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Wikidata weekly summary #241
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.  Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 13:30, 26 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Upcoming: 33C3
 * Scaling OpenStreetMap with Wikidata knowledge
 * Scraping data from Wikipedia using Wikidata
 * Using cbimport to import Wikibase data to JSON documents
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Linked data fragment enabled on the Query Service
 * Quora topic IDs have been added to Mix'n'match
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Belvedere artist ID, Calflora ID, basic unit of settlement code (Czech/Slovak), Google Play Store ID, Quora topic ID, end period, start period
 * Query examples:
 * List of heads of state by Erdős number (source)
 * Airports named after people (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23%20Query%20Find%20in%20WikiData%20people%20with%20Place%20of%20Burial%20Q252312%20Norra%20Begravningsplatsen%0A%23%20that%20has%20no%20picture%20of%20the%20grave%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%0Aselect%20distinct%20%3FgroupLabel%20%28%3FgroupLabel%20as%20%3Flayer%29%20%3Farticle%20%3Fperson%20%3FpersonLabel%20%20%3FpersonDescription%20%20%3Fgraveplot%20%3Fcoord%20%3Fpic%20%3FpicGrave%20%3FWikiTree%20%3FFindAGrave%7B%0A%7B%0A%09%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP119%20wd%3AQ252312%3B%20%23Place%20of%20burial%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP119%20%5B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP965%20%3Fgraveplot%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP625%20%3Fcoord%5D.%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%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP535%20%3FFindAGraveID%20.%7D%20%09%09%23%20If%20we%20have%20a%20FindAGrave%20ID%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%20minus%20%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%2Fwww.findagrave.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Ffg.cgi%3Fpage%3Dgr%26df%3Dall%26GRid%3D%22%2C%3FFindAGraveID%29%29%20AS%20%3FFindAGrave%29%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%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP21%20%3Fgroup%20.%7D%20%09%09%09%23%20Gender%20in%20Layer%0A%0A%7D%20%20%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%2C%22sv%22%7D%0A%20%7D%0AOrder%20by%20%3FpersonLabel Graves with no grave pictures of people buried in Norra Begravningsplatsen] ([https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Query%20Find%20in%20WikiData%20people%20with%20Place%20of%20Burial%20Q252312%20Norra%20Begravningsplatsen%0A%23%20that%20has%20no%20picture%20of%20the%20grave%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%0Aselect%20distinct%20%3FgroupLabel%20%28%3FgroupLabel%20as%20%3Flayer%29%20%3Farticle%20%3Fperson%20%3FpersonLabel%20%20%3FpersonDescription%20%20%3Fgraveplot%20%3Fcoord%20%3Fpic%20%3FpicGrave%20%3FWikiTree%20%3FFindAGrave%7B%0A%7B%0A%09%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP119%20wd%3AQ252312%3B%20%23Place%20of%20burial%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP119%20%5B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP965%20%3Fgraveplot%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP625%20%3Fcoord%5D.%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%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP535%20%3FFindAGraveID%20.%7D%20%09%09%23%20If%20we%20have%20a%20FindAGrave%20ID%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%20minus%20%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%2Fwww.findagrave.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Ffg.cgi%3Fpage%3Dgr%26df%3Dall%26GRid%3D%22%2C%3FFindAGraveID%29%29%20AS%20%3FFindAGrave%29%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%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP21%20%3Fgroup%20.%7D%20%09%09%09%23%20Gender%20in%20Layer%0A%0A%7D%20%20%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%2C%22sv%22%7D%0A%20%7D%0AOrder%20by%20%3FpersonLabel source])
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23%20Query%20Find%20in%20WikiData%20people%20with%20Place%20of%20Burial%20Q252312%20Norra%20Begravningsplatsen%0A%23%20that%20has%20picture%20of%20the%20grave%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%0Aselect%20distinct%20%3FgroupLabel%20%28%3FgroupLabel%20as%20%3Flayer%29%20%3Farticle%20%3Fperson%20%3FpersonLabel%20%20%3FpersonDescription%20%20%3Fgraveplot%20%3Fcoord%20%3Fpic%20%3FpicGrave%20%3FWikiTree%20%3FFindAGrave%7B%0A%7B%0A%09%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP119%20wd%3AQ252312%3B%20%23Place%20of%20burial%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP119%20%5B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP965%20%3Fgraveplot%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP625%20%3Fcoord%5D.%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%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP535%20%3FFindAGraveID%20.%7D%20%09%09%23%20If%20we%20have%20a%20FindAGrave%20ID%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%20%20%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%2Fwww.findagrave.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Ffg.cgi%3Fpage%3Dgr%26df%3Dall%26GRid%3D%22%2C%3FFindAGraveID%29%29%20AS%20%3FFindAGrave%29%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%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP21%20%3Fgroup%20.%7D%20%09%09%09%23%20Gender%20in%20Layer%0A%0A%7D%20%20%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%2C%22sv%22%7D%0A%20%7D%0AOrder%20by%20%3FpersonLabel Graves with grave pictures of people buried in Norra Begravningsplatsen] ([https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Query%20Find%20in%20WikiData%20people%20with%20Place%20of%20Burial%20Q252312%20Norra%20Begravningsplatsen%0A%23%20that%20has%20picture%20of%20the%20grave%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%0Aselect%20distinct%20%3FgroupLabel%20%28%3FgroupLabel%20as%20%3Flayer%29%20%3Farticle%20%3Fperson%20%3FpersonLabel%20%20%3FpersonDescription%20%20%3Fgraveplot%20%3Fcoord%20%3Fpic%20%3FpicGrave%20%3FWikiTree%20%3FFindAGrave%7B%0A%7B%0A%09%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP119%20wd%3AQ252312%3B%20%23Place%20of%20burial%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP119%20%5B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP965%20%3Fgraveplot%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP625%20%3Fcoord%5D.%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%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP535%20%3FFindAGraveID%20.%7D%20%09%09%23%20If%20we%20have%20a%20FindAGrave%20ID%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%20%20%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%2Fwww.findagrave.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Ffg.cgi%3Fpage%3Dgr%26df%3Dall%26GRid%3D%22%2C%3FFindAGraveID%29%29%20AS%20%3FFindAGrave%29%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%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP21%20%3Fgroup%20.%7D%20%09%09%09%23%20Gender%20in%20Layer%0A%0A%7D%20%20%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%2C%22sv%22%7D%0A%20%7D%0AOrder%20by%20%3FpersonLabel source])
 * Solidays occurring today (source)
 * Streets in Paris named after current countries (source)
 * Streets in Paris named after battles (source)
 * Wikipedia articles (in any language) of paintings by painter (source)
 * Sovereign state flags with no red, white, or blue (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AScatterChart%0ASELECT%20%28MIN%28%3Fage%29%20AS%20%3FminAge%29%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fcomposition%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%20%3Fcomposer%20%3FcomposerLabel%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%7B%20%23%20find%20only%20compositions%20with%20a%20single%20composer%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fcomposition%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcomposition%20wdt%3AP86%20%3Fcomposer.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fcomposition%0A%20%20%20%20HAVING%28COUNT%28%3Fcomposer%29%20%3D%201%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fcomposition%20wdt%3AP86%20%3Fcomposer%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP571%2Fpsv%3AP571%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AtimeValue%20%3Fdate%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AtimePrecision%20%3FdatePrecision%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3FdatePrecision%20%3E%3D%209%29.%20%23%20filter%20out%20sub-year%20precision%0A%20%20%3Fcomposer%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP569%2Fpsv%3AP569%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AtimeValue%20%3Fborn%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AtimePrecision%20%3FbornPrecision%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3FbornPrecision%20%3E%3D%209%29.%0A%20%20BIND%28FLOOR%28%28%3Fdate%20-%20%3Fborn%29%2F365.2425%29%20AS%20%3Fage%29.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fcomposer%20%3FcomposerLabel%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FminAge Graph of number of compositions over age at first composition] (source)
 * Development
 * Worked more on the first entity type (Lexeme) for Wiktionary support
 * Worked more on federation in order to allow using Wikidata items and properties to describe images on Commons in the future
 * Fixed a bug with getLabelWithLang returning the wrong language (T152241)
 * Fixed an issue where some coordinate values displayed 60 seconds instead of rounding to 1 minute (T153429)
 * Adjusted language for simple English sitelinks (T152915)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Wikidata weekly summary #242
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Open requests for adminship: יונה בנדלאק, Pyb


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Next IRC office hour on January 5th
 * Past: we were at 33c3
 * Scaling OpenStreetMap with Wikidata knowledge
 * 2016 – A busy year for Gene Wiki and WikiData


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata and the celebrity deaths of 2016 on Buzzfeed
 * Welsh Wikipedia has some 16,000 lists regularly maintained from Wikidata


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: INSEE arrondissement code, INSEE countries and foreign territories code


 * Query examples:
 * [http://www.histropedia.com/showcase/wikidata-viewer.html?query=SELECT%20?person%20?personLabel%20%0A(SAMPLE(?birth_date)%20AS%20?birth_date)%20%0A(SAMPLE(?birth_date_precision)%20AS%20?birth_date_precision)%20%0A(SAMPLE(?death_date)%20AS%20?death_date)%20%0A(SAMPLE(?death_date_precision)%20AS%20?death_date_precision)%20%0A(SAMPLE(?image)%20AS%20?image)%20%0A(SAMPLE(?country_of_birth)%20AS%20?country_of_birth)%20%0A?Spotify%0A?awardLabel%0A?genreLabel%0A%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20?person%20wdt:P1902%20?SpotifyID%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B?person%20wdt:P166%20?award%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B?person%20wdt:P136%20?genre%7D%0A%0A%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20?person%20wdt:P18%20?image.%20%7D%20%20%0A%20BIND%20(URI(CONCAT(%22https://open.spotify.com/artist/%22,?SpotifyID))%20AS%20?Spotify)%0A%20%0A%20%20?person%20p:P569/psv:P569%20?birth_date_node%20.%20%0A%20%20?birth_date_node%20wikibase:timeValue%20?birth_date%20.%20%23this%20is%20now%20the%20actual%20birth%20date%0A%20%20?birth_date_node%20wikibase:timePrecision%20?birth_date_precision%20.%0A%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%0A%20%20%20%20?person%20p:P570/psv:P570%20?death_date_node.%20%0A%20%20%20%20?death_date_node%20wikibase:timeValue%20?death_date%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20?death_date_node%20wikibase:timePrecision%20?death_date_precision%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20?person%20wdt:P19/wdt:P17%20?countryItem.%20%0A%20%20%20%20?countryItem%20rdfs:label%20?country_of_birth.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER((LANG(?country_of_birth))%20%3D%20%22en%22)%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase:label%20%7B%20bd:serviceParam%20wikibase:language%20%22en%22,%22sv%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20?person%20?personLabel%20?Spotify%20?awardLabel%20?genreLabel%0A%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC(?rank)&url=Spotify&title=personLabel&from=birth_date&fromPrecision=birth_date_precision&to=death_date&toPrecision=death_date_precision&imageUrl=image&colourCodeBy=genreLabel&filterBy=country_of_birth,awardLabel%20&view=timeline Filtered timeline of Spotify artists]
 * Paintings of the Eiffel Tower by Robert Delaunay (source)
 * Ratio of “famous” (≥25 sitelinks) people’s deaths since 2000 (source)
 * Things with coordinates on globes other than Earth (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: US Virgin Islands
 * Newest external tools: "Descriptioner" - Tool to add descriptions batchwise
 * Newest database reports: Popular items without claims, Portuguese-language films without articles in Portuguese

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
 * Development
 * When a  property couldn't be resolved, a tracking category will be added (T50799)
 * Rewrote Special:NewItem and all other Special:New… pages to use OOUI error handling (T150205)
 * Getting ready the basic Lexeme prototype (T146662)
 * Continued work on federation basics (T149580)
 * Release version 1.0.0 of the [//github.com/wmde/DataTypes DataTypes] component
 * Enjoying the holidays and getting ready for this year's challenges. Hope you do to :)


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:55, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #242
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Current: Wikimedia Dev summit in San Francisco (January 9-11th) If you are there, come and meet our developers and volunteers!
 * Upcoming: WikiIndaba, January 20-22th, Accra, Ghana
 * Wikidata used to connect people giving interviews for the oral history project at the computer history museum


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Video: how institutions can donate data to Wikidata, explained in a cartoon
 * Category:Articles with infoboxes completely from Wikidata on English Wikipedia
 * Mix'n'match encountered some problems with labels and descriptions, some of them are now fixed, cf post from Magnus
 * Wikidata-powered citation lists with citation.js
 * How to use objects from OpenStreetMap in Wikidata
 * Video: Navigating a cemetery using Spotify and Wikidata (by Magnus Sälgö)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: eBird taxon ID, Victorian Heritage Database ID, Debian package, FIFA country code, time signature, angular resolution, vehicle normally used, people or cargo transported, AELG ID, VGMDb artist ID, ERIH PLUS ID, biological variant of, parent cell line, Publons Publication ID, Social Networks Archival Context ID, Electronic Enlightenment ID, INCAA film rating, as.com athlete ID, ArbetSam ID, Natura 2000 site ID, Polish cultural heritage register number


 * Query examples:
 * Birth place of Academy Award winners
 * Neujahrskonzert with conductor by country and age (source)
 * 9 species named after the President of the USA (source)
 * Newest external tools: R wrapper for WDQS API (by Mikhail Popov), Wikidata authority file mapping tool (by Jakob Voß)
 * Newest database reports: list of episodes of Desperate Housewives (in English and German)


 * Development
 * [//tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2017/wikimedia-office.2017-01-05-18.00.log.html Log of our last IRC office hour]
 * This week, most of the developers are at the Dev Summit hacking stuff and doing great things!
 * Continued working on "federation" – support for multiple Wikibase repositories (T76007)
 * New dimensions for unit conversion in the query service (T150881)
 * Fixed a timing issue that can happen when using the property suggester (T115267)
 * Still investigating an issue in which the "save" button stays disabled, as reported in December
 * We may remove the sliding animation when using the date, geo, monolingual, and quantity experts (330145). The preview popup may now cover parts of the page. Please try it at [//wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org/ wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org] and tell us what you think on our contact page.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Add statements to items without
 * Help with one of the bot requests
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.

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Wikidata weekly summary #243
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Badge for templates that work with Wikidata?


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Wikimedia Foundation receives $3 million grant from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to work on structured data for Commons
 * EPA CompTox Dashboard IDs in Wikidata
 * Data donation: 128K of Social Networks Archival Context IDs, matched to Wikipedia articles, and imported using P3430. Thanks, University of Virginia!
 * Past: Wikipedia Day 2017, NYC


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Discussion about the use of values from Wikidata in the English Wikipedia


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: legal status (medicine), basic reproduction number, muscle insertion, muscle origin, pregnancy category, minimal incubation period in humans, maximal incubation period in humans, normal respiratory rate, bite force quotient, name shares origin with, VGMDb album ID, Europeana Fashion creator ID, Parks & Gardens UK Record ID, base Mémoire reference, Aftonbladet topic ID, Songkick Artist ID, Nihon Tarento Meikan ID, PSA Worldtour ID, SANU member ID, Ubuntu 16.10 package, VICNAMES Place ID, wikiskripta id, Woodland Trust wood ID, WTA tennis tournament ID, National Inventors Hall of Fame ID, Inventario Sculture - Polo Museale Fiorentino, Israeli CBS municipal ID, maximum frequency of audible sound, medicine marketing authorisation, Fedora package, FAMA work ID, designated as terrorist by, colonel-in-chief, Euring number, CNC authorization number, case fatality rate, ATP tennis tournament ID, CircleID, Arch package, IPI base code, inferred from, nighttime view, season of, NSW Heritage database ID, stepparent, mirrors data from, FIDAL ID, Cinema of Israel ID


 * Query examples:
 * People without gender, but with photo (~2500 items)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%0A%20%20%28SAMPLE%28COALESCE%28%3Fen_label%2C%20%3Fitem_label%29%29%20as%20%3Fname%29%0A%20%20%23%28SAMPLE%28COALESCE%28%3Fplace_en_label%2C%20%3Fplace_label%29%29%20as%20%3Fplace%29%0A%20%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fcountry_label%29%20as%20%3Fcountry%29%0A%20%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Ftype_label%29%20as%20%3Ftype%29%0A%20%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fmaterial_label%29%20as%20%3Fmaterial%29%0A%20%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fimage%29%20as%20%3Fpicture%29%0A%20%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fcolor_label%29%20as%20%3Fcolor%29%0A%20%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fproduction%29%20as%20%3Fproduction_tons%29%0A%20%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Farea%29%20as%20%3Farea_hectares%29%0A%20%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Finception%29%20as%20%3Finception%29%0A%20%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fitem%29%20as%20%3Fwikidata%29%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Ftype%20wdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ10943.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP31%2Fps%3AP31%20%3Ftype.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fcountry.%7D%20UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP495%20%3Fcountry.%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fcountry%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fcountry_label.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3Fcountry_label%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fitem%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fen_label.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3Fen_label%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%7D%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fitem%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fitem_label%7D%0A%20%20%23OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1071%20%3Fplace.%7D%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fplace%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fplace_en_label.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3Fplace_en_label%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%7D%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fplace%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fplace_label%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Ftype%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Ftype_label%20.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3Ftype_label%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage.%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1092%20%3Fproduction.%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP2046%20%3Farea.%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP571%20%3Finception.%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP462%20%3Fcolor.%20%3Fcolor%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fcolor_label%20.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3Fcolor_label%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP186%20%3Fmaterial.%20%3Fmaterial%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fmaterial_label%20.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3Fmaterial_label%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%7D%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%20ORDER%20BY%20ASC%28%3Flabel%29 Gallery of cheese varieties and origin]
 * Taxa with more female than male individuals (source)
 * Scatter chart of river watershed area (in km²) over length (in km), now using normalized unit support (source)
 * Newest database reports: lighthouses at night


 * Development
 * Attended the Wikimedia Developer Summit to talk about a lot of things (including editing Wikidata from Wikipedia directly, back-end work for structured data support for Commons - specifically Multi Content Revisions, ideas for improvements to the query service)
 * Final touches to get ArticlePlaceholder pages ready for search engine indexing
 * Continued working on "federation" – support for multiple Wikibase repositories (T76007)
 * Clickable prototype for client editing is finally in the works!

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Help fixing the most important constraint violations
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

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Books and Bytes - Issue 20
 The Wikipedia Library Books & Bytes

Issue 20, November-December 2016 by, , ,

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 * Partner resource expansions
 * New search tool for finding TWL resources
 * # 1lib1ref 2017
 * Wikidata Visiting Scholar

Wikidata weekly summary #244
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 administrator: Pyb is now admin on Wikidata!


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Wikidata: the new hub for cultural heritage
 * Past: WikiIndaba, Ghana
 * Upcoming: FOSDEM, Brussels, February 4-5th


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Coordinates on Russian Wikipedia now link to maps generated with the Kartographer extension. The map includes the location outline, if that object exists in OpenStreetMap (OSM) with a corresponding Wikidata ID (ways and relations only, not nodes). Example: Зальцбург (click coordinates in the upper right corner, or in the infobox on the side). If you create a Wikidata item about a specific administrative area, building, or other physical individual object which appears on maps, then please add the Wikidata ID to the relevant object in OSM, using key:wikidata= (here's how to contribute to OSM).
 * QuickStatements V2 can now run your commands in the background, no need to keep the browser tab open anymore
 * List of churches generated from Wikidata on Cymraeg Wikipedia


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: ZNIEFF Code, teams classification by time, cycling teams classification by points, FilmPolski.pl ID, points classification, legal status (medicine), basic reproduction number, muscle insertion, muscle origin


 * Query examples:
 * Tide mills in France (source)
 * Wind mills in Paris (source)
 * Mathematical formulae containing HTML escapes (source)
 * Fire stations in Paris (source)


 * Development
 * Created a new Special:EntityPage, needed for federation (T153499)
 * Sitelink "name" and "badges" in diffs are now translated (T111016)
 * Worked on finalizing mockups for editing Wikidata from Wikipedia and co. Now working on the click-dummy for it so we can try it with you.
 * Last touches for automated sitelinks for Wiktionary.
 * A ton of refactoring needed for Wiktionary support.
 * More research on improving our input widgets (for example URL and date).

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

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Wikidata weekly summary #245
<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: ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Economists in Wikidata: Opportunities of Authority Linking
 * FOSDEM, February 4-5th in Brussels Come and talk about Wikidata with us! See also the talk about UX and users' needs for Wikidata
 * Web Search and Data Mining Conference, February 6-10th, Cambridge


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Data donation: BBC Things ID (P1617) for news topics, kindly supplied by the BBC. All now uploaded, via Mix'n'Match
 * The StrepHit grant tool was renewed, so the Primary Sources tool can be improved in the future
 * The Bodleian Libraries (Oxford University) are looking for a Wikimedia data assistant to work on Wikidata


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: FIBA player ID, MLB ID, NFL.com ID, fussballdaten.de ID, FootballDatabase.eu ID, euroleague.net ID, JapanTour ID, Australian Government Organisations Register ID, draftexpress.com ID, databaseFootball.com ID, AZBilliards ID, par, median income, Luding game ID, eurobasket.com ID, wisdenindia.com ID, acb.com ID, Simple Modular Architecture Research Tool ID, Rfam ID, NHL.com ID, EuroTour ID, databaseOlympics.com ID, Pfam ID, Smithsonian trinomial, Geographical Names Board of New South Wales ID, National Park Foundation ID, NPCA ID, U.S. National Geodetic Survey ID, peakware ID, means of locomotion, VGMDb label ID, Dagens Nyheter topic ID, Bivouac Mountain Encyclopedia ID, Luding designer ID, BoardGameGeek designer ID, Florentine Inventario Palatina art ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali building ID, Ameblo username, Catholic rite, Ringgold identifier, Gentoo package


 * Query examples:
 * Most articles about films in each Wikipedia
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20psv%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fstatement%2Fvalue%2F%3E%20SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%28GROUP_CONCAT%28DISTINCT%20%3FcounLabel%3B%20SEPARATOR%3D%22%2C%20%22%29%20AS%20%3Fcountry%29%20%28GROUP_CONCAT%28DISTINCT%20%3FhqLabel%3B%20SEPARATOR%3D%22%2C%20%22%29%20AS%20%3Fheadquarters%29%20%3Frevenue%20%3Frevenue_USD%20%3FunitLabel%20%3Fdate%20%20%0AWHERE%20{%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ4830453.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP2139%20%3Fstatement.%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20{%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP159%20%3Fhq.%20}%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20{%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fcoun.%20}%0A%20%20%3Fstatement%20wikibase%3Arank%20%3Frank.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20{%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP2139%20%3Fstatement1.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fstatement1%20wikibase%3Arank%20wikibase%3APreferredRank.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Frank%20!%3D%20wikibase%3APreferredRank%29%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Fstatement1%20!%3D%20%3Fstatement%29%0A%20%20}%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20{%20%3Fstatement%20pq%3AP585%20%3Fdate.%20}%0A%20%20{%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fstatement%20psv%3AP2139%20_%3Ab9.%0A%20%20%20%20_%3Ab9%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3Frevenue.%0A%20%20%20%20_%3Ab9%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ4917.%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28wd%3AQ4917%20AS%20%3Funit%29%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28%3Frevenue%20AS%20%3Frevenue_USD%29%0A%20%20}%0A%20%20UNION%0A%20%20{%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fstatement%20psv%3AP2139%20_%3Ab10.%0A%20%20%20%20_%3Ab10%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3Frevenue.%0A%20%20%20%20_%3Ab10%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20%3Funit.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Funit%20p%3AP2284%20%3Funit_statement.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Funit_statement%20wikibase%3Arank%20%3Funit_rank.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Funit_statement%20psv%3AP2284%20_%3Ab11.%0A%20%20%20%20_%3Ab11%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ4917.%0A%20%20%20%20_%3Ab11%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3Fusd.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20{%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Funit%20p%3AP2284%20%3Funit_statement1.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Funit_statement1%20%28psv%3AP2284%2Fwikibase%3AquantityUnit%29%20wd%3AQ4917.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Funit_statement1%20wikibase%3Arank%20wikibase%3APreferredRank.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Funit_rank%20!%3D%20wikibase%3APreferredRank%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Funit_statement1%20!%3D%20%3Funit_statement%29%0A%20%20%20%20}%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28%3Frevenue%20*%20%3Fusd%20AS%20%3Frevenue_USD%29%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Funit%20!%3D%20wd%3AQ4917%29%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Funit_rank%20!%3D%20wikibase%3ADeprecatedRank%29%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28!BOUND%28%3Funit_statement1%29%29%0A%20%20}%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20{%0A%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FitemLabel%20.%0A%20%20%3Fcoun%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FcounLabel%20.%0A%20%20%3Fhq%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FhqLabel%20.%0A%20%20%3Funit%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FunitLabel%20.%0A%20%20}%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3Frank%20!%3D%20wikibase%3ADeprecatedRank%29%0A%20%20FILTER%28!BOUND%28%3Fstatement1%29%29%0A}%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Frevenue%20%3Frevenue_USD%20%3FunitLabel%20%3Fdate%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Frevenue_USD%29%0ALIMIT%2015 Largest companies by revenue in USD]
 * Characters whose actors died recently (source)
 * Stock-listed US companies with founders who (or whose parents) were born outside the US (source)
 * Wizards from Harry Potter and their houses/groups (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Companies
 * Newest database reports: film festivals this month


 * Development
 * RDF exports will contain sitelink page names as strings in addition to the URLs (T148923)
 * Switching the remaining special pages for labels, descriptions and aliases to the OOUI design (T48248)
 * Finalizing the security review of the Cognate extension for Wiktionary (T149082)
 * We plan to provide  Open Graph tags for sharing Item pages in social networks (T51859)
 * Introducing a new test framework for special pages (T69122)
 * Refactoring the wbeditentity API to work with the new Lexeme entity type (T154288)
 * Added [//phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/EWBA/browse/master/docs/change-op-serializations.wiki docs/change-op-serializations.wiki] documenting how to use the wbeditentity API
 * Added a [//phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/EWBA/browse/master/CREDITS CREDITS] file to the Wikibase code base, listing all authors

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

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