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Wikidata weekly summary #245
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Economists in Wikidata: Opportunities of Authority Linking
 * FOSDEM, February 4-5th in Brussels Come and talk about Wikidata with us! See also the talk about UX and users' needs for Wikidata
 * Web Search and Data Mining Conference, February 6-10th, Cambridge


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Data donation: BBC Things ID (P1617) for news topics, kindly supplied by the BBC. All now uploaded, via Mix'n'Match
 * The StrepHit grant tool was renewed, so the Primary Sources tool can be improved in the future
 * The Bodleian Libraries (Oxford University) are looking for a Wikimedia data assistant to work on Wikidata


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: FIBA player ID, MLB ID, NFL.com ID, fussballdaten.de ID, FootballDatabase.eu ID, euroleague.net ID, JapanTour ID, Australian Government Organisations Register ID, draftexpress.com ID, databaseFootball.com ID, AZBilliards ID, par, median income, Luding game ID, eurobasket.com ID, wisdenindia.com ID, acb.com ID, Simple Modular Architecture Research Tool ID, Rfam ID, NHL.com ID, EuroTour ID, databaseOlympics.com ID, Pfam ID, Smithsonian trinomial, Geographical Names Board of New South Wales ID, National Park Foundation ID, NPCA ID, U.S. National Geodetic Survey ID, peakware ID, means of locomotion, VGMDb label ID, Dagens Nyheter topic ID, Bivouac Mountain Encyclopedia ID, Luding designer ID, BoardGameGeek designer ID, Florentine Inventario Palatina art ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali building ID, Ameblo username, Catholic rite, Ringgold identifier, Gentoo package


 * Query examples:
 * Most articles about films in each Wikipedia
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20psv%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fstatement%2Fvalue%2F%3E%20SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%28GROUP_CONCAT%28DISTINCT%20%3FcounLabel%3B%20SEPARATOR%3D%22%2C%20%22%29%20AS%20%3Fcountry%29%20%28GROUP_CONCAT%28DISTINCT%20%3FhqLabel%3B%20SEPARATOR%3D%22%2C%20%22%29%20AS%20%3Fheadquarters%29%20%3Frevenue%20%3Frevenue_USD%20%3FunitLabel%20%3Fdate%20%20%0AWHERE%20{%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ4830453.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP2139%20%3Fstatement.%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20{%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP159%20%3Fhq.%20}%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20{%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fcoun.%20}%0A%20%20%3Fstatement%20wikibase%3Arank%20%3Frank.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20{%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP2139%20%3Fstatement1.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fstatement1%20wikibase%3Arank%20wikibase%3APreferredRank.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Frank%20!%3D%20wikibase%3APreferredRank%29%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Fstatement1%20!%3D%20%3Fstatement%29%0A%20%20}%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20{%20%3Fstatement%20pq%3AP585%20%3Fdate.%20}%0A%20%20{%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fstatement%20psv%3AP2139%20_%3Ab9.%0A%20%20%20%20_%3Ab9%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3Frevenue.%0A%20%20%20%20_%3Ab9%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ4917.%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28wd%3AQ4917%20AS%20%3Funit%29%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28%3Frevenue%20AS%20%3Frevenue_USD%29%0A%20%20}%0A%20%20UNION%0A%20%20{%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fstatement%20psv%3AP2139%20_%3Ab10.%0A%20%20%20%20_%3Ab10%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3Frevenue.%0A%20%20%20%20_%3Ab10%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20%3Funit.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Funit%20p%3AP2284%20%3Funit_statement.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Funit_statement%20wikibase%3Arank%20%3Funit_rank.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Funit_statement%20psv%3AP2284%20_%3Ab11.%0A%20%20%20%20_%3Ab11%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ4917.%0A%20%20%20%20_%3Ab11%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3Fusd.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20{%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Funit%20p%3AP2284%20%3Funit_statement1.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Funit_statement1%20%28psv%3AP2284%2Fwikibase%3AquantityUnit%29%20wd%3AQ4917.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Funit_statement1%20wikibase%3Arank%20wikibase%3APreferredRank.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Funit_rank%20!%3D%20wikibase%3APreferredRank%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Funit_statement1%20!%3D%20%3Funit_statement%29%0A%20%20%20%20}%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28%3Frevenue%20*%20%3Fusd%20AS%20%3Frevenue_USD%29%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Funit%20!%3D%20wd%3AQ4917%29%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Funit_rank%20!%3D%20wikibase%3ADeprecatedRank%29%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28!BOUND%28%3Funit_statement1%29%29%0A%20%20}%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20{%0A%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FitemLabel%20.%0A%20%20%3Fcoun%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FcounLabel%20.%0A%20%20%3Fhq%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FhqLabel%20.%0A%20%20%3Funit%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FunitLabel%20.%0A%20%20}%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3Frank%20!%3D%20wikibase%3ADeprecatedRank%29%0A%20%20FILTER%28!BOUND%28%3Fstatement1%29%29%0A}%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Frevenue%20%3Frevenue_USD%20%3FunitLabel%20%3Fdate%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Frevenue_USD%29%0ALIMIT%2015 Largest companies by revenue in USD]
 * Characters whose actors died recently (source)
 * Stock-listed US companies with founders who (or whose parents) were born outside the US (source)
 * Wizards from Harry Potter and their houses/groups (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Companies
 * Newest database reports: film festivals this month


 * Development
 * RDF exports will contain sitelink page names as strings in addition to the URLs (T148923)
 * Switching the remaining special pages for labels, descriptions and aliases to the OOUI design (T48248)
 * Finalizing the security review of the Cognate extension for Wiktionary (T149082)
 * We plan to provide  Open Graph tags for sharing Item pages in social networks (T51859)
 * Introducing a new test framework for special pages (T69122)
 * Refactoring the wbeditentity API to work with the new Lexeme entity type (T154288)
 * Added [//phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/EWBA/browse/master/docs/change-op-serializations.wiki docs/change-op-serializations.wiki] documenting how to use the wbeditentity API
 * Added a [//phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/EWBA/browse/master/CREDITS CREDITS] file to the Wikibase code base, listing all authors

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 13:41, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-05
 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 OAuth management interfaces now look slightly different.

Changes this week
 * ElectronPdfService will be enabled by default on Meta and German Wikipedia. This is a new way to get articles as PDF files you can download. It will come to more wikis later.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 31. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from February 1. It will be on all wikis from February 2 (calendar).

Future changes
 * The Community Tech team will develop more tools to handle harassment of Wikimedia editors. The goal is to give the communities better tools to find, report and evaluate harassment. They will also work on more effective blocking tools.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Wikimedia technical community is doing a Developer Wishlist survey. Developers can propose ideas before 31 January 23:59 UTC. This is soon.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  18:45, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Bent Faurschou Hviid
Hello, Checkingfax - Can you determine which variant of English has been used all along in the article on Bent Faurschou Hviid? If it's British English, then  edit is fine. If it's American English, then the date format should not have been changed. – Corinne (talk) 00:32, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi, . The very first article version has MDY dates. A few versions later somebody added some British English spelled words. Later somebody added an American spelled one (memorialized). I would improve the continuity by making it all British English since that is the preponderance. Also, I would stick with the international DMY datestyle as it is not a US article. If you object to DMY dates, you are free to change them back to MDY, and then initiate some kind of WP:BRD discussion on the talk page until consensus is reached - if it is challenged. I hope this helps. Cheers!  01:42, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you for looking into this. I don't object to the DMY date style. It's just that I think occasionally the date style is changed just because an editor prefers that style but hasn't looked into the article to determine what variant of English has been used. – Corinne (talk) 19:02, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi, . If it turned out that the article should use American English, I would be all for changing the dates back to MDY. Cheers!  20:02, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

WP:ANI notice
There is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Kevjonesin (talk) 13:26, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
 * User:Checkingfax, if you revert again at User talk:Kevjonesin you will be breaking the WP:Three revert rule. Kevjonesin does not run the same risk since they are only reverting in their own userspace. Your best plan is to wait and see if a consensus is reached at WP:ANI. Thank you, EdJohnston (talk) 18:33, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi, . Thanks for the heads-up. I really appreciate it. FYI, I performed 2 reverts in 24 hours. Cheers!  21:28, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

Ping problem
This doesn't work. A ping will only be sent if you use the ping template in a paragraph with a new signature. Changing it behind an old signature does nothing. Cheers to you, too! Dicklyon (talk) 07:20, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi, . Yeah. They will only be pinged directly to the 2nd section, where there is a fresh ping and signature. Cheers!  07:31, 4 February 2017 (UTC)

The Signpost: 6 February 2017
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Tech News: 2017-06
 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
 * The block log sometimes showed blocks as being much longer than they were. This has now been fixed.

Changes this week
 * Wikimedia pages will now be better at showing pictures when you share them on social media. The descriptions will be different too. You can see an example of before and after.
 * Octicons-tools.svg There are some changes to the OOjs UI. Some old functions will not work anymore or not work as they used to. This could be a breaking change.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 February. It will be on all wikis from 9 February (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 7 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg Tidy will be replaced later this year. Instead, the HTML 5 parsing algorithm will be used to clean up bad HTML in wikitext. This will cause problems on a number of wikis. They need to be fixed first. You can see if your wiki still has something to fix here for one of the HTML problems. This list does not cover all problems. You can read about more problems.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  19:45, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #246
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * We need your input about quality criteria for building a tool to evaluate item quality


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: FOSDEM
 * Upcoming: WSDM Cup 2017
 * Upcoming: WikiCite 2017, Vienna, May 23-25, 2017
 * Upcoming: A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners, by Asaf Bartov, February 9th, 19:00 UTC (livestream on Youtube)
 * Scaling the matching of Wikidata to OpenStreetMap with wikimama
 * Software product management as an internship in the Wikidata development team
 * Being a Volunteer Developer for Wikimedia projects: An Interview with Greta Doçi


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Inspire Campaign on outside knowledge networks launched
 * What would you like to talk about during Wikimania Montreal?
 * Join the Wikimania program committee!
 * OpenStreetMap uses several -related tags in its database. See also the related documentation
 * Dutch is now the most used language for descriptions on Wikidata (56,7%), leaving English (55,8%) and German (34,7%) behind.
 * An OpenRefine service for Wikidata is waiting for testing: https://tools.wmflabs.org/openrefine-wikidata/
 * WMDE looking for a data analyst to work mostly on Wikidata
 * WMF looking for a project manager to work on structured data for Commons


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Saros cycle of eclipse, World Checklist of Selected Plant Families ID, Relations Ontology ID, GCD series ID, WNBA player ID, Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures ID, CricketArchive playing ground ID, UltraSignup runner ID, ITRA runner ID, Surfline ID, SunshineTour ID, Pro Football Hall of Fame ID, SIPCA code, Sina Weibo id, autologous cell line, Croatian Football Federation player ID, TLG author ID, data size, Fangraphs ID, European Handball Federation ID, ESPNcricinfo playing ground ID, ESPN MLB player ID, European Case Law Identifier, Cultureel Woordenboek identifier, OWGR ID, Legends of Hockey ID, Just Sports Stats ID, J.League Data Site ID, Global Poker Index ID, NGA Lighthouse ID, Admiralty number, pro-football-reference ID, College Football Data Warehouse ID, maximum size or capacity, USCF ID, World Curling Federation ID, World Curling Tour ID, World Guide to Covered Bridges ID, World Series of Poker ID, Zhihu topic ID


 * Query examples:
 * Places of worship south of 48°S(source)
 * Fictional items named after real items(source)


 * Development
 * You can now download query results as SVG images
 * When posting a link to an item to social networks and on messenger apps that show previews the previews will now be nicer and show an image. (T51859)
 * We published the results of our research around Commons usage: How do heavy Commons users work? ...and what does that mean for structured data on Commons?
 * Setting up test system for federation (being able to use Wikidata's items and properties on Commons)
 * Setting up test system for lexemes
 * Setting up test system for improved change dispatching (sending notifications about edits on Wikidata to Wikipedia and co)
 * Doing more groundwork for lexemes
 * Working on better integration with Elastic
 * More work on Federation
 * Getting ready to deploy automated sitelinks for Wiktionary
 * Fixing a number of keyboard navigation issues based on your feedback
 * Working on the new datatype for geoshapes (T57549)
 * Looking into linking more complicated external identifiers properly (T151329)
 * Improved the link to the help portal on the query service (T154993)

See all open tickets related to Wikidata.


 * 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 Cebuano and Swedish wikis have a lot of bot-created content which is unconnected to other wiki articles. A good way to tackle that problem is by checking constraint violations for property GeoNames ID.

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 13:26, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

Friendly suggestion
, as I recall, at some point in discussion at WP:ANI you expressed displeasure with how my thread transcription appears here on your talkpage. Please feel free to make use of the collapse template which I provided for your convenience. As this is your talkpage, barring explicitly overriding circumstances, you are of course free to do so.

Simply replace:

... with ...

... in ...

... and the entry will henceforth take up much less displayed space by default.

Speaking of defaults, alternately you could just remove the "" parameter completely as the template displays a collapsed state by default. As I understand it such user talkpage format refactoring is expressly permissible on one's own page (and— unless others raise objection—on talkpages in general).

I certainly have no objection to such. I expanded the content as an afterthought for your initial reading convenience and fully expected that—as this is your page and you are afforded certain prerogatives here—you would collapse it again after taking note of it. Of course, as this is your page and you are generally afforded wide latitude here, you are also now free to remove the entry completely if you so wish. It's your assigned talkpage after all; even says "User talk:Checkingfax" right up at the top. ;-)

As to the length of your talkpage in general, as you've expressed concern about the appearance of your page, might I respectfully suggest that you consider exploring archiving options? Such might make things tidier and easier to navigate both for yourself and for others.

I hope this will be of use to you,

--Kevjonesin (talk) 04:03, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi, . I use 1CA for archiving as many old hands do, but it has not been maintained well since Technical 13 was site banned. I am going to try ArchyMcArchface as I am not a fan of bot archiving. Cheers!  9:11 pm, 14 February 2017, last Tuesday (3 days ago) (UTC−8)

Hi   :)
Hi Checkingfax, per this message of yours, while I did get an email asking me to fill in details for the MIT membership (which I did, twice now), I haven't received any response thereon. Just thought I'll mention this. Thanks. Lourdes 04:13, 12 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi, . I recorded a response from you on 2/11. I will notify my contact at MIT and they will email your credentials. I apologize for any delay or confusion. Cheers!  00:22, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

Cautes and Cautopates
Hello, Checkingfax - I was just looking at the latest edit to Cautes and Cautopates, and I noticed that there are two external links in the article: one in the caption for the first image and one near the end of the article. I didn't know what to do with them. Also, there is a red message toward the end of the References. You'll notice that there is a tag at the beginning of the article that has been there since 2007! Is there anything we can do to update the article so the tag could be removed? – Corinne (talk) 8:21 am, Yesterday (UTC−8)
 * Hi, . Check out the [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cautes_and_Cautopates&diff=766101946&oldid=765747484 diff] so you can see what I did. One section is still unreferenced. Let me know what you think of my effort. Thank you for the opportunity to assist. Cheers!   07:04, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you for addressing that. Your edits look fine, but those kinds of things are beyond my abilities. I'll just call on you if I see something like that again. – Corinne (talk) 16:39, 18 February 2017 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors February 2017 News
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:20, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #248
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: GLAMwiki meeting in Paris, February 16-17th
 * Incoming: Wikidata workshop in Grenoble (France), March 7th
 * If Voltaire had used Wikipedia… using Wikidata to share knowledge about an author


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * WMF open call for Project Grant proposals (Feb 13-Mar 14)
 * Wikimania: the deadline for applying for scholarships is 20 February 2017 23:59 UTC. Submissions are running until end of March (see our discussions about Wikidata-related topics)
 * Wikimedia Deutschland is hiring a fullstack developer and an engineering manager to work on Wikidata
 * Editing Wikidata descriptions from Wikipedia app (beta)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: USA Gymnastics athlete ID, Tennis Archives player ID, Swimming Australia swimmer ID, Sambafoot player ID, International Weightlifting Federation ID, EPCR player ID, L'Équipe football player ID, Futsal Planet player ID, Fotbal DNES player ID, Football Federation of Ukraine player ID, Fora De Jogo manager ID, FootballFacts.ru player ID, Estonian Football Association player ID, DZFoot.com player ID, Croatian Football Statistics ID, Cross-tables.com Scrabble player ID, BDFutbol player ID, Chess.com player ID, ARRS runner ID, Kontinental Hockey League player ID, American Hockey League player ID, JMK film rating, IDEAS person ID, NatureServe conservation status, NBA player ID, Basketball Hall of Fame ID, All Blacks player ID, FFR player ID, significant environmental impact, ARCHON code, Uniform Type Identifier, National Drug Code, Key to English Place-Names (KEPN) ID, Oorlogsmonument ID, European Medicines Agency product number, PDB ligand ID, Peakbagger area ID, The Met object ID, British Museum place ID, British Museum thesaurus ID, Babelio work ID, Babelio author ID, stated age at event, British History Online VCH ID, Historical Gazetteer of England's Place Names ID, Australian Antarctic Gazetteer ID, Kirshenbaum, Common Weakness Enumeration ID, BadmintonLink player ID, rusbandy player ID, Darts Database player ID, Bwfbadminton.com player ID, ski-db.com skier ID


 * Query examples:
 * People born at the sea (source)
 * Persons buried in Père-Lachaise cemetery, Paris (source)
 * Paintings by women painters in the Louvre (source)
 * [http://histropedia.com/showcase/wikidata-viewer.html?query=%23People%20born%20on%20valentine%27s%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%202%20&&%20day(?date)%20%3D%2014)%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 Valentine's day, colour coded by country of citizenship] (source)
 * Newest external tools: wikidata-cli can now edit Wikidata, edit Wikidata from NodeJS


 * Development
 * Making final fixes to initial version of Federation (needed to be able to use Wikidata items and properties to describe media on Commons in the future)
 * More work on baseline for Lexeme entity type for Wiktionary support
 * Fixed an error on d:Special:ConstraintReport (T158183)
 * Wikidata Query Service got additional servers, the data has been reloaded to fix a number of issues caused by missed updates and an increase of the time-out of 30s is being looked into.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:56, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-08
 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 edit summary box is now a little bit bigger. This is to make it follow the Wikimedia design guide.

Changes this week
 * Page Previews will be updated on 23 February. This fixes many bugs. Page Previews can be turned on as the Beta Feature called Hovercards.
 * Octicons-tools.svg There has been a problem where the CSS of gadgets has been loading twice. The Gadgets extension has two new options:  and  . The   option solves this problem. You can use   to create gadgets with more than one style module. Read more about type and peers.
 * Octicons-tools.svg OAuth will handle blocked users in a more consistent way.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 February. It will be on all wikis from 23 February (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 21 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Bay Area WikiSalon February reminder
Please join us in downtown San Francisco!

Wednesday, February 22, 2017 at 6 p.m. For details and to RSVP: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, February 2017 See you soon! and (co-coordinators) | (Subscribe/Unsubscribe to this talk page notice here) | MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:58, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #249
<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="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Proposal to include command line arguments to Command line tool
 * We need your input on SPARQL federation


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Describing Wikidata items with OpenStreetMap tags
 * Deadline for applying to Wikicite 2017 is February 27th
 * Quora blog post about their collaboration with Wikidata. They are now displaying links to Wikidata items in their topic management pages - about 88K of them, so far.
 * Community Digest: Using data to visualize Wikipedia knowledge gaps; news in brief


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * There is now a Community for Wikidata editors on Facebook
 * You can now make your Harvest Templates tasks run automatically. After you have generated a permalink to your task, add  to the url. When you open it next time, it will load and then run automatically. Alternatively, you can use   which will only prepare the task for running.
 * Wikidata description editing in the Wikipedia Android app for Hebrew, Russian and Catalan


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: GPnotebook ID, regulated by, NCMEC person ID, MEROPS enzyme ID, social classification, NISH Hall of Fame ID, Recreation.gov facility ID, category for value not in Wikidata, objective of a project or mission, Vanderkrogt.net Statues ID, Jewish Encyclopedia Daat ID, category for value different from Wikidata, PhDTree person ID, Gridabase glacier ID, RITVA Person ID, RITVA Program ID, KMDb film ID, JMDb person ID, Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts ID, incarnation of, NHF player ID, Transfermarkt referee ID, Tennis Australia player ID, SRCFB player ID, SRCBB player ID, SpeedSkatingStats speed skater ID, SpeedSkatingNews speed skater ID, ShorttrackOnLine speed skater ID, NCAA sports team ID, ISHOF swimmer ID, IFSC climber ID, ICF slalom canoer ID, ICF sprint canoer ID, ESPN NHL player ID, ESPN NFL player ID, ESPN NBA player ID, DriverDB driver ID, LFP.fr player ID, AOC athlete ID, ESPN FC player ID, statement supported by, stock market index, SA Rugby player ID, Wereld van Oranje player ID, National Bridge Inventory Number, Hans Christian Andersen Centre's work ID, Mutopia composer ID, film-documentaire.fr film ID, International Orienteering Federation athlete ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of cheese by milk used (source)
 * The many flags of Afghanistan (source)
 * Real works written by fictional authors (source)
 * Maps of churches in Pyrénées-Orientales (France) (source)
 * Cities with millions of inhabitants that not a single person in Wikidata was born, has lived, or died in (source)


 * Development
 * Continued to finalize the initial version of Federation (needed to be able to use Wikidata items and properties to describe media on Commons in the future)
 * More work on baseline for Lexeme entity type for Wiktionary support

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. These other tasks need a volunteer.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2017-09
<section begin="technews-2017-W09"/> 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
 * On 22 February the wikipedia.org portal did not work for an hour. This was because of a problem with a JavaScript file.

Changes this week
 * You will be able to use  to write chemical formulas in the visual editor. Previously this only worked in the wikitext editor.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 March. It will be on all wikis from 2 March (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 28 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * You can soon upload 3D files to Commons. The file formats are AMF and STL. The plan is for this to work later this week but it could be later.
 * The name "Wikipedia" will be more obvious at the top of the page when you read Wikipedia in the mobile view. This is because many readers don't realize they are on Wikipedia.

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The Signpost: 27 February 2017
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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 10
Issue 10 of the WikiProject X newsletter is here!

This month, we discuss the new CollaborationKit extension. Here's an image as a teaser:



23:59, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

King Clone
Hello, Checkingfax - There is an external link in the King Clone section of King Clone. Can you fix that or put the link in a better place? – Corinne (talk) 14:37, 2 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi, . I converted the external link into a templated footnote and left it hanging on the same spot. I did some minor polishing of the wikicode. Thank you for the invitation to be at your service. Cheers!  09:23, 4 March 2017 (UTC)