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This Month in GLAM: November 2015

This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue XI, November 2015 Headlines Argentina report: Edit-a-thons and Digitization project France report: November comes and November goes, Wikimedians stay! Germany report: GLAM and copyright Italy report: Food images donation and much more! Mexico report: Rock and movies in Wikipedia Spain report: GLAMing Madrid, Wiki Loves Earth and Carmen Thyssen Museum Sweden report: Exhibitions and more images UK report: November in the UK USA report: GLAM activities in Seattle Special story: Guerrilla GLAMː An alternate way of doing GLAM in indie-way Open Access report: OpenCon; Robots, oysters and amber Wikidata report: Wikidata this month Calendar: December's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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The Signpost: 09 December 2015

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• In the media: Political editing in the context of the US presidential primaries

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Wikidata weekly summary #188

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata: knowledge from different points of view (Signpost op-ed on knowledge diversity and our thinking on data quality)
  • The Wikimedia Foundation Scholarships Program is now accepting applications for Wikimania 2016 (deadline: 09 January 2016 23:59 UTC)
  • Wikidata: A platform for data integration and dissemination for the life sciences and beyond received the prize for best paper at SWAT4LS. Congrats!
  • Past: 50 hours of Wikidata and Wikipedia editing at Museo Soumaya
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Over 16.000 people have contributed to Wikidata over the last month.
  • Wikidata Analyst, a tool to help comprehensively analyze the quality of Wikidata (announcement)
  • Overview of the current state of Sum of all Paintings and how you can help by Multichill
  • query.wikidata.org now more prominently shows example queries in case you missed them before, lets you filter and gives you a preview for them. Additionally you can click a little magnifying glass next to an item ID in a query result and explore it further.
  • WikiJourney now has a first release on the Play Store
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: JMDb film identifier, British Council artist ID, MLSSoccer.com ID, YouTube channel ID, image of function, MGI gene symbol, NCBI Locus tag, teaching method, OKPO ID, Ballotpedia ID, organisation directed from the office, office held by head of the organisation, Elonet actor ID, diameter, French diocesan architects ID, statement describes, CTHS person ID, Chemins de mémoire ID, Academic Tree ID, French Sculpture Census ID, deprecated in version, issued by
  • Query example: Which "Lincoln" was "Lincoln" named for?, places by elevation span, people who died in 1945 (for upcoming 2016 public domain day)
  • Newest Database reports: List of films without article in Wikipedia of the same language
• Development
  • Working on sorting of statement groups for the ArticlePlaceholder extension
  • Further work on a separate section for identifiers
  • Worked on properly linking identifiers in the exports
  • Removed a number of lines and boxes in the statement section to make it less busy
  • Made it possible to create a redirect over a deleted item without having to undelete it first
  • Further work on improving ranking on Special:Search
  • Making it possible to show and edit more languages for labels/descriptions/aliases than the ones defined in your babel boxes
  • Getting ready for the holidays :)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
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  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Tech News: 2015-51

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

Changes this week

• Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata. [1]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 December. It will be on all Wikipedias from 17 December. (calendar).

Meetings

• 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 15 December at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is talking about the agenda for the Wikimedia Developer Summit. The meeting will be on 16 December at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join. [2]

Future changes

• A new gadget manager will come next year. The new gadget system is called Gadgets 2.0. [3]

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The Signpost: 16 December 2015

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Tech News: 2015-52

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Tech News

• Because of the holidays, the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 11 January 2016.
• The writers of the technical newsletter are asking for your opinion. Did you get the information you wanted this year? Did we miss important technical news in 2015? What kind of information was too late? Please tell us! You can write in your language. Thank you!

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• There is no deployment of MediaWiki scheduled until 12 January 2016 (calendar).

Meetings

• Should administrators and other users with advanced tools need stronger passwords? You can discuss about it in a Request for Comments.
• No meeting with the VisualEditor team on 22 and 29 December, and 5 January.

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Wikidata weekly summary #189

Wikidata weekly summary #186

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

• Discussions
  • Successful request for adminship: Eurodyne
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • World Health Summit yearbook for 2015
  • You can apply for a scholarship to attend Wikimania 2016 (deadline: January 9th)
  • Talk submissions for Wikimania 2016 are open. We'd love to see many Wikidata-related submissions. If you need help with your submission contact Lydia.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Google has launched the Knowledge Graph Search API, replacing the deprecated Freebase API
  • Meta now has access to the data on Wikidata as well
  • Want to get an overview of the classes and properties on Wikidata? The Miga class and property browser was updated.
  • WikiBrowser - semantically browse Wikipedia with the help of Wikidata
  • WikiFamou.us lets you compare topics by popularity across languages with the help of Wikidata
  • Chronas is a history project linking Wikipedia and Wikidata with a chronological and cartographical view
  • Visiting some place for the holidays? Check out the items nearby.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Fashion Model Directory magazine ID, Fashion Model Directory designer ID, Artsy gene, WikiPathways ID, NII Article ID, set in period, short-term exposure limit, maximum peak exposure limit, ceiling exposure limit, time-weighted average exposure limit, Total assets, total expenditure, Six Degrees of Francis Bacon ID
  • Query example: works created by females who died in 1945
• Development
  • <3 Thanks for being awesome. Enjoy the holidays :)
  • We will take the "in other projects"-sidebar out of beta features in January (phabricator:T103102)
  • Making ranking information like label and statement counts available to the CirrusSearch index in order to improve ranking in search results (phabricator:T110648)
  • Continued work on the identifier data type for identifiers like VIAF and ISBN so we can easily put them into a separate section in the items and properly link them in the exports (phabricator:T95682, phabricator:T121274)
  • Continued work on making external identifiers clickable links without the help of the authority control gadget (phabricator:T95684)
  • Fixed a mistake in the set reference API documentation (gerrit:259171)
  • More work on cleaning up the statement section (phabricator:T121390)
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WikiCup 2016 is just around the corner...

Hello everyone, and we would like to wish you all a happy holiday season. As you will probably already know, the 2016 WikiCup begins in the new year; there is still time to sign up. There are some changes we'd like to announce before the competition begins.

After two years of serving as WikiCup judge, User:Miyagawa has stepped down as judge. He deserves great thanks and recognition for his dedication and hard work, and for providing necessary transition for a new group of judges in last year's Cup. Joining Christine (User:Figureskatingfan) and Jason (User:Sturmvogel 66) is Andrew (User:Godot13), a very successful WikiCup competitor and expert in Featured Pictures; he won the two previous competitions. This is a strong judging team, and we anticipate lots of enjoyment and good work coming from our 2016 competitors.

We would also like to announce one change in how this year's WikiCup will be run. In the spirit of sportsmanship, Godot13 and Cwmhiraeth have chosen to limit their participation. See here for the announcement and a complete explanation of why. They and the judges feel that it will make for a more exciting, enjoyable, and productive competition.

The discussions/polls concerning the next competition's rules will be closed soon, and rules changes will be made clear on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring and talk pages. The judges are committed to not repeating the confusion that occurred last year and to ensuring that the new rules are both fair and in the best interests of the competition, which is, first and foremost, about improving Wikipedia.

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Wikidata weekly summary #190

Wikidata weekly summary #186

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Ongoing: 32C3
  • Upcoming: Wikimedia Developer Summit
  • Upcoming: StrepHit IEG project kick-off seminar
  • Upcoming: Office hour on IRC
  • Upcoming: FOSDEM (Lucie will give a talk about the ArticlePlaceholder extension)
  • Registration and scholarship applications for the Wikimedia Hackathon in Israel are open
  • Don't forget your talk submissions for Wikimania 2016. Lydia can help if needed.
  • Getting CAS registry numbers out of WikiData
  • The quality of SMILES strings in Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Paper: Wikidata: A platform for data integration and dissemination for the life sciences and beyond
  • The Wikidata for Research proposal has now been published in a journal
  • New tool to turn string claims to monolingual claims
  • Johl built a card game about German politicians using Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: number of awards, Prosopographia Attica, Structurae person ID, stage classification, sports disciplines competed in, personal best, substrate of
• Development
  • Some small bugfixes and tweaks.
  • Enjoying the holidays and editing on Wikidata. Hope you are too :)
• Monthly Tasks
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