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Wikidata weekly summary #356
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events
 * Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikipedia workshop in Aberdeen, Scotland, on March 19th
 * Upcoming: Training "Valoriser les collections patrimoniales et la recherche en histoire de l’art sur Wikipédia, WikiCommons et Wikidata" in Paris, 28 and 29 March (in French)
 * Upcoming: GLAM and Wikidata in National Library, Bern (Switzerland), on March 28th (in German and French).
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop for GLAM in Lausanne (Switzerland), on March 29th (in French).
 * Upcoming: Monthly Wikidata meetup in Buenos Aires


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * What Wikidata offers Oxford’s GLAM Digital Strategy


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * A new data type is available : musical notation
 * A research report is now available for the project Wikimedia Commons Data Roundtripping. The research investigates which (updated) metadata cultural institutions would like to retrieve back from (Structured) Wikimedia Commons, and what the main barriers are. Research summary / presentation slides / full report
 * If you're using Wikidata dumps, please note that the update schedule may change from fixed weekday to fixed day of the month. More info in this ticket
 * Slides of the Wikidata presentation during UNESCO's Mobile Learning Week by Shani Evenstein now available on Commons.
 * A project to link branded businesses in Open Street Maps to Wikidata


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: Guggenheim fellows ID, Sandbox-Musical Notation
 * External identifiers: Paintings by Salvador Dalí ID, a-tremasov.ru biography ID, Digital Dictionary of Surnames in Germany ID, flgr-results.ru athlete ID, HCA Red List of Endangered Crafts ID, Resident Advisor artist ID, Resident Advisor label ID, Rhineland-Palatinate protected area ID, film-documentaire.fr author ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: average speed, Digital Author Identifier, date of the latest value change, chữ Nôm, capacity factor, study or design for, motif (music), chess position
 * External identifiers: Salvador Dali Museum ID, Tainacan MHN ID, AWARE ID, Cini Foundation ID, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam ID, Semantic Scholar topic ID, Artcurial ID, Ashmolean museum ID, Index to American Botanical Literature ID, Periscope pscp.tv, LinkedIn personal profile ID, Library of Parliament Person ID, Gamepedia Article ID, 100 bombardirov person ID, JRC Names id, Fandango theater ID, Epitafier.se


 * Query examples:
 * Color associations in national flags (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20German-language%20female%20science%20fiction%20authors%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fauthor%20%3FauthorLabel%20%3FdateOfBirth%20%3FdateOfDeath%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fauthor%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP21%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ6581072.%0A%20%20%23%20speaks%2Fwrites%20German%2C%20or%20citizen%20of%20Germany%2C%20Austria%20or%20Liechtenstein%20%28since%20%E2%80%9Clanguages%20spoken%2C%20written%20or%20signed%E2%80%9D%20alone%20is%20not%20very%20complete%3B%20Swiss%20citizenship%20would%20probably%20include%20too%20many%20French-%20or%20Italian-writing%20authors%29%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fauthor%20wdt%3AP1412%20wd%3AQ188.%0A%20%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20VALUES%20%3Fcountry%20%7B%20wd%3AQ183%20wd%3AQ40%20wd%3AQ347%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fauthor%20wdt%3AP27%20%3Fcountry.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%23%20genre%20science%20fiction%2C%20or%20occupation%20science%20fiction%20author%2C%20or%20genre%20science%20fiction%20as%20qualifier%20on%20occupation%20author%20statement%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fauthor%20wdt%3AP136%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ24925.%0A%20%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fauthor%20wdt%3AP106%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ28225718.%0A%20%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fauthor%20p%3AP106%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20a%20wikibase%3ABestRank%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP106%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ482980%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP136%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ24925%0A%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fauthor%20wdt%3AP569%20%3FdateOfBirth.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fauthor%20wdt%3AP570%20%3FdateOfDeath.%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D List of German-language female science fiction authors] (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Liste%20des%20projets%20Wikimedia%20localis%C3%A9s%20dans%20les%20langues%20r%C3%A9gionales%20et%20minoritaires%20de%20France%0A%23%20telles%20que%20d%C3%A9finies%20par%20la%20DGLFLF%0A%23%20auxquelles%20s%27ajoutent%20le%20fran%C3%A7ais%20et%20le%20luxembourgeois%0A%23%20Manquent%20%3A%20%0A%23%20-%20Wikisource%20en%20al%C3%A9manique%20%28sur%20als%3A%29%0A%23%20-%20Wikisource%20en%20corse%20%28sur%20oldwikisource%29%0A%23%20-%20Wikisource%20en%20occitan%20%28sur%20oldwikisource%29%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Flanguage%20%3FlanguageLabel%20%3FwpURL%20%3FwiktURL%20%3FwsURL%20%3FwnURL%20%3FwqURL%20%3FwbURL%20%3FwvURL%20%3FwvoyURL%0AWHERE%20%0A%7B%0A%20%20%7B%20VALUES%20%3Flanguage%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ150%0A%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ33302%0A%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ9051%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%20UNION%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Flanguage%20wdt%3AP361%2Fwdt%3AP361%20wd%3AQ496250%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%3Fwp%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ10876391%20.%0A%20%20%3Fwp%20p%3AP407%20%3FwpLangStatement%20.%0A%20%20%3FwpLangStatement%20ps%3AP407%20%3Flanguage%20.%0A%20%20%3Fwp%20wdt%3AP856%20%3FwpURL%20.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwikt%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ22001389%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwikt%20p%3AP407%20%3FwiktLangStatement%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FwiktLangStatement%20ps%3AP407%20%3Flanguage%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwikt%20wdt%3AP856%20%3FwiktURL%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fws%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ15156455%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fws%20p%3AP407%20%3FwsLangStatement%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FwsLangStatement%20ps%3AP407%20%3Flanguage%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fws%20wdt%3AP856%20%3FwsURL%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwn%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ20671729%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwn%20p%3AP407%20%3FwnLangStatement%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FwnLangStatement%20ps%3AP407%20%3Flanguage%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwn%20wdt%3AP856%20%3FwnURL%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwq%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ22001361%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwq%20p%3AP407%20%3FwqLangStatement%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FwqLangStatement%20ps%3AP407%20%3Flanguage%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwq%20wdt%3AP856%20%3FwqURL%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwb%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ22001316%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwb%20p%3AP407%20%3FwbLangStatement%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FwbLangStatement%20ps%3AP407%20%3Flanguage%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwb%20wdt%3AP856%20%3FwbURL%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwv%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ22001390%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwv%20p%3AP407%20%3FwvLangStatement%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FwvLangStatement%20ps%3AP407%20%3Flanguage%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwv%20wdt%3AP856%20%3FwvURL%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwvoy%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ19826567%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwvoy%20p%3AP407%20%3FwvoyLangStatement%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FwvoyLangStatement%20ps%3AP407%20%3Flanguage%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwvoy%20wdt%3AP856%20%3FwvoyURL%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22fr%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20%3FlanguageLabel List of the Wikimedia projects in French and languages of France] (source)


 * Development
 * Prepare new constraint icons (T191322)
 * View history revisions of entities on new termbox mobile (T210615)
 * Caching termbox output on the Wikibase side (T214679)
 * Fix emojis breaking the termbox layout in Chrome (T217244)
 * Work on multilingual support for schemas (T215387)
 * Implement a length limit for the schema text (T216148)
 * Replace the heading/title for schema pages similar to what Wikibase does (T215759)
 * Deploy the shex-simple website, which can be used to check entities against a schema in the browser, on Toolforge (T217333)
 * Deploy the score data type to production

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


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

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:04, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-12
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week
 * When you use rollback you will be able to get a confirmation prompt on most wikis. It asks you if you wanted to do the rollback. This is to avoid misclicks. You will have to opt in to get it. On German Wikipedia it will be an opt-out feature from 28 March.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 March. It will be on all wikis from 21 March (calendar).

Meetings
 * 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 20 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Admins will be able to block someone from editing a page or a namespace. This already works on a few Wikimedia wikis. You can read more. If your wiki wants to be an early tester of this, you can tell the developers.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Toolforge will shut down the Ubuntu Trusty job grid. This will happen the week of 25 March. Tools that use this grid needs to be moved to the new Debian Stretch job grid. If they haven't, they will be taken offline. Maintainers can restart the tools later. Users may not be able to use them in the meanwhile. You can see a list of affected tools.

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Wikidata weekly summary #357
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Stanglavine
 * An open discussion on how to model one-way train routes is now taking place, and everyone is welcome to pitch in


 * Events
 * Past: Researcher meets Curator, 22 March 2019, Maastricht: meeting about biographies, where Wikidata was mentioned in many talks, eg. Visual Biographies of Scholars and the Topics they Studied, Egon Willighagen
 * Upcoming: Training "Valoriser les collections patrimoniales et la recherche en histoire de l’art sur Wikipédia, WikiCommons et Wikidata" in Paris, 28 and 29 March (in French)
 * Upcoming: GLAM and Wikidata in National Library, Bern (Switzerland), on March 28th (in German and French)
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop for GLAM in Lausanne (Switzerland), on March 29th (in French)
 * Upcoming: Monthly Wikidata meetup in Buenos Aires
 * Upcoming: Where iNaturalist meets Wiki April 16th, in Meise (Belgium)


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * SPARQL via WDQS (very basic introduction for archivist) (in French).
 * "Build your own Digital Bodleian with IIIF and SPARQL", Martin Poulter, Bodleian Digital Library blog
 * A call to action: Wikidata-fy your Commons photos, Martin Poukter, Wikimedia UK blog
 * On Wikimedia Research from March 2019: Learning How to Correct a Knowledge Base from the Edit History, by Thomas Pellissier Tanon, Camille Bourgaux and Fabian Suchanek (slides, video)
 * The panEuropean Research Infrastructure "Mobilising Data, Experts and Policies in Scientific Collections" initiative's kick-off meeting had a workshop on the "Authority Management of People Names". Wikidata featured strongly - and was highly praised: Twitter thread
 * Lexicographical data on Wikidata: Words, words, words by Jens Ohlig


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * It is now possible to filter by property in EditGroups. For instance, you can get an overview of the author disambiguation efforts by filtering on.
 * Related Wikidata Properties: new tool to explore Wikidata properties and find properties used together (example: external id properties used in conjunction with Elo rating (P1087)).
 * New tool: BNF Scrapper generates content ready for QuickStatement from an author file from the French National Library
 * Tips for Wikidata SPARQL query optimization


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: study or design for, constraint clarification, General Material Designation, value hierarchy property
 * External identifiers: Plant Illustrations artist ID, Ashmolean museum ID, Semantic Scholar topic ID, FFS athlete ID, CSKA person ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: quotation or excerpt (music), Classification RCQ, CHVRS Classification
 * External identifiers: Kicker.de player ID, XING company ID, Le Figaro tag ID, Le Parisien tag ID, L'Express tag ID, Orlando person ID, Identifier, Sumo Reference, SA Rugby Player ID, EUNIS ID for habitats, Japan Search name ID, FIS telemark skier ID, Rxivist author ID, Rxivist preprint ID, Motorsports Hall of Fame of America ID


 * Query examples:
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0A%23%20maximum%20temperatures%20on%20Earth%20%0A%23%20from%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fwiki%2FProperty_talk%3AP6591%0ASELECT%20%3Fdegrees_Celsius%20%3Fdegrees_Fahrenheit%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Flocation%20%3FlocationLabel%20%3Fdate%20%3Fcoor%20%3Flayer%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%09%3Fitem%20p%3AP6591%20%3Fst%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fst%20psv%3AP6591%20%20%5B%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3Fdegrees_Celsius%20%3B%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ25267%20%5D%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%20%28%20ROUND%20%28%20%3Fdegrees_Celsius%20%2a%201.8%20%2B%2032%20%29%20as%20%3Fdegrees_Fahrenheit%20%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20UNION%0A%09%7B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fst%20psv%3AP6591%20%20%5B%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3Fdegrees_Fahrenheit%20%3B%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ42289%20%5D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%20ROUND%28%20%28%20%3Fdegrees_Fahrenheit%20-%2032%20%29%20%2F%201.8%20%2a%2010%29%2F10%20as%20%3Fdegrees_Celsius%20%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fst%20pq%3AP276%20%3Flocation%20%7D%20%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fst%20pq%3AP585%20%3Fdate%20%7D%20%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoor%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28%20CONCAT%28str%28Floor%28%3Fdegrees_Celsius%20%2F%2010%29%29%2C%220s%20%C2%B0C%22%29%20as%20%3Flayer%29%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%20%7D%20%20%20%20%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fdegrees_Celsius%29%0ALIMIT%201000 Maximum temperatures on Earth (°F/°C)] (source)
 * People with social media accounts that are identical but differently capitalised (source)


 * Development
 * Update property suggester data (T216270)
 * Add a link to the shex-simple tool to make it easier to check entities against a Schema (T217331)
 * Make the placeholders on Special:NewSchema now match the ones on Special:NewItem (T215386)
 * Check for edit conflicts when editing schemas (T217338, T218300)
 * Enable the parser cache for Schema pages (T218459, T218769)
 * Use the FormatAutocomments hook for Schemas to implement translatable edit summaries (T218889)
 * Implement a proper Wikibase-Termbox-Integration according to the ADR (T214679)
 * Fix the emoji breaking the termbox column layout (T217244)
 * Correctly showing revisions with the new termbox (T210615)
 * Correctly handle user-specific language settings in the new termbox (T218111)
 * Fix an issue for score extension (T218535)
 * Turn off RDF support for entity types that doesn't support it (T213483)
 * Respect nofollow config on wikidata identifier links (T175230)
 * Allow accessing Wikibase entities from multiple (Wikibase) databases (T214557)

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


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

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:20, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

April 2019
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:02, 25 March 2019 (UTC) via MassMessaging

(Please excuse this post if it is a duplicate!)

Tech News: 2019-13
 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 new version of the content translation tool will be used for all new translations. The older version will still be used for translations that were started with it. Most users won’t see any change. More than 80% of the published translations are already using the new version.

Problems
 * There was a problem with editing with Safari on iOS. When you wrote an edit summary you couldn't save the edit. This has now been fixed.
 * The editing toolbar sometimes disappears when you scroll on iOS devices. This will be fixed soon.
 * Wikis can over-ride interface messages on-wiki. A problem meant that sometimes an old versions of any changed messages were shown instead. This included the sitenotice and other important parts of the interface. This was fixed at around 2019-03-22 16:00 (UTC). Logged-out users may still get the wrong message. Purging the page should fix it for them.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (calendar).

Meetings
 * 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 27 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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The Signpost: 31 March 2019
 News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 15:42, 31 March 2019 (UTC)
 * From the editors: Getting serious about humor
 * News and notes: Blackouts fail to stop EU Copyright Directive
 * In the media: Women's history month
 * Discussion report: Portal debates continue, Prespa agreement aftermath, WMF seeks a rebranding
 * Featured content: Out of this world
 * Arbitration report: The Tides of March at ARBCOM
 * Traffic report: Exultations and tribulations
 * Technology report: New section suggestions and sitewide styles
 * News from the WMF: The WMF's take on the new EU Copyright Directive
 * Recent research: Barnstar-like awards increase new editor retention
 * From the archives: Esperanza organization disbanded after deletion discussion
 * Humour: The Epistolary of Arthur 37
 * Op-Ed: Pro and Con: Has gun violence been improperly excluded from gun articles?
 * In focus: The Wikipedia SourceWatch
 * Special report: Wiki Loves (50 Years of) Pride
 * Community view: Wikipedia's response to the New Zealand mosque shootings