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Wikidata weekly summary #232
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

 Wikidata celebrates its 4th anniversary on October 29th. Around this date, a lot of events will happen online and offline.
 * Wikidata's birthday is coming!

Birthday events

Editors all around the world organize meetups to celebrate the birthday. You can join one of them or create an event in your own town!
 * San Francisco (USA), October 26th
 * Torino (Italy), October 26th
 * Tokyo (Japan), October 28th
 * Paris (France), October 29th
 * Utrecht (NL), October 29th
 * Berlin (Germany), November 4th
 * Rennes (France), November 5th

Online

A lot of surprises, stories and presents will be shared between October 29th and November 4th. Check the project chat or the mailing-list every day to see what happens!

You can also participate by posting a story (more info here), a tweet with #WikidataBirthday, let a message or a present on the birthday page.

If you're participating to Wikidata's birthday, you can add this template to your user page.


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Wikidata workshops in Paris : every month, Wikimédia France and editors organize a workshop about Wikidata and related tools. Check out the schedule
 * Upcoming: Ladies that FOSS October 29th in Berlin, organized by Lucie and Julia from the Wikidata team


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * WikiCite 2016 report


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Third-party formatter URL, Open Media Database film ID, broadcast by, musical conductor, Student register of the University of Helsinki 1640–1852 ID, Belgian Senate person ID, Flemish Parliament person ID, DRÚSOP ID


 * Query examples:
 * places of birth of living US senators (compare with last week's)
 * Wikidata map of filming locations (source)
 * Streets in Paris named after a physician (source)
 * Moons of trans-Neptunian objects (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Chess


 * Development
 * Fixed a rounding error in the geo coordinate formatter (see [//github.com/DataValues/Geo/pull/78 GitHub]). Thanks, 0x686578!
 * Improvements to technical error messages, e.g. "illegal value" when editing a Commons media statement (T141880).
 * Continued working on a new parser function to get rich, formatted statements.
 * Continued working on making entity usage information visible to users.

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

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 10:37, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #233
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.  The birthday week started and already a lot of events happened, presents have been shared, stories have been told! Here's what you may have missed:
 * Wikidata's birthday: presents, stories and events
 * a word from the development team by Lydia
 * a new version of the map showing all the Wikidata items with geolocalisation, by Addshore, who explains how he generated it in a blog post
 * The 4th birthday logo by Incabell
 * A new release of the Wikipedia and Wikidata Tools for Google Spreadsheets add-on has made working with Wikidata a lot easier for Google Sheets users, by Tomayac
 * A guide to SPARQL and the Wikidata Query Service, by TweetsFactsAndQueries
 * Four new types of charts for the Query Service: line chart, bar chart, scatter chart and area chart (read more and try examples in the documentation) by Jonas
 * , a new parser function is currently in development with better features that you can try on beta by the Wikidata dev team and volunteers
 * Search field added in Scholia, a tool to create scholarship profiles, by fnielsen
 * 10 cool queries for Wikidata that will blow your mind. Number 7 will shock you, by Jens and Cornelius
 * 4 years of Wikidata by Stryn
 * A lot of people celebrating and posting pictures on Twitter or on Commons!

The birthday party is not finished yet, every day until November 4th you will discover new presents and stories. Follow the project chat or the mailing-list or #Wikidatabirthday to get the news!


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Wikidata birthday in Kanpur (India), November 3rd
 * Wikidata birthday in Berlin (Germany), November 4th
 * Wikidata birthday in Rennes (France), November 5th
 * OKlab Berlin hacknights, October 31st and November 7th
 * Pidapalooza, Reykjavik, November 9-10
 * Past: Ladies that FOSS (livetweet report)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: SummitPost ID, lib.reviews ID, Galiciana Author ID, ICAA rating, KINENOTE person ID, NGS pumping station ID, third-party formatter URL, Open Media Database film ID, broadcast by


 * Query examples:
 * Deities and their families
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20p%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20v%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fstatement%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20q%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fqualifier%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20rdfs%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2F01%2Frdf-schema%23%3E%0APREFIX%20ps%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fstatement%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20psv%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fstatement%2Fvalue%2F%3E%0A%0A%20%20%20%23%20%20Query%20to%20find%20the%20most-frequently%20represented%0A%20%20%20%23%20%20variants%20of%20the%20male%20given%20name%20%3Ftgt_name%0A%20%20%20%23%20%20when%20%3Ftgt_name%20%3D%20Q2958359%0A%20%20%20%23%20%20Query%20generated%20by%20%5B%5BTemplate%3ANameVariantStatsM%5D%5D%0A%0ASELECT%20%3Fname%20%3FnameLabel%20%3Fcount%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20hint%3AQuery%20hint%3Aoptimizer%20%22None%22%20.%20%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fname%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fa%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fname%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%3Fname%20wdt%3AP460%2A%20wd%3AQ15235674%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%20wd%3AQ15235674%20wdt%3AP460%2A%20%3Fname%7D%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fname%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ12308941%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%20LIMIT%20100%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fa%20wdt%3AP735%20%3Fname%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fa%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fname%0A%20%20%7D%20.%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%0A%23%20HAVING%20%28%3Fcount%20%3E%201%29%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29%20%3FitemLabel%0A Most frequently variants of given names] (source)
 * Cheese made with cow milk (source)
 * Abandoned villages in the Czech Republic (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Informatics: File Formats
 * Newest database reports: Liam Neeson filmography


 * Development
 * We proposed a meaningful initial order for the statementSort gadget (T147062)
 * Commons media file properties now support pasting full Wikimedia Commons URLs (T147917)
 * Added distinct hover tooltips to rank and snak type selectors, as well as some of the "add" buttons (T139356)
 * Our concept base URI will be exposed as part of the [#action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=general ] API (T143910). Thanks, user Lokal Profil!
 * Progress on the  API module to query entity usage information (T145880)
 * Progress on the new parser function for rich, formatted statements (T142940)
 * Released [//github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModel/releases/tag/6.2.0 Wikibase DataModel 6.2.0]
 * Released [//phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/GDVV/browse/master/RELEASE-NOTES.md ValueView 0.18.0]

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

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:06, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 19
 The Wikipedia Library Books & Bytes

Issue 19, September–October 2016 by Nikkimaria, Sadads and UY Scuti  Read the full newsletter 19:07, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
 * New and expanded donations - Foreign Affairs, Open Edition, and many more
 * New Library Card Platform and Conference news
 * Spotlight: Fixing one million broken links