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Geonotices

A few points following up from the discussion on the NN geonotice. Firstly, sorry I didn't get to look at it - it was a bank holiday weekend here and I haven't been online much. Secondly, having added my name to the list of people to poke, I'll now have to admit I have no idea how we judge which requests should be actioned. My guess would be, either there should be an explicit consensus somewhere or we expect the request to be uncontroversial; is that about right? GoldenRing (talk) 11:15, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

@GoldenRing: Thanks again for volunteering! I was out in the sunshine as well most of yesterday :-)

In general, they're pretty much never controversial. The vast majority of them are local events and the most controversy that can arise from posting those is a bit of "well, I'm in XYZ and I personally don't care about that" grumbling.

It's rare that anything else gets posted - there were South African and Australian ones in 2017 (both to do with copyright campaigns), a couple of WikiProject ones targeting Indian users in 2016, and a couple of job ads in 2014 and 2013.

None of those seem to have been particularly controversial & so in this case, I sort of assumed that people would have a consensus for posting the notice before it went up - my fault for not digging deeper, really. I think you'd be safe to post anything that looks routine and only check details if it looks likely to be a particularly hot-button campaign. Andrew Gray (talk) 11:42, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

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This Month in GLAM: April 2018

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Wikidata weekly summary #312

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Adminor

• Events
  • Past: GLAM forum in Yerevan, Armenia, 10-12 May 2018
    • slides for 'What is Wikidata: How can GLAMs work with Wikidata?' presentation by Andy Mabbett
    • A Wikidata workshop was given by Liam Wyatt and appeared at the national Armenian television
  • Wikidata workshop day at GLAMwiki conference in Rotterdam, May 14th
  • Wikidata workshop in Paris, May 18th
  • Next Wikidata IRC office hour: May 29th at 18:00 (UTC+2, Berlin time) on the channel #wikimedia-office

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Wikidata: a platform for your library’s linked open data by Stacy Allison-Cassin & Dan Scott, in the journal Code4Lib (also posted on Reddit)
  • Enriching Reconciled Data with OpenRefine, by Karen Hwang

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New feature for the Query Service: check the location of the browser
  • New monolingual code available: shy (Shawiya)
  • You can have a look at the draft for the RDF mapping of Wikibase Lexeme
  • New feature for the Query Service: check the location of the browser

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: item for this sense, season of club or team, Möllendorff transliteration, geographic center, coastline
    • External identifiers: none
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: IGAC rating, taxon described in publication, jockey, Norsk fjordkatalog-ID, Wikidata:Dataset Imports, toponym
    • External identifiers: Bugs! artist ID, Bugs! album ID, KKBOX artist ID, KKBOX album ID, Norsk pop- og rockleksikon ID, Odnoklassniki profile ID, Kunstenpunt organisations, Rockipedia artist ID, Rockipedia album ID, Rockipedia label ID, Rockipedia area ID, Norsk historisk leksikon ID, Univ-droit jurist ID, Relationship Science profile ID, D&B Hoovers company profile, Victorian Heritage Register ID, CIVICUS Monitor country entry, FloraCatalana ID
  • Underused properties created >3 months:
    • Songwriters Hall of Fame ID (P4757), V Live channel ID (P4756), MONA ID (P4758), Harvard botanical journal ID (P4754), Images d'Art artwork ID (P4761), has boundary (P4777), lot number (P4775), Arcade artwork ID (P4764), biological phase (P4774), crates.io ID (P4763)
  • Query examples:
    • Museums near you (source)
    • Places near you that are the subject of publications (source)
    • Map of libraries in Wales (source)
    • Map of schools in Italy (source)
    • List of TeX/LaTeX commands for special characters (source)
    • Largest first-level country subdivisions (i.e. larger than 400,000 km²) (source)

• Development
  • Fix the bug where changes in the watchlist and Recent Changes on Wikipedia should have been shown but were not (phab:T192673)
  • Clarify error message for the merge API (phab:T180296)
  • Add violation type to restrict which entity types a property can be used (phab:T164744)
  • Added a constraint to blacklist values for a property (phab:T183092)
  • Fix a bug showing the wrong alias in the edit summary when editing an alias (phab:T190492)
  • Fix some bugs related to displaying thumbnails in statements (phab:T193880, phab:T192667, phab:T193499)
  • Continue looking into dispatch issues (phab:T194602)
  • Working on adding an integer constraint (phab:T167989)
  • Preparing to deploy WikibaseLexeme extension on Wikimedia cluster (phab:T168260)
  • Making sure that the form ID counter is preserved when clearing the lexeme via the API (phab:T192264)
  • Applying the same validation to the language code of the Lemma and the representation (phab:T191504)

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Tech News: 2018-20

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Wikidata weekly summary #313

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Addshore, Pintoch
  • New request for comments: How to manage software versions, Improving Wikidata documentation for different types of user
  • Closed request for comments: Privacy and Living People

• Events
  • Past: Europeana Tech Conference (including a lot of Wikidata workshops and discussions)
  • Past:Wikimedia Hackathon 2018, 18-20 May in Barcelona
    • Check the hashtag #wmhack on Twitter to see what has been worked on regarding Wikidata
    • List of the projects that have been demoed during the showcase
  • Next Wikidata IRC office hour: May 29th at 18:00 (UTC+2, Berlin time) on the channel #wikimedia-office

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • A look back at the first Federated-Wikibase-Workshop
  • Martin Poulter gave a TEDxBathUniversity talk about Wikidata
  • The Joint Roadmap for Open Science Tools (JROST) has been launched; Wikidata is represented by the Wikimedia Foundation
  • "Translating a blog post into structured data" Martin Poulter, the Bodleian Digital Library blog

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A bunch of new constraint types were recently added
  • A Request for comments on improving Wikidata documentation for different types of user
  • We have deprecated units used for this property (P2237). Please update any tool which uses this property to use the new API before it gets deleted.
  • EditGroups is a new tool that lets you review, discuss and revert entire edit groups made by various tools.
  • PictureThis! Is a new tool integrated to WikiShootMe! that allows you to choose an item and upload a picture of it

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: IGAC rating, KAVI rating, established from medical condition, vehicles per capita (1000), applies to name, Wikipedia glossary entry
    • External identifiers: Chinese Political Elites Database ID, amateur radio callsign, Bugs! album ID, Bugs! artist ID, Cinema Project (Israel) ID, Dictionary of Swedish Translators ID, e-MEC entry, Ester ID, Israel Film Fund ID, KKBOX album ID, KKBOX artist ID, Norwegian war sailor register ship-ID, OnsOranje match ID, OnsOranje player ID, The New Fund for Cinema and Television (Israel) ID, Thesaurus For Graphic Materials ID, Trustpilot company ID, OnsOranje tournament ID, Odnoklassniki profile ID, Flanders Arts Institute organisation ID, Norsk pop- og rockleksikon ID, Norwegian historical lexicon ID, Norwegian fjord catalog ID, Rockipedia album ID, Rockipedia artist ID, Rockipedia area ID, Rockipedia label ID, Univ-droit jurist ID, KIT Linked Open Numbers ID, Victorian Heritage Register ID, FloraCatalana ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: animal water well, World Rugby Ranking, Schulsprengel, dedicated object, conjugation class, word stem, visible by means of, Production website, software version of, Japanese pitch accent, reading pattern of kanji, has conjugation class, stroke count, radical, grade of kanji, Party coalition, Naturdenkmal ID, ISO 3950 code, software version, software developer
    • External identifiers: Eurohockey.com club ID, Namuwiki, Daum Encyclopedia, Melon song ID, Sistema de Información Cultural, African Studies Thesaurus ID, nwhl.zone player ID, YouPorn ID, Pornhub ID, NWSL player ID, eBird hotspot ID, British Library system number, Flickr tag, Sveriges Dödbok, BAG Openbare ruimte ID, BAG Pand ID, SpectraBase Compound ID, Carnegie Hall event ID, Carnegie Hall work ID, Armenian National Academy of Sciences ID, Armenian Cinema ID, Armenian Parliamentary ID, National Gallery of Armenia work ID, Spyur ID, OlimpBase Women's Chess Olympiad player ID, GONIAT author ID, GONIAT taxon ID, GONIAT paper ID, GONIAT place ID
  • Dormant properties created >3 months:
    • USA Rugby player ID (P4778), MYmovies name ID (P4785), CiNii author ID (articles) (P4787), Who's Who UK ID (P4789), uses data storage type (P4788), Basketball-Reference.com NBL player ID (P4796), Basketball-Reference.com referee ID (P4795), PARES ID (P4813), BWSA ID (P4811), LoC and MARC vocabularies ID (P4801)
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    • Photos of railway stations from Latvia and Estonia (source)
    • Map of items near me that have a label in Catalan but not in French (source)
    • Places of residence of accused Scottish witches (source)
    • Poets whose fathers were lawyers (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Sustainable Development, Wikipedia Sources
  • Newest database reports: list of English Wikipedia outline articles, US states

• Development
  • Hackathon!
  • Work on adding “integer” constraint (phab:T167989)
  • Fix a bug expanding the references with a constraint violation (phab:T193669)
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Welcoming myself to Scotland

Hi Andrew, I'm settling in to my new home and I found List_of_listed_buildings_in_Jedburgh,_Scottish_Borders which looked interesting. I've started to add bits but the "Notes" column holds "Category B" info and the Category column doesn't display.... and another had added "commonscat" but the reason is not obvious and this may be the cause of the problems I see. I see that its five years since you created this, so you may have just "moved on". Should I just charge in and make it how I want it or is there a model of best practice that I could use to fix it. Hope you're enjoying life. All the best. Roger Victuallers (talk) 20:37, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

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