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

Tech News: 2016-33
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * Last week Tech News announced you will get a notification when you mention yourself the same way as if someone else had mentioned you. This caused some problems and will happen later instead.
 * Creating and editing links to sections on other pages on the wiki now works again in the visual editor.
 * For some users, cross-wiki notifications haven't been working properly. The count has been wrong when only cross-wiki notifications were present. The cross-wiki bundle has been showing only the names of wikis and not the actual notifications. This will be fixed soon.

Changes this week
 * The login session when you choose "Keep me logged in" will now last a year. Previously it was 30 days. This will happen on August 16.
 * Some abuse filters will have to be updated during the week. This is because a bug will be fixed.
 * In compact language links, two new kinds of languages will be shown in the shorter language list: Languages that are used in the article's text, and languages where the article has a badge like "featured article" or "good article".
 * The visual editor will be available by default for logged-out editors on Wikipedias that use the Arabic script. It is already default for logged-in editors.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 16. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 17. It will be on all wikis from August 18 (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on August 16 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Starting the week of August 22 there will be three software deployment windows. They will be at 13:00, 18:00, and 23:00 UTC. This is to have more times when software of the wikis can be updated and make it easier for developers in different parts of the world.

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Wikidata weekly summary #222
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) 08:26, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Data quality framework for Wikidata
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: Wikidata-Hackathon (topic was SPARQL) in München on 11th of August
 * Upcoming: a Wikidata workshop in French will be conducted by Ash Crow and Harmonia Amanda during the French-speaking Wikiconvention on 21st August 2016 in Paris
 * History of Parliament and Wikidata – the first round complete
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Léa joins the team as Community Communication Manager for Wikidata
 * ArticlePlaceholder is now live on Welsh and Kannada Wikipedia
 * You can now render sparql queries using the Histropedia timeline engine. Example : Structures in London, colour coded by heritage status Screenshot of Histropedia timeline using Wikidata.png
 * The Wikidata image search tool can now show Commons images around items (example)
 * Job offer : Textmining, Hochschule Hannover
 * New templates:, , . Please add labels in your own languages, and consider making a similar template for your country or region. Also, add P17-statements to property entities.
 * UK Imperial War Museum's War Memorials Register has been added to Mix'n'Match
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: SIMBAD ID, destroyed, damaged, game artist, standard enthalpy of formation, Cineplex film ID, Open Beauty Facts category ID, official religion, Grace's Guide ID, CosIng number, Storting person ID, standard molar entropy, dynamic viscosity, UN document symbol, WIPO ST.3, GS1 country code, GLAM ID, RERO ID, LepIndex ID, gestation period, Basisregistratie Instellingen number, ButMoth ID, Architectuurgids building ID, Architectuurgids architect ID, Charity Commission no., Turner Classic Movies person ID, NAQ elected person ID, Ontario MPP ID, K League player ID, Bloomberg person ID, Kindred Britain ID, CMFS player ID, Scottish FA player ID, racing-reference driver ID, footballzz ID, Fora De Jogo player ID, HanCinema person ID, College Football HoF ID, scoresway soccer person id, CageMatch wrestling stable id, luminous intensity, SoundCloud ID
 * Query examples: 2016 Olympics flag bearers (source), Composer that scored more than 100 films (source), churches using the same image (source), Challenge: Find a class with more fictional instances than real ones (source), items on human genes with unreferenced statements (source), Women elected to the UK Paliament (via WD:RAQ), Treaties of Paris (source), fictional thoroughfares (source), map of sports teams, with layers for different sports (source), big cities grouped into map layers by population (source), Free software with/without license (source), treaties with/without a date (source), capitals that aren’t capitals (soure), works of art depicting many people (source)
 * Development
 * Wikibase/DataModel/JSON was revised, clarifying the use for dates before year 1.
 * Language code "non" for Old Norse is now available for monolingual text (T137115)
 * Worked more on better visual layout of references (T141862)
 * Fixed issue with references not being expanded in diff view (T129836)
 * Added link to Wikidata item from ArticlePlaceholder (T126873)
 * Enabled ArticlePlaceholder on knwiki and cywiki
 * Removed collapsing behaviour from error messages (T141879)
 * Started writing out next steps for how to use Wikidata items and properties on Commons
 * Drafting interface stability policy (T142084)
 * Worked more in making it possible to create mediainfo entities by adding a statement to a non-existing one (T140760)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

The Signpost: 18 August 2016
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Tech News: 2016-34
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * The ORES review tool is now available on Special:Contributions as a beta feature. It can make it easier to find contributions that are probably damaging the wikis. The ORES review tool is available on Wikidata and Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Dutch, Turkish and Russian Wikipedia.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The  and   functions have been updated to make it easier to write abuse filters. This also affects the TitleBlacklist extension. You don't have to transform "I" and "L" to "1", "O" to "0" and "S" to "5" anymore.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The old pageview data in the "pagecounts-raw" and "pagecounts-all-sites" files is no longer being updated. You can find the new pageview data here. This happened on August 5.

Problems
 * Some big image files could not be thumbnailed. This has now been fixed.
 * When you moved a page over a redirect it would delete the redirect without saving it in the logs. This has now been fixed.

Changes this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 August. It will be on all wikis from 25 August (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 23 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully sent out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in. You can test this on the test wiki.
 * How you add text after an edit conflict might work in a different way in the future. You can test the prototype.

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Wikidata weekly summary #223
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) 16:29, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2
 * Closed request for comments:
 * Category commons P373 and "Other sites"
 * Adopt Help:Classification as an official help page
 * Review of "change datatype to monolingual" actions for some properties
 * Refining "part of"
 * Are colors instance-of or subclass-of color
 * Wikidata:Notability overhaul
 * RfP voting eligibility
 * Standards for property proposal discussions
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * August 17-19 : VIVO conference, see also the keynote about collaboratively created, linked open knowledge.
 * August 20-21 : the Wikiconvention in Paris. Check the notes taken during the Wikidata workshop
 * Why you should be paying attention to Wikidata and GLAM, on the Wikimedia Foundation blog
 * All your locations are belong to us on Magnus' blog
 * Paper: An Empirical Evaluation of Property Recommender Systems for Wikidata and Collaborative Knowledge Bases
 * Paper: Managing and Consuming Completeness Information for Wikidata Using COOL-WD
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Job offer : PHP software developer for Wikidata, Wikimedia Deutschland
 * Wikidata has now a stable interface policy to guarantee the stability of the tools
 * Enabling Wikidata data access in user language
 * COOL-WD now includes a gadget to show completeness information in Wikidata
 * Mix'n'Match can list entries of some external databases, and allows users to match them against Wikidata items. A new catalogue for ContentMine has been added!
 * WikiShootMe has a lot of new updates: OAuth-based image upload button, uploads to Commons and adds to Wikidata item with one click, right-click on the map to add a missing item, build-in Wikidata search, free images search (example for Central Cambridge)
 * Extracting Wikidata annotations to create DBpedia mappings project during Google Summer of Code
 * Did you know? Popular surnames Wikidata query.png
 * Newest properties: develops from, recovered by, film crew member, mount, flight number, Flags of the World ID, ID of Catalogue of Life in Taiwan, fiscal/tax revenue, speed limit, qualifies for event, freedom of panorama
 * Query examples:
 * A famous Italian song, Tanti Auguri by Raffaella Carrà, states "Com'è bello far l'amore da Trieste in giù" (literally, in English: "How great it is to make love from Trieste to below"). This is a query to find out where you shouldn't make love.
 * Common occupations of heads of state (source).
 * Murderers by region in France (source).
 * Authors with a known location and an ORCID (source).
 * Popular surnames among humans (source).
 * Movies that won all the Oscars they were nominated for (source).
 * Colors with multiple RGB statements (source)
 * Filmography of Jean Gabin (source)
 * Cities as big as Antwerp (source)
 * Cities connected by the Trans-Mongolian and Trans-Siberian Railway (source)
 * Histropedia timeline of Europeana280 artworks (source)
 * Newest gadgets: Sort the statements on items, prefill "access date" with current date
 * New templates:, , , . Please add labels in your own languages, and consider making a similar template for your country or region. Also, add P17-statements to property entities.
 * Newest database reports: list of riders and their horse
 * Development
 * Continuing to work on the concepts for the automatic list generation
 * Enable allow data access in user language will come on Wikidata soon
 * Menus are now internationalised on the query service
 * Clarified error message when adding a URL without a protocol
 * Created a gadget to try out global sort order in items
 * Fixed a bug where the input field for a value was not loaded
 * Worked on the interface stability policy
 * Made possible to create mediainfo entity by adding a statement
 * Worked on showing from which items a given Wikipedia article uses data
 * 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

WikiProject Film/Golden Hollywood Contest
Doc's just started up this contest about topics and articles covering Classical Hollywood cinema. Do express if you are interested or not by signing up under the "Editors Interested" section. Thanks. — Ssven2  Speak 2 me 05:46, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

Upcoming editathons: Women in Nursing & Women Labor Activists
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Whitespace, newlines, and edit summaries
Hi Chaeckingfax: and  had left a question or two for you at Talk:Indecline, and I notice you've been editing since then but haven't responded. Seeing that you have made recent edits adding spaces between the == and the heading text and blank lines between the heading and the paragraph text following it, and not mentioning this in your edit summary (for example this edit, where the edit summary mentions only date format, but the only date format aspect of the edit that I can see is that you added a template specifying US date ordering), I checked the MOS and found that what it says on the main WP:MOS page is in fact much as I had thought it was - both those spaces and the blank lines after headings are optional:

"Spaces between the equal signs and the heading text are optional, and will not affect the way the heading is displayed. The heading must be typed on a separate line. Include one blank line above the heading, and optionally one blank line below it, for readability in the edit window (but not two or more consecutive blank lines, which will add unnecessary visible white space in the rendered page). There is no need to include a blank line between a heading and sub-heading." That makes them not wrong, but unnecessary changes (to be avoided because they clutter watchlists and they imply the other way was somehow wrong). I'm a bit concerned about you making such changes. But Softlavender raised a more serious concern, which is that the changes of that nature that you made at Indecline masked a lot of changes to the text, and since you had not mentioned textual changes, I didn't notice them until the characterization of Mexicans jumped off the page at me. Personally, as I have said at the article talk page, I'm inclined to AGF about those changes. However, you should not be automatically adding the state after every mention of a city in a list, as you did there. It's totally unnecessary with almost every one of the 5 cities mentioned, and completely unnecessary with links present (I had even linked unambiguously to Cleveland, Ohio for the benefit of non-Americans), and again, it gives the impression that the "city alone but with link" usage I employed is less correct. Which it is not. Please don't impose your personal preferences without thinking whether they are actual improvements, and if you do go ahead and make such changes, it should be in the edit summary, all the more if you have cluttered up the diff with blank lines. But it's possible you weren't fully aware that these are matters of personal preference? That still leaves the addition of "criminal undocumented", though. So can you please respond to Softlavender's query? I think this might be a better place, but I've pinged the other two partly in case they disagree (and partly in case they want to take issue with what I've said above; blame it on Indecline's shock tactics if you like). Yngvadottir (talk) 16:48, 27 August 2016 (UTC)