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Books & Bytes - Issue 17
 The Wikipedia Library Books & Bytes

Issue 17, April-May 2016 by The Interior, Ocaasi, UY Scuti, Sadads, and Nikkimaria

 Read the full newsletter The Interior via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:36, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
 * New donations this month - a German-language legal resource
 * Wikipedia referals to academic citations - news from CrossRef and WikiCite2016
 * New library stats, WikiCon news, a bot to reveal Open Access versions of citations, and more!

Wikidata weekly summary #214
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) 13:29, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Upcoming: Wikimania
 * Upcoming: WikiConvention francophone
 * Past: GLAM Wiki Boot Camp
 * Past: Silicon Mountain Conf
 * Past: OpenData.ch
 * Past: Semantic Web + Wikidata
 * Wikidata beim Hackathon HackHPI in Potsdam
 * Data Ex Machina
 * Op-ed in the Wikipedia Signpost regarding Wikidata licensing
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * ORES is not available as a beta feature to make it easier to find bad edits
 * New user script to show the main image of an item is ready for testing
 * Into football/soccer? WikiProject Association football/Euro 2016 could use your help.
 * Want to see Wikidata changes in the history of a Wikipedia article? There is a user script that needs your feedback.
 * We are looking for people who work on list articles.
 * You can test a gadget that lets you easily run a query for more items with the same statement.
 * Language fallback is now happening on Wikipedia and co
 * Maps are now enabled on Wikidata
 * First beta release of StrepHit
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID, focal height, month of the year, label in sign language, PO Box, COAM ID, syntax clarification, ECARTICO person ID, MSBI person ID, date depicted, distinctive jersey, time gap, icon, SecondHandSongs artist ID, SecondHandSongs song ID, timezone offset
 * Query examples: colors of chemical compounds (source), map of braodway venues (source), sculptures by Max Bill (source), works of art where the name might be a rhyme (source), works of art where the title is an alliteration (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Professional Wrestling
 * ORDER BY RAND LIMIT 100 can avoid timeouts on Wikidata Query Service (source)
 * Development
 * Worked on making it easier to add new query examples right from the query service by just clicking a button. There are some technical issues with it still though. Will take a while to sort through.
 * More work on creating new Media-Info entities (the equivalent of item for media file data) on the fly (T134259)
 * Fixed a but with suggestions not showing up (T138059)
 * Improved display of query examples (T137589) and cleaned them up
 * Improved database access (T137539)
 * Fixed a but with the rank selector (T109583)
 * Started concept work for automated list generation
 * Discussed the proposal for Wiktionary with a linguist to get more detailed feedback on it. Very positive.
 * 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.

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 9
Newsletter • May / June 2016

Check out this month's issue of the WikiProject X newsletter, featuring the first screenshot of our new CollaborationKit software!

Harej (talk) 00:23, 25 June 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #215
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) 16:48, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Verifiability and living persons, RfP voting eligibility
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: Wikimania! The Wikidata-related program parts including slides and notes can be found on the Wikidata Wikimania page.
 * TIB and HsH project approved: The replication of Open-Access images
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * EasyQuery is now a gadget that you can enable in your preferences. It gives you an icon next to each statement value. That gives you a list of other items with the same statement.
 * Stats have been updated and show a significant jump in references.
 * SQID now shows references (example)
 * INSPIRE HEP has been added to Mix'n'match
 * PAWS is now available. It lets you easily run a Jupyter notebook and much more.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: language used, connector, Encyclopedia of Triangle Centers identifier, INSPIRE-HEP author ID, lighthouse range, memory capacity, water as percent of area, InterPro ID, domain of saint or deity
 * Query examples: sandwich ingredients (source), inventors killed by their own invention (source), objects with most mass (source), music genres (source), number of jurisdictions by driving side (source)
 * Development
 * The majority of the Wikidata developers team atteded Wikimania
 * You can now embed query results from query.wikidata.org in other websites (example)
 * Linking MediaInfo entities to media files in the "MediaInfo for Commons" prototype (T134473)
 * Tracking more statistics for the ArticlePlaceholder (T138500)
 * Adding support for quantity values with unknown uncertainty (T115269)
 * Worked on fix for bug where new entities can be created with wrong language (T138725)
 * 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.