa; padding: 10px; width: 425px; clear: both;"> <div style="; border-style:solid; border-color:#4682B4; background-color:#900020; color:white; border-width:5px; text-align:left; vertical-align;top; padding:18px;" class="plainlinks"> "And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord." Luke 2:10-11 (King James Version) CAPTAIN RAJU (T) is wishing you a Merry Christmas. This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove.

Spread the cheer by adding to their talk page with a friendly message.

CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 22:37, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Merry Christmas to you as well! -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 15:20, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!
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Hi, I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year,

Thanks for all your help and contributions on the 'pedia! ,

– Davey 2010 Merry Xmas / Happy New Year 15:28, 24 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi TNT, I'm so sorry!, You were on my crimbo list but for whatever reason it never made it to you so here you are sorry it's so late :(, Have a Crimbo & New Year :), – Davey 2010 Merry Xmas / Happy New Year 15:29, 24 December 2017 (UTC)
 * No drama, I forget to send actual cards let alone on here! Have a good one Davey -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 15:33, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

Seasons' Greetings
...to you and yours, from the Great White North! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 17:33, 24 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Have a good one! -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 22:35, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!
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TheSandDoctor (talk) is wishing you a Merry Christmas! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Happy New Year!

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Merry Christmas
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 * Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings1}} to send this message

Merry Christmas
A blessed feast to you and yours. -Ad Orientem (talk) 15:21, 25 December 2017 (UTC)

New Year's resolution: Write more articles for Women in Red!
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 18:13, 27 December 2017 (UTC) via MassMessaging

leave the editor alone?
Wth? Why did you say this and what is the basis for it? Seraphim System ( talk ) 18:25, 27 December 2017 (UTC)  Seraphim System  ( talk ) 18:25, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Well its pretty clear neither of you can work together. You leave them alone, they'll leave you alone, we can all move on and do something constructive -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 18:40, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I don't think he's willing to do that. I looked at his editing pattern too and there isn't much overlap. Here's a summary of my interaction with him:

If he is unable to work with me, then I want him to leave me alone so I can improve the articles that I want to work on. I actually am capable of editing neutrally in this area, it isn't my POV that is causing these disputes. Restoring a text sandwich is not even legitimate, it is pure stalking/battleground behavior. Seraphim System ( talk ) 19:35, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
 * called me a denialist, [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Armenian_Genocide&diff=prev&oldid=804917599] (No, removing Lemkin from the LEDE is not denialist - premediated should not be in the lede - it hasn't become part of the definition of genocide, it is confusing, and it is undue for the lede. I would have replaced it with something better if he hadn't started this battleground bs).
 * edit warred over restoring a text sandwich: [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Greek_War_of_Independence&diff=prev&oldid=809610122]
 * reverted a closed RfC: [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Turkey&diff=prev&oldid=817066974]
 * restored a POV map that fails verification with a nonsense caption that says "The traditional definition of Anatolia within modern Turkey" [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anatolia&diff=prev&oldid=817203197]
 * continues to argue that it was not miscited, does not fail verification and that the map was sourced to the entire book (not a particular map in the book), says I should take it up with the map creator if the caption fails verification: [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Anatolia&diff=next&oldid=817258370]

Sorry
I was snippier here than I meant to be in my edit summary here. (Intended snippiness 4/10, came out 7/10.) <b style="color: red;">E</b><b style="color: blue;">Eng</b> 08:26, 28 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I've been debating leaving you a snippiness 3 "the heck is community capital", but decided against it - no harm, no foul. I'm not going touch that thread again, I'll let an admin with some more community capital mull that one over -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 08:30, 28 December 2017 (UTC)
 * But there is a real foul (neither yours nor mine) in terms of what's happening with Tony1 now, and community discussion raising awareness of hasty application of NLT is long overdue. I'm hoping to stimulate that, just so you understand. <b style="color: red;">E</b><b style="color: blue;">Eng</b> 08:42, 28 December 2017 (UTC)

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New Years new page backlog drive
Hello, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Announcing the NPP New Year Backlog Drive!

We have done amazing work so far in December to reduce the New Pages Feed backlog by over 3000 articles! Now is the time to capitalise on our momentum and help eliminate the backlog!

The backlog drive will begin on January 1st and run until January 29th. Prize tiers and other info can be found HERE.

Awards will be given in tiers in two categories:


 * The total number of reviews completed for the month.
 * The minimum weekly total maintained for all four weeks of the backlog drive.

NOTE: It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing. Despite our goal of reducing the backlog as much as possible, please do not rush while reviewing.

If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, go here. — TonyBallioni (talk) 20:24, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

Happy New Year, There&#39;sNoTime!
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Happy New Year! There&#39;sNoTime, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.

– Davey 2010 Merry Xmas / Happy New Year 00:39, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

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Happy New Year, There&#39;sNoTime!
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Happy New Year! There&#39;sNoTime, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.


 * – Miles Edgeworth Talk 07:10, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #293
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your first Wikidata Weekly Summary of the year 2018 (Calendar: Gregorian)! <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: Wikidata team and volunteers were at 34C3. Check the videos, the tweets, a new design made by Bleeptrack for a cake. Videos of Wikidata-related workshops will be published soon.
 * Upcoming: Cultural heritage Wikidata workshop in Prague, 13th January 2018
 * Using Scholia as Open Notebook Science tool to support literature searching


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


 * Did you know?


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


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


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

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


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

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2017). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Muboshgu
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Anetode • Laser brain • Worm That Turned
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg None

Bureaucrat changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news
 * A request for comment is in progress to determine whether the administrator policy should be amended to require disclosure of paid editing activity at WP:RFA and to prohibit the use of administrative tools as part of paid editing activity, with certain exceptions.

Technical news
 * The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey results have been posted. The Community Tech team will investigate and address the top ten results.
 * The Anti-Harassment Tools team is inviting comments on new blocking tools and improvements to existing blocking tools for development in early 2018. Feedback can be left on the discussion page or by email.

Arbitration
 * Following the results of the 2017 election, the following editors have been (re)appointed to the Arbitration Committee:, , , , , , ,.

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Tech News: 2018-02
<section begin="technews-2018-W02"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

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

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

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

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 9 January at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Wikidata weekly summary #294
<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: Jarekt
 * New request for comments: Changes to P2737 and P2738, Privacy and Living People


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


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


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


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


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

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This Month in GLAM: December 2017
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Wikidata weekly summary #295
<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: Mahir256
 * Closed request for adminship: Jarekt (as successful)


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Vienna
 * WikiJabber podcast with Andy Mabbett


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * GraFa, a new faceted browser for Wikidata is looking for feedback.
 * Analysis: How much are items about scientific articles, genes and chemical entities used on the Wikimedia projects?
 * New catalogs in Mix'n'match - for example Nobel Prize People Nomination (More than 600 properties now have a corresponding catalog in Mix'n'match.)
 * Next round of Projects Grants is open for applications until the end of January (see also this blog post)


 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: National Historic Ships certificate no., Dictionnaire des auteurs luxembourgeois ID, Line Music album ID, Line Music artist ID, Elhuyar ZTH ID, is proceedings from, Basketball-Reference.com NBDL player ID, animal breed, Uniform Resource Identifier Scheme, OpenEdition journal ID, Brooklyn Museum artwork ID, Musée des Augustins artwork ID, Yale Center for British Art artwork ID, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum artwork ID, IBM graphic character global identifier, IBM coded character set ID, IBM code page identifier, produced sound, IUPAC GoldBook ID, The Baseball Cube player ID, Mir@bel journal ID, INRAN Italian Food ID, uBio ID, Deutsche Synchronkartei dubbing voice actor ID, Sign@l journal ID, C-SPAN organization ID, Le Maitron person ID, GSMArena phone ID, Érudit journal ID
 * Query examples:
 * Gallery of photography techniques
 * Street names that exist several times in Berlin (source)
 * Average length of movie by genre and year (source)
 * Inventions by Republicans (source)
 * Celebrities born in January of a leap year (source)
 * Countries with no rivers (source)
 * Female aviation pioneers born before 1900 (source)
 * People who died on K2 (source)
 * Showcase items: 15 January 2018


 * Development
 * Wikidata moved to a new and bigger server.
 * Added support for a constraint scope in the constraint check gadget (T183542)
 * Now ignoring deprecated constraints in the constraint check gadget (T180874)
 * Added new Lua function getAllStatements (T166056 - thanks Eran!)
 * Worked on diff support and edit summaries for edits on Forms (T182424)
 * Worked on persistent editing of the grammatical features of a Form (T173742)
 * Google Code-In 2017 work on the Wikidata Query Service UI:
 * add highlight and selection for query result table, by Anpans (T183807)
 * keyboard accessibility, by eflyjason (T173213 and subtasks)
 * make more areas translatable, by Albert221 (T171636)
 * mobile / responsive menus, by eflyjason (T154890)
 * lazy loading in ImageGrid, by Sydney (T166216)


 * 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: 2018-3
<section begin="technews-2018-W03"/> 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 on Wikimedia wikis where the Translate extension is installed can now add and remove the translation administrator permission by default. Administrators of wikis where this extension is enabled can add and remove this permission to or from themselves. Wikis that used a different configuration before have not changed.
 * Octicons-tools.svg There is a new Discourse test support channel for Wikimedia developers. You can ask questions or answer others questions about MediaWiki and Wikimedia software development.

Problems
 * Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a bug that changed non-ASCII characters when a page was edited.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 January. It will be on all wikis from 18 January (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 16 January at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg A few hundred wikis with less than ten high-priority errors in Linter categories will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 31 January. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018.

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Sweep, sweep, sweep
Just what you signed up for, huh? --<b style="color:navy">Neil N </b> <i style="color:blue">talk to me</i> 04:10, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Woooo, right? I still remember your advice from when I was overly keen to RfA.. you should have said how fun and interesting adminship was - TNT❤ 04:12, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

Oops
My bad. I have no idea how to request a revdel or if there is a board for that. I'm also up to my chin in sockpuppets, at the moment so I kind did that kind of hastily. Boomer VialBe ready to fight the horde! • Contribs 11:35, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Not a problem at all Because it was personal information, your best bet is popping an email to oversight - saves drawing any attention to the content (as ideally we want as few people to see it as possible!). As for sockpuppets, I saw your post on Osh's talk page - I was close to doing a check on them, but formatting a SPI up would be helpful - TNT❤ 11:37, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Will do. I know the aforementioned socks are related for sure, having just spent the last half hour digging through the last twenty thousand created accounts digging all of them up. In case you still wanted to CheckUser them, no objections here. Boomer VialBe ready to fight the horde! • Contribs 11:43, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
 * That was a pretty major SPI.. at least it helped isolate the unrelated accounts. As for the master, a clerk will pop by and move the SPI, so no drama - TNT❤ 12:33, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility Notice
The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly. Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:00, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Draft:BLOT!

Rainbow Kitten Surprise
Just curious why you deleted the Rainbow Kitten Surprise page. They are signed to Elektra Records, a major label with a new single out and first LP due in April. Marc61 (talk) 20:28, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
 * The article met CSD A7 and the AfD was speedy closed as such - TNT❤ 20:35, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Signing to a such a major label as Electra is an indication of notability, so I don't think A7 applies. Note this is an indication, not proof, of notability.  That said, when I look at the deleted text I think the article was correctly speedily deleted, but the better criteria would be WP:G11.  That's just my opinion, though.   78.26  (spin me / revolutions) 20:54, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

Maybe this helps - From Time Magazine this week. I'm a huge fan of the band (obviously) and just wanted recognition for starting the page. Not looking to start an argument. Marc61 (talk)

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Tech News: 2018-04
<section begin="technews-2018-W04"/> 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
 * Filters on Special:RecentChangesLinked will get the new look similar to on the recent changes page. Special:RecentChangesLinked will also get some new features.

Problems
 * With the new OOUI look menus and popups can open upwards instead of downwards. This was meant to make long dropdown menus easier to use. Sometimes these menus have been overlapped by other things. This is now fixed.

Changes later this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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 24 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * will be rebooted on 22 February. Some bots use this to get the recent changes feed. They need to be able to reconnect automatically or they will not work until they have been fixed. Most bots can reconnect automatically.

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Wikidata weekly summary #296
<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: Mahir256 (as successful)


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Getting data from Wikidata into WordPress custom taxonomy
 * PIDapalooza - Girona, 23-24 January,with a session on PIDs in Wikidata by Andy Mabbett
 * The EuropeanaTech Call for Proposals is open till February 7. Themes are Data, Discovery, Delivery. The conference will take place in Rotterdam, NL, May 15-16, 2018.
 * Call for papers for Celtic Knot conference is open


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Nominations for the Steward elections are open
 * Grant proposal for GlobalFactSync
 * repology is a nice new project about software packages with the help of Wikidata. They have a list of potentially outdated packages on Wikidata that might need updating or fixing.
 * Painters gives you a list of paintings that don't have a creator statement but "painting by" in the description
 * Big City Lights: where are the cities whose items are most used across the Wikimedia projects?


 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: Commons compatible image available at URL, is a hydrated form of, biological phase, lot number, MAC Address Block Large ID, has boundary
 * External identifiers: SRCBB coach ID, Manus Online ID, Ecocrop ID, Harvard botanical journal ID, UK railway station code, V Live channel ID, Songwriters Hall of Fame ID, MONA ID, Luminous-Lint ID, LTI Korea Library ID, Images d'Art artwork ID, Common Database on Designated Areas ID, crates.io ID, Arcade artwork ID, Australian honours ID, cinematografo company ID, cinematografo name ID, GameRankings game ID, compArt institution ID, compArt person ID, MobyGames company ID, USA Rugby player ID, MYmovies actor ID, MYmovies movie ID, MYmovies director ID, Movieplayer characters ID, Movieplayer film ID, Movieplayer TV-series ID, MYmovies name ID
 * Query examples:
 * Map of nuclear tests (source)
 * Languages with more than one writing system (source)
 * Subclasses of malware (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20male%20actors%20who%20starred%20in%20a%20trilogy%20of%20movies%20when%20they%20were%20in%20their%2020s%20and%20then%20no%20fewer%20than%2040%20years%20later%20played%20the%20same%20character%20again%0A%23%20source%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fmedium.com%2F%40hitRECordJoe%2Fa-new-old-skywalker-253efda3809c%2C%2013th%20paragraph%0A%23%20%28%E2%80%9Cyoung%E2%80%9D%2C%20%E2%80%9Cprotagonist%E2%80%9D%20and%20%E2%80%9Cas%20an%20older%20man%E2%80%9D%20are%20elided%3B%20%E2%80%9Cactor%E2%80%9D%20is%20taken%20to%20be%20implied%20by%20a%20%E2%80%9Ccast%20member%E2%80%9D%20statement%20on%20a%20movie%20without%20requiring%20an%20%E2%80%9Coccupation%E2%80%9D%20statement%20on%20the%20actor%29%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Factor%20%3FactorLabel%20%3FcharacterLabel%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Factor%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ6581097%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fdob.%0A%20%20%3Fmovie1%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ11424%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP179%20%3Ftrilogy%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP161%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP161%20%3Factor%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP453%20%3Fcharacter%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP577%20%3Fmovie1Publication.%0A%20%20%3Ftrilogy%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ13593818.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3Fdob%20%2B%20%22P20Y%22%5E%5Exsd%3Aduration%20%3C%3D%20%3Fmovie1Publication%20%26%26%20%3Fmovie1Publication%20%3C%20%3Fdob%20%2B%20%22P30Y%22%5E%5Exsd%3Aduration%29%0A%20%20%3Fmovie2%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ11424%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP161%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP161%20%3Factor%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP453%20%3Fcharacter%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP577%20%3Fmovie2Publication.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3Fmovie1Publication%20%2B%20%22P40Y%22%5E%5Exsd%3Aduration%20%3C%20%3Fmovie2Publication%29%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D Male actors who starred in a trilogy of movies when they were in their 20s and then no fewer than 40 years later played the same character again](source - see whole thread for more)
 * Bands from the UK whose member's average age is at least 70 (source)
 * Disney movie narrative locations (source)


 * Development
 * Worked on persistent editing of grammatical features of a lexeme’s form (T173742)
 * Made diffs for statements, grammatical features and representations of a form work (T182424)
 * Turned off access to lexicographical data from the clients for now (T178904)
 * Started logging warning on pages that use too many items (T184319)
 * Added support for relation instance or subclass of in the constraint checks (T169858)
 * Now also checking single value and multi value constraints on qualifiers and references (T175566)
 * Now also checking difference within range constraints on qualifiers and references (T175565)
 * Fixed a bug with duplicate items in “distinct values” violation message in the constraint checks gadget (T184705)


 * 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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Global Collaboration products newsletter: 2018-01
Latest news from the Wikimedia Global Collaboration team, about Notifications, Structured discussions, Edit Review Improvements and Content translation. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?
 * The Global Collaboration report for December is now available (in English).
 * Filters are better integrated on Related Changes (see below).
 * Structured discussions now use the 2017 wikitext editor (see below).

Edit Review Improvements [ More information • Help pages ]

Bug fixes
 * When searching, a click on a filter capsule moved the list of filters.
 * On Related Changes page, the page name entry box didn't show the entirety of long page names.
 * Transcludeing Special:RelatedChanges on a page added unexpected parameters to the URL.
 * Filter menu was opening upwards.
 * ORES preferences on Recent Changes and Watchlist preferences pages have been rationalized.
 * Users are now prevented from clicking on a link when they click outside of the dropdown menu to close it.

Work in progress
 * Octicons-star.svg Filters on Related Changes page are better integrated and get new features, for instance:
 * The standard auto-completion mechanism is available when you search for a page to look at.
 * It is more clear if you are looking to pages linked from the target page or to the target page.
 * You no longer need to click the "Show" button; the page updates automatically when a page is positively identified via autocompletion.

Content translation [ More information • Help pages ]

Recent changes
 * Further enhancement are made for list (Suggestions/In-progress/Published) items on mobile screens. Long titles no longer overflow or overlap with other interface elements.
 * Various changes to the "New translation" dialog and the selected page for translation have been made:
 * Longer titles of selected pages are displayed in smaller. Some space has been added around to increase readability.
 * Language codes are not truncated by ellipsis anymore. Only full, autonym language names are subject to truncation.
 * Minimal screen sizes and selected suggestion dialog have been revisited. They are more consistent in responding to screen size changes.
 * Discard button is no longer shown on small screen sizes.
 * Language filters no longer render wrong or non-existent language codes.
 * The "New translation" dialog now shows a loading indicator and doesn't display an error when you change the source language after an unsuccessful research.

Structured discussions [ More information • Help pages ]

Recent changes
 * Octicons-star.svg Structured discussions now uses the 2017 wikitext editor instead of its old custom one. This works with your preference for wikitext or visual editor.
 * Translation icon cropped.svg The documentation has been updated and needs translations updates.
 * Prométhée, from French Wikipedia, has created some gadgets to customise Structured discussions interface.
 * Translation icon cropped.svg The documentation is ready to be translated.

Future changes
 * Structured discussions does not always follow wiki's configurations concerning talk pages indexation. This will be fixed.
 * Hidden topics will not be indexed by search engines anymore.

Notifications [ More information • Help pages ]

Bug fixes
 * User rights change notifications were displaying a broken link. This is now fixed.
 * "Mark as read" buttons had a bad appearance for users who don't have JavaScript activated.

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Wikidata weekly summary #297
<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 comments: Defining account creators


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: IRC office hour on the channel #wikimedia-office, January 30th, at 18:00 (UTC+1). Special topic: how to address the growth of Wikidata
 * Upcoming: Wikidata hackathon in London, February 3rd
 * Past: PIDapalooza 2018 - Slides on FigShare
 * Mapping Wikidata to Bibframe (representation of books)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Breaking change: wbcheckconstraints status parameter
 * Wikidata-driven infoboxes, with multilingual labels, are now available on Wikimedia Commons category pages
 * Wikidata vandalism dashboard for Wikipedians
 * Grant proposals looking for review: WikidataJS, GlobalFactSync


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: cinematografo film ID, CiNii author ID (articles)


 * Query examples:
 * Buildings higher than the Eiffel Tower (source)
 * Descendants of Charlemagne by year of birth (source)
 * Cinemas in Berlin (source)
 * Things (or people) depicted in the xkcd webcomic (source)
 * Image grid of inductees to WITI Hall of Fame (source)
 * Movies filmed in Austria (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * Newest gadgets: Mix'n'Match gadget: loads all Mix’m’match entries about an item, shows descriptions, lets you drag’n’drop entries as references


 * Newest database reports: tennis federations, Davis Cup and Fed Cup teams
 * Showcase items:


 * Development
 * Constraint violations can now be checked on qualifiers and references (T168532)
 * Implemented usage tracking deduplication to reduce database load (T178079). This should not have any effect on what users see on recent changes and watchlists.
 * Redirects on client wikis that are connected to a Wikidata item can have a tracking category, if set up (T185743). Thanks, Matěj!
 * Improved [//www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Bpageterms documentation] of the  query module (406240). Thanks, Niedzielski!
 * Improved empty "content was:" in deletion logs for entities (T184025)
 * Fixed links to external user pages in recent changes (T183019)
 * Fixed user names beginning with a star sometimes being rendered as a list (T182800)
 * Fixed constraint check results possibly showing up in the wrong language (T185688)
 * Fixed ArticlePlaceholders possibly not showing up in search results (406168)
 * Some of the developers attended to the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2018. You can find some notes on the Phabricator board

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: 2018-05
<section begin="technews-2018-W05"/> 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 later this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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 31 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Wikimedia Foundation is working on how to get less unmaintained code on Wikimedia wikis. This could be by finding maintainers or removing unmaintained features. They are now looking for feedback on what do do with AbuseFilter, the IRC RecentChanges feed, the RelatedSites extension and TimedMediaHandler. You can leave feedback on the linked talk pages.

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Wikidata weekly summary #298
<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
 * AICAT grants proposal
 * ScienceSource grants renewal
 * Open request for adminship: Kostas20142


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * From the life of Wikidata: with the Wikidata Concepts Monitor we can now begin to discover how our communities use knowledge across the Wikimedia projects, by Goran S. Milovanović
 * See also: WDCM Journal, several examples of the use of Wikidata on the Wikimedia projects
 * What GLAM can teach us about multimedia metadata on Wikimedia Commons, by Jonathan Morgan and Sandra Fauconnier
 * Wikidata and the German handball player nicknames by k-nut


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * We are saddened to report that Polish Wikimedian Krzysztof Machocki (who was also active on Wikidata) died on 31 January 2018, aged 36, after a couple of weeks of illness. Our condolences to his family and friends.
 * Notes of the IRC office hour of January 30th
 * The call for submissions for Wikimania (Cape Town, July 2018) is now open. Deadline is March 18th. Ideas of submissions related to Wikidata can be discussed here
 * Based on community discussions, the ArticlePlaceholder will soon be deployed on Urdu and Estonian Wikipedias.
 * Statistics
 * January 2018 brought us 9,770,248 edits, 445,027 new items were created.
 * The number of users that edited Wikidata per day grew in 2017 from 2439 to 2672 users, 9,6% more compared to 2016. The number of edits by them grew with 18% to 190k edits per day. We also get edited by 542 IP adresses per day, 50% more than in 2016.
 * In 2017, Wikidata got edited by 46 various bots per day, executing 334k edits per day (63% more than in 2016). The most active bot in 2017 was Emijrpbot, who added 18 million edits to Wikidata.
 * 284 million statements now contain references, compared to 67 million at the start of 2017. The average number of statements per item grew from 5 to almost 9. 73 million qualifiers are now used to provide more details for statements, 13 million in early 2017.
 * New tool based on Wikidata: Random TV episodes


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: uses data storage type, commanded by, dam
 * External identifiers: Who's Who UK ID, Basketball-Reference.com euro player ID


 * Query examples:
 * Items that have or will have been gone for as long as they were there this month (source)
 * Members of the current UK Parliament who have ancestors in Wikidata who are identified as possibly mythical (source)
 * Older siblings who died less than a month before their younger sibling entered an office (source)
 * List of tram lines in Vienna (source)
 * Adjacent districts in Vienna that have no tram line connecting them (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Query%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP2538%20%3FNatmus.%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%0Aselect%20distinct%20%20%3Farticle%20%3Fperson%20%3FpersonLabel%20%20%3FpersonDescription%20%20%28floor%28year%28%3Fbirthdate%29%2F100%29%2a100%20as%20%3Flayer%29%20%3Fpic%20%3Fcoord%20%3Fcoord2%20%3Fcoord3%20%3FNatMus%20%7B%0A%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP2538%20%3FNatMusID.%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fbirthdate%20.%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fpic%20.%7D%20%09%09%09%09%09%23%20If%20we%20have%20an%20illustration%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP1442%20%3FpicGrave%20.%7D%20%09%09%09%23%20If%20we%20have%20a%20picture%20of%20the%20grave%0A%20%20%20BIND%20%28URI%28CONCAT%28%22http%3A%2F%2Fcollection.nationalmuseum.se%2FeMuseumPlus%3Fservice%3DExternalInterface%26module%3Dartist%26objectId%3D%22%2C%3FNatMusID%29%29%20AS%20%3FNatMus%29%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP19%20%3Floc%20.%20%09%09%09%23%20P19%20Place%20of%20Birth%0A%20%20%20%20%3Floc%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoord%20%7D%20.%20%20%20%20%09%09%09%09%23%20Get%20coordinates%20from%20Place%20of%20Birth%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP20%20%3Floc2%20.%20%09%09%09%23%20P19%20Place%20of%20Death%0A%20%20%20%20%3Floc2%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoord2%20%7D%20.%20%20%20%20%09%09%09%09%23%20Get%20coordinates%20from%20Place%20of%20Death%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP119%20%3Floc3%20.%20%09%09%09%23%20P19%20Place%20of%20Burial%0A%20%20%20%20%3Floc3%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoord3%20%7D%20.%20%20%20%20%09%09%09%09%23%20Get%20coordinates%20from%20Place%20of%20Burial%0A%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fperson%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3AinLanguage%20%22sv%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fsv.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fperson%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3AinLanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fsv.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP106%20%3Fgroup%20.%7D%20%09%09%09%23%20Occupation%20in%20Layer%0A%0A%7D%20%20%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22sv%22%2C%22en%22%7D%0A%7D%0AOrder%20by%20%3FpersonLabel Places of birth, death and burial of the artists hosted in the Sweden’s museum of art and design] (source)
 * Newest gadgets and scripts: a script for semi-automated import of information from Commons categories is waiting for feedback


 * Development
 * Diffs now show the entity ID in the page title (T181077)
 * Improved handling of translations in the Query Service UI (406301, 406996), thanks to Li Song
 * Continued working on diffs for forms on Lexemes (eg. T186317)
 * Added summaries for edits on representations or grammatical features of a form (T184702)
 * Worked on showing links to Lexemes and statements (T185332)
 * Rolling out fine grain usage tracking on more wikis, so only relevant changes are shown in the watchlist and recent changes (T185032)
 * Improved scalability of fine grain usage tracking (T185693)

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: 5 February 2018
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2018). Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * An RfC has closed with a consensus that candidates at WP:RFA must disclose whether they have ever edited for pay and that administrators may never use administrative tools as part of any paid editing activity, except when they are acting as a Wikipedian-in-Residence or when the payment is made by the Wikimedia Foundation or an affiliate of the WMF.
 * Editors responding to threats of harm can now contact the Wikimedia Foundation's emergency address by using Special:EmailUser/Emergency. If you don't have email enabled on Wikipedia, directly contacting the emergency address using your own email client remains an option.

Technical news
 * A tag will now be automatically applied to edits that blank a page, turn a page into a redirect, remove/replace almost all content in a page, undo an edit, or rollback an edit. These edits were previously denoted solely by automatic edit summaries.

Arbitration
 * The Arbitration Committee has enacted a change to the discretionary sanctions procedure which requires administrators to add a standardized editnotice when placing page restrictions. Editors cannot be sanctioned for violations of page restrictions if this editnotice was not in place at the time of the violation.

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 * Draft:Dan Walker (Author)

The Catholic Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania
Hi,

It looks like my recent draft for The Catholic Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania (CHSWPA) was deleted because of the blocking for copyright infringement back in the summer. Just some background - I am a member of the board of directors for CHSWPA, treasurer, in charge of the website, co-editor of the journal Gathered Fragments, etc. My fellow board member and co-editor, John, had originally wanted as much information on our Wikipedia page as possible. So, we took what we have on our website and revised it slightly - we do own the copyright on that. Well, apparently, that can't be done so I told him that we would try something basic.

I finally got around to taking another stab at it, just doing the bare bones and apparently I can't do that either because of the original block from the summer. I had John review what I wrote yesterday and he said go ahead and try to post. I returned to Wikipedia today and found that what I had written had been deleted because of the summer block. If you go to the following website http://digital.library.duq.edu:2012/cdm/search/collection/gf/searchterm/Kathleen%20Washy/field/all/mode/all/conn/and/order/title/ad/asc, you will see my name pop up and you should be able to verify that I am a board member that way. Duquesne University is in the middle of creating a new website to hold past issues of Gathered Fragments, but it is still in early stages and I don't think it is out there for the public but you can look at it here and you will see my name: https://ddc.duq.edu/chs/  There are days that I feel that I am the living history of CHSWPA as I have been a board member since 1992 - 26 years. However, one other board member has me beat as she has 34 years.

What can I do to get my bare bones submission into the mix? Below was my bare bones draft from yesterday. Should I chop it down even more?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Kathleen Washy — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kwashy (talk • contribs)


 * Hi Kathleen, thanks for getting in contact - firstly apologies for "hiding" the text you initially wrote on my user page, if you go to edit this page you'll see it's still there. As for Draft:The Catholic Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, it was deleted as a copyright violation (see this page) so you've got two options - re-factor the text from the other day so it significantly differs from the copyrighted material on your website or donate the text.


 * Apologies for the inconvenience all this must have caused, and please do let me know if you need any more help. Alternatively, you could ask for some assistance at The Teahouse or visit our live chat. Also, because you're writing about something you have a direct connection to, you'll need to declare your conflict of interest - TNT❤ 16:44, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-06
<section begin="technews-2018-W06"/> 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 add and remove the accountcreator permission by default. This means the user can help create a large number of accounts, for example for an editathon. Wikis can change this if they want to.
 * The Wikidata vandalism dashboard is a new tool to monitor vandalism on Wikidata labels and descriptions. It is filtered by language.
 * Info pages for file pages now show the file's SHA1 hash value in the table of basic information. This is so users can see that the file is the same as the one they uploaded.

Problems
 * Special:Export has a higher error rate right now. This means that the export does not always work. You should check to make sure your page exports worked. The developers are working on fixing this.

Changes later this week
 * When you review an edit made with the visual editor you can check a visual diff of your changes besides the wikitext diff. If you pick one diff type it will remember and show you that in future. The visual diff will now be the type first shown to new users.
 * When you use a gallery to show images you can define the size, like . You could use   or   instead of   but it would make no difference. You can now only use   or nothing . If you write something else, instead of treating it like , it will not work.
 * The wording when you send a thanks message will change. Instead of  or   it will say   and  . It will also be easier to understand that all thanks are public.
 * Redirects connected to Wikidata can create double Wikidata items. There will now be a tracking category for this. Wikis that don't want it can disable it.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 February. It will be on all wikis from 8 February (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 6 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The Education Program extension will be removed on 30 June. It is replaced by the Programs and Events Dashboard.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2018-W06"/> 20:51, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

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 * Draft:Chaino (Social Network)

Thanks
For the revdels. --<b style="color:navy">Neil N </b> <i style="color:blue">talk to me</i> 17:04, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
 * No problem :-) - TNT❤ 22:56, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

A kitten for you!
It occurs to me that I've not ~properly~ interacted with you on enwiki yet, so This is That.

-- Thanks, Alfie. talk to me &#124; contribs 22:53, 8 February 2018 (UTC) <br style="clear: both;"/>
 * N'aww thankies =3 - TNT❤ 22:56, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: January 2018
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Wikidata weekly summary #299
<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: Monthly Wikidata workshop in Paris, February 16th
 * Upcoming: Wikimedia Community User Group Brasil promotes the 4th Wikdata Lab: How to add a lot of data, 22th February 2018
 * Upcoming: #datatónCervantes, Wikidata workshop in Madrid, February 24th
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Lausanne, February 24th
 * Discovering Types for Entity Disambiguation, on OpenAI blog
 * The File (Dis)connect, by Magnus Manske
 * WDCM Journal: What is Love (Q316)? Accessing Wikidata P279 and P31 paths from WDCM by Goran Milovanović


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * IRC office hour for Structured Data on Commons on Tuesday, 13 February from 18:00-19:00 UTC. More information available on Meta.
 * mySociety is looking for a vacancy for a WikiData-experienced Community Manager for their Democratic Commons project
 * The next Weekly Summary (February 19th) will be the 300th edition of the newsletter! To help making it special, you can share your favorite Wikidata tool, so the other readers discover nice tools


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: identifiers.org prefix, season starts, make-up artist, sets environment variable, reads environment variable, Technical Element Score, deductions (in figure skating), Program Component Score
 * External identifiers: Basketball-Reference.com referee ID, Basketball-Reference.com NBL player ID, member of the Assembly of Madrid ID, BTO Birds of Britain ID, Rugby Australia ID, EUAP ID, LoC and MARC vocabularies ID, BVPB authority ID, Amtrak station code, Compagnon de la Libération ID, Gaming-History identifier, Fauna Europaea New ID, Royal Academy new identifier, BWSA ID, Statistical Service of Cyprus Geocode, PARES ID, Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture control number, Lemon 64 ID, Panoptikum identifier, Swedish portrait archive, TORA ID, Cour des comptes magistrate ID, La Poste personality ID, American National Biography ID, org-id.guide ID, Swimrankings meet ID, JORFsearch person ID, Swiss Enterprise Identification Number, Landslagsdatabasen ID, Bandysidan player ID, World Sailing regatta ID, Sailboatdata ID, Deutsche Synchronkartei series ID


 * Query examples:
 * Timeline of the Soviet Space Program (source)
 * Countries with the most sister cities with French towns (source)
 * JO2018: all 108 French competitors at the 2018 Winter Olympics by year of birth (source)
 * Languages used by poeple in Austria, other than German (source)
 * Biologists with Twitter accounts (source)
 * Feed readers by license and operating system (source)
 * List of female UK MPs who were descended from UK MPs (source)


 * Development
 * Make grammatical forms persistent (T173742)
 * Improve the edit summary of Forms (T184702)
 * Handle adding and/or removing forms in lexeme diffs (T186317)
 * Improve formatting of the Lexemes(T185332)
 * Enable Lua fine grained usage tracking on more wikis (T186645)

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!

Hillmann 69
How are these three edits not linkspam? Note that the page linked to says "Michael Hillmann, Managing Director". --Guy Macon (talk) 02:28, 10 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Hi, that is correct. These external links were added (with my previous account name) due to my wrong understanding of Wikipedia, years ago - and, of course, some competitors are doing this as well. Now I want to add more valuable knowledge to wikipedia and will remove these links now... Sorry.

--TecWriter (talk) 11:08, 10 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Ah. Thanks for the explanation. If you see any competitors who are spamming links to their sites, feel free to drop me a line on my talk page and I will deal with them. --Guy Macon (talk) 11:22, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you

 * Thank you, I think! ^..^ - TNT❤ 21:01, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-07
<section begin="technews-2018-W07"/> 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
 * TemplateStyles has been deployed to the Swedish Wikipedia. TemplateStyles is a feature to make it easy to add CSS to templates without administrator privileges. This allows for better adaptability to screen sizes, especially on mobile where are half our total page views. If your community would like to be the next to have the feature, please submit a task on Phabricator.
 * Registration pages now collect keyboard/mouse usage information for research on identifying spambots.

Changes later this week
 * You can opt in to a new beta feature that lets you use visual diffs on history pages.
 * The visual editor shows and lets you edit templates in one way, and reference lists in another. This meant that templates that only contain a fake reference list, like, would not get updated as you edited. Now they will update as you edit, but you will no longer be able to visually edit them as templates.
 * The abuse filter extension has a new feature  that you may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 February. It will be on all wikis from 15 February (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 February at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The settings page and beta options for the mobile website are being improved.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2018-W07"/> 21:59, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #300
<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;"> The weekly newsletter was started by Lydia at the very beginning of the Wikidata project, even before the first deployment, to keep the community informed about the developments, the new projects and tools. More than five years later, the newsletter is still there, its content powered by the community, and sent every week all along the years. I wanted to say a warm "thank you!" to each person who helped filling the Weekly Summary <3
 * Welcome to the 300th Weekly Summary!

Over the past years, as you know, Wikidata has grown a lot. More data, more tools, more editors and reusers, more exciting projects led by the community. The Weekly Summary has evolved with us, and the 300th edition seems a good moment to ask you all your suggestions about the newsletter, how it could continue evolving, and how you would like to improve it.

On that purpose, you can find a feedback page to express all your ideas about the Weekly Summary. We're very interested to know more about your reading habits, the parts you're more or less interested in, the new topics you would like to share with the community. Thanks in advance for filling it.

I stay available anytime to discuss with you, feel free to contact me if you have any question or concern! Cheers, Léa

''Here are a few tools that are recommended by some Wikidata community members. External websites, gadgets or scripts, they are very useful for Wikidata editors or users!''
 * A selection of cool tools on Wikidata
 * The Wikidata Query Service is an infinite source of amazing data and one of the best ways to explore and use Wikidata. (TweetsFactsAndQueries)
 * QuickStatements is a powerful tool that can edit or add Wikidata item en masse, via a text editor or importing a spreadsheet. (Éder Porto via Facebook)
 * Mix'n'match (manual), which helps us to interlink Wikidata with the rest of the web and the world :-) (Spinster, Siobhan via Twitter)
 * WikiShootMe! allows you to see Wikidata items plotted out on a map and shows you whether they have images or not. (Ham II)
 * Yair Rand's WikidataInfo script adds the QID of the equivalent Wikidata item to the page being viewed (on sister projects), along with its Wikidata label and description. (Andy Mabbett)
 * Recoin measures the degree of completeness of relevant properties of a Wikidata item and suggests any relevant statements that can be added to the item. (Rachmat04)
 * Template:Wikidata list ("Listeria") Self-updating lists on wiki pages, to drive projects and show results. Over 14,000 now live. (Jheald)
 * DuplicateReferences gadget adds a link to copy references and add them to other statements on the same item. (PKM)
 * checkConstraints gadget adds notifications on the interface to easily notice the violation of constraints and help people fixing them (Léa)
 * Resolve authors lists scientific articles with the property author name string (P2093) and groups them on the basis of co-authors and topic, which helps to distinguish people referred to by identical name strings. (Daniel Mietchen)
 * The Wiki Loves Monuments map is powered by Wikidata. You can look for a city and find the monuments around. (Stefano Sabatini via Facebook)


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Lab: How to add a lot of data, São Paulo, February 22th
 * Upcoming: #datatónCervantes, Wikidata workshop in Madrid, February 24th
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Lausanne, February 24th
 * Upcoming: Wikidata seminar, Oxford e-Research Centre, February 28th
 * Ongoing: Fourth Annual month wide d:Wikidata:Events/Nepal
 * Past: Wikidata doathon, 14-15 February 2018, Göttingen
 * A Reconciliation Recipe for Wikidata by Martin Poulter
 * Some ways Wikidata can improve search and discovery by Martin Poulter
 * From Wikidata to Scholia: creating structured linked data to generate scholarly profiles
 * Querying Wikidata about Vienna tram lines, by Stefan Daschek
 * Using wikidata for linked data WordPress indexes, by Phil Barker
 * Using Wikidata to build an authority list of Holocaust-era ghettos


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * There are now over 100,000 ORCID iDs in Wikidata.
 * The usage history graph that is being linked to on property talk pages now shows usage since the end of August 2016. This used to be 50 days. Thanks Lockal!
 * Feedback needed: ontology for structured data on Commons


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: has command line option, Wolfram Language entity code, total fertility rate, development of anatomical structure, research intervention, permitted food additive, maximum food additive use level
 * External identifiers: TheTVDB.com ID, Irish Women Rugby Football Union ID, CATO ID, Directory of Czech publishers ID, ASHRAE refrigerant number, Bulbapedia article, Lemon Amiga identifier, CPC-Power identifier, Libraries.org ID, International Numbering System number, JECFA database ID, JMPR database ID, Uppslagsverket Finland ID, Phasmida Species File ID


 * Query examples:
 * Women with an Erdős number
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fclass1%20%3Fclass1Label%20%3FphysClass%20%3FphysClassLabel%20%3FabsClass%20%3FabsClassLabel%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fclass%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fclass%20wdt%3AP279%2B%20wd%3AQ223557%20%20.%20%0A%23%20%20%20%20hint%3APrior%20hint%3Agearing%20%22reverse%22.%0A%20%20%7D%20LIMIT%2040000%0A%7D%20AS%20%25physicalClasses%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fclass%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fclass%20wdt%3AP279%2B%20%20wd%3AQ7184903%20.%20%0A%23%20%20%20%20hint%3APrior%20hint%3Agearing%20%22reverse%22.%0A%20%20%7D%20LIMIT%2040000%0A%7D%20AS%20%25abstractClasses%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20%20SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fclass%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25physicalClasses%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25abstractClasses%20.%0A%20%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25commonClasses%20%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20%20SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fclass%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25commonClasses.%0A%20%20%20%20%20MINUS%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%20SELECT%20%28%3Fclass%20AS%20%3FparentClass%29%20WHERE%20%7B%20INCLUDE%20%25commonClasses.%20%7D%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fclass%20wdt%3AP279%20%3FparentClass.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25reducedClasses%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25reducedClasses%20.%0A%20%20%3Fclass%20wdt%3AP279%2a%20%3Fclass1%20.%0A%20%20hint%3APrior%20hint%3Agearing%20%22forward%22.%0A%20%20%3Fclass1%20wdt%3AP279%20%3FabsClass%20.%0A%20%20%3FabsClass%20wdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ7184903%20.%0A%20%20hint%3APrior%20hint%3Agearing%20%22forward%22.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FabsClass%20wdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ223557%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20hint%3APrior%20hint%3Agearing%20%22forward%22.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%20%281%20AS%20%3Fno_go%29%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28%21bound%28%3Fno_go%29%29%20.%0A%20%20%3Fclass1%20wdt%3AP279%20%3FphysClass%20.%0A%20%20%3FphysClass%20wdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ223557%20.%0A%20%20hint%3APrior%20hint%3Agearing%20%22forward%22.%0A%23%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%23%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FphysClass%20wdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ7184903%20.%0A%23%20%20%20%20%20%20hint%3APrior%20hint%3Agearing%20%22forward%22.%0A%23%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%20%281%20AS%20%3Fno_go2%29%20.%0A%23%20%20%7D%20%20%20%20%0A%23%20%20FILTER%20%28%21bound%28%3Fno_go2%29%29%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20%3FabsClassLabel%0A Classes that are subclass of both physical object and abstract object] (thread)
 * Countries sharing land borders only with larger countries (source)
 * Alive actors and actresses without an image, ordered by number of films they appear in (source)
 * Beast species in the Harry Potter universe (source)
 * Places that have been indicated as the topic of scientific articles indexed in Wikidata (source)
 * Scientists whose cause of death was "death by burning" (source)
 * Women who have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (source)
 * WikiProject ShEx
 * Newest database reports: winter sport disciplines, people and equipment


 * Development
 * Fixed incomplete "Label:", "Description:" and "Statement:" entity usage messages in various places (T178090). Thanks, Matěj!
 * Improved violation messages for ranges involving the current date (e. g. “should not be in the future”).
 * Continued work on caching constraint check results.
 * Enabled Lua fine-grained usage tracking for better performance on several more wikis: hywiki, frwiki, svwiki, itwiki, zhwiki, bewiki, nlwiki, glwiki, and Wikimedia Commons (T187265 T186714)
 * Representation and grammatical features of the form can be changed using the UI (WikibaseLexeme) (T173743, T160525)

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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[🇺🇸 COACH Z &#124; #USNavy ⚓] 00:03, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
I apologize for any grammatical or syntax errors in advance I am a retired Navy veteran and I have a site impediment as well as a hearing Disorder so I have to use voice recognition software to try and learn how to become a Wikipedia editor.

Where did the four take effect for this website was it from the beginning of time?

I also would like to know if the beginning of this website from what I could tell was started by one person or two I'm having conflicting stories on how Wikipedia started it looks like it was two people and then one bought the other one out is that right?

[🇺🇸 COACH Z &#124; #USNavy ⚓] 00:03, 19 February 2018 (UTC) [🇺🇸 COACH Z &#124; #USNavy ⚓] 00:03, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Veiled (movie)


Hello, There&#39;sNoTime. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Veiled".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the, , or  code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Legacypac (talk) 18:10, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Yo, just FYI, it's actually this guy's with the totally non-spammy or non-COI name :) Judging by their editng history, they will neither know nor care about this though. Take care!   >SerialNumber  54129 ...speculates 18:31, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Sometimes Twinkle sends the notifications to other editors that handled a page. Ya, it might be spam too. Legacypac (talk) 18:34, 19 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Dangit TNT... not again.  G M G  <sup style="color:#000;font-family:Impact">talk   18:35, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
 * One of our most prolific spammers, eh GNG—and always gets away with it, right under our dang noses! :)    >SerialNumber  54129 ...speculates 18:46, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Nothing to see here... - TNT❤ 19:00, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-08
<section begin="technews-2018-W08"/> 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 explanation of the abbreviations on the recent changes page could overlap with the list of changes. This has been fixed.
 * You can now see statistics for pageviews per wiki per country. You can see this on maps or in a table.

Problems
 * Linter is reporting estimated counts instead of actual counts for some wikis. This is because of performance problems. You might notice a false higher number in linter counts for some categories. This will be fixed as soon as the performance problem has been fixed.
 * Last week the way that Visual Editor displays references lists was changed. As a result, the references generated by specific templates like   are not visible in the references list whilst editing.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 February. It will be on all wikis from 22 February (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 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The way edit summaries and log comments are stored in the database is being changed. In the future this will make longer comments possible.
 * Edit conflicts could be solved in a different way in the future. You can test a new prototype.

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The Signpost: 20 February 2018
<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) 17:11, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #301
<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: IMLD-ODD 2018 Wikidata India Edit-a-thon, February 21st to March 3rd
 * Upcoming: presentation of the paper "Knowledge Graphs and Pluralism on Wikidata", February 27th, Luxembourg
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Hyderabad, India, March 2nd


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Stewards election is running until February 28th
 * Structured data on Commons ontology discussion continues until March 1st.
 * Decision about the licensing of Lexeme namespace
 * It's been possible for a while (but not previously reported here) to include Wikidata IDs in Wikivoyage listings, like this example edit.
 * Q50000000 was created on February 23rd.
 * You can give feedback about this newsletter
 * Constraint checks will be integrated in the interface of Wikidata


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: conscription number, recognition sequence, cutting site of restriction enzyme, RFE symbol, isoschizomer, neoschizomer, number of records, P4877, symbolizes, segmental innervation
 * External identifiers: AtariAge identifier, Atari Legend identifier, Atarimania identifier, BMI Work ID, Charity Navigator ID, Amazon author page, REBASE Enzyme Number, Hispania Nostra Red List of Endangered Heritage ID, Operabase ID, GEPRIS project ID, GEPRIS organization ID, GEPRIS person ID, World Rugby Women's Sevens Series player ID, FFR Sevens player ID, Maison d'écrivain ID


 * Query examples:
 * Actors who have starred in at least three Oscar Best Picture-nominated films in the same year (Inspired by this Vulture article)
 * Items in the part of the Getty AAT thesaurus (P1014) below costume accessory (Q1065579) where the upward relationship in the thesaurus cannot as yet be 'explained' by our existing subclass (P279) relations (thread1;thread2;thread3)
 * Where were people who went to space born? (source)
 * National flags featuring the Union Jack as a canton (the top inner corner of a flag) (source)
 * Number of mass shootings by country since 1990 (source)
 * Newest database reports: sleds, sleighs and sledges


 * Development
 * Make it possible to link to Lexemes and Statements (T1854997)
 * Disabling senses for the first release of Lexemes (T186995)
 * Caching for constraints check

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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SPI and backlinks
Hi. I was wondering, if I link an article in an SPI page (using xyz ), does it show in the article's "what links here" while the SPI is still open? That's why I had to exclude wikilinks from Sockpuppet investigations/Jwalia012. — <span class="monospaced" style="font-family: monospace, monospace;">usernamekiran (talk)  19:46, 20 February 2018 (UTC) Thanks for the tip. But given TNT's explanation, I think I should add the wikilinks. See you around guys :) — <span class="monospaced" style="font-family: monospace, monospace;">usernamekiran (talk)  19:59, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Any wiki link will show up in "what links here" for the page, but I wouldn't let that stop you wikilinking at SPI (to the contrary, wikilinks can often help a lot in making judgement calls). On a side note, I've seen a couple of your SPIs and they're always really well thought out - so thank you! - TNT❤ 19:51, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
 * If you (not totally sure why) want to avoid these types of backlinks (words?), you can use  to link to the latest revision instead of the live article.   G M G  <sup style="color:#000;font-family:Impact">talk   19:54, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
 * lol thanks. I will keep that in mind; to include the wikilinks.

You've got mail!
Mahveotm (talk) 11:49, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
 * replied - TNT❤ 16:08, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

ACC CU Backlog
Hello,

ACC has a CU backlog of 101 requests as of 08:34, 26 February 2018 (UTC), any help is appreciated! Thanks ~ riley  ( talk  ) 08:34, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-09
<section begin="technews-2018-W09"/> 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
 * Checkusers and stewards can now view private data such as the IP address in the abuse log. This data is removed regularly.

Problems
 * Last week's MediaWiki version was rolled back because of a bug.
 * Since the deployment train last week until late evening on 20 February UTC, when you thanked someone for an edit, the thank went to the latest unthanked edit to that page. It didn't matter which edit you tried to give thanks for. This has been fixed.
 * Special:Statistics did not take newly created pages into account since 13 February 2018. Because of this the statistics are recreated.

Changes later this week
 * Users with version 10 of the Internet Explorer browser will no longer get JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis. If you use this browser on your computer, you can try upgrading to a newer version.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Wikinews wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 27 February. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 1 March (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 27 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 28 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2018-W09"/> 19:52, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

Some stew for you

 * Oh thank you It is -3 here so that's rather helpful! - TNT❤ 19:04, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

 * @ Thank you! - TNT❤ 14:57, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

Editing News #1—2018
Read this in another language • Subscription list for the English Wikipedia • Subscription list for the multilingual edition Did you know? Did you know that you can now use the visual diff tool on any page?



Sometimes, it is hard to see important changes in a wikitext diff. This screenshot of a wikitext diff (click to enlarge) shows that the paragraphs have been rearranged, but it does not highlight the removal of a word or the addition of a new sentence.

If you enable the Beta Feature for "", you will have a new option. It will give you a new box at the top of every diff page. This box will let you choose either diff system on any edit.

Click the toggle button to switch between visual and wikitext diffs.

In the visual diff, additions, removals, new links, and formatting changes will be highlighted. Other changes, such as changing the size of an image, are described in notes on the side.



This screenshot shows the same edit as the wikitext diff. The visual diff highlights the removal of one word and the addition of a new sentence. An arrow indicates that the paragraph changed location.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has spent most of their time supporting the 2017 wikitext editor mode, which is available inside the visual editor as a Beta Feature, and improving the visual diff tool. Their work board is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the work finished each week at VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor, and improving the visual diff tool.

Recent changes

 * The 2017 wikitext editor is available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices. It has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools.  The team have been comparing the performance of different editing environments.  They have studied how long it takes to open the page and start typing.  The study uses data for more than one million edits during December and January.  Some changes have been made to improve the speed of the 2017 wikitext editor and the visual editor.  Recently, the 2017 wikitext editor opened fastest for most edits, and the 2010 WikiEditor was fastest for some edits.  More information will be posted at Contributors/Projects/Editing performance.
 * The visual diff tool was developed for the visual editor. It is now available to all users of the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor.  When you review your changes, you can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs.  You can also enable the new Beta Feature for "Visual diffs".  The Beta Feature lets you use the visual diff tool to view other people's edits on page histories and Special:RecentChanges.
 * Wikitext syntax highlighting is available as a Beta Feature for both the 2017 wikitext editor and the 2010 wikitext editor.
 * The citoid service automatically translates URLs, DOIs, ISBNs, and PubMed id numbers into wikitext citation templates. This tool has been used at the English Wikipedia for a long time.  It is very popular and useful to editors, although it can be tricky for admins to set up.  Other wikis can have this service, too.  Please read the instructions. You can ask the team to help you enable citoid at your wiki.

Let's work together

 * The team is planning a presentation about editing tools for an upcoming Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting.
 * Wikibooks, Wikiversity, and other communities may have the visual editor made available by default to contributors. If your community wants this, then please contact Dan Garry.
 * The  block can automatically display long lists of references in columns on wide screens.  This makes footnotes easier to read.  This has already been enabled at the English Wikipedia.  If you want columns for a long list of footnotes on this wiki, you can use either   or the plain (no parameters)   template.  If you edit a different wiki, you can request multi-column support for your wiki.
 * If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly. We will notify you when the next issue is ready for translation. Thank you!

—User:Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 23:14, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2018). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Lourdes†
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg AngelOfSadness • Bhadani • Chris 73 • Coren • Friday • Midom • Mike V
 * † Lourdes has requested that her admin rights be temporarily removed, pending her return from travel.

Guideline and policy news
 * The autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) is scheduled to end on 14 March 2018. The results of the research collected can be read on Meta Wiki.
 * Community ban discussions must now stay open for at least 24 hours prior to being closed.
 * A change to the administrator inactivity policy has been proposed. Under the proposal, if an administrator has not used their admin tools for a period of five years and is subsequently desysopped for inactivity, the administrator would have to file a new RfA in order to regain the tools.
 * A change to the banning policy has been proposed which would specify conditions under which a repeat sockmaster may be considered de facto banned, reducing the need to start a community ban discussion for these users.

Technical news
 * CheckUsers are now able to view private data such as IP addresses from the edit filter log, e.g. when the filter prevents a user from creating an account. Previously, this information was unavailable to CheckUsers because access to it could not be logged.
 * The edit filter has a new feature  that edit filter managers may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string.

Miscellaneous
 * Following the 2018 Steward elections, the following users are our new stewards:, , , ,.

Obituaries
 * Bhadani (Gangadhar Bhadani) passed away on 8 February 2018. Bhadani joined Wikipedia in March 2005 and became an administrator in September 2005. While he was active, Bhadani was regarded as one of the most prolific Wikipedians from India.

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A few favors
Can you do the following favors for me:


 * 1) Delete my user page.
 * 2) Delete my talk page.
 * 3) Change my username so other users can stop harrassing me. DBZFan30 (talk) 02:45, 24 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Hi, sorry to hear you've been experiencing harassment here - please feel free to email me if you want to discuss the above in more detail, and I'll try to help where I can. On to your query:
 * Your user page seems to have already been deleted.
 * We very rarely delete talk pages - you can, however, blank the page. Would this be okay?
 * I'm unable to rename your account. This page may help in regards to changing your username, though you may be looking for "courtesy vanishing". Before you make that choice, I'd strongly recommend dropping me an email with what's been going on, because I might be able to help you.
 * - TNT❤ 10:01, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
 * I just want my talk page to be permanently deleted so I won't have to look back at all the trash people keep posting there. For the harassment part, I remember when a user kept calling me a "twat" and a "twit" over a section at the article All Star (song) (check the edit history for evidence). That same user then started harassing me at the talk page of that article. I also want the All Star article to be deleted. You have to believe me on this. DBZFan30 (talk) 18:23, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Not this again. DBZFan30 (talk) 22:34, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
 * DBZFan30, I'm not sure what There'sNoTime is doing to you, but he's given you good advice (no admin is going to delete your user talk page, and he currently does not have the ability to rename you.)For your other requests, There'sNoTime is probably not going to delete one of the most popular songs of the late-1990s/early-2000s just because, and it is not very likely to be deleted at AfD. I also looked at the edit summaries there, and the content, and I don't see anything that meets our revision deletion criteria. The talk page issue and relevant content dispute from what I can tell was almost a year ago, and you also got into a content dispute in October, which is also pretty stale. All of these issues seem to be too old for much administrative action.If you are concerned about people reverting you or something similar because of your current username, a rename should do the trick, and maybe don't edit the All Star page again if it is causing the issues? All the best, TonyBallioni (talk) 22:49, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Can you at least delete my talk page and permanently block the user who was harassing me? That user at the All Star article always gets away with everything. I'm sick of it. I'm also sick of other users not believing or listening to me. Wikipedia really needs to change their rules and revision deletion criteria. Also, I'm not "stalking" this page at all. DBZFan30 (talk) 23:00, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
 * is a template that lets people know how I saw this message (I have TNT's page on my watchlist). If you click the link, it's a funny essay. In terms of the harassment, I do see that you were called some not very nice names by another editor, but the last time I see any direct interaction between the two of you in October 2017. That's almost 5 months ago. Unless there is something going on off-wiki or they are using IPs, I don't think most admins would block. If there is something going on that is private, you should email There'sNoTime.In terms of talk page deletion, as both There'sNoTime and I told you, we don't usually delete user talk pages, and there doesn't seem to be a strong reason to delete it (see WP:DELTALK). The thing that is most likely to address your concerns at this point and be within policy is for you to blank your talk page, and then to request a rename (which you can do by submitting a request at Special:GlobalRenameRequest.)If there is anything private that involves off-wiki details (or is sensitive on-wiki), TNT is a good user to email about it, but from what appears available on-wiki, there really isn't much that can be done, other than the rename request I mentioned above, and blanking your talk page. TonyBallioni (talk) 23:43, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
 * DBZFan30: forgot to ping you. TonyBallioni (talk) 23:48, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

Sorry for not getting back to you sooner - a very helpful and experienced editor who keeps an eye on my talk page,, has said basically what I would say. Perhaps you could email me a quick summary about the user at the All Star article, and what they've been doing which has upset you? Let me know when you've emailed me, and I'll respond as soon as possible to let you know I've got the email - TNT❤ 16:08, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Neither of you are helping me. Can you just delete my talk page and change my username? Blanking my talk page won't do anything. Also, you can just delete the All Star article and recreate it without the edits that caused the edit war between me and that other user. No one will notice it was deleted and then recreated. DBZFan30 (talk) 01:45, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
 * You can request a change of username here - TNT❤ 14:58, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2018-10
<section begin="technews-2018-W10"/> 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 make longer edit summaries.

Changes later this week
 * You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page.
 * On Special:AbuseLog you can now choose to list only actions that actually made an edit. Other actions are when the filter warned the editor or blocked the edit from being made. There are also more search options.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Wikis can enable Citoid to provide automatic reference look-up in the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor, but it is complex. The tool will now warn in the JavaScript console if the configuration isn't correct. Soon Citoid will disable itself if the configuration isn't correct. Check that your wiki is configured correctly. You can ask for help if you need it.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 March. It will be on all wikis from 8 March (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 6 March at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * In the future you will be able to use global preferences. This means you could change a preference for all wikis instead of having to change it every time for each wiki. You can now test global preferences and give feedback.
 * You can now read about planned works on maps during 2018. This will be done by June. You can give feedback on the planned maps work.

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Wikidata weekly summary #302
<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: Wikidata workshops in different places in the world for Open Data Day
 * WikiCite presentation (video) as part of Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting - February 2018
 * Wikidata: Knowledge as a Service, by martin Poulter


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Global preferences are available for testing
 * Statement 400.000.000 was created
 * You can now use a SPARQL query to match the result labels against Mix’n’match entries


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: court, time index, 3D model, broader concept, season, number of players in region, century breaks, dialect of, produces cohesive end, isocaudomer
 * External identifiers: FFF male player ID, AFL Tables coach ID, FFF female player ID, Webumenia creator ID, AFL Tables umpire ID, MuIS person or group ID, EPHE ID, Patrons de France ID, Siprojuris ID, ESPN X Games athlete ID, ACE work ID, AICTE institute ID, Chronicling America newspaper ID, Brooklyn Museum Exhibition ID, Zenodo ID, CONABIO ID, New Georgia Encyclopedia ID, Tropicos publication ID, KMSKA work PID, Bargeton ID, Guide Nicaise ID, AlloCiné company ID, Annuaire des fondations ID


 * Query examples:
 * 3D models on Commons (source)
 * Timeline of programming languages (source)
 * Date of birth of computer scientists (source)
 * Women born in Latin America without an article on Spanish Wikipedia (source)
 * Timeline of Düsseldorf mayors (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Energy, Motorsports
 * Newest database reports: nomes de países em português


 * Development
 * Re-enable Wikidata Recent Changes integration on Russian Wikipedia (T179012)
 * Investigate on the size of logging table (T188635)
 * Fix issues with graph vizualisation UI (T186467)
 * Work on results of security review for the deployment of Wikibase-Lexeme (T186726)
 * Enable constraint result caching on Wikidata (T184812)

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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Collaboration products newsletter: 2018-02
Latest news from the Wikimedia Global Collaboration team, about Map improvements 2018, Notifications, Structured discussions and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?
 * Collaboration and Language are now going their way separately. Updates about Content Translation are not included in this newsletter anymore. Please refer to the Language report.
 * Collaboration has a new project: Map improvements 2018.
 * The team’s engagement with maps is based on 2017 Community Wishlist proposal Kartographer Improvements, though the work won’t be restricted to items named there.
 * The project is currently in its very early research and planning stages.
 * It has a limited term that’s scheduled to conclude at the end of June 2018.

Edit Review Improvements [ More information • Help pages ]

Recent changes
 * es.wikipedia, es.wikibooks, sv.wikipedia, and simple.wikipedia get ORES predictions on Recent Changes (and on Watchlist through "" Beta feature).

Problems
 * The explanation of the abbreviations on the recent changes page could overlap with the list of changes. This has been fixed.
 * On Related changes it was not possible to use Saved filters for several articles. It has been fixed.
 * Transclude special:relatedchanges on a subpage removed #contentSub. This is now fixed.

Notifications [ More information • Help pages ]

Recent changes
 * The wording when you send a thanks message has changed. Instead of  or   it says   and  . It is also now easier to understand that all thanks are public.
 * A notification is now sent to account owner on multiple unsuccessful login attempts.

Problems
 * Between week 7 and 20 February, when you thanked someone for an edit, the thank went to the latest unthanked edit to that page. It didn't matter which edit you tried to give thanks for. This has been fixed.
 * Long page titles on Special:Notifications were not truncated. This is now fixed.

Structured discussions [ More information • Help pages ]

Recent changes
 * You can now press CTRL + ENTER to post a new message.
 * It wasn't possible to create a description of a Structured discussions board. This has been fixed.

Problems
 * On wikis using the Beta feature, it is not possible to enable or disable Structured discussion from the Beta page. However, admins can create and move the pages.

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WP:HI
it's Wilburn from IRC. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tämä on uusi tili (talk • contribs) 20:38, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Hello - TNT❤ 20:40, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

WP:VPT
There's a thread at Village pump (technical) that's about the edit summaries in your contribution history. Nthep (talk) 15:31, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Responded at thread :-) ..n̸̥̺̼̻̮̩̈́̇͗͘o̧͖̹͕̲͉̪̖͓̐͊͑͆̎̊̓̐͘͜͝ n̬̭̮͕̝͗̿̍̈́̋̾̉͟e̷̛͓̠̖̳͓̬͐̌͌̎̚̚͝ͅͅȅ̸̡̧͓̟͎̩̞̟̦̔͌͗̎́̑̕̚̚d̷̥̫͇̞̘̮͉̜͊͑́́̽̑̅ ţ̴͔͕̼͔̟͓̋̾͛̍̇͐̒̚͡ö̷̯͉͉̈̍̓̋̐̉͒͟ͅ b͙̗̟̰̳̲͍̱͇̾̄͌̂̂͞e̥̻̜̠͖̞̻̹̼̾̋̋̃͊͞ ȁ̵͕̩̪͔̻̼̯̳̒̋̂̓͜l̫̠̘̪̖̫̼̓̾͗͗̄̓̃̚a̘̣̰̤̭͊̾͐̃̃́̂̓̚ŗ̵̡̰̬̪́̀̎͒̐͠m̴̩̪̦̼̙̣̒̾̏̌͝ͅe̩̲̣̙̠̘͈̼̽̀̇̓͑͞d̫̭̺̭̜̀̄͐̑̅͛̚..  - TNT❤ 16:22, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2018-11
<section begin="technews-2018-W11"/> 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
 * 3D models can now be uploaded to Commons.
 * Page Previews has been updated to use HTML for previews. This has fixed many issues. An A/B test was done on English and German Wikipedia to measure how it is used. Other changes were also made.
 * Some edits have to be checked against too many conditions before they can trigger an abuse filter. If that is the reason no filter is triggered the edit will be [ tagged] for review.
 * Auto-saving has been added to the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. Right now it is meant to help if your browser crashes or if you accidentally close a tab.

Problems
 * The abuse filter did not tag all edits that should have been tagged after last week's MediaWiki version had come to the wikis. It was fixed on 9 March (UTC).

Changes later this week
 * You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. This was originally planned to happen last week.
 * It is now possible to specify the block parameters for each filter in Special:AbuseFilter. The parameters include block duration and if the user should be blocked from editing their own talk page. The block duration is separate for anonymous and registered users.
 * Octicons-tools.svg A hundred Wikimedia wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 13 and 14 March. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 March. It will be on all wikis from 15 March (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 March at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Wikidata weekly summary #303
<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: Notability and Commons


 * Events
 * Upcoming: WikiIndaba in Tunis, 16-18 March. There will be several Wikidata-related sessions
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Paris, March 16th


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Structured Data on Commons is the most important development in Wikimedia's usability, by John Lubbock
 * Data on the history of Scottish witch trials added to Wikidata, by John Lubbock
 * German Wikidata Workshop on "Wikidata: Potential uses and application examples for digital cultural heritage" during the conference DHd 2018
 * Automatically Generating Wikipedia Info-boxes from Wikidata, by Tomás Sáez and Aidan Hogan
 * Linking ImageNet WordNet Synsets with Wikidata, by Finn Årup Nielsen
 * Towards a Question Answering System over the Semantic Web, by Dennis Diefenbach et al.
 * Practical Linked Data Access via SPARQL: The Case of Wikidata, by Markus Krötzsch et al.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * WDQS updater switched to Kafka
 * First version of Lexicographical Data will be released in April
 * Wikidata:Database reports/Constraint violations updated
 * "autopatrolled" entries to be removed from the logging table
 * You can have a look at the Europeana migration campaign and help with translations in your languages
 * Mix'n'Match new features: Creation Candidates and Top missing entries
 * WDCM Journal: gender equity in Wikidata usage


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: calculated from
 * External identifiers: Ready64 identifier, GameBase 64 identifier, Plus/4 World identifier, Rugby Football Union men's player ID, Snooker.org tournament ID, Rugby Football Union women's sevens player ID, Rugby Football Union men's sevens player ID, CueTracker tournament ID, Rugby Football Union women's player ID, PRotein Ontology ID, Invaluable.com artist ID, Ricorso author ID, AINM ID, Julien ID, Todotango.com artist ID, Todotango.com work ID, The Big Cartoon DataBase ID, Small Monuments of Plzeň Catalogue ID, SFMOMA artist ID, Japan Rugby Football Union men's player ID, Japan Rugby Football Union women's player ID, BFMTV.com director ID, Japan Rugby Football Union women's sevens player ID, Japan Rugby Football Union men's sevens player ID, Societe.com director ID, Dominicains ID, Premiers préfets ID


 * Query examples:
 * Some costume items ending in 'us'
 * Women on Wikidata without article in any Wikipedia, ordered by number of statements (source)
 * WikiProjects about women (source)
 * Software of the KDE community (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20films%20starring%20more%20than%20one%20future%20head%20of%20government%0ASELECT%20%3Ffilm%20%3FfilmLabel%20%3FfilmDescription%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3FheadOfGovernmentLabel%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%20%28GROUP_CONCAT%28DISTINCT%20CONCAT%28%3FheadOfGovernmentLabel%2C%20%22%2C%20%22%40en%2C%20%3Fdescription%29%3B%20separator%20%3D%20%22%3B%20%22%29%20AS%20%3FheadsOfGovernment%29%20%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Ffilm%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ11424%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP577%20%3FpublicationDate%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP161%20%3FheadOfGovernmentStatement.%0A%20%20%3FheadOfGovernmentStatement%20ps%3AP161%20%3FheadOfGovernment.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FheadOfGovernmentStatement%20pq%3AP453%20%3Fcharacter.%20%3Fcharacter%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FcharacterLabel.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FcharacterLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%20%7D%20%23%20label%20service%20doesn%E2%80%99t%20work%20for%20this%20one%20for%20some%20reason%20%E2%80%93%20perhaps%20the%20query%20optimizer%20is%20being%20stupid%20and%20moving%20the%20label%20service%20before%20this%20optional%20block%2C%20so%20that%20%3Fcharacter%20isn%E2%80%99t%20bound%20yet%20when%20the%20label%20service%20runs%0A%20%20%3FheadOfGovernment%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP39%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP39%20%3Fposition%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP580%20%3FstartTime%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%3Fposition%20wdt%3AP279%2B%20wd%3AQ2285706.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3FstartTime%20%3E%20%3FpublicationDate%29%20%23%20%2afuture%2a%20head%20of%20government%0A%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3FheadOfGovernment%20p%3AP39%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP39%20%3FotherPosition%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP580%20%3FotherStartTime%0A%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FotherPosition%20wdt%3AP279%2B%20wd%3AQ2285706.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3FotherStartTime%20%3C%20%3FpublicationDate%29%20%23%20not%20already%20a%20head%20of%20government%20%28some%20people%20held%20multiple%20%E2%80%9Chead%20of%20government%E2%80%9D%20offices%2C%20or%20the%20same%20one%20multiple%20times%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Ffilm%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FfilmLabel%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3Adescription%20%3FfilmDescription.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FheadOfGovernment%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FheadOfGovernmentLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fposition%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FpositionLabel.%0A%20%20%7D%20hint%3APrior%20hint%3ArunLast%20false.%0A%20%20BIND%28IF%28BOUND%28%3FcharacterLabel%29%2C%20CONCAT%28%3FcharacterLabel%2C%20%22%20%2F%20%22%40en%2C%20%3FpositionLabel%29%2C%20%3FpositionLabel%29%20AS%20%3Fdescription%29%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Ffilm%20%3FfilmLabel%20%3FfilmDescription%0AHAVING%28%3Fcount%20%3E%201%29%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29%20ASC%28MIN%28%3FpublicationDate%29%29 Films starring more than one future head of government] (source)
 * [http://histropedia.com/showcase/wikidata-viewer.html?q=%23Female%20computer%20scientists%0ASELECT%20?person%20?personLabel%20?birthDate%20?birthPrecision%20?deathDate%20?deathPrecision%20?image%20?educated_at%20?country_of_birth%20?award_received%20?rank%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%7B%0ASELECT%20?person%20?birthDate%20?birthPrecision%20?educationItem%20?birthCountryItem%20?awardsItem%20?rank%0A(SAMPLE(?deathDate)%20as%20?deathDate)%0A(SAMPLE(?deathPrecision)%20as%20?deathPrecision)%0A(SAMPLE(?image)%20as%20?image)%0AWHERE%20%7B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A?person%20wdt:P106/wdt:P279*%20wd:Q82594%20.%20%0A?person%20wdt:P31%20wd:Q5%20.%0A?person%20wdt:P21%20wd:Q6581072%20.%0A?person%20p:P569/psv:P569%20?birthDateNode%20.%0A?birthDateNode%20wikibase:timeValue%20?birthDate%20.%0A?birthDateNode%20wikibase:timePrecision%20?birthPrecision%20.%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B?person%20p:P570/psv:P570%20?deathDateNode%20.%0A?deathDateNode%20wikibase:timeValue%20?deathDate%20.%0A?deathDateNode%20wikibase:timePrecision%20?deathPrecision%20.%0A%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B?person%20wdt:P18%20?image%20%7D%20%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B?person%20wdt:P19%20?birthPlaceItem%20.%20?birthPlaceItem%20wdt:P17%20?birthCountryItem%20%7D%20%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B?person%20wdt:P69%20?educationItem%20%7D%20%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B?person%20wdt:P166%20?awardsItem%20%7D%20%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B?article%20schema:about%20?person%20%7D%0A?person%20wikibase:sitelinks%20?rank%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20?person%20?birthDate%20?birthPrecision%20?educationItem%20?birthCountryItem%20?awardsItem%20%20?rank%0A%7D%0ASERVICE%20wikibase:label%20%7B%0Abd:serviceParam%20wikibase:language%20%27en%27%20.%0A?person%20rdfs:label%20?personLabel%20.%0A?educationItem%20rdfs:label%20?educated_at%20.%0A?birthCountryItem%20rdfs:label%20?country_of_birth%20.%0A?awardsItem%20rdfs:label%20?award_received%20.%0A%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC%20(?rank)&md=true&g=person&l=person&t=personLabel&s=birthDate&sp=birthPrecision&e=deathDate&ep=deathPrecision&i=image&c=country_of_birth&f=educated_at,award_received&v=t Timeline of prominent Women Computer Scientists] (source)
 * Newest database reports: list of episodes of Borgen


 * Development
 * Significantly (on average to 1/4th) reduced the number of changes from Wikidata showing up on the watchlists and recent changes on Wikipedias and the other sister projects. This way changes that do not affect an article should no longer show up. We're still holding off roll-out to Commons, Cebuano, Waray-Waray and Armenian Wikipedia because of scalability concerns.
 * Working on optimizing one of the largest database tables (wb_terms) (T188279)
 * Fixing a bug on how Wikidata changes are shown on Wikipedia (T189320)
 * Continued addressing security review issues for Wikibase-Lexeme extension (T186726)

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!

Final note from Léa: thanks to people who participated to the feedback page! Today's Weekly Summary is already improved thanks to your suggestions. Feel free to add more comments, and feel free to edit the newsletter yourself: all small contributions are welcome :)

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OK you've convinced me....
...after about a year of essentially taking a total break from Wikipedia I thought I might start poking my head back in again... I could be wrong but it seems a nicer place to be again generally speaking! Right, now to pick up where I left off in trying to get St Pancras railway station to GA... ah, has now beaten me to it! Will have to find another one..... OcarinaOfTime (talk) 12:19, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
 * There's plenty more on User:Ritchie333/London termini. <b style="color:#7F007F">Ritchie333</b> <sup style="color:#7F007F">(talk) <sup style="color:#7F007F">(cont)  12:21, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Indeed there are ! Might have to start with the other station I used to commute into when I worked in London.... though my word it needs a lot of work! Best get to it... OcarinaOfTime (talk) 12:28, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Did you ever see the little sandwich bar next to it? I had my first ever veal escalope sandwich there :) how suave I thought that was!  :D    —SerialNumber  54129 ...speculates 13:12, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Veal escalope sounds like a half-breed baby cow/antelope... with a thick Spanish accent...  G M G  <sup style="color:#000;font-family:Impact">talk   13:27, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Yeah...in Saginaw :p   —SerialNumber  54129 ...speculates 14:30, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Anyone for Lobster Thermidor aux crevettes with a Mornay sauce, garnished with truffle pâté, brandy and a fried egg on top and Spam? <b style="color:#7F007F">Ritchie333</b> <sup style="color:#7F007F">(talk) <sup style="color:#7F007F">(cont)  14:27, 11 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Wot they said ^ (though seriously, welcome back) - TNT❤ 15:44, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

regarding Simona Fusco
Dear Admin TNT, I respectfully wonder if you can consider in light of Wikipedia guidelines deemed exclusively promotional”, like this, if you would entertain a “fundamental rewrite” to conform with as provided below? Wikipedia:NOTFORPROMOTION.

I understand that this article originally read much more promotional than I intended but it is in the tone that Wikipedia biographical article pages, currently reference and would presumably link to this article(if published, are using. The articles citations reference reputable sources, including the Los Angeles Times.

While appreciate the requisite adherence to neutrality and objectivity, it is perhaps more challengeing to adopt an enclyclopedic style when the tone of the third party and reputable source convey a promotional tone. But it is more constructive for me as an editor ot be conferred an opportunity to make such edits as below and I was wondering if you could provide feedback or consider the following modifications. While I understand immediate deletion for article submissions with questionable notability, I don’t understand why this was not tagged such that I could edit the contribution as provided below. salvaged, I think I offer constructive edits below that are appropriate for a new article on a notable subject.

Simona Fusco is a European-born model, actress and owns and manages a matchmaking firm in Los Angeles, California.

Ms. Fusco was born and spent most of her youth in Europe before relocating to the United States at age 14. As a model she has been featured in campaigns for Benetton and other fashion labels. Born in Milan, she relocated to the US at age 21, where she was discovered by entertainment executive Jay Bernstein.

Ms. Fusco is the sole proprietor of Perfect 12 Introductions, a companion search firm for public figures and notable individuals of higher net wealth. She has been a featured panelist on CNN, ABC, FOX and on local affiliate tv stations in Los Angeles on topics relevant to dating. In addition, she has been interviewed for print and digital publications, including the Robb Report, GQ, Esquire, Maxim, LA Confidential, Obscurae Magazine, and Beverly Hills Magazine.

Ms. Fusco founded the Maria Gruber Foundation, which provides emotional support and consolation to families affected by the terminal illness. She currently serves as the Chairman of the Board of the Maria Gruber Foundation.

Ms. Fusco was married to the late entertainment executive Jay Bernstein and they share one daughter, Amber.

Jump up ^ http://www.naludamagazine.com/simona-fusco/ Jump up ^ http://SimonaFusco.com Jump up ^ http://digital.modernluxury.com/publication/?i=478283&ver=html5&p=123# Jump up ^ https://www.elitedaily.com/dating/prepare-first-run-in-ex-matchmaker/1852980 Jump up ^ http://variety.com/2007/scene/markets-festivals/simona-fusco-stratten-1117965730/ Jump up ^ https://www.skynmagazine.com/simona-fusco/ Jump up ^ http://www.latimes.com/local/la-hm-hotprop11-2008oct11-story.html Jump up ^ http://simonafusco.com Jump up ^ https://www.maxim.com/maxim-man/what-a-beautiful-girl-wants-simona-fusco-2016-1 Jump up ^ https://www.maxim.com/maxim-man/what-a-beautiful-girl-wants-simona-fusco-2016-1 Jump up ^ http://www.obscuraemagazine.com/2016/03/simona-fusco/ Jump up ^ http://SimonaFusco.com Jump up ^ https://thehollywoodtimes.net/2015/08/03/simona-fusco-presents-awards-at-the-special-olympics/ Jump up ^ https://mariagruber.org/board-of-director/

Monologuebaby (talk) 23:46, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

JJ at CLA Development
Hi! I recognize that I have a close affiliation as the page I am editing is my employer, but I feel that I am using neutral language. I am very mindful as to not use this page for promotional purposes but instead, wish to legitimize our organization online. An issue I am running into is that much of the history of the organization is found only in newspapers/articles dated from the 1800's and early 1900's, when much of the organization's transformational history took place. I'm unsure as to how to cite them when many, as they are of now local interest (though not at the time of publication) are unavailable in digital forms. I am also attempting to correct the information that is already on the page and then begin the more in-depth process of finding these archival-level items. I am also looking at other comparable institutions like the institution I represent who source much of their material from their own website as well. I am very aware of the "other stuff exists" guideline but I am currently trying to figure out how to balance the fact that many libraries and archives keep most of their records for themselves and seldom share these records with major publications.

Thank so much! JJ at CLA Development (talk) 14:41, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Hey, welcome to Wikipedia - I'm really glad to hear you've been reading up on how you can contribute neutrally It can be pretty tough doing so when you have a conflict of interest. It may be worth going through some of the training provided here, which may go some way towards explaining how to reference material. We don't require digital versions of citations to be available (in fact, many articles reference offline media) - this section of WP:REF explains how to reference an offline newspaper. If you have any more questions, feel free to leave me a message, or pop by "The Teahouse" - TNT❤ 19:00, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #304
<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 requests for adminship: Putnik, Okkn


 * Events
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Eindhoven, NL, March 24th


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Mind the (Language) Gap: Generation of Multilingual Wikipedia Summaries from Wikidata for ArticlePlaceholders by Lucie-Aimée Kaffee et al.
 * Semantic labeling for quantitative data using Wikidata, by Phuc Nguyen and Hideaki Takeda
 * OpenStreetMap Interview: Andy Mabbett, Wikidata and OSM - The OpenCage Geocoder blog
 * How we’re using machine learning to visually enrich Wikidata, by Miriam Redi on WMF's blog


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The property suggestions were updated last week, the last update was in December 2017. The most noticable effect is the higher ranking of "family name" (P734) on items about people. Input about the suggester is still welcome.
 * There is an early conversation about structured licensing and copyright on Wikimedia Commons.
 * George, le deuxième texte (fr), a website querying Wikidata to find French female authors, in order to bring more diversity in the literature school programs
 * New, configurable download page for Mix’n’match catalogs (example)
 * The Su Lab is looking for a postdoctoral researcher to work on Wikidata in the Gene Wiki team
 * Help:Conflation of 2 persons


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: download link, INCI name, safety classification and labelling, may prevent, classification of the best at metas volantes
 * External identifiers: Library of Congress Demographic Group Terms ID, TMDb movie ID, DDB ID, Irish Rugby Football Union men's sevens player ID, Irish Rugby Football Union women's sevens player ID, Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms ID, MR Author ID, BDH edition ID, AIDA freediver ID, equipement.paris.fr place ID, Generation MSX identifier, Sega8bit.com identifier, Abandonia identifier


 * New property proposals to review: Norwegian war sailor register ID, PRS Legislative Research MP ID, Thésaurus de la désignation des œuvres architecturales et des espaces aménagés ID, Thésaurus de la désignation des objets mobiliers ID, TMDB person id, TMDB TV series ID, Biographical Dictionary of Georgia ID, ruchess ID,  UK Provider Reference Number, Hungarian public body ID, medical evacuation to, hearing date, TMDB person id, TMDB TV series ID, RKDlibrary ID, IDA place ID, Kinoliste ID, Routard.com place ID, Scottish Rugby Union men's player ID, Scottish Rugby Union women's player ID, Scottish Rugby Union men's sevens player ID, Scottish Rugby Union women's sevens player ID, Women’s Elite Rugby ID
 * Query examples:
 * Megalithic sites in Spain (source)
 * Major periods of Japanese history and what they were named after (source)
 * Islandic names that are not ending in "son" or "dottir (source)
 * In what language does Q137 and Q12518 have the same label? (source)
 * Timeline of Earth's artificial satellites (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Indigenous peoples of North America
 * Newest database reports: Friends episodes list

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.
 * Development
 * Looking into current Lua usage to see where we can improve the Lua functions we provide (T189506)
 * When there is a constraint violation in a reference, the reference is now automatically expanded to make it more visible (T177970)
 * Looked into issues around notifying the Wikipedias about changes happening on Wikidata (sometimes delayed due to too quick bot editing) (T189772)
 * Fixed some translation issues in the embeded part of the Query Service (T188990)
 * Fixed an issue with usernames being broken for Wikidata changes in watchlist and RC on Wikipedia (T189320)
 * Optimizing a heavily used database table (wb_terms) (T188279)
 * Polishing a lot of things for lexicographical data first deployment
 * Make it possible to remove a Form (T173332)


 * 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: 2018-12
<section begin="technews-2018-W12"/> 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
 * On March 12 early morning UTC, the number of 503 error messages increased due to an issue on esams datacenter. It has been fixed.

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).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg There is no Editing team meeting this week.
 * 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 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * From April 4, the autopatrol status of edits will only be accessible in the Recent Changes database table, so only for 30 days.
 * In-Context Help and Onboarding is a new project, aiming to improve retention of new wiki editors. The goal is to give them short tutorials and other training experiences based on their activity. Collaboration team is expecting feedback and comments on the project talk page, especially from people working with newcomers.

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You've got mail!
The SandDoctor Talk 23:41, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Replied -- The SandDoctor Talk 18:57, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

Vandalism continues - need permanent block of 74.95.2.145
I noticed you did an earlier block. User_talk:74.95.2.145 That IP address goes to a school site, so it may be a prankster. [] <b style="color:#7F007F">TimTempleton</b> <sup style="color:#800080">(talk) <sup style="color:#7F007F">(cont)  22:50, 15 March 2018 (UTC)
 * sorry for the delay in getting back to you - it seems this IP has been quiet now for a couple of days. Thanks for the report though! - TNT❤ 17:05, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
 * No problem - just seemed dodgy. I'll keep an eye out myself. <b style="color:#7F007F">TimTempleton</b> <sup style="color:#800080">(talk)  <sup style="color:#7F007F">(cont)  20:22, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

Adding new editors to ongoing sockpuppet investigations
Recently I initiated a sockpuppet investigation at Sockpuppet investigations/Marcelo Boltelho that resulted in several editors being blocked. Today I saw a new editor, Mercado brasileiro Bolt (talk), creating similar articles to the sockfarm while I was reviewing new pages. Given their name and edit history (which includes removing my speedy deletion tags from an article created by the sockfarm) I am fairly certain they are yet another sock. I have added their name to the SPI and messaged them, but I want to ask; are there any other steps I need to take?--SamHolt6 (talk) 19:28, 24 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Hey - if you've added them to the SPI, that's all you need to do  a SPI clerk or checkuser will take a look shortly - TNT❤ 19:47, 24 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Ok thanks, this is the first time i've run into new accounts being created that I then have to add to the ongoing SPA.--SamHolt6 (talk) 19:49, 24 March 2018 (UTC)

You've got mail!
The SandDoctor Talk 16:21, 24 March 2018 (UTC)

Collaboration products newsletter: 2018-03
Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team, about Map improvements 2018, Notifications, Structured discussions and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?

The Collaboration team has announced the start of a new project: In-Context Help and Onboarding. The idea is to improve retention of new wiki editors by giving them short tutorials and other training experiences related to, and triggered by, their current activities on the wikis (that’s the “in context” part). The project follows from the conclusions of the New Editor Experiences research. The work is in its very early stages, but we’d like to hear from people with ideas on the subject—particularly if you have experience supporting or training new contributors.

Map improvements 2018 [ More information ]


 * Maps using Maplink and Mapframe functions now include an extra zoom level (level 19). This is part of the Kartographer Improvements, the number one request of the 2017 Community Wishlist survey.

Edit Review Improvements [ More information • Help pages ]
 * Number of edit to show in recent changes information text was incorrect in Special:Preferences. It has been rephrased.

Notifications [ More information • Help pages ]

Recent changes
 * You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. That new feature has been documented.
 * Preferences panel on Special:Notifications was overlapping other elements. This has been fixed.

Future changes
 * An important work is under progress to allow thanks of log entry. This is done by the Community Tech team.

Structured discussions [ More information • Help pages ]

Recent changes
 * Structured Discussions extension has been uninstalled from wikis not using it. However, it is still possible for a community to request a trial of Structured discussions.

Problems
 * It was not possible to opt-in and opt-out Structured discussions on wikis using it as a Beta feature. It is now fixed.

Future changes Collaboration team's newsletter prepared by the Global Collaboration team and posted by bot • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 12:25, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
 * The visual editor and 2017 wikitext editor interface is going to change for consistency. The toolbar, dialogs and menus will appear slightly bigger; some icons will look different. Content or functionality will not change. That change will apply to Structured Discussions as well.

Wikidata weekly summary #305
<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: Putnik, Okkn. Welcome on board!
 * Closed request for comments: Former ATE


 * Events
 * Upcoming: 1st Workshop on Quality of Open Data, Berlin, July 18–20 (submission deadline May 27)
 * Upcoming: EuropeanaTech and Wikidata Workshop Day for GLAMs, Rotterdam (NL), Monday 14 May. A day of GLAM-related workshops around Wikidata and Structured Commons, for beginners and advanced users.


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * SPLASHes in Wikidata, by Egon Willighagen


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * report about items with identical birth and death dates updated
 * Relator, a tool to improve family relations in Wikidata
 * Descendants check: consistency across multiple generations
 * Due to Easter Monday, the next issue of the Weekly Summary will be sent on Tuesday, April 3rd. Until that day, feel free to add information in there


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: prerequisite, relevant qualification, derivative work, alternate names, test method
 * External identifiers: Biographical Dictionary of Swedish Women, SPLASH, Behind the voice Actors video games ID, Hungarian MP identifier, UK Provider Reference Number, Norwegian war sailor register ID, Wikitribune category, Scottish Rugby Union men's player ID, Scottish Rugby Union men's sevens player ID, Scottish Rugby Union women's player ID, IDA place ID, PRS Legislative Research MP ID, Thésaurus de la désignation des objets mobiliers ID, Thésaurus de la désignation des œuvres architecturales et des espaces aménagés ID, Kinoliste ID, Women’s Elite Rugby ID, TMDb TV series id, TMDb person id, Routard.com place ID, Scottish Rugby Union women's sevens player ID, RKDlibrary ID, Statistics Canada Geographic code, Biographical Dictionary of Georgia ID, DBA ID, Hungarian public body ID, ruchess ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: had part, METAR code, Zulassungszahlen, Analog or derivative of, GHS labelling elements, en opposition à, output method
 * External identifiers: Filmweb.pl film ID, Filmweb.pl person ID, Orthodox Encyclopedia Online ID, National Thesis Number, Deutsche Biographie Identifikator, Welsh Rugby Union IDs (women's XV and men's 7s)


 * Query examples:
 * Airports named after a person, color-coded by gender (source)
 * Movies that Wikidata knows about and that have a German title that implies that someone or something doesn't answer (source)
 * Software developed by people/organizations that have archival material at the ComputerHistory museum (source)
 * Most common eponyms of French departments (source)
 * Newest database reports: HOLBY CI+Y episode list, list of 2-part episodes

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.
 * Development
 * New search code for Wikidata merged. You may notice the improvement in the search results output for Wikidata item. However, new code for search is not enabled, only new results format. The search code will be enabled next week.
 * Improving formatting of language and lexical category in diff for Lexemes (T189679)
 * Allow to remove a Form (T189675)
 * Translate the grammatical feature properly on Lexemes (T189143)
 * Investigate and fix a bug on Lexemes when undoing an edit (T187215)
 * Progress on refactoring the table wb_terms (T189777, T188993, T188279)
 * Fixing an error on the caching of the constraint checks (T189842)
 * Improving the performance of a table in the database (T180834)
 * Improving the way we're building dumps (T177550)
 * Investigate on improving Lua functions (T143970)


 * 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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cute cats!
CheckUser sent me to your doorstep. 24.7.14.87 is a strongly contentious user-what must be done to run a CheckUser? Thanks and good night from freezing Japan!--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 14:46, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Hey - we won't publicly link anyone to an IP address, nor do I believe this meets the grounds for checking but I can take a look and see if there's anything to be done. It may be helpful for you to outline why you believe the IP requires checking, as I may be missing something - TNT❤ 15:38, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-13
<section begin="technews-2018-W13"/> 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 later this week
 * Some of the interface icons and text sizes will change slightly, as part of the updates for improved accessibility and consistency. These icons are used in many features, including Notifications, Recent Changes, Beta Features, Visual Editor, 2017 Wikitext Editor, Code Editor, and others. While editor toolbars, dialogs, and menus will appear slightly bigger; elements on special pages will be slightly smaller. Functionality will not change.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The deprecated #toc and #toctitle CSS ids have been removed. If your wiki was still using these for fake Tables of Content (ToC) then these might lose their styling. They can be replaced with .toc and .toctitle classes where appropriate.
 * TemplateStyles will be deployed to the Wikivoyages on 28 March 2018.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 March. It will be on all wikis from 29 March (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 27 March at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-sync.svg 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 one hour earlier than usual on 28 March at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * From 9 April, the sort order of categories will be distorted for a short time. We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a maintenance script to update existing database entries. This will last anywhere from a few hours to a few days, depending on wiki size. Read more details.
 * Changes are coming to search for Serbian projects. Cyrillic and Latin variants of a word and different grammatical forms of a word will be able to find each other. Read more on MediaWiki in Serbian or English.

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Signpost issue 4 – 29 March 2018
<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) 18:48, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

New Page Review Newsletter No.10
Hello, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages! ACTRIAL:
 * ACTRIAL's six month experiment restricting new page creation to (auto)confirmed users ended on 14 March. As expected, a greatly increased number of unsuitable articles and candidates for deletion are showing up in the feed again, and the backlog has since increased already by ~30%. Please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day.

Paid editing
 * Now that ACTRIAL is inoperative pending discussion, please be sure to look for tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary.

Subject-specific notability guidelines
 * The box at the right contains each of the subject-specific notability guidelines, please review any that are relevant BEFORE nominating an article for deletion.
 * Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves with the new version of the notability guidelines for organisations and companies. A further discussion is currently taking  place at: Can a subject specific guideline invalidate the General Notability Guideline?

Nominate competent users for Autopatrolled
 * While patrolling articles, if you find an editor that is particularly competent at creating quality new articles, and that user has created more than 25 articles (rather than stubs), consider nominating them for the 'Autopatrolled' user right HERE.

News To opt-out of future mailings, go here. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:06, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
 * The next issue Wikipedia's newspaper The Signpost has now been published after a long delay. There are some articles in it, including ACTRIAL wrap-up that will be of special interest to New Page Reviewers. Don't hesitate to contribute to the comments sections. The Signpost is one of the best ways to stay up date with news and new developments - please consider subscribing to it. All editors of Wikipedia and associated projects are welcome to submit articles on any topic for consideration by the The Signpost's editorial team for the next issue.

Administrators' newsletter – April 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2018). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg 331dot • Cordless Larry • ClueBot NG
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Gogo Dodo • Pb30 • Sebastiankessel • Seicer • SoLando

Guideline and policy news
 * Administrators who have been desysopped due to inactivity are now required to have performed at least one (logged) administrative action in the past 5 years in order to qualify for a resysop without going through a new RfA.
 * Editors who have been found to have engaged in sockpuppetry on at least two occasions after an initial indefinite block, for whatever reason, are now automatically considered banned by the community without the need to start a ban discussion.
 * The notability guideline for organizations and companies has been substantially rewritten following the closure of this request for comment. Among the changes, the guideline more clearly defines the sourcing requirements needed for organizations and companies to be considered notable.
 * The six-month autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) ended on 14 March 2018. The post-trial research report has been published. A request for comment is now underway to determine whether the restrictions from ACTRIAL should be implemented permanently.

Technical news
 * There will soon be a calendar widget at Special:Block, making it easier to set expiries for a specific date and time.

Arbitration
 * The Arbitration Committee is considering a change to the discretionary sanctions procedures which would require an editor to appeal a sanction to the community at WP:AE or WP:AN prior to appealing directly to the Arbitration Committee at WP:ARCA.

Miscellaneous
 * A discussion has closed which concluded that administrators are not required to enable email, though many editors suggested doing so as a matter of best practice.
 * The Foundations' Anti-Harassment Tools team has released the Interaction Timeline. This shows a chronologic history for two users on pages where they have both made edits, which may be helpful in identifying sockpuppetry and investigating editing disputes.

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Tech News: 2018-14
<section begin="technews-2018-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
 * Template Wizard script available for testing. It will show up as a puzzle-piece icon in the 2010 WikiEditor. You can click on the icon to insert a template.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey is to be sent to participants around the world this week. If you are volunteer developer, and have contributed code to any pieces of MediaWiki, gadgets, or tools, please take 20 to 40 minutes to complete the survey.

Problems
 * MediaWiki deployment train has been rolled back to version 1.31.0-wmf.26 on week 13, due to a multiplication of lost connections during MySQL queries. Some of the recent changes may have not been applied. They will be deployed next week.
 * The Notifications badge icons were overlapping other links. This has been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 April. It will be on all wikis from 5 April (calendar).
 * Octicons-tools.svg User subpages ending in  will now be protected from other people editing them, like   and   pages already are. If you have a tool that stores static configuration, you can now use a subpage like   to do this without concerns.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Tidy will be replaced by RemexHtml on the next set of wikis. On April 4, we plan to turn off Tidy on all Wikiquotes (except frwikiquote) and Wikimedia chapters and user groups wikis. 23 wikis will have Tidy replaced this time.
 * Octicons-tools.svg AbuseFilter will transition to use OOUI starting April 4, and the rule editor will also be changed to a CodeEditor (ACE) similar to what is found on user JavaScript pages. The move to OOUI will continue over the next few weeks.
 * In Special:Preferences, the preference "" is now only visible for users who have opt-out the New Filters for the Watchlist.
 * You can see names of individual abuse filters in Special:AbuseLog. Now if the name of an abuse filter contains some wikisyntax like links, it will not change to a link when displayed.
 * You can now search through filter patterns at Special:AbuseFilter. You may specify either a plain string or a regular expression and the matching filters will show a snippet of their pattern with the match highlighted.

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 3 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-sync.svg 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 4 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * If you're using, creating or improving Lua modules, you can give your feedback to help harmonizing the modules across wikis and add more useful functions.
 * Octicons-tools.svg On April 11th, we plan to turn off Tidy on all wikis with less than 50 entries in all high priority linter categories. About 60 wikis will have Tidy replaced. Currently about 600 wikis have had Tidy replaced and we have another 300 wikis to go. We plan to finish this transition from Tidy to RemexHtml by end of June 2018. Please follow T175706 to monitor progress of Tidy replacement.

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Wikidata weekly summary #306
<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
 * Talk by Morane Gruenpeter and Katherine Thornton, presented at LibrePlanet 2018 about software metadata in Software Heritage and Wikidata. Video of the talk. Slides for the talk.


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Making women more visible online—with Wikidata tools by Sandra Fauconnier on WMF's blog


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * if you're working with Lua modules, you can give input here about new functions
 * you can still fill this page if you encounter a problem with suggester ranking


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: National Governors Association biography URL, key press, number of clubs, analog or derivative of, in opposition to
 * External identifiers: Biographical Dictionary of Georgia ID, DBA ID, Hungarian public body ID, ruchess ID, World Para Snowboard athlete ID, METAR code, Orthodox Encyclopedia ID, Amphibians of India ID, National Thesis Number (France)


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: maximum operating temperature, minimum operating temperature, maximum non-operating temperature, minimum non-operating temperature, Специальное звание или классный чин, member of the crew of, service life, Gens, Code of Household Registration and Conscription Information System, Wikipedia glossary entry, assistant director, choral conductor, lighting designer, sound designer, projection designer, video designer, stage crew member, number of representations, talk show guest, adaptation or arrangement of, revival or touring version of
 * External identifiers: DNV GL Vessel register ID, Behind the voice Actors person ID, Identifier of object at prazdnedomy.cz, Digital Typhoon ID, Territographie ID, Chile Rugby player ID, Directory of Open Access Journals ID, Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID, Researchmap ID, OpenEdition Books ID, KIT Linked Open Numbers ID, Animated Knots ID


 * Sparsely used properties created >3 months:
 * Spider Ontology ID (P4537), has listed ingredient (P4543), sexually homologous with (P4545), Everyone Remembered ID (P4551), ICRC PoW ID (P4554), SNCZI-IPE dam ID (P4558), Art Museum of Estonia artwork ID (P4564), electoral district number (P4565), awarded for period (P4566), BPH journal ID (P4569)
 * Deleted properties: P1124 (teu), P3484 (name shares origin with), P4990 (Statistics Canada Geographic code)
 * Query examples:
 * Most common title of paintings in English
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3ATimeline%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Ft%20%3Fvalue%20%20%3FvalueLabel%20%3FrrLabel%20%20%3Frr%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fimage%29%20as%20%3Fimg%29%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20VALUES%20%3Fperson%20%7Bwd%3AQ76480%7D%0A%20%20%7B%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdeath%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20%3Fprop%20%3Ft%20FILTER%20%28datatype%28%3Ft%29%3Dxsd%3AdateTime%29%20FILTER%20%28%3Ft%20%3C%3D%20%3Fdeath%29%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fvalue%20wikibase%3AdirectClaim%20%3Fprop.%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20%3Fq%20%3Fstatement%20%20FILTER%20regex%20%28STR%28%3Fq%29%2C%22prop%2FP%22%29%20.%20%23exclude%20P%3AdescribedBy%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdeath%20.%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%20FILTER%20%28%3Ft%20%3C%3D%20%3Fdeath%29.%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%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20wikibase%3AdirectClaim%20%3Frprop%20.%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fvalue%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%20%7B%20%23%20author%20of%20%2F%20creator%20of%0A%20%20%20%3Fvalue%20wdt%3AP50%7Cwdt%3AP98%7Cwdt%3AP655%7Cwdt%3AP1773%7Cwdt%3AP170%7Cwdt%3AP178%7Cwdt%3AP57%7Cwdt%3AP161%20%3Fperson%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdeath%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fbirth%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fvalue%20wdt%3AP571%7Cwdt%3AP577%7Cwdt%3AP580%20%3Ft%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23FILTER%20%28%28%3Ft%20%3C%3D%20%3Fdeath%29%20%26%26%28%3Ft%20%3E%3D%20%3Fbirth%29%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fvalue%20wdt%3AP136%20wd%3AQ7553%20.%7D%0A%20%20%20%23FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fvalue%20wdt%3AP629%20%3Fx%20%7D%20%0A%20%20%20%23FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP800%20%3Fvalue%20%7D%20.%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fvalue%20wdt%3AP1433%20%3Frr%20.%7D%20%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fvalue%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%23%20%20UNION%20%23Notable%20Works%0A%23%20%20%7B%0A%23%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP800%20%3Frr%20%3B%0A%23%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdeath%20%3B%0A%23%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fbirth%20.%0A%23%20%20%20%3Frr%20%20wdt%3AP577%7Cwdt%3AP571%7Cwdt%3AP1191%20%3Ft%20FILTER%20%28%28%3Ft%20%3C%3D%20%3Fdeath%29%26%26%28%3Ft%20%3E%3D%20%3Fbirth%29%29.%0A%23%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Frr%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%7D%0A%23%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20UNION%20%23discoverer%20or%20inventor%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20wdt%3AP61%7Cwdt%3AP138%20%3Fperson%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdeath%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fbirth%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20wdt%3AP575%7Cwdt%3AP571%7Cwdt%3AP585%20%3Ft%20FILTER%20%28%28%3Ft%20%3C%3D%20%3Fdeath%29%26%26%28%3Ft%20%3E%3D%20%3Fbirth%29%29.%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Frr%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20UNION%20%23architect%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20wdt%3AP84%20%3Fperson%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdeath%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fbirth%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20wdt%3AP571%7Cwdt%3AP1619%20%3Ft%20FILTER%20%28%28%3Ft%20%3C%3D%20%3Fdeath%29%26%26%28%3Ft%20%3E%3D%20%3Fbirth%29%29.%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Frr%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%20%23composer%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20wdt%3AP86%7Cwdt%3AP138%20%3Fperson%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdeath%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fbirth%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Frr%20wdt%3AP571%7Cwdt%3AP1191%7Cwdt%3AP577%20%3Ft%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28%28%3Ft%20%3C%3D%20%3Fdeath%29%26%26%28%3Ft%20%3E%3D%20%3Fbirth%29%29.%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Frr%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%2C%20de%2C%20fr%2C%20de%2C%20ru%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Ft%20%3Fvalue%20%3Frr%20%3FrrLabel%20%3FvalueLabel%0AORDER%20BY%20%3Ft%0A%20 Timeline for German author Heinrich Mann] (source)
 * Density in kilograms per cubicmeter for books (source)
 * Books by weight (source)
 * Train stations in the UK (source)
 * Map of megaliths in Portugal and Spain (source)
 * Newest database reports: pilot and first episodes of television series


 * Development
 * Work on a script to generate MassMessage target lists (T190812)
 * Test validity of Wikidata IDs in Lua modules (T143970)
 * Rename Lua functions in old naming scheme (T190382)
 * More work on wb_terms table (T188992)
 * More work on logging autopatrol actions (T184485)
 * Include checksums in dumps (T190457)
 * Add mobile edits to Grafana (T191111)
 * Allowing to remove a Form from a Lexeme (T173332)
 * Fixing bugs on Lexemes (T189185)
 * Checking permissions for actions on Lexemes

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!

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Wikidata weekly summary #307
<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
 * Role of Wikimedia in the era of Open Science, Barcelona, April 16th
 * Wikidata meetup in Berlin, April 20th. Please sign up if you want to attend (the meetup takes place in the venue of the Wikimedia Conference)
 * Wikidata workshop in Paris, April 20th
 * Wikidata for science workshop in Paris, April 23rd
 * Wikidata meetup in Zürich, April 25th


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Some improvements have been made on the search results
 * The administrative territorial entities of the Ottoman Empire are now largely complete. They include the elayets, vilayets and their sanjaks.
 * A new version of Denelezh, a tool to monitor the gender gap in Wikidata, has been released, including a new methodology to produce the data (explained at the top of the main page and in the documentation), and an overview of the gender gap by Wikimedia project.
 * Items now contain an average of 9 statements.
 * Item Q2937606, created 5 years ago, got its first statement
 * New tool: The property explorer sorts and displays properties per category (developed by Stevenliuyi based on a suggestion from Micru)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: Wikimedia project focus list, complies with, special rank, last update, test taken, test score, activity policy in this place, choral conductor, gens, lighting designer, number of representations, sound designer
 * External identifiers: DNV GL Vessel register ID, Behind the voice Actors person ID, Territographie ID, Prazdne Domy building ID, Welsh Rugby Union women's player ID, Welsh Rugby Union men's sevens player ID, Digital Typhoon typhoon ID, Digital Typhoon cyclone ID, Chile Rugby player ID, Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID, Code of Household Registration and Conscription Information System (Taiwan)


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: majority opinion, KMC Heritage Building Grade, accreditation, Number of spoilt votes, Number of blank votes, Number of abstentions, greater than (2), subdomain URL, International Classification for Standards, Wind speed, Wikimedia outline, list combines topics
 * External identifiers: Authorea Author ID, Lambiek Comiclopedia ID, FOGIS ID, Behind the voice Actors character ID, KIT Linked Open Numbers ID, Harvard designation, Yahoo Answers category, UMAC ID, Internet Adult Film Database film ID, Adult Film Database film ID


 * Sparsely used properties created >3 months:
 * Berlinische Galerie artist ID (P4580), Kulturelles Erbe Köln object ID (P4582), Argentinian Historic Heritage ID (P4587), National Inventory of Canadian Military Memorials ID (P4591), Mountain Project ID (P4592), arXiv author ID (P4594), post town (P4595), NIOSH Publication Number (P4596), monomer of (P4599), Lives of WWI ID (P4601)
 * Query examples:
 * Timeline of weather satellites (source)
 * Map with lighthouses all over the world (source)
 * Number of articles about humans by gender on Welsh Wikipedia (source)
 * List of French rivers with different names and SANDRE ids on Sophox (SPARQL endpoint querying OpenStreetMap and Wikidata) (source)


 * Development
 * Differences between range constraints now work only if both properties are present (T185480)
 * Work on a new constraint unit which defines which units are alowed for a given property (T164372)
 * Make the Special:ConstraintReport easier to understand (T188728)
 * Work on a Lua function which checks if an item is a subclass of or instance of another item (T179155)
 * Started deleting old autopatrolled from the loggin table (T190447, T184791)
 * More work on setting up permissions for Lexeme (T189480)
 * Fixing a bug about removing the last Lemma (T189185)
 * Disabling the possibility to move a Lexeme (T189481)

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!

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Wikidata weekly summary #308
<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
 * Role of Wikimedia in the era of Open Science, Barcelona, April 16th (slides of Andy Mabbett's keynote)
 * Wikidata meetup in Berlin, April 20th. Please sign up if you want to attend (the meetup takes place in the venue of the Wikimedia Conference)
 * Wikidata workshop in Paris, April 20th
 * Wikidata for science workshop in Paris, April 23rd
 * Wikidata meetup in Zürich, April 25th


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Writing a Wikidata Query: Discovering Women Writers from North Africa by Alex Stinson


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * GLAM wiki Conference (November 2018 in Tel Aviv): you can now apply for a scholarship. You can still make submissions for the program until end of April.
 * Lua function to get Wikibase entity by site link: mw.wikibase.getEntityIdForTitle (thanks Tpt!) (ticket)
 * FactGrid
 * Should OpenStreetMap use Wikibase to store data on tags? (Discussion on OSM wiki)
 * Prop explorer UI can now be translated using Tool Translate.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: talk show guest, GHS hazard pictogram, GHS hazard statement, GHS precautionary statement, number of abstentions, number of spoilt votes, number of blank votes, International Classification for Standards, towards, supervisory board member
 * External identifiers: Researchmap ID, Animated Knots ID, Filmweb.pl film ID, Filmweb.pl person ID, National Library of Korea Identifier (KRNLK), Lambiek Comiclopedia ID, AmphibiaWeb Species ID, Plants of the World online ID, FOGIS ID, Authorea author ID, Rosetta Code ID, Church of Sweden ID, Harvard designation, UMAC ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: French standard sizes for oil paintings, operating temperature, non-operating temperature, reference value, ILI ID, Portable Game Notation, SNOMED CT identifier, Mercalli intensity, fault type, fault, areas affected
 * External identifiers: IRMNG taxon ID, e-teatr.pl ID, World of Physics identifier, Kunstenpunt people, DOAB publisher ID, aviation-safety.net ID, IAFD company ID, JAAF ID, Athletics Canada ID, Russian Athletics ID, Polish Athletics Federation ID, Römpp online ID, Pschyrembel Online ID, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy ID, ISC event, USGS-ANSS event page, HanCinema drama, ARRS race ID, hpip
 * Barely used properties created >3 months:
 * National Film Board of Canada movie ID (P4606), AUSNUT 2011–13 Food Group ID (P4618), squadron embarked (P4624), trophy awarded (P4622), EK number (P4627), premiere type (P4634), identity of object in context (P4626), photosphere image (P4640), FoodEx2 code (P4637), Estonian Football Association team ID (P4639)


 * Query examples:
 * Longest chain of mutual murders (source)
 * 6 couples killed each other (source)
 * All things named after Leonardo da Vinci (source)
 * German municipality pairs with the name pattern -ing/-ingen (source)
 * Timeline of early silent movies produced before 1900 (source)
 * French citizens with at least 5 Wikipedia pages but not in French (source)
 * Newest database reports: family names by soundex, définitions de ville


 * Development
 * Disable Senses in the API for the initial version of the WikibaseLexeme extension (T187198)
 * Create a new data type to allow linking to Forms (T165579)
 * Fix a bug happening when editing a Form (T187215)
 * Enforce permission checks when editing Lexeme (T189480)
 * Make not possible to remove the last lemma (T189185)
 * Make not possible to move a Lexeme (T189481)
 * Implement “Units” constraint (T164372)
 * More work on the possibility to pick an item's parent in Lua (T179155)
 * Show a thumbnail for image/video/audio properties in statements (T46727)
 * Add “no bounds” constraint (T170610)
 * Make the “difference within range” constraint not requiring “item requires claim” constraint (T185480)
 * New Lua function to test for validity of Wikidata entity IDs (T143970)
 * Include checksums in dumps (T190457)

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!

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This Month in GLAM: March 2018
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Tech News: 2018-15
<section begin="technews-2018-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
 * Some pages have templates that describe problems with that article. There is now more information for mobile readers and what is wrong with the article and how they could help fix it.
 * You can now thank users for many more actions than edits to a page. This was one of the top ten requests in the Wishlist Survey last year.
 * The sort order of categories will have errors for a short time starting Monday 9 April (UTC). We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a script to update the database. This will take between a few hours and a few days depending on wiki size. You can read more details.
 * Tag filter titles will now work better on wikis where the tag filter title is in a language that is written in another direction than the language of that wiki. This could for example be an English title (written from left to right) on a Hebrew or an Arabic wiki (written from right to left).

Problems
 * The bookmark icon for saved filters on the recent changes page disappeared because of new icon changes. This has now been fixed.
 * For a week in March rollbacks got both the  and the   tag on the recent changes page and other pages where you see tags. This 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 10 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 April. It will be on all wikis from 12 April (calendar).
 * Patrolled edits now have three states instead of two. Recent changes filters are updated to show unpatrolled, autopatrolled and manually patrolled edits.

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 10 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-sync.svg 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 11 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The iOS and Android apps will get synced reading lists later in April.

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Tech News: 2018-16
<section begin="technews-2018-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.

Changes later this week
 * Profiling statistics for an abuse filter tell how often edits match the filter. The statistics for the abuse filters were reset after 10000 actions. Wikis can now decide to reset it more or less often. They can file a phabricator task to do so.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Abuse filters will now treat integers and floats more precisely. For example, 5/2 was rounded down to 2 but will now be 2.5 and 2*4 will be the integer 8 and not the floating-point number 8.0. Division values are the only ones changed. For the rest only strict comparisons ( and  ) will be affected leaving the values unchanged.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 April. It will be on all wikis from 19 April (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 17 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-sync.svg 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 18 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The new PDF renderer could not create PDFs from books. Books are in this case collections of pages on a Wikimedia wiki. PediaPress will take over development of the books-to-PDF function.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Pywikibot will no longer support Python 2.7.2 and 2.7.3.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Volunteer developers can fill out the Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey. The last day is April 22 (UTC). This is a third-party service survey. See the privacy statement.

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Wikidata weekly summary #309
<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
 * Past: Wikimedia Conference in Berlin
 * Wikidata meetup
 * how to train new Wikidata trainers
 * Structured Data on Commons and GLAM pilots session
 * Wikibase workshop in Antwerp, Belgium, April 23-25
 * WikiWorkshop, a forum bringing together researchers exploring all aspects the Wikimedia projects, in Lyon, April 24th. Seven papers related to Wikidata will be presented.
 * Wikidata meetup in Zurich, Switzerland, April 25th
 * DDJ Monaco: Wikidata for digital Journalists; Open-Source-Treffen: SPARQL-Workshop, Munich, April 25 and 27


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Old Periodicals, a New Datatype and Spiderfied Query Results in Wikidata by Simon Cobb (National Library of Wales)
 * Wikimedia and The Met: A Shared Digital Vision by Katherine Maher and Loic Tallon


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata:Tools has been reorganized and updated, thanks to Pasleim! Feel free to help keeping this page up to date.
 * Wikidata:List of properties has also been reorganized and updated.
 * Lexicographical data on Wikidata will start at the end of May. Some property proposals are already discussed
 * A rate limit for edits and page creation has been set up
 * Please give feedback on a first proposal on GLAM metadata and ontology mapping for Structured Data on Commons. This feedback round runs until 4 May.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: fastest lap, cabinet, patronym or matronym for this person, modified version of, unit symbol, wind speed, operating temperature, non-operating temperature, service life, French standard size for oil paintings, boiler pressure, presented in
 * External identifiers: IRMNG taxon ID, Handball Bundesliga ID, e-teatr.pl ID, DOAB publisher ID, ILI ID, World of Physics identifier, Flanders Arts Institute person ID, JAAF ID, Polish Athletics Federation ID, Römpp online ID, Russian Athletics ID, Athletics Canada ID, NVE lake ID, Norsk biografisk leksikon ID, Norsk kunstnerleksikon ID, Store medisinske leksikon ID, Adult Film Database film ID, Yahoo Answers category, Pschyrembel Online ID, FIPS string code for US states, FIPS numeric code for US states, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy ID, USGS-ANSS event page, ARRS race ID, HanCinema drama ID, ISC event ID, road number (Estonia), Heritage of Portuguese Influence ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Commercialized from, synonym, translation, antonym, demonym of, item for this sense, pronunciation variety, grammatical gender, grammatical number, etymology, person, areas affected, award category, nature of statement, donation platform, has grammatical gender, has grammatical person, Phonetic pronunciation, medical finding model, landmass, accessed from, research measurement, hyperonym, hyponym, meronym, holonym, troponym
 * External identifiers: Swedish Literature Bank, Logainm ID, Wikipedia glossary entry, Réunion des musées nationaux id, Il mondo dei doppiatori ID, FIS speed skier ID, cryptocurrency address, New Zealand Gazetteer ID, Bridge number, HanCinema film, Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures ID


 * Scarcely used properties created >3 months:
 * Indian Financial System Code (P4635), RCR number (P4645), partition type identifier (P4654), partition table type (P4653), Wiki Aves bird ID (P4664), Buenos Aires legislator ID (P4667), Sjukvårdsrådgivningen Category ID (P4670), tabular software version (P4669), constraint scope (P4680), GEMS Code (P4695)
 * Query examples:
 * Historical monuments in Wales (source)
 * Software titles ranked by the number of dependencies listed for them (source)
 * National parks around the world (source)
 * Narrative locations of TV series and episodes (source)
 * Newest database reports: Sports equipment: balls

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.
 * Development
 * Track the number of constraints by type (T191891)
 * Include thumbnails in image statements (T46727)
 * Install Query Service on Factgrid (T189863)
 * Page creation and edit rates (T184948)
 * Implement unit constraint (T164372)
 * Implement no bounds constraint (T170610)
 * Started working on the constraint violation type to restrict to indicate that certain properties can only be used on items or lexemes (T164744)
 * Creating a Docker container for QuickStatements (T192079)
 * Removed hardcoded demo data in Wikibase Lexeme (T188899)
 * New data type for linking to Forms (T165579)


 * 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: 2018-17
<section begin="technews-2018-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
 * All Wikipedias now have Page Previews.
 * The iOS and Android apps now have synced reading lists. This means you can save articles to a private list that can be seen on your other devices if you use the apps.
 * The icons in the 2010 wikitext editor have changed.
 * The visual editor and the 2017 wikitext ask you to write an edit summary after you press . This button now also shows an ellipsis. This is to show that pressing   is not the last step.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 April. It will be on all wikis from 26 April (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 24 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-sync.svg 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 25 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * will come to most Wikipedias in May. This means that you can put interactive maps in the articles. Nine Wikipedias that use a strict version of flagged revisions will not get this feature in May.
 * The rollback function could change. This was a German community request. All editors with rollback rights can leave feedback on the proposed solution. The last day to leave feedback is 4 May (UTC).

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Special:AbuseFilter/825
I pinged you somewhere else about a different filter, but wanted to ask you about Special:AbuseFilter/825. You're the only author, and I see the filter hasn't been edited and in nearly a year and is in log-only. Are you still monitoring the logs, or do you know of someone who is? I'm trying to disable old, forgotten filters. Hope all well! &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  21:15, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Also Special:AbuseFilter/862 and Special:AbuseFilter/866 &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  21:17, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Wotcha - I'm not actively keeping an eye on any of these, nor do I think anyone else is. Probably best to disable them if needs be - TNT❤ 21:19, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Okay I've disabled them. Thanks! &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  21:27, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 April 2018
<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) 01:48, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Food
Hello! After the successful pilot program by Wikimedia India in 2015, Wiki Loves Food (WLF) is happening again in 2018 and this year, it's  going International. To make this event a grand success, your direction is key. Please sign up here as a volunteer to bring all the world's food to Wikimedia. Danidamiobi (talk) 02:08, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #310
<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
 * Past:
 * Wikibase workshop in Antwerp, Belgium, April 23-25
 * Phabricator workboard
 * Wikibase registry
 * WikiWorkshop, a forum bringing together researchers exploring all aspects of the Wikimedia projects
 * Wikidata meetup in Zurich, Switzerland, April 25th
 * DDJ Monaco: Wikidata for digital Journalists; Open-Source-Treffen: SPARQL-Workshop, Munich, April 25 and 27
 * Daten in Wikidata einbringen (Bringing data into Wikidata) - Hands-on tutorial within the DINI KIM Workshop 2018
 * Upcoming:
 * Wikidata workshop in Köln, Germany, on May 5th and 6th
 * Wikidata workshop in Vienna, Austria, on May 5th
 * Wikidata workshop in Pardubice, Czech Republic, on May 5th


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New badge available for sitelinks: good list
 * Sitelinks for the new Ingush Wikipedia (inhwiki) can be added
 * Support for the second new Gorontalo Wikipedia (gorwiki) is here
 * Articles of the third new Lingua Franca Nova Wikipedia (lfnwiki) may be connected
 * A Wikidata Telegram group has been created by volunteers
 * Constraint Summary script is showing the total amount of constraints reports on the top of an item page
 * Contexto is a Wordpress plugin displaying Wikidata info in a hovercard. See demo, you can also let feedback to the developer
 * Sixth months before Wikidata's sixth birthday: you can organize a local event


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: fault, member of the crew of, nature of statement
 * External identifiers: Logainm ID, IAFD film ID, Il mondo dei doppiatori ID, Réunion des musées nationaux ID, Swedish Literature Bank AuthorID, FIS speed skier ID, New Zealand Gazetteer place ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: crop, date of first attestation, place of first attestation, Wikidata property example for lexemes, Wikidata property example for forms, Wikidata property example for senses, false-friend, demonym (Lexeme), Allaboutjazz musician ID, homonym, paronym, streetViewUrl, constraint, WikiCFP eventID, WikiCFP conference series ID, Mascot of, program committee member, applies to name, values for this type, items for this type, Maintained by Wikiproject, Amateur Radio Callsign
 * External identifiers: Ontario public library ID, Italian School ID, TFRRS athlete ID, Linux Game Database properties, Swedish Literature Bank book ID, ICAA film catalogue ID, Stepwell Atlas ID, OnsOranje player ID, OnsOranje tournament ID, OnsOranje match ID


 * Infrequently used properties created >3 months:
 * Historic Place Names of Wales ID (P4697), American Art Collaborative object ID (P4692), Arquivo Arq ID (P4694), Argentine deputy ID (P4693), HATVP person ID (P4703), Ent'revues ID (P4706), VOGRIPA ID (P4708), Rugby Canada ID (P4707), title page number (P4714), Conseil de Presse Luxembourg journalist ID (P4698)
 * Query examples:
 * Timeline of Wikibase instances and WikidataCon events (federated query)
 * User-friendly list of news articles by Kim Wall, as linked from the German and English Wikipedia (based on work of fnielsen)
 * Places of birth of the European Parliament members (source)
 * Obelisks in Rome (source)
 * Artists from Cameroon and their places of birth (source)
 * Place of birth of people with an ORCID ID (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Metro%20stations%20in%20Milano%20by%20date%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%7B%22layer%22%3A%22%3FdateBin%22%7D%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fcoord%20%3Fimage%20%3FminDate%20%3FdateBin%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20BIND%28%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%28YEAR%28%3FminDate%29%29%20%3C%201970%2C%20%22%3C%201970%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%28YEAR%28%3FminDate%29%29%20%3C%201980%2C%20%221970%20-%201979%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%28YEAR%28%3FminDate%29%29%20%3C%201990%2C%20%221980%20-%201989%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%28YEAR%28%3FminDate%29%29%20%3C%202000%2C%20%221990%20-%201999%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%28YEAR%28%3FminDate%29%29%20%3C%202010%2C%20%222000%20-%202009%22%2C%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%222010%2B%22%29%29%29%29%29%20%0A%20%20%20AS%20%3FdateBin%29%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%28MIN%28%3Fdate%29%20AS%20%3FminDate%29%20%3Fcoord%20%3Fimage%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP361%20wd%3AQ735559.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoord.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage.%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1619%20%3Fd1.%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP571%20%3Fd2.%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28IF%28BOUND%28%3Fd1%29%2C%20%3Fd1%2C%20%3Fd2%29%20AS%20%3Fdate%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%20%3Fcoord%20%3Fimage%0A%20%20%7D%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%3FminDate History of Milano metro stations on a map] (source)
 * Number of versions, editions and translations by language of work (source)

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.
 * Development
 * More work on the internal API for Wikibase-Lexeme (T190906)
 * Fix some errors happening when editing Lexemes (T192766, T192264)
 * Use language code validation for forms representations (T193010, T193011)
 * Add badge for good lists to Wikidata (T190976)
 * Fix bugs regarding the thumbnails on media statements (T192910, T192601, T192869)
 * Investigate on dispatch lag problems (T193349)
 * Fix a bug on the watchlist on Wikipedia (T192673)


 * 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: 2018-18
<section begin="technews-2018-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 parameter for unpatrolled edits in recent changes filters changed name. You might need to update saved filters and links.

Problems
 * Octicons-tools.svg We are migrating wikis from Tidy to Remex. Because of a bug the 250 wikis which do not yet use Remex were switched on 23 April. This is two months early. This meant that pages with broken wikitext showed wrongly to readers. The bug was undone the next day. You can help fix broken wikitext to avoid this problem when your wiki switches. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. You can follow the process on Phabricator.

Changes later this week
 * You will be able use CodeMirror in the 2017 wikitext editor on all wikis. CodeMirror helps with syntax highlighting. It has previously been a beta feature and only available on wikis with scripts that are written from left to right.
 * When an administrator blocks someone they will have a calendar they can use to choose when the block ends. This is to make it easier to pick a specific date.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can soon turn on the Performance Inspector in the section in your preferences. It shows information about the performance of pages. This could be the size of modules in the page, how many CSS selectors are defined on the page and how many are used, or the size of the images on the page. This tool is intended to help editors fix pages that load slowly.
 * Octicons-tools.svg There is a new abuse filter function called . You can use it to check if its first argument is equal  to any of the following ones. For example you can use it to check if the page's namespace is amongst a given set of values in a more compact way than you could earlier. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 May. It will be on all wikis from 3 May (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 May at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-sync.svg 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 2 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The Wikimedia Cloud Services team is working on a new project called Toolhub. The goal is to make it easier for Wikimedians to discover software tools they can use. You can leave feedback on the talk page or email jhare@undefinedwikimedia.org to leave private feedback.
 * Octicons-tools.svg All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in all namespaces will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 2 May. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Wikibooks wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch on 9 May. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018.

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2018). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg None
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Chochopk • Coffee • Gryffindor • Jimp • Knowledge Seeker • Lankiveil • Peridon • Rjd0060

Guideline and policy news
 * The ability to create articles directly in mainspace is now indefinitely restricted to autoconfirmed users.
 * A proposal is being discussed which would create a new "event coordinator" right that would allow users to temporarily add the "confirmed" flag to new user accounts and to create many new user accounts without being hindered by a rate limit.

Technical news
 * AbuseFilter has received numerous improvements, including an OOUI overhaul, syntax highlighting, ability to search existing filters, and a few new functions. In particular, the search feature can be used to ensure there aren't existing filters for what you need, and the new  function can be used when checking multiple namespaces. One major upcoming change is the ability to see which filters are the slowest. This information is currently only available to those with access to Logstash.
 * When blocking anonymous users, a cookie will be applied that reloads the block if the user changes their IP. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. This currently only occurs when hard-blocking accounts.
 * The block notice shown on mobile will soon be more informative and point users to a help page on how to request an unblock, just as it currently does on desktop.
 * There will soon be a calendar widget at Special:Block, making it easier to set expiries for a specific date and time.

Arbitration
 * The Arbitration Committee is seeking additional clerks to help with the arbitration process.

Obituaries
 * (Craig Franklin) passed away in mid-April. Lankiveil joined Wikipedia on 12 August 2004 and became an administrator on 31 August 2008. During his time with the Wikimedia community, Lankiveil served as an oversighter for the English Wikipedia and as president of Wikimedia Australia.

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Glad you are doing better
Hi there TNT, I am glad to see that you are (hopefully) doing better. Could you please check your email when you get the chance? Thanks -- The SandDoctor Talk 18:06, 6 May 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #311
<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:
 * Sort identifier statements on items that are instances of human
 * Make "developer" and "programmer" properties clearer


 * Events
 * Wikidata and GLAM workshop day in the context of the EuropeanaTech Conference, Rotterdam, Monday 14 May 2018
 * Wikidata access methods, slides by Dan Scott


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * More than 850 living people' articles from the English Wikipedia which have date of death or place of death on their Wikidata item: manual checks needed. You can also check Category:P570 missing in Wikipedia
 * Florian will be improving Wikidata support in the Wikipedia plugin for OpenStreetMap's JOSM editor, for the Google Summer of Code 2018
 * Prssanna Desai will work on improvements for the Query Service during Google Summer of Code


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: Deutsche Bahn station category, has grammatical gender, has grammatical person, Wikimedia outline, assistant director, island of location, possible medical findings, suggests the existence of, has evaluation, evaluation of, greater than, less than
 * External identifiers: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures ID, Behind The Voice Actors character ID, HanCinema film ID, Italian School ID, Directory of Open Access Journals ID, LGDB game ID, LGDB emulator ID, LGDB tool ID, LGDB engine ID, TFRRS athlete ID, All About Jazz musician ID, Ontario public library ID, Swedish Literature Bank book ID, WikiCFP event ID, WikiCFP conference series ID, ICAA film catalogue ID, Stepwell Atlas ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: IMDA rating, is program committee member of, officialized by, KAVI rating, topographic map, child monotypic taxon, Köppens klimaklassifisering, Möllendorff transliteration, attested, geographic center, season of club or team, sports competition competed at, factorizsation, coastline, forest cover, vehicles per capita, audio transcription
 * External identifiers: e-MEC entry, Norwegian war sailor register ship ID, Thesaurus For Graphic Materials, GNOME Wiki ID, Israel Film Fund ID, The New Fund for Cinema and Television (Israel) ID, Cinema Project ID, Chinese Political Elites Database ID, Israeli Movie Testimonial Database Person ID, Israeli Movie Testimonial Database Movie ID, JMA Seismic Intensity Database ID, Portale della Canzone italiana IDs, Trustpilot company ID, Ester ID, Dictionary of Swedish Translators


 * Properties lacking use created > 3 months:
 * Sign@l journal ID (P4726), INRAN Italian Food ID (P4729), produced sound (P4733), IBM code page ID (P4734), IBM graphic character global ID (P4736), Line Music album ID (P4748), Line Music artist ID (P4747), is proceedings from (P4745), National Historic Ships certificate no. (P4750), Manus Online ID (P4752)
 * Deleted properties: Réunion des musées nationaux ID (P5100)
 * Query examples:
 * Map of birth places of authors in the Portuguese Wikisource
 * Video games that are set in the Star Wars Expanded Universe by game mode (source)
 * Timeline of Programming Languages (source)
 * Timeline of people named Karl born in Karlsruhe (source)


 * Development
 * Allow continuing Wikidata entity dumps (T193688)
 * Make sure Wikidata entity dump scripts run for a short amount of time (T190513)
 * Add monolingual language code shy (T184783)
 * More work on preparing QuickStatements to be run by other parties (T193606, T192079, T192365)
 * Expand references with constraint violations (T177970)
 * Improving validation of Form representations on WikibaseLexeme (T193011)
 * Fixing a bug that replaces a representation by another (T192264)
 * Enable finding forms using wbsearchentities API (T191981)

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!

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Tech News: 2018-19
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Recent changes
 * The Wikimedia Commons mobile app has a new version. It is now easier to find nearby places that need pictures. It helps you with direct uploads and title and category suggestions. The app only works on Android phones.

Problems
 * Octicons-tools.svg The abuse filters had a problem with blocks where you had changed how long they last. It used the default length everywhere. This was in late April. Abuse filter users should make sure the right block length is used and change them if needed. This is only for filters where how long blocks last had been changed.

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Wikidata weekly summary #312
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 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Adminor


 * Events
 * Past: GLAM forum in Yerevan, Armenia, 10-12 May 2018
 * slides for 'What is Wikidata: How can GLAMs work with Wikidata?' presentation by Andy Mabbett
 * A Wikidata workshop was given by Liam Wyatt and appeared at the national Armenian television
 * Wikidata workshop day at GLAMwiki conference in Rotterdam, May 14th
 * Wikidata workshop in Paris, May 18th
 * Next Wikidata IRC office hour: May 29th at 18:00 (UTC+2, Berlin time) on the channel #wikimedia-office


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Wikidata: a platform for your library’s linked open data by Stacy Allison-Cassin & Dan Scott, in the journal Code4Lib (also posted on Reddit)
 * Enriching Reconciled Data with OpenRefine, by Karen Hwang


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New feature for the Query Service: check the location of the browser
 * New monolingual code available: shy (Shawiya)
 * You can have a look at the draft for the RDF mapping of Wikibase Lexeme
 * New feature for the Query Service: check the location of the browser


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: item for this sense, season of club or team, Möllendorff transliteration, geographic center, coastline
 * External identifiers: none


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: IGAC rating, taxon described in publication, jockey, Norsk fjordkatalog-ID, Wikidata:Dataset Imports, toponym
 * External identifiers: Bugs! artist ID, Bugs! album ID, KKBOX artist ID, KKBOX album ID, Norsk pop- og rockleksikon ID, Odnoklassniki profile ID, Kunstenpunt organisations, Rockipedia artist ID, Rockipedia album ID, Rockipedia label ID, Rockipedia area ID, Norsk historisk leksikon ID, Univ-droit jurist ID, Relationship Science profile ID, D&B Hoovers company profile, Victorian Heritage Register ID, CIVICUS Monitor country entry, FloraCatalana ID


 * Underused properties created >3 months:
 * Songwriters Hall of Fame ID (P4757), V Live channel ID (P4756), MONA ID (P4758), Harvard botanical journal ID (P4754), Images d'Art artwork ID (P4761), has boundary (P4777), lot number (P4775), Arcade artwork ID (P4764), biological phase (P4774), crates.io ID (P4763)
 * Query examples:
 * Museums near you (source)
 * Places near you that are the subject of publications (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3Fs%20%3FsLabel%20%3Fcoor%20%3Foperator%20%3FoperatorLabel%20%3Fimage%20%3Flayer%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fs%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ7075%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP17%20wd%3AQ145%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoor%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP137%20%3Foperator%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fs%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20VALUES%20%3Foperator%20%7B%20wd%3AQ319761%20wd%3AQ790029%20wd%3AQ5038449%20wd%3AQ1035745%20wd%3AQ7375001%20wd%3AQ1420500%20wd%3AQ1971174%20wd%3AQ3400501%20wd%3AQ4923796%20wd%3AQ4966533%20wd%3AQ5016926%20wd%3AQ5038400%20wd%3AQ5043224%20wd%3AQ5064127%20wd%3AQ5166758%20wd%3AQ5256629%20wd%3AQ16837157%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ5623821%20wd%3AQ6083890%20wd%3AQ16997658%20wd%3AQ6901162%20wd%3AQ6984500%20wd%3AQ16998902%20wd%3AQ7161994%20wd%3AQ7236943%20wd%3AQ7321391%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ5123523%20wd%3AQ6980600%20wd%3AQ7825688%20wd%3AQ1954765%20wd%3AQ2046319%20wd%3AQ3112646%20wd%3AQ5142752%20wd%3AQ7592929%20wd%3AQ6820686%20wd%3AQ7161992%20wd%3AQ5142753%20wd%3AQ5590045%20wd%3AQ16891916%20wd%3AQ5142762%20wd%3AQ5038488%20wd%3AQ20713648%20wd%3AQ4966531%20wd%3AQ17986585%20wd%3AQ16890510%20wd%3AQ7909538%20wd%3AQ8038115%20wd%3AQ4898241%20wd%3AQ4667178%20wd%3AQ4761763%20wd%3AQ5038490%20wd%3AQ5197211%20wd%3AQ30287465%20wd%3AQ18343995%20wd%3AQ17018314%20wd%3AQ7373981%20wd%3AQ18358583%20%7D%0A%0A%20%0A%20%0ASERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FoperatorLabel%20%3FsLabel%0A%0A%0A%0A Map of libraries in Wales] (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Italian%20cities%20with%20a%20population%20of%205k%2B%20and%201%2B%20kindergarten%28s%29%0A%23%20Colors%20represent%20the%20number%20of%20kindergartens%20per%20per%2010%2C000%20inhabitants%20%28see%20layer%20legend%29%0A%23%20Query%20by%20Andrea%20Mignone%20%40i_m_andrea%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%7B%22layer%22%3A%22%3FratioBin%22%2C%20%22rgb%22%3A%22%3Frgb%22%7D%0ASELECT%20%3Fcity%20%3FcityLabel%20%3Fcoord%20%3FratioBin%20%3Frgb%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20BIND%28%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fratio%20%3C%202%2C%20%22%3C%202%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fratio%20%3C%203%2C%20%22%5B2%3B3%29%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fratio%20%3C%204%2C%20%22%5B3%3B4%29%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fratio%20%3C%205%2C%20%22%5B4%3B5%29%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%225%2B%22%29%29%29%29%0A%20%20AS%20%3FratioBin%29%0A%20%20%0A%20%20BIND%28%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fratio%20%3C%202%2C%20%220072E5%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fratio%20%3C%203%2C%20%222F58AB%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fratio%20%3C%204%2C%20%225F3F72%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fratio%20%3C%205%2C%20%228F2539%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%22BF0C00%22%29%29%29%29%0A%20%20AS%20%3Frgb%29%0A%20%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fcity%20%3Fcoord%20%28count%28%3Fitem%29%2a10000%2F%3Fpop%20as%20%3Fratio%29%0A%20%20%20%20WHERE%20%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP5114%20%3Fid%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ126807%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP131%20%3Fcity%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcity%20wdt%3AP1082%20%3Fpop%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcity%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoord%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20%3Fcity%20wdt%3AP1376%20%3Fplace.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20%3Fplace%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ15089.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20group%20by%20%3Fcity%20%3Fpop%20%3Fcoord%20%0A%20%20%20%20having%20%28%3Fpop%20%3E%3D%205000%29%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20order%20by%20asc%28%3Fratio%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%7D Map of schools in Italy] (source)
 * List of TeX/LaTeX commands for special characters (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FcountryLabel%20%3Farea%20%3Fpopulation%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ10864048%20%3B%20%23%20first-level%20subdivision%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fcountry%20%3B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20country%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP2046%2Fpsv%3AP2046%20%5B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20area%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3FbaseArea%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP2370%2Fpsv%3AP2370%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3FunitArea%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ25343%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP1082%20%3Fpopulation%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20population%0A%0A%20%20BIND%28ROUND%28%3FbaseArea%20%2a%20%3FunitArea%20%2F%201000000%29%20AS%20%3Farea%29%20.%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28%20%3Farea%20%3E%3D%20400000%20%29%0A%0A%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP576%20%3Fx%20%7D%20%20%20%20%23%20filter%20dissolved%20subdivisions%0A%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Fcountry%20wdt%3AP576%20%3Fx%20%7D%20%23%20filter%20dissolved%20countries%0A%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Farea%29 Largest first-level country subdivisions (i.e. larger than 400,000 km²)] (source)


 * Development
 * Fix the bug where changes in the watchlist and Recent Changes on Wikipedia should have been shown but were not (T192673)
 * Clarify error message for the merge API (T180296)
 * Add violation type to restrict which entity types a property can be used (T164744)
 * Added a constraint to blacklist values for a property (T183092)
 * Fix a bug showing the wrong alias in the edit summary when editing an alias (T190492)
 * Fix some bugs related to displaying thumbnails in statements (T193880, T192667, T193499)
 * Continue looking into dispatch issues (T194602)
 * Working on adding an integer constraint (T167989)
 * Preparing to deploy WikibaseLexeme extension on Wikimedia cluster (T168260)
 * Making sure that the form ID counter is preserved when clearing the lexeme via the API (T192264)
 * Applying the same validation to the language code of the Lemma and the representation (T191504)

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!

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Tech News: 2018-20
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Recent changes
 * Dynamic maps are now available on most Wikipedias. Labels on maps can also be in different languages.
 * The new Advanced Search interface is now available as a Beta Feature on all wikis. This makes it easier to learn about and to use many of the powerful options in our search. Feedback is appreciated.

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

Meetings
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Future changes
 * In the mobile view, warnings for when something is wrong with a page are not as clear as they should be. The developers are working on this. You can give feedback and suggestions.
 * The developers are working on making the Wikipedia Android app available in more languages. You can give feedback, suggestions and help test it. Read more on mediawiki.org

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Tech News: 2018-21
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Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 May. It will be on all wikis from 24 May (calendar).

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Future changes
 * It could become easier to reference different pages of a book in an article. You can give feedback. The last day for feedback is 27 May.

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