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This Month in Education: June 2014
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Wikidata weekly summary #114
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 13:29, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Idea collection: data quality and trust
 * Open RfAs: PMG, Dr Zimbu, 콩가루
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Several Wikipedias now have a template (d:Q17195970) for articles which have a related property in Wikidata.
 * User:Thepwnco is working on a documentation overhaul and updating Help pages for a FOSS project - leave feedback on suggested changes here
 * First concept designs of Wikidata's possible new interface
 * GenderCounter uses Wikidata to provide an accurate service with distinguishing male and female names
 * ca.wikipedia found a nice way to use Wikidata. They're comparing their living people to Wikidata to see if any of them have a date of death there. They're then put into a category for review: ca:Categoria:Persones vives a revisar
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: BBC Your Paintings, successor, predecessor, ITTF ID, points/goal scored by, TLS, Anime News Network ID, Monte Carlo Particle Number, Number of points/goals conceded, points for, matches/games drawn/tied, matches lost/games lost, matches won/games won
 * New task forces: LGBT task force
 * Development
 * Created a script that provides the schema creation SQL for Wikibase Query
 * Releases Wikibase Internal Serialization 1.1
 * Made WikibaseDataModelJavascript a separate component at https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModelJavascript.
 * Continued working on full redirect support for items. It touches a surprising big chunk of the code base.
 * Continued working on the QueryEngine code base and it’s data type support.
 * Fixed and updated the most recent implementation of the property and item selector widget, e.g. a MonoBook specific bug.
 * Pushed along reviews and deployment of the entity suggester code that will make suggestions for new properties to be added to items. Our hope is to have it through performance review for the next deployment.
 * Pushed along reviews of the “in other projects” sidebar: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/Beta_Features/Other_projects_sidebar
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which has been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Note from John
 * Hey everyone, it's rare these small sections come along but there is a bit of interesting news to get across which one line under 'noteworthy stuff' won't be the best for. For the next 6 summaries, they will be translatable at Wikidata. This is an interesting idea which was first proposed on the delivery page and on Wikidata-l by Base. This is purely a trial and if you all want the summaries to remain translatable, please participate! You can view the first translated summary (hopefully) here! Also sorry for this one being late :)

Wikidata weekly summary #115
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 11:49, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Second UI designs are now up for comments
 * Discussion about predecessor and successor timelines
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikidata intro and QA, June 29th in Paris
 * Open Hack Day, 5th and 6th of July, London
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: contains settlement, coincident with, bridgehunter.com ID, uglybridges.com ID, China railway TMIS station code, MTR station code, capital of, NSK identifier, daily ridership, binding of software library, ASI Monument ID, ihsi identifier, Iranian National Heritage registration number, LNB identifier, BBC Your Paintings, replaced by, replaced, ITTF ID, points/goal scored by, TLS, Anime News Network ID
 * Development
 * Redirects are moving slow because they touch so much of our and the core code base, but they are coming closer!
 * Final touches on the monolingual data type and UI
 * Fixed some smaller but nasty bugs in the UI like not being able to change only the rank
 * Finally improved the most confusing error messages and hints you get to read when using the Wikibase client or repo
 * The Wikibase DataModel JavaScript component (which moved to it’s own repository) reached version 0.2.0
 * Continued working on the QueryEngine component (the foundation for queries)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which has been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Wikidata weekly summary #116
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 21:44, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * A question from an intern
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Open Hack Day, 5th and 6th of July, London
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata got 10 times easier to use with the entity suggester
 * Lydia needs your help with some selfies (already uploaded ones are at c:Category:Wikidata selfies)
 * Wikidata the Game has a new game: occupation
 * As part of the Outreach Program for Women d:User:User:Thepwnco is continuing improving all help pages to help new users understand Wikidata better. At the same time w:User:Discoveranjali is helping with social media outreach and creating presentations workshops about Wikidata.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: replaced by structure, State Catalogue of Geographical Names (Russia), Linguasphere code, NCI ID, Glottolog code, proxy, ComicBookDB ID, Index Fungorum ID
 * Development
 * Upcoming API change (wblinktitle)
 * Deployed entity suggester.
 * More work on redirects. They are taking shape. Done with much of the groundwork. We've seen the first one! :D
 * Continued work on user interface redesign mockups
 * Monolingual text datatype is also taking shape but needs more user interface love to make it intuitive.
 * Investigated making Wikidata.org its own client so you can for example get access to better Lua functions for access to an item's label on a discussion page. Outcome: Should be possible but needs some more work.
 * Fixed bugs
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which has been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Wikidata weekly summary #117
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) 14:16, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Improving the FAQ
 * Should we link to restricted access databases?
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Two new GuidedTours (aka interactive tutorials) have been released—we now have one on editing items and one on editing statements! Both tours are available from the Wikidata:Tours portal and feedback can be left on the talk page at Wikidata_talk:Tours. The work was a combined effort of User:Bene* and Outreach Program for Women intern User:Thepwnco.
 * We passed another milestone \o/ 10 million items now have an "instance of" or "subclass of" statement making it easy to tell what the item is about.
 * Last week to add some selfies. We need more!
 * Items with no image around you? Here you go! (change the number in the URL and click toggle markers) Thanks Magnus!
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: GUI toolkit or framework, SFDb ID, non-native language spoken, nominated for, number of seats in legislature, Cycling Archives Cyclist ID, licensed to broadcast to, MusicBrainz series ID, script directionality, World Glacier Inventory ID, original combination, Foundational Model of Anatomy ID, bug report page, FCC Facility ID, convicted of
 * Development
 * Bene* worked with the dev team this week. He pushed forward support for storing badges (eg featured article) on Wikidata and implemented the first two guided tours.
 * CTRL+ click and middle click on a search result in the entity selector now opens the result in a new tab.
 * Further progress on redirects
 * Fixed a number of annoyances with the entity selector
 * Continued work on mockups for new user interface
 * Investigated what issues come up if we make wikidata.org its own client. Things look good so we will probably enable it soonish. This will mean you can link Wikidata pages in items and access the data in them on other pages on Wikidata.
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which has been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Thank you!
Hi Toni, thank you for an interesting wiki workshop yesterday. It is was a very helpful and informative introduction to editing Wikipedia. All the best, Danielstoker (talk) 09:34, 8 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Hi Daniel - I'm really glad you found it useful. I'm very much looking forward to your contributions on Wikipedia and I hope to see you again at a future WMUK event. Keep in touch! --ToniSant (talk) 10:44, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

This Month in Education: July 2014
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Wikidata weekly summary #118
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 23:14, 19 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion about removing person data
 * Discussion to increase the support votes required for successful RfAs
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Main Page redesign suggestions
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ID, GUI toolkit or framework, SFDb ID, non-native language spoken, nominated for, number of seats in legislature, Cycling Archives Cyclist ID, licensed to broadcast to
 * Development
 * Finished setting up JSON dumps. If everything goes well, a first dump will be available on Monday evening
 * Worked on badges UI integration and made initial progress at making them editable
 * Did a lot of JavaScript refactoring in order to put Api related code into an own component
 * Made it possible to access data from Wikidata items on Wikidata itself using Lua (not yet enabled)
 * Fixed a bug that allowed creation of items with the same label+description of another item
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Wikidata weekly summary #119
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 22:48, 26 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * User conduct policies RfC
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The first draft for the Main page redesign is ready for review (a summary of proposed changes can be found at Project Chat)
 * User:Thepwnco is working on updating Wikidata documentation for all sister projects, starting with Wikisource
 * Drop by the Wikidata Lounge, a new initiative to promote friendliness and civility started by d:User:Micru
 * Wikinews will get sitelink support on August 19th
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: b-side, executive producer, OpenPlaques identifier, pet, Lost Art-ID, journey origin
 * Development
 * Published the first JSON dumps
 * Finishing touches on badges support
 * Finishing touches on redirects
 * Finishing touches on the "in other projects" beta feature that displays links to sister projects in the sidebar of Wikipedia for example
 * Tested and fixed issues with allowing sitelinks to Wikidata pages and accessing item data via Lua on Wikidata itself
 * Final tests before we can start switching to the new serialization format
 * The code for simple queries is being reviewed by the Foundation. This is hopefully the last step before we can deploy this too.
 * Worked on improving the code of the parser function in preparation of allowing arbitrary data access and allowing linked output.
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Books and Bytes - Issue 7
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 * Seven new donations, two expanded partnerships
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 * Adventures in Las Vegas, WikiConference USA, and updates from TWL coordinators
 * Spotlight: Blog post on BNA's impact on one editor's research

Wikidata weekly summary #120
<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="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 23:42, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Open RfAs: Gabbe
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * List of Wikidata talks at Wikimania 2014
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata's new Main page is almost ready to go live, but is still in need of a visually-appealing banner! Got an idea for an eye-catching design that represents what Wikidata's all about? Submit proposals before August 11 at d:Wikidata:Portal Redesign/Banner
 * Wikidata's tours are now translatable. You may help translating at d:Wikidata:Tours/Items and d:Wikidata:Tours/Statements.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: published in
 * Showcase items: Kleinmachnow
 * Development
 * Created CLI script to import entities into the QueryEngine store (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Querycli.jpg)
 * More work on redirects (should be good to deploy on August 19th)
 * More work on the monolingual datatype
 * Started work on rewriting the sitelinks part of the user interface (that’s the first coding steps of getting us a new user interface design)
 * Final touches on badges (should be good to deploy on August 19th)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Wikidata weekly summary #121
<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="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 23:57, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikimania \o/ It was amazing and Wikidata all over the place. Wikidata's true potential is starting to show.
 * Guided tours and Wikidata: How to explain a complex project and encourage new editors
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Editing Wikidata directly from Wikipedia
 * Histropedia now uses Wikidata to build timelines
 * Slides and videos of first Wikidata talks at Wikimania online: 1 2 3 (more slides and videos will follow))
 * First prototype screenshot of asking questions to Wikipedia mobile readers (similar to Wikidata the Game)
 * Userboxes
 * Did you know?
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Interesting Content, WikiProject sum of all paintings
 * Development
 * Attended Wikimania and Socrates
 * Worked on rewriting the sitelinks part of the user interface to make it ready for the new user interface design
 * Discussed Wikidata, structured data on Commons and a ton of other things with many people at Wikimania
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Wikidata weekly summary #122
Wikidata weekly summary #114

<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="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 13:26, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Open RfOS: John F. Lewis
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Help choose which banner will be featured on the new Main page! Click here to view the two banner candidates and leave your feedback before August 20th 16:00 UTC.
 * Wikidata Translate, a Wikidata-based Google translator open source clone.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: journey destination, score method, grave picture, present in work, Fide ID, Norsk filmografi ID, Jewish Encyclopedia ID, plea, collection size
 * New task forces: WikiProject Movies
 * Development
 * Finished a large number of new features and got them ready for roll-out. More in this email.
 * Wikibase made a big step forward to finally switch to DataModel 1.0.
 * Improved support for entity IDs bigger than 2 billion (32 bit integer).
 * We had to adapt Wikibase to some major changes (more major than usual, partly caused by discussions at Wikimania) in MediaWiki core: The default Vector skin became it’s own component and the ResourceLoader got some small but important updates.
 * Continued work on refactoring code of the user interface to make it ready for new design
 * Wrote a script to get number of users having wikidata in their recent changes/watchlist from the database
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here

This Month in Education: August 2014
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August 2014
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Madeleine Collinson
Hello. I see that you are a member of WikiProject Malta. I've found a few non-RS that state that Madeleine Collinson has died. I'd like to include her death in the article but would also like a reliable source to back it up with. Her article states that she moved back to Malta at some point. Do you know of a Maltese reliable source that might mention her death? As I said, I can't find one in English. Thanks, Dismas |(talk) 06:12, 23 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Hi - I'm sorry to hear that Madeleine Collinson has died. The only Maltese reliable source for such information is the Times of Malta but a quick search doesn't reveal any such news, not even in the paid announcements, which are rather popular with that newspaper. Knowing her married name may help, particularly because she may be listed as something other than by her former name, which is associated with a past career that she never spoke about publicly during the last two or three decades. Regretfully, I don't know her married name, so I probably can't be of much more help on this. Good luck! --ToniSant (talk) 09:51, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #123
<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="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 20:30, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikidata at Wikimania 2014 in London
 * "Growing items" by User:Micru, an essay about modelling concepts and understanding items
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The new Main page will go live early next week! See the announcement at Project chat for more details and to leave any last comments
 * It will be possible to show the badges like "Featured Article" stored on Wikidata in the sidebar of the clients (Wikipedia, Wikisource, ...) starting Tuesday. Wikipedia will follow on Thursday.
 * Starting Tuesday we will deploy a new beta feature on the clients. It will allow you to show links to other sister projects in the sidebar based on the links in Wikidata.
 * Planning for structured data support for Commons is starting to pick up speed. Get involved: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/multimedia/2014-August/000774.html Also maybe attend the office hour?
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: list of monuments, list of works, legal form, catholic.ru ID, motto, Sandbox Monolingual text, nickname, official name, Sports Reference ID, people missing, fictional universe described in
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Structured Data for Commons
 * Development
 * Deployed lots of new features like badges, access to language links for Wikinews and Wikidata, the monolingual text data type and redirects!
 * Working hard on making the new UI a reality, mainly refactoring the UI widgets right now. Covers a lot of ground and will take some time.
 * More work on HHVM issues that need to be fixed before Wikidata can switch to it.
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Wikidata weekly summary #124
<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="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 00:18, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * past: OpenSym
 * upcoming: IRC office hour about structured data for Wikimedia Commons
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New Main Page and other new features
 * Breaking changes for gadgets
 * Badges support via Wikidata has been rolled out to Wikipedia and other sister projects. If the icons shown are not the ones your project would like please request a change here.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: NIEA building ID, Cadw Building ID, color index, absolute magnitude
 * Development
 * Deployed more new stuff \o/ (in other projects sidebar; new internal serialization format; showing badges on the Wikipedias and other sister projects; Special:GoToLinkedPage)
 * Added a new “item-redirect” permission
 * Continuous work and reviews for the new JavaScript user interface
 * DataModel 1.0 will be more strict when adding Claims or Statements to Entities. Quite some tests needed to be made compatible
 * Adopted to recent API changes (getPossibleErrors and others got dropped)
 * Replaced hundreds of class name aliases in the code with the actual class names
 * Attended OpenSym
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Wikidata weekly summary #125
<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="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 18:43, 14 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * [//blog.wikimedia.de/2014/09/02/why-wikidata-is-so-important-to-histropedia Why Wikidata is so important to Histropedia]
 * [//blog.wikimedia.de/2014/09/08/outreach-program-for-women-at-wikidata Wikidata Outreach: What happened?]
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The new main page can now be translated.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: reporting mark, maximum glide ratio, FIFA player code, WALS family code, WALS genus code, WALS lect code, category for people died here, category for people born here, PRDL Author ID
 * Development
 * Performance improvements for "in other projects sidebar" beta feature and bug fixes in the feature on wikis with sidebar cache enabled (e.g. zhwiki, commons)
 * Worked on performance improvements to badges feature
 * Fixing bug with xml format in the API, and added tests for it so hopefully this does not break again!
 * Worked more on enabling statements on properties
 * Further work on new user interface design groundwork - mostly refactoring and enabling editing of multiple sitelinks and label/alias/description at once
 * First pokes at usage tracking
 * Drafted an RfC to improve recent changes so we can show Wikidata changes also when enhanced recent changes is enabled
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

This Month in Education: September 2014
<div style="font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif; margin-top:10px; margin-bottom:10px;">Updates, reports, news, and stories about how Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects are used in education around the world. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size:90%;"> Headlines &middot; Highlights &middot; Single page &middot; Newsroom &middot; Archives &middot;  Unsubscribe &middot; MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:19, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia Education Collaborative welcomes five new members
 * Wikimedia Deutschlands recent activities: events, events and more events
 * Working with Wikipedia expands at Tec de Monterrey
 * Digital agenda for education and open badges to be tested
 * Most successful Czech course continues again this year
 * Articles of interest in other publications

Wikidata weekly summary #126
<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="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 12:13, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * A new blocking policy has been accepted.
 * Proposal for an individual engagement grant to use Wikidata items for citations needs your input
 * RfC: redirect vs. deletion
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * past: Open Government WikiHack organized by Wikimedia DC in Washington, DC
 * upcoming: Wikidata training organized by Wikimedia UK with Magnus in London
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * With the deployment next Tuesday you will be able to edit all sitelinks at once as well as all fields of the "in other languages" box. This is an intermediate step towards the new user interface and will evolve further over the next weeks. You can see what is coming on Tuesday now already on test.wikidata.org.
 * WikiProject Names aims to improve name related data on Wikidata. Initial focus is on first names (given names). Half of items for first names still need cleaning up, but 15% of items for persons already have a given name defined.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Stack Exchange tag, vici.org ID, sourcing circumstances, has contributing factor, has immediate cause, birth name (Monolingual text), title, Nupill Literatura Digital - Document, Nupill Literatura Digital - Author, Commons Creator template, monogram, cause of, Cycling Quotient ID, male population, female population, number of households, contributing factor of, immediate cause of, used by, end cause, family name identical to this first name, country for sport, parents of hybrids, Glad identifier, kulturnoe-nasledie.ru identifier
 * Showcase items: Hessian Broadcasting Corporation, Fishing Creek
 * Development
 * Jan Zerebecki has joined the Wikidata dev team.
 * Worked on supporting statements on properties in WikibaseDataModelSerialization (66425)
 * Fixed broken xml api output (70531), as well as some inconsistencies in the xml format and added tests that should help avoid future breakage in the xml format
 * Finished performance improvements for badges
 * Worked on entity usage tracking
 * Pietro from the EAGLE project came to visit us, one of the first 3rd party users of Wikibase. See http://www.eagle-network.eu
 * Added a hook point to allow 3rd party users (like the EAGLE project) of Wikibase to control what goes into the search index
 * Started work on a widget that lets you edit badges right in the item instead of going to the special page
 * Use checkboxes instead of a multiselect to edit badges on d:Special:SetSiteLink
 * Work on hhvm-related issues in Wikibase and temporarily disabled the beta feature on Wikidata until fixes are deployed for the issues.
 * Deployed new code on test.wikidata! (to be deployed on wikidata on Tuesday), see mw:Wikidata_deployment
 * Work on fixing empty maps in the JSON serialization, differentiate them from empty lists (fixed prerequisite 70606)
 * Jeroen made a little video demonstrating how you can get a clone of Wikibase DataModel, set it up, and run it's tests: https://asciinema.org/a/12530
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Wikidata weekly summary #127
<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="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 21:48, 4 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * [[:d:Wikidata:Requests for comment/User conduct policies|Closed RfC: User conduct policies]
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata Toolkit 0.3.0 released - Wikidata Toolkit
 * ProteinBoxBot is making Wikidata the canonical resource for referencing and translating identifiers for genes and proteins from different species
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: depends on, motto, series ordinal, Federal Register Document Number, monogram, cause of, Cycling Quotient ID
 * Development
 * Investigated and fixed issues with time values
 * Investigated issues with coordinate value precision
 * Fixed a number of issues related to HHVM
 * Further work on usage tracking
 * Created smoke tests for items and properties
 * Created a widget to edit badges directly on the item without going through the special page
 * Prepared for a week of work with the WMF multimedia team and volunteers next week to get more planning done for structured data support for Commons
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Books and Bytes - Issue 8
<div style = "color: #936c29; font-size: 4em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif"> The Wikipedia Library <span style="font-size: 2em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif">Books & Bytes

Issue 8, August-September2014 by, ,

<div style = "margin-top: 1.5em; border: 3px solid #ae8c55; border-radius: .5em; padding: 1em 1.5em; font-size: .9em"> Read the full newsletter   MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:51, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
 * TWL now a Wikimedia Foundation program, moves on from grant status
 * Four new donations, including large DeGruyter parntership, pilot with Elsevier
 * New TWL coordinators, Wikimania news, new library platform discussions, Wiki Loves Libraries update, and more
 * Spotlight: "Traveling Through History" - an editor talks about his experiences with a TWL newspaper archive, Newspapers.com