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Tech News: 2020-47
 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
 * Listings on category pages are sorted on each wiki for that language using a library. For a brief period on 16 November, changes to categories will not be sorted correctly for most languages. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the library. They will then use a script to fix the existing categories. This will take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more.

Changes later this week
 * If you merged two pages in a namespace where pages can't redirect this used to break the merge history. This will now be fixed.
 * 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).

Future changes
 * The Community Wishlist Survey is now open for proposals. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 16 to 30 November. You can vote on proposals from 8 December to 21 December.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  15:36, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #442
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events
 * Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, November 17 at 18:00 CET
 * Upcoming: SWIB20 (Semantic Web in Libraries) conference, multiple Wikidata-related presentations, free and online, November 23-27
 * Upcoming: Editathon (or "connection sprint") on parliamentarian documents in Swedish, November 20
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Dan Shick on creating and managing community documentation, November 17. Agenda
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #39, November 22
 * Past: ELIXIR BioHackathon 2020 updates:
 * Project #13: >20 thousand PDB ligand identifiers added and new formatter URL: https://twitter.com/ESchymanski/status/1326875606177492993
 * Project #33: Using wikidata query service in the taxon_mapper in Molseq - connecting molecular (genbank) and specimen (GBIF) data app
 * Project #35: Video: ELIXIR BioHackathon Europe 2020 Introduction to ShEx/Entity Schemas with Wikidata starting at 18:00


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Knowledge graph (in Polish) by Zbyszko Papierski on Wednesday, 18 November 2020 6:45 pm to 9:30 pm GMT+1
 * Video: A Linked and Open Bibliography for Aegean Glyptic in the Bronze Age by Martina Trognitz, recorded in April 2019
 * Video: ELIXIR BioHackathon Europe 2020 Introduction to ShEx/Entity Schemas
 * Video: Introduction to Gene Wiki
 * Video: ISB Biocuration 2020 Online Workshop: Genewiki 2 Methodology - Updating with bots
 * Video: An Introduction to Wikibase and Wikidata. Barbara Fischer and Sarah Hartmann
 * Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #24
 * Video: Programming for Cultural Heritage: Using Python to retrieve data from Wikidata
 * Video: Wikipedia & Wikidata for Middle East Librarians
 * Video: OpenStreetMap & Wikidata using Sophox - OpenStreetMap US Connect 2020
 * Video: Adding Pashas to Wikidata. 7 videos: Wikipedia to OpenRefine, Standardizing dates, Standardizing names in OpenRefine, Wikidata reconciliation, Adding additional data, Combining Arabic and English Lists, Wikidata Schema
 * Blogpost: Introducing Mapping the Scottish Reformation: Clerics, Manuscripts, and Open Data. "Most of the individuals we have found are obviously relatively obscure and have no item entry in Wikidata...As such, we have created around one thousand new items over the last two months, all of which serve as a framework to record the key parameters of a cleric’s career".


 * Tool of the week
 * ALEC (A List of Everything Cool) is a tool to explore biodiversity content in Wikidata.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Join the upcoming #1Lib1Ref Wikipedia campaign from January 15th to February 5th 2021 and improve Wikidata items by adding references to statements.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: dedicated heritage entity, defining mutations, digitised by, for color scheme, parent (unspecified)
 * External identifiers: MTMT journal ID, Soccerway stadium ID, IMVDb music video ID, NCAA Statistics coach ID, Docker Hub repository, USL League One ID, Portuguese Football Federation ID, ClassInd game ID, AAGM people ID, AAGM site ID, AniDB tag ID, UAF person ID, Dignity Memorial person ID, Opera Online performer ID, Bioweb Ecuador ID, Decorati onorificenze repubblica ID, BBFC reference, AlKindi ID, FilmPolski press collection ID, French Paralympic and Sports Committee athlete ID, Twitch tag ID, European Film Awards ID, MSRI institution ID, MSRI person ID, stolpersteine-berlin.de Stolperstein identifier, stolpersteine-hamburg.de Stolperstein identifier, LIMIS person ID, NSDOK Stolperstein identifier, stolpersteine-bremen.de Stolperstein identifier, snublestein.no Stolperstein identifier, AIWARDS ID, Twitch team ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: use as citation in Wikimedia page, GitLab username, given name identical to this family name, population connectée, indexed in bibliographic review, ISDS ID, inscription image, Wanfang article ID, CQVIP article ID, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, CIP data sheet
 * External identifiers: IMMuB artist ID, IAFD distributor ID, Swiss-Gym Male ID, Swiss-Gym Female ID, FISG person ID, Ligue 1 player ID, Ligue 2 player ID, AAA ID, Museum Day ID, TeachMe tutor ID, ISOF place, CRGPG ID, Visages du diocèse d'Autun ID, Geneall ID, Namuwiki (2), Union des artistes ID, Kinorium Movie ID, Kinorium Person ID, Prêtres du diocèse de Quimper ID, Union Catalog of Armenian Libraries authority ID, Restaurant Guru Restaurant ID, Foodlocate Restaurant ID, Musica Brasilis ID, IEV number, CONOR authority IDs, LibraryThing venue ID, BPI ID, PromoDj ID, Salzburgwiki, Drizly Product ID, Baijiahao ID, ESPN men's college basketball team ID


 * Query examples:
 * Rivers and canals in the United Kingdom.
 * Map of images taken for the Wicipics photography campaign in Wales (Source)
 * Number of people and terms of UK parties since the 1945 election (Source)
 * UK MPs who have voluntarily resigned their seats and then come back for a different seat in the same Parliament (Source)
 * Media articles, public documents and academic references on backward/cluster-focused contact tracing (including models) (Source)
 * Date of birth of current French prefects and their sources (Source)
 * Protected heritage related to the Camino in the Basque Country (Source)
 * Living 'notable' people with the given name "Karen" per 100k per country (Source)
 * Paintings in the Suter Art Gallery (Source)
 * Chilean ministers who were not educated at any high school (Source)
 * Age of US presidents start and end time (Source)
 * Map of Welsh Railways (Source)
 * Connections of railways of the Netherlands (Source)
 * Distinct languages of Wikidata lexemes. Top 5 are Russian-101144, English-69066, Latin-32106, Hebrew-28286 and Basque-22904.(Source)
 * Death place of all Basque people with known birthplace on Wikipedia, by century. Interactive map on kepler.gl (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
 * Added "Random lexeme" link under dedicated section for lexicographical data in the Wikidata sidebar (T205525). Thanks to Matěj Suchánek!
 * Working on language/spelling variant selector bug on Special:NewItem and Special:NewLexeme that makes it difficult to continue creating Items or Lexemes (T266638)
 * Work on the Query Builder continues. We're focusing on making it possible to query for all Items with a specific Property but any value next.
 * Went over all the feedback we have received for the REST API specification draft. Overall the feedback is positive and really useful. So we will move ahead after thinking more about the remaining points that were raised.
 * Working on making changes to descriptions show up in the RecentChanges feed and watchlists on Wikipedia and co as well even if they are not explicitly used (T191831)
 * Fixed a problem adding statements with Properties of datatype mathematical formula (T266496)
 * Kicked off our new effort to implement a predictable release cycle and release infrastructure for Wikibase suite by creating a prototype build workflow (T267553) and prototype test workflow (T267554)


 * 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 · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:15, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-48
 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
 * Timestamps in Special:Log are now links. They go to Special:Log for only that entry. This is how timestamps work on for example the history page.

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

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Wikimedia Cloud VPS hosts technical projects for the Wikimedia movement. Developers need to claim projects they use. This is because old and unused projects are removed once a year. Unclaimed projects can be shut down from 1 December. Unclaimed projects can be deleted from 1 January.

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

ikidata weekly summary #443
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events
 * Past: Wikidata Workshop 2020 presentations YouTube playlist
 * Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, November 24 at 18:00 CET
 * Upcoming: rC3, the remote version of the Chaos Communication Congress, on December 27-30. Like in previous years, the WikipakaWG will host sessions and workshops related to Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects. The call for participation is open until November 30th.
 * Upcoming: Ghana Histo Cita-thon. Friday 27th November 2020. 9am to 2pm UTC.
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #40, November 29


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Wikidata, the collaborative database for machines and humans. Blogpost by Àlex Hinojo (in Catalan)
 * 24 hours of open data - The meetup for the eighth Wikidata birthday, Blogpost by Lea Lacroix (in German)
 * The future of the Riksdag's data in Wikidata. Blogpost by Jan Ainali (in Swedish)
 * WikiPathways: connecting communities: research article outlining, among other things, how Wikidata is used and integrated
 * Using SPARQL to combine Wikidata and OSM triples
 * ANN: A platform to annotate text with Wikidata IDs (report) "Report of the work done by the Ann team at the eLife Sprint 2020. It describes the effort pursued towards a system for universal annotation of biomedical articles using the collaborative knowledge graph of Wikidata".
 * TU Dresden lecture on Knowledge Graphs (replay)
 * Wikidata introduction - YouTube
 * Content model of Wikidata - YouTube
 * How the content of Wikidata can be represented in RDF - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * EntityShape.js is a script that allows you to check an Item against an EntitySchema. On the Item page, it will display various information about the Item, like the properties that should be present on the Item.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The proposals phase of the Community Wishlist Survey 2021 is open until November 30th. You can submit wishes in various categories, like Wikidata.
 * SMWCon 2020 virtual conference is from 24 to 26 November 2020. Do not forget to register at Hopin!
 * The note-taking app Kanopi got first pieces of Wikidata integration.
 * The Listeria Evolution: Listeria has got an update
 * Wikimedia Deutschland has two open positions around the Wikidata development team; Full Stack Developer and Partner Relationship Manager


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: epithet, attraction to, hairstyle, poverty incidence
 * External identifiers: IMMuB artist ID, IMMuB album ID, WordNet 3.1 Synset ID, IAFD film distributor ID, Yandex Zen ID, NCAA school code, Church of Jesus Christ pioneer ID, Pitchfork artist ID, Monuments de mémoire ID, Memorial Book for the Victims of National Socialism ID, Xfinity Stream ID, Sports-Reference.com college basketball school ID, edition humboldt digital ID, GitLab username, AAA attraction ID, Swiss-Gym Male ID, Swiss-Gym Female ID, Museum Day ID, PAN member, Union Catalog of Armenian Libraries authority ID, MetaSat ID, Visages du diocèse d'Autun ID, SPOnG game ID, Prêtres du diocèse de Quimper ID, LibraryThing venue ID, Union des artistes ID, Restaurant Guru Restaurant ID, PromoDj ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: vénéré à, Number of blood donors, People reached, number of awards, has positive marker, ID pattern, lunar coordinates, adjacent to, date posted, ITRANS, National Library at Kolkata romanization, complementary property, MTRCB rating, DBLP conference ID, fait l'objet d'une vénération à
 * External identifiers: DriveThruComics numeric publisher identifier, Hyperion Records person ID, Arken, AAA hotel ID, AAA restaurant ID, AAA campground ID, AstroGen ID, Reliwiki page ID, Sonneveld-index, SIL ID, AniDB Episode ID, Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ID, Lumni ID, Archives at Yale Names ID


 * Query examples:
 * Aberdeen recycling centers and recycling points (Source)
 * Map of Semantic Web in Libraries 2020 participant's institutions (federated query) (Source)
 * Women who play chess and have a Wikipedia article in Spanish (They are 132 while men have 899 entries) (Source)
 * Timeline of Dietary Advocates (Source)
 * Philosophers born between 0 and 500 grouped by the decade where they lived (Source)
 * Video games from ?country (template) (Source)


 * Development
 * Query Builder: We're making it possible to switch between querying for specific values (e.g. all Items with a specific post code) or any value (all Items with a post code statement regardless of which one it is)
 * Correcting the behaviour of what automatically happens on Wikidata when a page is moved on Wikipedia and co to an excluded namespace with the "suppress redirect" option (T261275)
 * Making language fallback indicators not show up for language variant fallbacks in a few more places (T267502)
 * Adding html language attributes for statements linking to Forms and Senses (T267023)
 * Working on language and lexical category fields turning red on unfocus even though no changes are made after a change in ooui (T266936)
 * Finished building the 1.35 versions of the Wikibase base and bundle docker images and published to dockerhub (T264538)

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 · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:21, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

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