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Wikidata weekly summary #128
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 22:32, 11 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Open RfA: Nikosguard
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Upcoming IRC office hour about structured data on Commons
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * All human genes are now wikidata items, for example: Here is one (of approximately 40,000) called "spinocerebellar ataxia 37" - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18081265. Blog post about this to appear here: http://blog.wikimedia.de/tag/wikidata/
 * Want to be kept up-to-date on structured data on Commons? There is now a new newsletter you can subscribe to.
 * Interested in some statistics about the data on Wikidata? Check Wikidata Stats every now and then. (Thanks Magnus for moving it to the new dump format.)
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: UBERON ID, Yandex.Music ID, has quality, Exceptionnal heritage of Wallonia ID, Orphanet ID, demonym (monoligual text), maximum Strahler number
 * Development
 * Spent the week with the WMF multimedia team and volunteers to get more clarity about structured data on Commons. We'll be asking for feedback on a lot of stuff over the next weeks. The main info hub is taking shape at Commons:Structured data.
 * More fixes for the switch to HHVM
 * Looked into possible performance improvements. Some of them will be taken into the next sprint.
 * Battled a handful of nasty issues on the live-site
 * Wikibase DataModel 1.1 was released
 * 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 #129
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) 20:26, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Do you want to see constraint violation reports and referencing improved? Please provide input.
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * IRC office hour about structured data on Commons (log)
 * hackathon around scholarly articles on Wikidata (etherpad with notes)
 * Blog post about the meeting to discuss structured data on Commons in Berlin
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Clusters of humans and species on Wikidata
 * New parameter in the template Property documentation: subject item; see [this example edit] for how to use it
 * New tool: Linked Items. Returns sorted, de-duped list of Q values from a Wikipedia page, or chunk of wiki-text. Thank you, Magnus!
 * Wikidata annotation tool is looking for feedback
 * Wikidata: A Free Collaborative Knowledgebase by Denny and Markus has been published. It gives a very nice non-technical overview of Wikidata.
 * Magnus re-wrote Wiki ShootMe to now use Wikidata.
 * Did you know?
 * Always wanted to know which topics have amazing articles on Wikimedia projects across many languages? Here you go!
 * Newest properties: At the Circulating Library ID, MacTutor id (biographies), allmovie identifier, number of survivors, given name version for other gender, name in native language, tempo marking, manifestation of, zbMATH author ID, Executive Order number
 * Development
 * Improvements to sitelink editing usability
 * Released Wikibase DataModel 2.0
 * Profiling and performance improvements in Wikibase and Wikibase DataModel
 * Implementing LabelLookup, which is needed to improve performance of EntityId formatting. This will lead to improved item page loading times.
 * Added new featured list and recommended article badges.
 * Remove most usage of class aliases to be compatible with HHVM (dependencies of 71295)
 * 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 #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 20:28, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The Wikidata Game now has a 'Commons Categories' game
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: At the Circulating Library ID, MacTutor id (biographies), allmovie identifier, number of survivors, given name version for other gender, name in native language, tempo marking, manifestation of, zbMATH author ID, Executive Order number
 * Development
 * Made significant performance improvements (to be rolled out next week)
 * Worked on usability improvements to the editing of sitelinks
 * When you link to an image on Wikimedia Commons in a statement it will now show up in “global usage” there.
 * Made the phpunit tests for Wikibase much faster
 * Wikibase phpunit tests on travis pass with hhvm now
 * Fixed label/description uniqueness constraint checks
 * Work on entity usage tracking
 * Year formatter now shows the year instead of the unformatted ISO string in case of a precision mismatch
 * Diff and old revision pages don’t run the JavaScript UI any more, should be much faster now
 * Introduced a Changers concept to the JavaScript frontend, wrapping the API and entityStore functionality
 * Identified issue causing content in the old serialization format to be included in XML dumps
 * 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 #131
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 14:24, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikidata turned 2 on Wednesday! Have a look at the notes from the community and development team and add your note. Also don't forget to check out all the cool presents (a painting, speed improvements, a huge load of unconnected articles that you can help connect via the Wikidata Game, WikidataLDF, a recent changes visualisation)!
 * Wikidata II
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata is nominated for 2 Open Data Awards! \o/ Magnus and Lydia will attend the award ceremony next week. Keep your fingers crossed for us.
 * Wikidata as the central hub for open life science data
 * What is Wikipedia about? Great data viz based on Wikidata
 * Super Lachaise, a mobile app based on Wikidata for a cemetery in Paris
 * Random items without statements
 * Tutorial: How to make a “descendants of” timeline using Wikidata
 * Updated statistics on the topics with most highly-rated articles on Wikipedia
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: deepest point, Desa code of Indonesia, Slovene Cultural Heritage Register ID, Catalan object of cultural interest ID, Municipality code of Brazil, Pleiades identifier, MalaCards ID, natural product of taxon, official blog, University of Barcelona authority ID, Beilstein Registry Number, Gmelin Number
 * Development
 * Worked around memory corruption in zend PHP
 * HHVM beta feature is enabled again for Wikidata
 * Fixes for various breaking changes in mediawiki core
 * Work on language fall backs for new serialization code
 * Work on fixing XML dumps
 * Work on making Special:Version correct again for Wikidata extensions
 * Implemented LabelLookup to improve performance further
 * Worked more on remaining tasks for simple queries
 * Poked remaining tasks for statements on properties
 * Further improvements to the usability and workflow of sitelink editing
 * Wrote browser tests for authority control gadget
 * 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

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (November 2014)
Hello Wikimedians! The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for, free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for:


 * DeGruyter: 1000 new accounts for English and German-language research. Sign up on one of two language Wikipedias:
 * English signup
 * Deutsch signup
 * Fold3: 100 new accounts for American history and military archives
 * Scotland's People: 100 new accounts for Scottish genealogy database
 * British Newspaper Archive: expanded by 100+ accounts for British newspapers
 * Highbeam: 100+ remaining accounts for newspaper and magazine archives
 *  Questia: 100+ remaining accounts for journal and social science articles
 * JSTOR: 100+ remaining accounts for journal archives

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today! --The Wikipedia Library Team 23:25, 5 November 2014 (UTC)


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Wikidata weekly summary #132
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) 11:05, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Zero error rate - help improve the quality of Wikidata's data
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikidata won the Open Data Award by the Open Data Institute in the category Publisher \o/ (blog post by ODI, blog post by WMDE)
 * Tutorial: Create instant location based timelines using Wikidata queries
 * Did you know?
 * Less than 23% of Wikidata items have no statement. Down from ~53% a year ago.
 * Newest properties: consecrator, Slovene Cultural Heritage designation, penalty, charge, judge, defender, prosecutor, defendant, number of casualties, deepest point, Desa code of Indonesia, Slovene Cultural Heritage Register ID, Catalan object of cultural interest ID
 * Development
 * Continued work on LabelLookup and related code to further improve performance
 * Made it possible to show references in statements on property pages. (Remaining bugs before roll-out are issues with adding/editing/removing statements on property pages.)
 * Further improvements to sitelink editing (The edit toolbar now floats so it doesn't scroll out of the page on a long list of sitelinks. An empty row for adding a new sitelink is shown by default when editing to make this faster and take less scrolling.)
 * Further adapting of simple query code so we can get it to review at the Foundation again.
 * Lots of bug fixes all over the place
 * 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 #133
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 00:00, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Upcoming office hours for Commons (Nov 20th) and Wikidata (Dec 3rd). More details on the office hour page.
 * GLAM/Wikidata hackathon in Amsterdam
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Help make sure these items have labels in your language
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: NATO code for grade
 * Development
 * Work on reviving the tree of life built from Wikidata data
 * Added a "featured portal" badge (Q17580674)
 * Improved the performance of getting labels and sitelinks in Lua (and decreased the memory usage)
 * Did groundwork on applying page deletions to the repo
 * Refactor initialization of EntityView so that we can use batched label lookup for improved performance.
 * Added IRC to available protocolls for the URL datatype
 * Improved calendar model display
 * 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 #134
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) 21:47, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Had a great hackathon for GLAM and Wikidata in Amsterdam last weekend
 * IRC office hour about structured data on Commons (logs)
 * Building a periodic table using Wikidata
 * Lydia will be speaking at internetdagarna in Stockholm on Monday
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikimedia Commons will get Phase 2 on December 2nd
 * The Sum of all Paintings - new app to nicely display data related to artwork
 * Institutions on Commons without an item on Wikidata
 * Wikidata descriptions being used to help clarify search results in the Wikipedia mobile app
 * WikidataTodo now shows you tasks to be done on Wikidata related to a specific country as well
 * VisualEditor coming as a beta feature
 * Statements on properties are getting closer to the finish line. You could help figure out which properties to use for describing and classifying properties.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: MarineTraffic Port ID, MarineTraffic Ship ID, drives on the, detail map, plaintiff, date of official opening, squad number, BBC Things identifer, SIREN number, CLARA-ID, History of Parliament ID, IRC channel, Commons Institution page
 * Development
 * When a page is deleted on a client (Wikipedia, etc) its sitelink is now removed automatically from its Wikidata item
 * Reworked the automatic precision detection for coordinates
 * The long planned split of the code base into two independent Wikibase Repo and Client extensions is getting closer pretty fast these weeks
 * Made good progress on making the sitelinks section much more compact and moving it into the right-hand sidebar
 * While still reworking lots of details that slightly changed in DataModel 2.0 we already started working on a possible DataModel 3.0
 * More performance optimizations in the form of more advanced label lookup implementations
 * Implemented file-based cache of SiteStore to improve performance
 * Bug fixes
 * Updated the property suggester with new data! :)
 * 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 #135
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) 16:14, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: Internetdagaarna in Stockholm
 * Past: Hacks/Hackers in Berlin
 * Picture this!
 * Wikidata identifiers and the ODNB - where next?
 * Wikidata and identifiers - part 2, the matching process
 * IRC office hour on Wednesday
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Commons will get access to the data on Wikidata on Tuesday
 * Statements on properties and language fallbacks are coming
 * VisualEditor is now available as a beta feature to make editing of project and help pages easier
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: China Vitae ID, Formatter URL, subject item, equivalent property, SIL code, Thai cultural heritage ID, has melody, MarineTraffic Port ID, drives on the, detail map, plaintiff, date of official opening, squad number, BBC Things identifer
 * Development
 * Moved the sitelink section into a sidebar (if the page is too narrow it will float below the statement section like it is now)
 * Wrapping up work on injecting LabelLookups into EntityView (should boost performance)
 * Implemented new notification bar to replace the notification bubble we had before
 * Fixed more issues with geocoordinates
 * Wrapping up work on client side usage tracking (important for arbitrary access)
 * Making language fallback work for referenced entities (via LabelLookup)
 * Transformations for pass XML dumps got merged, should fix T74348
 * Enabled Statements on Properties on http://test.wikidata.org for testing
 * JSON dumps will no longer contain redirects from the week after next week on
 * Improved performance of client’s other projects sidebar
 * Worked on bug triage (looking at the testme bugs)
 * Replaced the custom Wikidata Jenkins continuous integration slaves with regular ones
 * Fixed error in DataModel that was noticed by DataModelSerializer tests
 * Input on Wikibase/Indexing
 * 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: October 2014
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 * Sweden: Swedish teacher wins national award for teaching with Wikimedia projects
 * Greece: Greek university giving credit for translation of Wikipedia articles
 * Greece: Wikipedia in Secondary and Adult Education: presentation at CIE2014 in Corfu, Greece
 * Serbia & Hungary: Wikicamp 2014 in Serbia and Hungary brings chapters together
 * Bulgaria: Bulgarian college students will explore Wikipedia in a new lecture course on "New Media and Participatory Culture"
 * Bulgaria: Bulgarian college teachers "became nodes" in the Wikipedia Network
 * Israel: 9th grade students in Be'er Sheva, Israel conclude a year-long project on Wikipedia
 * Mexico: New classes and activities at Tec de Monterrey
 * Catalonia: Education Program Extension enabled on Catalan Wikipedia
 * Ukraine: Education Program Extension enabled on Ukrainian Wikipedia
 * Netherlands: Education Program Extension enabled on Dutch Wikipedia
 * WMF: Data Collection Round II has started: be part
 * Articles of interest in other publications: Poland, Philippines, United States, WikiProject Medicine, Jimmy Wales, and more

This Month in Education: November 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) 20:57, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
 * France: Wikimedia France obtains an agreement from the French Ministry of Education
 * Mexico: Tec de Monterrey wrapping up semester projects
 * Mexico: A student in Mexico makes the best of her study to edit Wikipedia
 * Egypt: Egyptian Student invites his colleagues at Al-Azhar University to edit Wikipedia
 * Sweden: Successful Wikipedia assignments presented by faculty at national conference in Sweden
 * Global: Wikipedia Education Collaborative members meet in Edinburgh
 * Global: Iberoconf discusses Wikipedia in education
 * Global:Welcoming new WMF staff supporting education
 * Articles of interest in other publications: MIT, Myanmar, and Jimmy Wales

Wikidata weekly summary #136
<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) 16:48, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * IRC office hour (log)
 * Wikidata for research - a grant proposal anyone can edit
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikimedia Commons now has access to the data on Wikidata
 * Statements on properties are now live
 * Sneak peek at a prototype for checking Wikidata's data against 3rd party databases
 * The Game has a new mode: alma mater
 * Work is ongoing for a bot job to tag thousands of objects in OpenStreetMap with the equivalent Wikidata ID
 * Resolver finds Wikidata items for a given identifier (VIAF, GND, IMDB, ...)
 * English-Wikipedia now has a template, RedQ, which puts a Wikidata link next to red links for subjects which have no Wikipedia article in any language, This should prevent duplicate Wikidata items from being created when an article is written, and assist Wikipedia editors to find relevant facts and sources. Please copy it to other-language Wikipedias.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: working title, undercarriage
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Wikidata for research aims to integrate Wikidata more closely with research, and to this end, a grant proposal is being drafted.
 * Development
 * Started work on units
 * More work on evaluating options for querying
 * Implemented Property DataType (for relationships between properties)
 * Improvements to get by with fewer memcache request on clients
 * Work on file-based cache of the SiteStore
 * Work on improved label lookup performance
 * Wrapping up work on usage tracking
 * 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 #137
<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) 13:01, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Running Wikidata queries on scientific publications
 * Finding ORCID identifiers used in Wikidata & Wikipedia
 * past: Wikidata workshop in NYC
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Ancient philosopher communities visualized based on Wikidata data
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: departure transaction, acquisition transaction, port, curator, pendant of
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Music
 * Development
 * More work on making it possible to query Wikidata data (Wikibase/Indexing)
 * Further improvements to performance on the clients (Wikipedia etc)
 * Fixed and improved JSON dump creation process
 * Finishing touches on new sitelinks section
 * Worked more on supporting quantities with units - first basic version is making good progress
 * Unprotected Q183 (Germany) again (had to be protected to ensure site availability)
 * Improved performance for page views on Wikidata (no longer accessing actual entity data blob, when page is available from parser cache)
 * Moved issues from github to phabricator and closed/checked bugs marked for testing
 * 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

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (December 2014)
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 * Elsevier - science and medicine journals and books
 * Royal Society of Chemistry - chemistry journals
 * Pelican Books - ebook monographs
 * Public Catalogue Foundation- art books

Other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today! --The Wikipedia Library Team.00:25, 18 December 2014 (UTC)


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Wikidata weekly summary #139
<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) 23:01, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Provide your input on article placeholders based on Wikidata
 * new RfC: CoI editing
 * Anonymous artists at wiki project visual arts
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * We need to start talking about scaling Wikidata over the next months and years: Scaling Wikidata: success means making the pie bigger
 * The next big step for Wikidata—forming a hub for researchers
 * wikidata4research4all
 * There was a well-attended Wikidata meetup at 31C3
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata Query now runs on multiple, load-balanced, self-restarting servers. Thanks to Yuvi for the help.
 * Vandals suck. Don't know how to help us fight them? Here are two pages to get you started: Wikidata:Vandalism and Wikidata:Abuse filter.
 * The Wikidata BEACON generator was updated by Magnus. It now uses all properties with “formatter URL”, so always up-to-date with target URLs. It is faster, too.
 * Number of visual artworks on Wikidata by institution
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Terminologia Histologica (TH), Terminologia Embryologica (TE), ICD-9-CM, operations and procedures key (OPS), ICD-10-PCS, central government debt as a percent of GDP, AniDB identifier, main property, awarded for work, Pokémon browser number, inscription, quote, subtitle, BBC Your Paintings artwork identifier, has vertex figure, index case of, number suspected, number probable, number confirmed, general formula, this taxon is source of, Route number, LAC identifier, CONA, ATCvet, TGN, Chess Club ID, Chess Games ID, Cycling Database ID, ProCyclingStats ID, DOI Prefix, Alexa rank, has index case, related property, number of faces, MPAA film rating, unveiled by, station number, wing configuration, TERYT municipality code, referee, YouTube video identifier, BBF identifier, Korean Movie Database ID, Dictionary of Welsh Biography ID
 * Showcase items: Iggy Azalea, Helsinki
 * Development
 * Happy new year! :) It'll be a great one for Wikidata!
 * Have you filed bugs in the past? Awesome! It'd be super helpful if you have a look at your old bugs and see if they are still relevant. You can find them at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/authored/ (make sure you're logged in on Phabricator)
 * 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: December 2014
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 * Uruguay: Wikipedia Education Program Celebration in Uruguay
 * Egypt: Egyptian students wrap up their 5th term on Wikipedia with great success
 * Serbia: First Wikipedia ambassador at the University of Belgrade
 * Sweden: Swedish Wikimini 1 year anniversary
 * UK: Wikimedia UK processing EduWiki 2014
 * Regional: Eastern European education programs presented at regional conference
 * Media: Articles of interest in other publications: Korea, Australia, the Gender Gap, the Wikipedia Library, WikiProject Medicine, Adrianne Wadewitz, Jimmy Wales, and Wikibombs

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Books and Bytes - Issue 9
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 * New donations, including real-paper-and-everything books, e-books, science journal databases, and more
 * New TWL coordinators, conference news, a new open-access journal database, summary of library-related WMF grants, and more
 * Spotlight: "Global Impact: The Wikipedia Library and Persian Wikipedia" - a Persian Wikipedia editor talks about their experiences with database access in Iran, writing on the Persian project and the JSTOR partnership

Wikidata weekly summary #140
<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) 18:25, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Upcoming: Office hour on IRC on Friday. You should come :)
 * Past: London Wikidata Meetup 2
 * We had a meetup with nine people:
 * set up WikiProject UK and Ireland (sound recording of meeting available)
 * Upcoming: Open Data Day, 21st February 2015
 * For generic wiki, see International Open Data Day
 * Open Data Camp UK, Saturday/Sunday 21st/22nd February 2015
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * We just crossed 14000 active users (over the last month). Thank you all!
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Gray's Anatomy 1918 subject, Total valid votes, inverse of, NLP identifier
 * Newest WikiProjects: Food, UK and Ireland, Suisse
 * Newest gadgets: ExportClaims, Mark as patrolled from list of changes
 * Development
 * The sitelink section has been reworked. This will go live on Wikidata on Tuesday. The sitelinks will then be slimmer and they will appear in a sidebar on the right side if there is enough space.
 * More performance improvements when parsing an item page, ~%15 faster for some pages :)
 * Titan was selected as the graph DB to implement a Wikidata query service running in production
 * Fixed adding links to ru.wikinews.org which was broken by its change to HTTPS-only
 * Worked on redesigning the header area (label, description, alias, in-other-languages box)
 * Polished d:Wikidata:Data access and d:Wikidata:Database download. Could still use some more work though if you have time.
 * Enabled PHP_CodeSniffer with Mediawiki rules and some additional ones to make us aware of more code issues
 * We no longer log some common 404 errors in the exception log
 * 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 #141
<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 21:00, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * RfC: Speedy vs Regular deletion‎
 * Closed RfAs: George.Edward.C (successful)
 * Open RfAs: Petr Matas, Edoderoo
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * The Wikidata for research proposal was submitted to the European Union on January 14. Congrats to Daniel for spearheading that huge effort.
 * Blog post about how Wikidata can change the way citizen scientists contribute
 * IRC office hour happened (log)
 * Blog posts about gender inequality index based on Wikidata data by Max and Magnus
 * MediaWiki Developer Summit
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The development plan has been updated and expanded
 * Official Wikipedia app now uses Wikidata descriptions \o/ More to come!
 * Usage tracking will likely be deployed on February 2 on Wikidata. This will not be user-visible. It just means that pages using data from arbitrary items get updated/purged when the data changes. Arbitrary access is being tested at Test Wikidata and Test Wiki. An example is at Kitten on arbitrary page.
 * Assigning items on Mix'n'match will now make that change on Wikidata for you automatically
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: IGESPAR identifier, SIPA identifier, SkyscraperPage building id
 * Development
 * Deployed new sitelinks interface design to Wikidata. It's not done yet but we're getting there. Tweaks are in progress.
 * Worked on redesign of header area
 * Fixed some bugs that popped up after deployment
 * Enabled usage tracking and arbitrary access on test.wikipedia.org and test.wikidata, and preparations for enabling it on Wikidata
 * Collecting Query examples for the new query functionality
 * 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
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

Wikidata weekly summary #142
<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) 11:09, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Closed RfAs: Petr Matas (unsuccessful), Edoderoo (successful)
 * Open RfAs: Eurodyne
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Upcoming: MediaWiki Developer Summit
 * Upcoming: FOSDEM
 * Upcoming: Wikidata for research meetup in February in Paris and Berlin
 * Past: Meetup in Cambridge
 * Brainstorming for Wikimania talks related to Wikidata is happening at T87334 and you can apply for a scholarship
 * Wikidata - a year in numbers
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Want to help out mapping schema.org and Wikidata properties? There is now a ticket for coordination.
 * The new Content Translation tool uses Wikidata data to suggest the correct article to link to when translating a Wikipedia article to another language
 * Using GNOME Shell? There is a Wikidata search provider for you.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: award shared with, native label, pollenizer, pollination
 * You can influence the languages shown in the "in other languages box" by adding a bable box to your user page like here.
 * Development
 * More work on header section redesign
 * Released Wikibase DataModel 2.5
 * Broke and fixed JSON dumps - sorry!
 * Implemented entity change subscription service
 * 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
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

This Month in Education: [January 2015]
<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="column-count: 2; column-width: 35em; -moz-column-count: 2; -moz-column-width: 35em; -webkit-column-count: 2; -webkit-column-width: 35em;"> <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
 * Czech Republic: Young Czech scientists upload pictures at Fluorescent Night
 * India: 100+ Indian college students will contribute to Wikipedia to support national pilgrimage
 * Sweden: Master students design prototypes for categorizing images on Wikimedia Commons
 * Egypt: Wikipedia Education Program expands to new campuses in Cairo
 * Syria: Pilot Wikipedia Education Program in Syria
 * Wikimania: Get a scholarship to attend Wikimania 2015 and discuss education with the worldwide movement
 * Mexico: Wiki Learning expands to three campuses at Tec de Monterrey
 * Sweden: Open Badges in the Education Program in Sweden
 * Czech Republic: Senior citizens learn to edit Wikipedia in the Czech Republic
 * Media: Articles of interest in other publications: Egypt, India, Armenia, Books, Jimmy Wales, and more

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