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This Month in GLAM: February 2020
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Wikidata weekly summary #407
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Closed request for comments: Wikidata:Wikidata to use data schemas to standardise data structure on a subject


 * Events
 * Note: Due to the ongoing COVID-19 situation, most meetups, including all those funded by Wikimedia Foundation grants, have been cancelled, or moved online, for the foreseeable future.
 * Past: Wikidata workshop at the central library of Göttingen. Slides: connecting Wikidata and other databases (in German)
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Paris, March 20th, will take place online starting at 20:00 on IRC (freenode:wikidata-fr)
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #5, March 22
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Wochenende in Ulm, June 12-14
 * Postponed:
 * Wikidata Days 2020 (July, Portugal) will be postponed (more information)
 * WikiCite Satellite Cologne 2020 (May, Germany) is postponed until "late 2020"
 * Cancelled:
 * Wikimedia Hackathon (9-11 May, Tirana) is cancelled due to COVID-19.


 * '''Press, articles, blog posts
 * People First: Wikimedia’s Response to COVID-19 - Update from Katherine Maher, Wikimedia Foundation CEO
 * Wikimedia Foundation’s Knowledge Infrastructure with Grant Ingersoll, CTO of Wikimedia Foundation
 * Improving Neural Named Entity Recognition with Gazetteers - "describes how to generate gazetteers from the Wikidata knowledge graph"
 * Introduction to Wikidata video by Jason Evans and Aaron Morris, available both in English and in Welsh
 * Video of the live Wikidata Querying, March 15th, by WikidataFacts


 * Tool of the week
 * TabulistBot, a tool to generate and update tabular data on Commons, based on Wikidata SPARQL queries. Sample: earthquakes.tab


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New help page: Suggesters and selectors
 * All identifiers are now sorted mostly alphabetically according to the RfC regarding the sorting of identifiers, which remains open if you have improvement proposals. Feel free to comment here!
 * Maximilian Klein applied for a project grant to merge and improve WHGI and Denelezh, tools that heavily rely on Wikidata to provide statistics about gender gap and biographical content in Wikimedia projects.
 * QuickStatements change (4 March). QuickStatements is now executing "run in background" batches with the same priority as direct batches run from the browser. Background batches may now run many times faster than they previously did (discussion), when the WDQS updater can handle this.
 * News and discussions about Structured Data on Commons SPARQL endpoint


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: historic county, corresponding HTML autocomplete attribute
 * External identifiers: Joconde Discovery ID, Joconde Genèse ID, Dictionnaire des femmes de l’ancienne France ID, Cell Ontology ID, Scilit work ID, NetBSD package, OpenBSD port, VR GameCritic ID, DAR ancestor ID, FandangoNow ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: descriptive solubility, Unicode character (item), Donations, endorsed by, countermeasure, Venue of the final, Tournament format, tilt
 * External identifiers: Social Blade YouTube channel ID, Dizionario di Filosofia ID, re:publica speaker ID, ACM Conference ID, HuijiWiki Wiki ID, ACM Journal ID, m3db.com film ID, m3db.com person ID, TripAdvisor ID 2


 * Query examples:
 * Timeline of films about pandemics
 * World map of hospitals (source)
 * English and Scottish health trusts & boards (source)
 * Videogames nominated at the Pégases award (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject COVID-19
 * Newest database reports: COVID-19 deaths


 * Development
 * Add monolingual codes nrf-gg (Guernésiais), nrf-je (Jèrriais), thanks to Mbch331! (T165648)
 * Article Placeholder: make the entity field required (T247478)
 * Remove legacy Wikibase service containers (T245865)
 * Fix an error UnresolvedEntityRedirectException when viewing certain Wikidata item pages (T243779)
 * Fix an issue with new edit summaries not always showing what expected (T246873)
 * Federated properties: enable search with remote properties (wbsearchentities) (T246349)
 * showing the updated Wikipedia article after changing a value via Bridge (T235208)
 * research how to do reference rendering (T244987)

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
 * 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) 16:57, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-12
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg There is a new API module for changing the content model of existing pages. Use  to specify the new model. You can read the documentation on mediawiki.org.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 March. It will be on all wikis from 19 March (calendar).

Future changes
 * If you edit a page at the same time as someone else you can get an edit conflict. There is a new two-column interface to make it easier to solve this. It will soon be active by default on the German, Arabic, and Farsi Wikipedias. It will be on by default on more wikis within the next months. You will be able to opt out of the new interface.
 * You can see a proposed design for replying to comments in an easier way.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  21:14, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #408
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events
 * Upcoming: Wikidata and Wikibase office hour, April 7th, 18:00 Berlin time (UTC+2) in the Wikidata Telegram group
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #6, March 29
 * Postponed: Wikimania Bangkok is postponed until 2021


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Wikidata as a knowledge graph for the life sciences, Andra Waagmeester et.al.
 * Tensor Decompositions for Temporal Knowledge Base Completion ("Additionally, we propose a new dataset for knowledge base completion constructed from Wikidata ... for evaluating temporal and non-temporal link prediction methods.")


 * Tool of the week
 * Wikidata Lexeme Forms allows quickly generating a new lexeme with all its forms in selected languages; you can also use the tool to add forms to an existing lexeme, or bulk upload many lexemes and forms at once.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * A task force is formed under WikiProject India to work on 2020 coronavirus pandemic in India (Q84055514)
 * Important for tool maintainers: last steps of wb_terms table migration (wb_terms is not updated anymore and will be renamed next week)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: food energy, quantity symbol, depicted format, electron configuration, endorsed by, ordered by, research subject recruitment status, footedness, IM channel, number of recoveries, number of clinical tests
 * External identifiers: FandangoNow ID, CVR person ID, Faculté des sciences de Nancy ID, Filmfront film ID, stargate-wiki.de article, AncientFaces person ID, Decine21 ID, ACM Conference ID, Clavis Patrum Latinorum ID, ExoticA ID, Hrvatska enciklopedija ID, ACM Journal ID, Kanopy ID, Mirabile author ID, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca ID, Clavis Patrum Graecorum ID, Mirabile manuscript ID, Mirabile saint ID, Mirabile title ID, Poeti d'Italia in lingua latina author ID, Treccani Dizionario di Filosofia ID, Colecovision Zone ID, NHS Health A to Z ID, EH.Net Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History ID, Gry Online company ID, Podchaser podcast ID, Haz-Map ID, Social Security Death Index entry, ColecoVision.dk ID, US Bureau of Prisons Inmate Register Number, Google Scholar case ID, Adventure Games series ID, Trakt.tv ID, Compendium heroicum ID, Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development English ID, Encyclopédie sur le développement des jeunes enfants ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: tilt, Dog and cat breed registries, terminology, perpetrator, virtual tour, victims, décès, subpopulation 2, Institutionskennzeichen (IK), ODMP person ID, is metaclass for, correct spelling
 * External identifiers: Unified registration number, AGROVOC ID, Forest Stewardship Council Certificate Code, Forest Stewardship Council License Code, PIV Online ID, MusicBrainz genre ID, Curran Index Contributor ID, Curran Index Periodical ID, Artprice artist ID, Reta Vortaro, National Register of Historic Monuments in Bosnia and Herzegovina ID, identifiant co-optimus.com, Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon ID, Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity ID, CIRIS author ID, motorsportstats.com series, National-Football-Teams.com club ID, motorsportstats.com driver ID, motorsportstats.com team ID, CAB ID, motorsportstats.com venue ID, curlingzone.com ID, Visit Tuscany ID


 * Query examples:
 * Most recent common ancestors of George W. Bush and Queen Elizabeth II
 * Notable people with COVID-19 by number of sitelinks
 * COVID-19 case statistics for India:
 * State-level map
 * State-level line graph
 * Lakes spanning at least 3 countries (source)
 * Michelin starred restaurants in Luxembourg (source)


 * Development
 * Federated properties: set up a test system (T247734)
 * ore work on search for remote properties (T246349)
 * Bridge: more work on messages about the license (T238728)

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.

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:24, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
 * 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: 2020-13
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * Some development will be slower than planned. This is because of the current pandemic. You can see the new deployment guidelines. This is to avoid risks when some persons could be unavailable.
 * There was a problem when adding interwiki links. The tool you use to add interwiki links could suggest the wrong project to link to. 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 24 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 March. It will be on all wikis from 26 March (calendar).

Future changes
 * There is a project to make editing easier for newcomers. The developers are trying to understand what initiatives different Wikipedias have to welcome newcomers. They also want to know which templates are often used for maintenance activities. You can help this project by checking if your wiki's pages are listed on Wikidata.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  17:08, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 March 2020
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