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Wikidata weekly summary #220
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) 21:33, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Notability of items for templates
 * One or more property examples?
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Ongoing: Repository Fringe
 * Ongoing: ICBO (slides)
 * Upcoming: CCBWIKI
 * Localités au fil de l'eau
 * WDQ, obsolete?
 * BigQuery, Wikidata & AgreeList — idea
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * You can now see the very first steps towards structured data support for Wikimedia Commons.
 * You can now translate all sister project pages to your language, like Wikidata:Wikipedia. Please, link to them from your projects to give your fellow users chance to learn Wikidata basics.
 * You can now enable the CoordinateDiffMap Gadget in your preferences to get a map for coordinate changes.
 * There is a new command line tool to extract taxonomies from Wikidata
 * Simple guide to help Wikipedia editors find Wikidata IDs. In English - please translate into other languages!
 * You can now use Wikidata to do cool things in Mapbox with the Mapbox iOS SDK
 * IPTC's NewsCodes Working Group has mapped the top two levels of hierarchical terms of Media Topics to Wikidata
 * WMDE's progress report for the annual plan grant with a focus on Wikidata has been published
 * Need to query Wikidata, but lack SPARQL skills? There is now Wikidata:Request a query for you!
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: residence time of water, railway signalling system, located in protected area, Rolling Stone artist ID, French national research structure identifier, backup or reserve team or crew, laws applied, surface tension, Standard Geographical Classification code, World Archery ID, Conservatoire du littoral ID, Australian Heritage Database Place ID, Cadw Monument ID, Marine Regions Geographic ID, valid in place, Galiciana ID, zanikleobce.cz abandoned objects ID, Untappd brewery ID, retirement age
 * Query examples: frequency of Romans' praenomen (source), movies by number of actors who studied at RADA (source), actors directed by Tony Scott + number of appearances (source), actors directed more than 20 times by the same director (source), actors directed more than 20 times by the same director with years (source)
 * Newest database reports: list of Romans, minimum ages by country
 * Development
 * Got the demo system for structured data on Commons ready for first show (see above)
 * Wikipedia editors will soon get a notification when an article they created was connected to a Wikidata item. Thanks Matej! (T110604)
 * Worked on improving handling of +-1 etc in quantities (T115269)
 * Added a message to the suggester that pops up when you search for items or properties. When no matching property or item is found it will now tell you. (T140085)
 * Considerably improved our browser tests to find more issues before You ever see them.
 * Added Haida as a language available for monolingual text properties (T138131)
 * 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.

Wikidata weekly summary #221
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) 09:40, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: Repository Fringe (slides)
 * Past: WikiConference India 2016
 * Upcoming: Wikidata-Hackathon (topic is SPARQL) in München on 11th of August
 * Upcoming: SMWCon (call for contributions)
 * Visualizing the DNC vs RNC conventions with Wikipedia+Wikidata+BigQuery
 * Livin’ on the edge
 * Communes orphelines?
 * Paper: Getting the units right: inferring identifier units from a corpus of formulae in Wikipedia and Wikidata
 * Paper: Querying Wikidata: Comparing SPARQL, Relational and Graph Databases
 * Paper: WIKIREADING: A Novel Large-scale Language Understanding Task over Wikipedia
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * We now have two new pages to find property proposal discussions that need input: Property proposal/Overview, Property proposal/Attention needed
 * WSDM2017 Cup on knowledge base quality and search including tasks about vandalism detection in Wikidata (announcement)
 * Sitelinks for the new Tulu Wikipedia can be added
 * Wikidata Toolkit 0.7.0 has been released
 * Several grant proposals that could use endorsements or discussion: Wikidata module, StrepHit IEG renewal, Librarybase, WikiFactMine
 * 15% of items connected to articles on Japanese Wikipedia have no statements (report with categories on these pages)
 * Wikidata descriptions on mobile web version of Wikipedia
 * Job opening at TIB
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: wheelbase, IWM memorial ID, spatial reference system, precipitation height, ISBN publisher prefix, Indonesian ethnicity code, package management system, adjacent building, EPPO Code, sheet music, UK National Archives ID, open period to, open period from, closed on, open days, ITU letter code, Legacies of British Slave-ownership person ID, flag bearer, Iranica ID
 * Query examples: places of worship in France (source), former capitals (source), Edinburgh-born authors and their notable works (source), movies by David Lynch by duration (source), descendants of Gustav Vasa, people sharing the same name, the other way around, Tony awards nominees and winners (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece
 * Newest database reports: List of Roman dictators
 * Development
 * Glorian joins the team for 6 months as a product management intern
 * Example dialog on query.wikidata.org now shows categories (T140576)
 * Map result view now allows layers and multi colored dots (preview)
 * Made the tatus bar messages in the Query Service translatable (T140383)
 * Made it easier to notice that embedded Query Service results can be edited and are coming from Wikidata (T138766)
 * Improved the way error messages are displayed while editing items (T141880, T141879)
 * Worked on layout improvements to have a better visual separation of qualifiers and references (T141862)
 * Added a line to the suggester to indicate when no matching item or property was found (T142034)
 * Fixed and issue with scroll bars in the logo section of the ArticlePlaceholder (T139977)
 * Worked more on making it possible to translate an article in the ArticlePlaceholder (T124036)
 * Worked on fixing link in in other languages section for ArticlePlaceholder (T137933)
 * Worked more on groundwork for multi content revisions which we need for structured data support for Commons in order to have structured and unstructured data on the file page at the same time (T141878)
 * Worked on automatically creating a mediainfo entity when adding a statement - so far it is only possible by adding a label or description (T140760)
 * 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.