User talk:Tom Morris/Archive 96

Wikidata weekly summary #238
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Closed request for comments: Editing descriptions from Wikipedia Android app


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: Wikidata workshop at Code for Germany with OKLabs, Jens and WikidataFacts. You can read a blog post by Riedelwerk (in German) More documentation to come soon
 * How Wikidata could be used for biomedical knowledge (Benjamin Good)
 * The Fossasia Opentech Submit in Singapore is looking for speakers. If you're in the area and want to introduce attendees to Wikidata, feel free to send your application!


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Sitelinks for the new Finnish Wikivoyage can be added


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: French Sculpture Census work ID, Japan Sumo Association ID, film poster, GeneDB ID, File Format Wiki page ID, FAO 2007 genetic resource ID, Model Manual ID, Merck Index reaction ID, Bloomberg private company ID, Belgian Enterprise number, GECD Firmen-ID, endianness, sibling


 * Query examples:
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Bridges%20named%20after%20women%0A%23%20Adapted%20from%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fwiki%2FWikidata%3ARequest_a_query%23bridges_named_after_women%20by%20MisterSynergy%20%2C%20Jura1%202016-12-03%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%0A%09%3Fbridge%20%3FbridgeLabel%20%0A%09%3Fwoman%20%3FwomanLabel%20%0A%09%3Fcoor%20%0A%09%3Fcountry%20%3FcountryLabel%20%0A%09%3Fwaterbody%20%3FwaterbodyLabel%20%0A%09%28BOUND%28%3FenArticle%29%20AS%20%3FhasEn%29%20%28BOUND%28%3FfrArticle%29%20AS%20%3FhasFr%29%20%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20%3Fbridge%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ12280%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP138%20%3Fwoman%20.%0A%20%20%3Fwoman%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ6581072%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%20%20%20%3Fbridge%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fcountry%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%09%3Fbridge%20wdt%3AP177%20%3Fwaterbody%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%20%20%20%3FenArticle%20a%20schema%3AArticle%3B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fwoman%3B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2F%3E.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%20%20%20%3FfrArticle%20a%20schema%3AArticle%3B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fwoman%3B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Ffr.wikipedia.org%2F%3E.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fbridge%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoor%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%2Cfr%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%20%0AORDER%20BY%20%3Fcountry Bridges named after women] (source)
 * Network of brands of some big food/drink companies (source, help improve it)
 * Cities located next to most rivers (source)
 * Nobel Prize winners on Twitter (source)
 * French deputies who died during their mandate (source)
 * Streets in the Netherlands named after people
 * People burried in the cemetery of La Croix Rousse (Lyon, France) (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Politicians in France
 * Newest database reports: list of films with multiple-language versions (Italian labels)


 * Development
 * Special:EntityUsage and Special:PagesWithBadges now are using OOjs UI (T152046)
 * RFC discussion on ways to allow visitors to choose a language without logging in (T149419 and T114662)
 * Investigating performance issues with change dispatching (T151681)
 * Continued work on Lexeme prototype (T146662), refining the Lexeme data model (T151582)
 * Continued work on federation basics (T149580)
 * Some discussion on tracking usage of statements or statement groups on clients (T151717, see mailing list)
 * Investigating support for Linked Data Fragments (T136358)
 * We're participating in this year's Google Code-In with a couple of Wikidata related tasks
 * Research for Wikidata for Commons and Wiktionary continues
 * Added olo (Livvinkarjala), mai and tcy to interwiki sorting order. (T151449)

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
 * Help with one of the bot requests
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:58, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

BBC 12-hour Editathon - large influx of new pages & drafts expected
AfC Reviewers are asked to be especially on the look out 08:00-20:00 UTC (that's local London time - check your USA and AUS times) on Thursday 8 December for new pages. The BBC together with Wikimedia UK is holding a large 12-hour editathon. Many new articles and drafts are expected. See BBC 100 Women 2016: How to join our edit-a-thon. Follow also on #100womenwiki, and please, don't bite the newbies :) (user:Kudpung for NPR. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:02, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #239
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.  It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of User:Coyau. He was a very active editor on Wikidata and the other Wikimedia projects. He will be deeply missed by his friends and family but his great work on open culture will stay. Feel free to browse and share his work. Thanks Guillaume for this message.


 * Discussions
 * New development input: Avoiding breaking gadgets when developing UI
 * Closed request for comments: Data quality framework for Wikidata
 * Wishlist at What government data is of best interest?


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: Open Gov Partnership conference in Paris, where Ash_Crow and other editors presented Wikidata


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Have a look at PAWS, a tool to create Wikidata bots (and a cheat sheet from WikidataFacts)
 * Item Q 28 000 000 is about to be created.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: CNC film rating (Romania), Wilderness.net ID, CORDIS Project ID, JTWC tropical cyclone ID, Butterflies and Moths of North America ID, Guide of the French Church person ID, Guide of the French Church structure ID, heart rate, Järviwiki ID, LittleSis organisation ID, Surman ID, Verkhovna Rada MP id, Consolidated code of the electronic catalog of libraries of Belarus, Royal Swedish Academy of Letters member ID, LittleSis people ID, minimum frequency of audible sound


 * Query examples:
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23%20Query%20Find%20in%20WikiData%20people%20with%20Place%20of%20Burial%20Q252312%20Norra%20Begravningsplatsen%0A%23%20Show%20Wikitree%20ID%2C%20Find%20A%20Grave%20ID%20and%20if%20picture%20of%20the%20grave%20exist%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%3AP2949%20%3FWikiTreeID%20.%7D%20%09%09%09%23%20If%20we%20have%20a%20WikiTree%20profile%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%20OPTIONAL%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%20BIND%20%28URI%28CONCAT%28%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikitree.com%2Fwiki%22%2C%3FWikiTreeID%29%29%20AS%20%3FWikiTree%29%20%20%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%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%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%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP106%20%3Fgroup%20.%7D%20%09%09%09%23%20Occupation%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 Map of people buried in the cemetery of Norra Begravningsplatsen] (Stockholm, Sweden)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%23%23%20%C5%92uvres%20du%20mus%C3%A9e%20Saint-Raymond%20sur%20Wikidata%0A%0APREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%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%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FinstanceLabel%20%20%3FNumInventaire%20%28CONCAT%28%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.culture.gouv.fr%2Fpublic%2Fmistral%2Fjoconde_fr%3FACTION%3DCHERCHER%26FIELD_1%3DREF%26VALUE_1%3D%22%2C%3FIDJoconde%29%20as%20%3FJoconde%29%20%3Fimage%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP195%20wd%3AQ1376%20%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Item%20ayant%20en%20collection%20%28P195%29%20le%20mus%C3%A9e%20Saint-Raymond%20%28Q1376%29%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20%3Finstance%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Nature%20de%20l%27item%20%28P31%29%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%7BSELECT%20%3Fitem%20%28GROUP_CONCAT%28DISTINCT%20%20%3Finv%3B%20separator%3D%22%3B%22%29%20as%20%3FNumInventaire%29%20%20%23%20Num%C3%A9ros%20d%27inventaire%20%28P214%29%20%0A%20%20%20%20WHERE%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP217%20%3Finv%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%7DGROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP347%20%3FIDJoconde.%7D%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Identifiant%20Joconde%0A%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%7BSELECT%20%3Fitem%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fimg%29%20AS%20%3Fimage%29%20%20%23%20Fichier%20image%20sur%20Wikimedia%20Commons%20%28P18%29%20%0A%20%20%20%20WHERE%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimg%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%7DGROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7Bbd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22fr%22%7D%0A%7DORDER%20BY%20%3Fitem Works of Musée Saint-Raymond (Toulouse, France) on Wikidata] (source)
 * Communes of France named after a river
 * People awarded by a Theater World Award in 2016
 * Upcoming creative works: films, TV series, video games… (source)
 * Number of demonstrations per country (source)
 * Newest database reports: Spanish-language films without an article in Spanish Wikipedia


 * Development
 * Continued work on Lexeme prototype (T146662), we're discussing some details in the data model (T152019)
 * Continued work on federation basics (T149580)
 * Rework translation/article creation UI (T151858)
 * Creating OOUI mockups as preparation for the dev summit
 * Finishing touches on the extension for automatic generation of inter-wiktionary links (preparatory work for lexicographic data in Wikidata)

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
 * Help with one of the bot requests
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:47, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #240
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Voting on Make family member properties gender neutral: replacement of mother/father with a new "parent" properties
 * Switch Wikidata entities from http to https: T153563


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Blog post about the Wikidata workshop at Code for Germany (de)
 * Wikidata people will be at the Chaos Communication Congress (Hamburg, December 27th-30th) on the Open Knowledge Assembly stand


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Basque language Wikipedia develops a most prominent basque and worlwide person born/death in this day for all the day related articles. For example, eu:Abenduaren 19. It also displays interesting red links for people born and dead that day that are not represented in eu:wp.
 * WDQ about to be shut down (you can add sub-tasks for remaining uses to T153439)
 * SQID now supports PrimarySources
 * Project Grants program will fund 12 community-led projects, several of them directly related to Wikidata
 * Citoid, a script for editing references that can automatically populate parts of the reference, is now available for testing!
 * New parser function has been enabled
 * Histropedia added new features to the Wikidata query timeline


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Yle Areena ID, Leopoldina member ID, Protected areas of Canada ID, Saxon Academy of Sciences member ID, Clergy of the Church of England database ID, Catalogus Professorum Lipsiensis ID, FINA Athlete ID, Klosterdatenbank, Saccharomyces Genome Database ID, Nederlands Soortenregister ID, The Vogue List ID, coextensive with


 * Query examples:
 * Timeline of the Christmas movies (source)
 * All Theatre World Award winners, in a timeline with pictures (source)
 * Birthplaces of people buried in Norra Begravningsplatsen (source)
 * Planets, their moons, and the things they are named after (source)
 * Items with no father or no mother (source)
 * [http://histropedia.com/showcase/wikidata-viewer.html?query=%23People%20born%20on%20christmas%20day%0ASELECT%20?personItem%20?person%20?personDescription%20?date%20?Country_of_citizenship%20?Occupation%20?Gender%20?image%20?rank%20(if(BOUND(?personDescription),%20CONCAT(?person,%27%20(%27,?personDescription,%27)%27),%20?person)%20as%20?title)%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%7B%0ASELECT%20?personItem%20?date%20?countryItem%20?occupationItem%20?genderItem%0A(SAMPLE(?image)%20as%20?image)%0A(COUNT(DISTINCT%20?article)%20as%20?rank)%20%0AWHERE%20%7B%09%0A?personItem%20wdt:P569%20?date%20.%0A?personItem%20wdt:P18%20?image%20.%0A?personItem%20wdt:P21%20?genderItem%20.%0A?personItem%20wdt:P106%20?occupationItem%20.%0A?personItem%20wdt:P27%20?countryItem%20.%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20?article%20schema:about%20?personItem%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%20(SUBSTR(STR(?article),12,19)%20%3D%20%22wikipedia.org/wiki/%22)%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%0AFILTER%20(datatype(?date)%20%3D%20xsd:dateTime%20&&%20month(?date)%20%3D%2012%20&&%20day(?date)%20%3D%2025)%09%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20?personItem%20?date%20?countryItem%20?occupationItem%20?genderItem%0A%7D%0ASERVICE%20wikibase:label%20%7B%0Abd:serviceParam%20wikibase:language%20%27en%27%20.%0A?personItem%20schema:description%20?personDescription%20.%0A?personItem%20rdfs:label%20?person%20.%0A?countryItem%20rdfs:label%20?Country_of_citizenship%20.%0A?occupationItem%20rdfs:label%20?Occupation%20.%0A?genderItem%20rdfs:label%20?Gender%20.%0A%7D%0A%7D%20%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC(?rank)&url=personItem&title=title&from=date&imageUrl=image&colourCodeBy=Country_of_citizenship&threshold=1&filterBy=Gender,Occupation&view=timeline People born on Christmas day] (source)
 * Newest external tools: “short author name” resolver tool
 * Newest database reports: hospital lists
 * Development
 * Statements will soon be ordered as specified in MediaWiki:Wikibase-SortedProperties (T150788)
 * Getting ready the basic Lexeme prototype (T146662), we're discussing some details in the data model (T152019)
 * Continued work on federation basics (T149580)
 * We removed the page property, old entries will not be updated any more (T146792)
 * Removed a visible jump while an entity page loads (325924)
 * Fixed a formatting issue in which the geo coordinate formatter may output "60 seconds" (T153429)
 * Fixed a bug in Special:NewProperty where it was not possible to provide the property type as part of the URL (327496)
 * Working on a major rewrite of Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel/Description, one of many steps to phase numeric entity IDs out (T140891)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:19, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
 * 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
 * Help with one of the bot requests
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.